Meet Maker Mad Molecule (92 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Meet my Maker the Mad Molecule This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book- Good. Dust Jacket- No Jacket. All books are clean and unmarked unless stated.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight toning. DJ is toned with some spotting, price clipped.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. DJ quite worn and rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Fair condition soft cover, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, foxing to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

mass_market. Condition: Acceptable. Acceptable: This book shows clear signs of use but remains completely readable and functional. The cover may have visible wear such as scuffing, creases, or small tears. Pages may contain writing, highlighting, or underlining, but the text is not obscured. The binding is intact and secure. May include stickers or sticker residue from previous use. A solid reading copy.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good Plus to Very Good. First Printing, First Edition Thus. Vintage paperback, Dell 5546; a collection of short stories and sketches from the author of "The Ginger Man" and "Are You Listening, Rabbi Low;" one-reader text is clean, tight, square, slightly age-browned; wrappers show light reading crease, bump to lower left corner of back cover, very minor edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Prior owner ink name on flyleaf, a few slight stains to fore edge of text block. Cloth is slightly faded. Dust jacket is good with some scuffing, slight fading along spine and light edge wear.

Later Edition. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly dust-toned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 169 p 18 cm. Subjects: Short stories in English 1945 Texts. Genre: Short story. 1 Kg.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First Mass Market Edition. A Very Good copy. Book has edgewear, minor soft creases to covers, shelfwear, and old price in ink on the front endpaper, and toning to pages. Interior is otherwise clean, unmarked, and tight. 12mo (Mass Market).

Condition: Good. 1967. First edition thus. 169 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1967. First edition thus. 169 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. 1968 First Dell printing! Clean and sturdy copy with unmarked text. Significant cover and edge wear due to age. Spine not cracked. Pages tanned. Fiction. BA.

mass_market. Condition: Good.

soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Black wrappers with white titles display minimal wear, corners neat. Book body is clean and tight.

Unknown. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Later Edition. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly dust-toned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 169 p 18 cm. Subjects: Short stories in English 1945 Texts. Genre: Short story. 1 Kg.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Some books want to be understood. Meet My Maker / The Mad Molecule (1975 Penguin edition) by J.P. Donleavy would prefer you to loosen your tie, lower your expectations of orderly reality, and come along for a brisk, sideways stroll through the sort of literary landscape where logic is optional and charm arrives slightly dishevelled, asking if you?ve got a spare drink and a tolerance for mischief. Donleavy is the patron saint of elegant chaos: a writer who can make a sentence sound like it?s wearing a dinner jacket while simultaneously falling down the stairs. If you?ve ever wanted prose that behaves like a witty rogue at a party ? dazzling, unreliable, and likely to leave with your coat ? this is your man. And this particular double-whammy of titles, Meet My Maker and The Mad Molecule , sounds like the sort of pairing you?d get if you asked a publisher for ?existential dread? but also requested it be delivered with a wink and a raised eyebrow. What are these stories? They?re Donleavy stories, which means they?re less about neat plots and more about voice, momentum, odd encounters, and the constant sensation that the narrator is improvising his life in real time. Expect sharp humour, sudden melancholy, and that distinctive Donleavy tone where comedy and despair sit on the same barstool pretending not to know each other. There?s a heady mix of invention and confession, the kind of writing that can turn a trivial moment into something strangely poignant, then immediately undercut it with a line so cheeky you?ll hear yourself snort-laugh and feel mildly ashamed. The ?mad molecule? of the title feels like a warning and a promise. This is literature with fizz in it ? restless energy, jittery imagination, and the sense that human beings are basically complicated chemical reactions in hats. Donleavy has always been brilliant at skewering pretension while also quietly admitting he?s not immune to it. He?s an equal-opportunities troublemaker: he?ll poke at society, at class, at romance, at ego, at ambition ? and then he?ll poke at his own narrator for thinking any of it can be tidied up. The Penguin paperback format is perfect for this kind of thing: a proper, pocketable dose of literary unruliness, the sort of book that makes you feel faintly more interesting just by being near it. It?s from an era when you could buy a slim paperback, get your mind slightly rearranged, and still have change for a sandwich. Condition: Good ? exactly right. A Donleavy book shouldn?t feel untouched. It should look like it?s been carried around, read in cafés, possibly waved about during an argument, and occasionally reopened just to re-read a line that was either hilariously rude or uncomfortably true (or both). Sold by Crappy Old Books , because we believe everyone deserves a bit of refined anarchy on their shelves. If you want a book that behaves itself, buy a manual. If you want something clever, strange, funny, and faintly feral in a well-tailored suit, Meet My Maker / The Mad Molecule is ready to cause just the right amount of trouble.

paperback, edges browning, text clean and tight, no inscriptions, spine faded and cover edges rubbed, Good condition. ISBN: 014002719X.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Dell Printing. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Pages tanned, otherwise unread. 4 X 7" 191 pages.