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  • FULL MOON OVER AMERICA. by Simpson, Thomas William
    Simpson, Thomas William
    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: 58143
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  • Sinclair, Iain
    DOWNRIVER (or, the Vessels of Wrath), a Narrative in Twelve Tales.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Random House, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, and the first to be published in the US - winner of Britain's Encore Prize for best second novel and of the James Tait Memorial Prize . Highly praised by writers ranging from Angela Carter to Peter Ackroyd to Barbara Guest, this has been called a "remarkable book: part apocalyptic documentary, part moth-eaten ghost story, part detective story." The UK Kirkus review said this "traces the ruins of Margaret Thatcher's reign through the lens of a fictional film crew that has been hired to make a documentary about what's left of London's river life. The Thames may still flow through the heart of London, but life…

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    New York: Random House, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, and the first to be published in the US - winner of Britain's Encore Prize for best second novel and of the James Tait Memorial Prize . Highly praised by writers ranging from Angela Carter to Peter Ackroyd to Barbara Guest, this has been called a "remarkable book: part apocalyptic documentary, part moth-eaten ghost story, part detective story." The UK Kirkus review said this "traces the ruins of Margaret Thatcher's reign through the lens of a fictional film crew that has been hired to make a documentary about what's left of London's river life. The Thames may still flow through the heart of London, but life along its shores has dramatically changed. "Downriver" is a savage, satirical quest to understand how people's lives, a government's policies, and a legendary urban waterland conspire together in a boggling display of self-destruction.". ISBN: 0-679-42062-2.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy)

    Book ID: 4747
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  • BUGS. by Sladek, John (1937-2000).
    Sladek, John (1937-2000).
    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: 61697
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  • RAW: A Love Story. by Smith, Mark Haskell.
    Smith, Mark Haskell.
    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: 87111
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  • PROSECUTORS WILL BE VIOLATED: No Matter What Crime You Committed, It's Not Your Fault. by Spencer, Archibald.
    Spencer, Archibald.
    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: 66566
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  • LAST NIGHT AT THE BRAIN THIEVES BALL. by Spencer, Scott.
    Spencer, Scott.
    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: 53238
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  • Waugh, Evelyn.
    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: 48237
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  • THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD: A Conversation Piece. by Waugh, Evelyn.
    Waugh, Evelyn.
    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: 63819
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  • BLACK MISCHIEF. by Waugh, Evelyn.
    Waugh, Evelyn.
    BLACK MISCHIEF.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. (1932) dj. Hardcover first edition - Waugh's third novel, a black comedy set in Africa, openly racist in its use of the worst stereotypes of Africans, although the white colonizers don't come off much better - "Seth was black, but he had been to Oxford, and admired the ways of Western Civilization. He was sorry when his savage troops ate his father, but that was part of his coup d'Etat, and set him on the throne of Azania, the African island empire which was not unlike Abyssinia. Basil Seal had known, taken up, and dropped Seth at Oxford; when he read of Seth's accession, he took his mother's jewels and a check from…

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    New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. (1932) dj. Hardcover first edition - Waugh's third novel, a black comedy set in Africa, openly racist in its use of the worst stereotypes of Africans, although the white colonizers don't come off much better - "Seth was black, but he had been to Oxford, and admired the ways of Western Civilization. He was sorry when his savage troops ate his father, but that was part of his coup d'Etat, and set him on the throne of Azania, the African island empire which was not unlike Abyssinia. Basil Seal had known, taken up, and dropped Seth at Oxford; when he read of Seth's accession, he took his mother's jewels and a check from his mistress, and sailed for Azania." Based in part of Waugh's experiences in Abyssinia, then the only independent sovereign nation in Africa (in his travel book, "'"Remote People" he described it as a a tangle of modernism and barbarity), this also was intended to satirize the situation in England, which was in a deep financial crisis, as well as social movements such as Marie Stope's campaign for birth control which was entwined with eugenics. While it was controversial at the time of its publication, most of the controversy was over its "indecency" and depiction of cannibalism - not his depiction of Africans. In fact the NY Times review in 1932 was headed "Hilarity in Africa" and called it a "brilliant comic-opera tale. . .. in fiction he is able to make his jokes broader, his wit subtler, give wider scope to his gift for creating astounding absurdities." Red, black and brown illustrated endpapers, small illustration on the title page. Map frontispiece. 312 pp.

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    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: 87972
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  • Weldon, Fay
    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: 5562
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  • THE RULES OF LIFE. by Weldon, Fay.
    Weldon, Fay.
    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: 54412
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  • SPLITTING by Weldon, Fay
    Weldon, Fay
    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: 68382
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  • SHRAPNEL ACADEMY. by Weldon, Fay.
    Weldon, Fay.
    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: 76101
    Keywords: satire, Women Authors
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  • THE NOBLE HUSTLE: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death. by Whitehead, Colson.
    Whitehead, Colson.
    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: 90276
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  • INKLINGS. by Wolff, Geoffrey.
    Wolff, Geoffrey.
    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: 85442
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  • HACKS. by Wren, Christopher.
    Wren, Christopher.
    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: 42001
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  • THE COYOTES OF CARTHAGE. by Wright, Steven.
    Wright, Steven.
    THE COYOTES OF CARTHAGE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2020). First edition - The author's first novel an "exploration of American politics, set in a small South Carolina town, about a political operative running a dark money campaign for his corporate clients." Dre has been sent there with $250,000 to introduce a ballot initiative on behalf of a mining company. As an outsider and an African American, he can't be the one to collect signatures, so he hires a young couple to act as the public face. The "land grab is disguised as a righteous fight for faith and liberty. As lines are crossed and lives ruined, Dre's increasingly cutthroat campaign threatens the very soul of Carthage County and perhaps the…

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    New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2020). First edition - The author's first novel an "exploration of American politics, set in a small South Carolina town, about a political operative running a dark money campaign for his corporate clients." Dre has been sent there with $250,000 to introduce a ballot initiative on behalf of a mining company. As an outsider and an African American, he can't be the one to collect signatures, so he hires a young couple to act as the public face. The "land grab is disguised as a righteous fight for faith and liberty. As lines are crossed and lives ruined, Dre's increasingly cutthroat campaign threatens the very soul of Carthage County and perhaps the last remnants of his own humanity." Cover praise from Lorrie Moore and Stewart O'Nan among others. On the basis of this novel, Wright was named to the USA Today's 2020 list of Black novelists to read. 311 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 80705
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