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A DESERT IN BOHEMIA.
Edition: First printing.
London: Doubleday, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's fifth adult novel - "serious, important and philosophically provocative - and infused with narrative urgency, suspense, pathos and passion as well. . . Set in Comenia, a fictional Czech- and German-speaking Eastern European country, the book chronicles the swift and brutal progress of communism in the years following WWII. Walsh follows nine characters over four decades, from 1945-1990, as their lives - already shattered by harrowing wartime experiences and now dislocated by political tyranny - intersect." (PW review) 333 pp. ISBN: 0-385601212.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light toning, crinkling to dj flaps).
Book ID: 76838More details Price: $18.50 -
MY SUNSHINE AWAY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, both a mystery and a coming-of-age story. In the summer of 1989, in a quiet Baton Rouge neighborhood where a fifteen-year-old girl, a free spirit and track star, is attacked late one evening near her home. "As the dark side of this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia is revealed, the close-knit neighborhood is irreversibly transformed.. . [a book which] brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime." SIGNED on the title page. 303 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85100More details Price: $35.00 -
MY SUNSHINE AWAY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, both a mystery and a coming-of-age story. In the summer of 1989, a quiet Baton Rouge neighborhood is rocked by a violent crime when a fifteen-year-old girl, a free spirit and track star, is attacked late one evening near her home. "As the dark side of this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia is revealed, the close-knit neighborhood is irreversibly transformed.. . [a book which] brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2014, that is, before publication. 303 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85060More details Price: $40.00 -
OLIVE MY LOVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A charming tale featuring two dogs and a fast-talking squirrel: Olive takes off on a journey to return Dexter's (Mr Lunch) heart. SIGNED by Vivian Walsh on the illustrated dedication page and dated in the year of publication. Colorfully illustrated throughout by J. Otto Seibold. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-15-2047204.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 55945More details Price: $25.00 -
JUNE AND AUGUST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Two animals who share a love of the night sky meet in the daylight and are surprised to discover how different they are." SIGNED and dated in the year of publication, on the page opposite the title page, by both the author and illustrator. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 9780810984103.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60471More details Price: $25.00 -
MICKEY MOUSE GOES TO WORK: A Mix and Match Book.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Franklin Watts, (1979.). Hardcover first edition - Contains 8 stiff cardboard pages, spiral bound, with each cut into 4 pieces so they various sections can be mixed and matched in "thousands of funny combinations.". ISBN: 0-531-051501.
Condition: Very good in laminated boards.
Book ID: 50798More details Price: $15.00 -
GOOFY'S FOREST FUN.
Racine, WI: Whitman - Golden Books, 1973. Hardcover - Thick board book with colorful illustrations, cloth spine.
Condition: Very good+ (gift inscription on first page.)
Book ID: 22653More details Price: $12.50 -
BAMBI.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Gallery Books, 1986. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Disney Classic series. Large format. 95 pp. ISBN: 0-831706813.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards.
Book ID: 78062More details Price: $15.00 -
WALT DISNEY DONALD DUCK'S WORLD TOUR.
Edition: First edition.
Racine, WI: Western Publishing Company, Inc., (1971.). Hardcover first edition - A Golden Book, a board book, unpaginated [10] pps. Bound in thick illustrated cover, with yellow cloth-tape spine. Donald and his nephews and Goofy travel from the North Pole to the Everglades to the jungle.
Condition: Good only (binding cracked before rear cover, peeled spot in lower corner of first page and 'Louie' written on upper corner of 2nd page.)
Book ID: 37823More details Price: $12.50 -
CITIZEN VINCE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Regan Books (Harper Collins), (2005.). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel, set in Spokane, Washington in the fall of 1980, eight days before the presidential election pitting Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter - a story of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics, and murder. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 40033More details Price: $50.00 -
THE ZERO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Regan - Harper Collins, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A darkly comic novel by this Edgar award winning writer - it begins with a hero cop who awakes to find that he has shot himself in the head. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the National Book Award. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0898658.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 50638More details Price: $28.50 -
CITIZEN VINCE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: HarperPerennial, (2006.). SIGNED - Edgar award winning novel. INSCRIBED and dated on the title page. ISBN: 0-06-0989297.
Condition: Very good- (spine slant).
