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By: Abella, Alex
Price: $5.00
Publisher: NY, Simon & Schuster: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001488
Condition: Very Good +
445 pp., no markings, except for marking pen stroke on bottom edge. A novel about William Morgan, a Marine who goes to Cuba during the revolution, first supporting Castro, then trying to assassinate him. View more info
Price: $4.00
Publisher: NY, BlueHen (Penguin): 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004579
ISBN: 0425190811
Condition: Very Good +
261 pp. Nearly new, publication press release laid in. A paperback original in uncorrected galley proofs (wraps). A novel about a Scot youth in Kansas struggling with adolescence and love. Injured by his father's experiment in distilling Scotch, he becomes a teacher and a bagpipe instructor, devotee of Scottish culture and traditions. View more info
By: Bateman,Colin
Price: $4.00
Publisher: NY, Arcade Publishing: 1997
Edition: 1st American Edition.
Seller ID: 002366
ISBN: 1559703768
Condition: Very Good +
325 pp. Near new, never read. A former Belfast journalist weaves a tale of a sportswriter who goes to N.Y. to cover a prize fight between a Northern Irish boxer and an American black. Racism turns the match ugly. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Breslin, Jimmy
Price: $7.00
Publisher: NY, Ticknor & Fields: 1988
Edition: Early Printing.
Seller ID: 009928
ISBN: 0899193110
Condition: Very Good
273 pp. Light chipping of dj. Ink line on bottom edge. Colored endpapers. No marking, text clean. Breslin, the late, great columnist pens a novel based on Howard Beach gang warfare. Number line starts with 1 but lacks a first-edition statement. Retail price on jacket flap. Breslin photo on rear of jacket. Size: 8vo -- 8.5 In Tall View more info
By: Brookner, Anita
Price: $3.15
Publisher: NY, Vintage Contemporaries (Random House): 1993
Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
Seller ID: 004556
ISBN: 0679743405
Condition: Near Fine
263 pp. A few rear pages have corner creases, otherwise nearly new. No markings. Harriet moves from submissiveness and self-denial to a sexual awakening. View more info
By: Chabon, Michael
Price: $5.50
Publisher: NY, Harper Perennial: 2008
Edition: 1st Paperback Edition.
Seller ID: 010008
ISBN: 0007149832
Condition: Very Good +
418 pp. plus study guide, glossary, Meet Michael Chabon section. Spine uncreased, fold-in flaps. A what-if novel about a forgotten 1940 plan to settle Jewish refugees in Alaska instead of Palestine. Size: 8vo -- 8 in Tall View more info
By: Chappell, Fred
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Baton Rouge, L., Louisiana State Univ Press: 1987
Edition: 8th Printing
Seller ID: 007165
ISBN: 0807114103
Condition: Fine
181pp. Nearly new. Previous owner's name and embossed mark on preliminary page. A novel about a boy growing up in North Carolina in the 1940s. Southern Magazine blurb: "Through a series of family vignettes that circle a central unspoken tragedy, Chappell combines dramatic and lyrical talents to produce a high-spirited elegey. Among living Southern writers, only Eudora Welty has this range of tone." View more info
By: Childress, Mark
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Boston, Little Brown: 2006
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 005974
ISBN: 0316012114
Condition: Fine
385 pp. Close to new, gift quality. Spine uncreased, text clean. A boy-bonding tale set in a Mississippi high school in the 1970s. View more info
By: Colyer, Nik C.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Nevada City, Calif., Henrioulle Publishing: 2002
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 002538
ISBN: 0970816316
Condition: Near Fine
332 pp. Publication marketing release laid in rear of book. New, unread, no markings. A cop meets up with freewheeling Biker Bob in this jaundiced look at male-female relations. Part 2 of a 4-part saga. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Crace, Jim
Price: $2.00
Publisher: NY, Picador (Farrar, Straus & Giroux): 2001
Edition: 1st American Edition.
