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   <name><![CDATA[Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC]]></name>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Good Morning America &#91;signed and in the rare glassine dust jacket] - Sandburg, Carl
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000326"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a1</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine Copy of the Limited Edition of 811 copies printed on rag paper, 750 of which were for sale, this being copy 232.  A Fine copy (no slipcase, prior owner's book plate to front pastedown) IN THE RARE GLASSINE DUST JACKET and SIGNED BY CARL SANDBURG on the half title. The glassine dust jacket has some minor chips and folds, but is a remarkable survival. The first edition (preceding the trade edition) in the publisher's tomato red cloth with art deco gilt decorations on the cover, gilt lettering and decorations on the spine (with minor loss to the gilt). A beautiful copy in the RARE GLASSINE DUST JACKET SIGNED BY CARLSANDBURG. 
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     <br/>Sandburg, Carl

        
        <br/>New YorkCrosby Gaige1928

        <br/>Price: $450.00
       
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	August 1914 &#91;August chetyrnadtsatogo] - Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr (Alexander) &#91;]
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002885"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a2</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Near Fine copy of the first American edition (short soil mark at bottom -shelf edge- of front board, otherwise Fine and in considerably better condition than usually found), in a Fine dust jacket, a scarce ADVANCE REVIEW COPY with the Publisher's information slip, and a photographic representation of the drawing that appears on the dust jacket's rear panel, each in Fine condition, loosely laid in ;  the first installment of  Solzhenitsyn's "The Red Wheel" cycle of novels ("August 1914", "November 1916", "March 1917", and "April 1917") which retell the demise of Imperial Russia and the rise of the Soviet Union.  "A grand meditation on history, a masterly re-creation of people and faces caught up in the sweep of time, symbolized by a rolling fiery red wheel. The work is breathtaking in scope." (Gary Kern, The New York Times).  "August 1914" begins the cycle with Imperial Russia's disastrous opening of World War I with its defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia. Conceived in 1939 and finished in 1970, "August 1914" was rejected by the Soviet publishers and was published by the YMCA Press in Paris (1971) without Solzhenitsyn's permission, though he embraced it when he acquired knowledge of it. The first English translations (US and UK) were published in 1972, and a revised edition was published in 1984.  Solzhenitsyn won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature for "the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature".  Copies in a condition as nice as this one are hard to find, as are ADVANCE REVIEW COPIES.  A Fine copy.  SCARCE. 
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     <br/>Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr (Alexander) &#91;]

        
        <br/>New YorkFarrar, Straus and Giroux1972

        <br/>Price: $275.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Dalva &#91;Signed] - Harrison, Jim
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002793"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a3</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (slight common age fading at board extremities), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY JIM HARRISON on the title page and there dated by him "4/88".  Signed copies of the book are not common and those dated by Harrison in the year of publication, as is this one, are quite uncommon to the market.  A Fine, Superior copy, SIGNED BY JIM HARRISON. 
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     <br/>Harrison, Jim

        
        <br/>New YorkE. P. Dutton (Seymour Lawrence)1988

        <br/>Price: $150.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	The Beans of Egypt, Maine &#91;Signed 2X] - Chute, Carolyn
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002830"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a4</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (some light soiling to the page block's top, spine ends gently pushed, light shelf wear), in a Very Good + dust jacket (a bit of pushing and some tiny rubbing at the spine panel ends, light wear at leading corner of front panel and minute wear at other front and rear panel corners), SIGNED BY CAROLYN CHUTE on the title page and ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND CONTEMPORARILY DATED BY CAROLYN CHUTE on the half-title as follows: "For Sammy - / XOXOXOX / Carolyn / Feb 1985"; Carolyn Chute's debut book and the basis for the 1994 Jennifer Warren film of the same name.  A SCARCE COPY, CONTEMPORARILY DATED AND SIGNED TWICE BY CAROLYN CHUTE. 
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     <br/>Chute, Carolyn

        
        <br/>New YorkTicknor & Fields1985

        <br/>Price: $250.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	A Generous Man &#91;Signed] - Price, Reynolds
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002861"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a5</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (lower right corner of front board tapped, otherwise Fine with some fading at the extremities, as expected,), in a Fine, unusually bright, dust jacket, SIGNED BY REYNOLDS PRICE on the title page.  This is a superior copy of Reynolds Price's second novel, a sequel to his debut book, "A Long and Happy Life".  The book is uncommon signed and especially difficult to find when both signed and in a condition this nice.  A superior copy, SIGNED BY REYNOLDS PRICE. 
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     <br/>Price, Reynolds

        
        <br/>New YorkAtheneum1966

        <br/>Price: $245.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	A Book of Common Prayer &#91;Signed] - Didion, Joan
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002648"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a6</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Near Fine copy of the first printing, first edition, in a Fine dust jacket (wrapped very slightly to the left), SIGNED BY JOAN DIDION on the half-title.  Joan Didion's third novel, set in a fictional Central American country and centered around an American woman living temporarily in that country and whose daughter has run away to a Marxist group and committed a terrorist act.  The book is rather uncommon when both signed and in a condition this nice.  A Very Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY JOAN DIDION.  
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     <br/>Didion, Joan

        
        <br/>New YorkSimon and Schuster1977

        <br/>Price: $200.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Cuentos De Eva Luna &#91;Signed] &#91;The Stories of Eva Luna] - Allende, Isabel
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002664"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a7</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good + or better copy of the uncommon first Spanish edition (some pushing at the spine corners, bump to leading edge of rear board), in a Very Good + or better slipcase (lower left corner of open side bumped, bump to rear closed edge otherwise about Fine -- no dust jacket, as issued), SIGNED BY ISABEL ALLENDE who also has drawn her characteristic flower near her signature.  A Very Good + or better copy, SIGNED BY ISABEL ALLENDE.  Scarce. 
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     <br/>Allende, Isabel

        
        <br/>BarcelonaPlaza Janes1989

        <br/>Price: $225.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Collected Stories &#91;Signed] - Carey, Peter
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002669"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a8</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first UK edition, first printing (spine ends pushed, modest age darkening to top of the page block), in a Near Fine dust jacket (modest pushing at spine panel ends, light soiling to white portions of the dust jacket), SIGNED BY PETER CAREY on the half-title.  Signed copies of this title are rather uncommon.  A Very Good + or slightly better copy, SIGNED BY PETER CAREY. 
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     <br/>Carey, Peter

        
        <br/>LondonFaber and Faber1995

        <br/>Price: $115.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Vida &#91;Signed] - Piercy, Marge
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002724"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a9</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing (lower corners bumped, small white spot to top edge of front board, otherwise Fine), in a Near Fine dust jacket (a small linear mark and a couple of tiny spots to the front panel, a touch of soil to the rear panel), SIGNED BY MARGE PIERCY on the title page; Piercy's novel of a 1960s Anti-war and pro-environmental activist who, two decades later, joins an illegal underground revolutionary network akin to the Weatherman (a/k/a the Weathermen).  Marge Piercy is one of the most important writers to emerge from the 1960s era of political activism.  Signed copies of this novel are rather scarce, and, signed copies in a condition this nice are remarkably so.  A Very Good + copy, SIGNED BY MARGE PIERCY. 
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     <br/>Piercy, Marge

        
        <br/>New YorkSummit Books1979

        <br/>Price: $125.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	The Ark in the Garden &#91;Signed by 7] - Manguel, Alberto &#91;Stories Collected by] Atwood, Margaret; Bissoondath, Neil; Mistry, Rohinton; Findley, Timothy; Urquhart, Jane; Beauchemin, Yves
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002761"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a10</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine, Superior copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY THE EDITOR AND BY ALL 6 CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS on a special Publisher's plate mounted to the front free endpaper; a collection of 6 short fables, each written by a Canadian author.  Copies signed by all of the contributing authors and by Alberto Manguel are scarce.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY ALL 7 PARTIES.  SCARCE. 
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     <br/>Manguel, Alberto &#91;Stories Collected by] Atwood, Margaret; Bissoondath, Neil; Mistry, Rohinton; Findley, Timothy; Urquhart, Jane; Beauchemin, Yves

        
        <br/>TorontoMacfarlane Walter & Ross1998

        <br/>Price: $135.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Giles Goat-Boy or The Revised New Syllabus &#91;Signed] - Barth, John
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002431"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a11</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, with the requisite "H18" code to the last textual page, (light touch of rubbing to bottom front board corners, some expected settling to the heavy page block with the attendant small rub to the bottom of the page block), in a Fine spine-sunned dust jacket with toning to the interior and some tiny wrinkles to the spine head), SIGNED BY JOHN BARTH on the title page: John Barth's fourth commercially-published novel, the tale of George Giles who left the goat farm to become a Grand Tutor in the human university and relating his adventures there.   &#91;A Burgess 99 book.]  The novel also was issued in a Limited Edition of 250 signed copies.  In our experience, signed copies of the first trade edition are considerably more scarce, especially in this condition.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY JOHN BARTH. 
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     <br/>Barth, John

        
        <br/>New YorkDoubleday & Company, Inc.Garden City, New York

        <br/>Price: $135.00
       
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	City of the Beasts &#91;Signed / Firmado] and La Ciudad de las Bestias &#91;Signed / Firmado] - Allende, Isabel
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002454"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a12</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		The First American Edition, TOGETHER WITH the first Spanish edition.  Each book is a Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (in the language used) with a light push to the spine head, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED (FIRMADO) BY ISABEL ALLENDE ON THE TITLE PAGE where she also has drawn her customary flower.  Signed copies of the first Spanish edition are rare.  Fine copies of  both the first American edition AND the first Spanish edition, EACH COPY SIGNED BY ISABEL ALLENDE (FIRMADO POR EL AUTOR). RARE. 
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     <br/>Allende, Isabel

        
        <br/>New York and Madrid Harper Collins and Rayo2002

        <br/>Price: $325.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Slayride &#91;Uncorrected Proof] - Francis, Dick
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002602"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a13</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		An about Near Fine copy of the scarce Uncorrected Proof (in the Publisher's tape-bound wrappers) for the first American edition of this Dick Francis novel by the former jockey turned best-selling author, with the Publisher's information sheet attached to the front wrapper; an about Near Fine copy of an uncommon item. 
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     <br/>Francis, Dick

