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  • Field, Carol.
    MANGOES AND QUINCE: A Novel.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York & London: Bloomsbury, 2001. A novel about a woman who seduces an entire city with the exotic fare of her home-run restaurant. First novel by this best-selling cookbook author , part mystery, part love story, with recipes.

    Condition: Fine.

    Book ID: 18964
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  • FINDING FISH: A Memoir. by Fisher, Antwone Quenton.
    Fisher, Antwone Quenton.
    FINDING FISH: A Memoir.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: HarperCollins, 2000. First edition - Born in prison to a single mother, author Antwone Fisher was a ward of Cleveland's foster care system until he broke free at age 17, only to face the hardships of life on the streets. Yet Fish, as he was called, resisted the lure of crime and enlisted in the U.S. Navy where he found a "family" of his own. Before he could make peace with his past, he journeyed from the mean streets of Cleveland to high society Hollywood in a triumphant feat of self-discovery. Basis for the Denzel Washington movie of the same name. 340 pgs.

    Condition: Fine (a new copy) in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 18969
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  • Foster, Cecil.
    NO MAN IN THE HOUSE.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof.

    New York: Ballantine Books, 1992. Author's first novel - set in Barbados, Foster's birthplace, it is an eloquent story of a Caribbean childhood, and a wonderful portrait of the strong West Indian women and their struggles to raise children in a damaged society.

    Condition: Fine in printed tan wrappers.

    Book ID: 5176
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  • Fox, Paula.
    THE GOD OF NIGHTMARES.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    Berkeley: North Point Press, 1990. First edition - Partially a coming-of-age story of a young woman who leaves her mother in a small town in upstate New York, and moves to New Orleans in 1941 when the US is on the brink of war, but also a novel about confronting difficult truths and looking at who you really are.

    Condition: Very good in printed blue wrappers; spine slant.

    Book ID: 1494
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  • Fraser, Antonia
    THE CAVALIER CASE

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Bantam, 1991. First edition - A Jemima Shore mystery.

    Condition: Near fine in printed blue wrappers.

    Book ID: 5556
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  • Gallagher, Hugh
    TEETH

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Pocket Books, 1998. Author's first novel, with its roots in the youth scene of the 90's.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 5541
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  • Garber, Joseph R.
    VERTICAL RUN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Bantam, 1995. Comment from Clive Cussler: "Fast-paced thrillers don't get any better than this."

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease on spine.)

    Book ID: 5691
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  • Gardner, Mary.
    MILKWEED.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof.

    Watsonville, CA: Papier-Maiche Press, 1993. A novel aware of the harsh realities of women's lives in the farmlands of the Midwest. Cover indicates a first printing of 15,000 copies.

    Condition: Bookstore sticker inside front cover, otherwise fine in printed yellow wrappers.

    Book ID: 2336
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  • Gibbons, Kaye and Olmstead, Robert.
    ELLEN FOSTER and SOFT WATER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Vintage, 1988. First edition - of two books being published in trade paperback in the Vintage Contempories series. This is the first appearance of Olmstead's "Soft Water" which is an original publication of Vintage, and the first paperback appearance of Gibbon's "Ellen Foster." Bound back to back.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (some toning to the pages, as seems common with this issue.)

    Book ID: 4487
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  • MY DEAR MOTHER, Stormy, Boastful and Tender Letters from Famous Sons by Gordon, Karen Elizabeth and Johnson, Holly
    Gordon, Karen Elizabeth and Johnson, Holly
    MY DEAR MOTHER, Stormy, Boastful and Tender Letters from Famous Sons

    Edition: Uncorrected proof.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1997. SIGNED first edition - Included are letters from Doestoevsky, Elvis, Mozart and Kerouac, from Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Klee and Baudelaire. Collected and annotated by Gordon and Johnson. SIGNED by Gordon (who is best known for her mischievous grammar books, including "The Transitive Vampire.")

    Condition: Near fine in printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 5553
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  • Greeley, Andrew M.
    IRISH GOLD

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1994. First edition - Novel of love and suspense set in modern day Dublin, but with its roots in the Irish troubles of the 20's.

    Condition: Fine in printed green wrappers.

    Book ID: 8848
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  • Griffith, Patricia Browning.
    SUPPORTING THE SKY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Putnam, 1996. The story of a single mother raising a spirited 16 year old daughter in Washington, D. C.

    Condition: Very good+ in illustrated wrappers (some rubbing to the covers.)

    Book ID: 24428
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  • Grumbach, Doris
    THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE

    Edition: Uncorrected proof.

    New York: Norton, 1995.
    . A coming-of-age story in which the 4 children discover, and come to terms with, their sexuality, set in the 1929 just on the brink of the stock market collapse.

    Condition: Fine in gold printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 6220
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  • THE WOMAN AND THE APE by Hoeg, Peter
    Hoeg, Peter
    THE WOMAN AND THE APE

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996. First edition - Part love story, part thriller, part fairy tale, and part farce, this is the story of a unique couple: Madeline, a sleeping beauty who spends her days in an alcoholic stupor, and Erasmus, a 300 lb highly intelligent anthropoid ape.

    Condition: Fine in printed wrappers. Publisher's material laid in.

