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THE COMPANY CAR: A Novel.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Random House, (2005.) dj. Hardcover - Anovel which begins with a man travelling to celebrate his parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary and winds up sprawling over 50 years of family history. Cover praise from Richard Russo who says 'the canvas is broad, the sights and sounds true, the vision both hilarious and heartbreaking.' 402 pp. ISBN: 140006287X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43858More details Price: $12.50 -
CRIMINAL TRESPASS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Penguin, (1986.). The story of a young black woman as told by a white librarian: Rannee Simms, an impoverished mill-worker's daughter grows up in a small black community in Alabama during the 1930's - but with her four sons, she moves north in search of freedom and discovers that ".. all Blacks are trespassers in a white world." 254 pp. ISBN: 0-140084940.
Condition: Very good minus (some toning to the pages, minor wear to the covers).
Book ID: 39750More details Price: $11.50 -
IN HAZARD
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Time Incorporated, 1966. Classic novel of a ship encountering a killer hurricane in the Caribbean. Foreword by Hughes.Frontispiece portrait. xxiii, 229 pp.
Condition: Near fine (lower right corner of front cover slightly bent)
Book ID: 10798More details Price: $10.00 -
PAINTED VEILS.
Edition: Later printing. The Black and Gold edition.
New York: Liveright Publishing, 1942. dj. Hardcover - His most famous work, set in 'Bohemian' New York in 'any year between 1880 and 1900' this was originally published in a limited edition in 1920. H. L. Meneken called it Huneker's crowning work.
Condition: Very good+ in a good only dust jacket (prev owner's stamp, edgewear and chipping to dj, spine of dj sunned.)
Book ID: 25072More details Price: $12.50 -
GYPSY PROPHECY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Vantage Press, (1958) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel involving a young railroad man who falls in love with the daughter of a homesteader, by an old railroad man and transport engineer. SIGNED twice by the author. 118 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket.
Book ID: 76216More details Price: $20.00 -
DARK STRANGER
Edition: First US printing.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - Two men, strangers to each other, are washed out to see off the north coast of Australia. One is a young aborogine lawyer, the other a cynical publicity man, brought together to find an old man who can provide the sole alibi in a "blackfeller's" rape/murder case.
Condition: VG/G (small piece missing from top of spine of book, larger piece missing from dj spine.)
Book ID: 5987More details Price: $12.50 -
A SON OF THE CIRCUS,
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Random House, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic novel, the story of an orthopedic surgeon, born in Bombay but living in Canada, who periodically returns to India to treat crippled children - and now, 20 years later, he becomes re-acquainted with a murderer. 633 pp. ISBN: 0-679-434968.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (gift inscription, pc.)
Book ID: 15155More details Price: $14.00 -
NEVER LET ME GO.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (2006.). A novel both unforgettable, unsettling, thought-provoking, and sadly beautiful - one of Ishiguro's best works - shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. 288 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-78776.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87666More details Price: $12.50 -
A LONDON LIFE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Grove Press, n.d.
Condition: Good only. (edge wear, couple creases along spine,stamp on 1st page)
Book ID: 14449More details Price: $8.50 -
BEYOND THE MAGIC SPHERE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Children's book of magic and intrigue, an eleven-year old girl learns to view life differently as she spends a month away from the city. ISBN: 0-15-200193x.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to front flap of dj.)
Book ID: 26554More details Price: $15.00 -
UNCHARTED PLACES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. Hardcover first edition - The story of a young woman who arrives in New York city in the late sixties more than simply destitute: she has amnesia and has forgotten all but her first name.
Condition: NF/NF (rm.)
Book ID: 4597More details Price: $15.00 -
ZYZZYVA: The Last Word: West Coast Writers and Artists, Volume XII, Number 1, Spring 1996.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: ZYZZYVA, Inc. 1996. SIGNED first edition - The eleventh anniversary issue of this interesting magazine - includes contributions from James Broughton, Joseph Hansen, Jane Hirshfield, Gary Snyder and more. SIGNED by THREE authors: Jane Hirshfield at her poem 'The Adamantine Perfection of Desire", Kevin Killian at "Who" and Adam Hochschild at his essay "Finding the Trap Door." Illustrated. 160 pp.
Condition: Very good in stiff wrappers.
Book ID: 57280More details Price: $35.00 -
YELLOWFISH.
Edition: BOMC edition.
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. dj. Hardcover - In this novel, a suspense story about smuggling in illegal Chinese immigrants, Keeble has created a complex evocation of the Pacific Northwest and the American frontier - dj praise from such diverse writers as James Welch, Mary Lee Settle and Raymond Carver (who called this book 'a great work of imaginative literature.'). ISBN: 0060122927.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (spine slightly faded, scratch on dj spine.)
Book ID: 16038More details Price: $12.50 -
DON: The True Story of a Young Person: Geek Rock at the 4H Fair.
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Redpath Press, (1987). First edition - The first separate publication of this short story, in an appealing small booklet illustrated by Monique Felix and designed by Rita Marshall. Intended to be mailed to the recipient, it is extremely uncommon to find this in its original complete condition. This set includes the story booklet, the envelope, the priced insert for store displays and even the original plastic bag. 39 pages. ISBN: 1-55628-0221.
