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	ALLENDE, ISABEL Daughter of Fortune New York, NY, U.S.A. Perennial Library / Harper & Row, Publishers. 2000, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0060932759) Trade Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light reading wear. An orphan raised in Valparaiso, cChile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. She enters a rough-and-tumble world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever.. Very Good. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 781821 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	ARNOW, HARRIETTE The Dollmaker New York, New York, U.S.A. Avon Books. 1972, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0380009471) Paperback, 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening. Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevels's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills was devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted from their backwoods home, she and her family were thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit.. Very Good-. USD 9.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 905932 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	AUCHINCLOSS, LOUIS Diary Of A Yuppie / Franklin Mint Signed First Edition US, The Franklin Library. 1986, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Collector Edition!, Full-Leather. Near Fine/No dust Jacket as Issued. First Edition. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. 1st (Limited) Edition, full gilt decorated, ribbed leather bindings, all pages are edged in gold, with beautiful marbled end papers, 215 pages, color frontis illustration by Jeffrey Smith, with a special message by the author, signed by the author Louis Auchincloss, previous owner embosssed circular stamp; " library of OKI" neatly below the author's signature. The tale of a very ambitious lawyer about to be made partner in a prestigious New York Law Firm, revealing his true nature with its lack of morals or ethics, and the savage determination that propels his skillful professional ascent and superior attitude to the end. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket as Issued. USD 59.95 [Appr.: EURO 40 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5291] Book number: 569937 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BARRETT, JULIA The Third Sister New York, NY, U.S.A. Mira Books. 1996, Later Printing. (ISBN: 1551664461) Mass Market Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, slight age darkening. In The Third Sister, Julia Barrett faithfully evokes Jane Austen's style, characters and ambience to tell just what happens when the youngest Miss Dashwood meets two elegible suitors: the kind and earnest George Osbourne and the very dashing and overly bold Lieutenant William du Plessy... Very Good. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779618 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BENNETT, ARNOLD Denry the Audacious (1911) NY, E. P. Dutton & Company. 1911, First American Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Tight/Bright Copy, green cloth bindings, bold gold-gilr titles and decorative bover borders, light cover edgewear, light endpsge soiling. The tale of a dashing cad, daring intrigue, and a bold born crook set in historical England. Chapters are: The Dance; The Widow Hullins's House, The Pantechnicon, Wrecking of a Life, The Mercantile Marine; His Burglary, The Rescuer of Dames, Rsising a Wigwam, The Great Newspaper War, His Infamy, In the Alps, The Supreme Honour. 350 pages.. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. USD 16.94 [Appr.: EURO 11.5 \| £UK 10.25 \| JP¥ 1495] Book number: 907890 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BLACK, HERMINA Fortune's Daughter London, England: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd. 1963. 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Paperback. Very Good-. 1st Printing. Tight/Bright copy, faint store stamp on the inside cover, minor edgewear, creased rear cover, professionally reinforced spine. The star-crossed story of a brilliant young doctor, romantic intrigues, life in the medical world, and a girl who wanted to be a nurse. USD 20.42 [Appr.: EURO 13.75 \| £UK 12.5 \| JP¥ 1802] Book number: 562735 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BONTLY, THOMAS The Competitor / A Maxwell Perkins Commemorative Novel NY, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1966, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Tight/Bright and Clean Copy, gray Cloth Bindings, Red and Black Spinal Titles, unmarked text, no names or labels, the Attractive Pictorial Shopping Mall Illustrated Dust Jacket has minor edgewear, shelf rubbing and small scratches, jacket panel edge nicks and closed short small edgetears. A Realistic Gritty Novel of a Deadend Job, a Dishonest Business, Workplace Relationships, Midwestern American Life and Dreams, Salesmanship and Competition, Retailing, Hatreds, Lust, and Being a Trapped Saleman, Manager and Employee. 