The Golden Spur

By: Powell, Dawn

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1962

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16005

Condition: Very Good+

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(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

The Golden Spur

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

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[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

Me For Posterity! A Roisterous Spoof on the New Wave

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

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(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

Serial Killer Days

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

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[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

Angels All Over Town

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

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[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

The Secretary

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

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[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

Kissing Through a Pane of Glass [*SIGNED*]

By: Rosenberg, Peter Michael

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

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[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

Experiments with Life and Deaf

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

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[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

Flicker

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

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[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

Never Mind the Goldbergs [*SIGNED*]

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

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[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

Coalitions

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

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[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

Extravagant Gestures [*SIGNED*]

By: Sager, Carole Bayer

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

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[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

A Few Last Words

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

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[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

Pride of the Bimbos

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

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[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

The Handyman

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

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[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

Lucinella

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

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[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

The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures

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

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[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

Love is Not Enough [*SIGNED*]

By: Shanks, Bob

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: (c.1982)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 9615

ISBN: 0-393-01586-6

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

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[nice tight copy, very light soiling to top edge; jacket rubbed, mildly edgeworn, short diagonal crease in front flap, a bit of wear at bottom front corner]. INSCRIBED to a friend and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. "It all begins one night in Manhattan in the company of eight naked women, who are trying to come to terms with their bodies and themselves. This novel is a compelling, contemporary love story with any number of unexpected crises and a surprisingly happy ending. It is a kind of feminist fairy tale written, interestingly enough, by a man." (Who, interestingly enough, c... View more info

Glimpses: A Novel [*SIGNED*]

By: Shiner, Lewis

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: (c.1993)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 13540

ISBN: 0-688-12411-9

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

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[nice tight clean copy, minor shelfwear at base of spine; jacket shows a bit of wrinkling here and there, mostly to rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page, in the year of publication (dated in his hand). "Ray makes his living repairing stereos in his upstairs workshop. Like so many others of his generation he's trying to cope with lost ideals and broken dreams. The father he rebelled against for years has just died, and his marriage looks like a demilitarized zone. Then the strangest things start to happen. Ray begins to hear music in his head: glimpses... View more info