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Vintage copy Small paperback Adventures,the story, written in a shrewd, sly, deadpan vein of picaresque comedy, of young Samuel Bennet, who runs away from his home in Wales to seek his fortune in London. LIST -chapters he completed before his death of the alas unfinished novel Adventures in the Skin Trade. - contents / chapters - ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE- AFTER THE FAIR- THE ENEMIES- THE TREE- THE VISITOR- THE LEMON- THE BURNING BABY- THE ORCHARDS - THE HOLY SIX - PROLOGUE TO AN ADVENTURE - THE MAP OF LOVE - IN THE DIRECTION OF THE BEGINNING - AN ADVENTURE FROM A WORK IN PROGRESS - THE SCHOOL FOR WITCHES - THE DRESS -THE VEST - THE MOUSE AND THE WOMAN - THE HORSES HA -A PROSPECT OF THE SEA -THE TRUE STORY- THE FOLLOWERS- Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories - Dylan Thomas - Pub. Signet classics - CT341 -New American Library- authorized reprint of hard cover Ed. -Published by new directions. Six printing.- afterword Vernon Walkins- Publication date January 1, 1960 -About 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.6… Read More

* The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Books of Wonder) -Excellent copy-great Classic American novel , illustrated - Barry Moser artist. That irrepressible boy-hero, Tom, who lies to his Aunt Polly still is forgiven, wins the heart of Becky Thatcher by getting whipped at school, gets out of whitewashing a fence by tricking his friends into doing it, has dangerous adventures with his sidekick Huckleberry Finn but emerges unscathed. Barry Moser's seventeen unforgettable watercolors bring Mark Twain's beloved novel to life -deluxe gift edition that readers will want to return to again and again.... Book is in very good condition, Green cloth boards are very good showing minor wear. Embossed gold spine - orange end papers. Pages are clean and unmarked. - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Books of wonder Author Mark Twain Illustrated by Barry Moser Contributor Peter Glassman Edition First Edition, 6th Printing Publisher HarperCollins, 1989 ISBN 068807510X, 9780688075101 Length 261 pages Size: about 6.8 x 0.9 x 9 in… Read More

Focus on the struggles of a first-person narrator named, coincidentally, Pat Ellis. A descendant of Arkansas holy rollers and daughter of a stern military man, Pat is now an aspiring writer, friend of Rainbow Family hippies, and lover of an unsuccessful poet. Burdened by money problems, lack of living space and the arrival of first one, then all, of her three children from her first marriage, She struggles to keep together body, soul - romance with poet Leo, aka House Husband.Her travels would be fumblingly depressing. Written with wry, occasionally self-mocking wit, sharp eye for telling detail, a talent for lyrical descriptions... Covers still glossy Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs to edges and corners of covers, some Tanning / browning to edges of interior pages, They are probably all tanned, not the most expensive paper used.. Afoot in the Field of Men, Pat E. Taylor, PB First Printing 166 pages New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, distributed by Little Brown CO c1988. Publisher:… Read More

All that is gone - Pramoedya Ananta Toer ..beautiful short stories based on the author's childhood....Almost like new - wonderful -unread condition- pumpkin wrapped spine with gold titling Peach boards small amount of wear on its edges dust jacket -small little puncture near spine -spine is tight book is unmarked in its interior-very pretty book-well made -Hardcover with dust jacket- publisher Hyperion -Hachette Books; First Edition edition (January 28, 2004) First printing- copyright by author ,first printing - translated by Willem Samuels- printed in USA -jacket by Allison Warner -back jacket photograph copyright Mary Fenessy- jacket photograph copyright Terry gold... All That is Gone -Author-Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Translated -by Willem Samuels -Pub -Hyperion Books, 2004 -255 pages.9781401366636 .. Subjects-History ' Asia ' Southeast Asia -Fiction / Literary- Fiction / Short Stories (single author)- History / Asia / Southeast Asia... - LAX Vespa,Los Angeles I carefully pack your book-, your books… Read More