157 pages. / "It is a relief to discover, through Thomas Bontly's tightly dramatic book, that the traditions of Midwestern realism are not as dead as some have suggested, that identifiable people in a commonplace and identifiable world can still make a story, and that their story can affect one as powerfully as this one does. Its people live and hurt and labor and are stuck on the flypaper like thee and me. I care about Mr. Bontly's shoe salesman, and I admire his book." Wallace Stegner./ "A strong, critical, authoritative work of fiction .. one of the most telling comments on the American retail business condition in years." William Hogan, San Francisco Chronicle. / "A talented debut .. Because Mr. Bontly writes well, his shoe store is very much a shoe store while being more than just that. The handling of detail, the compassion for even the smallest characters--these are the marks of the serious writer." Daniel Stem, The New York Times Book Review. / "An excellent first novel . down to earth prose, as plain and realistic as Stephen Crane and Frank Norris might have used to make us see the people they touched. Bontly has the literary discernment to know what to put in, what to leave out. The result is a very brief novel which makes its impact sharply." Carter Brooke Jones, The Washington Star. / "A book lighted by the tact of its understanding, by its sure insight into the structure of futility. By dexterous use of contrasts, Mr. Bontly gives breadth and meaning to his account." Arthur Edelstein, The Saturday Review./ "A considerable achievement . the force of the narrative comes from Mr. Bontly's ability to convey precisely what it is like to be a shoe salesman [and by] his ability to make the reader care about what happens to Marty." Kenneth Lamott, Book Week. Near Fine/Very Good-. USD 16.95 [Appr.: EURO 11.5 \| £UK 10.25 \| JP¥ 1496] Book number: 906390 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BOWLES, PAUL A Distant Episode New York, NY, U.S.A., Ecco/ HarperCollins. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0880015012) Trade Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Bright/Tight copy, light edgewear, unmarked text. A excellent and wide ranging selection of 24 delightful short story favorites crafted by Paul Bowles. 352 pages.. Very Good. USD 9.94 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 877] Book number: 900503 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BOWLES, PAUL The Sheltering Sky Great Britain, Grafton Books. 1986, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0586056303) Paperback, 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, rear cover reading creases, professionally reinforced cornertips with no stamps, labels, or markings. A contemporary classic novel about an overindulgent American couple in the post-Second North African Desert their progressive destruction caused by their Bohemian lifestyle. 333 pages. Very Good. USD 7.42 [Appr.: EURO 5 \| £UK 4.5 \| JP¥ 655] Book number: 900544 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	O' BRIEN, THOMAS L. The Witch Finder NY, Dell Books. 1959, 1st Printing. Paperback. Paperback. Very Good+. 1st Printing. 1959, bright-tight copy, small neat previous owner 1st. name inside, light wear. #B135. Under the guise of religion he tortured women who defied him and men who ignored his rightous cause! "Thou shall not suffer a witch to live" and only he had the insidious gift to detect them!. Very Good+. USD 9.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: BQB1747 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE High Hearts New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1987, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0553261258) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, minor light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy, bookstore stamped. Bright, gutsy and outrageous, Geneva Chatfield is the newly married daughter of the world's most renowned horsebreeder and the best rider in the South. So when Fort Sumter's guns signal the start of the Civil War, Geneva cuts her hair, dons a uniform and rides off as "Jimmy" Chatfield to enlist in the Confederate Army and be with her new husband, Nash. But there are complications : Major "Mars" Vickers finds himself inexplicably attracted to the youngest soldier in the company, Jimmy Chatfield... Very Good-. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779551 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE High Hearts New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1987, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0553261258) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, minor light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy, previous owners name inside. Bright, gutsy and outrageous, Geneva Chatfield is the newly married daughter of the world's most renowned horsebreeder and the best rider in the South. So when Fort Sumter's guns signal the start of the Civil War, Geneva cuts her hair, dons a uniform and rides off as "Jimmy" Chatfield to enlist in the Confederate Army and be with her new husband, Nash. But there are complications : Major "Mars" Vickers finds himself inexplicably attracted to the youngest soldier in the company, Jimmy Chatfield... Very Good-. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779552 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE In Her Day New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1988, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0553275739) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening. Elegant art and history professor Carole Hanratty insists brains trancend lust, until she crashes into Ilse, a revolutionary feminist flushed with the arrogance of youth. Blazing with rhetoric, their romance is a sexual and ideological inferno... Very Good. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779545 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE In Her Day New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1988, 2nd Printing. (ISBN: 0553275739) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening. Elegant art and history professor Carole Hanratty insists brains trancend lust, until she crashes into Ilse, a revolutionary feminist flushed with the arrogance of youth. Blazing with rhetoric, their romance is a sexual and ideological inferno... Very Good. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779546 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE Outfoxed New York, NY, U.S.A. Ballantine Books. 