Condition: Fine in wrappers with French flaps, fading to the edges of the envelope. A virtually pristine copy of a scarce item.
Book ID: 69109More details Price: $10.00 -
LAKE WOBEGON SUMMER 1956.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A somewhat satirical, sometimes hilariously funny, but also sympathetic novel of growing up in small town Minnesota in the fifties, and coming of age as a writier, by the humorist who is the host and writer of PBS's 'A Prairie Home Companion.' 291 pp. ISBN: 0-670-030031.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 41209More details Price: $12.50 -
LAKE WOBEGON DAYS.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1985.) dj. Hardcover - A somewhat satirical, sometimes hilariously funny, but also a sympathetic portrait of life in a small town Minnesota, by the humorist who is the host and writer of PBS's 'A Prairie Home Companion.' Illustrated. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-670-805149.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 46853More details Price: $12.50 -
THE FLOWER OF THE REPUBLIC.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - An old man in a Vermont tavern recounts stories of his youth, and of the loves that have been lost to him. ISBN: 0-394-525396.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket ( some dampstaining and bleeding from the cloth spine at the bottom edge, not affecting the text or the exterior of the dj.)
Book ID: 20116More details Price: $12.50 -
BILLY PHELAN'S GREATEST GAME.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Penguin Books, (1985.). Novel set in Depression-era Albany, New York. ISBN: 0-14-0063404.
Condition: Near fine (light crease to front cover, remainder line.)
Book ID: 31502More details Price: $10.00 -
VERY OLD BONES.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Viking, 1992. A novel which forms part of Kennedy's acclaimed and award-winning Phelan cycle, set in Albany, New York in 1958.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 31503More details Price: $10.00 -
IRONWEED
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Penguin Books, (1984). Set in 1938, Francis Phelan - ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger and full-time drunk - is back in town. The third novel in his Albany cycle. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-14-00-70206.
Condition: Very good (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 58817More details Price: $11.25 -
THE MOMENT OF EVERYTHING.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87887More details Price: $21.50 -
PRIMARY COLORS: A Novel of Politics.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Random House, 1996. dj. Hardcover - Best selling novel, an account of the presidential campaign of a governor of a small southern state, the subject of much controversy and the basis of the movie of the same name starring John Travolta. Went quickly into many later printings, but despite a lot of speculation, the anonymity of the author was preserved for many months. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-679-448594.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 34071More details Price: $14.50 -
PRIMARY COLORS: A Novel of Politics.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Random House, 1996. dj. Hardcover - Best selling novel, an account of the presidential campaign of a governor of a small southern state, the subject of much controversy and the basis of the movie of the same name starring John Travolta. Went quickly into many later printings, but despite a lot of speculation, the anonymity of the author was preserved for many months. Notation on title page "Joe Klein, Newsweek, 7-17-96 . 366 pp. ISBN: 0-679-448594.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (previous owner's name.)
Book ID: 42959More details Price: $15.00 -
PRIMARY COLORS: A Novel of Politics.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Random House, 1996. dj. Hardcover - Best selling novel, an account of the presidential campaign of a governor of a small southern state, the subject of much controversy and the basis of the movie of the same name starring John Travolta. Went quickly into many later printings, but despite a lot of speculation, the anonymity of the author was preserved for many months. Notation on title page "Joe Klein, Newsweek, 7-17-96 . 366 pp. ISBN: 0-679-448594.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46951More details Price: $17.50 -
MANDRAGON.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Norton, 1989. A bawdy tale full of black humor following the machinations of power in a mythical Latin American country. Includes a new preface by the author.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 13892More details Price: $10.00 -
THE LONG WALK. A Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Story about a Vietnam veteran's 'long walk' back to life after being held as a prisoner of war for 9 years by the Vietcong. ISBN: 0-399-131302.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 24709More details Price: $20.00 -
ARKANSAS: Three Novellas.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. Hardcover - Three novellas which explore the themes of exile and escape - the first one -"The Term Paper Artist" - features Leavitt himself as a writer hiding out in his father's Southern California home in the aftermath of a publishing scandal. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-395-837049.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 83823More details Price: $14.50 -
THE DREYFUS AFFAIR: A Love Story.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: HarperPerennial, (1993.). The author's second novel, a very funny story about baseball and love. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0975598.
Condition: Very good (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 65679More details Price: $9.50 -
WHITE WIDOW.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Public Affairs, (2000). A bus driver on the 'easy route' from Houston to Corpus Christi becomes obsessed with a female passenger travelling alone - a 'white widow.' 211 pp. ISBN: 189162041x.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 50484More details Price: $9.00 -
WHITE WIDOW.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Random House, (1996.) dj. Hardcover - A bus driver on the 'easy route' from Houston to Corpus Christi becomes obsessed with a female passenger travelling alone - a 'white widow.' 211 pp. ISBN: 0-679-452362.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48916More details Price: $12.50