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  • CLOSE SOFTLY THE DOORS. by Roat, Ronald Clair.
    Roat, Ronald Clair.
    CLOSE SOFTLY THE DOORS.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1991. First edition - The first in a series - introduces Stuart Mallory as a detective who returns to his Western Michigan hometown.

    Condition: Fine in printed white wrappers.

    Book ID: 2069
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  • THE LADY CHAPEL: An Owen Archer Mystery. by Robb, Candace.
    Robb, Candace.
    THE LADY CHAPEL: An Owen Archer Mystery.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: St Martin's, (1994.). First edition - The second medieval mystery in this series featuring the one-eyed spy, Owen Archer. Author's note. 281 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 51163
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  • THE END OF WAR: A Novel of the Race for Berlin. by Robbins, David L.
    Robbins, David L.
    THE END OF WAR: A Novel of the Race for Berlin.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Bantam, (2000). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in the final months of World War II, when decisions were made that affected the future for many years. SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography. 412 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (light crease to back cover).

    Book ID: 61517
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  • HAROLD AND ME: My Life, Love, and Hard Times with Harold Robbins. by Robbins, Jan.
    Robbins, Jan.
    HAROLD AND ME: My Life, Love, and Hard Times with Harold Robbins.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Forge / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008). SIGNED first edition - Autobiography of the woman who worked as Harold Robbins' executive assistant for ten years prior to their marriage, and who continued to edithis unfinished manuscripts and develop his ideas into new novels, after his death in 1997. SIGNED on the title page with the words "With all good wishes" and dated in May 2008, several months before publication. 300 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 79839
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  • THE AFFAIR OF THE INCOGNITO TENANT: A Mystery with Sherlock Holmes. by Roberts, Lora.
    Roberts, Lora.
    THE AFFAIR OF THE INCOGNITO TENANT: A Mystery with Sherlock Holmes.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Palo Alto, CA: Perseverance Press , (2004.). First edition - In 1903, widow Charlotte Dodson, housekeeper at a manor in a small Sussex village which has been leased by a mysterious stranger, finds herself in the midst of sinister events involving an escapee from Dartmoor Prison, tales of a vampire on the loose and a fabulous jewel called the Orb of Kezir. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes, her young son, and her own powers of observation,the resourceful Charlotte untangles this complex web. 259 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 54746
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  • THE BIG O: My Life, My Times, My Game. by Robertson, Oscar.
    Robertson, Oscar.
    THE BIG O: My Life, My Times, My Game.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    np [Emmaus, PA:] Rodale, (2003.). First edition - Autobiography of one of basketball's greatest all-around players - the story of how the NBA was built and his own story of segregation, triumph, and disillusionment when he was forced out of the game. Photographs. Index. 342 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in black illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 47536
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  • Robillard, G. Xavier.
    CAPTAIN FREEDOM: A Superhero's Quest for Truth, Justice, and the Celebrity He So Richly Deserves.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy for this trade paperback original.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel - "a wicked satire about politics, office life, the fashion world, NPR, celebrity, Hollywood, superheroes, villains, and much more." SIGNED on the title page with the words "To Freedom!" 258 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 57209
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  • CAPTAIN FREEDOM: A Superhero's Quest for Truth, Justice, and the Celebrity He So Richly Deserves. by Robillard, G. Xavier.
    Robillard, G. Xavier.
    CAPTAIN FREEDOM: A Superhero's Quest for Truth, Justice, and the Celebrity He So Richly Deserves.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy for this trade paperback original.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2008.). First edition - The author's first novel - "a wicked satire about politics, office life, the fashion world, NPR, celebrity, Hollywood, superheroes, villains, and much more." 258 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 58605
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  • WAR OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDISTS: A Novel. by Robinson, Christopher and Gavin Kovite.
    Robinson, Christopher and Gavin Kovite.
    WAR OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDISTS: A Novel.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Scribner, (2015). First edition - The author's first novel, and first collaboration - at once "a coming-of-age story, a war story, and a story of the disaffected millenial generation for whom the war hardly happened at all" (Phil Klay)

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (crease to lower edge of back cover)

    Book ID: 66451
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  • COAL TO CREAM: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race. by Robinson, Eugene.
    Robinson, Eugene.
    COAL TO CREAM: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: The Free Press, (1999.). First edition - A thoughtful study of how his attitude towards race changed when he went to Brazil - a country which looks at people through a broad spectrum of colors, rather than black and white as in the US. He discovered in the process that racial identity is of great value rather than the burden it had seemed. 271 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 54248
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  • BLUE MARS. by Robinson, Kim Stanley
    Robinson, Kim Stanley
    BLUE MARS.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Bantam, 1996. SIGNED first edition - The third volume in Robinson's award-winning and masterful Mars trilogy, winner of the 1997 Hugo and Locus awards for best novel. SIGNED on the title page. 609 pp.

    Condition: Fine in printed blue wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 22279
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  • NEW YORK 2140. by Robinson, Kim Stanley.
    Robinson, Kim Stanley.
    NEW YORK 2140.

