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A SUDDEN LIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth book: "In the summer of 1990, fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell gets his first glimpse of Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of giant whole trees and is set on a huge estate overlooking Seattle's Puget Sound. . . as Trevor explores the house's secret stairways and hidden rooms, he discovers a spirit lingering in Riddell House whose agenda is at odds with the family plan. Only Trevor's willingness to face the dark past of his forefathers will reveal the key to his family's future." SIGNED on the title page. 396 pp. ISBN: 9781439187036.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64103More details Price: $30.00 -
A SUDDEN LIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth book: "In the summer of 1990, fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell gets his first glimpse of Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of giant whole trees and is set on a huge estate overlooking Seattle's Puget Sound. . . as Trevor explores the house's secret stairways and hidden rooms, he discovers a spirit lingering in Riddell House whose agenda is at odds with the family plan. Only Trevor's willingness to face the dark past of his forefathers will reveal the key to his family's future." 396 pp. ISBN: 9781439187036.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65573More details Price: $17.50 -
THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set in Seattle, a look at life from the viewpoint of an old dog in his last days - a way of telling the story which works incredibly well to create a moving, sometimes humorous, sometimes wise, story. "Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn't simply about going fast." 321 pp. ISBN: 978-0061537936.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86316More details Price: $50.00 -
THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set in Seattle, a look at life from the viewpoint of an old dog in his last days - a way of telling the story which works incredibly well to create a moving, sometimes humorous, sometimes wise, story. "Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn't simply about going fast." 321 pp. ISBN: 978-0061537936.
Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock, crease to front flap of dj but otherwise a tight and straight copy).
Book ID: 86688More details Price: $30.00 -
THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set in Seattle, a look at life from the viewpoint of an old dog in his last days - a way of telling the story which works incredibly well to create a moving, sometimes humorous, sometimes wise, story. "Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn't simply about going fast." 321 pp. ISBN: 978-0061537936.
Condition: Nearfine in a fine dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock, previous owner's name on front endpaper).
Book ID: 86940More details Price: $35.00 -
THE MOON IS DOWN.
Edition: First printing, first issue in a first issue dust jacket.
New York: The Viking Press, 1942. dj. Hardcover first edition - Steinbeck's classic short novel set in "any conquered country in any time" but probably based on the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II. 188 pp. First issue with all the points, in the uncommon first issue dust jacket with the original price of $2, corners of flaps square and unclipped and box on the bottom of the back cover with "The Men in the Service Need Books." 188 pp.
Condition: Near fine in dark blue cloth with greenish-blue topstain in a very good dust jacket (the usual toning to the pages and to the dust jacket, some pink discoloration to the interior of the dj from the cloth, rubbing to the folds of the dj, and a small chip at the lower corner of the front cover - but overall an attractive copy)
Book ID: 1More details Price: $200.00 -
IN THE SHADOW OF THE CYPRUS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Gallery Books - Simon & Schuster, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by the son of John Steinbeck, part historical novel, part adventure story, which moves from the Chinese community in the Monterey area in 1906 to an account of a search a century later for some valuable historical artificacts which went missing back in 1906. 246 pp. ISBN: 9781439168257.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark, some light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 67403More details Price: $15.00 -
THE BROOKLYN BOOK OF THE DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A large (16 siblings) and very dysfunctional Irish-American family comes together after the death of their father. 228 pp. Photographic endpapers. ISBN: 1564780376.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (tear to fold in upper corner of front cover) .
Book ID: 66503More details Price: $16.50 -
A PLAGUE OF DREAMERS: Three Novellas.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Three "lyrically comic tales about the Pinch, a backwater Jewish community in Memphis, whose misbegotten citizens refer to themselves as 'the lost tribe.' His dreamers are plagued by history, lust, solitude, and the extravagance of their own fevered imaginations." SIGNED on the title page with the word "thanks." Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-684195321.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 85785More details Price: $30.00 -
HARRY KAPLAN'S ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised author's second novel. "Set in waterlogged Memphis during the great flood of 1939, [it]] spins an unusual variation on the Huck Finn theme. For 15-year-old Harry Kaplan, recently transplanted from Brooklyn to Memphis's teeming Jewish ghetto, working in his father's pawnshop is a bore. So bookish, comically awkward Harry hooks up with two orphaned black twins, wise-guy Lucifer and his tagalong mute brother Michael. Renegade Harry and the twins navigate flooded Beale Street, exploring brothels, cabarets, a wrecked steamboat and the stereotypes each culture harbors toward the other." (Publishers Weekly) Cover praise from Gordon Lish, Barry Hannah, Lee Smith and more. SIGNED (with a quirky backwards 'Steve') on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-899197248.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 85786More details Price: $30.00 -
BEAR AND HIS DAUGHTER: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of seven stories, written over a span on nearly thirty years. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-395-636523.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46096More details Price: $18.00 -
DAMASCUS GATE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - A 'cerebral thriller' set in modern Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip - Kakutani in her NY Times Review called the endgame 'masterly: thrilling, coiled and somehow both inevitable and surprising.' National book award finalist. 500 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-395-665698.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48493More details Price: $18.00 -
FUN WITH PROBLEMS: Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. First edition - Second collection of short stories by this award-winning writer. 195 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58532More details Price: $20.00 -
DEATH OF A BLACK-HAIRED GIRL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2013. First edition - Novel set on the campus of an elite university in a decaying New England city, the story of an illicit romance between a professor and one of his students. 281 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58950More details Price: $25.00 -
CHILDREN OF LIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
London: Andre Deutsch, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of Hollywood, of disintegration, and of the lure of cocaine and alcohol - reportedly based upon Stone's own experiences there and in Mexico when he was working on the screenplay for the movie based on his award-winning 'Dog Soldiers.' Although the copyright page for this UK edition says "first published in the US ...by Knopf" this actually preceded the US edition, and was issued in a much smaller number - 4,500 versus 40,000 - of copies. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-233-978844.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (some spine slant and light toning to the pages).
