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FICTION

The authors named below all have large bodies of works. Their inventory is too extensive for the scrolling list
so they have individual pages. Check them out !!

 

Eric Ambler J. G. Ballard Bernard Cornwell Edgar Rice Burroughs Roald Dahl Lindsey Davis
Colin Dexter Mary Durant Diana Gabaldon Adam Hall Len Deighton John Fante
Henry Fielding Patricia Highsmith Geoffrey Household Jack Ketchum

Patrick O'Brian

Ellery Queen Jr.

John Steinbeck Rex Stout Rosemary Sutcliff B. Traven Andrew Vachss Robert Van Gulik

 

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

Fawcett Crest 1987
Later printing. Good reading copy.

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Howard Bahr

The Year Of Jubilo

The book shows some signs of shelf wear although it is unread. Cover in slightly frayed condition at right edge, otherwise the binding is tight and there are no markings or tears or writing in the book.

Box 125

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Bruce Barton

The Man Nobody Knows
A discovery of the real Jesus

Grossett & Dunlop 1925 1st Edition
Hardback, no dust jacket. Previous
owner's name on ffep and his library
sticker on inside cover.

Box 125-H

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Charles Baudelaire

Selected Poems

Penguin Classics 1993
Someone re-wrote most of the poems in this book - Oh, stop it.
Crisp and clean; no marks or writing.
Very good in wraps.

Box 125-G

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William Bayer Punish Me with Kisses

Congdon & Lattes 1980 1st Edition
VG/VG in unclipped jacket.

Box 125-I

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Lou Beach

420 Characters

Houghton Mifflin 2011
Very Good Hardback with funny
wrapper. As new.

Signed by Mr. Beach to "Lou."

Box 125

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Humphry Berkeley

The Life and Death of Rochester Sneath
A Youthful Frivolity
illustrations by Nicolas Bentley

Davis Poynter 1974
VG skinny book with near VG unclipped wrapper. There is an inscription on the first
title page.

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Walter J. Black

Kill with Care; Black Death;
Murder in Bright Red

The Detective Book Club
Poor condition hardcover. No jacket.

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Jorge Luis Borges

A Universal History of Infamy

Allen Lane, London 1973
First British Edition/Printing
Fine in VG, price-clipped dustjacket, protected by a Brodart wrapper.
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William Burroughs

The Wild Boys
A Book of the Dead

Grove Press 1971
First Edition. No jacket.
Very good copy.

Box 125

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Michael Chabon

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay
(winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

Random House 2000
VG/VG in an unclipped dust jacket.

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Michael Chabon

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay
(winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

Picador USA
Good plus in wraps.

Box 125-G

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Joseph Conrad

Tales of Unrest

Penguin Books 1977
Clean and tight in wraps.
Pages are tan, no marks or writing.
A bit of wave to the rear cover.

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Joseph Conrad Tales of Land and Sea

Hanover House, 1940
Hardcover, no jacket. Front and back paste-down endpaper and front and back free endpapers tanned/stained. Front board
is loosening some, but attached.

Box 125-I

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S.R. Crockett

The Grey Man

Macdonald & Sproatt, Ayr, 1977
Possible First (and only...) Edition. VG/VG
dustjacket in Brodart sleeve.
Crisp and clean, book appears unread.

Box 125-D

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Valentine Davies

Miracle on 34th Street

Harcourt, Brace 1947
Red boards, no jacket. Corners a bit bumped and bumped. A little foxing on inside boards. Previous owner's name pencilled in on ffep.

 

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Patrick Dennis

The Joyous Season

Avon 1965 1st Thus
Softcover with tanned pages. Shelfwear
and a lightly creased spine. Gift inscription
on the title page. This is a very fun book.

Box 125-G

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Al Dewlen The Bone Pickers
A novel of Texas
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Al Dewlen

The Bone Pickers

Texas Tech University Press 2002
1st Edition (as stated). As new in wraps.

Box 125

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Al Dewlen

The Session

Doubleday 1981

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Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Bantam Paperback
Used copy in acceptable condition
for enjoyable reading. Spine is intact
and there are no missing pages, writing
or other marks. Some of the corners
are a bit smashed but in a nice way.

Box 125-C

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Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

Modern Library 2001
This is a very nice little used book.
Nothing detrimental worth mentioning.

Box 125-C

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John Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer

Harper Brothers, 1925
First Edition 2nd printing
Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (stated, with "L-Z" code The book is in generally good condition, a bit worn, shelf-leaned, tattered spine with a couple of small spots on front endpapers but no ownership markings. A tough book to find in nice condition.

Box 125-I

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Howard Fast

The Last Supper

Blue Heron Press 1965 1st Edition
Good in wraps. No marks or writing.
Spine is secure.

Box 125-H

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Alan S. Foster

Goodbye, Bobby Thomson!
Goodbye, John Wayne!

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C. S. Forster

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

Little, Brown 1998

A solid reading copy.

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C. S. Forster

Hornblower and the "Hotspur"

Back Bay Books 1998
A solid reading copy. There is an
inscription on the ffep, otherwise good.

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Robert Graves King Jesus: a Novel

Farrar, Straus And Giroux 1984
Hardcover 5th Printing
Condition: Very Good+ Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Unclipped No writing, No signatures.

Box 125-I

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Robert Graves Two Wise Children

Harlin Quist, Inc 1966 1st Edition
Hardcover Ex-lib clipped. Ok condition.

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Dashiell Hammett Red Harvest
Pan Books

Box 125-F

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Jim Harrison

Legends Of The Fall
Delta, S-L - 1989
1st Thus Paperback
VG-

This is a VERY Rare book...

