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1)	That Grail Song, Sam, One More Time Packard, George V
	Boston, Massachusetts, Usa: Gambit, Inc.. Good in Good dust jacket. 1969. First Printing. Hardcover. Jacket art by George Price. The author's first novel, a zany farce in which George and Tom try to rescue their mutual love interest, Sally, from her Poughkeepsie girl's school. Front free endpaper missing top right corner, jacket scuffed and tattered along edges, else a clean, tight copy. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $6.00

2)	The Glorious Christmas Soup Party Hale, Linda
	NY: The Viking Press. Fair with no dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Cloth. A lovely book about how Mrs. Mouse rescues her Christmas party after her naughty mice children gobble down her lovely bacon pie. Black and white line illustrations by the author. Usual library stamps and markings, hinges cracked, boards heavily worn and soiled, else a clean copy. ; Ex-Library; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; 39 pages . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $6.00

3)	Dale Loves Sophie to Death Dew, Robb Forman
	This novel, a winner of the American Book Award, chronicles the painful family life of the Howells. Dinah and her three child... read more NY: Farrar, Straus, And Giroux. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1981. First Printing. Hardcover. 0374134502 . The author's first novel. Boards lightly sunned along top, jacket curled and wrinkled at edges. Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for best first novel. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

4)	The Drowning People Mason, Richard
	British author Richard Mason was a 19-year-old student at Oxford University when this, his debut novel, was first published. ... read more NY: Warner Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 0446525243 . The author's first novel, which opens with a grieving widower admitting to the reader that he murdered his wife, unbeknown to the police and the rest of the world, who assume suicide was at play. Jacket lightly scuffed, else clean and tight. Author photo on rear jacket panel. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 340 pages . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

5)	Pedaling to the Ends of the Earth Duncan, David E
	New York, Ny: Simon & Schuster. Fair in Good dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0671492896 . The story of three young men who bicycled around the world, pedaling 14, 000 miles in just over a year. They went through the Sinai Desert, Malaysia, Afghanistan, up the Nile, through the Himalayas, across the Sahara and through all manner of severe weather. Author photo on rear jacket flap. The author's first book. Rear boards and jacket waterstained, remainder mark on page bo... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

6)	Apostate Lonardo, Paul
	Alexandria, Va: Hollis Books. Very Good. 2000. Softcover. 1928781381 . Signed by the author on the title page. Author photo on rear cover. Covers lightly scuffed, else a clean, tight copy. Lonardo's first novel, an apocalyptic tale of Good versus Evil battling over a desert metropolis called Caldera. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

7)	At the Sign of the Naked Waiter : a Novel Herrick, Amy
	NY: Harpertrade. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0060165340 . Remainder mark across page tops, gouge at lower edge of front pastedown, jacket lightly scuffed, else a clean, tight copy of this interesting novel about Sarah and her discovery of the imperfect love of her life, Milo, amidst a sea of flying blue sponges, enchanted frogs, beggar-gods, and rivalrous ghosts. The author's first novel. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

8)	Damage Hart, Josephine
	NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First American Edition. Cloth. 0679401350 . Author photo on rear jacket flap. Jacket lightly scuffed, else a clean, tight copy of Hart's debut novel, later made into a film featuring Jeremy Irons. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

9)	Panther's Moon Canning, Victor
	M. S. Mill Company. Good in Good dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. The author's second book, a taut mystery-thriller involving a hunting party in the Italian Alps and death by black panther. Boards bumped and worn, jacket tattered along edges. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

10)	The Floatplane Notebooks Edgerton, Clyde
	Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Cloth. 0945575009 . Author photo on rear jacket flap. Jacket lightly scuffed, sticker ghost on front free endpaper, else a clean, tight copy. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

11)	Pictures At an Exhibition Thomas, D. M
	London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0747513880 . Author photo on rear jacket flap. Ribbon marker. Remainder mark on page bottoms, boards rubbed, jacket scuffed and curled, else a clean, tight copy. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

12)

Leaving Las Vegas

O'Brien, John

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A disturbing and poignant love story about a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it.

NY: Grove Press. Very Good. 1995. Later Printing. Softcover. 0802134459 . The author's first novel, made into a 1995 film starring Elisabeth Shue and Nicolas Cage. Covers lightly scuffed. ; 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.2 Inches; 189 pages . ... more information

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13)	Well Met by Witchlight Beachcroft, Nina
	NY: Atheneum. Good in Good dust jacket. 1973. Later Printing. Cloth. 0689304145 . A Margaret K. McElderry Book. Jacket art by Erik Blegvad. Usual library stamps and markings, tape stains on boards, else a clean, tight copy. The author's first book, a charming story of three children who meet a kindly old witch, and help her battle against the evil powers of a black magic witch. ; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

14)	What Man May Be: the Human Side of Science Harrison, George Russell
	NY: William Morrow. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Cloth. 1955 printing. The author, a distinguished physicist, tackles some weighty questions for the layman about science. Boards rubbed, endpapers soiled, jacket price-clipped, scuffed and tattered along edges, else a clean, tight copy of this interesting book. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

15)	The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin Begiebing, Robert J
	Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0945575564 . Remainder marks on page bottoms, boards lightly rubbed, jacket wrinkled along top edges. Jacket illustration by Ed Parker. Author photo on rear jacket flap. A murder mystery set in 1640's Massachusetts based on an actual unsolved murder. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

16)	Shadow Song Kay, Terry; Rosenman, Jane (editor)
	Back in 1955, Bobo Murphy--a Southern farm boy working as a waiter in a Catskill resort--fell in love with Amy Lourie, a Jewi... read more NY: Pocket Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 0671892614 . Doodle of a clock on rear free endpaper, jacket lightly scuffed, else a clean, tight copy. Author photo on rear jacket flap. A novel featuring a romance in the Catskill Mountain resort area in the 1950s between a young Jewish girl and a young Southern boy. ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

17)	Visions and Nightmares : America after Reagan Lekachman, Robert
	NY: MacMillan. Good in Good dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0025702319 . Usual library stamps and markings, jacket flaps glued to endpapers, rear free endpaper removed, else clean and tight. Author photo on rear jacket flap. "Witty, caustic yet tempered, this book offers a devastating criticism of Reaganite policies and some keen prescriptions for what should come afterward. " (Irving Howe) ; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

18)	The Bagthorpes Vs. the World : Being the Fourth Part of the Bagthorpe Saga Cresswell, Helen
	NY: Avon. Good. 1980. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Softcover. 0380511029 . Great cover art by Caldecott medalist Trina Schart Hyman. The fourth novel in the author's series about the eccentric British family, the Bagthorpes. Covers scuffed, light waterstaining at margins of first twenty pages. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

19)	Irving and Me Hoff, Syd
	NY: Harper And Row. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1967. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Pictorial Cover. Library of Congress number 66-10175. A novel for young adults about a displaced young Brooklynite, Artie Granick, investigating the wilds of Florida. The author's first novel. Jacket price-clipped and worn at spine extremities, else a clean, tight copy. In jacket protector. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 226 pages . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00

20)	Mundome Mojtabai, A. G
	NY: Simon And Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0671217313 . Remainder stripe across page bottoms, jacket lightly soiled and waterstained along lower margin of rear jacket panel. The author's first book, a novel in which our protagonist, a library archivist named Richard undertakes the care of his schizophrenic sister after her release from a long institutionalization. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ... more information Offered by Old Saratoga Books (New York, United States) +/-	Price: $7.00