*American Rust -0385527527 - 2010 Spiegel and Grau Trade Paperback edition. Book Design by Caroline Cunningham. Cover design by Greg Mollica, Cover image composite by Debra Lill, Cover photograph by Marc Ohrem-Leclef / Gallery Stock. Book has some creases on spine, read a few times once by me. I enjoyed it. Cover is bright, printed buff pages lost American dream and the desperation—as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love—that arise from its loss. From local bars to train yards to prison, it is the story of two young men, bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them, who dream of a future beyond the factories and abandoned homes. American Rust -- Family Life Fiction, Family Saga Fiction -Contemporary Literature & Fiction, LAX Vespa,Los Angeles Culver City- Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed- in foam core- to protect it in transit - sent media mail - 7 days usually coast to coast, less if closer..- inv bmk 20… Read More

Animal Farm 50TH Anniversary Edition PB by George Orwell 1996 GOOD 4545* -Animal Farm George Orwell (pseudonym for Eric Blair [1903-50]) was born in Bengal,educated at Eton; after service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living penning novels, essays. Orwell was essentially a political writer who focused his attention on his own times, a man of intense feelings, intense hates. Opponent of totalitarianism, served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Besides his classic Animal Farm, his works include a novel based on his experiences as a colonial policeman, Burmese Days, two firsthand studies of poverty, Down and Out in Paris and London & The Road to Wigan Pier, account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia; novel of political prophecy whose title became part of our language, 1984. Small Soft cover book is in good condition, covers are still bright showing little wear mostly at edges / corners. Pages are unmarked but are… Read More

Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions --classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style.Genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, plumbing their depths for timeless truths---.Over-sized paperback book in good condition. Covers are still bright, glossy retaining its original color, with minor wear mostly at edges, corners. Pages are good with minor dust smudges on page edges. Pages are starting to tan from age. , ...Arabian Nights and Days, Author Naguib Mahfouz, Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies, Edition later printing Publisher Anchor Books, 1995, ISBN 0385469012, 9780385469012, 227 pages, Book size about 5 1/4 x 8 x 1/2 in., Subjects Fiction General..LAX Vespa,Los Angeles - maybe this will do it! -At least you know what you're getting into- City- Media Mail… Read More

* *Argosy, The Short Story Magazine, July 1955 - Vintage magazine in paperback book form. Contains short stories from Kay Boyle, Paul Gallico, Nigel Balchin, Christopher Landon, Ray Bradbury, John Dickson Carr and others. The book is acceptable condition. It does show wear on all surfaces mostly at edges and spine. Part of the spine is torn away but all pages are tight. Pages are clean and unmarked but are tanning from age. Book was published in England and has a number of product ad's from English companies. Overall a nice reading copy. Argosy,Published by Argosy, July 1955, 144 pages, Book size about 5 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 1/2 in......LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it!-At least you know what you're getting into-City-Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit...- 7 days usually coast to coast, less if closer. -- . Argosy Mag 5265 PB Fiction WB 1

* Arkansas, Three Novellas by David Leavitt - In a trio of novellas, a screenwriter who volunteers to deliver lunches to people homebound with AIDS falls in love with one of his clients; Celia and Nathan struggle with love, and a writer agrees to write term papers in exchange for sexual favors....... Hard cover book in very good condition. Dark gray covers with black cloth wrapped spine and silver titling. Spine is tight. Deckle edge pages are very good, clean, unmarked. Dust jacket is good with slight wear mostly at edges. There is a small puncture on the back near spine (see pictures)....... Arkansas, Three Novellas, Author David Leavitt, Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition (April 1, 1997), Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye, Jacket photograph Melissa Haydon, ISBN 0395837049, 9780395837047, Book size about 5.8 x 0.8 x 8.5 in., 198 pages, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction...... Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this… Read More

* Bar Keep - Nancy Dybek Greene- This copy is inscribed 8 / 12 / 0 9 to Ellen thanks for being you and your great happy show. Nancy Dybek Greene... balance of the book clean unmarked, small amount of shelf wear, minutiae on its edges from being shelved in West Hollywood -bookstore, top right front of book is marred from a sticker being removed...what made three young men cross the line of no return? Was it a curse? Some people would say, "Is this a generational curse?" This story is about three young men in different cities, venturing down the same path, eventually receiving many years in the California State Penitentiary. ..... Bar Keep -Nancy Dybek Greene - oversized paperback by Nancy Dybek Greene Paperback, 240 Pages, first published by authorhouse- Bloomington Indiana, 9 / 2008-printed USA / acid-free paper -ISBN 9781434375698 - subject - fiction........LAX Vespa,Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it! -At least you know what you're getting into- Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were… Read More

Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, struck by a soldier's bullet - fell into a deep coma. As soon as the hospital authorities discovered that he had been an activist, his mother was forced to take him home.Allowing pharmacists access to his body,sold his urine,his left kidney to fund special treatment from Master Yao, member of the outlawed Falun Gong sect. During a government crackdown, the Master was arrested, Dai Wai's mother—who had fallen in love with him—lost her mind. The millennium draws near, a sparrow flies through the window - lands on Dai Wei's naked chest, a sign that he must emerge from his coma. China has also undergone a massive transformation while Dai Wei lay unconscious. Hard cover book in very good condition. Bright red covers with gold lettering are very good. Pages are clean and unmarked except for a price written in pencil on first page. Dust jacket is good showing some… Read More

A Bend in the River. - V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.... V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession...n 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, died in 2018...Over-sized paperback book in good condition. Covers have minor wear at edges,… Read More

Bernard Malamud and His Critics -thicker black paperback with quite a bit of wear on the edges- some chipping on its edges tear at top of book - book block is in great shape- well bound interiors clean – there were some notes erased in front of the book first page– book is currently out of print –Bernard Malamud and the Critics New York University press New York New York reprinted 1971 copyright held by New York University Library of Congress catalog card number 70 – 133016 ISBN number 8147 – 2553 – paper cover manufacture United States–- Essayists examine Malamud through various critical perspectives and attempt to evaluate his position in contemporary American fiction-expedited shipping available just choose to check out – info – keywords –Bernard Malamud and the Critics The Gotham library Author Leslie A. Field Editors Leslie A. Field, Joyce W. Field Compiled by Leslie A. Field, Joyce W. Field Contributor Joyce W. Field Edition reprint Publisher New York University Press, 1970… Read More

* The Best American Travel Writing Pico Iyer - In his thought-provoking and witty introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2004, Pico Iyer explores American travel writing from the viewpoint of a non-American. He writes, "For many Americans, living in a country that borders few others and at a time when only one in three fellow citizens holds a passport, travel is the only way to get a living, human sense of the world around us....... Oversized paperback book in good condition. Covers still retain original finish, color but have some signs of wear like a corner fold on the rear corner, plus signs of use at the edges, corners. Spine/hinges are tight with all pages secure. Pages are clean, unmarked...... The Best American Travel Writing 2004, Editor Jason Wilson, Contributor Pico Iyer, Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004, ISBN 0618341269, 9780618341269, 332 pages, Book size about 5 1/2 x 8 x 1 in., Subjects Travel ' Essays & Travelogues....... Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver… Read More

*Excellent--* Black Sheep boy -Nice first edition, inscribed by author, page is pictured , the book itself is in Fairly nice shape, minimal shelf wear mostly on its edges, the corners are good the dust jacket has taken some abuse, there are some small wearing places on its corners, small tears, loss of color on edges.. black covers, embossed titling on front of book- also on spine, crisp black end-papers, beige stock ... not totally pristine solid copy..Meet Boo, a wild-hearted boy from the bayou land of Louisiana. Misfit, outcast, loner. Call him anything but a victim. Sissy, fairy, Jenny Woman. Son of a mixed-race Holy Ghost mother - a Cajun French phantom father. Encountering, gender outlaws, drag queen renegades, rogues gallery of sex-starved priests, perverted teachers, murderous bar owners...Series of tough and tender stories....Escaping, his haunted history, Boo must shed his old skin remake himself. As he does, his story rises from dark & murk, from moss, mud, to reach a new light and a new… Read More