Book ID: 59020More details Price: $30.00 -
CHILDREN OF LIGHT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of Hollywood, of disintegration, and of the lure of cocaine and alcohol - reportedly based upon Stone's own experiences there and in Mexico when he was working on the screenplay for the movie based on his award-winning 'Dog Soldiers.' SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-394-525736.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket - an attractive straight copy, appears unread, but with a remainder dot on bottom edge..
Book ID: 59333More details Price: $30.00 -
OUTERBRIDGE REACH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel of the sea, involving a long distance race, nominated for the National Book award. SIGNED on the half title page. Rockwell Kent illustration on title page and dustjacket. Map endpapers. 409 pp. ISBN: 0-395-587816.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62357More details Price: $30.00 -
A FLAG FOR SUNRISE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - His highly praised third novel, set in a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award, nominated for the Pulitzer and finalist for the National Book Award. ISBN: 0-394-407571.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (rem mark.)
Book ID: 14015More details Price: $25.00 -
BEAR AND HIS DAUGHTER: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of seven stories, written over a span on nearly thirty years. SIGNED on the title page by the author. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-395-63652-3.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 16544More details Price: $45.00 -
A FLAG FOR SUNRISE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - His highly praised third novel, set in a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award, nominated for the Pulitzer and finalist for the National Book Award. ISBN: 0-394-407571.
Condition: Very good in a good dustjacket (rem mark, tear to dj..)
Book ID: 17312More details Price: $16.00 -
A FLAG FOR SUNRISE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - His highly praised third novel, set in a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award, nominated for the Pulitzer and finalist for the National Book Award. ISBN: 0-394-407571.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (one of the relatively small number of copies of this book without a remainder mark, creasing to front flap of dj.)
Book ID: 17313More details Price: $30.00 -
OUTERBRIDGE REACH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel of the sea, involving a long distance race, nominated for the National Book award. SIGNED on the title page. Rockwell Kent illustration on title page and dustjacket. Map endpapers. 409 pp. ISBN: 0-395-587816.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 23754More details Price: $35.00 -
CHILDREN OF LIGHT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of Hollywood, of disintegration, and of the lure of cocaine and alcohol - reportedly based upon Stone's own experiences there and in Mexico when he was working on the screenplay for the movie based on his award-winning 'Dog Soldiers.'. ISBN: 0-394-525736.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket - an attractive copy.
Book ID: 25390More details Price: $20.00 -
OUTERBRIDGE REACH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of the sea, involving a long distance race, nominated for the National Book award. Rockwell Kent illustration on title page and dustjacket. Map endpapers. 409 pp. ISBN: 0-395-587816.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39537More details Price: $17.50 -
TAKE ONE CANDLE LIGHT A ROOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her seventh book, the story of a travel writer who returns to her southern California home to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest friend, only to find herself drawn into the timultuous life of the twenty-two year old son of that friend. A novel which moves from California to Lousiana, from the issues of the past to the dangers of the present. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- for keeping those candles lit" 320 pp. ISBN: 9780307379146.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58780More details Price: $35.00 -
TAKE ONE CANDLE LIGHT A ROOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her seventh book, the story of a travel writer who returns to her southern California home to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest friend, only to find herself drawn into the timultuous life of the twenty-two year old son of that friend. A novel which moves from California to Lousiana, from the issues of the past to the dangers of the present. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780307379146.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 61840More details Price: $35.00 -
TRIBES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by the author of the controversial "The War Zone" - an exploration of the connection between violence and tenderness, between the public and private selves. 177 pp. ISBN: 0-383-422636.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 3903More details Price: $15.00 -
TRIBES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by the author of the controversial "The War Zone" - an exploration of the connection between violence and tenderness, between the public and private selves. 177 pp. ISBN: 0-383-422636.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35777More details Price: $14.00 -
THE WAR ZONE.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35794More details Price: $17.00 -
SWEET LUCY WINE.
Edition: First printing.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised first collection of short stories by this Southern poet and editor. SIGNED on the title page by the author.
Condition: F/F (new.)
Book ID: 4285More details Price: $40.00
