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STARTING OVER.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1973) dj. Hardcover - The author's second novel, the story of two people recovering from a divorce, basis for the 1979 film starring Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh and Candice Bergen. 290 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84517More details Price: $15.00 -
MALICIOUS INTENT: A Hollywood Fable.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1999. First edition - A novel of gossip, scandal and mystery in Hollywood by this National Esquire columnist . Publisher's material laid in. 317 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59634More details Price: $14.50 -
PUERTO VALLARTA SQUEEZE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, (1995). First edition - Novel by the author of 'Bridges of Madison County.' An American author in Mexico is dealing with writer's block as his money runs low. But then "he was in the right place, or the wrong one, to be the sole witness when a shooter gunned down an American naval officer. At a cafe table with Luz, Danny Pastor saw it all, and saw the possibility of a story, a surefire, prizewinning account that could restore his pride and make him famous. And when the killer approached him, the only other Anglo around, and asked for a ride across the border, Danny, bold with tequila, said yes." 214 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84347More details Price: $16.50 -
MEET ME IN THE GREEN GLEN.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Random House, 1971. dj. Hardcover - Novel by this prize winning author - a complex story of love, betrayal, revenge and murder. ISBN: 0-394-46141x.
Condition: Near fine in very good- dust jacket (chipping and edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 25847More details Price: $16.50 -
THE PROMISE OF LIGHT
Edition: 2nd printing. Hardcover.
New York: Random House, 1992. dj. Hardcover - Set in 1921, this is the story of Ben Sheridan, son of an Irish immigrant who, in an attempt to understand himself and his origins travels back to Ireland and discovers himself in the midst of the bloody struggle between the newly formed Irish Republican Army and the British soldiers, called the Black and Tans. ISBN: 0-679-419748.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 9246More details Price: $13.50 -
CALM AT SUNSET, CALM AT DAWN.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. dj. Hardcover - His second book, the story of a young man growing up in a family who worked fishing boats of the coast of New England for generations and who has the lure of the sea in his blood, despite the brutality and treacherousness of this life. Winner of the Encore Prize in England. Watkins spent several seasons working on trawlers himself. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-395-509599.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20259More details Price: $15.00 -
FIGHTING DR. DIANA.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Avalon Books, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon title in the Avalon Nurse Stories series (although in this case, the protagonist is a doctor and not a nurse), set in Florida near Cape Canaveral. 192 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, pocket removed from front endpaper, in a very good unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 70420More details Price: $15.00 -
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: 39783More details Price: $10.00 -
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: 47476More details Price: $8.50 -
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: 83850More details Price: $14.50 -
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: 34215More details Price: $9.00 -
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: 84343More details Price: $20.00 -
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: 71267More details Price: $11.50 -
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: 17228More details Price: $13.50 -
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: 13978More details Price: $18.00 -
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: 61073More details Price: $14.50 -
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: 43713More details Price: $12.00 -
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: 1536More details Price: $10.00 -
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: 27371More details Price: $12.00 -
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: 4754More details Price: $15.00 -
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: 43766More details Price: $9.00 -
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: 47905More details Price: $18.50 -
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: 36228More details Price: $12.00 -
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: 26037More details Price: $16.50