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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
By: Price, Stanley
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, The Vanguard Press: (c.1961)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1891
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 ... View more info
By: Prill, David
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15562
ISBN: 0-312-14411-3
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. View more info
By: Rice, Luanne
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16846
ISBN: 0-689-11616-0
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." View more info
By: Ringer, Vivian
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press: (c.1974)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9684
ISBN: 0-440-08235-8
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice tight copy, very faint soiling to page edges, no significant wear; jacket shows mild soiling]. Novel (the author's first and only) about a young, attractive, single secretary, and her obsession with her boss, a New York book publisher; the jacket blurb describes it as "a warm and telling picture of a modern-day Kitty Foyle, a novel that makes clear how complicated it is to juggle the personal and professional roles of the office 'second wife.'" The author herself had come out of the New York publishing world, was co-founder of the liberal Book Find Club, and had a long career a... View more info
![Image for Kissing Through a Pane of Glass [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/7539.jpg)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Simon and Schuster: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 7539
ISBN: 0671718061
Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj
[bottom corners bumped, faint browning to page edges; mild surface wear to rear jacket panel, very slight edgewear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page, dated 24/6/93. A novel (the author's first) of sexual obsession, set in India and England; runner-up in the 1992 Betty Trask Prize. Signed by Author View more info
By: Rosenthal, Chuck
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: (c.1987)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16085
ISBN: 1-55584-104-X
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice clean copy, one tiny dent in bottom edge of front cover, no other significant wear; minor surface wear to jacket]. (The Loop Trilogy, Book Two) Series The second book in the author's Loop Trilogy, centering around the adventures of 17-year-old Jarvis Loop, "a fugitive from the law for an ever-increasing list of offenses." The novel "offers a brilliant, hyper-real vision of coming of age in working-class America that sweeps from the wildest comedy to the darkest pathos." View more info
By: Roszak, Theodore
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Chicago, Chicago Review Press: 2005
Edition: 1st printing
Seller ID: 14524
ISBN: 1-55652-577-X
Condition: Near Fine
[minor wear at extremities, light soiling to page edges, otherwise a good clean tight copy]. Trade PB Horror novel (sort of) about an L.A. film buff who develops an obsession with the life and work of a forgotten film director, a mysterious figure who vanished in the 1940s. "Max Castle," the director, is a sort of amalgam of F.W. Murnau and Edgar Ulmer, and the author gets the film-geek/ film-school milieu of the 60's and 70's dead-on. This paperback edition was issued when the book was "soon to be a major motion picture" directed by Darren Aronofsky, although as of mid-2007 ... View more info
![Image for Never Mind the Goldbergs [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/14963.jpg)
By: Roth, Matthue
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, PUSH / Scholastic, Inc.: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 14963
ISBN: 0-439-69188-5
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[minor handling wear, tiny corner bends on a couple of pages; jacket shows very light surface wear, vertical crease in front flap]. INSCRIBED generically ("oy vey, dude!") and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page, apparently with a black sharpie which has bled through and slightly marked the title page. "The greatest Hollywood punk rock Orothodox Jewgirl story EVER TOLD! Don't this for a second that you know Hava or her place in the world. Yes, she's an Orthodox Jew. But that doesn't mean she can't rock out. (She just has to be careful about who she touches.)" Sign... View more info
By: Rounds, David
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Outerbridge & Dienstfrey: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3111
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dj
[trace of soiling on top edge; jacket rubbed, some wear along top edge, top of spine ragged with about 1/4" missing, a few holes at foldover edge of rear panel]. The author's first novel, set in Boston, centers around two interracial couples and climaxes in a dramatic civil rights demonstration. View more info
![Image for Extravagant Gestures [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/9396.jpg)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Arbor House: (c.1985)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 9396
ISBN: 0-87795-765-7
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice clean copy, no discernible wear; jacket shows minor wear at corners, a bit of wrinkling at bottom of rear panel]. INSCRIBED warmly and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. First novel, about a troubled mother-daughter relationship, by the noted songwriter, which "vibrates with the energy of the characters and the worlds she writes about: New York and Los Angeles, media celebrity, fast-track careers, and lives that are glamorous, comical, and poignant." Jacket blurbs by Erica Jong and Neil Simon. Signed by Author View more info
By: Sallis, James
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: (c.1970)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9271
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[nice clean copy, slight fading to cloth at top/bottom edges, tiny smudge on top edge near spine, one-inch surface scratch (not a puncture) on ffep, also visible on half-title and title pages; jacket has small tears at a couple of extremities, minor rubbing/soiling]. The author's first book, "A Parable and a Prophecy," in which he "takes up a number of themes from the range and variety of speculative fiction [and] writes about the intimate textures of life on worlds vastly different from our own and on some which are disturbingly similar." View more info
By: Sayles, John
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown and Company: (c.1977)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16946
ISBN: 0-316-77231-3
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[tight, unread copy, with just minor dust-soiling to top edge; jacket shows a bit of wear at corners and spine ends]. The author-filmmaker's second novel, set in the revolutionary underground in Boston in the late 1960s. View more info
By: Sayles, John
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boston, Atlantic-Little, Brown: (c.1975)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19115
ISBN: 0-316-77230-5
Condition: Good in Fair dj
[reading copy ONLY, an ex-library book with typical markings (incl. giant DISCARD stamps on top and bottom edges and both endpapers, pocket on rear fep), scarring to pastedowns from peeling-up of formerly glued-down jacket protector flaps; jacket moderately soiled, and the spine is a mess, badly torn with some paper loss]. Sayles' first novel, about an itinerant five-man softball team that tours the Deep South in drag. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Coward-Mccann: (c.1965)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3820
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj
[mild edgewear to both book and DJ; mild soiling/slight discoloration to top edge, a couple of bent page corners]. View more info
By: See, Carolyn
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1999)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17850
ISBN: 0-375-50155-X
Condition: Fine in Fine dj
[beautiful, as-new book, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. "The story of Bob Hampton, an aspiring young painter who has had to face the humbling fact that he doesn't know what to paint." Thus disillusioned, "Bob trades in his artist's palette for a minivan full of house paints, hammers, and nails, and sets about earning a little cash as a handyman. Although he turns out to be very bad at fixing the things he's hired to fix, Bob demonstrates quite a knack for fixing the lives of the people around him." Yet another of the author's books that zones in acutely on so... View more info
By: Segal, Lore
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21881
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[slight bumping to bottom front corner and base of spine, no other significant wear to book; jacket slightly faded at spine (impacting only the publisher's name), also slightly scrunched at base of spine; a review copy, with the original publisher's slip and a small photograph of the author laid in]. A novel of the New York literary life, centering around the title character, "a poet [who] lives in New York, and knows writers," and incorporating elements of magical realislm. And speaking of writers, the rear jacket panel features glowing blurbs from a pretty impressive trio of same: ... View more info
By: Selznick, Brian
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Scholastic Press:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15570
ISBN: 0-439-81378-6
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice clean attractive copy, just the slightest bumping at base of spine and a teeny-tiny dent in bottom edge of front cover; jacket shows very slight wear at spine ends, tiny tear at bottom of spine]. Caldecott Award-winning illustrated tale -- do we call this a semi-graphic novel? -- about a young orphan living secretly in the remote corners of a Paris railway station, and how his life intersects with the great French filmmaker Georges Méliès. Adapted into the multiple-Oscar-nominated 2011 film HUGO by director Martin Scorsese. View more info
