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ADRIAN, CHRISTINE.  Gob's Grief.
New York, NY: Broadway Books, 2001. ISBN: 0767902815. Just touches of edge wear. Advance Reader's Edition of this Iowa Writer's Workshop graduate's first novel. Adrian's stories have appeared in the Paris Review and Best American Short Stories. A well-recieved debut set during the Civil War. 324pp. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 356
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ALEXIE, SHERMAN.  The Toughest Indian in the World.
New York, NY: Grove/Atlantic, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0802138004. 8vo. As new. Unread. Advance Reader's Edition of Alexie's short story collection. From the writer of the movie Smoke Signals and author of Reservation Blues and Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven. Wraps. Fine.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 261
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AMIS, MARTIN.  Night Train.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1997. First Edition. ISBN: 0224050184. 8vo. Edge and corner wear, some light smudging. Binding tight, uncreased. Clean throughout. The UNCORRECTED PROOFS in blue printer wraps. 147pp. Wraps. Very Good.
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1414
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ARSENIJEVIC, VLADIMIR.  In the Hold.
New York: Knopf, 1996. First Edition. 8vo. Translated from Serbo-Croation by Celia Hawkesworth. Proof / ARC. Author is the youngest recipient of the NIN, his country's highest literary prize. Light edge wear, else as new. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine.
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 49
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AUSTER, PAUL.  LULU ON THE BRIDGE.
New York: Owl Books / Henry Holt, 1998. First edition. 8vo. Original printed wraps, UNCORRECTED PROOF stated, with cover image of eventual final book tipped to cover, as issued. Near fine. Touches of edgewer. Faint creasing rear cover. Else clean, bright, and sound. Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps. Script of Auster's film, with images from same and interviews with many involved with the production. Uncommon in this format. 211pp.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 11286
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BADAMI, ANITA RAU.  Hero's Walk.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonguin Books, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 1-56512-312-3. 8vo. ADVANCE READERS COPY. A few touches of wear to edges. Else unread, bright, and clean. The US debut of this Canadian author. A beautiful novel of scope and talent. 368pp. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 1695
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BAKER, NICHOLSON.  Vox.
New York: Random House, 1992. First Edition. ISBN: 0679738819. 8vo. Rubbed with shelfwear and mild soiling to page edges. Lacking brown paper sleave. Binding strong, text unmarked throughout. Advance Reader's Edition (stated) of this infamous novel from the author of Room Temperature and The Mezzanine. 166pp. Wraps. Very Good.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 1012
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BANKS, RUSSELL.  Rule of the Bone : A Novel.
New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1995. First Edition. ISBN: 0060172754. 8vo. Edge and corner wear. Some light smudging, rubbing, and soiling to cover. Binding uncreased, pages are unmarked throughout. Pub. date on cover has been corrected in pen to read May 24 1995. Only the '24' is in pen. This is the more uncommon UNCORRECTED PROOF (stated). 390pp. Printer Wrapper. Very Good.
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 351
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BARRETT, ANDREA.  Servants of the Map : Stories.
New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2002. First Edition. ISBN: 0393043487. 8vo. Fine overall, just a couple of touches at the corners. Else AS NEW. Advance Reader's Edition in pictorial wraps. Short story collectioin from the author of Voyage of the Narwal. Contains the title story, selected for both Best American Short Stories (2001) and Prize Stories: The O'Henry Awards (2001). 258pp. Wraps. Fine.
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 295
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BERBERIAN, VIKEN.  The Cyclist.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. First Edition. ISBN: 0-7432-2283-0. 8vo. Unread, but with slight spine lean and a touch of edge wear. A promising debut. A possibly too-precient topic: plot revolves around terrorist organization trying to blow up a Beruit hotel. Result is a fine balance of humor (believe it or not) and tragedy. This is the Advance Reader's Copy in pictorial wraps. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine.
USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 | £UK 3.25 | JP¥ 441] Book number: 178
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BIRDWELL, CLEO [PSEUDONYM DON DELILLO].  Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1980. First edition. ISBN: 0030554268. 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. Very good minus. Edges worn, a couple of creases at corners. Some soiling. Sticker residue to rear cover. Wraps. Very Good Minus. UNCORRECTED PROOF (stated) of this Delillo oddity. Uncommon. 390pp.
USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 5737] Book number: 11088
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BRADFORD, ARTHUR.  Dogwalker.
New York: Knopf, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0-375-41232-8. 8vo. Uncorrected proof in printed yellow wraps with bump top back cover/corner. Else AS NEW. Printer Wrapper. Near Fine. Kafka-esque debut collection of short stories. Author is winner of O'Henry Award and is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Also a contributor to Dave Eggers' McSweeney's Quarterly. Hilarious and strangely touching tales. As Eggers says in his blurb, If you do not like Arthur's stories you are a bad person. Also praised by the Likes of David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. 144pp.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 110
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BRENNA, DUFF.  The Altar of the Body.
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Picador, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0-312-26865-3. 8vo. Slightest rolling to spine. Otherwise as new. From the author of Too Cool. Author is winner of AWP Award, an NEA grant, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Draws comparisons to Flannery O'Connor and Sherwood Anderson. 336 pp. Pictorial Cover. Fine.