2000, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0345428196) Mass Market Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, bookstore stamped. When the competition flares up between two determined candidates, Southern gentility flies out the window. Soon the whole town is pulled into a rivalry that is spiraling dangerously out of control. Even the animals have strong opinions. But when opening hunt day ends in murder, Sister is stunned. Now, with the help of a few clever foxes and hounds, she must lay the trap to catch the killer... Very Good. USD 9.41 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 831] Book number: 779554 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE Rubyfruit Jungle New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1977, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0553111477) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, minor light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy. RubyFruit Jungle is a hilarious, touching novel about a proud, impish, gutsy young girl growing up gay. Very Good-. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779549 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE Rubyfruit Jungle New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1983, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0553238132) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, minor light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy. RubyFruit Jungle is a hilarious, touching novel about a proud, impish, gutsy young girl growing up gay. Very Good-. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779550 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE Six of One New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1988, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0553278878) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy. Six of one is both a high-spirited romp of love in its many guises and a story of the darker side of life in Runnymede, Maryland small town U.S.A. right smack on the Mason-Dixon line... Very Good-. USD 7.41 [Appr.: EURO 5 \| £UK 4.5 \| JP¥ 654] Book number: 779547 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE Sudden Death New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1984, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0553240307) Paperback, 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, minor edgewear, minor spinal and cover reading creases, minor age darkening, professionally reinforced copy. Meet Carmen, a tennis champion at her peak, determined to win the coveted Grand Slam. She is also a woman in love, with a stunning, gutsy and vulnerable professor named Harriet. Meet also Miguel, Carmen's very Latin brother, who secretly wheels and deals her success into a financial house of cards, and Susan Reilly, Carmen's first lover and vicious rival... Very Good- to Good+. USD 7.41 [Appr.: EURO 5 \| £UK 4.5 \| JP¥ 654] Book number: 779939 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE Venus Envy New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1994, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0553564978) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy, bookstore stamped, light old moisture page krinkling. And so, as her last act on Earth, Frazier writes letters to her closest family and friends, telling them exactly what she thinks of them and, since she will be dead by the time they receive the letters, the truth about herself : she's gay..The letters are sent. Then the manure hits the fan in Charlottesville, Virginia, because the funny thing is, Frazier Armstrong isn't going to die after all.... Very Good-. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779553 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE Venus Envy New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1994, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0553564978) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy, light old moisture page krinkling. And so, as her last act on Earth, Frazier writes letters to her closest family and friends, telling them exactly what she thinks of them and, since she will be dead by the time they receive the letters, the truth about herself : she's gay..The letters are sent. Then the manure hits the fan in Charlottesville, Virginia, because the funny thing is, Frazier Armstrong isn't going to die after all.... Very Good-. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779557 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BRUNDY, CLYDE M. High Empire New York, NY, U.S.A. Avon Books. 1974, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0380000407) Paperback, 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, cute sticker on first free page, professionally reinforced copy. A severe beating was young Caroline's first indication that she would need to make it on her own and on her own terms in a world that would demand the most of her great beauty, her extraordinary intelligence, and that something special possed by only the great. The story of Caroline Ainsley and the world she built for herself.... Very Good-. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 780506 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BRYANT, BERNICE, ILLUSTRATED BY EVELYN COPELMAN Fancy Free Indianapolis / New York, The Bobbs Merrill Company, Inc. 1949, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Out OF Print, Tight copy, bright green cloth binding, bold gilt titles, two remainder lines on the bottom endpages, clear Brodart covered dust jacket is price clipped, has rough edges with chips, closed short tears, nicks, and a 1.5" piece removed from the jackets spinal end. The bright and colorful cover features two young adult sweethearts in a water taxi being entertained by floating Mariachi's. A neat vintage tale of a young teens summer adventure and study vacation in Mexico, where she goes to take courses and experience the culture at the National University in Mexico City, the archeological ruins, and learn about Mexico's rich and diverse history! 