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Simple Giftsby: Joanne Greenberg

Simple Gifts
by: Joanne Greenberg

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The Fleuri ranch on Colorado's Croom Mountain resembles a scene from the 1880s, save for a few modern conveniences such as a tractor, a refrigerator, and a water pump. Life for the Fleuris, who supplement their meager income with moonshine and illegal game, hasn't changed much either. When a government agent persuades them to turn the ranch into a model 1880s homestead for paying visitors, it seems a perfect solution to their plight, until the deed is done. Greenberg deals realistically with the impact of government regulation, social and cultural change, and affluence on a backwoods family, while treating family members with the tenderness, humor, and dignity that each so richly deserves. Clean copy.

Record # 385588

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Player Pianoby: Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt

Player Piano
by: Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2nd Printing, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Hardcover. Stated on copyright page: "New Edition, March 1966". Minor foxing to top edge. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear along edges. Small pea sized stains at very bottom of pages 152 through 159. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613776

Price: $70.00 
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The Wren, the Wrenby: Anne Enright

The Wren, the Wren
by: Anne Enright

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Enright is author of seven novels, most recently Actress. She has been awarded the Man Booker Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and a Lifetime A.hievement Award . An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women. Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel's orderly home to find her own voice as a writer (mostly online, ghost-blogging for an influencer) and to live a poetical life. As she chases obsessive love, damage, and transcendence, in Dublin and beyond, her grandfather's poetry seems to guide her home. The Wren, the Wren brings to life three generations of McDaragh women who must contend with inheritances-of poetic wonder and of abandonment by a man who is lauded in public and carelessly selfish at home. Clean copy.

Record # 385925

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The Devil All the Timeby: Donald Ray Pollock

The Devil All the Time
by: Donald Ray Pollock

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There's Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrifi-cial blood he pours on his "prayer log." There's Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial kill-ers, who troll America's highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There's the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte's orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right. Donald Ray Pollock braids his plotlines into a taut narrative that will leave readers astonished and deeply moved. With his first novel, he proves himself a master storyteller in the grittiest and most uncompromising American grain.

Record # 386850

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Straight Man by: Russo, Richard

Straight Man
by: Russo, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 391 pages. Attractive copy of the fourth novel by Pulitzer Prize winner, Richard Russo. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park. Such is the canvas of Richard Russo's Straight Man, a novel of surpassing wit, poignancy, and insight. As he established in his previous books Russo is unique among contemporary authors for his ability to flawlessly capture the soul of the wise guy and the heart of a difficult parent. In Hank Devereaux, Russo has created a hero whose humor and identification with the absurd are mitigated only by his love for his family, friends, and, ultimately, knowledge itself. Clean copy.

Record # 386913

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The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for Godby: Bernard Shaw/ Farleigh John

The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
by: Bernard Shaw/ Farleigh John

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in white, 84 pages. Decorative woodcut on endpapers. Internally bright and clean. Illustrated throughout with beautiful woodcut engravings by John Farleigh. Designed by Farleigh. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Record # 375151

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The Sea-Hawk (The Photoplay Edition)by: Rafael Sabatini

The Sea-Hawk (The Photoplay Edition)
by: Rafael Sabatini

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st thus, ND (1924), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, blue cloth binding with black lettering. Black and white plate frontispiece, black and white plates throughout featuring scenes from the 1924 film starring Milton Sills, rear panel of dust jacket shows scenes from the photoplay of Scaramouche, starring Alice Terry and Roman Novarro. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 387440

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Charles Portis: Collected Works (LOA #369): Norwood/True Grit/The Dog of the South/Masters of Atlantis/Gringos/Stories & Other Writings by: Portis, Charles

Charles Portis: Collected Works (LOA #369): Norwood/True Grit/The Dog of the South/Masters of Atlantis/Gringos/Stories & Other Writings
by: Portis, Charles

Hardcover. NY, Library of America,, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light sticker residue to rear panel, 1096 pages. The ultimate Portis: for the first time in one collector's volume, the complete fiction and collected nonfiction of the author of True Grit. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise like new.

