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EMORY'S GIFT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2011.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A coming of age story: thirteen year old Charlie Hall's mother is dead, his father is absorbed in his grief and junior high is a lonely place - and then one day he is saved from a mountain lion by a grizzly bear, a species thought to be extinct in Northern Idaho. SIGNED on the title page. 365 pp. ISBN: 9780765327819.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86691More details Price: $26.50 -
FOR KINGS AND PLANETS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Random House, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover - His 4th book, a novel, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. ISBN: 0-679-419632.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 26765More details Price: $18.00 -
DELCORSO'S GALLERY.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: HarperPerennial, (1991.). Author's third novel - the story of a photojournalist working in Vietnam and Beirut. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0986069.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 46733More details Price: $10.00 -
MASAI DREAMING.
Edition: 2nd printing.
London: Macmillan, (1993). SIGNED hardcover - The author's sixth book - "A provocative novel about a disillusioned writer who travels to Africa to research a screenplay [about an early anthropologist.] Cartwright tellingly contrasts the supposed savagery of the dark continent with the very real barbarism of Nazi Germany and the modern world." (Esquire) SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-333592816.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (appears unread, toning to the edge of the textblock).
Book ID: 72300More details Price: $21.50 -
WHERE I'M CALLING FROM: New and Selected Stories.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (c 1988.). Collection of short stories by one of the US masters of the form. 391 pp.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 51001More details Price: $9.00 -
MISTER JOHNSON.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Time-Life Books, (1981.). Reprint of Cary's greatest novel with a new introduction by V. S. Pritchett and an editor's preface. xv, 300 pp,
Condition: Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 51690More details Price: $10.00 -
SPARTINA.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Avon, 1990. Winner of the National Book Award - Novel set in coastal Rhode Island, where Dick Pierce, a struggling fisherman is determined to finish building his boat, his 'Spartina,' despite the costs to his family and himself. Map. 375 pp. ISBN: 0-380-711044.
Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 53630More details Price: $10.00 -
SPARTINA.
Edition: 5th printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover - Winner of the National Book Award - Novel set in coastal Rhode Island, where Dick Pierce, a struggling fisherman is determined to finish building his boat, his 'Spartina,' despite the costs to his family and himself. 375 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-500989.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62229More details Price: $16.50 -
TIGER, TIGER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, set in Malaya in the late 1960's just as it was casting off British rule. ISBN: 0-312-804482.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (very light edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 24624More details Price: $18.00 -
OH WHAT A PARADISE IT SEEMS.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. dj. Hardcover - A short novel - ;part fable, part yarn' - which was published just 3 months before Cheever's death from cancer. 100 pp. ISBN: 0-394-513347.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 46846More details Price: $8.50 -
WHO IS SYLVIA? A Novel.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1979. First edition - A rather uncommon novel by this California poet, his first - set against the background of the psychedelic 60s, this is the story of an American professor/poet's brief but disturbing affair with an enigmatic Englishwoman. 126 pp. ISBN: 0-912652-535.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 56700More details Price: $12.50 -
LITTLE BEE.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74668More details Price: $21.50 -
FOE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Penguin, 1987. A variation on the story of Crusoe, Friday - and another castaway, Susan Barton - and Foe, the man who will tell their story. 117 pp. ISBN: 0-14-009623x.
Condition: Near fine (usual light toning to the pages.) Review copy with publisher's slip laid in.
Book ID: 46645More details Price: $10.00 -
DIARY OF A BAD YEAR.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Viking Penguin, (2008.) dj. Hardcover - Novel by this Nobel laureate which both takes on the world of politics and explores the role of the writer in our times. Notes. 229 pp. ISBN: 9780670018758.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 50601More details Price: $11.50 -
THE MINEFIELD.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Oakland, CA: Regent Press, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The story of a Vietnam veteran who operates a controversial simulated minefield in Northern California where patrons pay their money to get their thrills - until a crusader against the global infestation of land mines walks into the field and is found dead. SIGNED on the title page. 158 pp. ISBN: 1-587900297.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77902More details Price: $17.50 -
GULF STREAM NORTH
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Second Chance Press, 1980. dj. Hailed as a classic when it was first published in 1954, this is the story of 5 days on a sodden old menhadener with a white captain and an all Negro crew.
