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University of Nebraska Press. Near Fine. 1998. First Edition. Softcover. 0803289685 . First in this edition. Excellent, near new condition. Very light scuffing/soiling, small pen mark on bottom edge of pages, interior clean & unmarked. 154 pages. Synopsis: "Abelard's Love" is an inspired retelling of the story of Abelard and Heloise - the French medieval theologian and his brilliant student - whose love affair led to a scandal that has echoed through the centuries. In the affair's aftermath, Abelard became a monk, and Heloise, a nun. Forgotten to history was their unwanted son. Luise Rinser sets at center stage that son and his unique perspective on his legendary parents. The novel is cast in the form of a long letter written by the son, Astrolabe. Addressed to Heloise in the weeks after Abelard's death, the letter brings the story of this tragic family vividly to life.... (*Lower Shipping avail to most locations) [osl]; 8vo .

Scribner's. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0684844699 . Excellent condition, other than some light staining to outer edge of pages. A couple pages near back have some light creasing to edges. Interior clean & unmarked. 8vo (8.5" tall), 233 pages.From Library Journal:Remember your senior year of high school? Those achingly slow days between the ending of one life and the beginning of another are perfectly captured by McNally here. The year is 1978, and Patrick McConnell continues his senior year in Paradise Valley, AZ, after his father's suicide. It's Patrick who keeps his family together while his mother begins a slow descent into alcoholism and his sister medicates herself with sex and drugs before leaving home. Understandably, he is counting the days before college, hoping to "leave on terms, which will permit return, someday later, after [his mom] is better. " His girlfriend, Elizabeth, has her own struggles with her… Read More

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover interior is clean & tight, a little age tanning to endpapers, light soiling outer edge of pages, bumping to corners. Jacket has age tanning, light soiling, several tiny edge tears, edge rubbing & a tiny peeled area on front, not clipped. "The anarchists of the story are Sunday and Reg....set against the background of Brighton, with its colour, crowds and teeming life; its mad vulgarity, its strange perverted people in the pubs, and its swiftly changing beauty. The author's sharp eye for colour and physical detail beings to this novel astonishing vitality..." [475]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Popular Library. Very Good. 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Pages clean and unmarked, no loose pages. Age tanning to pages and inside covers. Cover has light edgewear, a little moreso to corners and creasing to spine. "The charming and sophisticated story of two people who set out to give up all for love - and become the ultimate drop-outs." The basis for the motion picture with Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve. [95-osl] ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

CT: Knights Press. Very Good+. 1984. First Edition. Softcover. 0915175037 . Very good condition cover has light edge and corner wear. Pages all intact and clean other than embossed name stamp on endpage. Light age tanning inside covers and some page edges. "Tad wanders the cobblestoned streets of Barcelona, confusing reality, fantasies, mind games and memories...Until he meets Gunter easily the most gorgeous Viking ever to set foot on Spanish soil and they begin their rocky love affair. " Gay Fiction. (os? ) ; 8vo; 209 pages .

Bantam Books. Very Good. 1995. Not First Edition. Softcover. 055337513X . Clean, tight condition. Light edge/corner wear to cover, a little spotting outer edge of pages. Pages clean and intact other than second blank endpage has been clipped out. "Nell Schwartz, a Brooklyn-born Jewish girl who moves to the Taos of communes and sweet cedar smoke, transforms herself into Banana Rose (because she's "bananas") , falls in love with a horn player named Gaughin, and believes they can stop time if they just love hard enough. " ; 8vo .

Plume Books. Very Good+. 1985. Seventh Printing. Softcover. 0452266637 . Very nice, clean, tight condition - very light edgewear, small publisher's marking across bottom edge. Interior clean & unmarked. 238 pages. ; 8vo; Description: In the final volume of Anne Rice's deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty's adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. In Beauty's Release, Anne Rice makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche and the heart. ... (260-noto) .

Simon & Schuster. Near Fine. 1997. First Edition. Softcover. 068481823X . Excellent condition. Clean & unmarked - light corner wear, a little corner curling. 269 pages. ; 8vo; Book Description: The ideal collection for all lovers of first-rate erotic literature. Edited by Susie Bright, whom the Utne Reader calls "one of the leading thinkers and visionaries of our time, " this fifth annual edition of a bestselling series brings together the most outstanding erotic writing of the year. CONTRIBUTORS - Lauren P. Burka, Ivy Topiary, Mark Stuertz, Thomas Roche, Rose White and Eric Albert, Bob Vickery, Tsaurah Litzky, loana dp valencia, Nancy Kilpatrick, Michael Lowenthal, Serena Moloch, Marcy Sheiner, Stephen Spotte, Simon Sheppard, Joe Maynard, Bill Brent, Ted Blumberg, Lucy Taylor, E. R. Stewart, Isobel Bird, Allegra Long, M. Christian (260-noto) .

Toronto: Macmillan. Near Fine. 1979. Hardcover. 0770511759 . Excellent condition, no jacket as issued. 1979 printing. Slight corner wear to covers. Interior clean and unmarked. One of the books from the Alberta Heritage Learning Resources Project. 178 pages; A teenage girl struggles with the problems of her pregnancy. Winner of the Search for a New Alberta Novelist Competition; 8vo .

Toronto: Mcclelland and Stewart. Fine. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 0771049226 . Advance reading copy. Light creasing/light wrinkling to back cover - slight soiling outer edge of pages - otherwise clean & unmarked. "Luke Gray is happy with the way things are. He’s finally settled into married life with pragmatic, level-headed Julia, free from his family’s absurdities and the chaos of his childhood. Even his mobile-bird factory seems less like a curse he can’t shake. But things change when Julia decides they should have a baby… and nothing happens.... (380? ) ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 239 pages .