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Lillian Hellman

Pentimento

Little, Brown 1973 1st Edition
Good book in a dust jacket that's seen
better days, but isn't in pieces.

Box 125-C

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Homer The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation

Farrar Straus Giroux 1998
VG Softcover

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Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Books, Inc.
Good condition. No DJ. Hardcover. Light to moderate shelf wear to boards.

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William Dale Jennings The Ronin: A Novel Based on a Zen Myth.

Charles E. Tuttle Company 1968 1st Edition
First edition Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a
near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Shigeo Katakura.

Box 125-I

350
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Jerzy Kosinski

The Painted Bird

Grove Press 2nd Edition
As new in wraps.

Box 125-G

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Gavin Lambert The Slide Area. Scenes Of Hollywood Life

The Dial Press 1968. 2nd Ed. 1st print.

Box 125-I

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Maurice Leblanc Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene
Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

1st Edition softcoverr
Condition: Good
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Ira Levin

Rosemary's Baby

Random House 1967
BCE very good copy in a dust
jacket with a bit of fraying at top of spine and a 3/4 inch scuff at top of back cover. Otherwise solid copy. The page edges are rough, no doubt the trade paper used by the book club. That said, it's a solid little copy without any writing or other marks aside from a light penciled price on ffep.

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Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

Acceptable reading copy. No
missing pages, spine is tight.

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Sinclair Lewis Babbitt

Harcourt Brace and Company, 1950
Good condition hardcover A later reprint of this 1922 work, in full grey cloth-covered boards with titling in dark blue to cover and spine.
14.50
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Thomas MacDonagh
P.H. Pearse
(Padraic MacPiarais)
Joseph Mary Plunkett
Sir Roger Casement

Edited by Padraic Colum
and Edward J. O'Brien

Poems of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood

Small, Maynard & Co. 1916 1st Edition Hardback. The spine of this book is history

 

 

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Knopf Doubleday 1984 4th printing
Hardback. Ex-lib with usual markings. Dustjacket unclipped taped down, now protected in plastic brodart sleeve.

Box 125-I


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George R. R. Martin

A Clash Of Kings
Fire & Ice No. 2

Bantam Books 2011
Softcover in good readable
condition. Pages are tight if a smidge
tanned.

Box 125-C

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Cormac McCarthy The Orchard Keeper

Vintage
Good condition paperback

Box 125-I

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Anais Nin

Winter of Artifice Three Novelettes

Softcover. Early Edition; Early Printing.
Near Fine in wrappers. ;
Signed to Florence (my aunt) by "Anais."

Box 125-I

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Anais Nin

A Spy in the House of Love

Swallow Press
Good condition; inscription on last free end paper.

   
Kem Nunn

Unassigned Territory

Delacorte, 1987
1st Ed HB
VG-/G++
Unprice-clipped DJ. DJ has some tears, as seen in photo. FFEP has
former owner's name inscribed

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Kem Nunn

Tijuana Straits

Scribner 2004 1st Edition
Advance uncorrected proof

Box 125

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Flannery O'Connor

Wise Blood

Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Later Printing in wraps
Very solid reading copy
w/ a black line across the ffep

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Eugene O'Neill

Desire Under The Elms

Signet S1502 1958
The binding is growing fragile. The
pages are tanned. Good for one more read.

Box 125-H

 

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John Rechy

The Sexual Outlaw

First Dell printing 1978
Square and tight, apparently unread.

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John Rechy

City of Night

Grove Press 1994
Solid paperback, uncreased spine.

Box 125-H

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John Rechy The Coming of the Night

Grove Press, 2000
Condition: Good.

Box 125-I

5
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Peter Rushforth Kindergarten

Alfred A. Knopf, 1980 1st Edition
NF/VG in unclipped dust jacket.

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Lore Segal
Maurice Sendack

The Juniper Tree and other tales
from Grimm in two volumes

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1973 1st Edition
VG/VG both books are housed in a slipcase.
hard cover. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

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William Shakespeare King Richard III

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc.
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
US$ 20.00
Condition: Very Good. No Jacket.

Box 125-I

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Jerry Stahl

Permanent Midnight

Process 2005 1st Edition thus
Very good in wraps. Trade paper. Uncut
rear cover has extra portion at top.
Unread copy.

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Mitzi Szereto

Erotic Travel Tales

Cleis SF 2001
1st Edition, wraps. A very bad book
in a darn good form factor.

Box 125

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Newton Thornburg

Cutter and Bone

Little, Brown 1976
First Edition VG/VG in Brodart protected unclipped dust jacket. A fine copy!

Box 125

100
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John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy Of Dunces

Grove Press B-452, 1981 1st Edition
VG Softcover. 1st Black Cat edition. 1st printing.

Box 125-I

25
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Jose Antonio Villarreal

Pocho

Anchor Books 1970 1st Thus
Slanted a bit, otherwise quite nice
with pages that aren't browned after
fifty years. Previous owner's name on
inside front cover.

Box 125-G

20
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Nathaniel West

 

Miss Lonelyhearts

Greenberg, 1934 3rd Edition
Hardcover Condition: Good+
No jacket.

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Luther Whiteman

The Face of the Clam
A Vagabond Story of an Eveless Eden

Random House, 1947 1st. Printing
Good+ in a G- DJ in a Brodart Cover

 

450
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Harold Bell Wright

The Shepherd of the Hills

Grossett 1907
Later Printing, I'm sure.
Solid condition, good dust jacket.
A little writing on ffep and the prior
owner felt the need to add two small identifying stamps under the dust jacket flaps on both boards.

Box 125

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