Record # 396310

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An Iceland Fishermanby: Loti, Pierre/ Endore, Guy Transl.

An Iceland Fisherman
by: Loti, Pierre/ Endore, Guy Transl.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrations in 2-colors by Frederick T. Chapman. This stirring tale of Iceland fishermen; of their expeditions to the cold and dangerous regions where the summers no longer have nights, and of their return to their firesides in Paimpol--is one of the great masterpieces of French literature. It is a gripping tale of adventure and romance, a colorful and exciting story of fearless men, and of their patient, courageous wives.

Record # 396845

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The White Castle by: Orhan Pamuk

The White Castle
by: Orhan Pamuk

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 161 pages. The author's first book to be translated into English. Translated from the Turkish by Victoria Holbrook. Pamuk would go on to win the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Clean copy.

Record # 397660

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All Our Yesterdays by: Natalia Ginzburg

All Our Yesterdays
by: Natalia Ginzburg

Hardcover. Manchester UK, Carcanet Press , 1st UK, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 300 pages. Set against the backdrop of Italy between 1939 to 1944 - the months of anxiety before the country entered the war through to the tension following the Allied victory - "All Our Yesterdays" follows the lives of two families during the period of great turbulence and tells how the children grow into war and its aftermath. The boys flirt with revolution; Amalia marries a young German Jew; Concettina marries into a family that supports Mussolini; and Anna the youngest child, becomes pregnant when she is sixteen and is married off to Cenzo Rena, an eccentric family friend. War scatters them, but even war cannot break their bonds. All Our Yesterdays is about the endurance and resilience of people living through adolescence and early adulthood in a hostile world. Ex-lib with minor residue to rear endpaper and dust jacket taped to covers.

Record # 398130

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Sunset Passby: Zane Grey

Sunset Pass
by: Zane Grey

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with dark blue lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 349 pages. Rear dj lists to The Young Pitcher. Clean copy.

Record # 398251

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The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Fforde, Jasper

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Fforde, Jasper

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY FFORDE on the title page, signed "Jasper". It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favorite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Clean copy.

Record # 398679

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The Missing Person by: Grumbach, Doris

The Missing Person
by: Grumbach, Doris

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 252 pages. Franny Fuller, a frightened girl from upstate New York, becomes the nation's number-one sex symbol, hiding her personal misery and fragile personality behind a mask of glamour and ambition. Novel set in Hollywood around the late 1930s. Unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, protected by mylar cover. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 387709

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Tuck Everlastingby: Natalie Babbitt

Tuck Everlasting
by: Natalie Babbitt

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Cornerstone Books, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards. 152 pages. This is the large-print edition of a book first published in 1975. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 398549

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The Apprentice Lover: A Novel by: Parini, Jay

The Apprentice Lover: A Novel
by: Parini, Jay

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet who dominates the island like a latter-day Prospero. Alex soon finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships, and rivalries within the eccentric community that inhabits the idyllic beauty of the isolated Italian island. Clean copy.

Record # 396790

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Wives and Daughtersby: Gaskell, Elizabeth

Wives and Daughters
by: Gaskell, Elizabeth

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1st thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorative cloth in a blue cardboard slipcase. 678 pages with color and b&w illustrations by Alexy Pendle. This novel tells the story of Molly Gibson as she moves from childhood to womanhood in a complex series of interwoven plots. The sphere of action is small, but the implications are wide and carry truths of universal significance. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387659

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Higher Groundby: Phillips, Caryl

Higher Ground
by: Phillips, Caryl

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606661

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Deceits of Timeby: Colegate, Isabel

Deceits of Time
by: Colegate, Isabel

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 216 pages. Interesting novel by this award-winning writer, the story of a woman, a "biographer of modest accomplishments" who is asked to write the authorized biography of a World War I flying ace who became an influential British politician until his rather mysterious death in an automobile accident during World War II. Clean copy.

