- Keyword = satire
-
FULL MOON OVER AMERICA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, a satire set in the near future: It's dawn in the Blue Mountains on Jan 20, 2001 and a new president is about to be sworn into office. . 404 pp. ISBN: 0-446-518085.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (small spot to edge of textblock)
Book ID: 58143More details Price: $17.50 -
DOWNRIVER (or, the Vessels of Wrath), a Narrative in Twelve Tales.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy)
Book ID: 4747More details Price: $24.00 -
BUGS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A comic novel about an Englishman lost in high-tech America - a late novel by this author who also wrote surrealistic science fiction novels and co-authored two novels with Thomas Disch including the satirical thriller "Black Alice" in 1968 under the pseudonym of Thom Demijohn.) This title has not yet been published in the US. SIGNED on the title page. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-333-490606.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61697More details Price: $30.00 -
RAW: A Love Story.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Black Cat - Grove / Atlantic, (2013). First edition - Satirical novel issued as a trade paperback original - a "super-fun, super-wild and sneakily thoughtful take on American literary and entertainment excesses." 276 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87111More details Price: $18.00 -
PROSECUTORS WILL BE VIOLATED: No Matter What Crime You Committed, It's Not Your Fault.
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Trigance Press (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A satirical look at our criminal justice system - "Wait until you see how California attorney Ashley Blackwood handles his cases. Follow the trials of Henri Laval, the murderous hockey star, Ramona Krafft, who videotaped the mutilation of her husband's private parts, and 'Machine-Gun' Marty Vickers, the postal employee who left a trail of dead and dying on the streets of San Francisco." SIGNED and dated on the half title page. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-966627164.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 66566More details Price: $23.50 -
LAST NIGHT AT THE BRAIN THIEVES BALL.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's rather uncommon and highly praised satirical first novel, an account of what happened to Paul Galambos, a professor of experimental psychology and a frustrated power-hungry man who answers a cryptic magazine ad. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-395-17125-3.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dust jacket (closed tear to front cover of dj along fold of flap.)
Book ID: 53238More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LOVED ONE.
Edition: Paperback.
New York: Dell, (1965.). A very funny satire on "certain aspects of Hollywood life" - and death. Movie tie-in edition. Vintage paperback with cover price of 50c. 191 pp.
Condition: Very good (prev owner's name inside front cover.)
Book ID: 48237More details Price: $10.00 -
THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD: A Conversation Piece.
Edition: Reprint.
Boston: Little Brown, (1979., c 1957) dj. Hardcover - An often hilarious "and occasionally bloodcurdling" novel about Gilbert Pinfold's brief period of "hallucination" or insanity "elaborated" from an experience that Waugh himself had several years before. One of several titles reissued by Little Brown in 1977-79 in uniform binding with dust jacket illustrations by John Renfer. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-316-926248.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 63819More details Price: $15.00 -
BLACK MISCHIEF.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very good overall in green cloth (with the usual uneven mottling and fading) in a very worn copy of the fragile and rather brittle dust jacket, which is missing about 2 inches at the top of the dj spine, is separated along the side of the spine and mostly separated at the flap folds, and with toning and overall edgewear. Original price of $2.50 on front flap - and copies in the dust jacket are quite uncommon.
Book ID: 87972More details Price: $300.00 -
SPLITTING
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. First edition - A wickedly incisive picture of modern divorce.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5562More details Price: $15.00 -
THE RULES OF LIFE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hutchinson, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in 2004 - in what was the near future at the time Weldon wrote this - a lighthearted and very funny satire on contemporary life. A Hutchinson Novella, illustrated with drawings by Amanda Faulkner. 80 pp. ISBN: 0-09-1686806.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 54412More details Price: $15.00 -
SPLITTING
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A wickedly incisive picture of modern divorce" by this award-winning author. INSCRIBED on the title page "To --- wishing you well" and dated in the year of publication. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-599X.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 68382More details Price: $28.50 -
SHRAPNEL ACADEMY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A savagely satiric update on the English country house novel - they thought they were attending a benign military lecture at the academy, and then a snowstorm makes escape impossible and outright warfare ensues. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-670814822.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76101More details Price: $16.50 -
THE NOBLE HUSTLE: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - An offbeat book by this award-winning author, a "hilarious memoir of Whitehead's search for meaning at high stakes poker tables. . a longtime neighborhood poker player, he was given a $10,000 stake and an assignment from an online magazine to see how far he could get in the World Series of Poker. . . After weeks of preparation that included repeated bus trips to glamorous Atlantic City, and hiring a personal trainer to toughen him up for sitting at twelve hours a stretch, the author journeyed to the gaudy wonderland that is Las Vegas the worlds greatest 'Leisure Industrial Complex' - to try his luck in the multi-million dollar tournament." 234 pp. ISBN: 978-0385537056.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (hint of spine slant).
Book ID: 90276More details Price: $24.50 -
INKLINGS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - "a novel of suspense, a comic entertainment, a plunge into the literary underworld." 190 pp. ISBN: 0-394493494.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 85442More details Price: $20.00 -
HACKS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Satiric novel of adventure, love and cutthroat journalism set in a backwater African country by a respected and experienced foreign correspondent. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-684814137.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 42001More details Price: $15.00 -
THE COYOTES OF CARTHAGE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80705More details Price: $25.00