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LIGHT RAID
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second collaboration between these two highly acclaimed authors. 229 p. ISBN: 0-441-483119.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 61808More details Price: $25.00 -
LIGHT RAID
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second collaboration between these two highly acclaimed authors. SIGNED by BOTH Willis and Felice on the title page. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-441-483119.
Condition: Very good in a fine dustjacket (usual toning to the pages, binding cracking before half title page).
Book ID: 16333More details Price: $65.00 -
ISAAC ASIMOV SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE, October 1992, Volume 16, Number 11.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Davis Publications, 1992. SIGNED first edition - Includes an editorial by Connie Willis on 'The Women SF Doesn't See', novellas by Dann, Sargent and Maureen McHugh, a novella by J. R. Dunn, poetry by Terry McGarry and Steve Rasnic Tem. This copy is SIGNED by Connie Willis at her contribution.
Condition: Near fine in wrappers (no mailing label.)
Book ID: 13588More details Price: $18.00 -
NEBULA AWARDS 24: SWFA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1988.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 33675More details Price: $65.00 -
ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE, April, 1983 (Vol 7, No 4.)
Edition: First printing.
New York: Davis Publications, 1983. First edition - Includes a profile of James Tiptree, Jr, stories by Connie Willis, Jack McDevitt, Brian Aldris, John Morrissey and more. Cover by Mark Yankus. 178 pp.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 47500More details Price: $10.00 -
NEBULA AWARDS 29: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 35074More details Price: $65.00 -
CHRYSALIS 10.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An original anthology of all new science fiction stories by the following authors: Jay A. Parry, David F. Bischoff, Tanith Lee, Steve Rasnic Tem, Andrew Weiner, Roger Zelazny, Thomas F. Monteleone, Tetsu Yano, Leanne Frahm, Connie Willis and Gardner Dozois. Edited and with an introduction by Roy Torgeson. SIGNED by Connie Willis at the beginning of her story "A Little Moonshine." 182 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Tom Barber. ISBN: 0-385-175981.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 32625More details Price: $30.00 -
IN SEARCH OF THE GIANT.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 83399More details Price: $16.50 -
IN THE MOUNTAINS OF AMERICA.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: Mercury House, 1994. First edition - Collection of 12 short stories set in the Appalachian mountains, by this award winning writer who was born in West Virginia. 179 pp. ISBN: 1-56279-0668.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (edges of covers curling slightly).
Book ID: 86446More details Price: $13.50 -
IN THE MOUNTAINS OF AMERICA.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: Mercury House, 1994. First edition - Collection of 12 short stories set in the Appalachian mountains, by this award winning writer who was born in West Virginia. 179 pp. ISBN: 1-56279-0668.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 23437More details Price: $15.00 -
A SPACE APART
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1979. Hardcover first edition - Author's uncommon first novel, set in a small mining town in West Virginia. Anne Tyler praise on dj: "so deftly and subtly written, I hardly noticed how involved I'd become until I reached the last page and turned it, wanting more."
Condition: NF/NF.
Book ID: 8038More details Price: $40.00 -
SAY THIS PRAYER INTO THE PAST: Poems
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original,
Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, (2013). First edition - The author's third collection of poetry, one which "reckons with cadavers in the family closet, a house lost to a wildfire, and the heartbreaking beauty of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California." A title in the Poiema Poetry series. Notes, 100 pp. ISBN: 978-1625641670.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66324More details Price: $15.00 -
SOME THINGS THAT STAY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000). First edition - Set in Sherman, New York in the spring of 1954 , Tamara and her family begin to settle into their farmhouse. The author's first novel, the story of a young girl's coming to age and the fears she encounters with a mother ill with tuberculosis and a father who escapes into his art. 275 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61307More details Price: $15.00 -
SAINTS AND STRANGERS
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Time Incorporated, 1964. Subtitled 'being the lives of the Pilgrim fathers and their families, with their friends and foes; and an account of their posthumous wanderings in limbo, their final resurrection and rise to glory and the strange pilgrimages of Plymouth Rock. A classic history of the Pilgrims. 565 pages, including notes, bibliography and index. Doublepage maps inserted at beginning and end of book. New preface for this edition.