        
        <br/>New YorkHarper & Row1974

        <br/>Price: $125.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Crome Yellow &#91;Lloyd Osbourne's copy] - Huxley, Aldous
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002604"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a14</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good copy of the First American edition (modest edge wear and corner bumping, minor handling soil, spine panel and board edges darkened, spine label darkened and with a chip, but lettering is complete and legible, tape shadows to free endpapers and pastedowns, pencil map drawn on rear pastedown), no dust jacket, LLOYD OSBOURNE'S COPY WITH HIS BOOKPLATE TO THE FRONT PASTEDOWN.  (The American author, Lloyd Osbourne, was ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S STEPSON and collaborated with Stevenson on three novels - "The Wrong Box", "The Ebb-Tide", and "The Wrecker"). During World War I, Huxley spent much time at Garsington Manor (Ottoline Morrell's house).  While there, he met several members of the Bloomsbury Set (a/k/a the Bloomsbury Group).  Huxley caricatured the lifestyle followed at Garsington Manor.  A Very Good copy of Aldous Huxley's debut novel, a not terribly common book. 
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     <br/>Huxley, Aldous

        
        <br/>New YorkGeorge H. Doran1922

        <br/>Price: $225.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	A Thousand Acres &#91;Signed Uncorrected Proof] - Smiley, Jane
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002609"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a15</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the UNCORRECTED PROOF, SIGNED BY JANE SMILEY on the title page.  Jane Smiley's sixth novel, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992.  Set on a 1,000 acre Iowa farm, the novel is a deconstruction of Shakespeare's "King Lear".  The book was the basis for the 1997 film of the same name starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jason Robards, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Colin Firth. Signed copies of the Uncorrected Proof in a condition this nice are scarce.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY JANE SMILEY. 
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     <br/>Smiley, Jane

        
        <br/>New YorkAlfred A. Knopf1991

        <br/>Price: $145.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	East is East &#91;Scarce Signed Review Copy] - Boyle, T. Coraghessan
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002616"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a16</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy (some lean), in a Fine dust jacket, of the first edition, first printing SIGNED BY T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE on the title page; a REVIEW COPY with the Publisher's Newsletter, Review Copy notice, and Author Publicity Photograph loosely laid in.  The forth novel by this prize-winning writer, a story about a half-American, half-Japanese sailor who is persecuted for his ancestry in Japan and seeks a happier life.  This tautologically-titled novel is at once both farce and social satire.  A Fine copy of an UNCOMMON REVIEW COPY WITH THE PUBLISHER'S ADVANCE MATERIALS, SIGNED BY T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE. SCARCE 
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     <br/>Boyle, T. Coraghessan

        
        <br/>New YorkViking1990

        <br/>Price: $125.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	The Ice-Shirt &#91;Signed] - Vollmann, William T.
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002630"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a17</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine, Superior, copy of the first UK edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN on the title page; the first book in Vollmann's 7 book series Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes which relate the stories of North America's transformation.  An historical novel chronicling the arrival of the Norse people in Greenland through a mix of historical fiction, Vollmann's own experiences in the northland, and existing Norse sagas.  A Fine, Superior copy, SIGNED BY WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN. 
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     <br/>Vollmann, William T.

        
        <br/>LondonAndre Deutsch1990

        <br/>Price: $145.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	A Friend from England &#91;Signed] - Brookner, Anita
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002631"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a18</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (expected toning to pages, expected light fading at board extremities), in a Fine dust jacket (tiny chip at bottom of rear flap), SIGNED BY ANITA BROOKNER on the title page; an unusually nice copy of the 7th book from this Booker Prize-winning author.  Signed copies in a condition this nice are rather uncommon.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY ANITA BROOKNER. 
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     <br/>Brookner, Anita

        
        <br/>LondonJonathan Cape1987

        <br/>Price: $115.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Wrong About Japan &#91;Signed 1st Australian Ed.] - Carey, Peter
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002303"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a19</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Near Fine copy of the first Australian edition (slight nudging at spine ends) in the Publisher's original wrappers, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY PETER CAREY on the title page. This is the true first edition of Peter Carey's partially fictionalized tale of his journey through Japanese and its culture with his 12 year-old son. Carey is an award-winning Australian author of novels and short stores, is one of only two authors to have twice won the Booker Prize, and his novel "Oscar and Lucinda" was short-listed for the Best of the Bookers award. Signed copies of the Australian first edition are scarce. A Very Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY PETER CAREY.  
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     <br/>Carey, Peter

        
        <br/>Milsons Point, AustraliaVintage / Random House2004

        <br/>Price: $145.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Still Wild Short Fiction of the American West &#91;Signed 4x] - McMurtry, Larry &#91;Editor and Contributor]; Stegner, Wallace; Hickey, Dave; Strom, Dao; Gilb, Dagoberto; Hauptman, William; Kerouac, Jack; Hansen, Ron; Ossana, Diana; Boswell, Robert; McGuane, Thomas; Erdrich, Louise; Apple, Max; Poirier; Mark Jude; Bass, R
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002305"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a20</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing (spine ends pushed, otherwise Fine), in a Very Good + to Near Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY THOMAS MCGUANE, LOUISE ERDRICH, RICK BASS, and RICHARD FORD at their respective contributions.  The book contains 20 stories, focused more on the American West of the imagination than on the history of the region.  Signed copies are rather uncommon, and copies signed by 4 of the contributors are scarce indeed.  A Very Good copy, SIGNED BY THOMAS MCGUANE, LOUISE ERDRICH, RICK BASS, and RICHARD FORD.   
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     <br/>McMurtry, Larry &#91;Editor and Contributor]; Stegner, Wallace; Hickey, Dave; Strom, Dao; Gilb, Dagoberto; Hauptman, William; Kerouac, Jack; Hansen, Ron; Ossana, Diana; Boswell, Robert; McGuane, Thomas; Erdrich, Louise; Apple, Max; Poirier; Mark Jude; Bass, R

        
        <br/>New YorkSimon & Schuster2000

        <br/>Price: $125.00
       
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   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Wrong About Japan &#91;Signed] - Carey, Peter
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002307"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a21</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">
      
	<![CDATA[ 
		A Near Fine copy of the first UK edition (mildly askew -- otherwise Fine), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY PETER CAREY on the title page.  Peter Carey's partially fictionalized tale of his journey through Japanese and its culture with his 12 year-old son.  Carey is an award-winning Australian author of novels and short stores, is one of only two authors to have twice won the Booker Prize, and his novel "Oscar and Lucinda" was short-listed for the Best of the Bookers award. Signed copies of any edition are scarce and in our experience signed copies of the first UK edition are especially so.   A Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY PETER CAREY.   
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     <br/>Carey, Peter

        
        <br/>LondonFaber and Faber2005

        <br/>Price: $145.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Ruined Map &#91;Moetsukita chizu] Review Copy with Photo - Abe, Kobo &#91;Kimifusa, Abe]
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002354"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a22</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the First US edition, first printing (spine ends with gentle pushing and with some fading, a touch of spotting to the spine cloth), in a Near Fine dust jacket (some modest soiling and slight foxing to the rear panel and flaps, foxing to the dust jacket verso).  A REVIEW COPY with the AUTHOR'S PUBLICITY PHOTOGRAPH (in excellent condition) loosely laid in.  The third of Abe's works to be translated to English.  A better copy of this relatively uncommon book than is usually found.  All in all, an excellent REVIEW copy. 
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     <br/>Abe, Kobo &#91;Kimifusa, Abe]

        
        <br/>New YorkAlfred A. Knopf1969

        <br/>Price: $150.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Photographs &#91;Signed by Reynolds Price] - Welty, Eudora; Price, Reynolds: Foreword
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002397"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a23</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (issued simultaneously with a Limited Edition of of 325 numbered, and 26 lettered, copies),  in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY REYNOLDS PRICE on the title page.  The book contains photographs of Southern scenes taken by Eudora Welty over a period of years.  Price begins his Introduction by saying "The eye is sovereign in every art but music." and then masterfully introduces the reader to the book.  Copies signed by Reynolds Price are scarce.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY REYNOLDS PRICE.   
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     <br/>Welty, Eudora; Price, Reynolds: Foreword

        
        <br/>Jackson, MississippiUniversity Press of Mississippi1989

        <br/>Price: $145.00
       
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   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Silver Ghost &#91;Signed Association Copy] - Kinder, Chuck
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002179"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a24</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">
      
	<![CDATA[ 
		A Near Fine copy (age toning to board extremities) of the first edition, first printing (stated "First Edition"), in a Very Good, bright dust jacket (some indents to the rear panel, expected toning to the flaps), INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY CHUCK KINDER as follows: "For my pal Kent, / If you lose this one / I'll put a contract / out on your worthless / ass - hope you / like it - if you / don't keep it to / yourself - / Very fondly / Chuck Kinder / Jan 3, '81"; Chuck Kinder's second book, a coming of age novel about a 1950s teenage soldier of fortune.  Signed copies of Kinder's novels are quite uncommon, and signed Association copies are hen's teeth.  A Near Fine copy, INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY CHUCK KINDER.  SCARCE.                      
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     <br/>Kinder, Chuck

        
        <br/>New YorkHarcourt Brace Jovanovich1979

        <br/>Price: $185.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Tough Guys Don't Dance &#91;Signed Review Copy] - Mailer, Norman
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002182"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a25</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">
      
	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine, beautiful, copy of the Advance Review Copy, first trade edition (with the Publisher's slip loosely laid in -- tiny surface rubs at spine base and tips of board bottoms), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY NORMAN MAILER on the title page. The novel is centered around Tim Madden who is addicted to bourbon, cigarettes, and careless blond women who awakes one morning to find a red tattoo on one arm, a blood-soaked passenger seat in his Porsche, and the severed head of a blond at his marijuana stash.  The book was published in conjunction with a limited edition of 350 signed copies.  Signed copies of the first trade edition, especially in a condition as nice as this copy, are quite scarce.  A Fine, superior, copy, SIGNED BY NORMAN MAILER.  
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     <br/>Mailer, Norman

