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July, July [SIGNED]

By: O'Brien, Tim

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 2002

Seller ID: 17512

ISBN: 0-618-03969-4

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Luke Benedict

By: Oliver, Mark (pseud. for Michael Tyler-Whittle)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Vanguard Press: (c.1961)

Seller ID: 8863

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Clara's Heart [SIGNED]

By: Olshan, Joseph

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Arbor House: (c.1985)

Seller ID: 15294

ISBN: 0-87795-744-4

Binding: Hardcover

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
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The Waterline [SIGNED]

By: Olshan, Joseph

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1989

Seller ID: 15293

ISBN: 0-385-26505-0

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Off to See the Wizard

By: Ort, Daniel

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Mason/Charter: 1975

Seller ID: 11720

ISBN: 0884051048

Binding: Hardcover

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 ...
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The Man Who Owned New York [SIGNED]

By: Osborn, John Jay Jr.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1981

Seller ID: 24600

ISBN: 039530511X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[very slight bumping to bottom corners, small bit of foxing to top of text block; jacket shows a little wear at extremities, a couple of tiny nicks and minor paper loss at top of spine, two closed tears at lower edge of rear panel, one-inch split at top front flap foldover]. INSCRIBED affectionately to friends and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. The concluding book in Osborn's unofficial trilogy about the world of American law, which began in 1971 with "The Paper Chase" (which became a movie and a TV series) and continued in 1979 with "The Associates" (which becam...
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There Goes Davey Cohen

By: Owen, Wendy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-Mccann: 1966

Seller ID: 7959

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Serpent's Delight

By: Park, Ruth

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1962

Seller ID: 7780

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Wilderness [uncorrected proof]

By: Parker, Robert B.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence: (c.1979)

Seller ID: 15640

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

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.
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The Beauty Queen

By: Pfeffer, Susan Beth

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: (c.1974)

Seller ID: 24149

ISBN: 0385022565

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear to book at all; jacket shows only a bit of soiling]. An early work by this prolific young-adult fiction writer, probably best known for her science-fiction books. This one tells the story of a recent high-school graduate with ambitions to become a professional actress, but who is nagged by her mother to enter a local beauty contest -- which, "to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins," and then begins to become increasingly sucked into that world. This is a review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in (on which the author's middle name ...
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Face [SIGNED]

By: Pineda, Cecile

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1985

Seller ID: 5254

ISBN: 0-670-80330-8

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Never Mind the Pollacks: A Rock and Roll Novel

By: Pollack, Neal

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: (c.2003)

Seller ID: 18708

ISBN: 0-06-052790-0

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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The Jaws That Bite

By: Pollice, Anthony

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice-Hall, Inc.: (c.1970)

Seller ID: 24369

ISBN: 0135097452

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [minimal shelfwear, agency stamps (H.N. Swanson, Inc.) on ffep and half-title page, small pieces of clear tape on both pastedowns and at edges of both jacket flaps (from where jacket was formerly affixed to pastedowns); the jacket itself is just lightly soiled]. "A fast-paced, amusing, and lyrical narrative about the life in crisis of Saul Bannerman, middle-aged merchandising director of Beauty*Pore Cosmetic Co. Solly has all the material accoutrements of a reasonably successful man in our culture: a wife, a good job, a home in an upper-class suburb. Then out of nowhere ...
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The Way of an Eagle

By: Potter, Dan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Stein and Day: 1970 (c.1969)

Seller ID: 21985

ISBN: 0-8128-1273-5

Binding: Hardcover

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 ...
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The Golden Spur

By: Powell, Dawn

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1962

Seller ID: 16005

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Me For Posterity! A Roisterous Spoof on the New Wave

By: Price, Stanley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Vanguard Press: (c.1961)

Seller ID: 1891

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [light shelfwear, spine slightly turned; jacket shows a little handling wear, minor soiling]. "Now that the kitchen sink reigns on London stages and screens and has almost replaced the ash can on our own Broadway, now that London is wearing leather jackets and getting 'with it,' now that the Outsider is In and the Insiders Out, James Breedin has his heyday. He is one of the New Men of British culture riding the crest of the New Wave -- who write the 'working class' novels, dramatize them, compose the music, write the lyrics, highlight the squalor, and then buy shares in ...
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Serial Killer Days

By: Prill, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1996

Seller ID: 15562

ISBN: 0-312-14411-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[tight clean copy, bumped at base of spine but no other significant wear; jacket a bit worn along top edge and at base of spine]. The author's second book, a comic novel about a small town that decides to turn its annual visitation by a serial killer (who kills one person from the town on the same day each year) into a yearly fair, including a beauty pageant.
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Dirty Pictures from the Prom

By: Rauch, Earl M.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday Projections Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1969

Seller ID: 22970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[good solid book with minor shelfwear; jacket is lightly soiled and a bit age-toned, and has been nibbled just a bit along the bottom edge by some insect]. The author's first novel, written when he was 19, which "describes the quest of an existential Candide, searching vainly for a search worth searching for, trapped by the paradox that destroys the distinction between freedom and restriction, acceptance and rejection, affirmation and despair." (You know -- the Sixties.) Given its current scarcity in the marketplace, I suspect this book -- described by one online critic/appreciator a...
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The Verdict

By: Reed, Barry

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (c.1980)

Seller ID: 24027

ISBN: 0671251104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[minimal shelfwear, spine very slightly turned, a nice clean book; front panel of jacket shows some light indentation marks (from where someone apparently used it as a writing tablet) and also a couple of horizontal razor cuts (surface only), and there's a short diagonal crease at the bottom of the front flap]. Novel about a "cynical, philandering, hard-drinking and thoroughly likable" attorney, living "on the brink of disaster," who gets a chance for a last hurrah when he takes on a malpractice suit against the largest Catholic hospital in the country. The basis for the 1982 ...
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Angels All Over Town

By: Rice, Luanne

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1985

Seller ID: 16846

ISBN: 0-689-11616-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[sharp-looking copy, with just the faintest bit of foxing to top page edges; jacket shows extremely light edgewear]. The author's first novel, about the Cavan sisters, an "inseparable triumvirate" -- "inseparable, that is, until the invasion of husbands and houses."
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Category: Fiction: Modern Lit