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New York:: William H. Morrow,, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A novel about the Vietnam War and its effect on the young people who came of age during that era, by this award-winning author, best known for his science fiction but who also spent most of 1968 fighting in Vietnam, where he was severely wounded. The story of a "year in the life of Darcy 'Spider' Speidel - a teenage college dropout, Spider is drafted and sent to Nam as a combat engineer. He is just a scared, uncertain kid reluctantly playing the game of war for keeps; after he's wounded during the onset of the Tet offensive, he's evacuated back to the States, where his real war begins. His onetime sweetheart, embroiled in the hippy counterculture, has taken up with a new, draft-deferred boyfriend. Confused and helpless, the traumatized Spider lacks the support of even his doctors and his family. Haldeman uses bold language, powerful images and a graphic style to… Read More

New York:: Henry Holt,, (2017). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A long and provocative novel, one which follows four different lives of one boy - shortlisted for the Man-Booker Award. 866 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1987). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The story of Doug Gardner - witty, sensitive, worldly-wise - and a man whose life is falling apart as he approaches 50. 254 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2003.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Dust jacket praise from Annie Dillard who says "Abandon . . . is everything that I love: a scholarly Englishman whose subject is Sufism, a vagabond California woman. . . and Pico Iyer's knockout prose." SIGNED on the title page. 354 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2003.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Dust jacket praise from Annie Dillard who says "Abandon . . . is everything that I love: a scholarly Englishman whose subject is Sufism, a vagabond California woman. . . and Pico Iyer's knockout prose." SIGNED on the title page. 354 pp.

London:: Hutchinson,, (1977). SIGNED first edition -. Good overall in printed orange wrappers (some wear to covers, lower corner slightly bumped). Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) Historical novel by this author probably best known for 'The Manchurian Candidate' based on the marriage of Caroline of Brunswick, who married - in 1794 - her cousin, George, Prince of Wales, future King of England - and who, after many tumultous years, became the only Queen of England ever tried for adultery. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. 237 pp.

New York:: Pantheon,, (2007.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. When a freak accident takes the life of his 6 year old son, a man becomes obsessed with the origins of Indo-European alphabets, and buries his grief in a fanatical pursuit for the meaning of the alphabet - a search which takes him to the desert in Syria. 247 pp.

New York:: Random House,, 1980.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good+ in very good+ dust jacket. (remainder mark.). First edition. Novel set in a boardinghouse in rural New Jersey in the summer of 1939 -one which revolves around four people and one day of their vacation from Brooklyn and the Depression. 211 pp.

New York:: St Martin's,, (2007.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to upper edge of dj.). First printing. Novel about two participants in a small-town culture war - the sex ed teacher at the high school and the soccer coach, a former stoner who found salvation in an evangelical church. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp.

New York:: St Martin's,, (2007.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (upper corner of rear cover bumped.). First printing. Novel about two participants in a small-town culture war - the sex ed teacher at the high school and the soccer coach, a former stoner who found salvation in an evangelical church. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp.

London:: Hamish Hamilton,, (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. An award winning novel by this highly praised Scottish writer about "the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves." This was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and won the 2005 Whitbread Novel of the Year award. SIGNED on the title page. Frontispiece. 303 pp plus final 2 pp. 

New York:: Ticknor & Fields,, 1991.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. A story of a young American's struggle with his loss of faith while a student in Europe. Dust jacket praise from such diverse writers as Mary Gordon, Peter Straub and Joy Williams. 151 pp.

New York:: Harper & Row,, (1975). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a very good dustjacket (hint of spine slant, slight fading to spine of dj.). First printing. The third novel by the author of 'Cinderella Liberty.'

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1977). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark). First printing. Cartoonist's second novel, the story of a young man who sets himself up as a detective under the name of Roger Ackroyd - on one level this is a funny parody of hardboiled detective fiction, but it also about the search for identity and what identity means. 349 pp.

New York:: Pantheon,, (2015). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A novel by this award-winning Canadian-born writer, set in Brooklyn NY in the summer of 2015 where a mushroom infestation is spreading from row house to row house - a suspense novel which is "part horror story, part screwball comedy - a look at what happens when our lives break down in the face of calamity." 179 pp.

New York:: Summit Books,, 1991.. First edition -. Fine in printed blue wrappers. . Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) Suspenseful novel about a small group of South Africans who plot to assasinate the president of their country, but in addition to the suspense this is a thoughtful meditation on the ethics of violence. Glossary. A massive book at 834 pp.

Santa Barbara:: Capra Press,, 1973.. SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in glossy white wrappers.. First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with a limited edition hardcover. A collection of 7 satiric stories with Charlie as a California Everyman and victim of vehicular disasters - whether it is citywide gridlock on the freeways, as in the first story, or car washers, parking towers or drive in burger stands. Designed and printed by Noel Young and Graham Mackintosh; illustrated with old prints and engravings. This copy has been SIGNED by the author and dated in 1997.

London:: Doubleday,, (2003.). First edition -. Very near fine in glossy green wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy for the UK edition (trade paperback format. ) His third novel, the story of sixteen-year-old tomboy Haley "Flash Jackson" Boomhauer who, confined to her room after breaking her leg, unexpectedly finds her boredom allieviated by her peculiar grandmother who teaches her the magical arts. 310 pp.

New York:: Bantam,, (1987). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (appears unread). First printing. The fifth novel by the author of "Little Big" and the first book in his four volume alternate history cycle called Aegpyt - a novel which "shapes itself around unorthodox historian Pierce Moffett, who seeks to explain the secret histories of the world, the old notions of science, religion and philosophy that have survived in astrology, myths and superstition; not the real, geographical Egypt, but AEgypt, the cognate country of the imagination from which the gypsies came. . . Affecting, cerebral, surprising and delightful, this [is an] extraordinary philosophical romance." Nominated for the World Fantasy Award. 390 pp.

Dallas TX:: Baskerville Publishers,, (1994). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Fifth novel by the author best known for the literate thriller 'Tony and Susan'. "Sometimes indecipherable, often intriguing, this literary and existential mystery-within-a-novel opens with a man writing about his life. The man reveals that he was formerly known as Peter Gregory, a 35-year-old high school English teacher with an ex-wife and kids, who tried unsuccessfully to drown himself in the Ohio River. Fleeing a past that may have involved the murder of his neighbor with a hammer, he hitches rides east, assuming and discarding aliases along the way. When an eccentric billionaire summons him to his New York office and gives him a grant he can't refuse - $30 million to become yet another new person and cut all ties to the past - he becomes the miraculously fortunate Stephen Trace. Unfortunately for Trace, the detritus of Peter Gregory's life keeps resurfacing.… Read More