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BABBITT

by Lewis, Sinclair

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Used - Near Fine to Fine
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First Printing, First Paperback Edition.
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Paperback
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New York: Bantam Books, 1946. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Soft cover. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage Paperback, Bantam 22; Arguably the best of the five great novels written by the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, 'Babbit' is a satirical portrait of the American businessman that still maintains its relevance sixty years after its publication; text is clean, tight, square, moderately age-tanned; the permagloss laminate on the pictorial wrappers is still nearly perfect with only very minor surface and edgewear. A very collectable copy of a high point in American literature.
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BLUE ANGEL
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BLUE ANGEL

by Prose, Francine

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  • very good
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Used - Very Good
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First Edition, First Printing.
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780060195410
ISBN 10
006019541X
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New York: HarperCollins, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Prose's thirteenth book, nominated for a National Book Award, is a satirical look at academia through the eyes of Swenson, professor of creative writing at a small New England college, suddenly faced with Angela Argo, a pierced and tattooed student with real talent, who is actually asking him for help; boards and text are clean, tight, with very slight spine lean; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.
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BLUEBEARD
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BLUEBEARD

by Vonnegut, Kurt

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Used - Fine
Edition
First Printing, First Trade Edition.
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780385295901
ISBN 10
0385295901
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New York: Delacorte Press, 1987. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Satirist Vonnegut's novel about the abstract expressionism movement in New York City in the late 1940s that revolutionized modern art, as told in the autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, one of the founders of the movement, whose paintings all fell apart due to an unfortunate choice of materials. Text and boards are clean, tight, square; price-clipped dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear.
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CARPENTER'S GOTHIC
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CARPENTER'S GOTHIC

by Gaddis, William

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Used - Fine
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First Edition, First Printing.
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780670697939
ISBN 10
0670697931
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New York: Viking Penguin, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The third of this award-winning satirist's four novels, his shortest and probably most accessible, focuses on the the tempestuous marriage of a redhaired heiress and a Vietnam veteran lived out in their rented "carpenter gothic" house on the Hudson River, where their landlord, geologist McCandless, keeps his secrets in a locked room; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some minor rubbing and edgewear, no tears or chips, not price-clipped. A very nice copy.
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A CITY OF STRANGERS
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A CITY OF STRANGERS

by Barnard, Robert

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  • Fine
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Used - Fine
Edition
First Printing, First U.S. Edition.
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780684191928
ISBN 10
068419192X
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Barnard's 23rd book continues his career as a master of the stylish, witty mystery, this time with the infamous Phelan family, well known to police and social services, whose head of household, Jack Phelan, dirty, potbellied, rude and selfish, has won big in the pools and is looking to buy a house in the middle class Wynton Lane neighborhood, whose NIMBY residents plot a strategy to stop Jack, a strategy that may include murder; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minor wear at edges and corners. A collectable copy.
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DANCERS IN THE SCALP HOUSE
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DANCERS IN THE SCALP HOUSE

by Eastlake, William

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
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Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition, First Printing.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780670254675
ISBN 10
0670254673
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New York: The Viking Press, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fourth of Westlake's novels featuring the conflict between modern white America and the Native American and arguably his most accomplished in which the cunning savage has at long last decided to fight back against the Four Corners Power Plant and the nearly finished Atlas Dam. Aided by a rancher's daughter who takes over the learning hogan and teaches the Navaho some very unorthodox lessons and by Tom Charlie, an Indian who went to university, studied science and is building a "gift" from the red man to the white man, there may yet be a chance before all is surrounded and swallowed up by the Great White Reservation. Remainder mark on bottom edge of text, minor soiling on other text edges, some mild fading to lettering on lower spine, o/w only normal edge and surface wear. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. Dustjacket shows only light wear at edges and… Read More
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DIRTY MONEY
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DIRTY MONEY

by Russell, Ray

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
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Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition, First Printing.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780312013684
ISBN 10
031201368X
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Russell's sixth novel features a man named Dodd, "the most amoral person I've ever known," according to Kittering, Dodd's redheaded girlfriend, who's no stranger to amorality or immorality herself. Dodd and Kittering track a cocaine trail across the U.S., then to South America in this satirical crime novel that includes a Soviet spy, an inept FBI agent and Dodd's street-savy mother. Minor stain on bottom edge of text o/w boards and text are clean and tight; dustjacket slightly wrinkled along bottom edge of front panel and inside of panel shows small stain; one tear on top of rear panel flap, other minor edgewear. A decent reading copy of a hard to find book.
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THE DOCTOR IS SICK

by Burgess, Anthony

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Used - Good Plus to Very Good
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First Printing, First Edition Thus.
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Paperback
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New York: Ballantine Books, 1967. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Ballantine U5036; Burgess' darkly humorous satire of London in the 1950's features Dr. Edwin Spindrift, a professor of linquistics about to undergo surgery for a brain tumor, who, barefooted and with shaven head, escapes the hospital and seeks refuge in London's underworld; one-reader text is clean, square, tight, slightly age-browned; pictorial wrappers show slight reading creases, mild soiling and age discoloration on spine and edges, minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.
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DULUTH
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DULUTH

by Vidal, Gore

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  • Fine
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Used - Fine
Edition
First Edition, First Printing.
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780394527383
ISBN 10
0394527380
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New York: Random House, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Vidal's satirical novel sending up the hit TV show, "Dallas." As the dustjacket says, it "tears the lid off 'Dallas' and puts Duluth off the map." Collectable.
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THE EDITH WHARTON MURDERS
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THE EDITH WHARTON MURDERS

