Backbone.
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1985. Second Printing. Paperback. 125 pp. Light sunning to spine. 2nd printing, inscribed by the author.
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Closing Ranks.
London: Viking, 1997. Cloth. 281 pp, 8vo. Cloth in dj. Possible BCE (no dj price, no slug or dj number box either). Sl. bump to spine head, minor soil to textblock. Pages clean, binding tight. Dj shelfworn and lightly scuffed/soiled.
Twelve Chases on West Ninety-ninth Street.
London: Penguin Books, 1970. Paperback. 189 pp., 12mo. Paperback. Inscribed by author. Slight scuffing & edgewear to covers & spine; sunning to spine. Some soiling to textblock edges. Pgs clean & crisp. Inscribed by author.
Starforth.
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1937. Cloth Hardcover. 8vo. 488 pp. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped and rubbed, lightly shaken. Otherwise book is in great condition. "Either he did not hear, or would not. Little as Amy knew it, it had reached his understanding at last that he had.....
Sand Devil.
London & Connecticut: Toby Press, 2001. Trade Paperback. 12mo. 278 pp. Collection of three novellas.
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen:; And Other Stories
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. Hardcover. 160 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. English text. Concentration camp stories from a survivor of Auschwitz & Dachau. "His stories are testimony to the kind of normality that must develop from even the most abnormal & horrifying situations." Slight dampstaining/soiling to boards. Binding sturdy. Some.....
The Man on the Island.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1962. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 190 pp. Spine ends lightly bumped, foxing to edges. Dj has light wear to edges, light soiling, price-clipped.
Crooked Hearts.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First edition. Trade Paperback. 340 pp. Family's grown children take turns telling the story: Ask, Tom, Cassie, Charley.
Crooked Hearts.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. 339 pp. Jacket lightly scuffed, heavily sunned at spine. Pages clean and tight. Novel of an eccentric midwestern family.
The Delicate Prey and Other Stories.
New York and Toronto: Random House, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 307 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. First edition. Top stained to textblock top edge.Slight edgewear to boards & spine ends. Spine mildly shaken. Light foxing & discoloration to textblock edges. Lightly creased pgs scattered to textblock. Otherwise pgs crisp & clean.
Let It Come Down.
New York: Random House, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 311 pp. 8vo. Half cloth. First edition. Sunning to spine and edges. Lightly edgeworn. Light red damp staining to bottom of joints. White marks to covers. Textblock yellowed. Sm. nick to front fore edge. Eps slightly scuffed.
The Spider's House.
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First edition. Paperback. 406 pp. 8vo. Paperback. First edition. Light scuffing, soiling. Light wear to edges. Bumping to sp. corners w/ tiny chips. Faint damp staining and lt wrinkling to top edge of textblock and along upper edges of several pages.
Drums.
New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First edition. Cloth. 409 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Scuffing, flexing, edgewear & very light soiling to boards. Sunning, edgewear, cocking & mild shaking to spine but binding holding. Some foxing & soiling to textblock edges. Creasing.....
Home Rule.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 220 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Very light flexing & shelfwear to boards. Very light creasing to joints. Slight shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Very light soiling to textblock edges. Pgs clean & crisp. Article about.....
The Eagle of the Empire.
New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1915. Cloth. 370 pp. 8vo. Cloth in dj. Light foxing/soiling to dj, bumping to sp. ends and corners w/ chips, few tears to edges, few small rubbed spots to edges. Edgewear to book, bumping to spine ends, damp spots to corners/edges, 1/2" closed tear to.....
Trottie True.
London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1947. Cloth. 237 pp. 12mo. Cloth in dustjacket. Wear to jacket, bumping w/ small tears and chips to spine ends and corners. Bowing to book, light wear to edges. Top edge soiled, yellowing to pages.
The Book of the Film of the Story of My Life.
New York: Warner Books, 2002. Paperback. 8vo. 320 pp.
The Poet and the Girl.
Copenhagen: The Wind-Flower Press, 1980. Pamphlet. 8vo. 27 pp. Some pencil marks in text. Cover sunned, pages slightly sunned at edges, otherwise in very good condition. Short Danish fiction.
Two Minutes of Silence.
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1966. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 211 pp. Jacket rubbed, rear of jacket soiled, jacket edges chipped and torn. Front cover of book very slightly bowed, some browning to page edges, light stain to fore edges, pencil underlining to interior. Translated by Vera Lindholm Vance.....
Hard Feelings.
New York: Atheneum, 1977. Hardcover. 377 pp., 8vo. Quarter-cloth hardcover in dj. Review copy, w/ slip & critic praise paper laid in. A novel about a teenager's life in the sixties. W/ review slip laid in. Very light shelfwear to boards & spine. Binding tight. Foxing to textblock top edge.....
Large Animals in Everyday Life.
Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1996. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 149 pp. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise book is crisp and clean. "The eleven stories in Wendy Brenner's debut story collection concern people who are alone or feel themselves to be alone: survivors negotiating between.....
The Butterfly of Paris.
New York: W.J. Watt and Company, 1925. Cloth. 8vo. 313 pp. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends, spine ends lightly bumped. Rear flap of dj pasted to rpd, fpd has mark from removal of pasted dj. Previous owner's stamp to ffep, fep, and half-title. Some soiling to edges of.....
And Then You Came.
NY: Macmillan, 1949. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 306 pp. Ends of spine slightly rubbed, corners lightly bumped. Small ink owner inscription on ffep, pencilled notes on rfep. Endpapers are foxed but body of text is clean and binding tight. Historical fiction of the West Highlands.
The Tightening String.
New York and Toronto: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1962. First edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. 250 pp. Spine is lightly bumped, former owner signed ffep. Rubbing, soiling, wear to edges of dj.
The Flame of the Borgias.
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. 336 pp. Historical novel set in the great panorama of Renaissance Italy. Edges of dj lightly edgeworn, flaps folded.