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  • LOVE, ROGER. by Webb, Charles
    Webb, Charles
    LOVE, ROGER.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1969.) dj. Hardcover - Second novel by the author of the bestselling and controversial 'The Graduate' - a story which continues his comedy of the absurd, and his focus on the inanities and emptiness of modern life. Frontispiece art and dust jacket illustration by Tomi Ungerer.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 39783
    Keywords: Fiction
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  • LOVE, ROGER. by Webb, Charles
    Webb, Charles
    LOVE, ROGER.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1969.) dj. Hardcover - Second novel by the author of the bestselling and controversial 'The Graduate' - a story which continues his comedy of the absurd, and his focus on the inanities and emptiness of modern life. Frontispiece art and dust jacket illustration by Tomi Ungerer.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (chipping at top of dj spine.)

    Book ID: 47476
    Keywords: Fiction
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  • THE SALAMANDER. by West, Morris,
    West, Morris,
    THE SALAMANDER.

    Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).

    New York: William H. Morrow, (1973) dj. Hardcover - A wealthy Italian industrialist, whose code name is the Salander, calls upon a top intelligence agent to investigate the death of a neo-fascist general. 355 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-688001947.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners slightly bumped)

    Book ID: 83850
    Keywords: Fiction
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  • West, Nathanael.
    MISS LONELYHEARTS & THE DAY OF THE LOCUST.

    Edition: Trade paperback, later printing.

    New York: New Directions, nd, 1930. Two modern American classics - The Day of the Locust is considered the best book ever written about Hollywood - originally published in the 1930's. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-02151.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 34215
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  • THE COMPLETE WORKS OF NATHANAEL WEST: The Dream Life of Balso Snell, Miss Lonelyhearts, A Cool Million, The Day of the Locust, by West, Nathanael (1904-1940)
    West, Nathanael (1904-1940)
    THE COMPLETE WORKS OF NATHANAEL WEST: The Dream Life of Balso Snell, Miss Lonelyhearts, A Cool Million, The Day of the Locust,

    Edition: Seventh printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1971, c 1957) dj. Hardcover - Introduction by Alan Ross. Includes The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931), Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), A Cool Million (1936) and The Day of the Locust (1939). Miss Lonelyheats is considered his masterpiece, while The Day of the Locust has been called the best book ever written about Hollywood, xxii, 421 pp. ISBN: 0-374127727.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 84343
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  • RAT MAN OF PARIS. by West, Paul.
    West, Paul.
    RAT MAN OF PARIS.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Collier Books / Macmillan, (1987). Novel based on the legendary "Rat man" who haunted the boulevards of Paris, this is the story of a strange outcast with a terrible secret buried in his past. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-02-0262507.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in.

    Book ID: 71267
    Keywords: Fiction
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  • Wharton, William
    TIDINGS.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, 1987. dj. Hardcover - Novel of family life and the demands in makes, the compromises it demands. Set in the French countryside as an American couple prepare to celebrate both their 30th wedding anniversary and Christmas with their 3 grown children. ISBN: 0-8050-0532-3.

    Condition: Very good+ in like dust jacket (prev owner's name.)

    Book ID: 17228
    Keywords: fiction
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  • Wheeler, Charles.
    SNAKEWALK.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harmony, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - long blurb from Harry Crews who called it the work of a 'raging,, outrageous defiant talent." The story of a biker, hell-raiser and free spirit who loses his sight in a boating accident.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dj.

    Book ID: 13978
    Keywords: blindness, fiction
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  • FESTIVAL FOR THREE THOUSAND MAIDENS. by Wiley, Richard.
    Wiley, Richard.
    FESTIVAL FOR THREE THOUSAND MAIDENS.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Dutton, 1991. dj. Hardcover - Author's third novel (his first won the PEN/Faulkner award) - blurbs by Charles Johnson, TC Boyle, and Toby Olson. The story of a Peace Corps volunteer at a school in Korea, while the Vietnam War is raging on. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-532-249508.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)

    Book ID: 61073
    Keywords: Fiction, korea, vietnam era
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  • THE PERSONALITY SURGEON: A Novel. by Wilson, Colin.
    Wilson, Colin.
    THE PERSONALITY SURGEON: A Novel.

    Edition: First US printing.

    San Francisco: Mercury House, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about an overworked, underpaid London general practicioner who develops a revolutionary method of psychotherapy. 322 pp. Dust jacket by Tom Bourret. ISBN: 0-916515-0414.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (some spine slant.)

    Book ID: 43713
    Keywords: Fiction
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  • Wilson, Wayne.
    LOOSE JAM.

    Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.

    New York: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, 1992.

    Condition: As new, but cover slightly creased

    Book ID: 1536
    Keywords: fiction
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  • Wilson, Wayne.
    EDDIE AND BELLA.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 2001. First edition - Author's offbeat second novel, a love story of two people separated then brought back together later in life, only to fall in love all over again. 304 pp

    Condition: Fine in printed white wrappers.

    Book ID: 27371
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  • Wright, Barbara
    EASY MONEY

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1995. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the story of Jay, who must grow up too soon.

    Condition: F/F (as new, but rm.)

    Book ID: 4754
    Keywords: fiction
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  • GOING NATIVE. by Wright, Stephen.
    Wright, Stephen.
    GOING NATIVE.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Farrar Straus, (1994.). Author's third novel about the darkness that is at the heart of the American dream. Praise from Toni Morrison (who called it 'astonishing-brilliantly executed') and from Don DeLillo who said Wright is 'a demon novelist who has written an ambitious American tale of the highway, the motel, and the floating identity. Going Native is strange, dark and funny, a slasher classic.' 305 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 43766
    Keywords: Fiction
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  • THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RICHARD YATES. by Yates, Richard. (introduction by Richard Russo,)
    Yates, Richard. (introduction by Richard Russo,)
    THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RICHARD YATES.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Picador, (2002.). SIGNED - Includes the stories from "Liars in Love" and "Eleven Kinds of Lonliness" as well as nine uncollected stories, seven which had not been previously published. SIGNED by Richard Russo at his Introduction. xx, 472 pp. ISBN: 0-312-420811.

    Condition: Good condition (some soiling to edges of textblock, usual toning to the pages, no creasing.)

    Book ID: 47905
    Keywords: Fiction
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  • Yau, John.
    HAWAIIAN COWBOYS.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with a limited hardcover edition.

    Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. First edition - Collection of short stories by this poet and art critic. 169 pp. ISBN: 0-87685-9562.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 36228
    Keywords: Fiction
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  • Zimler, Richard.
    THE ANGELIC DARKNESS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in the 1980's San Francisco, this is the third book by the author of 'The Last Kabalist of Lisbon', a highly praised historical mystery. ISBN: 0-393-048179.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 26037
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