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British edition, preceded by U.S. "a haunting parable" by the author of The New York Trilogy. An immaculate copy in an imaginately illustrated dustjacket.

Preceded by the British first edition. An immaculate copy of Hoban's "remarkably original" dstopian fantasy. The American edition is distinguished by a dust jacket designed by Fred Marcellino

Book is in immaculate shape. Price clipped, otherwise fine dust Jacket. Booker award winner and made into a film. Peter Carey's breakout novel notched a rare Booker win for Australian fiction writers.

A pristine copy of the first trade edition (preceded by edition privately printed by the Franklin Library). Followed the author's widely regarded The Cider House Rules.

First American trade edition signed by author on title page. Immaculate in unmarked, unclipped DJ. Followed author's Booker-prize winner Oscar & Lucinda: "a headlong plunge into the life and times of the eerily beguiling Catchprice family of New South Wales, Australia."

Book has an unusually vibrant dust jacket with one tiny crease. A few spots to the end pages, otherwise the book has maintained its original appearance without any loss of color. A novel about hustling for sex and regarded now as a pioneering gay novel despite the author resisting any gay writer label, Rechy's description of the "little known world of hidden sex" takes in "seamy, neon-lighted honky-tonk USA," from New York to New Orleans and presents the collection of characters who live in this world or on its fringes.

Near fine copy in a well preserved dust jacket. The original price $4 appears stamped on the front flap. Schwartz had a notoriously limited imput as a writer. This was his second book of stories following "In Dreams Begins Responsibilities."

Neat pastedown from previous owner, otherwise a fine copy in an unclipped dust jacket with minimal edge wear present. Book and Jacket are well preserved and look much as they did when the book was new.

Immaculate copy of Roth's second full novel. The story of a Midwestern girl who believes herself to be the moral superior of her family and friends. Book and DJ jacket retain their original appearance.

The author's best known novel. Dust jacket has sticker announcing Winner 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A very nice copy with otherwise a few stains to the rear of the dustjacket. Not price clipped. A justly aclaimed work Stegner himself described it as having "something to say about the relations of a man with his ancestors and his descendants....it reveals how even the most rebellious crusades of our time follow paths that our great-grandfathers' feet beat dusty."

Fine copy in fine dustjacket, inscribed by Auster on title page: To Tony and Nora--Paul Auster

Signed by Auster on title page. A fine copy in fine dustjacket, not price clipped. "It was the summer that men first walked on the moon," Auster's novel spans three generations and the American landscape from New York to the American West

The conclusion of "Men at Arms" and "Officers and Gentlemen." Almost fine copy in a very good dustjacket. Not price clipped. All around an enjoyable copy of the last volume of Waugh's military trilogy.

First edition of Auster's eighth novel. A fine copy as new in an unclipped DJ.

2nd volume of Auster's New York Trilogy. Signed Paul Auster on the title page. Fine in fine DJ.

Flann O'Brien's fourth novel after At-Swim-Two-Birds pictures the adventures of Mr. Collopy and the two orphan boys growing up in the odour of good whisky and bad cooking. Dedicated by the author to Graham Greene, "whose own form of gloom I admire...."

An unusually good copy of Thomas' work of fiction published in 1940 and thus the first edition anywhere of a volume described by the publisher as "one of the most outspoken and audacious books of its kind." Thomas' semi fictional portrait of his life as a child, a schoolboy, and a young man living in Wales, realized with bold character studies, moments of revelation and terror, humor and shrewd apprehension of people and events.

An unusually good copy of Thomas' work of fiction published in 1940 and thus the first edition anywhere of a volume described by the publisher as "one of the most outspoken and audacious books of its kind." Thomas' semi fictional portrait of his life as a child, a schoolboy, and a young man living in Wales, realized with bold character studies, moments of revelation and terror, humor and shrewd apprehension of people and events.

An immaculate copy in the first state dustjacket with William Vollman(n)'s name mispelled on the rear panel and $29.95 on the front panel. The author's third book, second novel, described as "A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness" in America. The novel's huge success led indirectly to the author's suicide a decade later.