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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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Kissing Through a Pane of Glass [SIGNED]

By: Rosenberg, Peter Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Simon and Schuster: 1993

Seller ID: 7539

ISBN: 0671718061

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Experiments with Life and Deaf

By: Rosenthal, Chuck

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: (c.1987)

Seller ID: 16085

ISBN: 1-55584-104-X

Binding: Hardcover

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."
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Never Mind the Goldbergs [SIGNED]

By: Roth, Matthue

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, PUSH / Scholastic, Inc.: 2005

Seller ID: 14963

ISBN: 0-439-69188-5

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Coalitions

By: Rounds, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Outerbridge & Dienstfrey: 1970

Seller ID: 3111

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Midnight's Children

By: Rushdie, Salman

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1981

Seller ID: 24857

ISBN: 039451470X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [light shelfwear to bottom of book, slight fading at edges of boards, otherwise a solid clean book; jacket lightly soiled at rear panel, lower left corner of front panel has a little array of pen-point indentation lines (no ink marks, however), a little vertical creasing to front flap; there is some faint uneven fading to the front panel, which is less noticeable to the naked eye than in the accompanying scanned image]. Rushdie's second novel and his breakthrough book, which not only won the Booker Prize winner in 1981 but has been subsequently twice voted the "Best of the ...
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Extravagant Gestures [SIGNED]

By: Sager, Carole Bayer

Price: $25.00

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

Seller ID: 9396

ISBN: 0-87795-765-7

Binding: Hardcover

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
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A Few Last Words

By: Sallis, James

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: (c.1970)

Seller ID: 9271

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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."
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The Lion and the Sun [SIGNED]

By: Sassoon, Maurice D.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Manyland Books: (c.1978)

Seller ID: 24103

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[small nick in cloth at top of front cover, light soiling to edges of text block, minor wear to extremities; jacket has some shallow chipping along right side of top edge of front panel, otherwise just minimally worn]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To / ___ _____ / Regards / Maurice / 6/9/82." A fictional treatment of "the struggle for freedom of Burma under the yoke of British colonialism" during World War II, more specifically focusing on the country's fate under Japanese occupation, in the run-up to which Burma's intellectuals and young radicals were take...
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Pride of the Bimbos

By: Sayles, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Atlantic-Little, Brown: (c.1975)

Seller ID: 19115

ISBN: 0-316-77230-5

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The Handyman

By: See, Carolyn

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1999)

Seller ID: 17850

ISBN: 0-375-50155-X

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Lucinella

By: Segal, Lore

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1976

Seller ID: 21881

Binding: Hardcover

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

By: Selznick, Brian

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Scholastic Press:

Seller ID: 15570

ISBN: 0-439-81378-6

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Love is Not Enough [SIGNED]

By: Shanks, Bob

Price: $40.00

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

Seller ID: 9615

ISBN: 0-393-01586-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[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...
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Category: Fiction: Modern Lit