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Irving, John: Until I Find You: A Novel
Book Number: 38548
New York Random House 2005 8vo hardcover 822pp. very good+ / very good+ d/w.
Keywords: Literature Fiction Authors Irving John Novels
Price: $16.50 |
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Huxley, Aldous: Rotunda
Book Number: 38621
London, Chatto & Windus 1932 8vo. hardcover. 1081pp. very good, owner's inscription inside front cover, spine faded. / no d/w.
Keywords: fiction modern literature short stories
Price: $18.00 |
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Mandy, Ivan: On the Balcony: Selected Short Stories
Book Number: 38629
Corvina Press, 1988 8vo. softcover. 128pp. very good.
Keywords: Mandy short stories
Price: $12.00 |
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Houellebecq, Michel: Atomised
Book Number: 39096
Heinemann London 2000 8vo. hardcover. 379pp. very good, small owner's name on fep. spine just slightly slanted. / very good d/w.
Keywords: fiction french
Price: $18.00 |
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WELLS, H. G.: THE HAPPY TURNING. A DREAM OF LIFE.
Book Number: 39443
Heinemann, London, 1945 50 pp, coth spine on boards. war-time paper, fine copy. First edition.
Keywords: modern firsts h g wells science fiction religion history england
Price: $40.00 |
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Brady, Joan: Theory Of War
Book Number: 40163
Andre Deutsch 1993 8vo hardcover 209pp. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Theory Of War Brady Joan
Price: $15.00 |
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Vonnegut, Kurt: A Man without a Country
Book Number: 40548
Seven Stories Press 2005 8vo hardcover 146pp. very good+ / very good+ d/w.
Keywords: A Man without a Country Vonnegut Kurt
Price: $18.00 |
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Robertson, Don: Ideal, Genuine Man - Abacus Books
Book Number: 40681
Abacus Books (Sphere) 8vo softcover 304pp very good. Lyrical, sentimental, sexy, violent prole novel, with Robertson's heart doing a thumb's up for his outcasts of rock-bottom naturalism - and with a lengthy, clubfooted foreword by Stephen King, the book's publisher. Robertson (Paradise Falls, Praise the Human Season) abandons his favorite Ohio background and conjures up a nightmarish version of Houston. At 74, Herman Marshall is an arthritic, leaky-bladdered retired truckdriver whose wife Edna lies at home dying of cancer while Herman Marshall (always last-named) tends her, tells her stories from the past, spins any old tale to make her chuckle. It seems that Edna was once unfaithful to Herman Marshall with his brother and had a child, Billy, whom Herman Marshall nonetheless loved and raised as his own. However, Billy had spinal meningitis and died at 17. Complete outcasts, the Marshalls are social garbage, kept going by the shine from a few beers and Edna's marvelous barbecues. At last, Edna is in so much pain that she begs Herman Marshall to kill her, but he won't do it. Herman Marshall grew up worshipping cowboy hero Tom Mix, his squint and his ideal, genuine smile - quite unlike his own "nigger lips," which have embarrassed Herman Marshall and made him the butt of his three older brothers. When Edna finally dies, he gets rolling drunk, stays drunk through the funeral, and two days later, with his ideal, genuine, solid-ivory-dentured smile fixed in place, goes on a saintly rampage, shooting dead all of his friends and acquaintances to save them the old-age grief he's experienced. Rubs your face in the mind of a mass murderer hero while serving up a universe of trivia and despair. Many may think it Robertson's King Lear. (Kirkus Reviews)
Keywords: Ideal Genuine Man Abacus Books Robertson Don
Price: $8.00 |
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Paling, Chris: Newton's Swing
Book Number: 40740
Vintage 2001 8vo softcover 230pp very good.
Keywords: Newton's Swing Paling Chris
Price: $14.00 |
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Braham, Ernest: The Wallet of Kai Lung
Book Number: 41284
London: Cape, 1926. The Travellers' Library series. Small 8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 286pp. very good, foxing to endpapers, owner's signature on fep.
Keywords: Travellers' Library Maugham
Price: $12.00 |
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