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THE VIRGIN OF FLAMES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in stiff illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 37582More details Price: $30.00 -
THE VIRGIN OF FLAMES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 38904More details Price: $28.00 -
DREAMS OF DISTANT LIVES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (an unread copy with some signs of handling or shelfwear, remainder mark.)
Book ID: 6984More details Price: $25.00 -
ECLIPSE FEVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Seventh book by this award winning writer, a complex story set in modern Mexico, which 'explores the reaches of corruption and the limits of power in business, politics, education.' William Gass called it 'a truly magnificent achievement.' 335 pp. ISBN: 0-679-418679.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37015More details Price: $16.00 -
ECLIPSE FEVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Seventh book by this award winning writer, a complex story set in modern Mexico, which 'explores the reaches of corruption and the limits of power in business, politics, education.' William Gass called it 'a truly magnificent achievement.' SIGNED by the author on the title page, and uncommon thus. ISBN: 0-679-418679.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 3930More details Price: $45.00 -
GOD'S EQUAL.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Prix Femina in France, this historical novel brings to life the 11th century of the Normans.
Condition: F/F.
Book ID: 3941More details Price: $18.00 -
FIRST LIGHT
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set around the excavation of an astronomically aligned neolithic grave in Dorset. ISBN: 0-8021-11610.
Condition: Good in a good dust jacket. (some bleeding from the black cloth spine to inside of dj.)
Book ID: 34489More details Price: $12.50 -
ENGLISH MUSIC
Edition: First American trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a boy with psychic powers and of his visions where he is drawn into the creations of Charles Dickens and William Blake, Thomas Mallory and Arthur Conan Doyle. Frontispiece and eleven other illustrations. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-679-409688.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket (remainder line, section of front endpaper cut out, but otherwise tight and clean, appears unread.)
Book ID: 21827More details Price: $16.50 -
FIRST LIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set around the excavation of an astronomically aligned neolithic grave in Dorset. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-11610.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (a tight copy, but with the usual rather severe toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 49322More details Price: $20.00 -
ENGLISH MUSIC.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
Franklin, PA: Franklin Library, 1992. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in the Signed First Edition Society series, SIGNED by Ackroyd on a preliminary page and with a special two page message to subscribers. The story of a boy with psychic powers, whose visions draw him into the creations of Charles Dickens and William Blake, Thomas Mallory and Arthur Conan Doyle. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece and eleven other illustrations. This edition also has a special full color illustration at the front by Norman Walker. 400 pp.
Condition: Fine in brown leather with gilt lettering and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon bound in, hubbed spine.
Book ID: 75453More details Price: $35.00 -
HAWKSMOOR.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fascinating book contrasting the disintegration of society in two different centuries: the early 18th c of Nicholas Dyer, architect, and the 20th c of Nicholas Hawksmoor, senior police officer involved in a murder investigation. Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0155035.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74227More details Price: $65.00 -
THE GIRL IN A SWING.
Edition: First printing, first issue.
London: Allen Lane, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very different novel by the author best known for 'Watership Down.' A love story with a steadily growing undertone of horror. It is ironical - in light of the fact that in the preface to this book, Adams says that he "cannot be sure of unravelling the experienced from the imagined" - that this novel was the subject of a libel suit, and the first printings were suppressed and the name of the main character - Kathe - was changed (this first issue printing still has the original name of Kathe) but it was produced for the Canadian market with the price - $12.95 - in Canadian dollars. 397 pp. ISBN: 0-713913452.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74039More details Price: $25.00 -
THE GIRL IN A SWING.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
London: Allen Lane, (1980.). SIGNED first edition - A very different novel by the author best known for 'Watership Down.' A love story with a steadily growing undertone of horror. It is ironical - in light of the fact that in the preface to this book, Adams says that he "cannot be sure of unraveling the experienced from the imagined" - that this novel was the subject of a libel suit, and the first printings were suppressed and the name of the main character - Kathe - was changed (this proof copy is, of course, the first state with the original name.) INSCRIBED by Adams on the first page "To - yours sincerely." 397 pp.