        
        <br/>New YorkRandom House1984

        <br/>Price: $150.00
       
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   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Travelling at Home &#91;Signed] - Berry, Wendell
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002186"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a26</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">
      
	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the first trade edition -- following a limited edition of 150 copies (light rubs at corners -- no dustjacket, as issued), SIGNED BY WENDELL BERRY on the title page.  The book contains prose, poems, and a meditation by Wendell Berry, primarily rural in theme.  In our experience, signed copies of the traded edition are quite scarce, and considerably more scarce than are the signed limited edition copies.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY WENDELL BERRY.   
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     <br/>Berry, Wendell

        
        <br/>San FranciscoNorth Point Press1989

        <br/>Price: $165.00
       
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   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	To My Mother &#91;Signed]  &#91;Author of Nathan Coulter, Findings, Traveling at Home, The Broken Ground, Standing By Words, Mad Farmer Poet, Life is a Miracle, The Hidden Wound, The Long-Legged House, and others - Berry, Wendell
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002202"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a27</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">
      
	<![CDATA[ 
		Wendell Berry's Poem "To My Mother" printed (or typed?) on card stock in Fine condition with a center horizontal fold, SIGNED BY WENDELL BERRY.  A scarce Wendell Berry item, SIGNED BY WENDELL BERRY. 
	]]>
   </summary>
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       <![CDATA[ 
		
     <br/>Berry, Wendell

        
        

        <br/>Price: $165.00
       
	]]>
   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Wreckage of Agathon - Gardner, John
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002246"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a28</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">
      
	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Near Fine copy (spine ends pushed, two minor spots to topstain) in a Very Near Fine dust jacket (minor soiling to rear panel, light curving at top of flaps, two tiny edge pushes to rear flap).  John Gardner's second novel. 
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     <br/>Gardner, John

        
        <br/>New YorkHarper & Row1970

        <br/>Price: $115.00
       
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   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Storm Tide &#91;Signed] - Piercy, Marge; Wood, Ira
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001268"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a29</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">
      
	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, with a brief presentation inscription SIGNED BY IRA WOOD AND SIGNED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY MARGE PIERCY.  The book was jointly written by Marge Piercy and by her husband, Ira Wood.  Signed copies are quite scarce, signed copies in a condition this nice are scarcer still, and signed copies in this condition signed by both authors are extremely so.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BOTH BY MARGE PIERCY AND BY IRA WOOD. 
	]]>
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     <br/>Piercy, Marge; Wood, Ira

        
        <br/>New YorkFawcett Columbine1998

        <br/>Price: $150.00
       
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   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Ice Soldier &#91;Signed] - Watkins, Paul
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001414"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a30</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY PAUL WATKINS on the title page. A story set in the 1950s involving the Army's little-known Mountaineer Corps. Signed copies are quite difficult to find, especially in a condition this nice. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY PAUL WATKINS.    
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     <br/>Watkins, Paul

        
        <br/>New YorkHenry Holt and Company2006

        <br/>Price: $125.00
       
	]]>
   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Fair Game &#91;Signed] - Johnson, Diane
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001426"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a31</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Near Fine copy (spine ends pushed, light rubbing to bottoms of board tips), in a Fine dust jacket (edge wrinkling), SIGNED BY DIANE JOHNSON on the title page.  The best copy we've seen of Diane Johnson's debut novel.  The first edition itself is quite scarce, copies in this condition more so, and signed copies in a condition this nice are quite scarce indeed.  A Very Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY DIANE JOHNSON. 
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     <br/>Johnson, Diane

        
        <br/>New YorkHarcourt, Brace & World, Inc.1965

        <br/>Price: $250.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Faith &#91;Signed] - Deighton, Len
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001462"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a32</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Near Fine copy of the first American edition (spine ends pushed, trace wear to bottom of spine and bottom of lower board tips), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY LEN DEIGHTON on the title page.  In our experience, signed copies of this Deighton title are quite difficult to find.  A Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY LEN DEIGHTON. 
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     <br/>Deighton, Len

        
        <br/>New YorkHarper Collins1995

        <br/>Price: $265.00
       
	]]>
   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Le Bruit De Nos Pas &#91;Signed / Signe} &#91;Apprendre a Vivre, Tome I and Nos vingtans, Tome II] - Malraux, Clara
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001479"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a33</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good, or slightly better, copy of the two-volume issue of this Clara Malraux work, Volume I being a later printing and Volume II being a first edition, EACH VOLUME SIGNED BY CLARA MALRAUX.  Volume I is signed by Malraux on the half-title and Volume II is signed on the title page. &#91;As best we can determine, this is the first edition of the two volumes printed as a set.]  The set has minor handling soil and minor edge bumping. A nice set of the two-volume issue, SIGNED &#91;SIGNE] BY CLARA MALRAUX. 
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     <br/>Malraux, Clara

        
        <br/>ParisEditions Bernard Grasset1966

        <br/>Price: $325.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Statement &#91;Signed] - Moore, Brian
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001494"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a34</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the first American edition, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY BRIAN MOORE on the title page.  The novel centers around a French man who, under the Vichy government, massacred Jews, and whose friends in the Government and Church no longer afford him the protection from arrest that he has had for decades.  Beyond that, a group of assassinating Holocaust avengers actively seeks him.  Signed copies of any edition of this book are uncommon, especially in Fine condition, and signed copies of the first American Edition in a condition this nice are very, very scarce.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY BRIAN MOORE.   
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     <br/>Moore, Brian

        
        <br/>New YorkDutton1996

        <br/>Price: $165.00
       
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   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Casualties of Peace &#91;Signed] - O'Brien, Edna
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001541"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a35</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">
      
	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy (expected age toning to pages, modest foxing to bottom of page block, small stain to margin of pages, very nice top stain) of the First American Edition of this early work in the Irish author's canon, in a Very Near Fine dust jacket (a bit of foxing and staining to rear panel), SIGNED BY EDNA O'BRIEN on the title page.  The book is quite difficult to find when both signed and in a condition this nice.  An early Edna O'Brien novel, SIGNED BY EDNA O'BRIEN. 
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     <br/>O'Brien, Edna

        
        <br/>New YorkSimon and Schuster1967

        <br/>Price: $235.00
       
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   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Force of Gravity &#91;Signed] - Jones, R. S.
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001547"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a36</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">
      
	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the Uncorrected Proof (a touch of soiling to the page block's bottom), in a Fine, and very scarce, proof dust jacket (showing the front cover art, the spine and rear panel being blank), SIGNED BY ROBERT S. JONES on the title page and DATED, INSCRIBED and SIGNED BY JONES on the title page.  A long-term employee at Harper Collins Publishers, R. S. Jones edited works by Russell Banks and Oscar Hijuelos, working also with Clive Barker, John Colapinto, Denis Johnson and Armistead Maupin.  Of Jones, Armistead Maupin said:  "He would make marginal notations in my manuscripts that made my heart soar for days.''   Maupin also often picked up one of R. S. Jones' novels for inspiration.  Jones was name Editor-in-Chief of the Publisher in April, 2001 and died a mere 4 months later on August 14, 2001.  "Force of Gravity" was Jones' debut book and won the 1992 Whiting Writers' Award for Fiction (an  annual Award presented to 10 emerging writers, chosen from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama categories).  This is the very uncommon Proof copy and is signed by Jones on the title page above his printed name (which printed name he underlined), and also is inscribed as follows: "6/27/91 / To John with fond regards / from your friend. Robert -"  The Proof is housed in the rare Proof dust jacket (which, as it is a bit taller than the Proof itself, has some light wrinkling at the top.)  A Fine copy of an uncommon Proof, in a Fine Proof Dust Jacket, SIGNED  BY R. S. JONES and further DATED, INSCRIBED, AND SIGNED by R. S. Jones. 
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     <br/>Jones, R. S.

        
        <br/>New YorkViking1991

        <br/>Price: $150.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Bird Artist &#91;Signed] - Norman, Howard
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001549"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a37</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">
      
	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy (spine head gently pushed), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED AND DATED BY HOWARD NORMAN (in the publication year) on the half-title.  Upon signing, Noman dated his signature "Sept 8, 1994".  This well-received book was nominated for the National Book Award.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY HOWARD NORMAN IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. 
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       <![CDATA[ 
		
     <br/>Norman, Howard

        
        <br/>New YorkFarrar, Straus and Giroux1994

        <br/>Price: $110.00
       
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   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Handling Sin &#91;Signed] - Malone, Michael
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001571"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a38</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">
      
	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good + or better copy of the uncorrected proofs (light sunning to the spine, bump to one spine corner and to front corner of the book -transferring to the earlier pages), SIGNED BY MICHAEL MALONE on the title page.  Signed copies of this title in any form are uncommon. Copies of the uncorrected proofs are quite uncommon, and signed copies of the uncorrected proof are scarce indeed.  The  uncorrected proofs are composed of copies of the text after comments had been added, and thus reveal such comments.  A Very Good + copy of the uncorrected proofs, SIGNED BY MICHAEL MALONE. Quite Scarce.    
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     <br/>Malone, Michael

        
        <br/>BostonLittle, Brown and Company1986

        <br/>Price: $225.00
       
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   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Piano Teacher &#91;Die Klavierspielerin] - Jelinek, Elfriede
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001624"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a39</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">
      
	<![CDATA[ 
		A Near Fine copy of the UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS of the first American Edition (light fading at spine and edges, tiny wrinkle at top of front wrap).  The first novel of this Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright to be translated into English, and the basis for the multiple prize-winning 2001 Michael Haneke film of the same name, starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel.  An excellent copy of a very scarce Proof. 
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       <![CDATA[ 
		
     <br/>Jelinek, Elfriede

        
        <br/>New YorkWeidenfeld & Nicholson1988

        <br/>Price: $225.00
       
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   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Farmers Hotel &#91;Signed] - O'Hara, John
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001647"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a40</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">
      
