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Great Days
by Donald Barthelme
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First British ed.
- Published
- 1979
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- Orange cloth
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- 1
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 61.61
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172 pp. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.25 in. First British edition. A fine DJ, now in an archival cover and a fine volume, perfect, but for a small black mark in the bright orange cloth near the gutter of the spine. Contents: The Crisis, The Apology, The New Music, Cortès and Montezuma, The King of Jazz, The Question Party, Belief, Tales… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sadness
by Donald Barthelme
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First ed., first printing
- Published
- 1972
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- Cloth
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- 1
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 61.61
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183 pp. Octavo, 6.25 x 8.75 in. A bit of toning to the top of the pictorial jacket, else a fine volume in a fine pictorial jacket, now in a protective archival cover. Contents: Critique de la Vie Quotidienne; Traumerei; The Genius; Perpetua; A City of Churches; The Party; Engineer-Private Paul Klee Misplaces an Aircraft Between Milbertshofen and Cambrai, March… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Henfield Prize Stories
by John Birmingham, Laura Gilpin, Joseph F. McCrindle, Walter Mosley, Sue Miller, Ethan Canin, Ann Patchett, et al.
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Uncorrected page proofs
- Published
- 1992
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- Blue wraps
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- 1
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 164.30
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291 pp. Octavo (5.5 x 8.25 in.) Light wear to wraps with a crease to top fore-edge corner of wraps. Signed by Walter Mosley at his story "Open House." With a letter from the publisher laid in. Foreword: Lift-off, laurel wreaths, and the power of "yes" by Allan Gurganus, With stories by Sue Miller, Ethan Canin, Ann Patchett, Brad Owens,… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 164.30
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Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts
by Donald Barthelme
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st edition, 1st printing
- Published
- 1968
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- Black cloth with red and green stamping to spine
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- 1
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 61.61
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170 pp. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.25 in. Some light sunning to top edge, barely noticeable, and a few light spots to top stain, else fine. DJ is in archival protection with almost no edgewear or other typical damage, but it has aged since 1968, most noticeably that the spine is faded. This book notably collects, "The Balloon," "Robert Kennedy Saved… Read more about this item Item Price
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Six Easy Pieces
by Walter Mosley
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st edition, 1st printing
- Published
- 1968
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- Black cloth with red and green stamping to spine
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 130.07
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278 pp. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.5 in. Advanced reading copy with "First Atria hardcover edition," for printing in January 2003, with full number line on verso of TP. A fine copy, signed by Mosley boldly in black marker directly below his name. Protected by a sturdy archival cover. A collection of related stories, "Smoke," "Crimson Stain," "Silver Lining," "Lavender," "Grey-Eyed… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 130.07
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Blue Light
by Walter Mosley
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1st printing
- Published
- 1998
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- Black textured paper-covered boards with metallic blue stamping and a Little Brown blind stamp
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- 1
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 75.31
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296 pp. Octavo, 6.5 x 9.5 in. First edition, first printing, a fine volume with no flaws, black textured paper-covered boards with metallic blue stamping and a Little Brown blind stamp. In a fine dust jacket, black, with iridescent blue ruling, in an archival cover, signed "To Tom" by Mosley on the title page below his name. Item Price
SGD 75.31
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RL's Dream
by Walter Mosley
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st ed., 1st printing
- Published
- 1995
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- Quarter cloth with gilt stamping
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 102.69
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267 pp. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.5 in. First edition, first printing, a fine volume with no flaws in a fine dust jacket in an archival cover, signed by Mosley on the title page below his name. An attractive item. "He got back to his feet and hobbled to the new music, reeling and rocking on a rhythm of unsteady feet.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 102.69
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Kelyje: Romanas
by Dzekas Keruakas [Jack Kerouac]
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1991
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- Quarter cloth, illus. paper-covered boards
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- 1
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 171.15
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248 pp. Quarter cloth, illus. paper-covered boards. Little wear to exterior, pages starting to tan near edges, but still quite flexible. PO inscription in Lithuanian on the FFEP. On the Road—in Lithuanian. Worldcat finds a copy in France and one in Germany. A short essay in Lithuanian on Kerouac and his novel. A Paaiškinimai [appendix, literally, explanations, but most like… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 171.15
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Yellow Earth
by Sayles, John
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st ed., 1st printing
- Published
- 2020
- Binding
- Blue cloth
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- 1
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 123.23
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416 pp., 8vo, (9.25 x 6.25 in.) Fine/Fine, in mylar cover. First edition, first printing. DJ now in an archival cover. Sayles is a "fiction writer, screen writer, actor, and feature film director. . . . He has written more than one hundred screenplays and has twice been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay." "Ruby wishes it… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 123.23
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Dark Exits: Six Short Stories and a Novella
by Harris, D. R.
