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Crooked Hearts (SIGNED COPY) by: Boswell, Robert
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Crooked Hearts (SIGNED COPY)
by: Boswell, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 340 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. A very nice copy in clear brodart cover. Light sunning to dj spine.

Record # 2925

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Disaffection, A (SIGNED COPY) by: Kelman, James
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Disaffection, A (SIGNED COPY)
by: Kelman, James

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY KELMAN on title page. Sharp, clean copy in unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 3974

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Sun, the Sea, A Touch of the Wind, The by: Guy, Rosa
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Sun, the Sea, A Touch of the Wind, The
by: Guy, Rosa

Hardcover. New York , Dutton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 15333

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Preservation Hall by: Spencer, Scott
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Preservation Hall
by: Spencer, Scott

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 273 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean.

Record # 55147

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Aaron's Rod by: Lawrence, D.H.
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Aaron's Rod
by: Lawrence, D.H.

Hardcover. London, Martin Secker, 1st UK, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 312 pages, plus 8 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Covers with 2 small bumps to brown cloth, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 59583

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

P.S. (SIGNED PROOF) by: Schulman, Helen
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P.S. (SIGNED PROOF)
by: Schulman, Helen

Softcover. NY, Bloomsbury, Uncorr. proof , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Paperback proof. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to paper wrappers.

Record # 64720

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Silent Boy, The (SIGNED) by: Lowry, Lois
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Silent Boy, The (SIGNED) by: Lowry, LoisSilent Boy, The (SIGNED) by: Lowry, Lois

Silent Boy, The (SIGNED)
by: Lowry, Lois

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY LOWRY on title-page. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Record # 67853

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Face of Innocence, The by: Sansom, William
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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

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Cautious Heart, The (SIGNED BY AUTHOR) by: Sansom, William
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Cautious Heart, The (SIGNED BY AUTHOR) by: Sansom, WilliamCautious Heart, The (SIGNED BY AUTHOR) by: Sansom, William

Cautious Heart, The (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
by: Sansom, William

Hardcover. New York, Reynal & Company, Inc., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 186 pages. Hardcover. (SIGNED BY AUTHOR) Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of age wear, wrapped in clear, plastic mylar. Red cloth cover boards, white title on spine. Slight tanning to edges from age. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight.

Record # 99038

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Being There by: Kosinski, Jerzy
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Being There
by: Kosinski, Jerzy

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages. Hardcover. Yellow endpapers. Some agewear. Black cover boards, tan quarter cloth. Dust jacket unclipped, slightly tanned, some chipping with light agewear (see image). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked. Very good condition. Kosinski has written a modern parable, which is actually a suspense story. It is remarkable for its tension, wit, and irony. It is exciting, and it is memorable.

Record # 99077

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Prisoner of Zenda, The (WITH SIGNED LETTER) by: Hope, Anthony
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Prisoner of Zenda, The (WITH SIGNED LETTER) by: Hope, AnthonyPrisoner of Zenda, The (WITH SIGNED LETTER) by: Hope, Anthony

Prisoner of Zenda, The (WITH SIGNED LETTER)
by: Hope, Anthony

Hardcover. Bristol, England, J.W. Arrowsmith, 1st Edition, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Hardcover. Arrowsmith's 3/6 Series, Vol. XVIII. Hand-written letter from author [dated 27th Febry. /(18)95] laid in and attached to front flyleaf. In the letter, Hope mentions another book in comparison to this volume. Date of publication not indicated within, but correspondence accompanying and mentioning volume is dated 1895. Spine slightly cocked. Deep maroon cloth, gilt title on spine(slightly faded) and front cover board (still bright), boards have some rubbing, agewear, very light fraying at corners of boards, spine has chipping to top and bottom. Pages and edges have tanning from age. Some chipping to hinges of front and back endpapers, binding not affected. In very good condition.

Record # 99141

Price: $1,000.00
Price: $1,000.00 

John March Southerner by: Cable, George W.
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John March Southerner by: Cable, George W.John March Southerner by: Cable, George W.

John March Southerner
by: Cable, George W.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Edition, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 513 pages. Hardcover. Light green boards with dark green and gold gilt decoration on front cover and spine. Some light chipping to edges and corners of boards. Previous owner's inscription dated "Xmas 1894". Pages lightly tanned with age, otherwise unmarked.