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 193
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 - BROCKMEIER, KEVIN.  THE BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEAD.
New York: Pantheon, 2006. First edition. 8vo. UNCORRECTED BOUND GALLEYS (stated) in blue printed wraps. Near fine with the faintest bit of fading to spine and a tiny smudge to front cover. Else bright, tight, sharp, clean and apparently unread, Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps. Widely acclaimed and imaginative debut. Scarce in this early format which precedes the more common ARC.
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 4413] Book number: 11255
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CHABON, MICHAEL.  Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories.
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Picador USA, 2000. First Edition. ISBN: 0312254385. 8vo. Stray felt tip pen mark to rear cover, unobtrusive. Else tight, bright, sharp, and clean. Unread. CONTENTS: Short story collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS preceding first edition. In standard blue Random House wraps. 212pp. Wraps. Near Fine.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 1168
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 - CHABON, MICHAEL.  THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN'S UNION.
New York: HarperCollins, 2007. First edition. 8vo. ADVANCE READER'S EDITION / ARC in original pictorial wraps. Very fine. As new. Unread. Paperback. Fine. Acclaimed novel about an imagined Jewish community in an alternate Alaska. From the Pulitzer-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 | £UK 27.25 | JP¥ 3972] Book number: 11199
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 - CLARKE, SUSANNA.  JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL.
New York: Bloomsbury, 2004. First edition. 8vo. Near fine in wraps. Touches of shelfwear to edges. Else clean, bright, tight, and sharp overall. ADVANCE READING COPY (stated). Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps. An acclaimed debut, a neo-Victorian tale of magic with steampunk undertones.
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 11198
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THE MARCHESA COLOMBI.  Small-Town Marriage.
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0-8101-1841-6. 8vo. Near fine with slight wear to lower front cover. Uncorrected page proofs in yellow printed wraps. Wraps. Near Fine. A nearly forgotten classic, newly reprinted. Rediscovered by Italo Calvino in 1973, and re-translated here from the Italian by Paula Paige (who also writes an introduction). A tragicomic fairy-tale. Sort of an absurd Chocolat. 89pp. A perfect one-night read,.
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 108
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 - DANIELEWSKI, MARK Z.  ONLY REVOLUTIONS.
New York: Pantheon, 2006. First edition. 8vo. ADVANCE READER's EDITION / ARC in pictorial wraps. Fine. Unread. Boldly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author Danielewski to title page. Paperback. Fine. Follow-up to author's acclaimed and groundbreaking cult debut, House of Leaves.
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 | £UK 45.25 | JP¥ 6619] Book number: 11200
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DARK, LARRY (EDITOR).  Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards.
New York: Anchor Books, 2000. First Edition. ISBN: 0385498772. 8vo. Light cover wear, faint smudge to rear panel. Else fine: bright, sharp, and tight. Appear unread. The BOUND GALLEYS (stated). Stories by Nathan Englander, J. Robert Lennon, Russell Banks, Judy Budnitz (a story which originally appeared in McSweeney's #3). 404pp. Wraps. Near Fine.
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 1428
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DAVIS, AMANDA.  Circling the Drain: Stories.
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Rob Weisbach Books, 1999. First Edition. ISBN: 0688167802. 8vo. Light edgewear, slight lean, small smudge and some faint creasing to rear cover. Overall, bright and tight. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF. Acclaimed debut collection from the McSweeney's author sadly and tragically killed in a plane crash following the release of her follow-up Wonder When You'll Miss Me. Charming and moving stories. 208pp. Wraps. Near Fine.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1167
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DELILLO, DON.  Libra.
New York: Viking, 1988. First Edition. ISBN: 0670823171. 8vo. Very Good plus condition with edge and corner wear. Small, light stain to top page edge. In bright pictorial wraps. Advance Reading Copy of Delillo's masterful take on Lee Harvey Oswald's story. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good+.
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 130
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DELILLO, DON.  Mao II.
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1991. First Edition. ISBN: 0670839043. 8vo. Mild rubbing to covers, light soiling to page edges. Else tight and unmarked throughout. One of Delillo's best. A famous reclusive writer (sound familiar?) and his exploits in the political underworld. UNCORRECTED PROOF in pictorial wraps. 241pp. Wraps. Near Fine.
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3089] Book number: 1182
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DIVAKARUNI, CHITRA BANERJEE; CANTY, KEVIN.  The Unknown Errors of Our Lives / Honeymoon and Other Stories.
New York: Nan A. Talese (Doubleday), 2001. First Edition. 8vo. Light touches of edgewear. Else fine. The ADVANCE READING EXCERPTS from these two books. Printed dos-a-dos in stapled pictorial wraps, containing one complete story by each author: Canty's The Red Dress and Divakaruni's The Love of a Good Man. An uncommon issue. Approx. 30pp. total. Wraps. Near Fine.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 1427
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DIVAKARUNI, CHITRA BANERJEE; CANTY, KEVIN.  The Vine of Desire.
New York: Doubleday, 2002. First Edition. ISBN: 0385497296. 8vo. Unread. Bright, tight and clean with only a hint of shelfwear at a couple of edges. A beauty. From the author of The Mistress of Spices, a follow-up/sequel to Sister of My Heart. Advance reading copy. 336pp. Wraps. Fine.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 865
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