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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 KEPT MAN
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First edition - The author's first novel (preceded by a collection of short stories) - the story of a young woman whose artist husband has fallen into a coma, and six years later she is still waiting,still dealing with his legacy and his life. 291 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art is very different from the final edition.
Book ID: 59621More details Price: $15.00 -
THE ROBBER BRIDE
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1993. First edition - An "intricate and subversive novel" by this award-winning writer. This novel won the Trillium Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize . 542 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 20648More details Price: $21.50 -
WILD INDIGO.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Berkley, (2006.). First edition - The award-winning first book in the series featuring Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild, and her wolf Mountain. Set in New Mexico, the culture of the Pueblo Indians is an important part of each novel. 304 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63353More details Price: $20.00 -
BROOKLYN FOLLIES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Henry Holt, (2006). SIGNED first edition - "Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. This is only the latest in a long line of follies." SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80851More details Price: $40.00 -
MAN IN THE DARK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Henry Holt, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Paul Auster's "brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us" begins ÔI am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.' SIGNED on the title page. 180 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (vertical crease on front cover, a bit of rubbing to back cover) .
Book ID: 81042More details Price: $40.00 -
TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Henry Holt, (2007.). First edition - A short metaphysical novel which begins with an old man waking in a room, disorientated and with no knowledge of who he is or where he is. 145 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 55414More details Price: $20.00 -
4 3 2 1.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Henry Holt, (2017). First edition - A long and provocative novel, one which follows four different lives of one boy - shortlisted for the Man-Booker Award. 866 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71648More details Price: $30.00 -
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 -
THE HIDING PLACE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. First edition - Her first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in England (the only debut novel on the shortlist that year), set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales in the 1960s.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 18429More details Price: $25.00 -
THE HIDING PLACE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. First edition - Her first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in England (the only debut novel on the shortlist that year), set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales in the 1960s.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 18528More details Price: $25.00 -
ONE SOLDIER'S WAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped).
Book ID: 66335More details Price: $25.00 -
DO NOT RISE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (2015). First edition - A title in the Pitt Poetry series, issued as a trade paperback original. The second collection by this award-winning poet: one "haunted by the cruelties of war." Notes, 60 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63479More details Price: $15.00 -
THE DOUBT FACTORY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2014). SIGNED first edition - A young adult novel which explores the issue of how public information is distorted for monetary gain, nominated for the Edgar Award. SIGNED on the first page. 486 pp (Note: this advance issue has an error on the copyright page with a publication date of Oct 2015)
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63920More details Price: $50.00 -
THE HERO'S WALK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Chapel Hill, NC: Allan Swallow, Publisher, (2001). First edition - Second novel by this award-winning writer who was born in India, now lives and writes in Canada. "In a small town by the Bay of Bengal in India, Sripathi Rao, a headstrong man and disenchanted copywriter, lives in his crumbling ancestral home, uncomfortably aware of the encroaching modern world. Then, early one morning, Sripathi is awakened by a call from Canada: his long-estranged daughter and her husband have been killed in a car accident. Their surviving seven-year-old child, Nandana, is about to become his reluctant ward. Yet Nandana has never met her grandfather, has never been to India, and hasn't spoken a word since the tragedy." 359 pp. ISBN: 1-565123123.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner of front cover clipped).
Book ID: 82859More details Price: $18.00 -
KILL SWITCH
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Kensington Books, (2012). First edition - The first novel from the former producers of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" - a thriller set in the world of forensic psychiatry. 289 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59645More details Price: $20.00 -
BUNKER 13.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003). First edition - "A brilliant international thriller, set in contemporary Kashmir, about an investigative journalist, espionage, and the temptations of drugs, sex, and corruption in the Indian Army Our hero, known as MM, is a pleasure-seeking journalist working for an upstart Indian newsweekly." The first novel by this investigative journalist. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-374-117306.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60660More details Price: $18.00 -
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 -
VOX.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, (1992) dj. SIGNED first edition - A long telephone seduction between two strangers, who first encountered each other on an adult party line, a combination of mundane and sexual fantasies. A modern erotic classic. SIGNED on the second title page. 166 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers in a very near fine outer plain brown wrapper with only a dark brown X on it .
