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![Image for The Waterline [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/15293.jpg "The Waterline [*SIGNED*]")
By: Olshan, Joseph
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 15293
[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
[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 mastermin... View more info
By: Owen, Wendy
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Coward-Mccann: 1966
Edition: 1st U.S. edition
Seller ID: 7959
[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
[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... View more info
![Image for Wilderness [uncorrected proof]](/assets/images/product/15640.jpg "Wilderness [uncorrected proof]")
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence: (c.1979)
Edition: Uncorrected Proof
Seller ID: 15640
(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 "Face [*SIGNED*]")
By: Pineda, Cecile
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Viking: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 5254
[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
[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... View more info
By: Potter, Dan
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Stein and Day: 1970 (c.1969)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21985
[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 voi... View more info
By: Powell, Dawn
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16005
(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
[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... View more info
By: Price, Stanley
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, The Vanguard Press: (c.1961)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1891
(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 th... View more info
By: Prill, David
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15562
[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
[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
[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... View more info
![Image for Kissing Through a Pane of Glass [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/7539.jpg "Kissing Through a Pane of Glass [*SIGNED*]")
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Simon and Schuster: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 7539
[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
[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 th... View more info
By: Roszak, Theodore
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Chicago, Chicago Review Press: 2005
Edition: 1st printing
Seller ID: 14524
[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 wa... View more info
![Image for Never Mind the Goldbergs [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/14963.jpg "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
[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... View more info
By: Rounds, David
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Outerbridge & Dienstfrey: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3111
[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 "Extravagant Gestures [*SIGNED*]")
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Arbor House: (c.1985)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 9396
[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." Jack... View more info