Condition: Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 28040More details Price: $10.00 -
GREEN RIVER RISING
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, 1994. First edition - Highly praised first novel - James Ellroy called it "a stunner...maybe the greatest prison novel ever." The story of an uprising in a mean East Texas prison by an English writer and practising psychiatrist who specializes in treating heroin addicts - the writing is sometimes uneven, and is definitely not for squeamish readers, but the overall effect is compelling and powerful.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 26365More details Price: $20.00 -
BLOODSTAINED KINGS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Random House, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel, a gritty and realistic suspense novel set in New Orleans and the rural south, by this English writer who is both a screenwriter and film producer, and a practising psychiatrist specializing in treating heroin addicts. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450092.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42230More details Price: $16.50 -
THE RELIGION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Massive historical epic begins in 1565 when "Suleiman the Magnificant, Emperor of the Ottomans has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The largest armada the world has ever seen approaches the Knights' Christian stronghold on the island of Malta. The Turks know the Knights as the 'Hounds of Hell.' The Knights call themselves 'The Religion.' " Glossary. 618 pp plus a note about the author. ISBN: 0-374-248656.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 45674More details Price: $20.00 -
THE RELIGION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007.). First edition - Massive historical epic begins in 1565 when "Suleiman the Magnificant, Emperor of the Ottomans has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The largest armada the world has ever seen approaches the Knights' Christian stronghold on the island of Malta. The Turks know the Knights as the 'Hounds of Hell.' The Knights call themselves 'The Religion.' " 627 pp plus a glossary.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illlustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 38260More details Price: $20.00 -
BLOODSTAINED KINGS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel, set in New Orleans and the rural south, by this English writer who is a practising psychiatrist specializing in treating heroin addicts. SIGNED on the titel page. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-224-041606.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 52006More details Price: $35.00 -
GREEN RIVER RISING
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, 1994. First edition - Highly praised first novel - James Ellroy called it "a stunner...maybe the greatest prison novel ever." The story of an uprising in a mean East Texas prison by an English writer and practising psychiatrist who specializes in treating heroin addicts - the writing is sometimes uneven, and is definitely not for squeamish readers, but the overall effect is compelling and powerful.
Condition: Very good minus in glossy illustrated wrappers (several tiny pressure marks to front cover).
Book ID: 59747More details Price: $15.00 -
GREEN RIVER RISING
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, 1994. First edition - Highly praised first novel - James Ellroy called it "a stunner...maybe the greatest prison novel ever." The story of an uprising in a mean East Texas prison by an English writer and practising psychiatrist who specializes in treating heroin addicts - the writing is sometimes uneven, and is definitely not for squeamish readers, but the overall effect is compelling and powerful.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 10052More details Price: $24.00 -
MYSTERY OF THE LOBSTER THIEVES.
Edition: Weekly reader book club edition.
Middletown CT: Xerox Education Publications, (1978.). Hardcover - Illustrated by Raymond Keane. 56 pp. ISBN: 0-883752174.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated boards (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 42375More details Price: $12.50 -
CERTAIN TRUMPETS, The Call of Leaders
Edition: Uncorrected proof.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. The study of different types of leaders from electoral (Roosevelt) to radical (Harriet Tubman), artistic (Martha Graham), military, religious, etc. Also includes examples of antitypes to clarify what is involved in being a leader. Photographs.
Condition: Near fine in printed yellow wrappers.
Book ID: 5930More details Price: $15.00 -
THE KENNEDY IMPRISONMENT: A Meditation on Power.
Edition: First edition.
Boston: Little, Bown, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - A retrospective look at the history of the Kennedy family. Index. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-316-943851.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 61089More details Price: $18.00 -
HIGHER THAN EAGLES. The Tragedy and Triumph of an American Family.
Edition: First printing.
Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An acccount of the author's family and of her six children, two whom were lost to hang gliding. Her oldest son Bobby was not only a champion, he was a legend in the sport and Chris, who co-wrote this with his mother was the hang-gliding champion of 1973 before he became an orthopedic surgeon. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED by Maralys Wills on the front endpaper. 362 pp. ISBN: 1-563520257.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79565More details Price: $25.00 -
THE DRAWING GUIDE: A Manual of Instruction in Industrial Drawing, Designed to Accompany the Industrial Drawing Series.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877 (c 1873). Hardcover - "With An Introductory Article on the Principles and Practice of Ornamental Art." 205 pp plus 8 plates.
Condition: Good condition in dark green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (a hint of spine slant, corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 66754More details Price: $30.00 -
LOVE UNKNOWN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at contempory life as it plays out in the stories of three women, friends since they were young roommates - a "hillarious and poignant story of infidelity and fulfillment." 202 pp. ISBN: 0-670-817589.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68414More details Price: $18.00 -
WINNIE AND WOLF.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008). Hardcover first edition - Novel set against the backdrop of the Weimar Republic and early Nazi Germany, one "which ultimately reveals the remarkable capacity of human beings to deceive themselves." It is the story of the relationship between Winifred Wagner - an English girl and a Germanophile who was raised in an orphanage and married at age 18 to the son of Richard Wagner - and Adolf Hitler as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner House in Bayreuth. 363 pp. ISBN: 978-0374290962.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 75941More details Price: $18.50 -
A WATCH IN THE NIGHT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Norton, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth and final novel in the Lampitt Chronicles. "A masterful novel of manners [constructed] out of the most whimsical and unlikely elements: murder, the ghost of Shakespeare, and the ironies and confusions of sex. From the joys of acting to the pangs of unrequited love, from a reunion of aging Fascists in London to a wintry romantic interlude in Venice, the plot of this tour de force leads the reader with consummate skill towards a wholly unexpected conclusion." 218 pp. ISBN: 0-393040429.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65027More details Price: $17.50 -
A BOTTLE IN THE SMOKE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to his award-winning novel, 'Incline Our Hearts.' Continues the chronicles of the Lampitt family. 2 7 9 p p . ISBN: 0 - 6 7 0 - 8 3 2 2 1 9.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (an unread copy, but with a remainder line on the top edge.)
Book ID: 46465More details Price: $14.50