Condition: NF/G (edgewear to dj and a piece missing from front cover.)
Book ID: 6518More details Price: $10.00 -
BEACHCOMBING FOR A SHIPWRECKED GOD.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1997.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 15519More details Price: $8.50 -
GENERATION X: Tales from an Accelerated Culture.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: St Martin's, (1991.). Canadian author's first novel, a story of the twentysomething generation, overeducated and underemployed, working McJobs (low pay, low prestige, low benefit, no future) in the service industry. Illustrated. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-312-05436x.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 47446More details Price: $8.50 -
TO STEP ASIDE: Seven Stories.
Edition: Early printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1939. dj. Hardcover -
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (fading to spine of dj, loss of about 1/3 inch at top of dj spine.)
Book ID: 23604More details Price: $12.00 -
A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Picador, (ca 1999, c. 1990.). SIGNED - Highly praised second book by the 1999 winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer. SIGNED on the title page. Basis for the film of the same name directed by Michael Mayer and starring Sissy Spacek and Colin Farrell. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-312-202318.
Condition: Very good condition (bit of curling to edges of covers, usual light toning to the pages, no spine creasing)
Book ID: 34420More details Price: $19.50 -
GENEROUS HELPINGS: Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Santa Barbara: Shoreline Press, 2001. SIGNED first edition - "Six Stories Of California, Calamity, And Love." 157 pp. ISBN: 1-885375085.
Condition: Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the first page ('with great memories, warm wishes, and much affection") and dated in the year of publication. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 33340More details Price: $25.00 -
TWELVE STORIES.
Edition: First printing.
Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1997. First edition - An original trade paperback containing stories from 3 of Davenport's early collections. Chosen by Davenport, these stories were currently not available in print elsewhere.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 12001More details Price: $14.00 -
SUNBURN LAKE.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Penguin, (1990). ISBN: 0-14-0085491.
Condition: Very near fine - appears unread
Book ID: 1546More details Price: $9.50 -
MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET.
Edition: First thus.
New York: The Press of the Readers Club, (1941) dj. Hardcover - A novel originally published in 1921, issued here with a new introduction by Carl Van Doren. The NY Times review described this as a "great book. Here are pity and truth and laughter, gentlest compassion, fiercest irony." ix, 379 pp.
Condition: Very good in navy blue cloth with red lettering on spine, embossed decoration on front cover (corners bumped) in a good only dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the folds. price of $1.50 on front flap.
Book ID: 85604More details Price: $17.50 -
UNDERWORLD.
Edition: Large trade paperback.
New York: Scribner, (1997.). A massive novel, one of Delillo's most important works. 827 pp. ISBN: 0-9656641-20.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 47003More details Price: $12.00 -
THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. dj. Hardcover - Novel of love and jealousy set in a Connecticut suburb. ISBN: 0-7432-046971.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22660More details Price: $10.00 -
THE ANT HEAP.
Edition: First printing.
Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - A fable which uses an ant colony - in which a few restless worker ants agitate against the status quo - to illuminate our own society. Illustrated with drawings by Martha Huehnerarth. 151 pp. ISBN: 0-878500340.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (overall edgewear to dj, chip at top edge of front cover, tear at base of spine)
Book ID: 82953More details Price: $16.50 -
BROTHERLY LOVE
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Random House, (1991.) dj. Hardcover - Author's fourth novel, set in the grim underworld of the mobs in Philadelphia. SIGNED on the title page. A NY Times Book Review notable book of 1991. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-394-585739.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47102More details Price: $17.50 -
THE LIVING
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Condition: Very good (few puncture holes in back cover, some underlining)
Book ID: 10783More details Price: $8.50 -
THE FIRST MAN ON THE SUN
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. First edition - Dillard's second novel - part autobiographical, part a comic dream describing the Irish expedition to land a manned spaceship on the sun.
Condition: Very good in black wrappers.
Book ID: 9793More details Price: $10.00