    Book ID: 5555
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  • Hogan, Chuck.
    THE BLOOD ARTISTS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Morrow, 1998. Story of 2 young scientists involved in cutting-edge disease research, and of a killer virus which has taken over a human host.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 5688
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  • Honel, Rosalie Walsh.
    JOURNEY WITH GRANDPA., One Family's Struggle with Alzheimer's Disease.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof copy.

    Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1988.

    Condition: One small tear in top cover, otherwise fine in printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 1511
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  • Isaacs, Susan.
    SHINING THROUGH.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harper & Row, 1988. SIGNED first edition - Basis for the movie of the same name (starring Melanie Griffiths and Michael Douglas), the story of a secretary from Queens, NY, who becames a hero of World War II. According to the back cover of this ARC, the first printing had 300,000 copies, making this advance issue much less common than the trade edition. SIGNED on the title page by the author. 402 pp.

    Condition: Very good in glossy wrappers (some toning to the pages, name on first page.)

    Book ID: 2192
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  • Kalpakian, Laura
    GRACELAND (published as Graced Land)

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. First edition - A marvelous novel - the story of Rejoice Jackson and the shrine she has set up to the King in a run-down section of St. Elmo. This novel will leave you humming Elvis's tunes for days. The title on this ARC ( "Graceland" ) was changed to "Graced Land" upon actual publication.

    Condition: Near fine (a tight and apparently unread copy, but with numbers written on the edge of the textblock.)

    Book ID: 21552
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  • Kalpakian, Laura
    GRACELAND (published as Graced Land)

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. SIGNED first edition - INSCRIBED by the author in a bold script on the half title and dated in 1991. A marvelous novel - the story of Rejoice Jackson and the shrine she has set up to the King in a run-down section of St. Elmo. This novel will leave you humming Elvis's tunes for days. The title on this ARC ( "Graceland" ) was changed to "Graced Land" upon actual publication.

    Condition: Very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers (slight spine slant, 1 pg detached but present.)

    Book ID: 9913
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  • Kaminsky, Stuart M.
    DANCING IN THE DARK

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Mysterious Press, 1996. A Toby Peters mystery.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 5543
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  • SHADOW SONG. by Kay, Terry (1938 - 2020)
    Kay, Terry (1938 - 2020)
    SHADOW SONG.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Pocket Books, 1994. First edition - Author's 6th book, a story of a rural Georgia boy who comes to the Catskill Mountains in the summer of 1955 and falls in love with the wrong girl - and now, 38 years later, he is back in the Catskills -

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 2811
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  • ROSCOE. by Kennedy , William.
    Kennedy , William.
    ROSCOE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Viking, 2002. First edition - A novel in his prize-winning Albany series - this is set just after the end of World War II.

    Condition: Fine.

    Book ID: 21898
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  • THUMBSUCKER. by Kirn, Walter.
    Kirn, Walter.
    THUMBSUCKER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Anchor Books, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Kern's third book, a midwestern coming-of-age story, funny, poignant and disturbing, issued as a trade paperback original. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 60424
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  • A DISTURBANCE IN ONE PLACE. by Kirschenbaum, Binnie.
    Kirschenbaum, Binnie.
    A DISTURBANCE IN ONE PLACE.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof copy.

    New York: Fromm, 1994. Humorous second novel - the story of a woman 'married, Jewish, left-handed - who blithely breaks 7 of the 10 Commandments as she searches for her roots.'

    Condition: As new in printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 1495
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  • L'Heureux, John.
    THE HANDMAID OF DESIRE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: SOHO Press, 1996. A send-up of intellectual life, set at a university in Northern California.

    Condition: Very good+ (light creases to back cover, first page.)

    Book ID: 21376
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  • Leedom-Ackerman, Joanne.
    NO MARBLE ANGELS.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    Montrose, AL: Texas Center for Writers Press, 1985. First edition - Texas born author's first work of fiction - a highly praised collection of short stories.

    Condition: Very good in pale gray printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 2630
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  • THE SUNDAY MACARONI CLUB by Lopez, Steve
    Lopez, Steve
    THE SUNDAY MACARONI CLUB

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997. dj. SIGNED first edition - His second novel, a story of corruption in Philadephia's old political machine, by a prize winning jourmalist. SIGNED on the title page.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (with different cover art) with a dustwrapper included, showing the final dust jacket art. Uncommon thus.

    Book ID: 69690
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  • THE SUNDAY MACARONI CLUB by Lopez, Steve
    Lopez, Steve
    THE SUNDAY MACARONI CLUB

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997. SIGNED first edition - His second novel, a story of corruption in Philadephia's old political machine, by a prize winning jourmalist. SIGNED on the title page. 360 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover art is very different from that of the trade edition.

    Book ID: 69689
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  • MacDonald, Michael Patrick.
    ALL SOULS: A Family Story from Southie.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Ballantine, 2000. The memoirs of Michael MacDonald who grew up in Boston's Irish ghetto, Southie, an area of the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the United Staes. MacDonald invites us into Southie's contradictory world where residents besieged by gangs and crime remain loyal to their community. He introduces us to those who inhabit this proud neigborhood, including his unforgettable family members. 266 pgs.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 18955
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  • Martin, Valerie.
    MARY REILLY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Doubleday, 1990. SIGNED first edition - Retelling of the Jekyll and Hyde story from the perspective of the young servant girl. Basis for the Julia Roberts movie of the same name. SIGNED on the title page.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 15114
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