(quarter-bound, red and yellow cloth; no dust jacket) [very slight bump to bottom front corner, light soiling to yellow portions of covers, previous owner's inked name at top of ffep]. Quite a decent copy of Abbey's third novel, about a New Mexico rancher who refuses to let his land be taken over and turned into a bombing range by the U.S. Air Force. Made into a 1981 TV movie starring Buddy Ebsen and Ron Howard. View More...
[nice tight copy, just a touch of soiling to the page edges]. Trade PB SIGNED by the author on the title page, with "Santa Monica" written in his hand at the bottom of the same page. "A wild, cybersexual trip through the dark side of America's media-manipulated consciousness. [The author] tracks the bohemian life of his main character, Mal, an alternative rock musician whose strange encounter with the Medicine Woman causes him to hallucinate a fantasy land populated by all of his former lovers." Among the author/artist/theorist's other creative achievements have been the wor... View More...
[nice tight copy, both book and jacket show only minor handling wear]. The late author's first novel, a "gothic, intense and erotic" tale of an L.A. disc jockey who becomes drawn into the world of Dennis Contrelle, a brilliant rock composer of the '60s and '70s who has subsequently become " a recluse in a world guarded by high walls and savage servants." (The usual disclaimers aside, Phil Spector is said to have been the inspiration for Contrelle. I couldn't possibly comment.) View More...
[a touch of shelfwear to book; jacket has a teensy nick at top of front panel, minor paper loss at lower extremities]. Novel about a 14-year-old girl, specifically of "her sexual awakening and admission into the never-changing mysteries ('the lore girls need that mothers may not tell them') in a southern California seaside town in the golden, long-ago summers of the 1930's." View More...
[nice tight copy, appears unread, no discernible wear to book; jacket show minor wear at extremities, small tear and associated crease at top of spine]. Uncommon novel about a suburban London girl who "has all the makings of an Angry Young Woman [but] unfortunately, she is plagued with that most debilitating of characteristics for a young lady with a mission in life: she has a sense of humour. This affliction, when coupled with her unfailing propensity for doing all the wrong things for all the wrong reasons, cannot fail but produce calamitous results." Bawden's prolific output was ... View More...
[nice tight clean copy, slight fading to black cloth at top of spine; jacket shows light handling wear only]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED (in the year of publication) by the author on the half-title page. Novel about a nightclub that's a "pocket of nonconformity" in the conformist 1950s, by the novelist and blacklisted screenwriter, one of the original Hollywood Ten. The club in the novel is modeled in large part after San Francisco's "hungry i," where Bessie worked for many years as a stage manager and lighting technician following his release from prison in 1951. Signed by Autho... View More...
[nice tight copy, faint soiling/shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket clean and attractive, with one unobtrusive closed tear at top rear corner (at foldover)]. Comic novel of a Texas sorority house, "a woman's hilarious answer to Animal House" -- Secrets of the Yee-Haw Sisterhood, perhaps? -- based on the author's own undergraduate experiences at UT-Austin. Her second book (and first hardcover) to be published under her own name; for a time, she also had a parallel career as a romance novelist under the pseudonym "Tory Cates." (Her subsequent work has included several novels, one of which, "The B... View More...
[solid copy, light spotting to top edge, minor shelfwear; jacket worn at edges and extremities, a few tiny tears, some wrinkling/creasing at top of front panel]. "The plane, like all planes, had two sharply separate groups: the crew and the passengers. This plane was even more sharply separated -- the passengers were blind. When the plane crashed in the wilds of the Northwest, most of the passengers and all of the crew were killed. The seven passengers who were left were blind." View More...
[moderate shelfwear and light soiling to bottom edge; jacket is almost flawless, with just one tiny crease at bottom right-hand corner of front panel]. Novel about four NYC couples, by an author (it sez here) who was "married to a psychoanalyst, and lives in Greenwich Village." A native of the Bronx, she had gone to work at age 16 in the advertising business, and in the 1960s and 1970s was a teacher of fiction writing at the New School for Social Research. (Featured in our Catalog #2, available upon request.) View More...
[solid copy, slight spine roll, minor abrasions and a bit of edgewear to covers, printed price blacked out on front cover]. Mass Market PB The author's third novel, about an ex-convict whose desperate need for money leads him to take a job selling encyclopedias door-to-door, which gets him involved with the variously strange residents of the Bali Hai Apartment Court. Braly wrote his first three books, all of which were published as paperback originals in the 1960s, while serving a series of prison sentences for burglary, at Nevada State Prison, San Quentin, and Folsom State Prison. His next... View More...
