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JAKE'S THING.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition -
Condition: NF/G (approx 1" piece missing from top edge of rear cover of dj)
Book ID: 3958More details Price: $16.00 -
STANLEY AND THE WOMEN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster (Summit Books), 1984. Hardcover first edition - A good reading copy of this book, considered one of Amis's best black comedies.
Condition: G/VG (rem mark, spine slant, prev owners name)
Book ID: 3963More details Price: $9.00 -
WE ARE ALL GUILTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Viking, 1991. Hardcover first edition - A short novel about a 17 year old boy, confronting the choices that he has made, and that have been made for him.
Condition: F/F (rem mark).
Book ID: 10112More details Price: $15.00 -
GIRL, 20.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Amis's ninth novel - a "brilliant, ruthless, ultimately unnerving survey of current lunacies." 253 pp. Dust jacket design by Wendell Minor.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name stamp)
Book ID: 62523More details Price: $18.50 -
THE INFORMATION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harmony, (1995.). First edition - Critically aclaimed and savagely satiric tale of a failed novelist, who wants to hurt his best friend because he is successful in all the things Richard is failing at. Ironically, considering the theme of the book, Amis caused a storm of controversy when he demanded a large advance for this novel. 386 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy wrappers.
Book ID: 35027More details Price: $20.00 -
THE INFORMATION.
Edition: First printing.
London: Flamingo (HarperCollins), 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Critically aclaimed and savagely satiric tale of a failed novelist, who wants to hurt his best friend because he is successful in all the things Richard is failing at. Ironically, considering the theme of the book, Amis caused a storm of controversy when he demanded a large advance for this novel. 494 pp. ISBN: 0-00-2253569.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34456More details Price: $25.00 -
YELLOW DOG.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Miramax / Hyperion, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the vicious London of the tabloid journals. 340 pp. ISBN: 1401352030.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to lower corner of dj flap).
Book ID: 53722More details Price: $18.00 -
YELLOW DOG.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Miramax / Hyperion, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the vicious London of the tabloid journals. SIGNED on the title page. Short listed for the Booker Prize. 340 pp. ISBN: 1-401352030.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60574More details Price: $35.00 -
EINSTEIN'S MONSTERS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harmony, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of five stories which form Amis's protest against nuclear weapons, first by depicting a world inhabited by people dehumanized by the daily threat of nuclear war and then with postapocalyptic stories of nuclear war survivors deformed by its results. SIGNED on the title page. 149 pp. ISBN: 0-51756520X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80736More details Price: $35.00 -
HEAVY WATER and Other Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harmony, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of nine satirical short stories originally published between 1979 and 1997. SIGNED on the title page. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-609-601296.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52178More details Price: $30.00 -
THE INFORMATION.
Edition: First printing.
London: Flamingo (HarperCollins), (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Critically aclaimed and savagely satiric tale of a failed novelist, who wants to hurt his best friend because he is successful in all the things Richard is failing at. Ironically, considering the theme of the book, Amis caused a storm of controversy when he demanded a large advance for this novel. 494 pp. ISBN: 0-00-2253569.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (tiny remainder dot, small nick to top of dj spine)
Book ID: 65493More details Price: $18.00 -
LIONEL ASBO: State of England.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. dj. Hardcover first edition - A savage and wickedly funny satire on life in modern England. 255 pp. ISBN: 9780307958082.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 67892More details Price: $14.50 -
THE INFORMATION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harmony, (1995.). SIGNED first edition - Critically aclaimed and savagely satiric tale of a failed novelist, who wants to hurt his best friend because he is successful in all the things Richard is failing at. Ironically, considering the theme of the book, Amis caused a storm of controversy when he demanded a large advance for this novel. SIGNED on the title page. 386 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy wrappers.
Book ID: 80773More details Price: $28.50 -
YELLOW DOG.
Edition: First printing.
London: Jonathan Cape, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the vicious London of the tabloid journals. SIGNED on the title page. Short listed for the Booker Prize. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-224050613.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80666More details Price: $40.00 -
YELLOW DOG.
Edition: First printing.
