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By: Neider, Charles
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2585
ISBN: 0140134042
Condition: Near Fine
Near Fine [just a trace of handling wear]. (Contemporary American Fiction) Series Trade PB A rich and ruthless banker, on his way to Florida, finds himself stranded by car trouble in a small backwoods Maryland town. "A dark, disturbing portrait of one man's fated collision with the very thing he craves-- control." A paperback original. View more info
By: Neider, Charles
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Horizon Press: 1964 (c.1962)
Edition: 1st U.S. edition
Seller ID: 3097
ISBN: 1125155418
Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj
[moderate wear, top edge dusty, agency stamp (H. N. Swanson) on ffep, tape marks on pastedowns & endpapers from formerly taped-down jacket; jacket edgeworn, faint water-stain near base of spine]. Novel about "the loves of a famous photographer"; blurbs on the front panel by Aldous Huxley, Mark Schorer and Max Eastman. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15831
ISBN: 0-395-13948-1
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[nice tight copy, minor shelfwear, agency label on ffep; jacket has a couple of tiny scrapes near top of front panel, minor soiling to rear panel]. First novel by this New Mexico-born author, "a memorable tale of a harsh life in a far country -- the story of an American named Bob who finds himself on a drought-ridden cattle station, 300 miles from the nearest town, in the burning waste of the great Australian outback, the world's last frontier." The author had spent some time there himself, according to his jacket bio. View more info
By: Nelson, Indiana
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1979)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 5096
ISBN: 0-312-82052-6
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj
[mild wear to bottom of book, top rear corner ever-so-slightly bumped; jacket has some wear at corners, and a 2" closed tear and associated wrinkling at the top of the front panel]. Novel centered in a small Arizona town, and populated by truckers, waitresses, and other denizens of the American road. Laid in to this copy is a brief story analyst's report from Walt Disney Productions; the reader allows as how the book "is both sensitive and well-written," but concludes that it's " overall tone is depressingly downbeat, and since it has no strong central story, I can't see anythi... View more info
By: Ney, John
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.: (c.1962)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3824
Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj
[moderate overall wear, some edge-soiling, blue mark on ffep; jacket chipped/edgeworn, bottom 1/2" of spine missing, original price marked over on front flap]. "A startling novel of men and women who strike a shrewd balance between moral bankruptcy and life on the gold standard. For the relatively large number of people who have never manipulated lives, indulged in sleight-of-hand with signed proxies, concocted unsavoury deals with relish, or committed sane relatives to mental institutions--but would like to know how the rich and ruthless do it--[this book] gives an engrossing opportu... View more info
By: Nicholson, Geoff
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Woodstock NY, The Overlook Press: 1994
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 13437
ISBN: 0-87951-559-7
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice tight clean copy, appears unread, no discernible wear, NO remainder or other marks; jacket shows faint surface wear]. An author sets out to write a "mildly facetious study of that venerable institution, the English eccentric," but gets a lot more than he bargained for. His research "introduces him to a Felliniesque cast of characters, including an alluring woman named Victoria who collects lovers who collect cars," and eventually he himself becomes an obsessive collector, "eating, sleeping and breathing the works" of his primary quarry, reclusive novelist Thornt... View more info
By: Nicholson, Geoff
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18414
ISBN: 0-575-05805-6
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[very slight bumping to bottom corners and top of spine, agency label on ffep; jacket shows some surface wear, minor wrinkling along top and bottom edges, slight scrunching with one itsy-bitsy tear at base of spine]. "The very first Shopping and Terrorism novel," this book tells the story of what happens day and night in Haden Brothers, a vast West End department store that sells everything, and is "built along the lines of the Tower of Babel." View more info
![Image for July, July [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/17512.jpg)
By: O'Brien, Tim
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 17512
ISBN: 0-618-03969-4
Condition: Fine in Fine dj
[lovely copy, in perfect as-new condition]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "Ten old friends join their classmates for a July weekend of dancing, drinking, flirting, reminiscing, regretting." The background is a 30th-anniversary reunion of the Class of 1969 at a Minnesota college. Signed by Author View more info
By: Oliver, Mark (pseud. for Michael Tyler-Whittle)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, The Vanguard Press: (c.1961)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8863
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[solid copy, minor soiling to top edge, tiny nick in cloth at top of spine; jacket moderately worn at edges/extremities, a couple of tiny tears/chips along top edge of rear panel, short closed tear at top right-hand corner of front panel]. "The story of an angry young man who takes action and refuses to despair. Virtually abandoned at an early age by his father, reared by his uncle, a university professor, who compassionately tell's Luke's story, Luke fought the world for love. At school, at the university, he questioned the values held up to him, rebelling against and yet silently submi... View more info
![Image for Clara's Heart [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/15294.jpg)
By: Olshan, Joseph
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Arbor House: (c.1985)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 15294
ISBN: 0-87795-744-4
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[a decent solid copy, light bumping to all corners, minor shelfwear; jacket shows some wear at edges and corners, minor wrinkling along top of front panel]. INSCRIBED ("For ______________ / With Warmest / Wishes") and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page, additionally dated 23 June 1986 in his hand. The author's first novel, about the loving relationship between a black Jamaican woman and the young boy for whom she cares. Basis for a well-regarded 1988 film adaptation starring Whoopi Goldberg and (in his film debut) Neil Patrick Harris. Signed by Author View more info
