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Carroll & Graf Publishers. Fine. 2004. First Edition. Softcover. 0786715081 . Excellent condition, clean, unmarked. 314 pages. Description: Gerald has been preparing to die. During the last of his three hospital stays, he has drawn up a last will and testament, a living will, assigned a health care proxy, and arranged his own cremation. He has thrown out hundreds of photos accrued over his twenty-five years as an actor, boxes of gay porn, all his journals, and acquired a hefty collection of barbiturates for when things got too "icky. " Then, from out of nowhere, Gerald's health is revived by the new miracle drugs. His AIDS-related death is put on hold, while, at the same moment, William Weiss reenters his life... An unexpected romance, and his love of the theater reconnect Gerald with lost joy. Even as his health fails, he finds himself transformed by the ecstasy of everyday life. Advance reader's copy. ; 8vo .

Prentice Hall. Very Good. 1981. Fourth Printing. Softcover. Pages clean & tight, a little spotting to outer edge of pages. Cover has light edge & corner wear. No internal markings. Notes on writing from various authors & fiction and nonfiction prose by popular authors. Authors include: Dylan Thomas, Roderick Haig-Brown, E. M. Forster, Hugh MacLennan, Robertson Davies, Aldous Huxley & several others. Keywords: Writing, Reading, Education, Anthologies, Composition ; 8vo .

London: Bloomsbury Publishing. Very Good. 1991. First Edition. Softcover. 0747508054 . Clean & tight, only light wear to covers. 244 pages. Reviews: "Its blend of reminiscence and fantasy makes for a rich, multilayered narrative and a cast of oddball characters, alternately malignant and benign. It's a style suited to its child hero, 7 year old Billy Gunn, whose journey through the murky world of adult passions and crimes provides the structure for this absorbing novel"--Observer" (*Shipping will be reduced to most locations). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Scribner's. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0684844699 . Excellent condition, other than some light staining to outer edge of pages. A couple pages near back have some light creasing to edges. Interior clean & unmarked. 8vo (8.5" tall), 233 pages.From Library Journal:Remember your senior year of high school? Those achingly slow days between the ending of one life and the beginning of another are perfectly captured by McNally here. The year is 1978, and Patrick McConnell continues his senior year in Paradise Valley, AZ, after his father's suicide. It's Patrick who keeps his family together while his mother begins a slow descent into alcoholism and his sister medicates herself with sex and drugs before leaving home. Understandably, he is counting the days before college, hoping to "leave on terms, which will permit return, someday later, after [his mom] is better. " His girlfriend, Elizabeth, has her own struggles with her… Read More

Little, Brown & Co. (Canada) Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0316319066 . Signed by author on half title page where she has crossed through her typed name and signed it below. Hardcover with untrimmed pages has light wear to spine ends & corners, slight soiling. Small address plate on endpage. Interior pages are other wise clean & unmarked. Jacket has light edgewear, scuffing, a little wrinkling/creasing around edges and a few tiny corner tears, not price clipped. .. Corinne Ditchburn is a photographer. The story of her life, from its beginnings in the northern Candian wilderness, to London, England, where she worked during WW II as a war correspondent for Lord Beaverbrok, is a brilliant tale of a woman struggling for identity and love in the cataclysm of war ....; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

NY: Trident Press. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. Hardcover clean and unmarked, some bumping to corners/spine ends. Jacket is tanned with light soiling and several small edge tears and chips, not price clipped. The story of Ken Farnham, apprentice bastard. Filled with frustrations, Ken, looks into the deepest parts of himself, finds no other words to describe what he sees than an 'about to be middle aged failure'. Now there are two things a man facing such a dilemma can do: blame himself or decide that the system has done him in. Ken chooses the latter. Only the real bastards get ahead and he is far too nice a guy. With this resolved, he joins the opposition..... [620] ; 8vo .