Book ID: 47613More details Price: $18.00 -
THE ZERO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Regan - Harper Collins, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A darkly comic novel by this Edgar award winning writer - it begins with a hero cop who awakes to find that he has shot himself in the head. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the National Book Award. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0898658.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 56806More details Price: $35.00 -
THE FINANCIAL LIVES OF THE POETS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A funny -but serious - look at our financial meltdown. After gambling everything on an internet business, Matt wakes up one morning to find himself jobless, saddled with debt, reduced to spying on his wife's online flirtation and six days away from losing his house. Scoring some weed doesn't help the situation at all. Walter has proven he can do it all - non-fiction, Edgar award winning mystery and National Book Award finalist. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-06-1916048.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (corner slightly bumped)
Book ID: 87991More details Price: $21.50 -
CITIZEN VINCE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Regan Books (Harper Collins), (2005.). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel, set in Spokane, Washington in the fall of 1980, eight days before the presidential election pitting Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter - a story of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics, and murder. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in October 2004 - tha is before publication - and uncommon thus. 293 pp plus author's referendum.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86642More details Price: $50.00 -
IN CONTEMPT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The inside story of the OJ Simpson trial, but also the story of Darden himself, growing up poor in Richmond , California, but determined to succeed in his dream of being a lawyer. Photographs. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0391839.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 57232More details Price: $15.00 -
IN CONTEMPT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The inside story of the OJ Simpson trial, but also the story of Darden himself, growing up poor in Richmond , California, but determined to succeed in his dream of being a lawyer. SIGNED on the title page by co-author Jess Walter (who gets the small type, but said he just wanted it large enough for his mother to see.) Photographs. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0391839.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56807More details Price: $30.00 -
MISSISSIPPI CHALLENGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bradbury Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The history of African Americans in Mississippi told by this award-winning author in a major, two-part work of nonfiction - the first covering the period through slavery, reconstruction and the Jim Crow era, the second focusing on the civil rights era, and the drive for voter registration. Whenever possible, the story is told in the words of the participants. Illustrated throughout with historic photographs, map of Mississippi. Ssource notes, bibliography, index, xv, 205 pp. ISBN: 0-02-7923010.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58208More details Price: $18.50 -
DARKNESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which begins by asking children, "Are you afraid of the dark?" and then goes on to describe all the wonderful things that can happen in the dark - from "falling stars to the shadows of friends, from the safety of the womb to the crystal waters that bubble from beneath the earth." Vividly illustrated with with striking double-page-spread acrylic paintings by Marcia Jameson. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0+689803052.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88706More details Price: $18.50 -
LAND OF THE BLIND.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88910More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SCULPTRESS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, winner of the Edgar Award for best mystery, SIGNED on the titel page. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-312-099096.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86342More details Price: $45.00 -
CHICKENFEED.
Edition: First printing, a slim trade paperback original.
London: Pan Books / Macmillan, (2006). First edition - A novella based on the true story of the 'Chicken Farm Murder' which took place in East Sussex in 1924, and for which Norman Thorne was hanged in 1925, despite doubts about his guilt. A title in the Quick Reads series. Author's note. 121 pp. ISBN: 0-330440314.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86420More details Price: $15.00 -
THE CHAMELEON'S SHADOW,
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 13th novel by this award winning crime writer - a psychological thriller about a scarred Iraq war veteran whose physical trauma may reflect the inner turmoil of a killer. SIGNED on the title page. 385 pp. ISBN: 978-0230015661.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (usual light toning to pages).
Book ID: 84306More details Price: $35.00 -
THE SCULPTRESS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, winner of the Edgar Award for best mystery, 308 pp. ISBN: 0-312-099096.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 53480More details Price: $18.00 -
THE DARK ROOM
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Putnam, 1996. dj. Hardcover - Award winning author's 4th novel. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140786.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (some edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 48477More details Price: $12.50 -
THE ECHO
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (2007.). Highly-praised author's fifth novel of psychological suspense and mystery, centered around the death of a homeless man. Walters has won many awards include the Creasey, Edgar and the Golden Dagger. 338 pp. ISBN: 9780307277107.
Condition: Good overall - wear to covers, edges.
Book ID: 46987More details Price: $8.50 -
THE BREAKER.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth novel of suspense by this Edgar-winning author, set on the south coast of England where a woman's body is found washed up on the beach and her 3 year old daughter is found abandoned 20 miles away. 356 pp. ISBN: 0-333-747127.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52498More details Price: $18.00 -
THE SCOLD'S BRIDLE
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third novel - a gripping mystery that begins with a suicide - or was it murder? -in a small English village. Winner of Britain's Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel, and one of my favorites of her books. ISBN: 0-312-113773.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 10045More details Price: $25.00 -
THE DARK ROOM
Edition: First US edition.
New York: Putnam, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning author's 4th novel. ISBN: 0-399-140786.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (light edgewear)
Book ID: 3449More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SCOLD'S BRIDLE
Edition: First US edition.
New York: St Martin's, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third novel - a gripping mystery that begins with a suicide - or was it murder? -in a small English village. Winner of Britain's Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel. ISBN: 0-312-113773.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (rem line)
Book ID: 3524More details Price: $18.00