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SOPHIE'S CHOICE.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Random House, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of the Holocaust, and its effects on a woman who survived the death camps. Winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Oscar award winning movie of the same name, featuring Meryl Streep. 515 pp. ISBN: 0-394-461096.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (name on front pastedown, mostly hidden by dj flap, crease to front flap of dj, minor edgewear to dj, original price of 12.95 still present.)
Book ID: 74002More details Price: $21.50 -
THE CORRESPONDENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Fromm International, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel: "Alex Merry, star of stage and screen, died a tragic and untimely death. Clearly, no one would be better suited to write his biography than George Fowler, his long-time friend.. . Fowler's account, however, is no standard biography.. . in the course of the telling, we discover more and more about the complex, intimate relationship between George and Alex - a relationship that speaks movingly about the true nature of friendship, of love, and their consequences. Intertwined in the narrative is the fictitious correspondence which the two friends kept up for over twenty years, playfully recasting the facts of their lives as coded truths." 325 pp. ISBN: 0-880641436.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 74482More details Price: $15.00 -
THE VOYEUR.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Bernard Geis Associates, (1969.) dj. Hardcover - Second novel written under this pseudonym by the poet, translator and novelist, David R. Slavitt. The story of the publisher of a men's magazine, this novel balances the sensational - murder, suicide, and more - against notions of censorship and the freedom of the press, the issue of privacy, and other issues of our time. 345 pp. Striking dust jacket art.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (price-clipped)
Book ID: 84585More details Price: $18.50 -
THE EXHIBITIONIST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bernard Geis Associates, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel written under this pseudonym by the poet, translator and novelist, David R. Slavitt. The story of an aging actor who has made it to the top of the international film world and of his daughter Merry determined to get her kicks where she can - as she follows her father to the top of this corrupt world. Intended to be a "big novel" this succeeded better than expected, with sales of over 4 million copies. 410 pp.
Condition: Very good in a fair only dust jacket, with several short tears and chipping,
Book ID: 85535More details Price: $18.50 -
T H E K I L L I N G .
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this S a n F r a n c i s c o w r i t e r , a story of the side of San Francisco that tourists aren't shown. When union official Quinn Dunaway's adopted eleven-year old daughter is beaten and raped by the ex-con boyfriend of his drug addict sister, and the police do nothing, he goes after the rapist himself. 359 pp. ISBN: 0 -0 3- 0 4 8 3 3 6 0.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (bookplate.)
Book ID: 46428More details Price: $20.00 -
EVER AFTER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by this prize-winning author. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-679-409548.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket. (lower edge of a few pages bumped.)
Book ID: 41411More details Price: $15.00 -
EVER AFTER.
Edition: Advance Excerpt (slim paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First edition - Uncommon advance issue containing just the opening chapters of this book, and highlighting the fact that this is the first one of his novels to be published by Knopf. 52 pp.
Condition: Fine in stapled blue illustrated wrapper.
Book ID: 41412More details Price: $20.00 -
EVER AFTER.
Edition: 1st printing.
London: Picador, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by this prize-winning author. Top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-330-323318.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 2948More details Price: $18.00 -
EVER AFTER.
Edition: 1st printing.
London: Picador, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by this prize-winning author. Top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-330-323318.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 9649More details Price: $25.00 -
LEARNING TO SWIM AND OTHER STORIES
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early collection of short stories by this Booker Prize winning author. ISBN: 0-671-546139.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (rem mark, slit to front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 9667More details Price: $18.50 -
SHUTTLECOCK
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback (not issued a hardcover edition in the US.)
New York: Washington Square Press, (1985.). First edition - Author's 2nd novel, a psychological thriller, but not published in the US until after he had begun to receive some recognition for 'Waterland." Swift was nominated for the Granta "Twenty Best Young British Novelists" and this novel was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-671-546120.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (some wear to covers, no spine creases.)
Book ID: 9668More details Price: $18.00 -
OUT OF THIS WORLD
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised fourth novel by this writer who was selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists. ISBN: 0-671-658271.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (rem mark.)
Book ID: 9670More details Price: $25.00 -
LEARNING TO SWIM AND OTHER STORIES
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early collection of short stories by the recent winner of the Booker Prize. ISBN: 0-671-546139.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (remainder mark, some staining to the interior of the dj, light spot on back cover.)
Book ID: 23350More details Price: $14.00 -
OUT OF THIS WORLD
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised fourth novel by this writer who was selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists. ISBN: 0-671-658271.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (rem mark.)
