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THE WAY TO XANADU.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book by this Florida born author, a unique blend of travel writing and literary scholarship. Although Samuel Taylor Coleridge's images in his poem 'Kubla Khan" were composed in an opium reverie, he was inspired by travel books of the time - Alexander traveled to three continents - from the steppes of Central Asia to North Florida with its mighty fountains, Kashmir's holy cave of ice and to 'Mount Abora' in Ethiopia - to discover first hand 'the miracle of rare device', the sources of Coleridge's inspiration. Bibliography. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-679419004.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 36821More details Price: $16.50 -
BONEFISHING.
Edition: Revised edition.
New York: Winchester Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover - Information on where to find and how to catch these fish - in the mangrove swamps and coral flats of Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Index. 144 pp.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61378More details Price: $20.00 -
FLASHBACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 11th mystery featuring Ranger Anna Pigeon - this one is set in the Dry Tortugas National Park, a series of small islands 70 miles off Key West in Florida, which served as a prison during the Civil War and later housed the Lincoln assassination conspirators. An interesting blend of modern mystery and historical fiction. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-399-149759.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36237More details Price: $25.00 -
FLASHBACK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2003.). First edition - The 11th mystery featuring Ranger Anna Pigeon - this one is set in the Dry Tortugas National Park, a series of small islands 70 miles off Key West in Florida, which served as a prison during the Civil War and later housed the Lincoln assassination conspirators. An interesting blend of modern mystery and historical fiction. 430 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61083More details Price: $20.00 -
TRICKY BUSINESS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73858More details Price: $30.00 -
BIG TROUBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Florida journalist and humorist's first novel. Stephen King said it was the funniest book he'd read in 40 years; Elmore Leonard said "in 50 years" while Carl Hiaasen called it 'outrageously warped, cheerfully depraved - and harrowingly close to real life in Florida.' SIGNED on the title page. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-739405152.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73859More details Price: $35.00 -
BIG TROUBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Florida journalist and humorist's first novel. Stephen King said it was the funniest book he'd read in 40 years; Elmore Leonard said "in 50 years" while Carl Hiaasen called it 'outrageously warped, cheerfully depraved - and harrowingly close to real life in Florida.' SIGNED on the title page. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-739405152.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (remainder line.)
Book ID: 42587More details Price: $30.00 -
TRICKY BUSINESS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 76516More details Price: $35.00 -
TRICKY BUSINESS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 72013More details Price: $25.00 -
IN THE SPIRIT OF MURDER.
Edition: First printing.
Johnson City: TN: Silver Dagger, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "When a medium turns up dead in a backwoods Florida town, police detective Claudia Hershey is thrust into a nightmarish case." SIGNED by on the title page. 204 pp. ISBN: 1-570721084.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 72306More details Price: $25.00 -
THE PEREZ FAMILY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - After 20 years in Castro's prison, Juan Raul Perez finds himself in Miami, looking for his family. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-393-027988.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52413More details Price: $30.00 -
CRYSTAL AND WINE: Poems of Love and Beauty.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Exposition Press, (1959) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 124 poems by this Southern writer, born in Tennessee, educated in Virginia, and who lived in Florida for many years, although she also traveled extensively. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 91 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (foxing to top edge of textblock, toning to the endpapers and spine of dj.)
Book ID: 64687More details Price: $15.00 -
JAMAICA BLUE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His rather dark first mystery, set in the world of reggae music in Jamaica and Miami - cover praise from Lee Child and Sue Grafton among others. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-304900.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52813More details Price: $30.00 -
BARBADOS HEAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second mystery, featuring music journalist Mick Sever. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-304927.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 61964More details Price: $30.00 -
BARBADOS HEAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second mystery, featuring music journalist Mick Sever. SIGNED on the title page. . 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-304927.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61001More details Price: $35.00 -
NEVER LET THEM SEE YOU CRY: More from Miami, America's Hottest Beat
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third book - the second book of non-fiction, true accounts of both crime and courage in MIami - by this Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and mystery writer. 327 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-575520.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76615More details Price: $18.00 -
NEVER LET THEM SEE YOU CRY: More from Miami, America's Hottest Beat
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third book - the second book of non-fiction, true accounts of both crime and courage in MIami - by this Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and mystery writer. 327 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-575520.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52709More details Price: $16.50 -
MIAMI TWILIGHT.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pocket Books, (2001.). First edition - A new noir thriller, the author's second book, featuring a PR executive who agrees to take on some work for a Cuban expatriate and land-developer with connections to the CIA and the international underworld, who is at the heart of the anti-Castro movement and the cocaine trade. 293 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in printed blue wrappers (light crease to upper corner of front cover.)