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A look at New York City a century from now - "As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 613 pp. ISBN: 978-0316262347.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 85089
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  • HOME. by Robinson, Marilynne.
    Robinson, Marilynne.
    HOME.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008.). First edition - The third novel by this award winning writer, finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Orange Prize, the 2009 Women's Prize for Fiction and the Los Angeles Fiction Award. A completely independent novel but set in the same town of Gilead as her Pulitzer prize winning second novel. 325 pp. Includes a promotional cd.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. CD is still sealed in pocket inside back cover.

    Book ID: 59348
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  • FRIEND OF THE DEVIL. by Robinson, Peter.
    Robinson, Peter.
    FRIEND OF THE DEVIL.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Morrow, (2007, c. 2008.). SIGNED first edition - A Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 39292
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  • CLOSE TO HOME. by Robinson, Peter.
    Robinson, Peter.
    CLOSE TO HOME.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Morrow, (2003.). First edition - A Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks mystery, involving the disappearance of two teenage boys over a period of more than 35 years. SIGNED on the title page. 389 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (an unread copy, but an indentation to back cover.)

    Book ID: 39744
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  • ALL THE COLORS OF DARKNESS. by Robinson, Peter.
    Robinson, Peter.
    ALL THE COLORS OF DARKNESS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2009.). Hardcover - Mystery featuring Detective Inspector Alan Banks and Annie Cabbot, one which probes not the "who" but the "why.' 356 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 54326
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  • WATCHING THE DARK. by Robinson, Peter.
    Robinson, Peter.
    WATCHING THE DARK.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2013.). First edition - A novel in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Chief Inspector Alan Banks series, set in Yorkshire. 354 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 69034
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  • IN THE DARK PLACES. by Robinson, Peter.
    Robinson, Peter.
    IN THE DARK PLACES.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2015.). First edition - A novel in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Chief Inspector Alan Banks series, set in Yorkshire. 354 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 69669
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  • KLICKITAT. by Rock, Peter.
    Rock, Peter.
    KLICKITAT.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Amulet / Abrams, 2016. First edition - A haunting coming of age story by this award-winning author - "Vivian feels left behind when her older sister, Audra, runs away from home. She believes that Audra will return and pays careful attention to the clues around her. Then, inexplicably, writing begins to appear in a blank notebook." 229 pp.

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

    Book ID: 69382
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  • THE SHELTER CYCLE. by Rock, Peter.
    Rock, Peter.
    THE SHELTER CYCLE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2013). First edition - His 6th novel, the story of two children who grew up in a religion that predicted the end of the world in the 1980s, and who, when the apocalypse did not happened, wound up living in a world that they did not think would have continued to exist. 214 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 71347
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  • THIS IS THE PLACE. by Rock, Peter.
    Rock, Peter.
    THIS IS THE PLACE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, (1997). SIGNED first edition - "Sixty-four-feet tall and made of metal, the neon giant Wendover Will stands in front of the Stateline casino in Wendover, Nevada, facing east. The sign under him reads This Is the Place. Over a hundred miles away in Utah, across the salt flats, stands the statue of Brigham Young, atop his monument, also proclaiming This Is the Place. In this sinister, heartbreaking story, an aged and lonely blackjack dealer who lives in Wendover becomes obsessed with a nineteen-year-old Mormon girl from Bountiful, Utah." The author's first novel, published as a trade paperback original. SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. .

    Book ID: 60536
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  • THE MIRACLE GIRL. by Roe, Andrew.
    Roe, Andrew.
    THE MIRACLE GIRL.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2015). SIGNED first edition - Author's highly praised first novel. Kirkus Review in their starred review commented that it "feels just right for our desperate and despairing time, when a miracle - any miracle - will do.. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated in Oct 2014 (that is, before publication). Finalist for the 2015 L.A. Times Award for First Fiction. 322 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 72228
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  • THE MIRACLE GIRL. by Roe, Andrew.
    Roe, Andrew.
    THE MIRACLE GIRL.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2015). SIGNED first edition - Author's highly praised first novel. Kirkus Review in their starred review commented that it "feels just right for our desperate and despairing time, when a miracle - any miracle - will do" INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in Oct 2014 (that is, before publication). Finalist for the 2015 L.A. Times Award for First Fiction. 322 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 72229
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  • AUGUST FROST. by Roffey, Monique.
    Roffey, Monique.
    AUGUST FROST.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003). First edition - The first novel by this award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer, originally published in the UK under the title "Sun Dog." Publisher's Weekly described it as "An imaginative fable grounded in realistic detail, which follows the metamorphosis of August Chalmin, a socially awkward, lonely 30-something Londoner with 'upright blood-orange hair which limbo danced crazily from his head, as though a madman lived there, leaping from a burning attic.' .. Over the course of a year, August's body undergoes a series of peculiar changes tied to the seasons. His skin turns blue and an icicle dangles from his ear in the fall and winter. In the spring, his body begins to bud, sprouting…

