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GREEN PHOENIX.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: DAW Books, (1972). First edition - The last stand of the pre-humans and their defense against the fallen legions of Troy. Illustrations and cover art by George Barr. DAW SF No.27 with the distinctive yellow spine. 141 pp.
Condition: Very near fine (light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 68180More details Price: $10.00 -
THE MINIKINS OF YAM.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: DAW Books, (1976). First edition - Fantasy novel set in ancient Egypt, in the land of the Pharoahs. Illustrations and cover art by George Barr. DAW SF No.182 with the distinctive yellow spine. 156 pp.
Condition: Very near fine (light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 68181More details Price: $10.00 -
THE NOT-WORLD.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: DAW Books, (1975). First edition - A story of the ancient weird folk of legend in an English forest of two centuries ago. Illustrations and cover art by George Barr. DAW SF No.140 with the distinctive yellow spine. 160 pp.
Condition: Very near fine (light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 68179More details Price: $8.50 -
MURDER OF A BOOKSTORE BABE: A Scumble River Mystery.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Obsidian / NAL, 2011 (2011). First edition - "School psychologist Skye Denison discovers a body crushed by a toppled bookcase in Scumble River's new bookstore." 243 pp plus a preview of the next book in the series. ISBN: 978-0451232809.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 69175More details Price: $10.00 -
HER EVERY FEAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2017). SIGNED first edition - A "Hitchcockian psychological thriller . . . involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and murder." Set in Boston. SIGNED by the author on the dedication page. 329 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71634More details Price: $30.00 -
HER EVERY FEAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2017). SIGNED first edition - A "Hitchcockian psychological thriller . . . involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and murder." Set in Boston. SIGNED by the author on the dedication page and dated in October 2016. 329 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71635More details Price: $35.00 -
BEFORE SHE KNEW HIM.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019). First edition - A quietly developing thriller set in a suburban neighborhood where a young wife, with a history of pyschological instability, becomes convinced that their neighbor is a serial killer. 312 pp
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85078More details Price: $21.00 -
EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020). First edition - A novel of psychological suspense, set in Boston on Beacon Hill, and featuring bookseller Malcolm Kershaw. "Years ago, Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack - which he titled 'Eight Perfect Murders' - chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie's A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin's Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, John D. Macdonald's The Drowner, and Donna Tartt's A Secret History." Now a serial killer is using that list, and the FBI is on his doorstep. 270 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78948More details Price: $21.50 -
FINAL REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES DE SOTO EXPEDITION COMMISSION
Edition: Trade paperback.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83844More details Price: $25.00 -
JACK FAUST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Avon, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fascinating alternate history book, a retelling of Goethe's Faust story, where Jack Faust has been given the knowledge of technology. SIGNED on the title page. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-380-974444.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41595More details Price: $30.00 -
BONES OF THE EARTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: EOS / Harper Collins, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Provocative novel - a combination of paleontology, dinosaurs returning to earth and time travel, 335 pp. ISBN: 0-380978369.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line, bit of edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 66312More details Price: $16.50 -
BONES OF THE EARTH.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: EOS / Harper Collins, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Provocative novel - a combination of paleontology, dinosaurs returning to earth and time travel, 335 pp. ISBN: 0-380978369.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73462More details Price: $12.50 -
ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE August 1986. Volume 10, Number 8.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Davis Publications, 1986. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by THREE contributors - by Karen Joy Fowler at her early story: 'The Dragon's Head' and by Harry Turtledove at his novelette 'Strange Eruptions' and by Michael Swanwick at his essay "Viewpoint: A User's Guide to the Postmoderns. Also includes novelettes by Orson Scott Card and Lucius Shepard. Cover art byTerry Lee. 192 pp.
Condition: Near fine (mailing label, light toning to the pages,)
Book ID: 48765More details Price: $21.50 -
KILLING ME SOFTLY: Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
New York: HarperPrism, (1995.). SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by FOUR authors at their stories: She's Not There by Pat Cadigan; Waltzing on a Dancer's Grave by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Hard Drive by Nancy Kress; and North of Diddy Wah Diddy by Michael Swanwick. Also includes ten other stories: Unchosen Love by Ursula K. Le Guin; The Gardner by Mary Rosenblum; The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard; The Affair by Robert Silverberg; Relationships by Robert Sampson; In the Air by Maureen F. McHugh; Nunc Dimittis by Tanith Lee; Chihuahua Flats by Michael Bishop; The Two Headed Man by Nancy A. Collins; The Joy of Hats by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario; and The Fire When It Comes by Parke Godwin. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-06-1053287).
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped, few corners creased.)