Record # 99143

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Rupert of Hentzau (W/SIGNED LETTER) by: Hope, Anthony
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Rupert of Hentzau (W/SIGNED LETTER) by: Hope, AnthonyRupert of Hentzau (W/SIGNED LETTER) by: Hope, Anthony

Rupert of Hentzau (W/SIGNED LETTER)
by: Hope, Anthony

Hardcover. London, England, j.W. Arrowsmith, 1st Edition, 1898 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece, illustrations throughout by illustrator, Charles Dana Gibson. Tanning from age throughout, pages untrimmed, deckled. Letter from the author dated "17th Sept: 03" laid in (see image), possibly to William Heinemann. Green cover boards, gilt title on spine, front cover. Some agewear to spine top and bottom. Binding very good, spine straight. Very good condition.

Record # 99223

Price: $400.00
Price: $400.00 

Anil's Ghost (SIGNED COPY) by: Ondaatje, Michael
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Anil's Ghost (SIGNED COPY)
by: Ondaatje, Michael

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED, dated on title-page by author. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 100266

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Dewey Defeats Truman (SIGNED PROOF) by: Mallon, Thomas
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Dewey Defeats Truman (SIGNED PROOF) by: Mallon, ThomasDewey Defeats Truman (SIGNED PROOF) by: Mallon, Thomas

Dewey Defeats Truman (SIGNED PROOF)
by: Mallon, Thomas

Paperback. New York, Pantheon, Uncorrected proof wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. SIGNED BY MALLON on title page. Tight copy. In 1948, the small town of Owosso, Michigan, is electrified by the presidential campaign of native favorite Thomas Dewey. Just as voters must decide between Dewey and Harry Truman, so must bookstore clerk Anne Macmurray choose between two suitors-the ardent United Auto Workers organizer and his polar opposite, the wealthy young Republican attorney with political ambitions.

Record # 106407

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Going to the Dogs by: Kavanagh/Julian Barnes, Dan

Going to the Dogs
by: Kavanagh/Julian Barnes, Dan

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear. Psuedo. of Julian Barnes.

Record # 106821

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Out of Doors in the Holy Land by: Van Dyke, Henry
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Out of Doors in the Holy Land
by: Van Dyke, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Scribner's, 1st, 1908 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with top-edge gilt. Gilt and 2-color cover decoration by Armstrong, color illustrations by H. Fenn. Condition is somewhat fragile, but clean and nice with some minor wear to the cover.

Record # 109268

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Flaubert - Sand: The Correspondence by: Steegmuller, Francis and Barbara Bray
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Flaubert - Sand: The Correspondence
by: Steegmuller, Francis and Barbara Bray

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Based on the edition by Alphonse Jacobs, translated from French by Francis Steegmuller and Barbara Bray. 428 pages including index.

Record # 175878

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Putting the Boot In by: Kavanagh (Julian Barnes), Dan
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Putting the Boot In
by: Kavanagh (Julian Barnes), Dan

Hardcover. London , Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Kavanagh is actually Julian Barnes. Wrinkle to lamination on dust jacket cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 301620

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Devil's Valley (SIGNED COPY) by: Brink, Andre
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Devil's Valley (SIGNED COPY)
by: Brink, Andre

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY BRINK on title-page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 303060

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Wild Party, The: The Lost Classic by: March, Joseph Moncure and Art Spiegelman
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Wild Party, The: The Lost Classic
by: March, Joseph Moncure and Art Spiegelman

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Spiegelman. Clean, tight copy. The quintessential hardboiled twenties poem, basis for two stage musicals and a 1975 film directed by James Ivory and starring James Coco and Raquel Welch.

Record # 350844

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Boy of the Border by: Bontemps, Arna/ Langston Hughes
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Boy of the Border
by: Bontemps, Arna/ Langston Hughes

Hardcover. El Paso, TX, Sweet Earth Flying Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Penned by two of the most famous African American writers of the 1930s, this never-before-published coming-of-age story chronicles the adventures of a 12-year-old Mexican boy, Miguel Del Monte, who joins his uncle in herding wild broncos from northern Mexico to Los Angeles. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, this historic tale follows Miguel as he embarks on this unexpected trip across the American Southwest desert, determined to prove himself brave and smart enough to deal with the anticipated hardships. Along with a close encounter with roving bandits and the dangerous forces of nature, Miguel has bittersweet interactions with people of diverse racial and cultural groups, learning important lessons along the way. Separated into concise episodes and reflecting the beauty of various peoples, this collection depicts the power of tolerance and multicultural inclusion.

