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WHERE TROUBLE SLEEPS.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His seventh novel, set in Listre, North Carolina in 1950, population 511. INSCRIBED on the title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 15651206212.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44505More details Price: $30.00 -
DARK PLUMS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Houston, TX:' Arte Publico Press, 1995. SIGNED first edition - The second novel by this American Book Award winning author - set in the late 1950s, this is the story of a young girl from Texas who goes to Manhattan, winds up in a brutal and exploitative relationship with a Cuban-American artist (she agrees to work as a prositute in order to support his work as a painter.) SIGNED on the title page. 221 pp. Cover painting by Leslie Nemour. ISBN: 1558851283.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 47413More details Price: $15.00 -
A CHILD OUT OF ALCATRAZ.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Faber & Faber, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, nominated by the Los Angeles Times for best first fiction of 1997. Described by Carolyn See as 'searingly original, brutal, unique' this is the story of a young girl growing up in the sheltered world of a 1950's American family - except that her family lives on the island , in the middle of the San Fransciso Bay, that houses one of the most notorious prisons in the US where her father works as a guard. 266 pp. ISBN: 0-571-199100.
Condition: Presentation copy warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "For .....The years, the years, Thanks for the support andthe friendship through the ages and the eras" and dated in 1998. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32345More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DEVIL'S WIND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel set in 1950's Las Vegas and Hollywood - the title refers, in part, to the wind after the testing of an atomic bomb - a spectacle that was considered entertainment in that era. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp . ISBN: 0-06-6212928.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 50598More details Price: $28.50 -
GREEN
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel (the first was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.) - the story of a Mormon girl growing up in Monterey, California in the 1950's. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-374-166730.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket (slight crinkling to dj at spine ends, rem dot.)
Book ID: 4842More details Price: $17.50 -
GREEN
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel (the first was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.) - the story of a Mormon girl growing up in Monterey, California in the 1950's. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-374-166730.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 35877More details Price: $20.00 -
TWO TRAINS RUNNING.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pantheon, (2005.). First edition - Set in postwar United States, in 1959, this is a story of corruption in a small city at "a moment in our history when the violent forces that would decide the future of America were just beginning to roil below the surface." 444 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 47239More details Price: $18.00
