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SWEET THURSDAY.
Edition: First printing.
London: Andre Deutsch, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1983, this is the author's fourth novel evoking a Sussex childhood - in this case, the turbulence of early adolescence.. 298 pp. Dust jacket art by Pip Moon. ISBN: 0-233985719.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corner of front endpaper clipped.)
Book ID: 50721More details Price: $15.00 -
SWEET THURSDAY.
Edition: First printing.
London: Andre Deutsch, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1983, this is the author's fourth novel evoking a Sussex childhood - in this case, the turbulence of early adolescence.. 298 pp. Dust jacket art by Pip Moon. ISBN: 0-233985719.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 57476More details Price: $18.00 -
SWEET THURSDAY.
Edition: First printing.
London: Andre Deutsch, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1983, this is the author's fourth novel evoking a Sussex childhood - in this case, the turbulence of early adolescence.. 298 pp. Dust jacket art by Pip Moon. ISBN: 0-233985719.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 59096More details Price: $15.00 -
LYING AWAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel, set in a Carmelite convent just outside modern Los Angeles. 8 illustrations by Stephanie Shieldhouse. SIGNED on a preliminary page. 118 pp. ISBN: 0-375-4052328.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 41327More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SOLOIST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel, third book, by this highly praised young writer. This story of a cellist, a child prodigy who loses his gift abruptly at age 18, and 17 years later finds his life once again unexpectedly disrupted, is a brief but powerful novel. Salzman himself plays the cello. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-394-570103.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41328More details Price: $15.00 -
THE LAUGHING SUTRA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, and first novel, the story of an orphan Chinese boy who determines to recover from America the Buddhist text known as 'the laughing sutra.' Part adventure story, part satire, part fable, this story of the clash of cultures is rooted in the author's own experience of living in China for several years. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-394-57009x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41424More details Price: $20.00 -
TRUE NOTEBOOKS.
Edition: First edition
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of Mark Salzman's first years teaching a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-375-413081.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59488More details Price: $18.00 -
THE SOLOIST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel, third book, by this highly praised young writer. This story of a cellist, a child prodigy who loses his gift abruptly at age 18, and 17 years later finds his life once again unexpectedly disrupted, is a brief but powerful novel. Salzman himself plays the cello. SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Laid in is a hand-written note from a Random House sales specialist. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-394-570103.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59980More details Price: $35.00 -
LYING AWAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. His extraordinary third novel, set in a Carmelite convent just outside modern Los Angeles. 8 illustrations by Stephanie Shieldhouse. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-375-4052328.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 18533More details Price: $40.00 -
THE LAUGHING SUTRA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second book, and first novel, the story of an orphan Chinese boy who determines to recover from America the Buddhist text known as 'the laughing sutra.' Part adventure story, part satire, part fable, this story of the clash of cultures is rooted in the author's own experience of living in China for several years. SIGNED on the title page by the author. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-394-57009x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 31252More details Price: $45.00 -
LYING AWAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - His extraordinary third novel, set in a Carmelite convent just outside modern Los Angeles. 8 illustrations by Stephanie Shieldhouse. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-375-4052328.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 32803More details Price: $16.00 -
THE SOLOIST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel, third book, by this highly praised young writer. This story of a cellist, a child prodigy who loses his gift abruptly at age 18, and 17 years later finds his life once again unexpectedly disrupted, is a brief but powerful novel. Salzman himself plays the cello. SIGNED by the author. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-394-570103.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32930More details Price: $30.00 -
LYING AWAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in a Carmelite convent just outside modern Los Angeles. 8 illustrations by Stephanie Shieldhouse. 118 pp. ISBN: 0-375-4052328.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 35473More details Price: $14.00 -
THE DEVIL THAT FAILED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. dj. Hardcover first edition - "The Ominous Adventure of a Twentieth-century Gulliver" - A novel described as "half a thriller and half a parable, which relates the adventures of a modern Gulliver who finds himself by sudden catastrophe too big for ordinary life." The author was born in Romania, educated in England, and came to the US to live in 1914. 271 pp. Dustjacket by George Salter.