* Blind Sight: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) ASIN: 0307739295 Blind Sight - a kind of interesting coming-of-age - book - for both a son and his estranged father, over sized paperback, has been read a few times there's a certain amount of minutiae on its edges nothing really specific, it just has been used- and read a few times . some scuffs on its covers, wear on its edges, Etc. well-reviewed, interesting I enjoyed it.. Blindsight, a novel Meg Howrey , Vintage contemporaries, pub. - September 4, 2012, About 5.2 x 0.7 x 8 in. - pages 304, first printing, paperback just good, ISBN-10 0307739295, 9780307739292, book design -Soon Jung Kwan, cover design John gal, cover collage Sergie Sviatchenko, author photo Travis Tanner, Family Relationships > > Coming of Age - Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Family Life LAX Vespa,Los Angeles -- maybe this will do it! -At least you know what you're getting into- City- Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it… Read More

* The Blue Star by Robert Ferro, excellent first edition copy covers are bright & shiny - dust jackets in wonderful shape very light wear if any, hardcover book printed on very pretty cream crisp paper, boards are a robin's egg blue, wrapped with a darker tan, titling & gold on spine... interesting Saga about Peter & Chase and how their lives interact and enter interacting enter involve over the years ...accumulating on a trip to the Nile on a luxury yacht, the blue star...... The Blue Star by Robert Ferro, 1985, Dutton Books NY. Hardcover, Very Good ISBN-0525243216 -9780525243212 -Pages-244 -Publisher -Dutton Books- first edition full number -1985, book design Earl Tidwell, jacket design Susan Huggins. Choreographer....... Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it !-At least you know what you're getting into-City-Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit.......Blue Star 5739 HC Rose WB 3

Blu's Hanging, by Lois-Ann Yamanaka, published by BARD/AVON BOOKS (July 1998) .. ISBN:0380731398, 261 pages, dimensions about 5-1/4 x 8 x 3/4 inches .. Subject: Girls -- Hawaii -- Fiction #Lyrical.Pidgin.orphans.Hawaii #Fictionalized.Island.families. #rituals superstitions pungent fecund .. Paperback book is in good condition but pages are tanning throughout mostly around edges, covers are good with minor wear mostly at edges/corners, otherwise covers are bright, glossy, colorful .. Book was selected as a Notable Book by the American Library Association .. "Comic and heart-warming" The force and inventiveness of Ivah's voice carries the novel. With a tenacious grace, she manages to tread between the adult world thrust upon her and the child's world in which she belongs .. LAXVespa, Los Angeles - maybe this will do it!-At least you know what you're getting into--Media Mail USPS-you get the copy pictured - carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit. 7 Days Coast to Coast, faster if closer..… Read More

Bodies and Souls- John Rechy- 9780881840049*Three ""Lost Angels,"" teenage runaways who visit the L.A. tourist-attractions while becoming obsessed with Sister Woman, a TV-cult evangelist: the threesome--Hollywood-obsessed Lisa, macho-rebel Jesse James, repressed Orin--eventually achieve trio-orgasm. . . but, when Sister Woman fails to prove that God exists, they turn into freeway snipers. - sideshow of L.A. natives caught in body/soul binds. Porn-film star Amber Haze is fed up with everybody ""reducing my body, my breasts, my sex. . Manny Gomez, a barrio kid with an over-sexed mother, looks for a sex/religion interface:he wants a naked Christ tattooed on his chest, a Christ , A black cleaning-woman, already fired with anti-white Judgment Day-dreams, is disgusted by having to clean for homosexuals. -White sodomites!- A homosexual striptease-dancer looks for love at a mock slave-auction - S&M slant. Bodybuilder prostitutes himself to win a championship. Deranged bag lady with sex/violence fantasies is… Read More

*Bone People -Wonderful pages crisp clean -Faded spine sun/ interior-book clean unmarked bright glossy red cover-light scuffing cover-edition printed 1985 cover painting by Robert Jannke - design by Keri Hulme, Damer Farrel & John Burroughs – typeset by Saba graphics Ltd. Christchurch-Australia – printed bound Singapore/Singapore national printers-Integrating both Maori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European & Maori heritage. Kerewin Holmes is a painter & a loner, convinced"to care for anything is to invite disaster." Her isolation is disrupted one day when a six-year-old mute boy, Simon, breaks into her house. The sole survivor of a mysterious shipwreck, Simon has been adopted by a widower Maori factory worker, Joe Gillayley-… Read More