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Price: $11.95
Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003746
Very minor edgewear, bottom corners bumped, PO's name stamped inside. DJ shows some edgewear and minor chipping at ends of spine and flaps. Text is clean and unmarked. 2 glossy photos of Norris Dam (by day and at night) are laid in. "This is the saga of Homer Zigler, who wanted more than anything else in the world to write "The Great American Novel." Originality, humor, pathos, mark this second novel by the author of The Anointed. It has depth, warmth ... View more info
By: Barry, John D.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page and Company: 1903
Seller ID: 003733
Dark green boards with title in gold lettering and embossed design of birds and flowers. Spine slanted, edgewear, corners bumped/chipped, cracking at pp. 38 & 70. Ex-library with minimal stamps & light number on spine. Text is clean and unmarked. Pages at end contain synopses from L.C.Page and Co.'s List of Fiction. A young actress has conflicted feelings about her ex-fiancé and her career.; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Pringle, Terry
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003568
Spine slightly slanted, bottom corner of front board crimped, slight edge wear. A tight, attractive copy. "Commitment, togetherness, another person's needs? Babies? These were the last things on Chris Gray's mind when he came to the rescue of Lori Lynn Conner after she dropped a soft drink bottle and gashed her foot at the supermarket. A quick trip to the hospital, then a date, more dates, an engagement, a wedding - and Chris and Lori begin a marriage that soon... View more info
Price: $6.50
Publisher: E Rutherford, New Jersey, Penguin Books: 1993
Seller ID: 005539
Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize. Minor edgewear/bumping, spots on p. 103. A nice copy. "The unspoken legacy of the Vietnam War - the ordeals of the Vietnamese - is powerfully evoked in these fifteen stories, each narrated in a different voice. Old or young, humble or arrogant, puzzled or proud, these are characters for whom the absurdities of contemporary American popular culture and searing memories of war uneasily coexist. Blending Vietnamese folklore and... View more info
By: Stern, G. B.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1940
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 006276
311 pp. Beige cloth boards with gold lettering on black background. Spine slanted, some edgewear, corners a bit bumped. From the Barr-Hurst Book Shop Circulating Library with two stamps on free endpaper. DJ somewhat scuffed, glued to boards, with shallow chipping and small tears along edges, spine is sunned. Text is clean and unmarked. "One never-to-be forgotten day while Norman Pascoe was intent on clipping the privet hedge, he came face to face with a lion:... View more info
By: Hamilton, Julia
Price: $5.25
Publisher: London, Penguin: 1996
Seller ID: 006286
Corners slightly bumped. A bright, tight, attractive copy. "A famous gardener, the determined and still beautiful Marjorie, lives at Fordingbridge Castle with her discreetly unfaithful husband Guy. Now the pain of newly awakened memories threatens to engulf her as she faces the prospect of Hubert's arrival. Should she confide in her only daughter, Chloe, whose own husband Ru has just left her for her best friend Lucy? Or the charismatic new vicar of the villag... View more info
Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York, NY, Random House, Incorporated: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001500
Slightly shelf-cocked, corners bumped. Jacket shows some edge wear and a 1/2" tear on bottom front edge. "No bare-bones summary can do justice to the excitement, complexity and resonance of this powerful novel, to its many strong characters and their intricate relationships with each other, or to its unifying narrative drive, which never falters."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
Price: $14.50
Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006606
388 pp. Beige boards with purple spine and gold lettering. A little sunned along top edge. DJ price-clipped with 1/4" chip and a few very small tears. Text is bright and clean. An attractive copy. "Katherine Forrester Vigneras is a concert pianist who has returned to her house on Tenth Street in New York to come to terms with her memories, until she can look at them with acceptance. But when she agrees to give a benefit concert for an old friend, Felix ... View more info
By: Harris, E. Lynn
Price: $11.50
Publisher: New York, New York, Doubleday & Company: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006000
Spine slightly slanted, PO name inside. DJ has very minor edgewear and one tiny tear. A bright, attractive copy. "In Abide With Me, Harris returns with the utmost finesse to his signature themes of love, friendship, and family, and craftily guides his irresistible characters through new challenges and heartbreaks, and ultimately to redemption through love. At the end of Just As I Am, Raymond Tyler, Jr. was beginning a relationship with Trent, a fraternity brot... View more info
By: Baldwin, Faith
Price: $5.95
Publisher: New York, Dell Publishing: 1964
Seller ID: 004718
Dell Book # 0058. A nice, attractive copy. "Second wife. . . . she loved him. She knew that he was the man she had been waiting for - that he was the man she had kept herself for. He was decent and honest and strong. And he loved her. But she wondered if the happiness she could bring him would be enough. Because she could never forget that he had known another happiness with another woman - with the woman who had been his wife."; 16mo - over 5¾" - ... View more info
By: Green, Lewis W.
