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HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Broadway Books, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in a quiet New Jersey town in 1983, this is a coming-of-age story of an 'overly theatrical and sexually confused' 17 year old. Boldly INSCRIBED on the half title page with the words 'Be Splendid!' and with a small blue "property of Wallingford High School" stamp. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-76791841X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with a crease on the rear flap of the dj, with a light impression on the last couple of pages)
Book ID: 65704More details Price: $28.50 -
HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Broadway Books, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in a quiet New Jersey town in 1983, this is a coming-of-age story of an 'overly theatrical and sexually confused' 17 year old. Boldly SIGNED on the half title page with the words 'Be Splendid!' 276 pp. ISBN: 0-76791841X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62220More details Price: $30.00 -
MY FATHER AND MYSELF.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1968. Includes black-and-white photographs. Truman Capote called this 'the most original autobiography I have read.'
Condition: Contents very good, rubbing and fading to covers.
Book ID: 13910More details Price: $8.50 -
ON EXTENDED WINGS: An Adventure in Flight.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning poet Diane Ackerman describes how she gained mastery over the mysteries of flight and earned her private pilot's license, of her frustration and exhilaration during hours of lessons and seemingly endless touch and go's of her first solo and her first cross-country flights, and of the teachers and pilots and aviation enthusiasts with whom she flew. Glossary. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-689115407.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, 2 small chips to dj)
Book ID: 86504More details Price: $17.50 -
JUMP.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Toronto: McArthur & Company, (2000). First edition - Set in Montreal, this is the first novel by this playwright - the story of a woman who is a freelance journalist, a single mother and a passionate Montrealer - her ex-husband is heading for a breakdown, her children are declaring their independence and she is trying to find a new sense of purpose. 350 pp. ISBN: 0-15528133X.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to pages)
Book ID: 84506More details Price: $15.00 -
HAWKSMOOR.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fascinating book contrasting the disintegration of society in two different centuries: the early 18th c of Nicholas Dyer, architect, and the 20th c of Nicholas Hawksmoor, senior police officer involved in a murder investigation. Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0155035.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74227More details Price: $65.00 -
THE TRIAL OF ELIZABETH CREE: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in Victorian England, in London in 1880, when a series of brutal murders shook the district known as Limehouse. A novel with Ackroyd's usual fiendish - and brilliant - mixing of fact and fiction, 261 pp. ISBN: 0-385-477074.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (crease on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 9034More details Price: $18.00 -
THE TRIAL OF ELIZABETH CREE: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1995. First edition - Historical novel set in Victorian England, with Ackroyd's usual fiendish - and brilliant - mixing of fact and fiction.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 9039More details Price: $18.00 -
ENGLISH MUSIC.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
Franklin, PA: Franklin Library, 1992. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in the Signed First Edition Society series, SIGNED by Ackroyd on a preliminary page and with a special two page message to subscribers. The story of a boy with psychic powers, whose visions draw him into the creations of Charles Dickens and William Blake, Thomas Mallory and Arthur Conan Doyle. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece and eleven other illustrations. This edition also has a special full color illustration at the front by Norman Walker. 400 pp.
Condition: Fine in brown leather with gilt lettering and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon bound in, hubbed spine.
Book ID: 75453More details Price: $35.00 -
FIRST LIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set around the excavation of an astronomically aligned neolithic grave in Dorset. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-11610.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (a tight copy, but with the usual rather severe toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 49322More details Price: $20.00 -
THE TRIAL OF ELIZABETH CREE: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in Victorian England, in London in 1880, when a series of brutal murders shook the district known as Limehouse. A novel with Ackroyd's usual fiendish - and brilliant - mixing of fact and fiction, 261 pp. ISBN: 0-385-477074.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 66833More details Price: $20.00 -
FIRST LIGHT
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set around the excavation of an astronomically aligned neolithic grave in Dorset. ISBN: 0-8021-11610.
Condition: Good in a good dust jacket. (some bleeding from the black cloth spine to inside of dj.)
Book ID: 34489More details Price: $12.50 -
ENGLISH MUSIC
Edition: First American trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a boy with psychic powers and of his visions where he is drawn into the creations of Charles Dickens and William Blake, Thomas Mallory and Arthur Conan Doyle. Frontispiece and eleven other illustrations. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-679-409688.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket (remainder line, section of front endpaper cut out, but otherwise tight and clean, appears unread.)
Book ID: 21827More details Price: $16.50 -
VOYAGES THROUGH TIME: In the Beginning.
Edition: First thus - first American edition, a trade paperback.
New York: DK Children, (2003). The first in a planned series of books on the history of earth, written for older children by this award-winning novelist and author. This "traces the history of life on Earth from the origins of the planet, through the development and extinction of a variety of life forms, to the end of the latest Ice Age and the appearance of modern humans." Illustrated throughout with full color photographs and paintings. Glossary, index. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-756607582.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (small nick to bottom edge of front cover).
