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PLEASE PASS THE GUILT.
Edition: An early book club edition.
New York: Viking, (1973.) dj. Hardcover - A Nero Wolfe mystery, set in the summer of 1969 when the Mets were battling for the pennant and bomb scares abound in New York City. 154 pp. ISBN: 0-670559946.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57246More details Price: $14.50 -
MY WIFE AND I: or, Harry Henderson's History.
Edition: Early printing.
Condition: Good overall in decorated dark green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, and in black on the front cover, dark brown endpapers. (previous owners' name, some fraying to the ends of the spine and the corners of the boards. usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 85563More details Price: $35.00 -
WIDENING CIRCLES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account by one of the founders of a program designed to create a save place for teenagers who are "chronic underachievers" - runaways, dropouts often recycling in and out of the juvenile prison system. From the cover: "Amid the ashes of the South Bronx, Argus Community is evidence that America has within it the power reclaim the ghettoes of our country". Notes, glossary. xvi, 331 pp. ISBN: 0-060151099.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some penciled underlining, mostly in the introduction, sunning to the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 79254More details Price: $18.50 -
THE NEST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first book, a warm, funny and perceptive novel about four adult siblings from a spectacularly dysfunctional family, who have spent years relying on an inheritance they expected to receive - "the nest" - only to find that it is no longer there. SIGNED on the title page. 353 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. A surprisingly uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 86476More details Price: $45.00 -
THE NEST.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2016) dj. Hardcover - The author's very highly praised first book, a warm, funny and perceptive novel about four adult siblings from a spectacularly dysfunctional family, who have spent years relying on an inheritance they expected to receive - "the nest" - only to find that it is no longer there. 353 pp. ISBN: 978-0062414212.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86523More details Price: $19.50 -
DR. I.R.T.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel of an oddly assorted trio. Miss Eunice Tichenor, a spinsterlibrarian/scholar, subway rider Snake (aka "Dr. I.R.T."), a black Yale drop-out and draft. dodger, who writes songs, and Umberto, a young Mexican student who discovers that "the city's a wonderful if filthy and occasionally terrifying 'total learning experience'." (Kirkus) Tanner's husband was the author of the Auntie Mame novels under the pseudonym of Patrick Dennis. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-698107306.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (very short edgetears to dj, whiteout on top of price on dj flap). Surprisingly uncommon.
Book ID: 79002More details Price: $21.50 -
DR. I.R.T.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel of an oddly assorted trio. Miss Eunice Tichenor, a spinsterlibrarian/scholar, subway rider Snake (aka "Dr. I.R.T."), a black Yale drop-out and draft. dodger, who writes songs, and Umberto, a young Mexican student who discovers that "the city's a wonderful if filthy and occasionally terrifying 'total learning experience'." (Kirkus) Tanner's husband was the author of the Auntie Mame novels under the pseudonym of Patrick Dennis. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-698107306.
Condition: Fair only in a near fine dustjacket (some crinkling to edge of textblock from dampness, stamps on rear endpaper, very short edgetears to dj). Surprisingly uncommon.
Book ID: 79236More details Price: $14.50 -
MY AMERICA!
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster/ Kenan Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of the lives of several generations of "American Jews as they broke out of the teeming slums in the lower East Side" to prosper in the US in the years between World War I and the Korean War. 512 pp. ISBN: 0-671-253328.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line, upper corner clipped from front endpaper, some short tears to lower edge of dj)
Book ID: 69804More details Price: $16.50 -
GLASS CASTLE.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (general reading wear, tear to dj at corner fold)
Book ID: 89118More details Price: $20.00 -
GONE TO THE CRAZIES: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HC - Harper Collins, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, an "amazingly sane" account of survival of both her drug addiction and her two years at a school designed to brainwash it out of her. 245 pp. ISBN: 9780061189586.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51148More details Price: $18.00 -
THE HARLEM SHUFFLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2021.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of "heists, shakes and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.," a follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'The Nickel Boys.' Whitehead has won an impressive number of awards, including the Guggenheim and the MacArthur "genius" award, and the 2016 National Book Award for "Underground Railroad." 318 pp. ISBN: 978-0385545136.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88913More details Price: $24.50 -
FIREBRAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A wonderful collaboration between this Newbery award winning author and Caldecott award winning illustrator. Two children spending the summer in New York City discover the entrance to a magical world in an abandoned subway station. Illustrated with black and white drawings by David Wiesner. This book was originally inspired by a poster Willard saw of a drawing that Wiesner had done - and the dust jacket painting is based on that poster. SIGNED and dated on the title page by the illustrator, David Wiesner. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-394-890086.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (bookplate, light wear to upper edge of dj.)
Book ID: 53775More details Price: $31.50 -
A CERTAIN AGE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2016). First edition - Novel set during the Jazz Age - the Roaring Twenties - in New York CIty. Author's note. 326 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.
Book ID: 69429More details Price: $20.00 -
LOWBOY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's unusual third novel. "Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-yearold paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone. Like most people he knows, Will believes the world is being destroyed by climate change; unlike most people, he's convinced he can do something about it., . . the story of Will's fantastic and terrifying odyssey through the city's tunnels, back alleys, and streets in search of Emily Wallace, his one great hope, and of Violet Heller's desperate attempts to locate her son before psychosis claims him completely." In 2007, Wray was named by Granta magazine as one of America's best novelists. 258 pp. ISBN: 978-0374194161.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82072More details Price: $18.50
