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THE FRIDAY BOOK: Essays and Other Nonfiction.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first work of nonfiction by this award-winning writer - many of these essays are on books and the state of literature, but the topics range from Maryland crabs and crabcakes to student activists in the 60s. 281 pp. ISBN: 0-399-129979.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57346More details Price: $20.00 -
SABBATICAL: A Romance.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth novel by this National Book Award winning writer. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-399-127178.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 57345More details Price: $16.50 -
ONCE UPON A TIME: A Floating Opera.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A memoir wrapped in a novel and launched on a sea voyage" - that is, a three day cruise down into the 'Chesapeake triangle." 397 pp. Dust jacket by Steve Snider. ISBN: 0-316-082627.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (ink notations and prev owner's name on rear pastedown.)
Book ID: 48162More details Price: $12.50 -
CHIMERA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of Dunyazade, younger sister of Scheherazade, Perseus and others from mythology and ancient tales. Winner of the National Book Award. 308 pp. Dust jacket by George Giusti. ISBN: 0-394-49139-9.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (light H on front endpaper, tear to dj at top of spine.)
Book ID: 88483More details Price: $24.50 -
PARADISE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by this influential postmodern writer. ISBN: 0-399129219.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light toning, hint of sunning to spine of dustjacket - appears unread)
Book ID: 79826More details Price: $24.50 -
AMATEURS
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twenty-one short stories by this important post-modernist writer. Rather uncommon in the UK edition. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-71008742X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79882More details Price: $25.00 -
TWO AGAINST ONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of the disintegration of a marriage by this Southern writer.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dj.
Book ID: 11667More details Price: $15.00 -
SECOND MARRIAGE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel.
Condition: NF/G (faint rem mark, dj has several closed tears and associated creasing.)
Book ID: 3390More details Price: $14.50 -
NATURAL SELECTION
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1990. Hardcover first edition -
Condition: F/F (rem line.)
Book ID: 3391More details Price: $15.00 -
PAINTED DESERT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking Press, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A searching look at our contemporary culture, as junior college professor Del Tribute and his cyber-muckraker friend Jen head west from Mississippi to a Los Angeles in the midst of rioting. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-670-864692.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59655More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BROTHERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel, seventh book - a story of the complicated relationship between brothers - "Del, who used to do p.r. work in Houston, is given a condo in Biloxi, Mississippi, by his grateful ex-father-in-law after Del divorces the man's daughter. Biloxi happens to be home-base for Del's college-teacher brother Bud, too - -plus Bud's attractive wife Margaret. . . One of Barthelme's more haunting novels. " (Kirkus ) 262 pp. ISBN: 0-670832421.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 83438More details Price: $18.50 -
BOB THE GAMBLER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in Biloxi, Mississippi, and described as "A wonderfully crackball love story in which Ray and Jewel Kaiser try out the Paradise casino and what curious things happen to them; what tricks of chance involving, among others, Jewel's fourteen-year-old daughter RV, the casino and its personnel, Ray's dead father, and a mother convinced that a sitcom star is visiting across the street from her house" this darkly funny novel has dustjacket praise from such authors as John Barth, Robert Olen Butler and more. Barthelme has also written eloquently in the New Yorker magazine about his own real problems with gambling. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-395-809770.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line, some wear to rear fold of dj)
Book ID: 76153More details Price: $15.00 -
TRACER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. Hardcover first edition - Author's third highly praised novel.