	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good copy (quite light shelf wear, spine ends gently pushed, book mildly canted) of the first edition, second printing, in a Very Good dust jacket (some edge wear, some short tears and toning to the rear panel)  INSCRIBED, SIGNED, DATED, AND PLACED by John O'Hara.  The popular American Novelist is best known for his first novel, "Appointment in Samarra".  "The Farmers Hotel" is his fifth novel.  O'Hara his inscribed the front free endpaper as follows: "To Kate and Nannie / with Love from their / little friend / John O'Hara / 5 July 1952 / East Hampton".  Signed copies of this book are scarce.  A Very Good copy, INSCRIBED, SIGNED, DATED, AND PLACED BY JOHN O'HARA. 
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       <![CDATA[ 
		
     <br/>O'Hara, John

        
        <br/>New YorkRandom House1951

        <br/>Price: $175.00
       
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   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Second Wind &#91;Signed] - Francis, Dick &#91;Brett, Simon: Appreciation]
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001692"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a41</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">
      
	<![CDATA[ 
		The Limited Edition, bound from the first edition sheets, and issued in 110 signed and numbered copies, and 16 lettered copies produced for private distribution and not for sale.  This is copy 52, SIGNED BY DICK FRANCIS on the limitation page.  A Fine copy in an excellent acetate dust jacket with expected surface wear from being against the book.  A beautiful Scorpion Press production.  SIGNED BY DICK FRANCES.   
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       <![CDATA[ 
		
     <br/>Francis, Dick &#91;Brett, Simon: Appreciation]

        
        <br/>BlakeneyScorpion Press1999

        <br/>Price: $150.00
       
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   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	A Rumor of War - Caputo, Philip
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001722"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a42</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy (spine ends gently pushed, slightly askew, very light touch of foxing to the page block) in a Near Fine dust jacket (a bit of wrinkling at spine ends).  The book is Caputo's memoir of his Vietnam War experiences, and provided the basis for a 1980 television mini-series of the same name.  An excellent copy.  The book and the dust jacket are in much better condition than usually seen.  An Excellent, rather sharp copy.   
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     <br/>Caputo, Philip

        
        <br/>New YorkHolt, Rinehart & Winston1977

        <br/>Price: $135.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Duplicate Keys &#91;Signed Uncorrected Proof] - Smiley, Jane
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001729"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a43</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy (spine lightly sunned), SIGNED BY JANE SMILEY on the title page.  The Publisher's Uncorrected Proof of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning author's third novel, her debut in the mystery genre.  A murder mystery about six friends, three of whom had formed a band that produced a hit record.  When two of them are shot in their New York apartment, the resulting investigation reveals facts and characteristics about the friends and their relationships that had been suppressed and hidden in the interest of keeping the group of friends together. A rather sharp copy of the uncommon Uncorrected Proof of an early book in the Smiley canon, SIGNED BY JANE SMILEY. 
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     <br/>Smiley, Jane

        
        <br/>New YorkAlfred A. Knopf1984

        <br/>Price: $195.00
       
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	More Die of Heartbreak &#91;Signed] - Bellow, Saul
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001763"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a44</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy (spine tail very gently shelf pushed), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED and LOCATED on the title page by Saul Bellow.  Saul Bellow's tenth novel, signed by Bellow on the title page "Saul Bellow / Boston".   Signed copies are quite uncommon.  A Fine copy, tight and unread, SIGNED BY SAUL BELLOW. 
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     <br/>Bellow, Saul

        
        <br/>New YorkWilliam Morrow & Company1987

        <br/>Price: $300.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Jeeves & The Tie That Binds - Wodehouse, P. G.
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001879"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a45</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good + copy of the First American edition (some small foxing spots to the boards, foxing to top of page block) in a Very Good + dust jacket (mild toning and modest edge wear, small red stain on inside of rear panel with some light associated wrinkling -- a nicer dust jacket than often is found on either the US or UK First).  A (then) new Jeeves novel, published in Celebration of P. G. Wodehouse's 90th birthday.  A funny tale about a book kept at a club to which Jeeves belongs.  All members of the Club are required to contribute everything about the fellow for whom he works for the benefit of other Butlers who may, in the future, seek employment from the gentleman described.  While many entries are short, Jeeves' entries on Bertie Wooster run to 18 pages.  Bertie fears that the tales will fall into the wrong hands, and then, of course, it does.  The novel was simultaneously published in Great Britain as "Much Obliged, Jeeves".  A nice copy of a delightful Jeeves novel.   
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     <br/>Wodehouse, P. G.

        
        <br/>New YorkSimon and Schuster1971

        <br/>Price: $125.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama &#91;Signed] - Mamet, David
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001912"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a46</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY DAVID MAMET on the title page.  Three David Mamet essays on the essentialness of Drama and the human being's tendency to dramatize. This Mamet title is extremely scarce when signed.   A Fine copy, SIGNED BY DAVID MAMET.   
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     <br/>Mamet, David

        
        <br/>New YorkColumbia University Press1998

        <br/>Price: $165.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century &#91;Advance Uncorrected Reader's Proof] - Thompson, Hunter S.
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001914"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a47</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the Advance Uncorrected Reader's Proof in the Publisher's original card covers and original tape spine.  In our experience, a rather uncommon Proof of this book from Gonzo Journalism's creator.  A collection of writings about Thompson's past with a focus on rebellion -- a sort of Gonzo autobiography.  SCARCE.   
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     <br/>Thompson, Hunter S.

        
        <br/>New YorkSimon and Schuster2002

        <br/>Price: $375.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Flashman in the Great Game: From the Flashman Papers 1856-1858 - Fraser, George MacDonald
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001930"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a48</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good + or better copy of this Flashman novel, in a Very Good + dust jacket (expected sunning to the spine, colors otherwise vibrant, light edge wear, small chip to base of rear panel).  This is the 5th novel in MacDonald's famed "Flashman" series.  (There are 12 novels in all.)  The "Flashman" character was taken by MacDonald from Thomas Hughes' 1857 semi-autobiographical novel "Tom Brown's Schooldays".  "Tom Brown's Schooldays" is set at Rugby School (the school which Hughes attended and one of the oldest independent schools in all of Britain).  In that novel, the bully Flashman is Tom Brown's schoolmate and enemy.  In the Flashman series, MacDonald presents the adventures of the the now full-grown Flashman.  The Flashman novels show him to remain a person of poor character who is all of liar, cheat, thief, coward, seducer of woman, and more.  Notwithstanding his low character and his constant fleeing in the face of danger, Flashman manages continually to get himself proclaimed as a hero and achieves a high rank in the British Army.  The series presents George MacDonald Fraser as the "Editor" of the discovered Flashman Papers.  (In connection with the series, MacDonald did a great deal of historical research in order to present his tales in an appropriate manner.)  "Flashman in the Great Game" is based on the "Flashman Papers " covering the period from 1856-1858 and begins with Flashman as Queen Victoria's guest at Balmoral Castle where Lord Palmerston recruits Flashman to go to India to investigate rumors of a potential rebellion against British rule by Indian soldiers serving  in the British Indian Army.  This is a rather nice copy of the novel, one of the more difficult titles in the series to find in nice condition. 
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     <br/>Fraser, George MacDonald

        
        <br/>LondonBarrie & Jenkins1975

        <br/>Price: $155.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery - Brautigan, Richard
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002054"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a49</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket (minor residue at lower corner of front flap once occupied by a price sticker, tiny rubs at spine ends and lower front corner).  Willard is a papier-mâché bird that stands with a collection of bowling trophies stolen from the Logan brothers who vow to get them back at any cost.  A Fine copy.   
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     <br/>Brautigan, Richard

        
        <br/>New YorkSimon and Schuster1975

        <br/>Price: $125.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents &#91;SIGNED Presentation Set of Folded and Gathered Sheets] - Alvarez, Julia
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002055"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a50</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of this Presentation Set of Folded and Gathered Sheets specially prepared for distribution to the friends of the Publisher.  A Fine copy in the Publisher's original wrappers, with a brief presentation inscription SIGNED BY JULIA ALVAREZ on the title page.  The debut novel of this prominent New Yorker of Dominican descent.   Published to high-acclaim, the book is the first major novel written in English by a Dominican.  Based in part on her own experiences, the novel illuminates the cultural differences between the US and the Caribbean and the difficulties faced by a Latina when integrating into American culture.  Copies of this issue are quite scarce, and signed copies are especially so.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY JULIA ALVAREZ. 
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     <br/>Alvarez, Julia

        
        <br/>Chapel Hill, NCAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill1971

        <br/>Price: $105.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Midnight Cowboy - Herlihy, James Leo
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002056"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a51</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Near Fine copy (quite minor shelf wear and light rubbing to spine ends and board tips, minor fading to topstain) in a Fine, richly-colored dust jacket (light toning and some minor edge wrinkling to rear panel, minor rubs at spine ends).   Herlihy's second, and most prominent novel, the story of a naive Texan who makes his way to New York City determined to work as a prostitute servicing a wealthy clientele, an endeavor in which he fails to achieve his goal, taking instead work serving gay men.  The book provided the basis for the highly-successful 1969 John Schlesinger film of the same name, starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight. The movie won three Academy Awards  (Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing -- Adapted Screenplay), with Hoffman and Voight each receiving nominations for Best Actor.  (John Wayne won the award for his performance in True Grit.)  A very nice, Near Fine, copy. 
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     <br/>Herlihy, James Leo

        
        <br/>New YorkSimon and Schuster1965

        <br/>Price: $145.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	The Sweetest Dream &#91;Signed] - Lessing, Doris
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002060"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a52</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY DORIS LESSING on the title page.  Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, the oldest author (and 11th Woman) to do so.  Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature and, in 2008, "The Times" of London named her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".  The novel is set in the period from about 1960 to 1980, in both London and the African nation of Zimlia  (a fictional country representing Zimbabwe).   Signed copies of this book are quite scarce, and copies in a condition this nice are scarce indeed.  A Superior copy, SIGNED BY DORIS LESSING. 
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     <br/>Lessing, Doris