Book ID: 38940More details Price: $20.00 -
MIAMI TWILIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A new noir thriller, the author's second book, featuring a PR executive who agrees to take on some work for a Cuban expatriate and land-developer with connections to the CIA and the international underworld, who is at the heart of the anti-Castro movement and the cocaine trade. SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-671028294.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68089More details Price: $30.00 -
ALL FAMILIES ARE PSYCHOTIC.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bloomsbury, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel described as "the most disastrous family reunion in the history of fiction. The Drummond family descends upon the state of Florida, cutting a swath through Disney World, Cape Canaveral, the swamps and the highways, gathering to watch the launch into space of their beloved daughter and sister, Sarah. What should be a cause for celebration becomes instead the impetus for a series of mishaps and coincidences that place them in constant peril." SIGNED on the title page. Ribbon marker bound in. 279 pp. ISBN: 1-582341656.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80776More details Price: $28.50 -
DEEP WATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In the tradition of Carl Hiaasen, this is a very funny skewering of the corporate world gone wrong in this tale of a Florida planned community: 'In the "ideal" designed community of Serenity, pride of the late theme-park king Waldo Whipple, things are far from ideal. The houses are listing, the regulations are onerous, the mayor is lecherous, and the occasional Wild Dominion animal has turned up dead.,,, when a reporter begins poking around, he quickly discovers that Waldo's successors have a decidedly different vision for America's Hometown - and if certain people don't stop interfering with it, animals won't be the only things turning up dead. ' SIGNED on the title page. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-399148159.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60909More details Price: $30.00 -
DEEP WATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In the tradition of Carl Hiaasen, this is a very funny skewering of the corporate world gone wrong in this tale of a Florida planned community: 'In the "ideal" designed community of Serenity, pride of the late theme-park king Waldo Whipple, things are far from ideal. The houses are listing, the regulations are onerous, the mayor is lecherous, and the occasional Wild Dominion animal has turned up dead.,,, when a reporter begins poking around, he quickly discovers that Waldo's successors have a decidedly different vision for America's Hometown - and if certain people don't stop interfering with it, animals won't be the only things turning up dead. ' 210 pp. ISBN: 0-399148159.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42209More details Price: $18.00 -
DEEP WATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In the tradition of Carl Hiaasen, this is a very funny skewering of the corporate world gone wrong in this tale of a Florida planned community: 'In the "ideal" designed community of Serenity, pride of the late theme-park king Waldo Whipple, things are far from ideal. The houses are listing, the regulations are onerous, the mayor is lecherous, and the occasional Wild Dominion animal has turned up dead.,,, when a reporter begins poking around, he quickly discovers that Waldo's successors have a decidedly different vision for America's Hometown - and if certain people don't stop interfering with it, animals won't be the only things turning up dead. ' 210 pp. ISBN: 0-399148159.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages, crease to upper edge of dj.)
Book ID: 42210More details Price: $14.50 -
BLACK SUNSHINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A gleefully iconclastic tale of two competitive brothers in Florida politics," SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-399149465.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61051More details Price: $28.50 -
SMOKEOUT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel - "From the darkly comic mind of a veteran Florida journalist comes a riotous look at politics, big money and human unpredictibility." SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-399146490.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61052More details Price: $28.50 -
THE BIG BAMBOO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The world's most lovable serial killer is back!" or as one reviewer put it - these books have "madcap adventures, drug dealers, assorted misfits and and one of most outrageous psychopaths in crime novel history." Set in Florida and Hollywood. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0060585624.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73239More details Price: $16.50 -
THE BETWEEN.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Harper Collins, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A highly praised and unusual debut novel by this black writer - a combination of real and unreal, suspense and horror. SIGNED on the title page. The only African American elected judge in Dade County, Florida begins receiving racist hate mail from a man she once prosecuted, and her husband begins battling unseen horrors that haunt his dreams. The NY Times Review described this as 'a finely honed work that always engages and frequently surprises.' Stoker Award finalist for best first novel. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0172509.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 64492More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BETWEEN.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Harper Collins, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A highly praised and unusual debut novel by this black writer - a combination of real and unreal, suspense and horror. SIGNED on the title page. The only African American elected judge in Dade County, Florida begins receiving racist hate mail from a man she once prosecuted, and her husband begins battling unseen horrors that haunt his dreams. The NY Times Review described this as 'a finely honed work that always engages and frequently surprises.' Stoker Award finalist for best first novel. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0172509.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64493More details Price: $35.00 -
THE WAY THAT WATER ENTERS STONE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first book - a poignant, offbeat and powerful collection of thirteen short stories by this Granta 20 author, half set in the North (he was born in Massachusetts), half in the South (where he was living at the time this was published). Small first printing. SIGNED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-393-029247.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. A lovely copy.
Book ID: 38481More details Price: $100.00 -
SCENES FROM A SISTAH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this young African American writer, set in upscale Fort Lauderdale in Florida. ISBN: 0-444-521000.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 23498More details Price: $40.00