Jean M. Auel

I purchased use, but it’s good condition, A bookseller mark is stamped on the bottle. Some tears and creasing marred the cover, but it is barley noticeably.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Earth's Children, Book One

This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love.

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear.

A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly--she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homel∧ but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza's way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.

The Clan of the Cave Bear

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Raymond Benson

Evil Hours

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A Theft

This is an old book that I purchased use. It looks it, but the pages are in good. There are some stray marks on some pages. Not underlines.

Seize the Day

Saul Bellow

There is some curly in the pages. The back cover is bent in one corner.

Kenneth Trachtenberg, narrator of Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow's tenth novel, is a witty, eccentric Russian-literature nut who leaves his native Paris to be near his famous American uncle, Benn Crader. Uncle Benn is a world-class genius in botany but a total duffer when it comes to women. Now his erotic escapades and disastrous marriage are about to lead him and Kenneth into a wonderful romp through America's mind-body dilemma...and into a Bellovian masterpiece of great wisdom and good fun.

More Die of Heartbreak

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James Agee

A Novel

The American classic--now available from Penguin for the first time

Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident--a tragedy that destroys not only a life, but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion, A Death in the Family is a masterpiece of American literature.

A Death in the Family

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The Fall of Atlantis

The book has curling pages and a minor tear in the spine. This is a collection of short stories.

The Watch

John Banville

Except for a line drawn outside pages, about an inch long, the book in good condition. 

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita. • "A strange and dreamlike book ... Banville has a breathtaking style." —The Boston Globe

Athena

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Russell Banks

I spilled coffee. It’s not bad, but it happened. Some pages are curled, and one page shows dog ear. Other that, the books is fine sharp. 

Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness—and explores what happens when two powerful personalities, trapped at opposite ends of a social divide, begin to break the rules. Moving from the secluded beauty of the Adirondack wilderness to the skies above war-torn Spain and Fascist Germany, The Reserve is a clever, incisive, and passionately romantic novel of suspense that adds a new dimension to this acclaimed author's extraordinary repertoire.

The Reserve

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Nelson Algren

The Man with the Golden Arm

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The cover shows some wear and tear. Some pages are falling out it the title pages.

With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk in the Wild Side has found a place in the imaginations of all generations since it first appeared. As Algren admitted, the book "wasn't written until long after it had been walked . . . I found my way to the streets on the other side of the Southern Pacific station, where the big jukes were singing something called 'Walking the Wild Side of Life.' I've stayed pretty much on that side of the curb ever since." Perhaps the author's own words describe this classic work best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind."

A Walk on the Wild Side

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Herbert Mitgang

No damages. A star was stamp on the bottom of the book that I assume is a bookseller’s mark. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Last Interview by W. J. Weatherby

The Devil's Stocking is the story of Ruby Calhoun, a boxer accused of murder in a shadowy world of low-purse fighters, cops, con artists, and bar girls. Chronicling a battle for truth and human dignity which gives way to a larger story of life and death decisions, literary grandmaster Nelson Algren's last novel is a fitting capstone to a long and brilliant career.--Back cover.

Devil's Stocking

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Studs Terkel

Colin Asher

Tom Carson

As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, "The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren's career--the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell to everything that had earlier made him no more than just another good writer, and inaugurated the idiosyncratic, bedevilled, cantankerously poetic sensibility that would see him ranked among the few literary originals of his times." Algren's classic 1947 short story collection is the pure vein Algren would mine for all his subsequent novels and stories. The stories in this collection are literary triumphs that "don't fade away." Among the stories included here are "A Bottle of Milk for Mother," about a Chicago youth being cornered for a murder, and "The Face on the Barrome Floor," in which a legless man pummels another man nearly to death--the seeds that would grow into the novel Never Come Morning. Algren's World War II stories whose final expression would be in the novel The Man with the Golden Arm are also part of this collection. "So Help Me," Algren's first published work, is here. Other stories include, "The Captain Has Bad Dreams," in which Algren first introduced the character of the blameless captain who feels such a heavy burden of guilt and wonders why the criminal offenders he sees seem to feel no guilt at all. And then there is "Design for Departure," in which a young woman drifting into hooking and addiction sees her own dreaminess outlasting her hopes.

The Neon Wilderness

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M. Ageyev

Michael Henry Heim

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The story of an adolescent's cocaine addiction, Novel with Cocaine relates the formative experiences of its antihero, Vadim, at school and with women before turning to the experience of drug abuse itself and the philosophical reflections to which it gives rise. Although it makes little explicit reference to the Revolution, the novel's obsession with cruelly addictive forms of thinking finds great resonance in the historical setting that forms its background, in which "our inborn feelings of humanity and justice" provoke "the cruelties and satanic transgressions committed in its name."

Novel with Cocaine

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D. H. Lawrence

I’m not sure but I think purchased this book use. If true, then both the previous owner and I kept in fair condition. Some pages are loose, and I fall out soon. 

Constance Chatterley turns from a sterile marriage to a passionate relationship with a spiritually independent gamekeeper.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

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Malcolm Lowry

It some creases in the cover, but otherwise, the book in good condition. A favorite mine, but some reason, I own two copies.

Under the Volcano

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Kate Chopin

The book is in good condition with some creases in the cover. 

The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin

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I read this book only once, so it’s in fair condition. 

Ancient Images

The cover is torn at the seem between it and the spine. Some pages are coming out. 

The Girl in a Swing

The pages are curled from reading, but the book is good condition. 

John Cheever is better known for his short stories than novels. He is one of my favorite writers, and the only reason I selling this book is own it now on the Kindle.

The Stories of John Cheever

I bought The Fury used, and there some coffee stains on the pages. The pages are curled from reading. There is at least one dog ear on page, but since it on a cover page, I suspect it an accident. 

The story involves reincarnation, but I read it so long ago, I don’t remember much more about it than that. 

Fury

I bought A Tale of Two Cities used, and the name of the previous owner is written in black ink on the inside of the front over. It’s small but noticeable. The cover is bang up somewhat, and there is a small tear at the cover meets the spine. The spine is torn. One passage is underline. One page at the back is dogged ear, but it is a page of other books to read.

Charles Dickens tells the story of the French Revolution. Good reading, this.

A Tale of Two City

The book looks old, but otherwise it in good condition. 

This is the classic Civil War novel. Short enough to read in a setting or two, but it is rich in detail.

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