Viking. Very Good. 1998. First Edition. Softcover. 0670876941. . Ex-library with usual stamps & stickers, laminated cover. Light overall wear, light soiling outside edge of page. Laminated cover has some scuffing. Interior pages are clean & tight other than some light soiling on first page. Illustrated in colour. Note: photo is a stock photo and not actual book. ; 8vo .

Lester and Orpen Denny's. Very Good. 1982. Softcover. 0886190088 . Cover has light edge and corner wear, light creasing, a little corner curling. Pages clean and unmarked. 165 pages. 14 Tales about people - the sensual, ambiguous relationship of people to each other and the world they live in, reaching out to each other in their loneliness...such as Poodles John, who owns a small clothing store and drives a big, white car with old-fashioned fins; Crow Jane, the after-hours blues singer; or Slaverne Tuttle, whose passionate affair with Charlie, the long-distance driver, comes to a startling, unexpected conclusion.... [osl] ; 8vo .

Fourth Estate. Very Good. 2003. First Edition. Softcover. 0060735163 . Cover has light edgewear, slight corner curling, slight soiling outer edge of pages, interior clean, with no markings. 374 pages. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; A woman disappears, leaving behind an incendiary diary chronicling a journey of sexual awakening. To all who knew her, she was the Good Wife: happy, devoted, content. But the diary reveals a secret self, one who's discovered that her new marriage contains mysteries of its own. Inspired by a manuscript written by an anonymous Elizabethan woman who dared to speak of what women truly desire, she tastes for the first time the intoxicating power of knowing what she wants and how to get it... [504? ] .

Plume Books. Very Good. 2000. First Edition. Softcover. 0452280990 . Book is actually new but it does have some shelf wear involving light edgewear & rubbing, a little creasing to bottom corner and soiling to bottom edge of pages. 170 pages. Description: Not since Jamaica Kincaid burst on the scene with her classic novel Annie John has so original and gifted an author given voice to a young girl's coming-of-age in the Caribbean. Oonya Kempadoo's Buxton Spice is a breathtaking glimpse into the inner life of Lula, who is growing up in a racially mixed family in a predominantly black village in Guyana in the 1970s.... (250osl) ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall .

NY: Three Rivers Press. New. 2002. Softcover. 0609809474 . New book, no markings. Slight shelfwear to cover (couple tiny creases, small indent on front cover) , otherwise as new. The sequel to the national bestseller, Shield of Three Lions. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; The enchanting Alix of Wanthwaite returns in a suspenseful and richly textured adventure in which nothing less than the future of England is at stake. Alix is home at her beloved estate on the Scottish border when King Richard’s soldiers march into her castle and demand to take her to the Continent with them. King Richard has been captured while on Crusade, and Alix is among the nobles whose lives will be collateral for the king’s ransom. But when she’s delivered to Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard’s mother, she is dumbfounded to learn that the queen has other plans for her. King Richard needs an heir, Eleanor tells Alix. Repulsed by his queen, a homely religious fanatic, he has told his mother that… Read More

Warner Books. As New in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 0446527327 . Book excellent. Only flaw is a small stain (about 1/4") on front edge of pages. "Lalita Tademy's riveting family saga chronicles four generations of women born into slavery along the Cane River in Louisiana. It is also a tale about the blurring of racial boundaries...." ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Toronto: Mcclelland and Stewart. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771043635 . HC/DJ - near fine/very good. Hardcover is clean and intact, no markings, slight wear to corners and bumping to spine ends. Dustjacket has light edgewear, light scuffing, age tanning, one small tear on front and a few tiny tears to spine ends. Not price clipped. Winner of the 1985 Seal First Novel Award. "Two sisters -- Jean and Colette -- share an obsession with their neighbor, a world renowned pianist. So obsessed are they that they learn Japanese and try imitating everything about him...." (405noto) ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 206 pages .

Toronto: The Bodley Head. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0370014316 . HC/DJ - near fine/VG+. Bodley Head, Toronto 1970, first printing in this edition. (printed and bound in Great Britain and almost identical to the British first edition). Very nice condition. Hardcover has a little scuffing on spine, slight soiling outer edge of pages. Interior clean and tight, no markings. Dustjacket has a few tiny edge tears, age tanning to edges and spine, not price clipped. (400) ; 8vo .

Crown Publishers. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0517704072 . Very nice clean, tight condition - Ex-library with only light wear overall, mylar cover & usual type markings. Interior pages clean, light soiling outer edge of pages. In the tradition of Bebe Moore Campbell, Terry McMillan and E. Lynn Harris, author Jake Lamar has created a riveting novel of three young couples whose lives intersect in curious ways. And the question that torments all of them: What is a black man? ....Using the public spectacle of a celebrated murder case in counterpoint to the private lives of his characters, the author paints a stunning portrait of a society grappling with fundamental problems of race and sex, identity and justice.....; 8vo .

Outerbridge & Dienstfrey. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce title. Hardcover has bumping to spine ends, light soiling outer edge of pages and inside covers. Interior pages unmarked. Jacket has light edgewear, light scuffing/rubbing, age tanning to rear & edges, not price clipped. 298 pages. The author's first novel, set in Boston, centers around two interracial couples and climaxes in a dramatic civil rights demonstration. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .