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Unbridled Books,, (2009). New. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. 1st trade paperback printing. Novel by this Pulitzer prize winning writer.When the internet bubble burst, George Baileys wealth vanished, threatening his familys security. Trying to make sense of his life, he returned to the little Central Illinois farm town of Abbeville, where his grandfather had prospered and then fallen into ruin, during the Depression. 257 pp.

Boston:: Little Brown,, (1966). Hardcover -. Ex-library with relatively few markings, overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dust jacket. . First thus. Reprint of this allegorical novel originally published in 1941 - "One of the few works of fiction in the 20th century to explore the dangerous yet glamorous appeal of fascism and the less than satisfactory answer of traditional democracy." - a book which influenced Orwell's 1984 and Golding's Lord of the Flies. New introduction by Angus Wilson. 302 pp.

New York:: New American Library - NAL,, (2003). First edition -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (light crease to upper corner of back cover). Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) "Kate Weyland loses a lucky earring on the morning of an important job interview. Running late, she asks her husband to drive their seven-year-old twin daughters to school. He and the girls end up in the path of a speeding police car, and all three of them die. While she's still reeling from grief, Kate goes on a trip to Nantucket Island to help a friend close her cottage, and she hears of a local recluse. Kate is normally skeptical, but in her vulnerable state the idea of communicating with her family beyond the grave captures her imagination, and she consults the mysterious Gabriel Farr." (PW)

New York:: Atheneum,, 1978.. Hardcover first edition -. VG/VG (dj flaps creased.). First US printing. Author's first novel, based on the worst aviation disaster in New Zealand's history.

New York:: The Book League of America,, 1942.. Hardcover -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. Uncommon in this condition. Advertisement for war bonds on the back cover of the dustjacket. . Early reprint. A story of war behind the German lines during World War II, based on events which Caldwell witnessed while in Russia. 283 pp.

New York:: Doubleday,, 1999.. Fine in wrappers.. Trade paperback. Winner of the 1998 Booker Prize.

New York:: Vintage Books,, (2001.). Very good condition.. Trade paperback. Novel set in modern day Sri Lanka, torn by civil war. The story of Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist, who is sent by a human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaign of murder engulfing the island. 307 pp.

New York:: Vintage Books,, (2001.). Good condition (some wear to covers.). 1st trade paperback printing. Novel set in modern day Sri Lanka, torn by civil war. The story of Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist, who is sent by a human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaign of murder engulfing the island.

New York:: New American Library, 1986.. Good only. (edge wear, creased spine, pages slightly yellowed around edges, lines on bottom edge.). Trade paperback. A masterpiece that illuminates love, loss, and the divided human heart.

New York:: Bantam,, (2003.). Very good+.. Trade paperback. Robbins' indescribable first novel, an underground classic. 337 pp.

Princeton, NJ:: Darwin Press,, (1979). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in very good dust jacket (overall edgewear to dj, chip at top edge of front cover, tear at base of spine). First printing. A fable which uses an ant colony - in which a few restless worker ants agitate against the status quo - to illuminate our own society. Illustrated with drawings by Martha Huehnerarth. 151 pp.

Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill,, 1972.. Hardcover first edition -. VG/G (some moisture staining to cloth spine, not affecting text, tears to dj internally tape repaired, pc.). First printing.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1997.. Hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. 2nd printing. Three novellas which explore the themes of exile and escape - the first one -"The Term Paper Artist" - features Leavitt himself as a writer hiding out in his father's Southern California home in the aftermath of a publishing scandal. 198 pp.

New York:: Ballantine,, (1983.). Near fine.. First paperback printing. Illustrated with woodcuts by Mary Azarian with woodcuts. 274 pp.

New York:: Doubleday,, (2002.). Hardcover -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's initials.). Later printing. One of his most powerful novels, a story of love and childhood and war, and also of shame and forgiveness, opening in 1935 and ranging through World War II to the 1990's. Finalist for the Booker Prize, but in my opinion a much better book than his award winning 'Amsterdam.' Basis for the excellent movie of the same name. 351 pp.

New York:: HarperPerennial,, (1997.). SIGNED -. Very good- (prev owner's address label, usual light toning to pages.). Trade paperback. The story of a Colorado rancher who goes to Mexico to uncover the mystery that lay behind the murder of his son there. Finalist for the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp.

New York:: Arbor House,, 1980.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. A novel of romance, adventure and intigue set in Africa.

New York:: Scribner's,, 1997.. Near fine.. 1st trade paperback printing.

New York:: Norton,, 1966.. Very good (some underlining). Trade paperback.

New York:: Penguin Books,, (1985.). Near fine (light crease to front cover, remainder line.). Trade paperback. Novel set in Depression-era Albany, New York.