278 pages. Very Good/Good+. USD 24.95 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2202] Book number: 562832 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BUCHAN, JOHN Prester John NY, Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1910, Later Printing. Small Hardcover. Tight copy, gilt titles, blue cloth bindings, all ends and tips are rubbed with minor board exposure, minor rubs to covers, light soiling, a blank white sticker is affixed to the inside cover, minor interior age darkening, the last few tip edges near the rear last freepage have a faint old moisture exposure trace stain. The adventures of one very faithful Mr. David Crawford in vintage South Africa and the introduction of Christian based religion into tribal culture. Colonial strife, tribal culture and mythology, and a wealth of historical fiction and adventure. A philosophical self validation of the power, might, and the right of the Commonwealth to keep, hold, and prosper in Southern Africa. With a group discussion and critique of the novel in the last few pages. Part of the " Teaching of English" series edited by Sir Henry Newbolt. Very Good- to Good+/No Dust Jacket. USD 19.94 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1760] Book number: 560410 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BYLINERS A Mite Of Tryin': A Collection Of Short Stories / Byliners Creative Writing Group, American Association of University Women, Riverside Branch, Riverside, California {UCR} NY, Exposition Press. 1970, First Edition. Hard Cover, 5 1/2" Wide x 8 1/4" Tall. Tight Copy, blue cloth bindings, gold-gilt titles, minor edgewear, lightly shelf worn and bumped edges, no names, clean unmarked text. A Collection of Short Story Fiction Works from The Byliners Creative Writing Group - Associated with the University of California, Riverside, {UCR}. Includes a Story by the Late Parapsychologist Researcher and Contemporary Author Hazel Denning. Stories Featured are: A Mite of Tryin' by Hazel Denning; Let Live, Livia by Helen Kane Doucette; Image by Erma Haley; Edge Of Necessity by Grace Sutter; Old Man and His Stibnite by Gladys Borland; Depression by Jean Powell; It Takes A Key by Norma Bennnett Hulet; God Helps Those Who Wake Up Early by Dorothy J. Pollock; and, Strange and Distant Shore by Ruth Bennett Haggerty. 80 pages. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. USD 69.95 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 \| £UK 42.25 \| JP¥ 6174] Book number: 908363 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.

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	ALLENDE, ISABEL Daughter of Fortune New York, NY, U.S.A. Perennial Library / Harper & Row, Publishers. 2000, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0060932759) Trade Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light reading wear. An orphan raised in Valparaiso, cChile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. She enters a rough-and-tumble world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever.. Very Good. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 781821 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	ARNOW, HARRIETTE The Dollmaker New York, New York, U.S.A. Avon Books. 1972, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0380009471) Paperback, 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening. Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevels's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills was devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted from their backwoods home, she and her family were thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit.. Very Good-. USD 9.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 905932 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	AUCHINCLOSS, LOUIS Diary Of A Yuppie / Franklin Mint Signed First Edition US, The Franklin Library. 1986, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Collector Edition!, Full-Leather. Near Fine/No dust Jacket as Issued. First Edition. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. 1st (Limited) Edition, full gilt decorated, ribbed leather bindings, all pages are edged in gold, with beautiful marbled end papers, 215 pages, color frontis illustration by Jeffrey Smith, with a special message by the author, signed by the author Louis Auchincloss, previous owner embosssed circular stamp; " library of OKI" neatly below the author's signature. The tale of a very ambitious lawyer about to be made partner in a prestigious New York Law Firm, revealing his true nature with its lack of morals or ethics, and the savage determination that propels his skillful professional ascent and superior attitude to the end. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket as Issued. USD 59.95 [Appr.: EURO 40 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5291] Book number: 569937 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BARRETT, JULIA The Third Sister New York, NY, U.S.A. Mira Books. 1996, Later Printing. (ISBN: 1551664461) Mass Market Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, slight age darkening. In The Third Sister, Julia Barrett faithfully evokes Jane Austen's style, characters and ambience to tell just what happens when the youngest Miss Dashwood meets two elegible suitors: the kind and earnest George Osbourne and the very dashing and overly bold Lieutenant William du Plessy... Very Good. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779618 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BENNETT, ARNOLD Denry the Audacious (1911) NY, E. P. Dutton & Company. 