Poseidon Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0671742965 . Near new condition. Wear is very light - no markings. From Publishers Weekly: Erickson, who has attracted a strong following with his three novels (the most recent was Tours of the Black Clock ) and the memoir Leap Year , has now written his most provocative novel yet, an apocalyptic narrative in which he yokes his grim vision of America to the exalted vision of Thomas Jefferson. The story opens in Paris, where Jefferson is serving as the new country's ambassador to France. The protagonist, however, is not the master of Monticello but Sally Hemings, the slave and concubine he has brought with him... ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Plume. Near Fine. 2000. First Edition. Softcover. 0452281695 . Excellent condition, small remainder mark across bottom edge of pages. Cover has slight wear to edges and a little scuffing, interior is unmarked. A popular Irish comedian chronicles with raw humor and great affection the comic misadventures of a large and lively North Dublin family in the 1960s. The film version, directed by and starring Anjelica Huston, was released in 1999. (160os) ; 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.3 Inches; 176 pages .

London - New York: Dent Everyman's Library / Dutton. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0460008404 . HC/DJ - near fine/very good. Number 840 of the Everyman's Library Series. 1974 reprint of the 1930 original. 12mo (7.5 in. Tall). Hardcover is clean with slight bumping/wear to spine ends and bottom corners. Pages are clean and intact, with no markings. Dustjacket has light edgewear/minor rubbing, a few tiny edge tears, age tanning, one tiny peel on rear and front flap price clipped. (298noto,0315) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 372 pages .

London: Cassell. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. B005L8YLYM . HC/DJ - near fine/very good. Hardcover is clean with minimal wear to edges and corners. Pages are unmarked other than old price on endpage, and a small blue number stamp on last two blank pages, one says 50, one says 100. Dustjacket has light edgewear, light soiling/scuffing, not price clipped, small scribble in pen on front, crease across front flap and slight crease across first few pages. By the author of 'The End of the Running' & 'Mantrap'. "The big square house stood isolated in the swirling water of the lake. The water was there because of the dam, and the dam was there because of the people. It spelt progress, and power. But to the man who lived in the house, it spelt ruin, the loss of everything he had owned. Kelly was a stubborn old man who refused to get out, refused to be compensated by the government, and refused to sell to young Toro, who… Read More

London: Michael Joseph. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover is clean & tight, no markings. Slight edgewear, slightly cocked forward at spine, small stamp inside back cover. Jacket has light edgewear and light soiling to rear, one small tear, not clipped. The story of two sisters: Beatrice, beautiful, intelligent, a misfit in her Victorian family is forced into making an unhappy marriage for money. She leaves her husband and finally settles in Paris. Bertha, plain, athletic, Philistine, remains after a number of love affairs a spinster, and keeps home for her autocratic father. The sisters are temperamentally antagonistic, and Beatrice suspects Bertha of having had a sinister influence on the failure of her marriage. Nevertheless, Beatrice is gradually drawn back towards her betrayer.....[400-noto]; 8vo .

Little, Brown & Company. Near Fine. 2005. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0316158801 . Advance Reading copy. Excellent Condition, slight edge & corner wear, one tiny peel top of spine, clean & unmarked. Synopsis: It's been four years since William "Belly" O'Leary left his beloved Saratoga Springs for the state penitentiary, but now that he's served his time on an illegal gambling charge, he's ready to reclaim his hometown. Trouble is, he's a stranger now: gone are the days when his swagger had all the girls swooning, when the bar he owned was a hot spot for hard-livers and hard drinkers, when his three surviving daughters bent over backward to please him or avoid his wrath... Soon he's settling into his old habits and creating a mess wherever he goes. It's when he finally hits rock bottom that Belly is forced to re-evaluate his old life.... (400-noto) ; 8vo .

Toronto: Macmillan. Near Fine. 1979. Hardcover. 0770511759 . Excellent condition, no jacket as issued. 1979 printing. Slight corner wear to covers. Interior clean and unmarked. One of the books from the Alberta Heritage Learning Resources Project. 178 pages; A teenage girl struggles with the problems of her pregnancy. Winner of the Search for a New Alberta Novelist Competition; 8vo .

