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RUNNING WILD.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1989,) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fascinating novella about the brutal murders of all 32 adult members of an exclusive gated community in West London. 104 pp. Designed by Chip Kidd. ISBN: 0-374-252882.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (tear to back cover of dj, dj folded slightly offcenter.)
Book ID: 57563More details Price: $12.50 -
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 STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
San Francisco: McAdam / Cage, 2007. First edition - "Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair, and a multi-million dollar gaming business lie at the heart of Iain Banks' fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built their fortune on a board game called Empire, now a wildly successful computer game. So successful the American Spraint Corporation want to buy the Wopulds out.. . a story of family turmoil, compromised loyalties, and hidden origins." 390 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in lime geen printed wrappers (an unread copy).
Book ID: 70441More details Price: $18.50 -
COMPLICITY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, (1995). First edition - A literate thriller of a modern day avenger whose inflicts a series of savage 'punishment fits the crime' attacks.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. Publisher's letter laid in.
Book ID: 59996More details Price: $30.00 -
A SONG OF STONE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in a "European nation not unlike Bosnia: armed forces roam the lawless land." 280 pp. ISBN: 0-684-853531.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 54179More details Price: $15.00 -
THE ANGEL ON THE ROOF: The Stories of Russell Banks.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Although Banks is best known as a novelist,he has also won awards for his short stories and this collection, which includes stories written over a period of 30 years, contains many examples of his most powerful stories. Included are the best stories from his previous volumes, revised for this collection, and nine new stories, as well as an introduction and afterword by Banks. The settings range from New Hampshire and working class New England to Florida, the Caribbean and Africa. SIGNED on the title page. xix, 506 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0173963.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80520More details Price: $40.00 -
LOST MEMORY OF SKIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which "illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture. . . the young man at the center of this uncompromising and morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders." 416 pp. ISBN: 978-0061857638.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81194More details Price: $20.00 -
THE DARLING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the US and Liberia during the years 1975-1991 - the story, told in the first person, of a woman, a member of the Weather Underground, who fled to Liberia and became involved in both the politics of that country and in the struggle to save endangered chimpanzees. SIGNED on the title page. 392 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0197358.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 80521More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DARLING.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in the US and Liberia during the years 1975-1991 - the story, told in the first person, of a woman, a member of the Weather Underground, who fled to Liberia and became involved in both the politics of that country and in the struggle to save endangered chimpanzees. SIGNED on the title page. 392 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 52064More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SWEET HEREAFTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A school bus accident with 14 children dead from the small town of Sam Dent, New York. Explores a tight-knit community's response to the inexplicable loss of its children. Basis for the excellent 1997 Movie directed by Atom Egoyan (Grand prize Cannes Film Festival. BSFC award Best Supporting Actress Sara Polley; Oscar nominations for director, screenplay, many other awards.) 257 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0167033.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some bleeding from the blue cloth spine to the inside of the dj, slight sunning to the pink lettering on the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 63800More details Price: $20.00 -
THE DARLING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the US and Liberia during the years 1975-1991 - the story, told in the first person, of a woman, a member of the Weather Underground, who fled to Liberia and became involved in both the politics of that country and in the struggle to save endangered chimpanzees. 392 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0197358.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 65747More details Price: $17.50 -
THE VENETIAN'S WIFE: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - As in all of his books, the illustrations are an integral part of the story- in this case the quest for a 15th century adventurer's collection of Indian sculptures. SIGNED on the title page. Square format. 131 pp. ISBN: 0-8118-11409.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57364More details Price: $35.00 -
WINDFLOWER: A Novel.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A lovely production, printed on heavy smooth stock and with soft illustrations by Edoardo Ponti running across the bottom margins of every page. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Slightly oversized format. 216 pp. Dust jacket and cover art by Nick Bantock. ISBN: 0-8118-43521.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 50845More details Price: $35.00 -
ANCIENT LIGHT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Hardcover first edition - Hightly praised novel by this award-winning writer "about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives." 288 pp. ISBN: 978-0307957054.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (some sunning to spine of dj).