        
        <br/>LondonFlamingo2001

        <br/>Price: $175.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Sign of Three &#91;Signed] - Eco, Umberto and Sebeok, Thomas A., Editors &#91;Dupin, Holmes, Peirce]
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000577"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a53</id>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good or better copy (some light rubbing, spotting to lower front board), in a Very Near Fine dust jacket (minute rubbing at spine tail, tiny rub at top corner of front board, touch of soiling to rear panel), SIGNED BY UMBERTO ECO.  The book is part of Indiana University's Advances in Semiotics Series (semiology includes the study of how meaning is both construed and understood), and the title is a play on Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sign of the Four" in which Holmes says: "I never guess".  Pierce, however, said: "But we must conquer the truth by guessing, or not at all".  Signed copies are quite scarce.  A nice copy, SIGNED BY UMBERTO ECO. 
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     <br/>Eco, Umberto and Sebeok, Thomas A., Editors &#91;Dupin, Holmes, Peirce]

        
        <br/>Bloomington, In.Indiana University Press1983

        <br/>Price: $135.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Letters &#91;Signed] - Barth, John
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000679"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a54</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the first trade edition (tiny amount of age toning to upper and lower board extremities), in a Fine dust jacket (gentle toning at top and bottom flap edges), SIGNED BY JOHN BARTH.  Barth's epistolary novel in which he interacts with characters from his other books through letters between Barth and the characters.  Signed copies of the first trade edition are quite uncommon.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY JOHN BARTH. 
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     <br/>Barth, John

        
        <br/>New YorkG. P. Putnam's Sons1979

        <br/>Price: $135.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Why Didn't They Ask Evans - Christie, Agatha
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000116"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a55</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good + copy of this book (some edgewear, light shadow of removed sticker on ffep, a bit of fading to spine at spine jacket chips) in a Good++ to about Very Good dust jacket (several chips and tears, the spine chips affect a small amount of the lettering, one large chip to rear panel of jacket, short note in pencil to rear jacket panel). In spite of these chips the d/j is still fresh and clean and unfaded.  The jacket is not price clipped.  Quite clean internally.  This is the First Edition, ninth impression, of this scarce book, and is especially scarce in the jacket.  In the story, a golfer finds a dying man (with the photo of a hauntingly beautiful young woman in his pocket) whose mysterious last words are "Why didn't they ask Evans?".  A nice copy of a scarce book. 
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     <br/>Christie, Agatha

        
        <br/>LondonCollins Crime Club1950

        <br/>Price: $450.00
       
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	The Bean Trees - Kingsolver, Barbara
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000127"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a56</id>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of Kingsolver's debut book in the publisher's white quarter-bound cloth and brown boards (light bumping to the spine's extremities and minor, slight discoloration to tip of spine) in a Fine dust jacket (very slight bumping to the bottom of the spine and bottom of the rear panel).  In the novel, begun in a closet by Kingsolver while pregnant and suffering from insomnia, Kingsolver (who herself grew up in eastern Kentucky) tells the story of a poor Kentucky girl  with two goals: to avoid pregnancy and to get away. Having achieved both goals, she then travels west where a Native American baby is abandoned with her.  Published without fanfare, this award-winning book soon received the acclaim of both critics and readers, and is well on the way to becoming a classic of modern American fiction. 
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     <br/>Kingsolver, Barbara

        
        <br/>New YorkHarper & Row1988

        <br/>Price: $225.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Ben in the World &#91;Signed] - Lessing, Doris
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000253"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a57</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, of the first American edition of Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing's novel, SIGNED BY DORIS LESSING.  In this novel, a sequel to Lessing's "The Fifth Child", Ben Lovatt, a man of limited mental abilities, but strong of body, and cheerful of spirit, seeks to deal with the modern world totally unassisted.  Signed copies of the first American edition are quite uncommon.   
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     <br/>Lessing, Doris

        
        <br/>New YorkHarperCollinsPublishers2000

        <br/>Price: $125.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Rant An Oral Biography of Buster Casey &#91;Signed and Stamped] - Palahniuk, Chuck
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000379"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a58</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the first trade edition, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED AND STAMPED on the Rant Tour by CHUCK PALAHNIUK. In addition to signing the book, Palahniuk stamped the half title page with his circular "Rant Tour 2007" stamp in blue ink as well as with the "Has Tested Negative/Postive For Rabies" stamp in red.  Within the latter stamp, Palahniuk twice underlined and once circled  the word "Postive."  The Rabies stamp was used for the first book signing event for this title, after which its use was discontinued due to the misspelling of Positive. Accordingly, copies of this book are much less common than later signed copies.  A Fine copy of a difficult to find book, SIGNED AND STAMPED BY CHUCK PALAHNIUK. 
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     <br/>Palahniuk, Chuck

        
        <br/>New YorkDoubleday2007

        <br/>Price: $155.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Vernon God Little &#91;Uncorrected Proof] - Pierre, DBC &#91;Finlay, Peter Warren]
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000392"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a59</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine (one tiny corner bump) of the Uncorrected Proof Copy of this prize-winning debut novel.  Born in Australia and reared in Mexico, the author's true name is Peter Warren Finlay, the "DBC" of his pen name standing for "Dirty But Clean" and  "Pierre" being a childhood nickname given him by his friends (after a cartoon character of the same name).  This, Findlay's debut novel, is a satire centered around a fifteen year old who goes on the run in Mexico after falsely being accused of murder in his small Texas town.  The novel won the Guardian Prize as well as the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2003, making Finlay the third Australian to win the prize.  (Thomas Keneally  for "Schindler's Ark", and Peter Carey for "Oscar and Lucinda" as well as for "True History of the Kelly Gang" being the others).   A nice copy of the Uncorrected Proof Copy of this prize-winning debut novel. 
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     <br/>Pierre, DBC &#91;Finlay, Peter Warren]

        
        <br/>LondonFaber and Faber2003

        <br/>Price: $150.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Battle Ready &#91;Signed 2x] - Clancy, Tom; General Tony Zinni (Ret.); Tony Koltz
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000562"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a60</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy (gentle push to bottom of spine) in a Fine dust jacket (tiny wrinkle at top of spine), SIGNED BY TOM CLANCY AND BY GENERAL TONY ZINNI (RET.).  A study in command.  Zinni is a former commander in chief of CENTCOM.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY TOM CLANCY AND BY GENERAL TONY ZINNI (RET.). 
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     <br/>Clancy, Tom; General Tony Zinni (Ret.); Tony Koltz

        
        <br/>New YorkG. P. Putnam's Sons2004

        <br/>Price: $115.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Sadness &#91;Signed] - Barthelme, Donald
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000571"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a61</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy, in an essentially Fine dust jacket (a few tiny wrinkles and only a touch of age toning), SIGNED BY DONALD BARTHELME.  Barthelme's fourth collection of stories.  A review copy, with the publisher's "compliments" paper slip loosely laid in.  Copies of this work SIGNED BY DONALD BARTHELME are quite scarce.  A very nice copy, SIGNED BY DONALD BARTHELME.   
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     <br/>Barthelme, Donald

        
        <br/>New YorkFarrar, Straus and Giroux1972

        <br/>Price: $185.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	An American Dream - Mailer, Norman
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000583"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a62</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy (gentle fading to board edges), in a Fine dust jacket (only lightly rubbed).  An excellent copy of Mailer's fourth novel in a dust jacket with just a bit of wear.  Interestingly, Mailer wrote this novel in the manner that Dickens, Trollope and others often wrote, producing installments for monthly publication (in this case in "Esquire" magazine) and writing under monthly deadlines, with installments being published, in many cases, well before the novel was completely written.  Usually found much more worn, this copy wears a rather nice dust jacket.  A very nice copy.   
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     <br/>Mailer, Norman

        
        <br/>New YorkThe Dial Press1965

        <br/>Price: $150.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	The Murder of the Frogs and Other Stories - Carpenter, Don
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000623"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a63</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy (minute fade to top edges of boards and top of spine, tiny spots of foxing to page block's fore edge), in a Fine dust jacket.  The third book, and debut collection of short stories, from an author highly-lauded by critics and by his fellow authors.  A remarkable copy of this book and very difficult to find in this condition. 
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     <br/>Carpenter, Don

        
        <br/>New YorkHarcourt, Brace & World, Inc.1969

        <br/>Price: $115.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Dieu Est Ne En Exil &#91;Signed] &#91;God Was Born in Exile] &#91;Signed] - Horia, Vintila &#91;Ovid]
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000736"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a64</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good + to Near Fine copy (a little handling and shelf soil, some bumping to wrapper edges, light diagonal fold line to lower front wrapper), SIGNED BY VINTILA HORIA and including the WRAP AROUND BAND (a little soiling and expected wrinkles, a couple of tiny rubs, evidence of opening) loosely laid in and reading "Le Livre Qui Avait Obtenu Le Prix Goncourt".  The Prix Goncourt is a Prize in French literature, awarded annually by the acadÈmie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". Though he was awarded the Prize, Horia never actually received it due to the allegations thereafter made that he had been a member of the Iron Guard.  Ovid, the Roman poet, the books narrator, describes the last eight years of his life, spent in exile in Tomis.  A very nice copy, and quite SCARCE when SIGNED BY VINTILA HORIA. 
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     <br/>Horia, Vintila &#91;Ovid]

        
        <br/>ParisLibrairie Artheme Fayard1960

        <br/>Price: $485.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories &#91;Signed] - O'Brien, Edna
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000776"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a65</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		An essentially Fine copy (light rubbing to spine ends) in a Near Fine dust jacket (wrapped very slightly to the right,  tiny indentation causing minute tear to front panel, light age toning), SIGNED BY EDNA O'BRIEN.  A collection of nine short stories by this Irish novelist and short story writer.  Both the English and American firsts are quite uncommon signed, and especially uncommon when both signed and in this condition.  An excellent copy, SIGNED BY EDNA O'BRIEN. 
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     <br/>O'Brien, Edna

