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BEACH BOY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's prize-winning (winner of the Betty Trask award, shortlisted for the Whitbread) novel, this is the story of an 8 year old boy in early 1970's Bombay. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-684-852993.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48885More details Price: $20.00 -
I GAVE YOU ALL I HAD.
Edition: First English language edition.
New York: Arcade Publishing, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - A funny and frank novel, the story of a woman born in pre-revolutionary Cuba, who discovers the 'love of her life' in Havana, only to have him disappear on the eve of the Revolution - and who, like Cuba itself, spends the next years waiting for the promised bright future. Finalist for Spain's prestigious Planeta Prize. Translated from the Spanish by Nadia Benabid. ISBN: 1-55970-4772.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26344More details Price: $18.00 -
THE DIRTY GIRLS SOCIAL CLUB.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - the story of 6 very different professional woman who form a mutual support club, and vow to be friends forever. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-312-313810.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26066More details Price: $32.50 -
MAKE HIM LOOK GOOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, the story of six women and their relationships with one very charismatic man. Sexy, romantic and full of fun, set in the Miami night club world. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-312-349661.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56923More details Price: $17.50 -
PLAYING WITH BOYS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (2004.). First edition - Author's second novel, the story of three friends, trying to make it in Los Angeles. 359 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 54409More details Price: $18.00 -
PLAYING WITH BOYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, the story of three friends, trying to make it in Los Angeles. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-312-332343.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45083More details Price: $13.50 -
WINGFIN AND TOPPLE.
Edition: First edition.
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co., (1962.). Hardcover first edition - The story of a fish who doesn't quite fit in - he is not sleek like the other herrings - illustrated in both black and white and in color by Clement Hurd, including some two page spreads. Large square format, unpaginated.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated boards.
Book ID: 55196More details Price: $17.50 -
UNORTHODOX METHODS.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Gollancz, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First hardcover edition of this title - the author's first book, a mystery set at Lake Tahoe. SIGNED on the title page.
Condition: Although this does not look bad with a dj protector, and the contents are in very good condition, both the dustjacket and the boards have been damaged - 'chewed up' is the term which comes to mind. Thus, only an interesting signed reading copy.
Book ID: 12573More details Price: $20.00 -
MECHANIQUE: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Prime Books, (2011.). The author's first novel. From the back cover: 'Come inside and take a seat; the show is about to begin.Outside any city still standing, the Mechanical Circus Tresaulti sets up its tents. Crowds pack the benches to gawk at the brass-and-copper troupe and their impossible feats: Ayar the Strong Man, the acrobatic Grimaldi Brothers, fearless Elena and her aerialists who perform on living trapezes. War is everywhere, but while the Circus is performing, the world is magic.' Cover and interior drawings by Kiri Moth. 284 pp. ISBN: 9781607012535.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 51486More details Price: $12.00 -
GUALE: The Sacred Landscape.
Edition: First printing.
Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, (1988). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 120 full color photographs rooted in Valentine's love affair with Guale and its sacred landscape. "The Guale Indians lived, hunted and fished amidst the barrier islands of the Georgia coast. That jewel like chain of islands still possess a unique diversity of sub-tropical coastal life and landscape" and these striking photographs reveal the beauty of the area. Foreword by Eugenia Price. SIGNED by Jim Valentine on the title page. Large format. Map, photographer's note. 128 pp. ISBN: 0-934601577.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 79527More details Price: $30.00 -
GOOD DREAM, BAD DREAM / SUENO BUENO, SUENO MALO: The World's Heroes Save the Night!
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Immedium (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Los heroes del mundo salvan la noche! Bilingual Spanish/English book for young children colorfully illustrated on every page. SIGNED on the page facing the title page by author Serena Valentino. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1597021036.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket (as new)
Book ID: 63488More details Price: $21.50 -
THE LIZARD'S TAIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Argentinian born author's first novel (3rd book) to appear in the US. An imaginary biography of a real figure - Peron's Minister of Social Well-Being - who is called the Sorcerer. SIGNED on the title page by the translartor, Gregory Rabassa, and uncommon thus. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-374-18994-3.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 16240More details Price: $60.00 -
EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth Harry Stoner mystery. ISBN: 0-385-296835.
Condition: Very good+ in good dust jacket (long closed tear on back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 18393More details Price: $12.50 -
DAY OF WRATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Congdon & Lattes, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring Harry Stoner, a tough, sensitive private eye.
Condition: Very good condition in a somewhat edgeworn and soiled dj.
Book ID: 13783More details Price: $12.50 -
DEAD LETTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third in the highly acclaimed mystery series featuring detective Harry Stoner. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-396-079814.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 49699More details Price: $18.00 -
FIRE LAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh Harry Stoner mystery, pitting the private eye against the Cincinnati underworld of drugs and death. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-385295898.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 36223More details Price: $13.50 -
FIRE LAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh Harry Stoner mystery, pitting the private eye against the Cincinnati underworld of drugs and death. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-385295898.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (slight wear to dj.)
