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S P I L M A N , R I C H A R D .  HOT FUDGE: Stories.
New York: Poseidon Press, (1990.) First printing. The author's first book, a collection o f s i x s h o r t s t o r i e s t h a t e v o k e t h e b e w i l d e r i n g v a g a r i e s o f A m e r i c a n l i f e . Cover praise from Joseph Heller, Carolyn Chute, and others. 2 2 4 pp Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark) ISBN: 0 - 6 7 1 - 6 8 5 4 4 9
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 45394
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ABERCROMBIE, BARBARA  GOOD RIDDANCE
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First printing. Author's first novel - the story of a woman set adrift by her divorce but also of her ability to survive not only that, but a brutal rape, and to regain possession of herself. VG/VG (closed tears, pc.)
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 8994
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ABRAHAM, PEARL  THE ROMANCE READER
New York: Riverhead Books (Putnam), 1995. First printing. Author's first novel, the story of a young girl in the Hasidic world in Brooklyn - a secret reader of Charlotte Bronte and Victoria Holt in violation of the prohibition against reading books in English. F/F.
USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1589] Book number: 8544
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ABU-JABER, DIANA.  ARABIAN JAZZ.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1993.) First printing. The author's first novel, set among a large and loving Arab family living in a mostly poor-white small town in upstate New York - a community where ethnics are few and far between. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. 374 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-151078629)
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 39247
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ADAIR, GILBERT.  THE HOLY INNOCENTS: A Romance.
New York: Dutton, 1989. First US printing. Film critic and translator's first novel, the story of 3 young people in Paris in 1968 whose addiction to movies turns into sexual role playing. One British review called it 'a slyly serious exploitation of two absorbing pastimes, the cinema and sex.' Basis for the 2003 movie 'The Dreamers' directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Since Adair re-wrote this novel at the same time as he worked on the screenplay and issued it under the same title as the movie, 'The Dreamers' it is probable that this book will never be re-issued in the original form. Becoming increasing hard to find. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line, a tight copy, appears unread.) ISBN: 0-525-247882
USD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 133.5 | £UK 120.25 | JP¥ 17651] Book number: 28800
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AKINS, ELLEN.  HOME MOVIE.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. First printing. Author's first novel, about a 14-year old orphan rearing herself in Illinois and LA. F/F (faint line bottom edge)
USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1589] Book number: 3946
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ALBERTS, MIMI.  THE SECOND STORY MAN.
New York: Fiction Collective, 1975. First printing. Author's hard-to-find first novel, narrated by a 17 year old girl and set mostly in the bars and hangouts of New York's East Village in the 1950s. Very good+ in a very good dustjacket. (chip at bottom of spine.)
USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 | £UK 24.25 | JP¥ 3530] Book number: 15088
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ALDEN, PAULETTE BATES.  FEEDING THE EAGLES.
St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1988. First printing. The author's first book, a collection of eleven interrelateds short stories which feature Miriam Batson, a native Southerner transplanted to the Midwest by marriage, as she confronts and comes to term with the shifting ground of her life. Alden was herself born in Greenville, South Carolina, and was writer in residence as the University of Minnesota at the time this was published. Dust jacket praise from Wallace Stegner and Scott Turow. 176 p Fine in near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 1-555971113
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 30891
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ALEXANDER, LYNNE.  SAFE HOUSES.
New York: Atheneum, 1985. First US printing. Author's very highly praised first novel, set in Budapest during World War II. Good only in a good dustjacket (binding cracked at title page.) ISBN: 0-689-11606-3
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 16747
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ALLEN, JENNIFER  BETTER GET YOUR ANGEL ON
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First edition. Author's first book, a collection of short stories, set mostly in Southern California. 112 pp Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (rem line, fading to top edge of dj)
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 6918
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ALLEN, JENNIFER  BETTER GET YOUR ANGEL ON
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First edition. Author's first book, a collection of short stories, set mostly in Southern California. 112 pp Fine in a near fine dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj)
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 41371
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ALLEN, RICHARD  NO ENEMY BUT WINTER
New York: Crown, 1972. First printing. Author's first novel, set on an Indian reservation in Montana - the story of a well-meaning do-gooder, the new Presbyterian minister, bucking tradition, and bringing tragedy upon a people. NF/VG+ (light edgewear, spine sunned.)
USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 17 | JP¥ 2471] Book number: 8777
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ALLISON, KAREN HUBERT.  HOW I GAVE MY HEART TO THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS.
New York: Ecco Press, 1997. First printing. The author's first novel, a lighthearted look at the world of NY food - by the former owner of a 3 star restaurant in Manhattan. Near fine in a fine dust jacket (slight spine slant.) ISBN: 0-88001-5225
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 19765
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ALPERT, CATHRYN  ROCKET CITY
Aspen, CO: MacMurray & Beck, 1995. First printing. Author's first book, a novel set in the Southwest of empty motels, atomic test sites and love affairs in road-strung desert towns. DJ praise from James Crumley and Stephen Dixon, among others. F/F.
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 5096
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ALTER, STEPHEN  NEGLECTED LIVES
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First printing. The author's first novel, set at a nearly deserted hill station in India. NF/NF.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 9768
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ALTHER, LISA  KINFLICKS
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First printing. Author's highly praised first book - the title refers to the uncensored home movies made by the heroine. 503 pp. Very good - in a very good dustjacket. (spine slant, sunning to spine of dj, as is common with this title.) ISBN: 0-394-498364
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 6917
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ALTHER, LISA  KINFLICKS
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Later printing. Author's highly praised first book - the title refers to the uncensored home movies made by the heroine. 503 pp. Fine in a very good dustjacket. (sunning to spine of dj, as is common with this title.) ISBN: 0-394-498364
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 40778
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ANDERSEN, KURT.  TURN OF THE CENTURY.
New York: Random House, (1999.) First printing. The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) BEA sticker on front cover. ISBN: 0-375-500081
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 37513
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ANDERSEN, KURT.  TURN OF THE CENTURY.
New York: Random House, 1999. First printing. The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-375-500081
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 37617
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ANDERSON, GARRETT.  BRENNAN'S BOOK.
New York: Putnam, 1973. First printing. Described as 'a brawling novel of the bawdiest Irish playright ever to lift a glass.' Very good in a very good dustjacket. ISBN: 0-399-11065-8
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 16156
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ANDERSON, LAURI  HUNTING HEMINGWAY'S TROUT
New York: Atheneum, 1990. First printing. Author's first work of fiction - a collection of interrelated stories set in many of the places Hemingway wrote about. NF/F (bookplate.)
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 6624
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ANDERSON, LAURI  HUNTING HEMINGWAY'S TROUT
New York: Atheneum, 1990. First printing. Author's first work of fiction - a collection of interrelated stories set in many of the places Hemingway wrote about. F/F.
USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1589] Book number: 6805
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ANGEL, JODI.  THE HISTORY OF VEGAS: Stories.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2005.) First printing. The author's first collection of stories, stories of teenagers failed by the adult world, living in a world of sex, drugs, drinking and violence, but also love and forgiveness, in tough small towns. SIGNED on the half title page. 187 pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.) ISBN: 0-8118-46253
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3089] Book number: 43224
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ANSAY, A. MANETTE  VINEGAR HILL.
New York: The Viking Press, (1994.) First printing. Set in 1972, this is the story of Ellen, who finds herself living with her in-laws, narrrow-minded, rigid, eccentric, former farmers, Catholics who live in a world 'as rigid, as precise as a church.' A quiet, intense novel, often poetic in its language - Amy Tan called the author .a powerful storyteller with lyrical gifts and a wry, observant eye. SIGNED on the title page. 240 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-670852538
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 41384
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ANSHAW, CAROL.  AQUAMARINE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First printing. Author's highly praised first novel. Finalist for the Lambda award. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-395-585627
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 25121
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