[good solid copy, book appears Near Fine until you peek under the jacket and see that there has been fading to the green cloth (from dampness) along the edges of both covers -- NOT "water-damaged," since the interior of the book is completely unaffected and there is no warping or other damage to the covers (believe me, leave the jacket on and you'll never notice it); the jacket itself is clean and bright, with just some minimal edgewear]. Scarce novel (the author's first) about young Americans (of the "now" generation) in Paris. "Lillian was a beautiful, groovy bird in toda... View More...
[nice tight clean copy, mild shelfwear; jacket slightly dog-eared at top of spine, otherwise clean with faint surface wear, short diagonal crease at bottom of front flap]. The author's first (and possibly only) novel, "the story of an innocent, a monstrous romantic, an anachronism of a heroine up against the metaphor of Southern California. Fortune Dundy is a free spirit among fools. What happens to her in this book is relentless, urgent, and above all, funny -- but behind the comedy lurks the absurdity of life." (Well, doesn't it always?) The book was well-reviewed upon its initi... View More...
[nice tight fresh copy, no discernible wear to either book or jacket, but some intermittent fading to black cloth at spine (not sure how that could have happened, since to my knowledge the jacket has never been off this book!); NO remainder or other marks]. "Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, [this book] is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life. The California three strikes law looms over them, but what the hell, they're going to do it, and they're going to do i... View More...
[nice clean book, faint shelfwear, spine slightly turned; the jacket shows a bit of surface-abrasion]. SIGNED boldly by the author at the top of the half-title page, with a blue sharpie (no inscription). "The quintessential story of a young hoodlum's coming of age," this semi-autobiographical tale, Bunker's third novel, was originally published by Viking in 1981. It took him another fourteen years to turn out another book, during which time he was occupied primarily with acting and screenwriting; it was the attention garnered by that book, "Dog Eat Dog" (1995), which probably occasioned thi... View More...
[some visible wear to boards along bottom edges, at both ends of spine, and corners, faint dust-soiling to top edge of text block; jacket edgeworn, rubbed, and lightly soiled, with a few tiny nicks and tears, 1-inch horizontal scrape on front panel, one 2-inch closed tear at bottom front hinge]. Vanity-press novel tracing "the history of an Italian family through two world wars, chronicling its triumphs and agonies, its material poverty and spiritual grandeur, its diminution and its resurrection in the new world." The author, you will not be surprised to learn, was born in Italy and ... View More...
[front cover a little curled, very slight dog-ear at top right corner, "Autographed Copy" sticker on front cover (easily removable)]. Trade PB SIGNED by the author in red ink at the bottom corner of the title page. "A hypnotic literary novel with irresistible elements of fantasy and magic. It is the story of Walker Easterling, who saves a woman's life only to place her in infinitely greater danger by falling in love with her. It's the story of Maris York, an androgynous beauty who arouses incinerating passions in the men around her. It is a novel populated by a shaman with a fo... View More...
[nice copy, very light shelfwear, previous owner's name written upside down at bottom of rear endpaper; jacket shows a bit of surface handling wear, a couple of tiny closed tears at top of rear panel]. The author's second novel. View More...
[a few shallow dents in bottom edges of boards, otherwise a nice clean solid copy with minimal shelfwear; jacket shows some light soiling on the rear panel]. Novel set in the South Pacific, about a Dutch tramp-steamer captain who "rescues" a mysterious prisoner who's being held in chains in the hold of another ship, and gets a lot more than he bargained for. "Red, the prisoner, turns out to be a mercenary soldier, a trouble-maker, a womanizer. But on Christ's Island, with its idyllic Christian community, Red's diabolical genius becomes useful when the island is invaded by civiliz... View More...
[some soiling to edges of book; jacket mildly soiled, a few small tears, some corner wear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep in 1971. Signed by Author View More...
(price-clipped) [tight clean copy, bottom corners bumped; jacket shows minor wear along bottom edge, small tear at lower rear corner]. The book "recreates--and reincarnates--the life of the legendary hero of the wild West, James Butler Hickok--also known as 'Wild Bill'--whose much-bandied exploits as daring Union spy, ruthless Indian fighter, inveterate gambler and ladies' man spread his fame and infamous fortune throughout the land and straight into the heart of the story's fictional heroine, one Sally Ovenshine, Bill's sensitively conjured lover." View More...
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