by Raphael, Lev

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Used - Fine
Edition
First Edition, First Printing.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780312155193
ISBN 10
0312155190
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The second novel in Raphael's satiric mystery series featuring Nick Hoffman, University of Michigan English professor and Edith Wharton scholar, who's trying to organize a quiet, non-controversial conference on Wharton only to have a couple of his colleagues turn into murder victims with Wharton's novels the key to the killings; text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket is price-clipped, o/w only very minor surface and edgewear.
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A HOLE IN TEXAS
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A HOLE IN TEXAS

by Wouk, Herman

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  • Fine
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Used - Fine
Edition
First Edition, First Printing.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780316525909
ISBN 10
0316525901
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New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The Pulitzer-Prize-winning Wouk's first novel in ten years features Guy Carpenter, a NASA scientist, happily married, living a quiet life, who suddenly finds himself at the center of an enormous, international scandal which gives Wouk ample opportunity to use both his deep insight and considerable sense of comedy in a sharp-edged satire about American politics, the media, and science; the boards and text are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.
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HORNBOOK FOR THE DOUBLE DAMNED

by Elam, Samuel Milton

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Used - Good Plus to Very Good
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First Edition, First Printing.
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Paperback
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Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Co., 1962. First Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Meridian Books MG47; subtitled "An American Satiricon," this is a collection of dictionary definitions, primer entries and poetry satirizing America's 1960s era politics, culture, literature and most everything else; Paperback Original; First Printing of the First Edition; text is clean, tight, square, lower corners lightly bumped; pictorial wrappers show minor surface, corner and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.
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I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS
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I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS

by Wolfe, Tom

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
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Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition, First Printing.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780374281588
ISBN 10
0374281580
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Wolfe's thirteenth book is a social satire of life on campus as seen through the eyes and mind of Charlotte Simmons, a wide-eyed, bookish freshman from a strict, devout, poor and poorly educated family from North Carolina; tiny creases on two pages of text, bottom edges of covers each show a small indentation, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows very minor edgewear, no tears or chips; at 676 pages, book's weight may require extra postage.
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JACK IN THE BOX

by Kotzwinkle, William

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  • very good
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Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition, First Printing.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780399125027
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0399125027
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/About Very Good. The 20th novel by Kotzwinkle, an award-winning satirist and fantasy author, is the life story of Jack Twiller, aka the Masked Man, Tailspine Tommy and Secret Agent X-9 and a dozen other comic book characters from the 1940s. The book asks the question: Can a young man from a small mining town in the East find happiness as a human being? Jack finds one answer when he meets the Undressing Lady though this first moment of bliss is spoiled somewhat by a priest who hints he won't fare well at the Last Judgement. Small smears of what appears to be paint on top edge of both covers near the spine and on the front end page; top edge of text slightly soiled, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The predominately white dustjacket is lighlty soiled and shows wear, including a couple of small, quarter-inch tears, along the top edge; no large tears or chipping, no creasing,… Read More
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JAILBIRD
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JAILBIRD

by Vonnegut, Kurt

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
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Used - Very Good
Edition
Book Club (BCE/BOMC).
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780440054498
ISBN 10
0440054494
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New York: Delacorte Press, 1979. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Vonnegut's novel is a darkly humorous look at greed and corruption featuring Walter F. Starbuck, a bumbling bureaucrat in the Nixon administration who becomes the least known Watergate conspirator and convict; boards and text are tight and clean; slight spine lean; small sticker mark on front end page; dustjacket is somewhat soiled, edgeworn and rubbed, with two small tears at top of spine. A decent reading copy.
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LETTERS
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LETTERS

by Barth, John

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  • Fine
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Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
First Edition.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780399124259
ISBN 10
039912425X
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Barth's fifth novel, his first since 1969, is a comic epic told through the correspondence of seven letter writers, including a pregnant, fifty-year-old English woman; a small-town, incest-loving, bachelor-lawyer; a patient at a Canadian remobilization farm ordered to re-dream history or die, and the author himself; 772 pages; First Printing of the First Edition; text and boards are clean, tight, square; dust jacket shows light wear along top edge, with minor chipping at spine ends; Fine/Very Good. Collectable.
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THE LIVING END
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THE LIVING END

by Elkin, Stanley

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  • Fine
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  • first
Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
First Printing, First Edition Thus.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780525070207
ISBN 10
0525070206
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New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. This, the seventh work of fiction by satirical humorist Elkin, is three related stories set in heaven, hell and Minneapolis-St. Paul, and features God, the Father, as well as Ellerbee, good sport and liquor store proprietor, and Jay Ladelhaus, small time robber who kills Ellerbee; each story originally published separately in quarterly reviews; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only some slight surface and edgewear. Collectable.
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A MAN IN FULL
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A MAN IN FULL

by Wolfe, Tom

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Printing, First Trade Edition.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780374270322
ISBN 10
0374270325
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. a humongous 742-page novel detailing life in contemporary America from the perspective of Atlanta, Georgia, from the author of "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test;" lower corner of back cover and back panel of dustjacket are slightly bumped, else Fine. Collectable.
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MARK ONE: THE DUMMY

by Ball, John

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  • very good
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  • first
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Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition, First Printing.
Binding
Hardcover
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1974. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. From the Edgar Award-winning author of "In The Heat Of The Night" comes a mystery-thriller that is also a satirical take on James Bond type of super-agent. It features Ed Nesbitt, an author who is mistaken for his super-agent creation and then suddenly is transformed into a younger, taller, stronger man with awesome fighting skills. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some wear at edges and corners with small tear on lower edge of back panel and small chip missing from front panel near top of spine.
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MOO
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MOO

by Smiley, Jane

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  • Fine
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
First Edition, First Printing.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780679420231
ISBN 10
0679420231
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New York: Knopf, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Smiley's eighth work of fiction, the first since her Pulitzer Prize winning, "A Thousand Acres," features a midwestern university nicknamed Moo U in a blackly comic look at Western society. A collectable copy.
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