        
        <br/>New YorkHarcourt Brace Jovanovich1974

        <br/>Price: $115.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Middle Passage &#91;Signed] - Johnson, Charles
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000917"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a66</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket (wrapped very slightly to the right), with a brief presentation inscription, SIGNED BY CHARLES JOHNSON.  Historically, the term "Middle Passage" refers to the forced transport across the Atlantic of Africans from Africa to the "New World" as part of the Atlantic slave trade.  In this novel, the protagonist, Rutherford Calhoun, is a freed slave who, in escaping a forced marriage, stows away on a ship which he discovers in transit to be a slave trader.   Winner of the 1990 National Book Award, the novel presents the slave trade from both a personal and a historical perspective.  A Fine copy, briefly INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CHARLES JOHNSON.  The book is rather scarce signed and extremely scarce when both in this condition and inscribed and signed.   
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     <br/>Johnson, Charles

        
        <br/>New YorkAtheneum1990

        <br/>Price: $175.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	The Ground Beneath Her Feet &#91;Signed] - Rushdie, Salman
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001134"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a67</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the first trade edition, following a limited edition of only 150 copies, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY SALMAN RUSHDIE.  The tale is Rushdie's retelling of the myth of Orpheus (husband) and Eurydice (his wife) in which Orpheus seeks to rescue his wife from the underworld.  With modern rock music replacing Orpheus' lyre, the book has been made the subject of a major production combining both film and music.  The Band U2 has written a song inspired by, and bearing the same title as, the novel.  The book is not common when both signed and in a condition this nice.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY SALMAN RUSHDIE. 
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     <br/>Rushdie, Salman

        
        <br/>LondonJonathan Cape1999

        <br/>Price: $125.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Soundings &#91;Signed] - Brookner, Anita
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001138"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a68</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED AND DATED BY ANITA BROOKNER.  Anita Brookner has signed the book on the title page and has dated her signature "October 20th, 1997", in the year of the book's publication.  Signed copies of this book, especially in this condition, are quite uncommon.  A Fine copy, SIGNED AND DATED WITH A CONTEMPORARY DATE, BY ANITA BROOKNER.     
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     <br/>Brookner, Anita

        
        <br/>LondonThe Harvill Press1997

        <br/>Price: $125.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	A Generous Man &#91;Signed] - Price, Reynolds
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001183"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a69</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good + (a little age fading to board extremities, corners lightly bumped, spine ends gently pushed), in a Very Good + dust jacket (some soiling and gentle edge wear, short indentation line on front panel, a little age toning to flap edges and rear panel), INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED (April 21, 1969) BY REYNOLDS PRICE.  Reynolds Price's second novel.  Signed copies are quite uncommon, and signed copies of the First UK edition are especially so.  Signed copies of this novel are scarce, and signed copies of the first UK edition are quite so.  A Very Good + copy, INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED BY REYNOLDS PRICE. 
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     <br/>Price, Reynolds

        
        <br/>LondonChatto & Windus1967

        <br/>Price: $145.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Story of My Disappearance &#91;Signed] - Watkins, Paul
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001249"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a70</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the first UK edition, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY PAUL WATKINS on the title page.  Signed copies of the first UK edition in a condition this nice are quite scarce.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY PAUL WATKINS. 
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     <br/>Watkins, Paul

        
        <br/>LondonFaber and Faber1997

        <br/>Price: $125.00
       
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   </content>
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	You Bright and Risen Angels &#91;Signed; Original Drawings] - Vollmann, William T.
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002871"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a71</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the first UK edition, first printing (the true first edition -- lower corner of rear board just tapped, slight aperture between spine head and page block as is common to heavy books), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY WILLIAM VOLLMANN on the title page WHICH VOLLMANN ALSO HAS ILLUSTRATED WITH A PAIR OF PEN DRAWINGS (Vollmann also provided the illustrations printed in the book, but these illustrations are ORIGINAL DRAWINGS added by Vollmann when signing the book); Vollmann's bizarre novel wherein young revolutionaries battle with hide-bound ones with  the weapons used by the warring sides including insects and electricity, and life and death.  Appropriately, the drawings Vollmann made on this copy of the book are of a spider and of a light bulb.  This is the true first edition of William T. Vollmann's important debut book, which precedes the American edition and of which a mere 2,500 copies were printed.  A Fine copy, SIGNED, AND WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS, BY WILLIAM VOLLMANN. 
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     <br/>Vollmann, William T.

        
        <br/>LondonAndre Deutsch1987

        <br/>Price: $400.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Fools' Gold &#91;Signed] - Wiley, Richard
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002873"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a72</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good copy of the first printing, first edition (light corner bumping, age fading at extremities, modest shelf soil to board bottoms), in a Very Good spine-sunned dust jacket, SIGNED BY RICHARD WILEY on the title page; Richard Wiley's second book 
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     <br/>Wiley, Richard

        
        <br/>New YorkAlfred A. Knopf1988

        <br/>Price: $15.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Washington Square Ensemble &#91;Signed Proof] - Bell, Madison Smartt
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002874"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a73</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good copy of the Unrevised and Unpublished Proofs for Madison Smartt Bell's debut book (some fading to and adjacent to the spine, small spot to rear panel and to front edge of page block), SIGNED BY MADISION SMARTT BELL on the title page as follows: "For ______ from / Madison Smartt Bell".  A rather scarce Proof of Bell's debut book, SIGNED BY MADISON SMARTT BELL. 
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     <br/>Bell, Madison Smartt

        
        <br/>New YorkThe Viking Press1983

        <br/>Price: $125.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Good Help &#91;Signed] Advance Excerpt from his Debut Novel - Gurganus, Allan
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002875"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a74</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the Advance Excerpt from Allan Guaganus' then-upcoming debut novel "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" (1989) which itself won the Sue Kaufman Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters; one of 1,000 numbered and signed copies (there also were issued 26 lettered and signed copies, each with an original drawing by the author).  This is an exceptional copy in the Publisher's original gray wrappers, without the fading that often plagues this Advance Excerpt, and SIGNED BY ALLAN GURGANUS on the half-title.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY ALLAN GURGANUS. 
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     <br/>Gurganus, Allan

        
        <br/>Rocky Mount, NCNorth Carolina Weslyan College Press1988

        <br/>Price: $50.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Road Home &#91;Signed] - Harrison, Jim
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002876"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a75</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Near Fine or better copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Very Good slipcase (moderate marking); one of 250 copies of the Limited Edition, SIGNED BY JIM HARRISON on the limitation page.  An attractive book, SIGNED BY JIM HARRISON. 
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     <br/>Harrison, Jim

        
        <br/>New YorkAtlantic Monthly Press1998

        <br/>Price: $75.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Unholy Loves &#91;Signed] - Oates, Joyce Carol
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002877"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a76</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (quite minor surface marking, a bit of rubbing or fading to lettering of Publisher's name at spine tail), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY JOYCE CAROL OATES on the title page; the 10th novel from this prolific and award-winning author, a tale examining the relationships between men and women at a small, prestigious college.  Signed copies of this relatively early Oates novel are not common.  A Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY JOYCE CAROL OATES. 
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     <br/>Oates, Joyce Carol

        
        <br/>New YorkThe Vanguard Press, Inc.1979

        <br/>Price: $35.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Just Before Dark &#91;Signed] Collected Nonfiction - Harrison, Jim
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002879"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a77</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine, Superior, copy of the first trade edition (issued simultaneously with a limited edition of 276 copies), in an equally Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY JIM HARRISON on the title page; Jim Harrison's debut book of nonfiction; a collection of work spanning 25 years, some of which appears here for the first time.  A Superior copy, SIGNED BY JIM HARRISON. 
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     <br/>Harrison, Jim

        
        <br/>Livingston, MTClark City Press1991

        <br/>Price: $75.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	High Tide in Tucson &#91;Signed] - Kingsolver, Barbara
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002883"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a78</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine, Superior copy, in a Fine, Superior illustrated slipcase (no dust jacket, as issued), and STILL IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL UNOPENED SHRINKWRAP, SIGNED BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER; one of only 150 copies in this Limited Edition (the only Limited Edition of any of Kingsolver's works, an additional 26 signed and lettered copies also were issued).  Copies remaining in the Publisher's Original, Unopened Shrinkwrap, as is this one, are quite scarce.  A Fine, Superior copy STILL IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL UNOPENED SHRINKWRAP and SIGNED BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER.  SCARCE. 
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     <br/>Kingsolver, Barbara

        
        <br/>New YorkHarper Collins1995

        <br/>Price: $300.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Vikings &#91;Typewritten Manuscript; JOHN STEINBECK'S PERSONAL COPY; Unpublished] - Steinbeck, John &#91;The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; In Dubious Battle; The Winter of Our Discontent; The Moon is Down; Tortilla Flat; East of Eden; The Long Valley; Burning Bright; Sweet Thursday]
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001661"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a79</id>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A RARE, UNPUBLISHED STEINBECK MANUSCRIPT.  John Steinbeck's personal copy of "The Vikings", being the typewritten carbon Manuscript of Steinbeck's draft filmscript. The Manuscript came directly from John Steinbeck's Upper East Side apartment in New York having, remained there in Steinbeck's personal files for decades. (Steinbeck died in 1968 and we purchased the Manuscript earlier this year -2010.) Housed in John Steinbeck's manila file and Forty-nine (49) pages long, the Manuscript is in excellent condition, with a small staple at the upper left corner, some wrinkling around the staple, and some vertical creases near the center of the early and last pages.  Steinbeck has written "Envelope" in pencil at the upper right corner of the first page and the Manuscript itself bears a few black ink corrections in Steinbeck's hand.  Steinbeck based the filmscript on Henrik Ibsen's play "The Vikings of Helgeland" and had Ingrid Bergman in mind to play the female lead in his movie adaptation.   He wrote to Bergman to see if she would be interested in taking the role and, in response, Bergman stated:  "Thou art minded I play a woman as mighty as Hjordas?  Set thy hand to work....."  (Norway's Henrik Ibsen was one of the great playwrights and theater directors of his age, considered by many to be the father of modern drama.  Written in 1857, "The Vikings of Helgeland" was Ibsen's seventh Play.)  Steinbeck's film adaptation was never produced and is rarely mentioned in discussions on Steinbeck.   John Steinbeck won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature.   A unique and collection-distinguishing item for the Steinbeck collector, as well as for any collector of modern literature.   We have not located "The Vikings" in book form. EXCEEDINGLY RARE. 
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     <br/>Steinbeck, John &#91;The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; In Dubious Battle; The Winter of Our Discontent; The Moon is Down; Tortilla Flat; East of Eden; The Long Valley; Burning Bright; Sweet Thursday]