Record # 352806

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Sweet Forever (signed COPY) by: Pelecanos, George P.
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The Sweet Forever (signed COPY) by: Pelecanos, George P.The Sweet Forever (signed COPY) by: Pelecanos, George P.

The Sweet Forever (signed COPY)
by: Pelecanos, George P.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy with only light edge wear to covers. Autographed copy sticker on front dj. Marcus Clay and Dimitri Karras return from the acclaimed thriller, King Suckerman, as they square off against drug lords and racists on the crime-ridden streets of the nation's capital in the midst of the 1980s.

Record # 354070

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

A Case of Lone Star by: Friedman, Kinky
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A Case of Lone Star
by: Friedman, Kinky

Hardcover. New York, Beech Tree Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 189 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Price sticker on front inside of dj. Internally clean and tight with only light wear to cover boards.

Record # 354073

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Master, The (SIGNED COPY) by: Toibin, Colm
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Master, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Toibin, Colm

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 338 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. A novel about the author Henry James that attracted praise from reviewers nationwide. It's a bold writer indeed who dares to put himself inside the mind of novelist Henry James, but that is what Toibin, highly talented Irish author of The Heather Blazing and The Blackwater Lightship, has ventured here, with a remarkable degree of success. The book is a fictionalized study, based on many biographical materials and family accounts, of the novelist's interior life from the moment in London in 1895 when James's hope to succeed in the theater rather than on the printed page was eclipsed by the towering success of his younger contemporary Oscar Wilde. Thereafter the book ranges seamlessly back and forth over James's life, from his memories of his prominent Brahmin family in the States-including the suicide of his father and the tragic early death of his troubled sister Alice-to his settling in England, in a cherished house of his own choosing in Rye. Along the way it offers hints, no more, of James's troubled sexual identity, including his fascination with a young English manservant, his (apparently platonic) night in bed with Oliver Wendell Holmes and his curious obsession with a dashing Scandinavian sculptor of little talent but huge charisma. Another recurrent motif is James's absorption in the lives of spirited, highly intelligent but unhappy young women who die prematurely, which helped to inform some of his strongest fiction. The subtlety and empathy with which Toibin inhabits James's psyche and captures the fleeting emotional nuances of his world are beyond praise, and even the echoes of the master's style ring true.

Record # 354089

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Dirty Work (SIGNED COPY) by: Brown, Larry
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Dirty Work (SIGNED COPY)
by: Brown, Larry

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Faint foxing to top edge, light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 354093

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Headswoman, The by: Grahame, Kenneth
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Headswoman, The
by: Grahame, Kenneth

Hardcover. London, John Lane, 1st Illustrated edition, 1921, Non-paginated. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with colored woodcuts by Marcia Lane Foster. Light foxing to some pages. Dust jacket shows wear/foxing-now protected by clear plastic cover.

Record # 354862

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Fur Country, The or Seventy Degrees North Latitude by: Verne, Jules; D'anvers, D. (Translator)
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Fur Country, The or Seventy Degrees North Latitude
by: Verne, Jules; D'anvers, D. (Translator)

Hardcover. New York, Worthington Co., unk., unk., Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Green cover boards with black stamped decoration. Letting stated Franklin Edition, Illustrated. Cover boards show moderate wear and rubbing and small dent to rear cover fore edge. Internally fair. Pages are darkened with a few front pages having light soiling. Heavy gutter crack in front, title page detached and laid in.

Record # 354996

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

VOX by: Baker, Nicholson

VOX
by: Baker, Nicholson

Softcover. NY, Random House, uncorr proof, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, uncorrected proof, 165 pages. Clean.

Record # 362058

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

American Rust: A Novel by: Meyer, Philipp
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American Rust: A Novel
by: Meyer, Philipp

Hardcover. NY, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages. "Set in a beautiful but dying Pennsylvania steel town, 'American Rust' is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises from its loss. It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia and the beauty around them who dream of a future beyond the factories, abandoned homes, and the polluted river. Isaac is the smartest kid in town, left behind to care for his sick father after his mother commits suicide and his sister Lee moves away. Now Isaac wants out too. Not even his best friend, Billy Poe, can stand in his way: broad-shouldered Billy, always ready for a fight, still living in his mother's trailer. Then, on the very day of Isaac's leaving, something happens that changes the friends' fates and tests the loyalties of their friendship and those of their lovers, families, and the town itself. Evoking John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, 'American Rust' is an extraordinarily moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence, and the power of love and friendship to redeem us."

