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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: 15114More details Price: $50.00 -
THE DARK ROOT
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Mysterious Press, 1996. The sixth in the highly praised Joe Gunther mystery series, set in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5558More details Price: $18.00 -
ANOTHER PART OF THE CITY.
Edition: Uncorrected proof.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1986. Police procedural set in the 5th Precinct of New York City.
Condition: Very good in printed blue covers (some fading to the spine and edges.)
Book ID: 16131More details Price: $15.00 -
THE SONGCATCHER: A Ballad Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, 2001. Novel set in the Appalachian Mountains at the border of Tennessee and North Carolina - and also at the border of history and contemporary times, and the traditional ways and the changes which have come to the area recently. In her afterword McCrumb explains that for the first time in one of her books she used her own family's history.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 23236More details Price: $20.00 -
BLACK DOGS
Edition: Uncorrected proof.
New York: Doubleday, 1992. First edition - A suspenseful, and quietly profound novel by this award winning author. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Condition: Near fine in printed wrappers (soiling to front cover.)
Book ID: 5572More details Price: $17.50 -
ENDURING LOVE
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1998. A gripping novel which begins on a perfect spring day with a picnic; suddenly a gust of wind unmoors a balloon with a child in the basket, and the day ends in tragedy.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5551More details Price: $30.00 -
A FACE AT THE WINDOW
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Broadway Books, 1997. Author's third novel is a ghost story that explores the boundaries of illusion and real horror.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 25513More details Price: $16.00 -
A FACE AT THE WINDOW
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Broadway Books, 1997. Author's third novel is a ghost story that explores the boundaries of illusion and real horror.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 15130More details Price: $20.00 -
SINGING BOY: A Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Henry Holt, 2001. First edition - A story of a group of people so undone by shock and grief at the loss of a loved one that they lose their way in the world of the living. Dennis McFarland is the best-selling author of THE MUSIC ROOM, A FACE AT THE WINDOW and SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.
Condition: Fine (as new-with small crease on top corner of front wrapper.)
Book ID: 18951More details Price: $20.00 -
ASYLUM.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, 1997. A strory of sexual obsession and psychological suspense.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers, as issued ( a few unobtrusive scratches on the front cover.)
Book ID: 4174More details Price: $25.00 -
TOYER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Little Brown, 1998. Suspense novel.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 23302More details Price: $18.00 -
DANCING AT THE HARVEST MOON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1997. Romantic novel in the tradition of 'Bridges of Madison County." First book written under this pseudonyn by Cathy Pelletier, novelist and publisher
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5788More details Price: $10.00 -
FOR LOVE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. First edition - Her fourth book. The first printing was a reported 125,000 copies, which makes this advance issue much less common than the regular hardcover edition. The New York Times Book Review called this 'the most honest love story we've had in a while."
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 15127More details Price: $17.50 -
HIS LORDSHIP'S ARSENAL.
Edition: Uncorrected proof.
New York: Freunlich Books. 1985. First edition -
Condition: Good in somewhat faded, printed red wrappers. foxing to some pages.
Book ID: 2202More details Price: $12.50 -
THE THURSDAY CLUB
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Suspense novel about power, corruption and murder in the NYPD.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5590More details Price: $12.00 -
MEDUSA'S CHILD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1997. Suspense novel about nuclear terrorism.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5689More details Price: $12.00 -
THE MEN OF BREWSTER PLACE
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion, 1998. Much less common than the regular issue , which was 200,000 copies.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 7125More details Price: $25.00 -
THE DIAL READER 1995.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dial Press, 1995. First edition - Includes fairly long excerpts from the following books which were due to be published by Dial: "Blown Sideways Through Life" by Claudia Shear. "The Dead School" by Patrick McCabe. "The Education of a Woman: The Life and Times of Gloria Steinem" by Carolyn G. Heilbrun. "Big as Life: Incidents in the Lives of Men" by Rand Richards Cooper and "The Burning" by Frank Norwood. 169pp
Condition: Very near fine in glossy white covers
Book ID: 25753More details Price: $12.00 -
EARTH ANGEL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, 1995. The story of Season Gottlieb, a 32 yr old physician who seemed to have it all, and her nutsy, well-meaning plan to pull her life together after her fiance goes on a shooting spree: she wants to make amends to the families of the victim by becoming their guardian angel. Called an"absolutely hilarious, wicked tale." Publisher's letter laid in.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (line on lower edge.)
Book ID: 17409More details Price: $16.00 -
EARTH ANGEL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, 1995. The story of Season Gottlieb, a 32 yr old physician who seemed to have it all, and her nutsy, well-meaning plan to pull her life together after her fiance goes on a shooting spree: she wants to make amends to the families of the victim by becoming their guardian angel. Called an"absolutely hilarious, wicked tale."
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (line on lower edge.)
Book ID: 17408More details Price: $12.00 -
THE FINAL JUDGMENT
Edition: Uncorrected proof.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. SIGNED first edition - Suspense/murder novel. This is the very uncommon proof issue in printed gray wrappers - SIGNED by the author on the title page.
Condition: Fine (ad stapled inside front cover.)
Book ID: 10343More details Price: $35.00 -
THE FINAL JUDGMENT
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First edition - Suspense/murder novel. This advance state is much less common than the first printing (250,000 copies.). ISBN: 0-679-429891.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5565More details Price: $18.00 -
FEATHER: A Child's Death and Life
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1997. First edition - Poet and critic Robert Peters recalls the brief life and sudden death of his 4 yr old son.
Condition: Very good+ in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 9505More details Price: $15.00 -
A BITTER PEACE
Edition: Uncorrected proof.
New York: Pocket Books, 1996.
Condition: Very good in printed gray wrappers.
Book ID: 7157More details Price: $15.00 -
SHELTER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. SIGNED first edition - A story of the loss of innocence, in this novel set in a West Virginia girls' camp in 1963. SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 40268More details Price: $25.00 -
HE, SHE, IT
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Piercy's highly praised science fiction novel - an interweaving of 2 stories, one that of a young woman in the 21st century in the vast toxic wasteland that used to be North America, the other a kabbalist in the 16th century in Prague's Jewish ghetto.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A relatively uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 19559More details Price: $28.00 -
TICKET HOME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, 2001. A weaving together of World War II and the present day in a moving tale of love, loss and family.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 18962More details Price: $12.00 -
TOPPING FROM BELOW
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, 1995. uthor's controversial first novel - involving murder, sex and sadism and masochism.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 7222More details Price: $15.00 -
TRADING REALITY
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperCollins, 1996. A thriller set in Scotland, in the world of virtual reality.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5552More details Price: $12.00 -
TOTAL ECLIPSE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pocket Books, 1995. Author's first book, a novel of suspense, opening at an observatory on a northern California mountaintop.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers as issued, with blue wrap-around band.
Book ID: 4787More details Price: $18.00