Chicago, IL: Esquire, Inc., 1958. Wraps. 186 p. Includes illustrations. Some illustrations in color. More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1945. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 155, DJ soiled, worn, and chipped, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, c1997. 25 cm, 214. More

Denver, CO: World Press, 1948. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 121, index, DJ quite worn, creased, and scuffed, small tears and chips to DJ, rear cover creased, endpages soiled. More

London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 468 pages. Signed on the title page. Dust jacket is in a plastic sleeve. A prized collectible, especially in the increasingly rare London edition. This copy has a bookmark ribbon. Riven Rock probes male-female relationships, the nature of psychiatric care (as it existed in the early twentieth century), and the mix of classes and ethnicities that is modern America. It also shows, above all, how much is to be gained by giving literary treatment to historical characters and events. In Riven Rock, T. C. Boyle transforms two real people from the pages of American history into rich mythic creations whose tortured love and epic story is intimate enough to break our hearts. Boyle anchors his unforgettable tale with the remarkable and courageous Katherine Dexter. Her husband, Stanley McCormick, thirty-one-year-old son of the millionaire inventor of the Reaper, has become schizophrenic and a sexual maniac. Stanley is locked up in his Santa Barbara mansion and forbidden the mere sight of women — above all, his wife. One of America's most imaginative contemporary novelists, Boyle weaves his hallmark virtuoso prose into a masterful epic. Textured with his acclaimed humor, versatility, and imagination, Riven Rock is his most fully realized and compassionate novel to date. Thomas Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948) is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published nineteen novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988, for his novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. More

New York: Nat. Comm. for Ment. Hygiene, 1918. 292, tables, index, some wear along edges of spine, ink name and address inside front flyleaf. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [10], 319, [7] pages. Inscribed and dated by author on title page. Minor DJ wear. Bebe Moore Campbell (born Elizabeth Bebe Moore; February 18, 1950 – November 27, 2006), was an American author, journalist and teacher. Campbell was the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of 2001". Her other works include the novel Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Literature; her memoir, Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad; and her first nonfiction book, Successful Women, Angry Men. Campbell's interest in mental health was the catalyst for her first children's book, Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry. This book won the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Outstanding Literature Award for 2003. Her book 72 Hour Hold also deals with mental illness. As a journalist, Campbell wrote articles for The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Ebony, as well as other publications. She was a commentator for Morning Edition on National Public Radio. More

New York: New American Library [A Signet Book], 1984. First edition. First printing [stated]. Mass-market paperback. 319 pages. Name of previous owner present. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page discoloration. Boston Memorial Hospital is the familiar setting for Cook's fourth medical mystery. Amidst a hospital power struggle that pits resident doctors against private practitioners, eighteen cardiac surgery patients mysteriously die. Doctors Cassandra Kingsley and Robert Seibert investigate the deaths, making disturbing discoveries, such as a drug-taking, knife-happy surgeon and lethal IV's. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1973. First Edition. First Printing. 217, illus., footnotes, DJ somewhat soiled: small edge tears/chips, stray ink mark and sticker residue on front DJ. More

Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1962. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 314, [6] pages. Signed by the author on the fep. The dust jacket is worn, torn and soiled. Introduction by Harry Golden, Jr. Author's Note. Golden was born Herschel Goldhirsch (or Goldenhurst) in the shtetl Mikulintsy, Austria-Hungary. For a time, Harry worked as a newspaper seller on the Lower East Side and could remember shouting out headlines about the Leo Frank case about which he later wrote a book. In 1941, he moved to Charlotte, where, as a reporter for the Charlotte Labor Journal and The Charlotte Observer, he wrote about and spoke out against racial segregation and the Jim Crow laws of the time. From 1942 to 1968, Golden published The Carolina Israelite as a forum, not just for his political views but also observations and reminiscences of his boyhood in New York's Lower East Side. He traveled widely: in 1960 to speak to Jews in West Germany and again to cover the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel for Life. He is referenced in the lyrics to Phil Ochs' song, "Love Me, I'm a Liberal": "You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden." His satirical "The Vertical Negro Plan," involved removing the chairs from any to-be-integrated building, since Southern whites did not mind standing with blacks such as at bank tellers' windows, only sitting with them. Golden reportedly convinced a southern department store manager to put an "Out of Order" sign by the water fountain marked White; within three weeks all were drinking from the Colored-designated drinking fountain. Golden's books include three collections of essays from the Israelite and a biography of his friend, poet Carl Sandburg. More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1954. Quarto, 368, v.2 only, bibliography, index, board somewhat scuffed, spine somewhat faded. More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 235, illus. More