Book ID: 87011More details Price: $15.00 -
Dr. KILDARE: Assigned to Trouble.
Edition: First or early printing.
Racine, WI: Western Publishing Company, Inc., (1963.). Hardcover - Illustrated throughout in 'blue and white' duotone drawings by Robert L. Jenney. "Authorized edition based on the famous M-G-M television series." 212 pp.
Condition: Good overall in glossy 'cellophane' boards (missing front endpaper, some delamination to the cover.)
Book ID: 44515More details Price: $12.50 -
OCCUPIED AMERICA: The Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Harper Collins, (1980, c 1972). A relatively early printing of this classic history which both shows (and attempts to explain) how Chicanos - Americans of Mexican descent - came to be treated as second class citizens and their struggle for their rights. Covers from the conquest of the Southwest to remember the Alamo in Texas, to California and the Delano strike, the deportations of the 1930s and more. Notes, index. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-06380350X.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88552More details Price: $18.00 -
THE HUNT.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third novel to be published in English, set in the mid-1950s, two years after the death of Stalin "in an unnamed East European country (strikingly similar to Hungary) on the eve of revolution, [it] portrays one of the great, intricate conflicts of modern history at the most human level." 422 pp. ISBN: 0-316008966.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (slight sunning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 76282More details Price: $16.50 -
WITH LOVE, LITTLE RED HEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Little Red Hen and her seven little chicks have moved into a cottage and plan to grow a bountiful crop of corn in the nearby field. The problem is that none of the Red Hen's neighbors are willing to help with the hard work. "Not I," says the dog, the goose, and the lazy cat. So Goldilocks, who has heard about the new arrivals from her friend Little Red Riding Hood, comes up with an idea. . ." A peek into many story book characters through the letters they write to each others. SIGNED on the title page by the illustrator, Leslie Tyron. Square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-689825811.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (an unread copy, but with a small spot on fore-edge of front endpaper)
Book ID: 66921More details Price: $24.50 -
HIDE AND SEEK.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Ivy / Ballantine, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, a story of romantic suspense set in a remote mountaintop in South America. SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-449006840.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82960More details Price: $14.50 -
ON THIN ICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel of romantic suspense by Adair to be published in hardcover, a story set against the background of the Iditarod race across Alaska. 306 pp. plus author's note. ISBN: 0-345475798.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74765More details Price: $16.50 -
WHITE HEAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of romantic suspense featuring Emily Greene, a professional art restorer. 317 pp. ISBN: 978-0-345476449.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74766More details Price: $16.50 -
HOT ICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel of romantic suspense by Adair to be published in hardcover. "Diamonds - jewels of every kind, in fact - are Taylor Kincaids best friends. The only thing she enjoys more is the challenge of stealing them, at which she excels like few others in the world." Stealing them from international criminals just makes it more exciting. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-345476425.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74764More details Price: $16.50 -
ANY SMALL THING CAN SAVE YOU: a Bestiary.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bluehen Books (Penguin Putnam), (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which combines "wisdom, insight and a hawk's eye for detail" (Kim Barnes) Each animal that passes by in this book reflects a truth about love - between a husband and a wife, a child and a parent, or a brother and a sister. Like a traditional bestiary, each chapter highlights one letter of the alphabet - K is for Kestrel, P is for Porcupine - but then takes off from there. SIGNED on the half title page. Erratum sheet laid in. Small format. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-399148140.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81315More details Price: $30.00 -
PORTIA: The World of Abigail Adams.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1995.). A fresh examination of Abigail Adams which places her at the center - rather than focusing on her roles as wife and mother of US presidents - and in doing so, this gives a picture of life for 18th century women. Co-winner, American Historical Association's Herbert Feis Award. Chronology, photographs, extensive notes and bibliography, index. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-253-210232.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 29709More details Price: $12.00 -
RETURN TRIPS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories. ISBN: 0-394-536339.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 21776More details Price: $24.00 -
RICH REWARDS.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in San Francisco in the 1970's. ISBN: 0-394-511018.
Condition: Very good in a good+ dustjacket (rem marks, previous owner's name, edgewear to dj).
Book ID: 3932More details Price: $12.50 -
THE LAST LOVELY CITY: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories with settings ranging from San Francisco to a North Carolina college town to a rundown Mexican resort. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454411.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 39894More details Price: $15.00 -
BEAUTIFUL GIRL.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first collection of sixteen short stories. ISBN: 0-394-42737-8.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (faint rem mark.)
Book ID: 16973More details Price: $20.00 -
A SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition -. ISBN: 0-679-444521.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 11122More details Price: $16.00 -
RETURN TRIPS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories. ISBN: 0-394-536339.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 20901More details Price: $18.00
