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THE SHOOTING GALLERY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, (2002_. First edition - The author's second mystery featuring Detective Alvin Yablonsky, who is trying to uncover the killer of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. 331 pp
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Publisher's letter laid in.
Book ID: 64070More details Price: $20.00 -
ENOUGH'S ENOUGH (And Other Rules of Life)
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of humorous columns on our national life, both public and private, by one of our funniest writers. SIGNED on the half title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-899199585.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62786More details Price: $30.00 -
ABOUT ALICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2006.) dj. First edition - A loving tribute to his wife, published five years after her death. 78 pp. ISBN: 9781400066155.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Newspaper review laid in.
Book ID: 42221More details Price: $15.00 -
THE PRICE OF SILENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A gripping psychological thriller. "Having taken a young Chinese woman under her wing, teacher Emma Perotti finds herself on trial for the girl's murder. Almost five years earlier, An-ling Huang walked into Emma's ESL classroom and into her family's life. Emma was drawn to the vulnerability she perceived in An-ling. An-ling, for her part, seemed to long for a surrogate mother and eagerly attached herself to Emma" even as that attachment threatens to tear Emma's family apart. INSCRIBED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 978-1569474587.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87042More details Price: $30.00 -
HAND OVER HEART, Poems 1981-1988.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
New York: Amethyst Press, 1991. First edition - Cover praise from James Schuyler and Dennis Cooper. Mary Gaitskill described these poems as follows: "Trinidad's desolate homages to American culture are perfect bullet fired from 2 inches away."
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new)
Book ID: 4267More details Price: $15.00 -
PLASTICVILLE: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Chappaqua, NY: Turtle Point Press, (2000.). First edition - A collection of poems that focus on the mass popular culture - from Chatty Cathy to Garbo to Monster Mash and AIDS - with praise from Bernard Cooper, Alice Notley, and others. Notes. 101 pp. ISBN: 1-885983468.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65529More details Price: $15.00 -
PLASTICVILLE: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Chappaqua, NY: Turtle Point Press, (2000.). First edition - A collection of poems that focus on the mass popular culture - from Chatty Cathy to Garbo to Monster Mash and AIDS - with praise from Bernard Cooper, Alice Notley, and others. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. Notes. 101 pp. ISBN: 1885983468.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 55430More details Price: $17.50 -
SOME PREDATORS ARE MALE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St. Martin's, (1986). dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third suspense novel - a story of an elaborate hoax - featuring the "quirky and rather large John Samson." 181 pp. ISBN: 0-312-005873.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (some edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 85782More details Price: $16.50 -
THE CORDS OF VANITY
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St. Martin's, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Classic British mystery featuring the portly detective John Samson. ISBN: 0-312-042795.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 25521More details Price: $15.00 -
DEATH OF A MAN-TAMER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St. Martin's, (1987). dj. Hardcover first edition - A trapper of rare animals for zoos is captured by an extreme animal rights groups and when one of those women wind up murdered, he becomes the prime suspect. The author's fourth novel featuring the "quirky and rather large John Samson." 160 pp. ISBN: 0-312-005873.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68680More details Price: $16.50 -
COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS.
Edition: First thus.
New York & London: Macmillan, 1903. Hardcover - A survey of life and travel on the Great Roads of England - the Bath Road, the Brighton Road, the Dover Road, and more - whether in the lumbering vehicles of the 17th century or in the light faster coaches of the early 1800s. Profusely illustrated with drawings by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Originally published in 1888, this is apparently the first edition in the Macmillan's Illustrated Pocket Classics series. Top edge gilt. A small volume. 376 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark red cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on front cover and spine (some rubbing to lettering on spine, previous owner's name, offsetting to endpapers)
Book ID: 78633More details Price: $35.00 -
I'M CALLING MOLLY.
Edition: First printing.
Niles, IL: Albert Whitman Co., 1990. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Charming story of the ups-and-downs of friendship between two children who live next door to each other, colorfully illustrated by Irene Trivas. Four year old Christopher, who has just learned to use the telephone, tries one ploy after another to get Molly to play with him, but she is busy with another friend. ISBN: 0-8075-34684.
Condition: An association copy, INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by the illustrator to the dedicatee 'For... my favorite neighbor, my friend, love, Irene.' Near fine in glossy illustrated boards.