        
        <br/>New YorkJohn SteinbeckNo Date

        <br/>Price: $36,500.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Vineland - Pynchon, Thomas
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001573"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a80</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		THIS ITEM IS TEMPORARILY REDUCED 55%.  WAS $225.    A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.  A book which is difficult to find in beautiful condition.  This is, quite simply, the nicest copy we ever have seen. 
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     <br/>Pynchon, Thomas

        
        <br/>BostonLittle, Brown and Company1990

        <br/>Price: $101.25
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	White Noise &#91;Signed] - Delillo, Don
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002869"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a81</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Near Fine copy (one small impression to bottom of the rear board, a touch of roughness at the spine head, spine tail mildly pushed) in a virtually Fine dust jacket (mild age toning, tiny pushing at the spine panel ends), SIGNED BY DON DELILLO on the title page; Don Delillo's eighth novel, winner of the 1985 National Book Award for Fiction, and his breakthrough book.  Prior to publishing "White Noise", Delillo had received only minor critical notice. "White Noise", however, won great critical acclaim and, according to author Richard Rayner, influenced the work of numerous prominent writers such as David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith and Richard Powers.  In  Time Magazine named the novel as one of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.  Signed copies of the book are quite scarce.  A Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY DON DELILLO. 
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     <br/>Delillo, Don

        
        <br/>New YorkViking1985

        <br/>Price: $450.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Island of the Day Before &#91;Signed] &#91;L'isola del giorno prima] - Eco, Umberto
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002846"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a82</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the first trade edition, first printing (the book also was simultaneously published in a limited edition of 250 copies), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY UMBERTO ECO on the title page.  Set in 1643, the book purports to be written by an editor who discovered the papers of an Italian nobleman who found himself shipwrecked on an abandoned ship in view of land that he could not reach due to his inability to swim.  The nobleman reviews his life, blaming all of his wrongs on an imagined to be evil twin brother.   In its review of the novel , the New York Times described the book as 'A grand and entertaining book, and a deliriously writerly one, this novel belongs in the great tradition of the conte philosophique, like Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," Johnson's "Rasselas" and Voltaire's "Candide." '  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY UMBERTO ECO. 
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     <br/>Eco, Umberto

        
        <br/>New YorkHarcourt Brace & Company1995

        <br/>Price: $60.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Nigger Heaven &#91;Signed and Inscribed to Prince George] - Van Vechten, Carl
	]]>	
   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002857"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a83</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good copy (corner bumping and modest shelf wear, moderate wear to spine label -- lacking the slip case, no dust jacket, as issued) SIGNED BY CARL VAN VECHTEN on the Limitation page and later INSCRIBED, PLACED, AND DATED BY CARL VAN VECHTEN TO PRINCE GEORGE (the Duke of Kent) in green ink as follows: "These sable pages / for H.R.H. / Prince George / New York / August 24 - 1929"; one of 205 copies (10 of which were marked A through J, and 195 of which were numbered 1 through 195) signed by Carl Van Vechten.  Offered here is copy 5.  (Interestingly, one definition of "sable" is "black" and perhaps the word was chosen by Van Vechten for his inscription due to the subject matter of the book.)  Photographer and author Carl Van Vechten was a famed patron of the Harlem Renaissance during which time "Nigger Heaven" was set.  Though the book's title (which refers to 18th Century church balconies where black congregants were required to sit while white congregants sat below) has been controversial since the book was published, and while may prominent black persons such as Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, and others, found it offensive, numerous prominent black authors such as Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Wallace Thurman appreciated the book and its portrayal of life in Harlem, NY during that historic era.  In any event, the book drew large numbers of whites to Harlem and its bars, restaurants, and other establishments, generating business for Harlem's establishments which benefitted many.  A Very Good copy with a wonderful history, SIGNED BY CARL VAN VECHTEN AND INSCRIBED BY HIM TO THE DUKE OF KENT.   
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     <br/>Van Vechten, Carl

        
        <br/>New YorkAlfred A. Knopf1926

        <br/>Price: $750.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	The Tenth Man - Greene, Graham
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   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000107"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a84</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED 50%.  WAS $60.   A Fine copy of this book in the publisher's original green cloth (a narrow band at the foot of the spine is lighter in color ) in a Fine dust jacket (just a small touch of bumping to the spine, no tears or chips).  A compelling tale which Greene, in some ways, preferred to his novel The Third Man and unrelated to either of two other novels of the same name (one by Paddy Chayefsky and one by W. Somerset Maugham).   A compelling novel set in and after World War II, it tells the tale of a rich lawyer (Chavel) who, while in a Nazi prison camp, is chosen by lot to be executed.  He offers all of his property to anyone else in the group willing to die in his place.  A young man named Janvier accepts and is executed.  The novel deals with Chavel's life after the war when he must live with the consequences of his action.  The novel was made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins as Chavel.  Also starring Kristin Scott Thomas. 
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     <br/>Greene, Graham

        
        <br/>LondonThe Bodley Head and Anthony Blond1985

        <br/>Price: $30.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	The Color of Blood &#91;Signed] - Moore, Brian
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000678"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a85</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED 40%.  WAS $75.   A Fine copy of the first American edition, in a Very Near Fine dust jacket (evidence of underlying meeting of board with cloth, tiny spot on fore edge of rear fold), SIGNED BY BRIAN MOORE.  Brian Moore was a Northern Irish novelist who expertly portrayed postwar conditions in Northern Ireland and was three times short-listed for the Booker Prize.  Signed copies of this novel are scarce, and signed copies of the first American edition are especially so.  The novel was the winner of the first-awarded Sunday Express Book of the Year.  A very nice copy of the first American edition, SIGNED BY BRIAN MOORE. 
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     <br/>Moore, Brian

        
        <br/>New YorkE. P. Dutton1987

        <br/>Price: $45.00
       
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	The Drowning Season &#91;Signed] - Hoffman, Alice
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000980"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a86</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED 35%.  WAS $110.   A Very Near Fine copy, in a very Near Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY ALICE HOFFMAN.   Alice Hoffman's second novel, scarce when in this condition and signed.  A Very Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY ALICE HOFFMAN. 
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     <br/>Hoffman, Alice

        
        <br/>New YorkE. P. Dutton1979

        <br/>Price: $110.00
       
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	Panama &#91;Signed] - McGuane, Thomas
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001582"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a87</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED 35%.  WAS $120.   A Fine copy (light age toning at board extremities), in a Fine dust jacket (minute toning to upper flap edges), SIGNED BY THOMAS MCGUANE on the title page.  A Fine copy of Thomas McGuane's fourth novel, and autobiographic tale and McGuane's only novel written in the first person.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY THOMAS MCGUANE. 
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     <br/>McGuane, Thomas

        
        <br/>Farrar, Straus and Giroux1978

        <br/>Price: $78.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Man Who Turned into a Stick &#91;Bo ni natta otoko] &#91;with rare original  price ticket loosely laid in] - Abe, Kobo &#91;Abe, Kimifusa] &#91;Keene, Donald: Translator]
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002214"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a88</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED 20%.  WAS $200.   A Fine, superior, copy of the First American Edition, in a Fine dust jacket (corners clipped by the Publisher, but not price-clipped) of this important and difficult to find play cycle originally published in Japan titled "Bo ni natta otoko" (1969). The RARE ORIGINAL PRICE TICKET, written partially in English and partially in Japanese, is loosely laid in.  Kobo Abe is an important Japanese writer and playwright (as well as a photographer and inventor).  The 1994 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Japan's Kenzaburo Oe, stated that Kobo Abe should have won the award given to Oe.  A Fine copy of a very scarce book. 
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     <br/>Abe, Kobo &#91;Abe, Kimifusa] &#91;Keene, Donald: Translator]

        
        <br/>TokyoUniversity of Tokyo Press1975

        <br/>Price: $160.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Love & Work &#91;Signed] - Price, Reynolds
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002244"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a89</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED 30%.  WAS $115.   A Fine copy of Reynolds Price's fourth book and third novel (barest of age fading at front board extremities, minor dulling to portion of topstain near the spine), in a Fine dust jacket (light age toning to white portion), SIGNED BY REYNOLDS PRICE on the title page.  The book is not common in hardcover, and is uncommon when in hardcover, signed, and in a condition this nice.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY REYNOLDS PRICE. 
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     <br/>Price, Reynolds

        
        <br/>New YorkAtheneum1968

        <br/>Price: $80.50
       
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   <title>
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	A Place to Come &#91;Signed] - Warren, Robert Penn
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001565"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a90</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Near Fine copy of the trade edition (spine head gently pushed, some soiling to rear board, a couple of tiny bumps to bottom of front board), in a Fine dust jacket (with tiny corner rubs), SIGNED BY ROBERT PENN WARREN on the front free endpaper (which, as with other First Edition Circle books, has been tipped in by the publisher).  Warren is the only author to have won the Pulitzer Prize for both Poetry and Literature.  This copy is part of the Kroch's and Bretano's First Edition Circle of signed first editions, with the special bookmark (toned at the upper fourth) loosely laid in.  A Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY ROBERT PENN WARREN. 
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     <br/>Warren, Robert Penn