Condition: Very good in printed blue covers - an uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 57321More details Price: $125.00 -
MY DREAMS OUT IN THE STREET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by this award winning poet, a follow up to her National Book Award finalist 'Little Beauties.' The story of a young woman on the skids, spending her time in shelters and on the streets of late 1990s San Francisco. Cover praise from Andre Dubois III who calls this 'one of the finest American novels I've read in some time. A night blooming flower you will not be able to put down.' SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-97725.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 54562More details Price: $28.50 -
COOKIE.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Harper & Row, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a "tough, sexy & spirited" woman who owns a ranch in the high country of Washington State.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 3944More details Price: $15.00 -
THE WAR OF THE ROSES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Basis for the movie of the same name. . . "the Roses met at an auction on Cape Cod." 263 pp. ISBN: 0-446-512206.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (a bit of bumping to lower corners, some toning to dj.)
Book ID: 51684More details Price: $18.00 -
PRIVATE LIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of infidelity and betrayal, by the author of "The War of the Roses." 308 pp. ISBN: 0-688-101208.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36974More details Price: $15.00 -
THE GREAT NIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2011). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A retelling of Shakespeares 'A Midsummer Nights Dream.' "On Midsummer Eve 2008, three people, each on the run from a failed relationship, become trapped in San Franciscos Buena Vista Park, the secret home of Titania, Oberon, and their court. On this night, something awful is happening in the faerie kingdom . . . " SIGNED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0374166410.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82956More details Price: $40.00 -
HETACOMBS OF LAKE
Edition: First printing.
Washington, D.C.: Sun & Moon Press, 1984. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories by this highly praised young author.
Condition: F/NF.
Book ID: 7543More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ANGEL OF HISTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which creates a "portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval. Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, [it] follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS." SIGNED on the title page with both his English and Arabic signatures, and dated in October 2016. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-0802125767.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 72616More details Price: $35.00 -
THE ANGEL OF HISTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which creates a "portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval. Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, [it] follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS." INSCRIBED on the title page with both his English and Arabic signatures. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-0802125767.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 75478More details Price: $35.00 -
FOR ONE MORE DAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the half title page. A simple, but haunting, novel that explores the love between a mother and a son, a love extending beyond death - a fable that poses the simple question: what would you do if you could spend one more day with a loved one? The third book by the bestselling author of 'Tuesdays With Morrie' and 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven,' this also went quickly into later printings. ISBN: 1-401303277.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some indentations on dust jacket and front cover.)
Book ID: 42067More details Price: $25.00 -
FOR ONE MORE DAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - A simple, but haunting, novel that explores the love between a mother and a son, a love extending beyond death - a fable that poses the simple question: what would you do if you could spend one more day with a loved one? The third book by the bestselling author of 'Tuesdays With Morrie' and 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven,' this also went quickly into later printings. ISBN: 1-401303277.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72275More details Price: $15.00 -
UNTOLD STORY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner, (2011.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which imagines what Princess Diana's life might be like if the tragic accident which took her life had been averted. Joanne Harris calls this "a terrific, clever, multilayered and subtle book." Ali is one of Granta's twenty best young British novelists. 259 pp. ISBN: 9781451635485.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56369More details Price: $18.00 -
MUSTANG SALLY
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1992. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - a story of sx, gambling and higher education.
Condition: F/NF.
Book ID: 5891More details Price: $12.50 -
THE NEW CITY: A Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - In a planned community in Maryland in 1973, two men and their families struggle with failing ideals, racism and the exodus from urban space to "shiny new suburbs." 445 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60616More details Price: $19.50 -
THIRST.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel, third book, a story of greed, deception and betrayal set in the Arizona desert. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-269x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66353More details Price: $17.50 -
THE NEW CITY: A Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 2000. First edition - In a planned community in Maryland in 1973, two men and their families struggle with failing ideals, racism and the exodus from urban space to "shiny new suburbs."
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 19876More details Price: $18.00 -
JAKE'S THING.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition -
Condition: NF/G (approx 1" piece missing from top edge of rear cover of dj)
Book ID: 3958More details Price: $16.00 -
STANLEY AND THE WOMEN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster (Summit Books), 1984. Hardcover first edition - Highly acclaimed darkly comic novel - Burgess called this "Amis at his best."
Condition: F/F (rem mark)
Book ID: 3957More details Price: $15.00