Record # 385450

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Natural Man, The by: McClanahan, Ed

Natural Man, The
by: McClanahan, Ed

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A coming of age novel that takes place in Kentucky during the late 1940s. Bright. clean copy.

Record # 385574

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Tramp Abroad, Theby: Twain, Mark

Tramp Abroad, The
by: Twain, Mark

Hardcover. Hartford CT, American Publishing Co, 1st, 1880, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 631 pages. 328 black & white illustrations by various artists. Both hinges cracked. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Soiling to covers. Tears to cloth on spine. Wear to corners, spine.

Record # 508943

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The Roadmenderby: Fairless, Michael, Illustrations: Helen Munro

The Roadmender
by: Fairless, Michael, Illustrations: Helen Munro

Hardcover. London, Citadel Press, 1st illust thus, 1948, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Cream jacket decorated in black and green. With 12 black and white woodcuts by Helen Munro.

Record # 387341

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Face of Innocence, Theby: Sansom, William

Face of Innocence, The
by: Sansom, William

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st American Edition, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 253 pages. Hardcover. Blue cover boards, pink title on spine, boards in excellent condition. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, wrapped in clear, plastic mylar for protection. Pages have some very light tanning, unmarked. "Sansom has coupled his storyteller's art with his incomparable and lucent style."

Record # 99011

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Dr. Lavendar's Peopleby: Deland, Margaret

Dr. Lavendar's People
by: Deland, Margaret

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, 369 pages, cover design by Decorative Designers, 12 b&w illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock. Clean copy.

Record # 386717

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Four Novellas of Fear: Eyes That Watch You, The Night I Died, You'll Never See Me Again, Murder Always Gathers Momentumby: Woolrich, Cornell

Four Novellas of Fear: Eyes That Watch You, The Night I Died, You'll Never See Me Again, Murder Always Gathers Momentum
by: Woolrich, Cornell

Softcover. A. J. Cornell Publications , 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 189 pages. Cornell Woolrich, best known as the author of "Rear Window," is unsurpassed in his ability to create and sustain sheer suspense. In his tales of terror, ordinary people find themselves in the most extraordinary circumstances--and, as readers, we share their spine-tingling tension every step of the way. Collected here are four of his most nail-biting novellas: EYES THAT WATCH YOU: Greedy Vera Miller plots her husband's murder right under the nose of her mute, paralyzed mother-in-law. After all, the old lady won't be able to tell anyone about the crime. Or will she? THE NIGHT I DIED: Nice guy Ben Cook, goaded by his scheming common-law wife, fakes his own suicide and moves to another town--all to trick his life insurance company into making a large payout. No one en route or at the new address will recognize him, will they? YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME AGAI": Ed Bliss's new bride, miffed by her husband's insults about her biscuits, promises that Ed will never have to see her again--and storms out! When she doesn't return within a few days, Ed begins to suspect foul play--but when he reports the crime to the police, he's the first one they suspect! MURDER ALWAYS GATHERS MOMENTUM: For his wife's sake, Dick Paine approaches a former employer for back wages he is owed--but things go terribly wrong and the old boss ends up dead. Now the guilt-ridden Paine, who'd never before committed a crime, is convinced that people will figure out what happened. As his paranoia gathers momentum, anyone he meets is at risk of becoming his next victim.

Record # 374753

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A Mighty Fortressby: Le Grand Cannon Jr.

A Mighty Fortress
by: Le Grand Cannon Jr.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Historical novel of a Boston pastor drawn into the Abolitionist movement. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 387368

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The King of the Mountains (Le Roi Des Montagnes)by: Edmond About

The King of the Mountains (Le Roi Des Montagnes)
by: Edmond About

Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st US, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, 300 pages plus publisher's ads. 4 b&w plates by George Avison. First published as Le Roi des Montagnes (1856) About's popular novel satirizes the famous Klephts of 19thC. Greece. His portrait of Hadj-Stavros owes something to the real life brigand of the mountains Christodoulos Hadji-Petros (whose charm was sufficient to attact Lady Jane Digby during her adventurous stay in Greece) Translated by Florence Crewe-Jones. Bookplate on inside front cover, spine gilt with light fading.