Lester and Orpen Denny's. Very Good. 1982. Softcover. 0886190088 . Cover has light edge and corner wear, light creasing, a little corner curling. Pages clean and unmarked. 165 pages. 14 Tales about people - the sensual, ambiguous relationship of people to each other and the world they live in, reaching out to each other in their loneliness...such as Poodles John, who owns a small clothing store and drives a big, white car with old-fashioned fins; Crow Jane, the after-hours blues singer; or Slaverne Tuttle, whose passionate affair with Charlie, the long-distance driver, comes to a startling, unexpected conclusion.... [osl] ; 8vo .

Washington Square Press. Very Good. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. 0743411943 . Pages clean and unmarked. Some soiling/spotting to bottom edge of pages. Light soiling to cover and a little scuffing to rear. Raised in an isolated, reclusive fundamentalist sect, Mary Fred Anderson finds her life turned upside down when she is uprooted and placed in foster care in the Cullison household, where her new housemates introduce her to a whole new world, until a horrifying act of violence forces her to confront everything about her life and past. A first novel. (300noto) ; 8vo; 292 pages .

TX: Arte Publico Press. Very Good+. 1997. First Edition. Softcover. 1558852131 . Tight, clean copy. Retired library book with sturdy laminated cover & usual type markings. Cover wear is very light. Internal pages clean, slight soiling to outer edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; "Eighteen-year-old Val leaves his West Texas hometown to search for his long-lost father. The quest takes him to the gaming table of Reno, Nevada and offers Val an escape from an impending marrieage and an existence in a town where life has been difficult because his mother is Mexican. Ultimately, the reunion not only gives him the father he'd thought dead but also a newfound pride in his Mexican heritage and the courage to follow his dream. " (431-noto? ) .

London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good+. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0224061348 . Cover has light wear to edges/corners, a little scuffing. Pages clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unique, dark and erotic, a stunning debut from a distinctive new Irish voice. Eighty-eight compelling bulletins reveal the fractured essence of our age, illuminating and exploring the pleasures and perils of these, the zero years of the millennium. We enter the characters’ lives through seemingly disconnected fragments, characters who go about their lives wallowing in heartfelt lies and stony betrayals, bad jokes and bad sex, and trading in novel ways the old commodities of pain and bliss. (195os) .

London: Ronald Whiting & Wheaton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover is very clean, with very light edge/corner wear, slight soiling outer edge of pages, interior clean & tight, other than than small blue number stamp first page. DJ has plastic laminate, light edgewear, very light soiling, one small tear to rear, not price clipped. 191 pages. 8vo (8" tall). A fictional account of the trial of Arthur Jordan for rape. As the trial develops, the reader's opinion constantly changes about the innocence or guilt of the accused. The reader will even see the unfolding drama through the eyes of Jordan himself, reliving with him the imponderables which can alter the course of a person's life....A fascinating courtroom drama. (*shipping will be reduced after checkout to some locations) ; 8vo .

Ballantine Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0345424417 . Very nice condition. HC/DJ - fine/near fine. Clean, with no markings, overall wear quite minimal. ; 8vo; Review: "Everybody has a past; some are more intriguing than others. When retired schoolteacher Billy Bryan's daughter begins cleaning his house a few days after his wife's death, she finds in the forgotten pages of his dusty scrapbook part of a past she's never known. The memories they invoke send the grieving Billy--"I think God has fed me a breaking ball to keep me off balance"--and his daughter on a remarkable journey back to his youth, where, as a major-league hopeful, he played winter baseball in Cuba half a century ago...." (500+) .

Toronto: Mcclelland and Stewart. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771043635 . HC/DJ - near fine/very good. Hardcover is clean and intact, no markings, slight wear to corners and bumping to spine ends. Dustjacket has light edgewear, light scuffing, age tanning, one small tear on front and a few tiny tears to spine ends. Not price clipped. Winner of the 1985 Seal First Novel Award. "Two sisters -- Jean and Colette -- share an obsession with their neighbor, a world renowned pianist. So obsessed are they that they learn Japanese and try imitating everything about him...." (405noto) ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 206 pages .