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- Used
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Published
- 2018
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- Trade paper
- ISBN
- 9780368076176
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- 1
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 22.59
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167 pp. First Edition Trade Paperback. Table of Contents: "Steps," The Red Suitcase," "Reckonings," "How Was Your Afternoon, Dear?" "The Violinist," "Showtime," and Rash: A Novella. Cover art is by the author. Front cover: "Flattened Man," back cover "Cosmic Dust," Both 2018. Excerpt from "Showtime":
A man in a black wool overcoat stood at an ATM in the lobby of… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 22.59
Red Ant House
by Cummins, Ann
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- Used - Fine
- Published
- 2001
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- Paperback
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 15.06
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New York: McSweeney's, 2001. 20 pp. A separately bound book from McSweeney's 7. The story Red Ant House only, published prior to the eponymous collection. 'The first time I saw this girl she was standing at the bottom of the coal pile. I thought she was a little wrinkled dwarf woman with her cheeks sucked in and pointed chin. She… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 15.06
Little Fugue
by Anderson, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Published
- 2005
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780345454102
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- 1
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 5.48
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Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 2005. 367 pp. A half-inch tear and another small half-inch piece missing in dj, associated rubbing on one corner of book, approx. 3/8 inch, visible in photo. Otherwise fine. 'He inserted the letter into the beggar's brass pencil cup. The last enveliope in the deck was made of sawtooth-edged crepe paper, a pleasing shade of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Former World Record Holder Settles Down
by Eldridge, Courtney
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- Used - Fine
- Published
- 2001
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- Paperback
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 10.95
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New York: McSweeney's, 2001. 74 pp. A separately bound book from McSweeney's 7. 'So at first, I thought I'd call Maxine as soon as I got home and tell her about this guy who took me bowling on our blind date, even though there was really no comparison. I mean, Joel wasn't a CPA, and I wasn't stuck out in… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 10.95
The Tomcat's Wife and Other Stories
by Bly, Carol
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Published
- 1991
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780060165048
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 9.58
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New York: HarperCollins, 1991. 209 pp. One-half inch repairable tear to fore edge of dj. Some dust speckling to top of page edges. Bone-white paper boards nearly pristine. Unread. From the flap: 'Like her essays, collected in the much-praised Letters from the Country. Carol Blv's stories are often about the fugitive state of sweetness and light in America today. Her… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 9.58
Leave It to Me
by Mukherjee, Bharati
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition,
- Published
- 1997
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780679434276
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- 1
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 12.32
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. 240 pp. Faint sticker ghost on ffep. 'Mr. Bullock siad he wanted for us to write about something we knew, something we knew so well that we didn't see it anymore. And so I wrote about the lacy, summertime shadows of the squat oak that Grandpa DiMartino had planted in the backyard to celebrate… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jusqu'à l'Aube; Vendredi Saint 1945; Rencontre en Hongrie; Soleil Arrête-toi
by Goes, Albrecht; Trans. Pierre Bertaux, Marie-Louise Ponty
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Limited/Numbered
- Published
- 1954
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- Hardcover
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 9.58
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Club Des Libraires De France, 1954. 279 pp. Spine a bit faded, bottom corners rubbed. Sticker ghost on FEP. Stamped black cloth. Edition limited to 3,500. This is number 3075. 'Recit, traduit de l'Allemand par Pierre Bertaux Suivi de trois nouvelles inedites traduites par Marie-Louise Ponty. Contents: One short novel, Jusqu'à l'Aube and three novellas: Vendredi Saint 1945; Rencontre en… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 9.58
Paris Review V. 46, No. 169, Spring 2004
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 2004
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- Paperback
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 13.69
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New York: Paris Review Foundation, 2004. 273 pp. + advs. Cover and edges rubbed. Black mark over American Price, beginning crease in spine. TABLE OF CONTENTS: INTERVIEW: Richard Howard, The Art of Poetry No. 86, Paul Muldoon, The Art of Poetry No. 87, FEATURE: Paul Ferris, Ink Is Wanted by Raving Brother: Dylan Thomas's Swansea Years, FICTION: Melvin… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Runaway Soul
by Brodkey, Harold
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Published
- 1991
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780374252861
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- 1
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 13.69
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New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1991. 835 pp. 'Wiley Silenowicz is the hero, the narrator, and the controlling intelligence of Harold Brodkey's prodigious and enthralling novel. . . . Wiley's mind and imagination are lightning-quick, obsessively ruminative, alternately grandiose and self-doubting--one of the most sensitive registers of an individual's experience to be found in literature. We hear him meditating… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cities of the Plain, Volume Two
by Proust, Marcel
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1927
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- Hardcover
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 31.49
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New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. 384 pp. Spine and lettering darkened. Volume two only. Elegant black and silver papered boards rubbed. Paper begining to break up on foreedge of boards. Binding is sound and pages are clean. Printed on Aventuros paper. The blue and white patterned endpapers are intact and front pastedown is graced with the excellent bookplate… Read more about this item Item Price
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The World Is the Home of Love and Death: Stories
by Brodkey, Harold
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Published
- 1997
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780805055139
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- 1
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Lake Huntington, New York, USA
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SGD 24.65
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New York: Metropolitan Books: Henry Holt, 1997. 311 pp. Includes The Bullies; Spring Fugue; What I Do for Money; Religion; Waking; Car Buying; Lila and S.L.; Jibber-Jabber in Little Rock; The World Is the Home of Love and Death; Dumbness Is Everything; A Guest in the Universe. 'I would like to do a tree census--find out how many trees I… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 24.65
