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1492: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUAN CABEZON OF CASTILE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Summit Books, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the Spanish by Betty Ferber. A novel of late15th century Spain - a time of discovery and exploration, of the Inquisition and war - by one of Mexico's most acclaimed writers. ISBN: 0-671-644998.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22868More details Price: $25.00 -
THE LORD OF THE LAST DAYS, Visions of the Year 1000
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Morrow, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the Spanish by Betty Ferber. A recreation of medieval Spain by one of Mexico's foremost poets and novelists. Laura Esquival called this "dazzling and provocative.. a dazzling rendition of period and place.". ISBN: 0-688-143423.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 4995More details Price: $25.00 -
WYVERN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First edition - Intriguing tale of a boy born in 1609, his mother a native of Borneo and his father a Dutch trader. Caught between two cultures, Jaki experiences the jungle, ocean pirate life, and eventually America.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 13229More details Price: $18.00 -
THE CAT AND THE KING.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel set at the Versailles court of the Sun King, L:ouis XIV of France - the cat is Louis's chronicler - Louis de Rouvroy. 183 pp. Family tree endpapers. ISBN: 0-395302250.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 76198More details Price: $15.00 -
THE DARK LADY.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel spanning three decades, from the 1930s to the McCarthy era of the 1950s, set in a New York where "birth and style count nearly as much as wealth" - the world that Auchincloss grew up in. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-395254027.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (small erasure spot on the front endpaper)
Book ID: 76191More details Price: $16.50 -
THE PLAINS OF PASSAGE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth massive novel in the "Earth's Children series, set in Ice Age Europe. Map endpapers. 760 pp. ISBN: 0-517-580497.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 14858More details Price: $17.50 -
THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third massive novel in the "Earth's Children series, set in Ice Age Europe. 645 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-517-556278.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 55939More details Price: $18.50 -
THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third massive novel in the "Earth's Children series, set in Ice Age Europe. 645 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-517-556278.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61099More details Price: $18.50 -
MR. VERTIGO.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Penguin, (1994.). Auster's eighth novel, set in 1927, the year of Babe Ruth and Lindbergh. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0231900.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 38984More details Price: $10.00 -
THE TEAHOUSE FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of two women - one an American orphan adopted by a Japanese family and the other the daughter of that family -whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan. 391 pp. ISBN: 1-594489300.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80878More details Price: $20.00 -
THE TEAHOUSE FIRE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First edition - The author's first novel, the story of two women - one an American orphan adopted by a Japanese family and the other the daughter of that family -whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan. 390 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 55555More details Price: $20.00 -
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Newbery Award-winning novel, the first book in a planned trilogy set in medieval England, and an exploration of the themes of war, religion, and family as he chronicles the adventures of Crispin and Bear. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-786808284.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48480More details Price: $30.00 -
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2002.) dj. Hardcover - Newbery Award-winning novel, the first book in a planned trilogy set in medieval England, and an exploration of the themes of war, religion, and family as he chronicles the adventures of Crispin and Bear. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-786808284.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (Newbery medallion on dj.)
Book ID: 42290More details Price: $15.00 -
THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 76347More details Price: $18.50 -
THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61267More details Price: $35.00 -
THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63660More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BLACK FLOWER: A Novel of the Civil War.
Edition: First printing.
Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - The story of a brief but bloody encounter on the road to Nashville, in the obscure village of Franklin, Tennessee in the waning days of the Civil War. SIGNED on the title page. ANew York Times Notable Book, and winner of the Howard D. Vursell Award. 267 pp. ISBN: 1-87785350X.
Condition: Fine in fine first issue dust jacket.
Book ID: 76928More details Price: $100.00 -
THE YEAR OF JUBILO: A Novel of the Civil War.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79147More details Price: $35.00 -
THE YEAR OF JUBILO: A Novel of the Civil War.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79146More details Price: $35.00 -
WATSON'S APOLOGY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on a true murder case in 19th c London in which a seemingly virtuous clergyman bludgeoned his wife to death one Sunday upon his return from church. ISBN: 0-07-0032548.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (corner bumped, remainder dot)
Book ID: 27499More details Price: $12.50 -
MASTER GEORGIE
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1999). Nominated for the Booker Prize (her 5th to be so honored) - British reviews called this historical novel set in 19th century Liverpool and on the horror-filled battlefields of the Crimean War as "entertaining..harrowing... haunting..devasting." 190 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-0697X.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (remainder line, nick to upper edge of back cover, appears unread.)
Book ID: 58272More details Price: $11.50 -
ACCORDING TO QUEENEY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) Ribbon bookmark bound in, an attractively produced volume.
Book ID: 31557More details Price: $25.00 -
MASTER GEORGIE
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Nominated for the Booker Prize (her 5th to be so honored) - British reviews called this historical novel set in 19th century Liverpool and on the horror-filled battlefields of the Crimean War as "entertaining..harrowing... haunting..devasting.". ISBN: 0-7867-05639.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 19426More details Price: $18.50 -
DREAMLAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of the American immigrant experience and Coney Island in New York in the early years of the 20th century (the title refers to an amusement park on Coney Island.) Illustrated endpapers. 519 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 40458More details Price: $16.50 -
DREAMLAND.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperCollins, (1999.). First edition - Novel of the American immigrant experience and Coney Island in New York in the early years of the 20th century (the title refers to an amusement park on Coney Island.)
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 19638More details Price: $18.50 -
STRIVERS ROW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - The final novel in his 'City of Fire' trilogy begun with 'Dreamland.' This is set in 1943 Harlem and features a young Malcolm Little, the street hustler who would become the Civil Rights leader, Malcolm X. Glossary of names, words and expressions and notes on sources. 547 pp. ISBN: 9780060195830.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 58121More details Price: $18.00 -
WHAT THE BODY REMEMBERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this author who was born in Canada but grew up in India. Opening in 1937 in India, it is set "against the backdrop of changing Anglo-Indian relations; sometimes the political bleeds into the personal, as the novel juxtaposes India's struggle for independence with the smaller outrages and betrayals Satya and Roop suffer at their husband's hands--and each other's." (Sheila Bright) Winner of the Commonwealth Writers regional prize (Caribbean and Canada) for Best Book and long listed for the Orange Prize. Map frontispiece. 471 pp. ISBN: 0-385496044.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 88551More details Price: $18.50 -
THE HARD TO CATCH MERCY.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, (1993.). First edition - The author's first novel, a coming-of-age story set in 1916 in a tiny low country Carolina town. Map. Winner of the the Lillian Smith Award for Fiction. 457 pp.
Condition: Fine in beige printed wrappers.
Book ID: 34362More details Price: $21.50 -
THE KINDNESS OF WOMEN
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to "The Empire of the Sun" - based on Ballard's own experiences as a boy, this follows James from the Japanese prison camps and Shanghai to England after the end of the war. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-374-181101.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 9949More details Price: $15.00 -
THE GILDED CAGE
Edition: First printing.
New York: M.Evan & Co., 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - "An Evans Novel of Romance" set in 1889 New York City. 424 pp. ISBN: 0-871316439.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35548More details Price: $12.50