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GOOD EVENING MR AND MRS AMERICA AND ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel, a bittersweet comedy, set in 1964 in the year following Kennedy's assassination. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0173227.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42740More details Price: $17.50 -
VIOLENCE
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the lingering effects of violence: being involved as a hostage in a convenience store holdup and murder triggers the protagonist's memories of the abuse he suffered as a child and creates a fear that he will not be able to break the cycle. ISBN: 0-395-595096.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (one short closed tear to dj at fold of flap.)
Book ID: 53526More details Price: $12.50 -
TWO STORIES from THE STORIES OF RICHARD BAUSCH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperCollins, (2003.). First edition - A 30 page advance excerpt from the book containing 'The Last Day of Summer' and the very powerful short story 'The Weight.' Back cover illustration by Amanda Bausch.
Condition: Fine (as new) in stiff stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 28439More details Price: $15.00 -
VIOLENCE
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the lingering effects of violence: being involved as a hostage in a convenience store holdup and murder triggers the protagonist's memories of the abuse he suffered as a child and creates a fear that he will not be able to break the cycle. ISBN: 0-395-595096.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 8456More details Price: $13.50 -
VIOLENCE
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the lingering effects of violence: being involved as a hostage in a convenience store holdup and murder triggers the protagonist's memories of the abuse he suffered as a child and creates a fear that he will not be able to break the cycle. ISBN: 0-395-595096.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 8457More details Price: $15.00 -
VIOLENCE: A Novel.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. dj. First edition - A study of the lingering effects of violence: being involved as a hostage in a convenience store holdup and murder triggers the protagonist's memories of the abuse he suffered as a child and creates a fear that he will not be able to break the cycle. The less common, and earlier, advance issue in plain brown printed wrappers. Interestingly, the pre-publication information shows an expected price of 22.95, the advance of the dust jacket wrapped loosely around this copy has 19.95, which was the actual price. 293 pp
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41803More details Price: $30.00 -
GOOD EVENING MR AND MRS AMERICA AND ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel, a bittersweet comedy, set in 1964 in the year following Kennedy's assassination. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0173227.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 51396More details Price: $13.50 -
SAUL AND PATSY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Seventh work of fiction by this National Book Award finalist: a young couple moves to the Midwest when the husband gets a teaching job. SIGNED on the title page. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-375-410295.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80250More details Price: $30.00 -
BELIEVERS: A Novella and Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth collection of short fiction, SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-679-442677.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 58534More details Price: $35.00 -
SAUL AND PATSY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Seventh work of fiction by this National Book Award finalist: a young couple moves to the Midwest when the husband gets a teaching job. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-375-410295.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58915More details Price: $19.50 -
SHADOW PLAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised second novel, set in a small Michigan town this reveals "the unexpected dangers just below the surface of ordinary life." While this probably did have a rather small printing, it seems unlikely that it was only 1500 copies, as reported. 399 pp. ISBN: 0-393-034372.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44411More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SOUL THIEF.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pantheon, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - A novel described as 'lyrical and eerie . . and audaciously unsettling in its vision.' SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2007 (before publication.) 210 pp plus notes.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 46397More details Price: $35.00 -
SAUL AND PATSY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Seventh work of fiction by this National Book Award finalist: a young couple moves to the Midwest when the husband gets a teaching job. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-375-410295.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (faint stamp of prev owner on front endpaper, and short black line.)
Book ID: 54968More details Price: $16.50 -
SAUL AND PATSY.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Vintage Books, (2005). SIGNED - Seventh work of fiction by this National Book Award finalist: a young couple moves to the Midwest when the husband gets a teaching job. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-375709169.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (notes on final blank page on Baxter and his writing).