Record # 387882

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Autumn: A Novel by: Ali Smith

Autumn: A Novel
by: Ali Smith

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 5th pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with Booker List sticker. Two old friends-Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984-look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Clean copy.

Record # 396560

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Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England: A Novelby: Brock Clarke

Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England: A Novel
by: Brock Clarke

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new life and identity as a husband and father. But when the homes of other famous New England writers suddenly go up in smoke, he must prove his innocence by uncovering the identity of this literary-minded arsonist. Clean copy.

Record # 397453

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Anita, Anita: Garibaldi of the New Worldby: Dorothy Bryant

Anita, Anita: Garibaldi of the New World
by: Dorothy Bryant

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Ata Books, 1st pbk, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 303 pages. A fictionalized account of the relationship between Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi and Anita Ribeiro de Duarte, the fiery Brazilian girl who left her husband to fight beside Garibaldi in South America and Italy. Clean copy.

Record # 398035

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The Call of the Canyonby: Zane Grey

The Call of the Canyon
by: Zane Grey

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, orange cloth with black lettering on spine and decoration on front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, wraparound color art by Frank Street. 291 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 398243

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Smoky: The Cow Horseby: Will James

Smoky: The Cow Horse
by: Will James

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt titles on spine, color illustrated on cover pastedown, 263 pages, 6 color and 8 b&w plates by Will James. Previous owner's name on front endpapers. Otherwise clean copy.

Record # 398636

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Levels of Life (SIGNED COPY)by: Barnes, Julian

Levels of Life (SIGNED COPY)
by: Barnes, Julian

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Julian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely personal account of loss--making Levels of Life an immediate classic on the subject of grief. SIGNED BY BARNES on a blank prelim page, clean copy.

Record # 398987

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The Homecoming Game by: Nemerov, Howard

The Homecoming Game
by: Nemerov, Howard

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 246 pages. Nice copy of this fairly scarce novel, by the writer Nemerov, far more well known for his poetry. This, this third novel, was the basis for the hit Broadway play, "Tall Story", and for the movie of the same name. The movie had Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda as co-stars. Dust jacket faded, chipped at top, otherwise clean.

Record # 396645

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The Aguero Sistersby: Garcia, Cristina

The Aguero Sisters
by: Garcia, Cristina

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A novel about two Cuban sisters who have been estranged for 30 years. One smuggled herself off the island in 1962 and the other still lives in Cuba and is a devoted daughter of the revolution. It is the story about the power of family myth to mask, transform, and, finally, reveal the truth. Clean copy.

Record # 385606

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Arizona Amesby: Zane Grey

Arizona Ames
by: Zane Grey

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 310 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 398229

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Nevadaby: Zane Grey

Nevada
by: Zane Grey

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, orange cloth with black lettering on the spine and front cover, in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 365 pages. Rear dj lists to Betty Zane. No markings.

Record # 398218

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The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine by: Frank R. Stockton

The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine
by: Frank R. Stockton

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., reprint, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray-green cloth lettereed and decorated in gilt and black. 239 pages, Illustrated with 36 drawings by Frederic Dorr Steele. Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 ?- April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Primarily a short story writer this is one of his few novels. A very clean, bight copy.

Record # 385412

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Vestmentsby: Reimringer, John

Vestments
by: Reimringer, John

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Milkweed Editions, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 407 pages. A priest struggling with temptation moves back into his working-class childhood home in this "suspenseful, illuminating, and highly readable saga" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Record # 385494

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The 6th Lamentation (SIGNED COPY)by: William Broderick

The 6th Lamentation (SIGNED COPY)
by: William Broderick

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 387 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON PRELIM-PAGE. Minor rubbing to pictorial dust jacket, else a lovely copy in clear mylar cover. A mystery set in Paris in WWII.