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    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003). First edition - The first novel by this award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer, originally published in the UK under the title "Sun Dog." Publisher's Weekly described it as "An imaginative fable grounded in realistic detail, which follows the metamorphosis of August Chalmin, a socially awkward, lonely 30-something Londoner with 'upright blood-orange hair which limbo danced crazily from his head, as though a madman lived there, leaping from a burning attic.' .. Over the course of a year, August's body undergoes a series of peculiar changes tied to the seasons. His skin turns blue and an icicle dangles from his ear in the fall and winter. In the spring, his body begins to bud, sprouting small leaves and branches... Mournful, quietly suspenseful and gently surreal, August's story is a haunting whimsy that marks the arrival of a talented newcomer." 320 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 89023
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  • AMAZONIA. by Rollins, James.
    Rollins, James.
    AMAZONIA.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: William H. Morrow, (2002). SIGNED first edition - A thriller set in the jungles of Amazon - Four years after an expedition to the interior of the jungle had been declared lost, a man "stumbles into a small missionary village, and within hours of the CIA operative and former special forces soldier - tongueless, scarred, his eyes wide with terror - is dead. But the most disturbing aspect of Agent Gerald Clark's death has his superiors in Washington baffled. When Agent Clark first came to the Amazon, he had only one arm - the result of a well-paced sniper's bullet. But the photograph of him submitted by a Brazilian morgue shows a corpse with two upper limbs…

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    New York: William H. Morrow, (2002). SIGNED first edition - A thriller set in the jungles of Amazon - Four years after an expedition to the interior of the jungle had been declared lost, a man "stumbles into a small missionary village, and within hours of the CIA operative and former special forces soldier - tongueless, scarred, his eyes wide with terror - is dead. But the most disturbing aspect of Agent Gerald Clark's death has his superiors in Washington baffled. When Agent Clark first came to the Amazon, he had only one arm - the result of a well-paced sniper's bullet. But the photograph of him submitted by a Brazilian morgue shows a corpse with two upper limbs fully intact." An expedition is quickly formed with the US government, Army rangers, a drug company and Nathan Rand, ethnobotanist and the son of the leader of the lost expedition. However, the stakes quickly mount - Clark brought a rapidly spreading and fatal disease with him and now a cure is urgently needed - and the expedition not only has to confront the dangers of the jungle - they are being tracked by a ruthless band of mercenaries. SIGNED on the title page. 420 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance copy,

    Book ID: 82906
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  • GIANTS IN THE EARTH: A Saga Of The Prairie. by Rolvaag, O. E. [Ole Edvart], 1876-1931.
    Rolvaag, O. E. [Ole Edvart], 1876-1931.
    GIANTS IN THE EARTH: A Saga Of The Prairie.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First edition - Very uncommon proof of the first English appearance of this classic novel of a group of Norwegian pioneers and their struggles to build a home in the desolate prairie-land of the American Midwest. Originally published in Norwegian as two books in 1924 and 1925 and translated by Lincoln Colcord and the author. Includes a foreword by Rolvaag, introduction by Lincoln Colcord. xxii, 465 pp.

    Condition: Good in illustrated wrappers (some spine slant and creasing to the spine, wear to the edges of the covers) - pencilled notation of June 1st on the first page.

    Book ID: 43389
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  • Ronan, Frank
    THE MEN WHO LOVED EVELYN COTTON

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Pantheon, (1989.). First edition - Irish writer's first novel, highly praised upon its' original publication in the UK.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 9006
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  • Rosca, Ninotchka.
    STATE OF WAR.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Norton, (1988.). First edition - A novel of life in the Philippines, by this controversial and respected writer who became a political exile in New York in the 1970's, set during the reign of Marcos, "a time of enormous wealth and crushing poverty.. . With a spellbinding mixture of the fabulous and the terrifying, Rosca illuminates the culture, and the soul, of a nation in turmoil." 384 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 37902
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  • THIS IS NOT CIVILIZATION. by Rosenberg, Robert.
    Rosenberg, Robert.
    THIS IS NOT CIVILIZATION.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2004). First edition - The author's highly praised first novel featuring several people from different countries and backgrounds who find themselves together in Istanbul on the eve of the 1999 earthquake. Among them are Jeff Hartig, an American Peace Corps volunteer to Krygyzstan (as Rosenberg was himself) and Anarbek Tashtanaliev, the owner of a Soviet cheese factory. 312 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 79612
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  • AFTERLOVE. by Rosenblum, Robert.
    Rosenblum, Robert.
    AFTERLOVE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: New American Library - NAL, (2003). First edition - "Kate Weyland loses a lucky earring on the morning of an important job interview. Running late, she asks her husband to drive their seven-year-old twin daughters to school. He and the girls end up in the path of a speeding police car, and all three of them die. While she's still reeling from grief, Kate goes on a trip to Nantucket Island to help a friend close her cottage, and she hears of a local recluse. Kate is normally skeptical, but in her vulnerable state the idea of communicating with her family beyond the grave captures her imagination, and she consults the mysterious Gabriel Farr." (PW)

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (light crease to upper corner of back cover)

    Book ID: 88170
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