Book ID: 85649More details Price: $16.50 -
UNDER THE HILL; or the story of Venus and Tannhauser.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grove Press, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - The title page continues with "in which is set forth an exact account of the manner of state held by Madam Venus, goddess & meretrix, under the famous Horselberg, and containing the adventures of Tannhuser in that place, his journeying to Rome, and return to the loving mountain, now completed by John Glassco." Left uncompleted at Beardsley's death, this edition is based on Glassco's careful collating of three earlier texts by and it includes all of the original Beardsley illustrations. Originally published in France, this first US edition has a slightly modified introduction which includes a paragraph about Edmund Wilson's appreciation of Beardsley. A Black Circle Book GP-407. 140 pp plus a final drawing.
Condition: Fine in gray cloth with silver lettering in a near fine dust jacket (dj is slightly bumped on the front fold and at the side of the spine)
Book ID: 81681More details Price: $30.00 -
THE MAN WHO WAS LATE.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Macmillan, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this award winning and highly praised author, the story of a Holocaust survivor (as was Begley himself) who is left without a country or family, but who recreated himself as a brilliant financier, only to find in the end that he was irremediably late for everything he ever wanted. 201 pp. ISBN: 0-333582446.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77924More details Price: $18.50 -
AS MAX SAW IT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel, a story of friendship and mortality, by this highly praised and prize-winning writer. ISBN: 0-679-433074.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20430More details Price: $18.50 -
THE MAN WHO WAS LATE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this award winning and highly praised author, the story of a Holocaust survivor (as was Begley himself) who is left without a country or family, but who recreated himself as a brilliant financier, only to find in the end that he was irremediably late for everything he ever wanted. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens. Review copy with publisher's slip and photograph laid in. 201 pp. ISBN: 0-679415114.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82879More details Price: $35.00 -
AS MAX SAW IT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel, a story of friendship and mortality, by this highly praised and prize-winning writer. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-679-433074.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20435More details Price: $40.00 -
SHIPWRECK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of deception and betrayal, by this highly praised and prize-winning writer. 244 pp. ISBN: 1-400040981.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88272More details Price: $18.50 -
AMERICAN HERO.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pantheon, (1993.). First edition - Very funny satirical look at American elections - Basis of the film "Wag the Dog." 438 pp. ISBN: 0-679-472762.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60617More details Price: $21.50 -
AMERICAN HERO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Very funny satirical look at American elections - Basis of the film "Wag the Dog." 431 pp. ISBN: 0-679-472762.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (as new, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 42936More details Price: $18.50 -
THE SEVEN-YEAR ATOMIC MAKEOVER GUIDE and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1996. Hardcover first edition - Author's first collection of short stories.
Condition: F/F.
Book ID: 4365More details Price: $20.00 -
THE PEREZ FAMILY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - After 20 years in Castro's prison, Juan Raul Perez finds himself in Miami, looking for his family. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-393-027988.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52413More details Price: $30.00 -
WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. Hardcover - Southern author's second novel - a story of terrorism in New York City. Bell was probably the most established of the authors who were selected by Granta magazine in the late 1990's as the best young writers in the United States. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-3773.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings and missing front endpaper, but overall tight and clean, lacking the dust jacket.
Book ID: 49300More details Price: $12.50 -
DOCTOR SLEEP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace 1991 dj. Hardcover first edition - Gritty thriller set in London. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1261008.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual light toning to pages, remainder line.)
Book ID: 17137More details Price: $15.00 -
TEN INDIANS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of the deep racial divisions that divide our American cities. Bell has won many awards for his books, including the Pulitzer Prize and being selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best young novelists in the US. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-679-442464.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41420More details Price: $17.50 -
WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's second novel - a story of terrorism in New York City. Bell was probably the most established of the authors who were selected by Granta magazine in the late 1990's as the best young writers in the United States. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-3773.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (overall wear to both book and dj)
Book ID: 19527More details Price: $18.50 -
TEN INDIANS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of the deep racial divisions that divide our American cities. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Bell has won many awards for his books, including the Pulitzer Prize and being selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best young novelists in the US. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-679-442464.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82409More details Price: $35.00 -
THE YEAR OF SILENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, SIGNED on the title page. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-4907.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (creasing and wear to the upper edge of the rather fragile dustjacket.)
Book ID: 52317More details Price: $28.00