Book ID: 73310More details Price: $16.50 -
THE DAKOTA WINTERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2018). First edition - Novel by this award-winning author set in 1979, the story of a family living in New York CityÕs famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John LennonÕs assassination- a family saga and a history of a critical time in New York city and the country at large. 324 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77010More details Price: $18.50 -
THE DAKOTA WINTERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2018). SIGNED first edition - Novel by this award-winning author set in 1979, the story of a family living in New York CityÕs famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John LennonÕs assassination- a family saga and a history of a critical time in New York city and the country at large. INSCRIBED on the title page. 324 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76103More details Price: $30.00 -
STAY UP WITH ME: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first collection of short stories, about the myriad ways in which we try to connect with one another. INSCRIBED on the title page. 209 pp. ISBN: 9780062258120.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 58819More details Price: $32.50 -
BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Putnam, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's powerful short novel, an unsentimental and compassionate story of the women a city in Northern England who walk the streets in order to feed their children, and how their lives are changed when a serial killer is on the prowl with prostitutes as his prey. 170 pp. ISBN: 0-399-13011x.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some toning and discoloration to the dj).
Book ID: 74967More details Price: $25.00 -
ANOTHER WORLD.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An extraordinarily powerful study of memory, and of the various ways in which the violent past returns to haunt and distort the present." 278 pp. ISBN: 0-374-105251.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (faint erasure on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 57661More details Price: $15.00 -
BORDER CROSSING.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - A contemporary novel of a pyschologist who is lured into a re-investigation of a several years past case of a 10 year old boy, accused of murder, in which he had testified as an expert. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-374-181152.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 49928More details Price: $18.00 -
DOUBLE VISION.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - A contemporary novel by this Booker award winning author. Set in the aftermath of 9/11 and the Afghan War, this reveals "the effects of violence on the journalists and artists who have dedicated themselves to representing it." 258 pp. ISBN: 0-374209057.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67647More details Price: $24.50 -
STARING AT THE SUN.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, set partly in the near future - that is, the early 21st century. 197 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-558219.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 2620More details Price: $18.00 -
FLAUBERT'S PARROT.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (slight sunning to spine, toning to flaps)
Book ID: 86776More details Price: $35.00 -
TALKING IT OVER.
Edition: First US edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about 30 friends, all around 30, set in London - one in which 'three wonderfully realized voices are telling 3 wildly different versions of one story.'. ISBN: 0-679-40525-9.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 3755More details Price: $15.00 -
TALKING IT OVER.
Edition: First US edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about 30 friends, all around 30, set in London - one in which 'three wonderfully realized voices are telling 3 wildly different versions of one story.'. ISBN: 0-679-40525-9.
Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 31359More details Price: $12.50 -
STARING AT THE SUN.
Edition: First printing.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth book. ISBN: 0-224-024140.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (hint of spine slant, neat prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 4684More details Price: $40.00 -
SHOW WORLD.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (1998). First edition - Author's third novel, much of it written in the form of journal entries by Samantha, a young woman trying to establish a career as a writer or publicity agent who finds her dreams turning into nightmares.
Condition: Near fine in gray printed wrappers
Book ID: 85199More details Price: $16.50 -
LUCID STARS
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
New York: Delta, 1988. SIGNED first edition - First novel by recent the National Book Award winner, and also the first book to be published as a trade paper original by the revised Delta Fiction imprint. SIGNED by author on title page.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers - much less yellowing to the pages than is common with this title.
Book ID: 4828More details Price: $45.00 -
ONCE UPON A TIME: A Floating Opera.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A memoir wrapped in a novel and launched on a sea voyage" - that is, a three day cruise down into the 'Chesapeake triangle." 397 pp. Dust jacket by Steve Snider. ISBN: 0-316-082627.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (ink notations and prev owner's name on rear pastedown.)
Book ID: 48162More details Price: $12.50 -
CHIMERA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of Dunyazade, younger sister of Scheherazade, Perseus and others from mythology and ancient tales. Winner of the National Book Award. 308 pp. Dust jacket by George Giusti. ISBN: 0-394-49139-9.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (light H on front endpaper, tear to dj at top of spine.)
Book ID: 88483More details Price: $24.50