Book ID: 23352More details Price: $24.00 -
LEARNING TO SWIM AND OTHER STORIES
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early collection of short stories by this Booker Prize winning author. ISBN: 0-671-546139.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (upper corner slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 38952More details Price: $20.00 -
YOUNG FELIX.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: George H. Doran, (1923). Hardcover first edition - A coming of age novel by this prolific English writer, the author of more than 50 books, including biographies and essays in addition to his novels. He also worked as an editor and as was a literary critic. 439 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt titling on the spine titling, top edge tinted, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 78057More details Price: $15.00 -
THE ARK OF THE MARINDOR.
Edition: First printing.
Denver: MacMurray & Beck. (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "morally complex and dramatic nautical adventure" by this award-winning author. SIGNED on the half tiitle page. 234 pp. ISBN: 1878448803.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64234More details Price: $25.00 -
CLAIRE AMBLER.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1928. Hardcover first edition - A later novel by this best-selling writer (who also won the Pulitzer Prize twice), a picture of a quintessional flapper of the 1920's. 253 pp. Blue and gold illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Very near fine in blue cloth with printed gold labels on front and spine, lacking the dj, but remarkably bright.
Book ID: 43031More details Price: $18.00 -
THREE BLONDES AND DEATH
Edition: First printing.
Boulder, CO: Fiction Collective Two, 1993. Hardcover first edition -
Condition: F/F (rem line.)
Book ID: 4843More details Price: $18.00 -
THE GOLDFINCH.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 2014 and the basis for the film of the same name. Full number line beginning with a '1", no award sticker on dust jacket. 771 pp. ISBN: 978-0316055437.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (peeled spot on front cover of dj from sticker removal). Original price of 30.00 on dj flap.
Book ID: 85267More details Price: $28.50 -
THE HAPPY ISLAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William Sloane, (1950.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Hawaii.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket.(corners bumped, chip to top of spine of dj, tear with associated creasing, etc.)
Book ID: 52243More details Price: $15.00 -
MY SECRET HISTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel about the hidden life of an American writer, spanning almost thirty years from his days as an altar boy on, and ranging across Africa, Siberia and the US. 511 pp. ISBN: 0-399-134247.
Condition: Very good+ in a good dust jacket (some toning to the pages, short closed tears and edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 43843More details Price: $12.50 -
MY SECRET HISTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rich and complex novel about a writer's 'secret life.' 511 pp. ISBN: 0-399-134247.
Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket (remainder line, some light toning to the pages, tear to upper corner of dj at fold, other edgewear.)
Book ID: 47730More details Price: $12.50 -
O-ZONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam. (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Theroux' massive novel of America in the near future, a land of nuclear waste, mutants, the incredibly rich and the masses. ISBN: 0-399-131858.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (soiling to bottom edge of textblock, minor edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 47731More details Price: $22.50 -
A DEAD HAND: A Crime in Calcutta.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. First edition - A novel which is immediately gripping: the title refers to both the protagonist's writer's block (which he calls a dead hand) and the actual hand a young boy found dead. 279 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 53198More details Price: $20.00 -
CHICAGO LOOP.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of sexual obsession - a tautly witten and compelling erotic thriller by the author of 'The Mosquito Coast.' 183 pp. ISBN: 0-241-129494.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55404More details Price: $17.50 -
MY OTHER LIFE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel described as 'complex, candid and confessional' with a fictional Paul Theroux as protagonist. 456 pp. ISBN: 0-395-82527X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55595More details Price: $16.50 -
O-ZONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam. (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Theroux's massive dystopian novel of America in the near future, a land of nuclear waste, mutants, the incredibly rich and the masses. A wasteland not due to nuclear war but to "the inexorible pressing of what we already see about us - from the Third World to Times Square, from the halls of the mighty to the haunts of terrorists and killer survivalists." 527 pp. ISBN: 0-399-131858.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 61911More details Price: $27.50 -
CHICAGO LOOP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of sexual obsession - a tautly witten and compelling erotic thriller by the author of 'The Mosquito Coast.' 196 pp. ISBN: 0-679-401881.
Condition: Very near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot.)
Book ID: 30022More details Price: $14.50 -
CHICAGO LOOP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of sexual obsession - a tautly witten and compelling erotic thriller by the author of 'The Mosquito Coast.' 196 pp. ISBN: 0-679-401881.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81371More details Price: $18.00