Record # 362073

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Squatters' Rites (SIGNED COPY) by: Bascom, Tim
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Squatters' Rites (SIGNED COPY)
by: Bascom, Tim

Softcover. Cellar Book Shop, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. For six months in 1983, Tim Bascom lived with a family in the Tatalon slum, Quezon City, Philippines, sharing their day-to-day struggles. There the seed was planted for this novel--a story that would reveal the lives of the Filipino poor in their suffering and dignity. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 362121

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

King Tom and the Runaways: The Story of What Befell Two Boys in a Georgia Swamp by: Pendleton, Louis
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King Tom and the Runaways: The Story of What Befell Two Boys in a Georgia Swamp
by: Pendleton, Louis

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Silver gilt ornate decoration on front and spine. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Light soil on bottom spine, and light edgewear on edges. A period story set in the Okefenokee Swamp with illustrations by E.W. Kemble, including three images showing black people, and one scene of a dog fighting a cougar.

Record # 368004

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Uncle Tom's Cabin; on, Life Among the Lowly by: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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Uncle Tom's Cabin; on, Life Among the Lowly
by: Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Company, reprint, 1879, Book: Good, 529 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Moderate fraying and rubbing to covers.

Record # 368826

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Going After Caccciato: A Novel by: O'Brien, Tim
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Going After Caccciato: A Novel
by: O'Brien, Tim

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st thus, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate wear to dust jacket edges, especially the spine. Covers show minimal wear. Light foxing to text block fore-edge.

Record # 368831

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

The Man Who Loved Islands by: Lawrence, D.H.
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The Man Who Loved Islands by: Lawrence, D.H.The Man Who Loved Islands by: Lawrence, D.H.

The Man Who Loved Islands
by: Lawrence, D.H.

Hardcover. Lewisburg, PA, Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library/Appletree Alley, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Limited press run. Numbered 17/150. Small brown dot on front cover, otherwise, clean, tight copy. Wood Engravings by John DePol. The story of a man who tries to control his life and find fulfillment by moving to ever smaller islands. But his attempts to create a perfect world on islands fails and leads to isolation.

Record # 369314

Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00 

A Voyage Round the World In Search of the Castaways by: Jules Verne
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A Voyage Round the World In Search of the Castaways by: Jules VerneA Voyage Round the World In Search of the Castaways by: Jules Verne

A Voyage Round the World In Search of the Castaways
by: Jules Verne

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J B Lippincott Company, 1st US, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of the Children and Friends in his Discovery and Rescue. Hardcover. First American edition (and first edition in English). 620 pages. with pictorial title and illustrated with 170 engravings by Riou . Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's full brick cloth, spine and front stamped in gilt and black, beveled edges. This was Verne's fifth book, originally published in French in 1867 as Les Enfants du Captain Grant. Previous owner's discreet signature on half-title page dated November 1874. Otherwise clean and bright.

Record # 372577

Price: $1,500.00
Price: $1,500.00 

The Shawl: A Story and a Novella by: Cynthia Ozick
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The Shawl: A Story and a Novella
by: Cynthia Ozick

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 67 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Two of Ozick's most widely admired pieces, "The Shawl" (a story) and "Rosa" (a novella) were published together in this book for the first time. Very powerful writing from the author of Trust and Levitation.

Record # 374461

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

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
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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 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

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

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

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Thanatos: A Modern Symposium by: Richardson, Maurice and Toynbee, Philip
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Thanatos: A Modern Symposium
by: Richardson, Maurice and Toynbee, Philip

Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright yellow dust jacket with light edgewear. Nine fictional characters argue/debate philosophical questions and offer opinions on history and literature. Clean copy.

Record # 378190

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Cousin Rosamund by: West, Rebecca
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Cousin Rosamund
by: West, Rebecca

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 295 pages. West's unfinished novel, the subsequent chapters following This Real Night. A feminist novel that reveals both the problems of marriage and the ecstasies of sexual love, completing the final chapters of the saga that began with THE FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWS, and continued with THIS REAL NIGHT. Afterword by Victoria Glendinning. Clean copy.

