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STRAIGHT THROUGH THE NIGHT.
Edition: Uncorrected proof.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989.
Condition: Near fine in printed blue wrappers (some fading to the spine.)
Book ID: 6920More details Price: $18.00 -
NIGHT
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, 1995. About night life, night language, sleep and dreams.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5943More details Price: $15.00 -
AS THE CROW FLIES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. Oversized trade paperback format advance issue of this epic story about a family which triumphs to become the proprietor of London's greatest department store. The expected first printing of thi sbook was indicated as being 300,000 copies - which makes this advance issue much less common than the hardcover.
Condition: Some edgewear and creasing on the spine - overall very good condition.
Book ID: 14862More details Price: $12.50 -
AMATEUR NIGHT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Mysterious Press, 1993. The second Jane da Silva mystery, as she continues her search for a truly hopeless case.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 4213More details Price: $20.00 -
STRAIGHT CUT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1986. SIGNED first edition - Bell's third novel - a dark story of 'romantic duplicity, drug deals and double-crosses' set in Rome, Brussels and New York. SIGNED on the title page. 230 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (as new) .
Book ID: 34455More details Price: $24.50 -
HELLO MIDNIGHT:An Insomniac's Literary Bedside Companion.
Edition: Uncorrected proof.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. A collection of facts and fiction, quotations and quips, designed to amuse, inform and entertain the sleepless. Resources and organizations for troubled sleepers.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 18952More details Price: $12.00 -
THE LAW OF SIMILARS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harmony, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - Another novel exploring the intersection of the world of law and prosecution and alternative medicine - in this case, homeopathy - by the highly praised writer of 'Midwives.' SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 27059More details Price: $25.00 -
ARMADILLO
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Described as a novel "of literary brilliance and dark suspense" this is the story of a young insurance adjuster, on a perfectly ordinary business appointment, who discovers a hanged man and finds his life turned upside down. 338 pp
Condition: Fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 9861More details Price: $25.00 -
FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pantheon, 1985. First edition - Far less common than the hardcover edition, which had a planned first printing in the US of 35,000 copies.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5743More details Price: $20.00 -
FREEDOM AND NECESSITY.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (large trade paperback format.)
New York: TOR, 1997. First edition - Despite the rather prosaic title, this is a wild and satisfying romp through the mid-19th century, a combination of historical fiction and science fiction with magical undertones. SIGNED by Emma Bull on the title page. 443 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed gold wrappers (front edge and lower corner slightly bumped, appears unread.)
Book ID: 46736More details Price: $30.00 -
WHITE APPLES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 2002. First edition - A quirky tale of love, fatherhood and death - Jonathem Lethem described Carroll's writing as being that of 'a master of sunlit surrealism' 304 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 28895More details Price: $20.00 -
WHITE APPLES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 2002. SIGNED first edition - A quirky tale of love, fatherhood and death - Jonathem Lethem described Carroll's writing as being that of 'a master of sunlit surrealism' SIGNED on the title page. 304 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Publisher's material laid in.
Book ID: 61441More details Price: $30.00 -
GATES OF GRACE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, 1985.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 1508More details Price: $12.00 -
EVIL ANGELS AMONG THEM
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Mysterious Press, (1996.). The fifth "Book of Psalms" mystery, set in a small medieval village near Norfolk.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5548More details Price: $18.00 -
THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Crown, 1994. The story of Harriet Hemings, daughter of Jefferson & Sally Hemings, who is allowed to run away and pass for white.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5046More details Price: $25.00 -
MERRY MEN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994. First edition - Chute's third novel expands the saga of the Beans of Egypt, Maine. Madison Smartt Bell called it "beyond comparisons .. a masterpiece." A very thick book - demonstrating in more ways than one - that Egypt is not so small.
Condition: Fine, in glossy ilustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 1859More details Price: $20.00 -
A SPRING OF SOULS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Birmingham, AL: Crane Hill Publishers, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Novel set in the small Alabama town of Piper - a south of racial turmoil and supernatural events, of teenage girls experimenting with Satanism and of love sought and found. Praise from Lee Smith - who calls it 'visionary, comic and sometimes all too real' and from Pat Conroy.
Condition: Fine (as new.) SIGNED on the title page.
Book ID: 22077More details Price: $30.00 -
FLESH WOUNDS
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1997. A deeply felt first novel, about a family in crisis - Stewart O'Nan called it 'a memorable debut."
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Publisher's material laid in.
Book ID: 5542More details Price: $18.00 -
SHAMELESS
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pocket Books, 1995. The singer and composer's first novel.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 7243More details Price: $15.00 -
THE RAGGED WAY PEOPLE FALL OUT OF LOVE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991. Glossy illustrated wrappers. Author's second novel.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 16778More details Price: $18.00 -
INSIDE THE HURRICANE: Face to Face with Nature's Deadliest Storms.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Henry Holt, 2000. A look at what the storms can do, what causes them - and especially a study of those who fly into the hurricanes in an attempt to gain more knowledge about these storms. 262 pages, including several appendices, section on resources, etc.
Condition: Very near fine in printed blue wrappers.
Book ID: 20475More details Price: $14.00 -
CORELLI'S MANDOLIN
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pantheon, 1994. First edition - The author's highly acclaimed 4th novel set on a remote Greek island, as WWII is approaching - basis for the movie of the same name, featuring Nicholas Cage.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with publisher's red wraparound band still present.
Book ID: 49397More details Price: $25.00 -
TRYIN' TO SLEEP IN THE BED YOU MADE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, 1997. Authors' first book - a novel of friendship and choices that follows the lives of two African American women.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 4587More details Price: $18.00 -
ST FAMOUS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1996. Publisher's material laid in. Author's 3rd novel.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 2812More details Price: $15.00 -
CONFESSIONS OF BROTHER ELI: A Novel by Joseph Di Prisco.
Edition: Uncorrected proof.
San Francisco: MacAdam/CagePublishing, 2000. Joseph Di Prisco is a poet and an essayist who writes reviews in numerous journals and has published two books of poetry. His first novel follows a Catholic Brother's journey through matters of faith, truth, money, envy, power, and food. Its landscape includes a Catholic prep school during the Vietnam War.
Condition: Fine in printed wrappers (trade paperback format.)
Book ID: 18944More details Price: $25.00 -
FALSE WITNESS
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Mysterious Press, 1995. First mystery novel by a British defense barrister.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5559More details Price: $18.00 -
SHAKE DOWN THE STARS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St. Martin's, 1988. Author's first book - story of 3 women coming of age during WW II in England.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 21628More details Price: $14.00 -
PLAYLAND
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, 1994. Story of Blue Tyler, a child movie star who diasappeared from Hollywood in disgrace, and reappears, 45 years and 11 marriages later, in a trailor park outside Detroit - written by a novelist and screenwriter who really knows Hollywood.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5942More details Price: $12.00 -
PLAYLAND
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, 1994. Story of Blue Tyler, a child movie star who diasappeared from Hollywood in disgrace, and reappears, 45 years and 11 marriages later, in a trailor park outside Detroit - written by a novelist and screenwriter who really knows Hollywood.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. This edition includes a letter to the publisher from Dunne at the front of the book.
Book ID: 24387More details Price: $17.50 -
THE FLOATING ISLAND, A Tale of Washington.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1985.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 2198More details Price: $8.50