        
        <br/>New YorkRandom House1977

        <br/>Price: $100.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Side Street &#91;Fabulous Association copy SIGNED by the Benchley family, and by Gwen Steinbeck and by the Steinbecks' only children, sons Thomas and John] - Benchley, Nathaniel &#91;Steinbeck, John; Steinbeck Thomas; Benchley, Peter; Benchley, Nat]
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002112"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a91</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good to Very Good + copy (light toning at board and spine extremities, light rubbing to spine ends), in a Near Fine dust jacket (light wear, spine a touch toned, rather small chip to corner of front panel where it meets the top of the spine panel and a short closed tear at upper end of fold from front panel to flap, small pencil note to upper corner of rear flap),  SIGNED BY NATHANIEL BENCHLEY, his wife, MARJORIE BENCHLEY, his elder son PETER BENCHLEY (who wrote "Jaws"), his younger son, writer and actor NATHANIEL ("NAT") BENCHLEY, GWEN STEINBECK (who had just divorced JOHN STEINBECK, who himself then relocated to 68th, and then to 72nd, Street), and by JOHN STEINBECK IV and TOM STEINBECK (the sons of John Steinbeck and Gwen Steinbeck, and John Steinbeck's only children).  The book also is signed by Peter Stack, who we speculate to be Peter Benchley's childhood chum.  The inscription reads: "For Aaron Schwartz: / Who, as Pete says, sells / everything you need except /  clothes and liquor. / Rspftly / Nathaniel Benchley / Marjorie Benchley / Pete Benchley / NAT / Peter Stack".  In a separate column, adjacent to these signatures, the inscription is signed:  "Gwen Steinbeck / TOM / JOHN" and underneath the signatures, one finds the date "12 May 1950" in Nathaniel Benchley's hand.  (NB: All of the boys would have been rather young at the time of their signing, as befits the signatures they made.  Thom Steinbeck signed the book "Tom", adopting the variation "Thom" later in life, a change of which is father did not approve and refused to follow.  Nathaniel Benchley signed many of his correspondences with his own abbreviation for "Respectfully", here writing "Rspftly" while likely intending his more common "Rspctfly".)  The endpaper illustrations are by the author.  John Steinbeck (the great author) and Nathaniel Benchley were best friends.  The families met after Nathaniel Benchley returned from WW II (and when Gwen Steinbeck was pregnant with John Steinbeck IV and Marjorie Benchley was pregnant with Nat Benchley).  John Steinbeck owned the two identical houses on 78th Street (which remain there still) and, having become fast friends with Nathaniel Benchley, Steinbeck rented one the houses to the Benchleys at a reduced rate, with the Steinbecks residing next door in the other house.  The families resided in these two homes (at 175 and 178 East 78th Street) when "Side Street" was written.  As "Side Street" is about two families living next to one another in Manhattan and sharing a back yard (as the Steinbecks and Benchleys then did), the families were clearly the inspiration for the novel.  In the novel, the John and Gwen Steinbeck are represented by Jim and Kay Allen, and Nathaniel and Marjorie Benchley are represented by Charles and Virginia Belden.   The boys from both the Steinbeck and the Benchley families attended Allen-Stevenson preparatory  school at the corner of 78th and Lexington, and we believe that signer Peter Stack was one of the students there as well.  He must have been present when the book was signed and thus invited to join in. The inscribee, AARON SCHWARTZ, belonged to the family who founded and ran Rappaport's Toy Bazaar at 1381 Third Avenue, around the corner from the Steinbeck and Benchley family residences, and whose polka-dotted wrapping paper was memorialized by modernist Stuart Davis in his oil "Rapt at Rappaport's".  (FAO Schwarz once was known as Schwarz Toy Bazaar, so perhaps there is a connection between the two families operating the two Toy Stores.  Many considered Rappaport's to be the better Toy Store.)  An absolutely fabulous ASSOCIATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE TWO FAMILIES THAT INSPIRED THE BOOK, inscribed to a member of the family who owned the local Toy Store -- where all of the signing boys would hang out, and SIGNED BY THE BENCHLEY FAMILY AND BY THE STEINBECK FAMILY, then still resident in the subject houses.                                                      
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     <br/>Benchley, Nathaniel &#91;Steinbeck, John; Steinbeck Thomas; Benchley, Peter; Benchley, Nat]

        
        <br/>New YorkHarcourt, Brace and Company1950

        <br/>Price: $3,450.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	The Moon and Sixpence - Maugham, W. Somerset
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002783"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a92</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good copy of the first American edition, first printing (no dust jacket) with a bit of sunning to the spine and mild wear; Maugham's historical novel which fictionalizes the life of French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin.  This is the preferred first issue of the first edition, with Maugham's name incorrectly spelled "Maughan" on the front board and spine, though spelled correctly on the title page.  (The error was corrected on later copies.)  A Very Good copy of the first issue. 
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     <br/>Maugham, W. Somerset

        
        <br/>New YorkGeorge H. Doran Company1919

        <br/>Price: $100.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	The Forms of Water &#91;Signed] - Barrett, Andrea
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00001153"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a93</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy (spine tail gently pushed), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY ANDREA BARRETT on the title page.  The fourth novel from this highly-acclaimed author about a larkish adventure that grows a bit complicated.  This is a Fine copy with a touch of  light toning at the jacket's flap edges, but in an overall bright dust jacket without the general toning that often plagues copies of this title.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY ANDREA BARRETT. 
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     <br/>Barrett, Andrea

        
        <br/>New YorkPocket Books1993

        <br/>Price: $65.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Under the Radar &#91;Signed; an Advance Short Story from Ford's "A Multitude of Sins"] - Ford, Richard
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002809"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a94</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of this wrappered booklet SIGNED BY RICHARD FORD on the title page; an Advance Publication of the short story to be contained in Richard Ford's short story collection "A Multitude of Sins" then-scheduled to be published by Harvill later that year with slight textual variations.  There was no equivalent American publication of this story.  This is the first publication of the story in book form (the story having been earlier published in the "New Yorker" magazine).  The booklet is rather uncommon, especially when signed.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY RICHARD FORD. 
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     <br/>Ford, Richard

        
        <br/>LondonThe Harvill Press2001

        <br/>Price: $75.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	The Triumph of the Spider Monkey &#91;Signed] - Oates, Joyce Carol
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002546"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a95</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing - no dust jacket, of this novella in book form, SIGNED BY JOYCE CAROL OATES on the Limitation Page; the edition was printed in wrappers, 1,000 hardcover copies, and 350 copies numbered and signed by the author.  This copy is one of the 350 numbered and signed copies.  (There also were 50 specially bound, signed, and slipcased copies produced that the Publisher neglected to mention in the limitation statement of this book.)  &#91;The story was first published by students at Antioch College in newspaper format as a mock "Bonus Issue" of "The Sunday Sentinel Magazine"  The disapproving Antioch College authorities promptly put an end to its distribution and destroyed the then-undistributed copies.  As of this listing, a RARE signed copy of the 1974 publication is available on our site.]  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY JOYCE CAROL OATES.   
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     <br/>Oates, Joyce Carol

        
        <br/>Santa Barbara, CABlack Sparrow Press1976

        <br/>Price: $60.00
       
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	Banned &#91;Signed] - Walker, Alice
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002749"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a96</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine, Superior, copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket,  SIGNED BY ALICE WALKER on the title page; the book presents a pair of Alice Walker's short stories ("Roselily" and "Am I Blue), the beginning of her famed novel "The Color Purple", and an Appendix presenting various attempts that have been made censor Walker's works.  Signed copies of the book are uncommon, and signed copies in a condition as nice as this copy is are scarce indeed.  A Fine, Superior, copy, SIGNED BY ALICE WALKER. 
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     <br/>Walker, Alice

        
        <br/>San FranciscoAunt Lute Books1996

        <br/>Price: $65.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	Do With Me What You Will &#91;Signed] - Oates, Joyce Carol
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/00002789"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a97</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Very Good + copy (upper corner of front board tapped, light pushing at spine ends, light mark to front board, touch of soil to front edge of page block), in a Near Fine dust jacket (corner clipped but not price clipped, light pushing at spine ends and upper corner of front panel, hint of sunning to spine), SIGNED BY JOYCE CAROL OATES on the title page; Joyce Carol Oates' sixth novel.  An about Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY JOYCE CAROL OATES. 
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     <br/>Oates, Joyce Carol

        
        <br/>New YorkVanguard Press1973

        <br/>Price: $60.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Jailbird - Vonnegut, Kurt
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000542"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a98</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Near Fine copy (a touch of fading to topstain, two small smudges to bottom of page block, minute wear to front edges of board bottoms, gentle push to top of spine) of the first trade edition, in a Very Near Fine to Fine dust jacket (gentle age toning, minor push to top of spine).  A novel centered on a man who had a minor role in Watergate and who has recently been released from prison.  The novel, written in Vonnegut's typical style, also provides a brief appearance of Kilgore Trout, a character well-known to Vonnegut's readers, and gives some biographical details about Trout that directly contradict information about him given by Vonnegut in prior and subsequent novels.  A Near Fine copy. 
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     <br/>Vonnegut, Kurt

        
        <br/>New YorkDelacorte Press1979

        <br/>Price: $75.00
       
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   <title>
	<![CDATA[
	The Time of the Angels - Murdoch, Iris
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000655"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a99</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy (very slight toning at top and bottom, little bits of soil to edge of page block) in a Fine dust jacket (gentle age toning, a couple of tiny creases and one tiny fray on the flaps).  A novel from the philosopher and novelist whose works generally focus on sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the human unconscious.  A Fine copy. 
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     <br/>Murdoch, Iris

        
        <br/>LondonChatto & Windus1966

        <br/>Price: $65.00
       
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	<![CDATA[
	Coming Soon !!! a narrative &#91;Signed] - Barth, John
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   </title>
   <link href="http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/0000680"/>
   <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a100</id>
   <updated>2012-05-20T00:58:22Z</updated>
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	<![CDATA[ 
		A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket (wrapped ever so slightly to the right), SIGNED BY JOHN BARTH. Seemingly uncommon signed.  A Fine copy, SIGNED BY JOHN BARTH. 
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     <br/>Barth, John

        
        <br/>BostonHoughton Mifflin Company2001

        <br/>Price: $45.00
       
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