Record # 378191

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time by: Edward Abbey
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The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time by: Edward AbbeyThe Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time by: Edward Abbey

The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time
by: Edward Abbey

Hardcover. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1st UK, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. Green cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Second published work from the literary icon. The story of Jack Burns and his fight with modern society (a theme Abbey would revisit). The character of Jack Burns would turn up in later Abbey novels; Monkey Wrench Gang, Good News and Hayduke Lives! Basis for the film starring Kirk Douglas titled "Lonely are the Brave". The UK first edition had a much smaller print run than its US counterpart and has striking artwork (by Stein) of the cowboy on his rearing horse as a menacing truck aproaches.

Record # 380064

Price: $300.00
Price: $300.00 

Rabbit at Rest (SIGNED COPY) by: Updike, John
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Rabbit at Rest (SIGNED COPY)
by: Updike, John

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Record # 380073

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Harriet Hume: A London Phantasy by: West, Rebecca
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Harriet Hume: A London Phantasy
by: West, Rebecca

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st US, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth. The third novel by Rebecca West, a modernist novel following the love affair to Harriet Hume and Condroex.Harriet is a prodigy pianist, her love an obsessive corrupt politician. Their love story is set against the backdrop of London in the 1920s, a glittery society with an intriguing cast of characters. Clean copy.

Record # 384707

Price: $45.00
Price: $45.00 

Flag for Sunrise, A by: Robert Stone
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Flag for Sunrise, A
by: Robert Stone

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. His third novel, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the L.A. Times Award for best novel of the year. A dark tale of a small Central American country in upheaval, and the lives of a group of Americans whose different backgrounds and connections to the action intersect alarmingly and tragically.

Record # 384708

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Pulp by: Bukowski, Charles
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Pulp
by: Bukowski, Charles

Softcover. Santa Rosa CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st pbk, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 202 pages. Pulp is a brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a hard-boiled detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski's trademark low-life adventures, it is the last novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century. Clean copy.

Record # 384712

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Women: A Novel by: Bukowski, Charles
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Women: A Novel
by: Bukowski, Charles

Softcover. NY, Ecco, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 291 pages. "Summary: Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova. With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge." Clean copy.

Record # 384715

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

World Gone By: A Novel by: Lehane, Dennis
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World Gone By: A Novel
by: Lehane, Dennis

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Pictorial boards The half-jacket dust jacket protects lower half of book, covering most of the pictorial design but displaying author's name . A novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance, set in Cuba and Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, in which Joe Coughlin must confront the cost of his criminal past and present. Clean copy.

Record # 384724

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Iron Earth, Copper Sky by: Kemal, Yashar
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Iron Earth, Copper Sky
by: Kemal, Yashar

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Turkish by Thilda Kemal. 220 pages. The influence of mysticism and the occult upon the unsophisticated mind is a major theme in this powerful novel depicting a terrible winter endured by the Yalak villagers of Turkey. After a bad cotton harvest, they are unable to pay their creditor, the shopkeeper, Adil Effendi; and such a break with age-old tradition overwhelms them with shame and guilt. They wait in terror for Adil to come, but he fails to appear and in his inexplicable absence his figure swells until it fills their minds and they become sick with apprehension, sure that some terrible disaster will befall them. Clean copy.

Record # 384975

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Family Markowitz by: Goodman, Allegra
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The Family Markowitz
by: Goodman, Allegra

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 3rd pr, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 262 pages. A very clean, tight copy. Told through weddings, deaths, holiday dinners, and dreams, the story of three generations of the Markowitzes is revealed.

Record # 384999

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 


Out-of-Print & Signed Novels

Our fiction shelves offer used, rare and out-of-print novels across literary and contemporary writing, from mid-century classics to modern first novels, with a steady supply of signed and inscribed copies. Look for D.H. Lawrence's Aaron's Rod, Scott Spencer's Preservation Hall and William Sansom's The Face of Innocence.

Signed first editions and proofs turn up often, among them Robert Boswell's Crooked Hearts, James Kelman's A Disaffection and Lois Lowry's The Silent Boy. Editions range from reading copies to collectible hardcovers in original dust jackets, and each is described individually so you know what you are getting.

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