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THE GRIM GENERATION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Trident Press, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as a "compassionate illuminating study of the many masks worn by today's youth" this is a look at the various masks college students might assume by someone who has worked with college students as counsellor and teacher for over 17 years. 219 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dj.
Book ID: 87489More details Price: $17.50 -
READY FOR A BRAND NEW BEAT: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. Hardcover first edition - A look at the summer of 1964 - the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the beginning of the Vietnam War, the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the lead-up to a dramatic election - and the song, written by Marvin Gaye and recorded by Martha and the Vandelles, which took on many meanings as the country changed. The NY Times review commented about this book "For all the seriousness of Kurlanskys cultural entanglements, it is nevertheless a delight to experience his sophisticated sense of play and, at times, his outright wicked sense of humor. Illustrated with photographs. Includes a time line of 1964, a discography of the song, bibliography and index. xxi, 263 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487224.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84456More details Price: $21.50 -
THE FREEING OF THE DUST.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: New Directions, (1975) dj. Hardcover - Levertov's tenth collection of poetry, in which she continues to explore the personal and public themes that threaded through her work during the disastrous American involvement in Indochina. Included are many poems that speak of the tragedy of war, the result of her visit to North Vietnam in the fall of 1972. Winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize. 114 pp. ISBN: 0-811205819.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (neat prev owner's name)
Book ID: 84644More details Price: $21.50 -
CALIFORNIA GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Mystery set in 1960's California, with Timothy Leary at the Brotherhood of Eternal Life in Laguna Beach. For three brothers, one a homicide detective, one a reporter, and the last a priest, the past comes back to haunt them when the body of Janelle Vonn, a woman they all grew up with, is discovered in an abandoned factory. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0562366.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61749More details Price: $18.50 -
CALIFORNIA GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Mystery set in 1960's California, with Timothy Leary at the Brotherhood of Eternal Life in Laguna Beach. For three brothers, one a homicide detective, one a reporter, and the last a priest, the past comes back to haunt them when the body of Janelle Vonn, a woman they all grew up with, is discovered in an abandoned factory. SIGNED on the tile page. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0562366.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (corners slightly bumped).
Book ID: 65440More details Price: $30.00 -
GLIMPSES: A Novel.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55131More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LAST BEST HOPE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (second book), set in the Vietnam era, described as a love story, a war story, a political story, with settings ranging from Arizona to Vietnam to Washington DC to Berkeley, ending in a college town in Ohio. 628 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-151483779.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 86485More details Price: $20.00