Book ID: 81690More details Price: $40.00 -
THE LITTLE GIANT OF ABERDEEN COUNTY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - The author's rather offbeat but very highly praised first novel - Publisher's Weekly says that this "mixes the exuberant eccentricities of John Irving's Garp, Anne Tyler's relationship savvy and the plangent voice of Margaret Atwood. . . Haunting the margins of Truly's story is that of Tabitha Dyerson, a rumored witch whose secrets afford a breathtaking role reversal for Truly. It's got all the earmarks of a hitÑinfectious and lovable narrator, a dash of magic, an impressive sweep and a heartrending but not treacly family drama." SIGNED on the title page with the word "Enjoy." 341 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with French flaps.
Book ID: 80523More details Price: $28.50 -
MERCY SNOW.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2014). First edition - Her third novel, set in a tiny paper mill town in New Hampshire where nineteen-year-old Mercy, ekes out a living in the harshest of circumstances while caring for a young sister and battling the town as they blame her brother for a tragic bus accident. 324 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81118More details Price: $21.00 -
THE LITTLE GIANT OF ABERDEEN COUNTY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.). First edition - The author's rather offbeat but very highly praised first novel - Publisher's Weekly says that this "mixes the exuberant eccentricities of John Irving's Garp, Anne Tyler's relationship savvy and the plangent voice of Margaret Atwood. . . Haunting the margins of Truly's story is that of Tabitha Dyerson, a rumored witch whose secrets afford a breathtaking role reversal for Truly. It's got all the earmarks of a hitÑinfectious and lovable narrator, a dash of magic, an impressive sweep and a heartrending but not treacly family drama." 341 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with French flaps (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45685More details Price: $18.50 -
DAUGHTER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2003.). First edition - A moving first novel by this African American poet and mother: Miriam finds her world shattered when her daughter is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity, a situation that forces her to confront her past, her identity - a novel 'that explores the perils of silence and illuminates the fragile complexity of the mother-daughter bond.'. 264 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrapppers.
Book ID: 76176More details Price: $20.00 -
THE BUSINESS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First edition - Kate Telman is a 3rd level senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation, predating the Christian Church, with a base in the Antarctica, fortified headquarters in Switzerland, and plans to buy its own country. 393 pp
Condition: Fine in black glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75617More details Price: $21.50 -
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 -
AFFLICTION
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper & Row, 1989. SIGNED first edition - A powerful novel both in its portrayal of Wade Whitehouse, and the terrible affliction of violence, and in its depiction of the bleak New Hampshire town where Wade is both police officer and well-digger. Basis of the prize-winning movie of the same name. SIGNED on the title page.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (the silver and black covers of this advance issue are very different from the dustjacket used on the trade edition.)
Book ID: 11359More details Price: $45.00 -
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 -
MIDDLE SCHOOL BITES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Holiday House, (2020). SIGNED first edition - The first book in a humorous new series for older children. "Tom can't help that he's hungry, howling and half dead. Thanks to a series of unfortunate bites, eleven-year old Tom is now part vampire, part werewolf and part zombie - just in time for the first day of middle school." SIGNED by the author on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Mark Fearing. 295 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81489More details Price: $21.50 -
DOVE EXILED.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Viking, (2016). First edition - The author's second book, a sequel to 'Dove Arising,' continuing the story of Phaet Theta, who is now a fugitive. "Hiding in plain sight with her friend Wess family on the drowned planet Earth, Phaet discovers the rugged beauty of the world her ancestors once called home. All her life, shes been taught to fear the 'Earthbound,' and their generosity and kindness surprise and touch Phaet." 297 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some chipping at base of spine).
Book ID: 84728More details Price: $16.50