Seller ID: 003130
Condition: Good
195 pp. Bookstore stamp on preliminary page, otherwise no markings. Text has rippling, spine uncreased. The tale opens with the discovery of the bodies of a middle-aged husband and wife in the dunes and then backtracks into the circumstances that led to their demise. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Crews, Harry
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Old Tappan, New Jersey., Touchstone Books (Simon & Schuster): 1992
Edition: 6th Printing
Seller ID: 005972
ISBN: 0671758527
Condition: Very Good +
240 pp. Browning of inside covers, text clean and bright. No spine creasing. No markings. A bodybuilder sets out to give a woman a spectacular body for a beauty pageant, but then her backwoods family show up to complicate things. View more info
By: Crews, Harry
Price: $3.00
Publisher: NY, Touchstone Books (Simon & Schuster): 1993
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 007113
ISBN: 0671797867
Condition: Very Good
284 pp. Light rubbing along cover edges and spine corners. Corner crease on cover. No writing. Sprine uncreased. Light smudges on inside cover. Text clean. A Southern Gothic novel about a beautiful woman who takes control of her scarred lover. View more info
By: Doctorow, E.L.
Price: $2.75
Publisher: NY, Plume (Penguin Putnam): 2001
Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
Seller ID: 004171
Condition: Very Good
272 pp. Nearly new, slight thumbing. A cross disappears from a NY church only to show up across town at a synagogue. This is the introduction to a wide-ranging work of spiritual reflection. View more info
By: Dubus III, Andre
Price: $4.50
Publisher: NY, Vintage Books (Random House): 2000
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 0503003873
ISBN: 0375727345
Condition: Near Fine
365 pp. Nearly new, no markings, spine uncreased. Book plate on inside cover. A novel about a clash of 3 characters -- a struggling woman homeowner, an Iranian immigrant who desires her home in the California hills and a sheriff. A National Book Award finalist. A first Vintage Contemporaries edition. View more info
By: E. Annie Proulx
Price: $4.50
Publisher: NY, Tourchstone (Simon & Schuster): 1994
Edition: 16th Printing.
Seller ID: 009447
ISBN: 0671510053
Condition: Very Good
337 pp. Light crease on bottom corner. Toning on inside cover. Text clean, spine uncreased. A Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a widower who moves his young daughters to his family's ancestral homeland in Newfoundland. Size: 8vo --8.5 In Tall View more info
By: Eisenberg, Hal
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Atlanta, Eisenberg Publishing: 2012
Edition: First Edition.
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 009434
ISBN: 098549221X
Condition: Very Good
233 pp. Inscribed by author "to Betty." Lower corner of front corner creased. Small mark on fore edge. Text clean, spine uncreased. Novel written in first person about a 15 year-old who regards himself as a loser until he and his buddies form a rock band and find instant stardom. Size: 8vo -- 9 in Tall View more info
By: Ely, Eva Mae
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,., Rosedog Press: 2005
Edition: 1st Printing.
Seller ID: 007151
ISBN: 0805998411
Condition: Good +
Ely is pseudonym for Mae Miner, of Port Orange, Florida. Former library book with card envelope and discard stampings. Light wear, slight chip to rear cover. No markings in text. Scarce. Miner's first novel tells of a woman's rocky romance with her pastor, which begins while he is still married. Interwoven through the plot are the author's unorthodox interpretations of various Scriptures, presented as sermons given by the pastor. Miner is a hospice nurse and nursing instructor. Size: 8vo -- 9 in Tall View more info
By: Emmons, Jasen
Price: $4.00
Publisher: NY, Scribner Paper Fiction: 1996
Edition: 1st Paperback Edition.
Seller ID: 009192
ISBN: 0684818973
Condition: Good +
204 pp. Pages curled, and light vertical crease near upper right corner, but still close to new. Text clean A law school dropout strives for fulfillment in a country music band. First novel by Emmons. Size: 8vo --8 in Tall. View more info
Price: $3.50
Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf: 1999
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 002444
ISBN: 0375404929
Condition: Very Good
205 pp. Water stains on dust jacket have smudged the title. Text clean. A collection of nine stories about modern Orthodox Jewish life. View more info
By: Esquivel, Laura (Mestre-Reed, Ernesto, Trans.)
Price: $5.00
Publisher: NY, Atria Books:
Seller ID: 005318
ISBN: 0739475347
Condition: Near Fine
191 pp. Close to new, no markings. Spine uncreased. A historical novel about pre-Columbian Mexico and the Indian woman who served as a translator for conquistador Cortez. View more info
