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![Item #5532] Nothing But a Smile. Steve Amick](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5532_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684086403)
New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed & illustrated by Steve Amick. "It's 1944, and Wink Dutton, a former illustrator for Yank and Stars and Stripes, has arrived in Chicago after an injury to his drawing hand gets him an unwanted discharge from the service. Renting a room above the camera shop run by Sal Chesterton- the wife of Wink's buddy, still stationed in the Philippines-..... More
[Item #5532]![Item #4454] Loon Lake. E. L. Doctorow](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4454.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1626556183)
New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1980. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Signed by E.L. Doctorow. "Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow's first novel since Ragtime, resembles its famous predecessor only in the power of its prose and its author's continuing challenge to the reader's expectations of what fiction can be. In the Great Depression of the 1930s, a tempestuous young man...finds himself lost one night beside a single-track railroad in the Adirondack..... More
[Item #4454]![Item #4726] From Here to Eternity. James Jones](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4726.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1635825174)
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. "The publishers believe that the appearance of this novel is of comparable importance to the publication of This Side of Paradise or Look Homeward, Angel. For like the first novels of (F. Scott) Fitzgerald and (Thomas) Wolfe, From Here to Eternity introduces a writer who will take a commanding place in American literature. The events of the novel occur in..... More
[Item #4726]![Item #4673] The Pistol. James Jones](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4673.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1634179270)
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. " "When the first bombs lit at Wheeler Field on December 7, 1941, Pfc. Richard Mast was eating breakfast. He was also wearing a pistol..." Here, in the opening paragraph, James Jones sets forth the central issue of this new novel. Pfc. Richard Mast does manage to keep the pistol assigned to him for guard duty, and the struggle around..... More
[Item #4673]![Item #4465] Going After Cacciato. Tim O'Brien](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4465.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1625516723)
New York, NY: Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. "When this extraordinary novel was still a work in progress, with chapters appearing in such varied magazines as Esquire, Redbook, and Shenandoah, it generated immediate pre-publication excitement. One chapter was an O. Henry Award winner in 1976; another was selected for The Best American Short Stories 1977...As Cacciato, pursued by his own comrades-in-arms, walks out of the jungles of..... More
[Item #4465]![Item #4518] To Walk the Line. David Quammen](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4518.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1626975264)
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1970. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by David Quammen. "Color is the subject of this serious, funny, scary, and human novel- color as a signal for tragic hostility and for farcical misunderstanding, color as a test for the young who want to change the world. The author tells the story of a young white Ivy Leaguer who makes an awkward alliance- built on..... More
[Item #4518]![Item #5154] Our Gang. Philip Roth](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5154.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666996296)
New York, NY: Random House, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "Our Gang is Philip Roth's first book since Portnoy's Complaint. Those readers who have followed Mr. Roth's career from its beginnings will not be surprised to find him moving in a new and startling direction. If, as some critics wrote, Portnoy's Complaint was the funniest book ever written on sex in America, then Our Gang may turn out to be the..... More
[Item #5154]![Item #4541] Waterfront. Budd Schulberg](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4541.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1628102608)
New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. "Budd Schulberg has drawn for us the whole turbulent, seething harbor of New York- a world in itself. Here are the traffic turmoil, the sea-smells and sounds, the seething activity and the riverfront slum dwellers of simple faith- long accustomed to violence, betrayal and sudden death...in the intertwined stories of Terry Malloy, the "fringe hoodlum" who struggles against the faint..... More
[Item #4541]![Item #4658] War and Remembrance. Herman Wouk](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4658.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633628232)
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "War and Remembrance is a historical romance. The subject is World War II, the viewpoint American. A Prologue, The Winds of War, published in 1971, set the historical frame for this work by picturing the events leading up to Pearl Harbor. This is a novel of America at war, from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. It is the main tale..... More
[Item #4658]![Item #4581] Native Son. Richard Wright](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4581.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629217276)
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. "Superficially, Native Son is a crime story, adventurous, exciting, often terrible- with two murders, a chase and a gun fight over the roofs of Chicago, a trial, and what might have been, but was not, a rape. It is the old story of a man hunted down by society. But the reader will get through only a few chapters before..... More
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