London: Jonathan Cape, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the vicious London of the tabloid journals. Short listed for the Booker Prize. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-224050613.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80667More details Price: $21.50 -
HOUSE OF MEETINGS.
Edition: First North American printing.
New York & Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised novel which begins in 1948 in a slave labor camp above the Arctic Circle in Stalin's Soviet Union. The Sunday Times called this 'a slender. moving novel, streaked with dark comedy. . . Amis's best novel since London Fields.' 242 pp. ISBN: 978-1400044559.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80677More details Price: $20.00 -
HOUSE OF MEETINGS.
Edition: First North American printing.
New York & Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised novel which begins in 1948 in a slave labor camp above the Arctic Circle in Stalin's Soviet Union. The Sunday Times called this 'a slender. moving novel, streaked with dark comedy. . . Amis's best novel since London Fields.' SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 978-1400044559.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80678More details Price: $35.00 -
HEAVY WATER and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of nine satirical short stories originally published between 1979 and 1997. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-224051261.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75454More details Price: $19.50 -
LONDON FIELDS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harmony, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A fantasy of love, lust and murder, set in the near future. Booker award finalist. 470 pp. ISBN: 0-517-577186.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line top edge).
Book ID: 41333More details Price: $20.00 -
NIGHT TRAIN.
Edition: First printing.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A very different novel from Amis - a "gritty, credible, totally captivating mystery about an American female homicide detective." SIGNED on the title page. 149 pp. ISBN: 0-224050184.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (sign of sticker removal on dj).
Book ID: 80714More details Price: $30.00 -
HEAVY WATER and Other Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harmony, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of nine satirical short stories originally published between 1979 and 1997. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-609-601296.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80715More details Price: $17.50 -
TIME'S ARROW.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harmony, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fictional exploration of the Holocaust, through the experiences of a doctor, now living in America, who had worked in the medical section at Auschwitz. SIGNED on the title page. Author's afterword. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-517585154.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 80716More details Price: $31.50 -
THE INFORMATION.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harmony, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Critically aclaimed and savagely satiric tale of a failed novelist, who wants to hurt his best friend because he is successful in all the things Richard is failing at. Ironically, considering the theme of the book, Amis caused a storm of controversy when he demanded a large advance for this novel. ISBN: 0-517585162.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53574More details Price: $20.00 -
A GOD IN RUINS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - A companion novel to her "Life after Life." This tells the story of the 20th century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy - would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. Winner of the 2015 Costa Prize for best novel. Author's note, sources. 468 pp. ISBN: 978-0316176538.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 71940More details Price: $20.00 -
A GOD IN RUINS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2015). First edition - A companion novel to her "Life after Life." This tells the story of the 20th century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy - would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. Winner of the 2015 Costa Prize for best novel (the same award her first novel won) Author's note, sources. 395 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 67239More details Price: $30.00 -
A GOD IN RUINS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2015). First edition - A companion novel to her "Life after Life." This tells the story of the 20th century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy - would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. Winner of the 2015 Costa Prize for best novel (the same award her first novel won) Author's note, sources. 395 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease on back cover, but otherwise an unread copy). An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 67240More details Price: $25.00 -
WHEN WILL THERE BE GOOD NEWS?
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Little Brown, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Third novel featuring Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, retired millionaire. SIGNED on the title page. 390 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner of front cover creased)
Book ID: 80668More details Price: $28.50 -
WHEN WILL THERE BE GOOD NEWS?
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Little Brown, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Third novel featuring Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, retired millionaire. SIGNED on the title page. 390 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80669More details Price: $35.00 -
WHEN WILL THERE BE GOOD NEWS?
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel featuring Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, retired millionaire. SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-316-154857.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80670More details Price: $40.00 -
THE LADY OF SITUATIONS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Susan Cheever wrote about Auchincloss that he is "one of the best writers alive...He writes about moey, crime, sex, adultery and ambition in a prose do deft, so elegant and calera, that it's often only after you finish an Auchincloss novel that you think about it - before that you've been caught up in the pleasure of reading it.."274 pp. ISBN: 0-395-544114.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20838More details Price: $15.00