Book ID: 22790More details Price: $45.00 -
HOMEMADE SIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. The third Callahan Garrity mystery - set in Atlanta, GA. ISBN: 0-06-0177659.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20991More details Price: $30.00 -
HAPPY NEVER AFTER
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. The fourth Callahan Garrity mystery. ISBN: 0-06-0176377.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 20992More details Price: $30.00 -
HAPPY NEVER AFTER
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. The fourth mystery featuring Callahan Garrity, the South's favorite cleaning lady/sleuth. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0176377.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 21071More details Price: $35.00 -
TO LIVE AND DIE IN DIXIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring cleaning lady and sometime sleuth Callahan Garrity
Set in Atlanta, GA. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-06-0179244.Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 21167More details Price: $45.00 -
STRANGE BREW.
Edition: First edition.
New York: HarperCollins, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Callahan Garity Mystery, set in Atlanta, Georgia. ISBN: 0-06-0175427.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 21282More details Price: $16.00 -
LICKETY-SPLIT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Truman Kicklighter mystery, set in Florida. ISBN: 0-06-0176415.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 21949More details Price: $12.50 -
CRASH COURSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring retiree extraodinarie, Truman Kicklighter, set in Florida. ISBN: 0-06-0176423.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 27547More details Price: $12.50 -
HAPPY NEVER AFTER
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth Callahan Garrity mystery (she runs a cleaning service in Atlanta, Georgia, and occasionally gets involved in an investigation). 306 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0176377.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.(review laid in.)
Book ID: 36184More details Price: $15.00 -
HEART TROUBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth Callahan Garrity mystery (she runs a cleaning service in Atlanta, Georgia, and keeps finding herself involved in a murder investigation). 295 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0176377.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36522More details Price: $15.00 -
JUAREZ JUSTICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring San Diego detective Tommy Donahoo. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-03563.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76613More details Price: $18.00 -
BALBOA FIREFLY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1994). dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller introducing San Diego detective Tommy Donahoo, head of the elite Squad 5. The story of "a madman who plans to shoot down a commercial airliner in the glide path into San Diego's international airport, Lindbergh Field, already the center of controversy because it is situated over a residential neighborhood" 262 pp. ISBN: 0-78670117X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70547More details Price: $18.00 -
MANILA TIME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1995). dj. Hardcover first edition - Second thriller feauturing San Diego detective Tommy Donahoo, head of the elite Squad 5. When his partner is attempting to backmail a killer and is shot, the killer expects Donahoo to follow thru on the deal. 298 pp. ISBN: 0-786702559.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70589More details Price: $18.00 -
PHINEAS FINN.
Edition: Reprint.
New York & London: Oxford University Press, (1977) dj. Hardcover - Originally published as a monthly serial from October 1867 to May 1868 in St Paul's Magazine, and in book form in 1869, this is the second of the "Palliser" series of novels, here reissued in a uniform format. This deals with "both British parliamentary politics of the 1860s, including voting reform (secret ballot and eliminating rotten boroughs and Irish tenant-right) and Finn's romances with women of fortune, which would secure his financial future." Preface by Sir Shane Leslie, illustrations by T. L. B. Huskinson . Notes and a "who's who." 367 pp. ISBN: 0-192546120.
Condition: Fine in brown cloth in a very good dust jacket (chip to top edge, some other edgewear).
Book ID: 81377More details Price: $15.00 -
THE RECTOR'S WIFE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Random House, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel by this author to be published in the US, basis of the PBS Masterpiece Theater series with a promotional sticker on the dust jacket. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1994. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-679-437029.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50742More details Price: $25.00 -
NEXT OF KIN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a family grappling with the death of a loved one, originally published in the UK in 1996. ISBN: 0-670-899992.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark.)
Book ID: 32223More details Price: $12.50 -
A SPANISH LOVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Preview edition in a special dustjacket with the same art as the regular edition, but a note to booksellers on the flap of the dj, and a notation 'preview edition' on the copyright page. ISBN: 0-679-457755.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20147More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BEST OF FRIENDS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of two longtime friends - who, however, marry someone else - and of their two marriages; a story of the complexities and dilemmas of every day life. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-670-879738.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (prev owner's name stamped on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 35248More details Price: $12.50 -
THE OTHER FAMILY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, (2010). First edition - Advance issue for the trade paperback edition. A once famous pianist dies leaving behind two families - a wife and son in the North of England whom he had long abandoned and his partner and three children in London, but the terms of his will force the families to confront each other, 321 pp,
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 62771More details Price: $18.00