Book ID: 43660More details Price: $30.00 -
FOUR INCARNATIONS: New and Selected Poems, 1957 - 1991.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1991. SIGNED first edition - Includes a generous selection of some of the best poems by this award-winning writer. SIGNED on the title page. 129 pp. ISBN: 0-918273-900.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 53113More details Price: $16.00 -
THE HOMESMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of the frontier in the 1850s, and of two ornery, strong-willed individuals - one a woman homesteading on her own, the other a drifter and claim-jumper - yoked together in the most unlikely of undertakings - that is, acting as "homesman" and escorting four women who have gone mad from the isolation back to the East. Basis for the 2014 film of the same name directed by Tommy Lee Jones and starring Jones and Hilary Swank. 239 pp. ISBN: 1-555842356.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70583More details Price: $60.00 -
THE NEST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first book, a warm, funny and perceptive novel about four adult siblings from a spectacularly dysfunctional family, who have spent years relying on an inheritance they expected to receive - "the nest" - only to find that it is no longer there. SIGNED on the title page. 353 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. A surprisingly uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 86476More details Price: $45.00 -
THE NEST.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2016) dj. Hardcover - The author's very highly praised first book, a warm, funny and perceptive novel about four adult siblings from a spectacularly dysfunctional family, who have spent years relying on an inheritance they expected to receive - "the nest" - only to find that it is no longer there. 353 pp. ISBN: 978-0062414212.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86523More details Price: $19.50 -
WAITING FOR THE HEALER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Picador, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first novel: the murder of a man's brother forces his return to the small Irish town where he grew up. One review called this "Fast-moving and harshly observed. This is a new Ireland, somewhere between Roddy Doyle and Quentin Tarantino, post-Catholic." 308 pp. ISBN: 0-312182066.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 40814More details Price: $25.00 -
GOD'S HOTEL: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (upper corners bumped) Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 88819More details Price: $35.00 -
A HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA.
Edition: Enlarged (2nd) edition.
New York: Abingdon Press, (1921, c 1919). Hardcover - A comprehensive account, this edition includes an additional chapter on during and after the Great War (World War I) Illustrated with 3 glossy plates and 18 maps, including three folding maps in full color. Bibliographies at the end of each chapter, Index, pronouncing glossary. 308 pp.
Condition: Very good in olive green cloth with gilt lettering (a few pencil notations, prev owner's name)
Book ID: 66618More details Price: $20.00 -
VIETNAM: THE ENDLESS WAR
Edition: First printing.
New York: Monthly Review, 1970. Hardcover first edition - Essays from the Monthly Review 1954-1970 - because these essays were published over such a long period of time they present both a powerful antiwar argument and a running politico-strategic analysis.
Condition: NF/NF (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 8380More details Price: $18.00 -
TRY: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, (1999). First edition - A collection of poems inspired by medieval and early Renaissance paintings, looked at with a modern eye, one which explores the intersection between writing and the visual arts. One of three books awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize in 1998. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-877456593.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (initials in corner of first page).
Book ID: 79022More details Price: $16.50 -
THE SOUTH SEA SHILLING: Voyages Of Captain Cook, R.N.
Edition: Junior Literary Guild Edition.
New York Viking, (1952.). Hardcover - Illustrated by Charles Michael Daugherty in pen and ink drawings. Map endpapers. Index. 275 pp.
Condition: Very good condition ( lacking dj, some soiling to covers, slight toning to pages)
Book ID: 28469More details Price: $12.50 -
THE LANDLADY IN BANGKOK
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1994. First edition - Collection of poetry selected as part of the National Poetry Series by Maxine Kumin - based on the author's travels in Southeast Asia: "Coming to adventure late.."
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated covers.
Book ID: 9023More details Price: $12.00 -
THE LANDLADY IN BANGKOK
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1994. First edition - Collection of poetry selected as part of the National Poetry Series by Maxine Kumin - based on the author's travels in Southeast Asia: "Coming to adventure late.." Review copy with publisher's letter laid in.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated covers.
Book ID: 14383More details Price: $18.00 -
POEMS TO SOLVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1966.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of 35 poems for children - some are riddle poems, others have hidden meanings - includes poems on cats and birds. Complex poetry for children - brief introduction (a clue or two) by Swenson. Unpaginated.
Condition: Ex-library, in sturdy library binding, no dj.
Book ID: 30918More details Price: $12.50 -
NEW VOICES: Selected University & College Prize-Winning Poems 1979-1983.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
New York: The Academy of American Poets, (1984.). First edition - An interesting anthology containing 58 poems by 54 poets at 40 colleges or universities. Among the poets are Maurya Simon, Leon Stokesbury, Thylias Moss, Paula Sharp, Lee Upton and many others. Notes on the contributors and a list of judges. 128 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (creases to corners)
Book ID: 40935More details Price: $15.00 -
EVENING NEWS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel, one which explores the strains a terrible accident puts on a family - when one child shoots another. Robert Olen Butler called this 'a novel of rare power and profound importance.' 356 pp. ISBN: 0-316-825336.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 21953More details Price: $16.00 -
EVENING NEWS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel, one which explores the strains a terrible accident puts on a family - when one child shoots another. Robert Olen Butler called this 'a novel of rare power and profound importance.' SIGNED on the title page. 356 pp. ISBN: 0-316-825336.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 60899More details Price: $30.00