1911, First American Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Tight/Bright Copy, green cloth bindings, bold gold-gilr titles and decorative bover borders, light cover edgewear, light endpsge soiling. The tale of a dashing cad, daring intrigue, and a bold born crook set in historical England. Chapters are: The Dance; The Widow Hullins's House, The Pantechnicon, Wrecking of a Life, The Mercantile Marine; His Burglary, The Rescuer of Dames, Rsising a Wigwam, The Great Newspaper War, His Infamy, In the Alps, The Supreme Honour. 350 pages.. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. USD 16.94 [Appr.: EURO 11.5 \| £UK 10.25 \| JP¥ 1495] Book number: 907890 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BLACK, HERMINA Fortune's Daughter London, England: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd. 1963. 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Paperback. Very Good-. 1st Printing. Tight/Bright copy, faint store stamp on the inside cover, minor edgewear, creased rear cover, professionally reinforced spine. The star-crossed story of a brilliant young doctor, romantic intrigues, life in the medical world, and a girl who wanted to be a nurse. USD 20.42 [Appr.: EURO 13.75 \| £UK 12.5 \| JP¥ 1802] Book number: 562735 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BONTLY, THOMAS The Competitor / A Maxwell Perkins Commemorative Novel NY, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1966, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Tight/Bright and Clean Copy, gray Cloth Bindings, Red and Black Spinal Titles, unmarked text, no names or labels, the Attractive Pictorial Shopping Mall Illustrated Dust Jacket has minor edgewear, shelf rubbing and small scratches, jacket panel edge nicks and closed short small edgetears. A Realistic Gritty Novel of a Deadend Job, a Dishonest Business, Workplace Relationships, Midwestern American Life and Dreams, Salesmanship and Competition, Retailing, Hatreds, Lust, and Being a Trapped Saleman, Manager and Employee. 157 pages. / "It is a relief to discover, through Thomas Bontly's tightly dramatic book, that the traditions of Midwestern realism are not as dead as some have suggested, that identifiable people in a commonplace and identifiable world can still make a story, and that their story can affect one as powerfully as this one does. Its people live and hurt and labor and are stuck on the flypaper like thee and me. I care about Mr. Bontly's shoe salesman, and I admire his book." Wallace Stegner./ "A strong, critical, authoritative work of fiction .. one of the most telling comments on the American retail business condition in years." William Hogan, San Francisco Chronicle. / "A talented debut .. Because Mr. Bontly writes well, his shoe store is very much a shoe store while being more than just that. The handling of detail, the compassion for even the smallest characters--these are the marks of the serious writer." Daniel Stem, The New York Times Book Review. / "An excellent first novel . down to earth prose, as plain and realistic as Stephen Crane and Frank Norris might have used to make us see the people they touched. Bontly has the literary discernment to know what to put in, what to leave out. The result is a very brief novel which makes its impact sharply." Carter Brooke Jones, The Washington Star. / "A book lighted by the tact of its understanding, by its sure insight into the structure of futility. By dexterous use of contrasts, Mr. Bontly gives breadth and meaning to his account." Arthur Edelstein, The Saturday Review./ "A considerable achievement . the force of the narrative comes from Mr. Bontly's ability to convey precisely what it is like to be a shoe salesman [and by] his ability to make the reader care about what happens to Marty." Kenneth Lamott, Book Week. Near Fine/Very Good-. USD 16.95 [Appr.: EURO 11.5 \| £UK 10.25 \| JP¥ 1496] Book number: 906390 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BOWLES, PAUL A Distant Episode New York, NY, U.S.A., Ecco/ HarperCollins. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0880015012) Trade Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Bright/Tight copy, light edgewear, unmarked text. A excellent and wide ranging selection of 24 delightful short story favorites crafted by Paul Bowles. 352 pages.. Very Good. USD 9.94 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 877] Book number: 900503 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BOWLES, PAUL The Sheltering Sky Great Britain, Grafton Books. 1986, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0586056303) Paperback, 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, rear cover reading creases, professionally reinforced cornertips with no stamps, labels, or markings. A contemporary classic novel about an overindulgent American couple in the post-Second North African Desert their progressive destruction caused by their Bohemian lifestyle. 333 pages. Very Good. USD 7.42 [Appr.: EURO 5 \| £UK 4.5 \| JP¥ 655] Book number: 900544 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	O' BRIEN, THOMAS L. The Witch Finder NY, Dell Books. 1959, 1st Printing. Paperback. Paperback. Very Good+. 1st Printing. 1959, bright-tight copy, small neat previous owner 1st. name inside, light wear. #B135. Under the guise of religion he tortured women who defied him and men who ignored his rightous cause! "Thou shall not suffer a witch to live" and only he had the insidious gift to detect them!. Very Good+. USD 9.