![Image for The Waterline [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/15293.jpg)
By: Olshan, Joseph
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 15293
ISBN: 0-385-26505-0
Condition: Fine in Fine dj
[very nice copy, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. INSCRIBED warmly to friends and SIGNED by the author on the title page, additionally dated October 1989 in his hand; also laid in are two postcards promoting the book-signing event. Novel about the aftermath of the drowning of a seven-year-old boy, told in the voices of the members of the family that it most deeply affected. Signed by Author View more info
By: Ort, Daniel
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Mason/Charter: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 11720
ISBN: 0884051048
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj
[good solid copy, light shelfwear, a couple of slightly bent bottom page corners; jacket shows a little wear at edges and top corners; review copy, with publisher's slip laid in]. The author's first novel, a comic tale (apparently) about a 35-year-old teacher/husband/father (with five kids and sixth on the way), who finds himself "bored with the homeowner routine of fixing leaky faucets in a house he hates. And so, with his equally fed up friend David, he masterminds a weekend plan to leave everyday reality behind. Leaving their credit cards at home, taking little cash, the two set off ... View more info
By: Owen, Wendy
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Coward-Mccann: 1966
Edition: 1st U.S. edition
Seller ID: 7959
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
[moderate dust-soiling to fore-edge and top-edge, a bit of shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket scuffed, edgeworn, moderately soiled, tiny tears at corners of rear panel]. The author's first novel, examining "the complex texture of a marriage." Set in a picturesque Spanish resort town; jacket blurbers include Anais Nin and Anthony Burgess. View more info
By: Park, Ruth
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1962
Edition: 1st U.S. edition (see note)
Seller ID: 7780
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[spine turned, some wear at spine extremities, top front corner lightly bumped, gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep; jacket edgeworn, a few tiny chips/tears, mild browning at edges, minor paper loss at top of spine and at top rear corner]. "When Geraldine, youngest of the good-looking Pond sisters, announces she has had a vision of the Blessed Virgin, her entire family is suddenly shot from its mundane middle-class existence into the glare of publicity." (A stated "First Edition in the United States of America," yet with no printed price on dust jacket, therefore a possib... View more info
![Image for Wilderness [uncorrected proof]](/assets/images/product/15640.jpg)
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence: (c.1979)
Edition: Uncorrected Proof
Seller ID: 15640
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine
(printed wraps) [nice clean copy, very light handling wear, trace of browning to spine]. Uncorrected proof copy of Parker's first non-Spenser book, a suspense novel about a writer whose life is threatened after he witnesses a murder and agrees to testify against the accused killer, a professional mobster. View more info
![Image for Face [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/5254.jpg)
By: Pineda, Cecile
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Viking: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 5254
ISBN: 0-670-80330-8
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[nice and tight, minimal wear to bottom edge, previous owner's name on ffep; jacket rubbed, one tiny closed tear at top of front panel, a couple of vertical creases in rear flap]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half- title page. Signed by Author View more info
By: Pollack, Neal
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: (c.2003)
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 18708
ISBN: 0-06-052790-0
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice-looking copy, just a touch of wear to bottom edge of book; another touch of wear to the jacket]. "A rock novel that really rocks," by the (jacket-blurb-proclaimed) "greatest novelist of his generation." An over-the-top satirical novel, "a raw, protean yawp from the depths of nowhere, a hilarious trip through time that savagely parodies the history of rock and roll and its grandiloquent journalism." The novel's narrator is a fictional rock journalist who is called upon to tell the posthumous story of a fictional "Neal Pollack," a rock critic who seems li... View more info
By: Potter, Dan
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Stein and Day: 1970 (c.1969)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21985
ISBN: 0-8128-1273-5
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[slight discoloration to top edges of boards, bumped at base of spine, small literary agency label on ffep; jacket edgeworn and creased (mostly along top edge), with a few tiny chips along top edge of front panel "A young man comes into a Midwestern town on a white motorcycle. The townspeople don't know what to make of him: is he a turned-on no-good looking for trouble, a reincarnated James Dean, or some unusual kind of Christian?" The story is told in the voices of the people who get most involved with him: a gas-station owner who gives him a job; a cafe owner in whom he awakens a ... View more info
By: Powell, Dawn
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16005
Condition: Very Good+
(no dust jacket) [a very presentable copy, with some light soiling to yellow cloth at rear cover, but no other significant wear]. The author's final novel, set largely in the New York she loved (specifically in this instance that city's art world), and telling the story of a young man's quest to find his real father, which leads him into the circle of a charismatic painter. View more info
By: Powell, Dawn
Price: $60.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16783
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[nice copy, very light wear to bottom edge, slight bump to top edge of rear cover near spine; jacket shows a little edgewear, one tiny closed tear at bottom of front panel, short ragged tear and associated creasing at base of spine (no paper loss), a couple of small scuff marks to rear panel]. The author's final novel, set largely in the New York she loved (specifically in this instance that city's art world), and telling the story of a young man's quest to find his real father, which leads him into the circle of a charismatic painter. View more info