Book ID: 36397More details Price: $15.00 -
FIRE LAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh Harry Stoner mystery, pitting the private eye against the Cincinnati underworld of drugs and death. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-385295898.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (hole rubbed in front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 36518More details Price: $12.50 -
THE NETWORK REVOLUTION: Confessions of a Computer Scientist.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers - minor wear to covers, light reading crease on spine. Scarce in the first edition.
Book ID: 87195More details Price: $85.00 -
DARK WIND BLOWING.
Edition: First printing.
Brisbane: The Jacaranda Press. (1961) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second poetry collection, one which contains the best of his mature poems - lyrical and delicate. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper "For Jim with thanks for so much in so short a time" and dated in 1962 in Brisbane. The poet has corrected line 7, pg 14 by inserting the word "beyond." 63 pp plus acknowledgements.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 69092More details Price: $20.00 -
QUEEN OF THE FALLS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. dj. Hardcover first edition - The true story of Annie Edson Taylor (1838-1921), a plump grandmotherly woman of 63 who, hoping for fame and riches, decided to be the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, as told by this Caldecott award winning writer. She was not only the first one to do so - she remains the only woman to successfully do this alone. Illustrated by Van Allsburg in sepia toned drawings. Tall format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0547315812.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket (an unread copy but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 68527More details Price: $18.50 -
THE WRETCHED STONE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Excerpts from the log of the 'Rita Anne', Randall Ethan Hope, Captain. Another totally original, imaginative and beautiful book by Van Allsburg, illustrated with double page full-color paintings. ISBN: 0-395-533074.
Condition: SIGNED and dated on the title page. Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 23027More details Price: $75.00 -
THE WRETCHED STONE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Excerpts from the log of the 'Rita Anne', Randall Ethan Hope, Captain. Another totally original, imaginative and beautiful book by Van Allsburg, illustrated with double page full-color paintings. ISBN: 0-395-53307-4.
Condition: SIGNED and dated on the title page. Fine in a very near fine dustjacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 23028More details Price: $65.00 -
THE STRANGER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautifully told and illustrated story of the changing of the seasons. His second book to be illustrated in full-color. SIGNED and dated on the title page. Oblong format. ISBN: 0-395-423317.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dj. (prev owner's name and small blacked over spot on front endpaper, some rubbing and light edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 23069More details Price: $95.00 -
THE WRETCHED STONE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Excerpts from the log of the 'Rita Anne', Randall Ethan Hope, Captain. Another totally original, imaginative and beautiful book by Van Allsburg, illustrated with double page full-color paintings. A very special copy: this has a gift inscription dated Christmas 1991 from a little girl to her teacher 'the world's best teacher' and Van Allsburg also inscribed this to the teacher with the comment 'a wonderful teacher.' Van Allsburg's illustrations touch both children and adults - as this pair of inscriptions so vividly illustrate. ISBN: 0-395-53307-4.
Condition: INSCRIBED and dated in the year of publication on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped, inscription.)
Book ID: 27972More details Price: $55.00 -
JUST A DREAM.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Ben, the litterbug, gets a glimpse of the future if people continue to ignore and damage the environment. Beautifully illustrated in full color. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-395-533082.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 77208More details Price: $25.00 -
BEN'S DREAM.
Edition: 5th printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. dj. Hardcover - Early printing of Van Allsburg's third book: Lulled to sleep by the rain, when he is studying his geography book, Ben has a dream in which he and his home float by the great monuments of the world, half submerged under water. Illustrated with intricate black and white drawings - many pages are wordless to induce the reader to look more carefully at the pictures. Square format. 31 pp. ISBN: 0395-320844.
Condition: Fine in a very good dustjacket (short closed tear to dj.)
Book ID: 35709More details Price: $20.00 -
JUST A DREAM.
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover - Ben, the litterbug, gets a glimpse of the future if people continue to ignore and damage the environment. Beautifully illustrated in full color. ISBN: 0-395-533082.
Condition: Near fine in very good- dust jacket. (edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 35142More details Price: $12.50 -
JUST A DREAM.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Ben, the litterbug, gets a glimpse of the future if people continue to ignore and damage the environment. Beautifully illustrated in full color. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-395-533082.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (short tears with associated creasing and chipping to upper edge of dj, now protected by an archival cover).
Book ID: 40451More details Price: $17.50 -
THE GARDEN OF ABDUL GASAZI.
Edition: 14th printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1979.) dj. Hardcover - Van Allsburg's first picture book - winner of at least 8 awards, including being selected as a Caldecott Honor Book. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-395-27804x.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a good dust jacket (label on spine, front flap "thinned" from being pasted down to endpapers.)
Book ID: 56688More details Price: $15.00