Price: $8.95
Publisher: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, John F. Blair, Publisher: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001270
Corners slightly bumped, a little chipping at base of spine. Jacket shows some minor edgewear, darkening to spine. "The wind was a distant roar on the crest of Big Lonesome, and the stream rushed and boomed deep in its rocky throat. The sounds came together and were as notes with one voice. One could never be sure whether the noise fell from the wind at the top or arose from the stream as it beat and swirled through the boulders. In the hidden coves and on t... View more info
By: Moore, Bertha B.
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich, William B. Eerdmans Publishig Co.: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004399
Corners bumped, gift inscription inside, some pages have spots. DJ has three 1 1/2" tears and shallow chipping at top of spine. "Peggy Tavenner, sensitive and lonely, feels the contrast between herself and her friendly, pretty, popular sister, Gretta. Her moodiness makes her a 'difficult' person; her family and those who want to be her friends are often hurt and puzzled by her rebuffs. Unable to endure her unhappiness, Peggy determines to do something abo... View more info
By: Archer, Jeffrey
Price: $7.95
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002930
Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket shows a little edge wear, some rubbing, dampstain inside back panel of jacket. A nice copy. "Born in the East End of London at the turn of the century, Charlie Trumper retains as his earliest memory his grandfather's sales patter from behind his fruit and vegetable barrow, and when Granpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps. But is isn't long before he's sp... View more info
Price: $6.25
Publisher: New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated: 1986
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 001838
Ex-library with usual markings plus front and back feps torn out. Spine slanted, corners bumped, some edge wear. Jacket enclosed in protective wraps, taped to boards, and shows minor edge wear and soiling. Text block clean and unmarked. "A gripping story about a multimillion-dollar land swindle-and the brave, stubborn man who uncovers it-in the fragile barrier islands off the Mississippi coast."; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated: 1986
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 004354
Spine very slightly slanted, bookplate on free endpaper. DJ price-clipped, some edgewear, 3 small tears. Text is clean and bright. "A gripping story about a multimillion-dollar land swindle-and the brave, stubborn man who uncovers it-in the fragile barrier islands off the Mississippi coast."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Benchley, Peter
Price: $3.85
Publisher: New York, Fawcett Crest: 1992
Seller ID: 000037
Corners of the cover are bent. Spine is creased and shows some wear.; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall View more info
By: Brown, Rosellen
Price: $4.95
Publisher: New York, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000014
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Welter, John
Price: $4.25
Publisher: New York, Berkley Books: 1998
Edition: First Berkley Edition
Seller ID: 006030
Small spot on front cover. A bright, tight, attractive copy. "His name is Kurt Clausen. A former English major (aka Extraneous Man), he's worked as a salad girl, a porn salesman, and - perhaps most reluctantly - a journalist. Finally, things seem to be looking up. He's found an editor who lets him write the way he wants. He's got a girlfriend who nurses his wounds (born the emotional king and the kind inflicted by flying canned hams), and who laughs at just ... View more info
Price: $70.00
Publisher: Atlanta, Georgia, Tupper & Love: 1952
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 004068
Spine sunned/slightly slanted, some edgewear, boards spotted at bottom. DJ has moderate edgewear with a few shallow tears and chips and a 1" tear at back flap edge. Text is tight and attractive. Inscribed by the author on pastedown. "Lonnie (Pop) Butts, soda pop bottler and stick candy manufacturer in a small Southern town, was content to confection his wares from his mental formulary, then go about the town peddling what he had produced. Then, two things ... View more info
By: Grisham, John
Price: $3.95
Publisher: New York, Dell Publishing: 2004
Edition: First Mass Market Edition
Seller ID: 003445
Spine a bit creased, corners bumped included a couple pages, a couple pages dog-eared. An attractive copy. "High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty. Now, as Coach Rake's "boys" sit in the bleach... View more info
