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BLUE RAVENS: Historical Novel.
Edition: First printing.
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set the early twentieth century in the days leading up to the Great War in France, and continues in combat scenes at the battles of Chteau-Thierry, Montbrhain, and Bois de Fays in France. After serving in the American Expeditionary Forces, two brothers from the Anishinaabe culture return to the White Earth Reservation where they grew up, but leave for a second time to live in Paris. 285 pp. ISBN: 978-0819574169.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76541More details Price: $25.00 -
COPPER CROWN
Edition: First printing.
New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first book, the story of an interracial friendship, forged in 1913 between a black woman and a white woman, in defiance of the times and the place - a small Texas town of modest farms and sharecroppers. Partially based on the oral history of the author's family. Von Herzen won the Los Angeles Arts Council Award for fiction in 1990. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-688-106889.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning to the pages, but an unread copy which appears unread.)
Book ID: 62052More details Price: $17.50 -
COPPER CROWN
Edition: First printing.
New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first book, the story of an interracial friendship, forged in 1913 between a black woman and a white woman, in defiance of the times and the place - a small Texas town of modest farms and sharecroppers. Partially based on the oral history of the author's family. Von Herzen won the Los Angeles Arts Council Award for fiction in 1990. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-688-106889.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning to the pages, but an unread copy which appears unread.)
Book ID: 62053More details Price: $30.00 -
COPPER CROWN
Edition: First printing.
New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED on the title page "to... with all best wishes" and dated in the year of publication. Her first book, the story of an interracial friendship, forged in 1913 between a black woman and a white woman, in defiance of the times and the place - a small Texas town of modest farms and sharecroppers. Partially based on the oral history of the author's family. Von Herzen won the Los Angeles Arts Council Award for fiction in 1990. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-688-106889.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35848More details Price: $30.00 -
THE PASSION OF ARTEMISIA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - the story of Artemisia Gentileschi(1593-1653), a painter in post-Renaissance Italy and the first women elected to the Accadamia dell'Arte. SIGNED by author on title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-670-894494.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58776More details Price: $28.50 -
THE PASSION OF ARTEMISIA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - the story of Artemisia Gentileschi(1593-1653), a painter in post-Renaissance Italy and the first women elected to the Accadamia dell'Arte. . 288 pp. ISBN: 0-670-894494.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 59087More details Price: $18.50 -
THE FOREST LOVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set on the coast of British Columbia in the early years of the 20th century, and based on the life of Emily Carr, painter and naturalist. Illustrated with reproductions of some of Carr's work, author's afterword. Map endpapers. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-670-032670.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62922More details Price: $17.50 -
HAMMER ON THE SEA.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - an historical novel that "provides an authentic and vivid portrait of Greece during World War II." Occupied by the Nazis, there was also resistance from guerrilla fighters, which in turn led to reprisal killings by the Germans. 182 pp.
Condition: Near fine in tan boards in a near fine dust jacket with some rubbing and minor wear (bookplate on front pastedown)
Book ID: 88206More details Price: $16.50 -
MY AMERICA!
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster/ Kenan Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of the lives of several generations of "American Jews as they broke out of the teeming slums in the lower East Side" to prosper in the US in the years between World War I and the Korean War. 512 pp. ISBN: 0-671-253328.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line, upper corner clipped from front endpaper, some short tears to lower edge of dj)
Book ID: 69804More details Price: $16.50 -
THE FLOOD MOUNTAIN MYSTERIES.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering in a near fine dust jacket (minor wear to top edge of dj).
Book ID: 84319More details Price: $30.00 -
BEN-HUR.
Edition: First thus.
New York: David McKay Company, (c 1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - A new edition of a classic adventure novel set in the early Christian era, and originally published in 1880. Well researched and beautifully presented. Illustrated by Harold King with text drawings and several double page spreads. Glossary, books for further reading. 120 pp. Slightly over-sized format. ISBN: 0-679203923.
Condition: Fine in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt decoration on front cover in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86332More details Price: $25.00 -
A DESERT IN BOHEMIA.
Edition: First printing.
London: Doubleday, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's fifth adult novel - "serious, important and philosophically provocative - and infused with narrative urgency, suspense, pathos and passion as well. . . Set in Comenia, a fictional Czech- and German-speaking Eastern European country, the book chronicles the swift and brutal progress of communism in the years following WWII. Walsh follows nine characters over four decades, from 1945-1990, as their lives - already shattered by harrowing wartime experiences and now dislocated by political tyranny - intersect." (PW review) 333 pp. ISBN: 0-385601212.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light toning, crinkling to dj flaps).
Book ID: 76838More details Price: $18.50 -
KNOWLEDGE OF ANGELS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1994.). A story involving a feral child, d set on a Mediterranean island like Mallorca, around 1850 in pre-Reformation Europe. A "late medieval theological thriller, complete with the Inquistion."Shortlisted for the Booker. 268 pp.
Condition: Fine condition.
Book ID: 33454More details Price: $12.50 -
LOSS OF INNOCENCE: A Novel of the French Revolution.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
San Francisco: Tapestries Publishing, (2007.). First edition - Romantic novel of an attempt to save the life of Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. Appendix. 363 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some curling to the edges of the covers.).