Condition: VG/VG (rem line, defect to cloth spine)
Book ID: 6748More details Price: $12.50 -
BOB THE GAMBLER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Biloxi, Mississippi, and described as "A wonderfully crackball love story in which Ray and Jewel Kaiser try out the Paradise casino and what curious things happen to them; what tricks of chance involving, among others, Jewel's fourteen-year-old daughter RV, the casino and its personnel, Ray's dead father, and a mother convinced that a sitcom star is visiting across the street from her house" this darkly funny novel has dustjacket praise from such authors as John Barth, Robert Olen Butler and more. Barthelme has also written eloquently in the New Yorker magazine about his own real problems with gambling. SIGNED on the title page. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-395-809770.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64246More details Price: $30.00 -
MOON DELUXE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - A hightly praised collection of short stories - the author's first book to be printed by a major publisher. ISBN: 0-671-472682.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 19113More details Price: $30.00 -
PLATTE RIVER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 3 long stories, set in Northern Montana. 145 pp. Cover art by Russell Chatham. ISBN: 0-395680808.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80573More details Price: $18.50 -
WHERE THE SEA USED TO BE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Montana based author's first full-length novel, dealing with the conflicts between development and wilderness. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-395-770157.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60611More details Price: $35.00 -
WHERE THE SEA USED TO BE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Montana based author's first full-length novel, dealing with the conflicts between development and wilderness. ISBN: 0-395-770157.
Condition: Near fine in a like dustjacket (appears to be unread, but some signs of handling.)
Book ID: 32163More details Price: $18.50 -
IN THE LOYAL MOUNTAINS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of ten short stories - the title story is set in the Texas hill country. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-395-71687x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38383More details Price: $17.50 -
WHERE THE SEA USED TO BE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Montana based author's first full-length novel, dealing with the conflicts between development and wilderness. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-395-770157.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped dj, a tight and straight copy.)
Book ID: 34387More details Price: $28.50 -
PLATTE RIVER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 3 long stories, set in Northern Montana. SIGNED on the title page. 145 pp. Cover art by Russell Chatham. ISBN: 0-395680808.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80574More details Price: $35.00 -
THE HERMIT'S STORY: Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. First edition - A collection of short stories, some almost magical in their evocation of man and nature, several set in the Yaak Valley of Montana, where Bass lives. 179 pp. Cover by Russell Chatham.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 44762More details Price: $21.50 -
WHERE THE SEA USED TO BE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Montana based author's first full-length novel, dealing with the conflicts between development and wilderness. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-395-770157.
Condition: Near fine in a like dustjacket (appears to be unread, but some signs of handling.)
Book ID: 14366More details Price: $31.50 -
IN THE LOYAL MOUNTAINS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of ten short stories - the title story is set in the Texas hill country. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-395-71687x.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (sticker shadow on dj)
Book ID: 21050More details Price: $18.50 -
IN THE LOYAL MOUNTAINS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of ten short stories - the title story is set in the Texas hill country. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-395-71687x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80572More details Price: $20.00 -
IN THE LOYAL MOUNTAINS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of ten short stories - the title story is set in the Texas hill country. SIGNED on the title page. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-395-71687x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80571More details Price: $40.00 -
THE SKY, THE STARS, THE WILDERNESS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Three short novels, all rooted in the land - one set in the frozen winter North, another on a ranch in Texas and one in the Appalachian foothills. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-395-717582.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 80582More details Price: $18.50 -
GORDON LIDDY IS MY MUSE by Tommy 'Tip' Paine.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 'mad adventures of a Cold War spy writer and Hollywood nabob.' The author's fourth novel, a postmodern picaresque. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-671-690787.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62092More details Price: $17.50 -
GORDON LIDDY IS MY MUSE by Tommy 'Tip' Paine.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 'mad adventures of a Cold War spy writer and Hollywood nabob.' The author's fourth novel, a postmodern picaresque. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-671-690787.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (crinkling to the upper edge of the rear endpaper, remainder line.)
Book ID: 50488More details Price: $15.00 -
WALKING THE CAT: GORDON LIDDY IS MY MUSE II by Tommy 'Tip' Paine.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 'mad adventures of a Cold War spy writer and Hollywood nabob.' The author's fIfth novel, and the second in this series, a postmodern picaresque in which the red-baiting Tip voyages to the last bastion of the Cold War. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-671-708848.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78681More details Price: $18.00