Condition: Fine in black cloth with copper lettering on the spine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, some minor edgewear, spine slightly toned)
Book ID: 86930More details Price: $35.00 -
THE DAY OF THE BEES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by the author of 'Rabbit Boss' and 'Zoot-Suit Murders,' a sweeping story of love, art and politics, set in Vichy-dominated France during World War II and in modern Mallorca. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-375-401628.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (crease on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 32588More details Price: $15.00 -
THE PLEASURES OF HELEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by the author of 'The Anderson Tapes.' The story of a single young woman in Manhattan - a woman who arrived there a decade ago from a small town in Ohio with high hopes and determination - to both make her own way and eventually marry the man of her dreams. 251 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (sticker from a literary agency on front endpaper, light toning to pages, edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 61196More details Price: $20.00 -
SORROW FLOATS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "One of the oddest hegiras in American roadtrip history as this less-than-cordial threesome sets out to cover twenty-five hundred miles of good ol' boy 70s America... Sandlin at his best: zany and wry, caustic and innocent." 352 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-16279.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44277More details Price: $20.00 -
SORROW FLOATS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "One of the oddest hegiras in American roadtrip history as this less-than-cordial threesome sets out to cover twenty-five hundred miles of good ol' boy 70's America... Sandlin at his best: zany and wry, caustic and innocent." 352 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-16279.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (as new, but remainder line).
Book ID: 45849More details Price: $18.00 -
SKIPPED PARTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His third novel and the first in his GroVont trilogy - a look at sex, teenagers and life in 1960's small town Wyoming. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-1086-6.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 46964More details Price: $18.00 -
WESTERN SWING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Wyoming author's funny second novel, a 'ribald saga of the new wild West.' 372 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-04580.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (bookstore stamp on front pastedown, usual light toning to the pages, but otherwise tight and clean.)
Book ID: 51972More details Price: $20.00 -
SEX AND SUNSETS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - story of Kelly Palomino, who, at 29, is the best dishwasher in Jackson, Wyoming - dust jacket praise from John Nichols and Larry McMurtry. 277 pp. Dust jacket art by George Corsillo. ISBN: 0-8050-01689.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread, pages very lightly toned.)
Book ID: 56337More details Price: $21.50 -
SORROW FLOATS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "One of the oddest hegiras in American roadtrip history as this less-than-cordial threesome sets out to cover twenty-five hundred miles of good ol' boy 70s America... Sandlin at his best: zany and wry, caustic and innocent." INSCRIBED on the title page to noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens and his wife ("who drove all the way.. . ") and dated in the year of publication. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-16279.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60994More details Price: $35.00 -
SORROW FLOATS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "One of the oddest hegiras in American roadtrip history as this less-than-cordial threesome sets out to cover twenty-five hundred miles of good ol' boy 70s America... Sandlin at his best: zany and wry, caustic and innocent." SIGNED on the title page. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-16279.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 60995More details Price: $30.00 -
SOCIAL BLUNDERS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1995. Hardcover first edition - The final book in the Grovont trilogy. Sandlin's writing has been called "funny, shocking, downright revolting, compelling and occasionally sad."
Condition: NF/NF (bump to lower edge, blue ink mark on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 8585More details Price: $15.00 -
WESTERN SWING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Wyoming author's funny second novel, a 'ribald saga of the new wild West.' 372 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-04580.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (toning to edges of textblock, pages)
Book ID: 85661More details Price: $24.50 -
A MORE GOODLY COUNTRY: A Personal History of America.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (minor toning and sunning to the dust jacket).
Book ID: 87930More details Price: $30.00 -
A MAN WITHOUT SHOES.
Edition: First edition, second issue.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Originally privately printed for publication by the Plantin Press, Los Angeles in 1951 (after being rejected by many publishers because of the controversy over the topic, and because Sanford was blacklisted by the House for Unamerican Activities Committee for refusing to name names), this was reissued by Black Sparrow with a new tipped-in title page and a new five page introduction by Sanford. A novel concerned with an American attempting to discover the America of his time...The period of 1909-1938." Includes the original SIGNED colophon page showing that this is Copy 1162 of 2000. 452 pp. In the original printed beige dust jacket with the Plantin Press publisher information crossed out and Black Sparrow Press added. ISBN: 0-876855443.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (corners bumped, edgewear and several small tears on dust jacket).
Book ID: 55772More details Price: $50.00 -
THE ROMANTIC.
Edition: First printing.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a 60s survivor in Reagan-era America. 210 pp. Jacket illustration by Alex Katz,. ISBN: 0-070548595.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79397More details Price: $15.00 -
LINCOLN IN THE BARDO: A Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 71562More details Price: $175.00 -
LINCOLN IN THE BARDO: A Novel.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (very short tear near top of spine of dj)
Book ID: 86790More details Price: $35.00