Book ID: 54142More details Price: $15.00 -
SCANDAL'S DAUGHTER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a Regency romance based loosely on the lives of opera singer Martha Ray, her lover, the Earl of Sandwich, and their daughter. SIGNED. ISBN: 0-802711332.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 9937More details Price: $28.50 -
THE EARL'S COMEUPPANCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a Regency romance. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-802711863.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71718More details Price: $15.00 -
OTHER SORROWS, OTHER JOYS: The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (2003). First edition - The author begins this novel with "This is the imagined life of a woman who really lived in the late Eighteenth Century - Catherine Sophia Boucher, called Kate - wife of the English poet and artist, William Blake. If you read between the lines of his poetry and letters, this is a story you might find." Illustrated. Biographical notes and author's note. 371 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to upper corners of the first 2 pages).
Book ID: 82155More details Price: $18.50 -
THE MUSKET BOYS OF OLD BOSTON or The First Blow for Liberty. The Revolutionary Series #1.
Edition: Reprint.
Cleveland, OH: Goldsmith Publishing, (c 1909) dj. Hardcover - The first book in this early Stratemeyer Syndicate series, a story of adventure and heroism during the early days of the Revolutionary War. 284 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in a good dust jacket (tidemark on edge of textblock, usual rather severe tanning to the pages, binding cracking between pages 22-23
Book ID: 74320More details Price: $15.00 -
BAND OF ANGELS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (staining to the upper corner of the textblock, not affecting the pages, dj is price-clipped, minor edgewear and toning to the interior - but overall a tight and clean copy)
Book ID: 85760More details Price: $35.00 -
TURPENTINE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Grove Atlantic Press, Black Cat, (2007). First edition - The author's highly praised first novel set in the 1870s. "With a pitch-perfect narrator and a smorgasbord of sensory detail, this brings the Old West back to life. Turpentine casts the rebirth of a privileged young man finding self-truth against the birth of a nation struggling to come together, in a novel filled with wit, brilliant characterizations, and descriptions that will leave you feeling as if you can still feel the dust of a buffalo stampede settling around you." (Jodi Picoult) 420 pp. ISBN: 978-0802170361.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 88938More details Price: $17.50 -
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RED DEMON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A long-lost manuscript is found in a hidden wall safe of a railroad baron in St Paul, Minnesota, which tells the story of how Sherlock Holmes and Watson traveled to Minnesota in 1894 to find and stop an arsonist known as The Red Demon. "A richly imagined first novel, utterly faithful to the tradition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and guaranteed to revive the sensibility, the spirit, and the suspense of the great Sherlockian tales." INSCRIBED on the title page by Larry Millett. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-670870390.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73976More details Price: $30.00 -
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ICE PALACE MURDERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel in the American Chronicles of John Watson, M.D., set in Minnesota in 1896. INSCRIBED on the title page by Larry Millett. Map, notes. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-670879444.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73977More details Price: $30.00 -
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RUNE STONE MYSTERY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel in the American Chronicles of John Watson, M.D., set in Minnesota in 1899. INSCRIBED on the title page by Larry Millett. Map, notes. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-670888214.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75311More details Price: $30.00 -
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ICE PALACE MURDERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel in the American Chronicles of John Watson, M.D., set in Minnesota in 1896. Map, notes. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-670879444.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (vertical crease to spine of dj).
Book ID: 84530More details Price: $16.50 -
JUSTICE
Edition: 2nd printing.
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1995. dj. Hardcover - A prequel to his award-winning novel 'Montana 1948,' this is the story of members of the Hayden family from 1899 as they struggle to carve a life out of the wilderness. 226 pp. Dust jacket painting by Russell Chatham. ISBN: 1-571310029.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76609More details Price: $14.50 -
JUSTICE
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A prequel to his award-winning novel 'Montana 1948,' this is the story of members of the Hayden family from 1899 as they struggle to carve a life out of the wilderness. SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp. Dust jacket painting by Russell Chatham. ISBN: 1571310029.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (sticker on front pastedown)
Book ID: 56478More details Price: $25.00 -
JUSTICE
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A prequel to his award-winning novel 'Montana 1948,' this is the story of members of the Hayden family from 1899 as they struggle to carve a life out of the wilderness. SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp. Dust jacket painting by Russell Chatham. ISBN: 1571310029.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 9953More details Price: $30.00 -
NIAGARA.
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 193. dj, 1901. Hardcover first edition - The story of 2 daredevils whose lives are changed forever when they challenge the Niagara Falls in 1901 - based on actual historical figures: tightrope walker Jean Francois Gravelet and Nebraska schoolteacher Anna Edson Taylor. An unusual and highly praised novel. ISBN: 1-56689-0063.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 20236More details Price: $20.00 -
NIAGARA.
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 193. dj, 1901. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of 2 daredevils whose lives are changed forever when they challenge the Niagara Falls in 1901 - based on actual historical figures: tightrope walker Jean Francois Gravelet and Nebraska schoolteacher Anna Edson Taylor. An unusual and highly praised novel. ISBN: 1-56689-0063.
Condition: INSCRIBED on title page to fellow novelist Jane Smiley. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 31466More details Price: $30.00 -
THE HORNET'S NEST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1968.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "When Ronald and Lauchlin McLeod decided to wage a private war against the British who were occupying their beloved Isle of Skye in Scotland in 1773 they didn't think they would be taken seriously - or at least so seriously that their parents would pack them off to America to keep them being hanged! . . . A spirited and humourous adventure set against the background of the emerging American Revolution. 246 pp. Wraparound cover and dust jacket art by Michael Lowenbein.
Condition: Fine in a good dust jacket. (price-clipped, overall edgewear, slit to dj along side of the spine, now protected by an archival cover.) Uncommon in this condition.
Book ID: 56307More details Price: $75.00