Record # 396333

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Teetotaler Dick: His Adventures Temptations and Triumphs: A Temperance Story by: Knox, Thomas Wallace

Teetotaler Dick: His Adventures Temptations and Triumphs: A Temperance Story
by: Knox, Thomas Wallace

Hardcover. NY, Ward & Drummond, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black and gilt, 418 pages, 6 b&w plates by Helen Strong. Mild rubbing, edgewear to covers. A novel extolling the temperace movement. Clean copy.

Record # 385780

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Tenorman: A Novella by: Huddle, David

Tenorman: A Novella
by: Huddle, David

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First work of longer fiction (although still a brief one) by this Virginia-born poet and short story writer. A moving story of jazz and an old muscian brought back to the United States as a 'museum project' to capture his creative process and preserve his music. Clean copy.

Record # 385999

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A Dog's Taleby: Twain, Mark

A Dog's Tale
by: Twain, Mark

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black and white with a collie and her pup on the cover. 36 pages, 4 color plates by W.T. Smedley. Story told from a dog's perspective. Light fading to spine, otherwise clean.

Record # 386571

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Braided Livesby: Piercy, Marge

Braided Lives
by: Piercy, Marge

Hardcover. NY, Summit Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise clean. Marge Piercy, whose earlier novels have chronicled the female experience in the turbulent '60s and 70s, now turns her considerable skill and passion to the 1950s in this portrait of women in transition from repression to freedom. Through the intense friendship between Jill and her cousin, Donna, we see and feel what it was like to grow up in Detroit in the '50s and go to college when the first seeds of freedom were sown. Through Jill's childhood friend Howie, and her relationships with Mike and Peter, we come to understand the danger that sex posed when abortions were illegal, making the outcome of a chance encounter of a night of love a matter of life and death. And, through Marge Piercy's brilliant, thought-provoking novel, our lives are illuminated.

Record # 387010

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This Day's Madness by: Van de Water, Frederic F.

This Day's Madness
by: Van de Water, Frederic F.

Hardcover. NY, Ives Washburn, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 278 pages. A gossipy, humorous story of middle-class angst in a New England town in the 1950s. Clean copy.

Record # 387299

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Come Back, Lolly Ray by: Lowry, Beverly

Come Back, Lolly Ray
by: Lowry, Beverly

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in a dust jacket with light fading to spine. The author's uncommon first book. Ex-lib with endpapers residue and light stamping. A novel about a high school's star majorette in a small delta town in the South.

Record # 387623

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Mauprat. A Novel by: George Sand

Mauprat. A Novel
by: George Sand

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st US, 1870, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Translated from the French by Virginia Vaughan. Ex-lib with markings, reside to front endpapers. Mild dampstain to bottom of last 100 pages. An attractive reading copy despite faults. Mauprat is a novel by the French novelist George Sand about love and education. It was published in serial form in April and May 1837. Like many of Sand's novels, Mauprat borrows from various fictional genres- the Gothic novel, chivalric romance, the Bildungsroman, detective fiction, and the historical novel.

Record # 396419

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Docile (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Szpara, K.M.

Docile (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Szpara, K.M.

Hardcover. NY, Tor Publishing Group, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 492 pages. INSCRIBED BY SZPARA on the title page. K. M. Szpara's Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles. There is no consent under capitalism. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future. Content warning: Docile contains forthright depictions and discussions of rape and sexual abuse. Clean copy.

Record # 397316

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Wandering Stars by: Orange, Tommy

Wandering Stars
by: Orange, Tommy

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Stars son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his fathers jailer. Clean copy.

Record # 397764

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The Holy Terror by: Wells, H.G.

The Holy Terror
by: Wells, H.G.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st US, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt lettering, 454 pages. "This novel forecasts the advent of the world state. It includes Wells's most thorough indictment of the phenomenon of fascism." A strange disturbing book, published on the eve of WWII. It is in part an analysis of fascism and in part a utopian novel. The book is a biography of a character Rudolf 'Rud' Whitlow, who is born with such an aggressive temperament that he is referred to by his nurse as the 'Holy Terror' and the infant become the despair of his parents. Rud eventually gets involved in socialist activism and a group plotting world revolution.

Record # 398097

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