This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "According to Amis, his father showed no interest in his work. "I can point out the exact place where he stopped and sent Money twirling through the air; that's where the character named Martin Amis comes in." "Breaking the rules, buggering about with the reader, drawing attention to himself," Kingsley complained. His first novel The Rachel Papers (1973) ? written at Lemmons, the family home in no... View More...
This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. The spine ends, corners and spine joints have noticeable rubbing and edge wear, along with small nicks and chips missing. The text pages are generally clean, but there are spots of foxing and finger marks. There is a previous owner's inked initials on the front endpaper. "Julia Magruder (September 14, 1854 ? June 9, 1907) was an American novelist. Most of her novels are love stories in which the heroine must face obstacles in pursuit of her goal to find true love. Sever... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very God+ dust jacket. This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and neat but have some generalized toning due to the acid content of the pages. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some noticeable wrinkling to the front flap. . "Equally distinguished as a translator, a biographer, a commentator on the popular arts, and a novelist, Stephen Becker brings to his fiction a breadth of experience with world culture and human behavior ... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge nicks, tears and small chips missing, along with some sunning / fading to the spine. "Ludwig Bemelmans (April 27, 1898 ? October 1, 1962) was an Austria-Hungary-born American writer and illustrator of children's books. He is known best for the Madeline picture books. Six were published from ... View More...
This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The top edge of the text block has some spots of foxing. "Thomas Louis Berger (July 20, 1924 ? July 13, 2014) was an American novelist. Probably best known for his picaresque novel Little Big Man and the subsequent film by Arthur Penn, Berger explored and manipulated many genres of fiction throughout his career, including the cr... View More...
This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some light generalized rubbing. "Eventually, Berger was able to devote himself to writing full-time, particularly after the notoriety gained by his third book, Little Big Man, in 1964. Although he would occasionally put his hand to a short story, a play, or non-fiction article (including a stint as film critic for Esquire) , Berger preferred the long narrative form of the novel, and produced a steady ru... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is a light slant to the spine of the book. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and beginning fraying. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has edge nicks, tears and rubbed spots along with large chips to the top and bottom of the spine ends. "A sequel to the Great Hunger, this book tells the story of Lorentz and Louise Holm, whose parents, being too poor to educate them, had sent them off to live with their ... View More...
This is a small format book - approximately 5 inches by 3 1/2 inches. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been opened a bit roughly, so the foredges of the text pages are a bit uneven and there are some small tears as well. A previous owner's address label was removed from the front endpaper leaving a slightly rough patch. "No human being ever tells the whole truth about himsel... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corner of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and edge wear. The illustration on the front cover has some light rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 ? September 13, 1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 ? September 13, 1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pi... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping. There is some light fading to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The front endpaper has some light glue residue (not visible, but you can feel it as roughness) . The price clipped dust jacket has edg wear, nicking, several tiny edge chips and rubbing to the spine joints. The white portions of the dust jacket, especially the rear panel, and including both front and rear flaps have light toning. "James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 ? O... View More...
SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright. There is some light, generalized toning to the rear panel. This copy has been signed on a small adhered bookplate on the front endpaper. "Aidan Chambers (born 27 December 1934) is a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Printz Award for Postcards from No Man's Land (1999). For his "lasting contri... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is one spot of discoloration on the rear book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and address on the front endpaper. "Robert was first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of 20, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Ch... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends of the book cover. The text pages are clean, but noticeably toned due to the acid content of the paper. The dust jacket has several small edge nicks and rubbed spots along with several small chips missing. "Because Ruth Robbins was dazzlingly blonde and splendidly put together, the small New England town where she was born and raised thought her fast." "Donald Henderson Clarke (1887-1958) was an American... View More...
Author's second book & possible 1st Hardcover book. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- to Near Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and edge wear. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, though the endpapers have some toning, especially to the edges. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and small rubbed spots, especially to the spine ends and corners. "Joseph Hansen (July 19, 1923 ? November 24, 2004) was an American crime writer and po... View More...
This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Evan Shelby Connell Jr. (August 17, 1924 ? January 10, 2013) was a U. S. Novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He also published under the name Evan S. Connell Jr. His writing covered a variety of genres, although he published most frequently in fiction. In 2009, Connell was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, for lifetime achievement. On April 23, 2010, he was awarded a Los Angel... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. "Mission San José is a Spanish mission located in the present-day city of Fremont, California. It was founded on June 11, 1797, by the Franciscan order and was the fourteenth Spanish mission established in California. The mission is the namesake of the Mission San José district of... View More...
SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The spine has fading and spotting. The text pages are clean and bright. Both front and rear endpapers have spots of noticeable spotting / toning. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription by the author to San Francisco author Gertrude Atherton. "Dell has written about some aspects of what he calls his narcissistic-sexual-social conflict... View More...
This book is in Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some light wrinkling to the corners and spine ends. "Peter De Vries (February 27, 1910 ? September 28, 1993) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit. He has been described by the philosopher Daniel Dennett as "probably the funniest writer on religion ever". " View More...
This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has a couple of small edge nicks and tears, along with some beginning wrinkling and edge wear. There is remainder speckling to the bottom spine end of the text block. "For the past few years, James Dickey has kept a journal in which he expressed his thoughts on a number of literary and non-literary matters." "James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 ? January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appoi... View More...
SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good- to Near Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. The spine ends and corners of the book cover have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are generally clean and bright. The endpapers have light, generalized toning and there is some tidemarking to the hinges. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. There is a previous owner's penciled name on the front pastedown page. "American novelist and historian Charles Caldwell Dobie was born in San Francisco, CA, in ... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The covers of the book have some beginning ground-dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. "Duggan's novels are known for being based on meticulous historical research. He also wrote popular histories of Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages. Knight with Armour was his first novel, written in 1946. He visited practically every place and battlefield described in the book, because he ... View More...
SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. The foredges of the book covers (both front and rear) have a strip of fading / tidemarking. The text pages are generally clean and bright. The foredge of the text block has noticeable generalized darkening. The front endpaper has been signed, with an inscription, by the author. There is a previous owner's bookplate and a separate address label, both on the front pastedown page. "Robert (Steed) Dunn was an explorer, author, naval officer, a... View More...
This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and was issued thus without a dust jacket. This is the First Paperback Edition which follows a limited signed and numbered edition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a small square of glue residue on the front cover of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. "Edward James Hughes, OM, OBE, FRSL (17 August 1930 ? 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation, and one of the twentieth ce... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine and spine joints of the book has light, generalized toning. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping as well. The text pages are clean and bright. The tissue guard for the frontispiece has splotches of foxing. The author, Roswell Field, is the brother of Eugene Field. "Field, Roswell Martin. An American journalist and writer; born in St. Louis, MO, Sept. 1, 1851; died in 1919. He wrote: ?In Sunflower Land? (1892) ; ?The Ro... View More...
B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed by the author, with a short inscription, on the front endpaper. "Anne Benson Fisher (February 1, 1898 ? March 5, 1967) was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction whose primary emphasis was California. Her two most significant works were her novel Cathedral... View More...
Book number H-70 in the hardback first edition Ballantine Books series with was issued simultaneously with the paperback books. The book is in Fine condition with a Near Fine dust jacket that has some beginning edge wear, rubbing and some ground-in dirt to the rear cover. "They kept a sharp eye on drifters in the West, and the town of Broken Wagon in the Montana hills was no different. Neil Bowman had appeared in town with a suspiciously heavy pair of saddlebags and a queer claim to half the town paper - given him by a dying man. This is the story of how Bowman found out who his real enemies w... View More...
This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. There is a slight slant to the spine of th ebook, and one smallish patch of white discoloration to the bottom spine end. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is some light ground-in dirt to the edges of the text block. The dust jacket is in mostly clean condition, however there is some generalized toning to the edges and spine. The dust jacket art is by Barbosa View More...
This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Upon leaving school he migrated to London and worked in advertising as a copywriter at J. Walter Thompson after winning a place in their Ten Most Ingenious Undergraduate Writers in Britain Today competition, despite lacking the primary qualification - a university education. Gibson later flirted with Fleet Street as a regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph Magazine under the editorship of the reno... View More...
This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has noticable, generalized rubbing, several small to medium sized edge tears, a couple of nicks to the rear flap joint and some beginning spots of ground-in dirt. "Originally published as an anonymous work in 1784, Italian Letters, or, The History of the Count de St. Julian is William Godwin's only epistolary novel. Assumed to be lost for the last hundred and fifty years, its republication has been made possible by Burto... View More...