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: BQB1747 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE High Hearts New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1987, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0553261258) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, minor light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy, bookstore stamped. Bright, gutsy and outrageous, Geneva Chatfield is the newly married daughter of the world's most renowned horsebreeder and the best rider in the South. So when Fort Sumter's guns signal the start of the Civil War, Geneva cuts her hair, dons a uniform and rides off as "Jimmy" Chatfield to enlist in the Confederate Army and be with her new husband, Nash. But there are complications : Major "Mars" Vickers finds himself inexplicably attracted to the youngest soldier in the company, Jimmy Chatfield... Very Good-. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779551 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE High Hearts New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1987, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0553261258) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, minor light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy, previous owners name inside. Bright, gutsy and outrageous, Geneva Chatfield is the newly married daughter of the world's most renowned horsebreeder and the best rider in the South. So when Fort Sumter's guns signal the start of the Civil War, Geneva cuts her hair, dons a uniform and rides off as "Jimmy" Chatfield to enlist in the Confederate Army and be with her new husband, Nash. But there are complications : Major "Mars" Vickers finds himself inexplicably attracted to the youngest soldier in the company, Jimmy Chatfield... Very Good-. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779552 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE In Her Day New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1988, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0553275739) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening. Elegant art and history professor Carole Hanratty insists brains trancend lust, until she crashes into Ilse, a revolutionary feminist flushed with the arrogance of youth. Blazing with rhetoric, their romance is a sexual and ideological inferno... Very Good. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779545 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE In Her Day New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1988, 2nd Printing. (ISBN: 0553275739) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening. Elegant art and history professor Carole Hanratty insists brains trancend lust, until she crashes into Ilse, a revolutionary feminist flushed with the arrogance of youth. Blazing with rhetoric, their romance is a sexual and ideological inferno... Very Good. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779546 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE Outfoxed New York, NY, U.S.A. Ballantine Books. 2000, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0345428196) Mass Market Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, bookstore stamped. When the competition flares up between two determined candidates, Southern gentility flies out the window. Soon the whole town is pulled into a rivalry that is spiraling dangerously out of control. Even the animals have strong opinions. But when opening hunt day ends in murder, Sister is stunned. Now, with the help of a few clever foxes and hounds, she must lay the trap to catch the killer... Very Good. USD 9.41 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 831] Book number: 779554 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE Rubyfruit Jungle New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1977, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0553111477) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, minor light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy. RubyFruit Jungle is a hilarious, touching novel about a proud, impish, gutsy young girl growing up gay. Very Good-. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779549 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE Rubyfruit Jungle New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1983, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0553238132) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, minor light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy. RubyFruit Jungle is a hilarious, touching novel about a proud, impish, gutsy young girl growing up gay. Very Good-. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779550 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE Six of One New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1988, Later Printing. (ISBN: 0553278878) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy. Six of one is both a high-spirited romp of love in its many guises and a story of the darker side of life in Runnymede, Maryland small town U.S.A. right smack on the Mason-Dixon line... Very Good-. USD 7.41 [Appr.: EURO 5 \| £UK 4.5 \| JP¥ 654] Book number: 779547 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE Sudden Death New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1984, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0553240307) Paperback, 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, minor edgewear, minor spinal and cover reading creases, minor age darkening, professionally reinforced copy. Meet Carmen, a tennis champion at her peak, determined to win the coveted Grand Slam. She is also a woman in love, with a stunning, gutsy and vulnerable professor named Harriet. Meet also Miguel, Carmen's very Latin brother, who secretly wheels and deals her success into a financial house of cards, and Susan Reilly, Carmen's first lover and vicious rival... Very Good- to Good+. USD 7.41 [Appr.: EURO 5 \| £UK 4.5 \| JP¥ 654] Book number: 779939 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE Venus Envy New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1994, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0553564978) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy, bookstore stamped, light old moisture page krinkling. And so, as her last act on Earth, Frazier writes letters to her closest family and friends, telling them exactly what she thinks of them and, since she will be dead by the time they receive the letters, the truth about herself : she's gay..The letters are sent. Then the manure hits the fan in Charlottesville, Virginia, because the funny thing is, Frazier Armstrong isn't going to die after all.... Very Good-. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779553 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BROWN, RITA MAE Venus Envy New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam Books. 1994, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0553564978) Paperback. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, light age darkening, professionally reinforced copy, light old moisture page krinkling. And so, as her last act on Earth, Frazier writes letters to her closest family and friends, telling them exactly what she thinks of them and, since she will be dead by the time they receive the letters, the truth about herself : she's gay..The letters are sent. Then the manure hits the fan in Charlottesville, Virginia, because the funny thing is, Frazier Armstrong isn't going to die after all.... Very Good-. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 779557 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BRUNDY, CLYDE M. High Empire New York, NY, U.S.A. Avon Books. 1974, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0380000407) Paperback, 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Tight/Bright copy, light edgewear, light spinal and cover reading creases, cute sticker on first free page, professionally reinforced copy. A severe beating was young Caroline's first indication that she would need to make it on her own and on her own terms in a world that would demand the most of her great beauty, her extraordinary intelligence, and that something special possed by only the great. The story of Caroline Ainsley and the world she built for herself.... Very Good-. USD 8.41 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 742] Book number: 780506 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BRYANT, BERNICE, ILLUSTRATED BY EVELYN COPELMAN Fancy Free Indianapolis / New York, The Bobbs Merrill Company, Inc. 1949, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Out OF Print, Tight copy, bright green cloth binding, bold gilt titles, two remainder lines on the bottom endpages, clear Brodart covered dust jacket is price clipped, has rough edges with chips, closed short tears, nicks, and a 1.5" piece removed from the jackets spinal end. The bright and colorful cover features two young adult sweethearts in a water taxi being entertained by floating Mariachi's. A neat vintage tale of a young teens summer adventure and study vacation in Mexico, where she goes to take courses and experience the culture at the National University in Mexico City, the archeological ruins, and learn about Mexico's rich and diverse history! 278 pages. Very Good/Good+. USD 24.95 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2202] Book number: 562832 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BUCHAN, JOHN Prester John NY, Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1910, Later Printing. Small Hardcover. Tight copy, gilt titles, blue cloth bindings, all ends and tips are rubbed with minor board exposure, minor rubs to covers, light soiling, a blank white sticker is affixed to the inside cover, minor interior age darkening, the last few tip edges near the rear last freepage have a faint old moisture exposure trace stain. The adventures of one very faithful Mr. David Crawford in vintage South Africa and the introduction of Christian based religion into tribal culture. Colonial strife, tribal culture and mythology, and a wealth of historical fiction and adventure. A philosophical self validation of the power, might, and the right of the Commonwealth to keep, hold, and prosper in Southern Africa. With a group discussion and critique of the novel in the last few pages. Part of the " Teaching of English" series edited by Sir Henry Newbolt. Very Good- to Good+/No Dust Jacket. USD 19.94 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1760] Book number: 560410 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.
	BYLINERS A Mite Of Tryin': A Collection Of Short Stories / Byliners Creative Writing Group, American Association of University Women, Riverside Branch, Riverside, California {UCR} NY, Exposition Press. 1970, First Edition. Hard Cover, 5 1/2" Wide x 8 1/4" Tall. Tight Copy, blue cloth bindings, gold-gilt titles, minor edgewear, lightly shelf worn and bumped edges, no names, clean unmarked text. A Collection of Short Story Fiction Works from The Byliners Creative Writing Group - Associated with the University of California, Riverside, {UCR}. Includes a Story by the Late Parapsychologist Researcher and Contemporary Author Hazel Denning. Stories Featured are: A Mite of Tryin' by Hazel Denning; Let Live, Livia by Helen Kane Doucette; Image by Erma Haley; Edge Of Necessity by Grace Sutter; Old Man and His Stibnite by Gladys Borland; Depression by Jean Powell; It Takes A Key by Norma Bennnett Hulet; God Helps Those Who Wake Up Early by Dorothy J. Pollock; and, Strange and Distant Shore by Ruth Bennett Haggerty. 80 pages. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. USD 69.95 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 \| £UK 42.25 \| JP¥ 6174] Book number: 908363 Click here to order or inquire at Desert Sage Books.