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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 -
S O S: POEMS 1961-2013.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grove Press, (2015). First edition - A definitive compilation of Baraka's poetry, from his first collection (when he was writing as Leroi Jones) to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years. His early poetry "emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by intensely rebellious fervor and subversive ideology." This includes poems from eleven of his published books, with a final section of recent poems compiled after his death. Selected and with a prefaced by his friend and colleague Paul Vangelisti. [16]. 528 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78273More details Price: $40.00 -
CRAZY BEAUTIFUL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2009). First edition - The author's third novel, a modern retelling for young adults of the story of Beauty and the Beast. "In an explosion of his own making, Lucius blew his arms off. Now he has hooks. He chose hooks because they were cheaper. He chose hooks so that everyone would know he was different, so he would scare even himself. Then he meets Aurora. The hooks don't scare her. They don't keep her away." 193 pp. ISBN: .
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79835More details Price: $15.00 -
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 -
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 -
FAR FROM TRUE: A Promise Falls Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: New American Library - NAL, (2016). SIGNED first edition - Thriller set in the troubled town of Promise Falls, featuring private investigator Cal Weaver and Detective Barry Duckworth. SIGNED on the title page. 459 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82566More details Price: $30.00 -
TRUST YOUR EYES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: New American Library - NAL, (2012). Hardcover - A thriller about two brothers who stumble onto a deadly conspiracy and find themselves in the cross hairs. 498 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a illustrated wrappers (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 76540More details Price: $17.50 -
ARARAT: DAYS OF MAGIC, NIGHTS OF WAR: Book Two.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins / Joanna Cotler Books, (2004). First edition - The second book in this epic series, with over 125 illustrations by the author (in black and white in this edition). 489 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79308More details Price: $18.00 -
SUMMERTIME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, (2002). First edition - The author's second novel, a romantic comedy set in rural England where a young single mother tries to cope with her chaotic family and a fractured love life. 326 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60158More details Price: $15.00 -
SHARP TEETH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2008). First edition - The author's first novel, written in verse, about an ancient race of lycanthropes who have survived to the present day and are growing in strength. Caught in the middle is Anthony, a kindhearted dogcatcher, and the girl he loves, a werewolf, 312 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59620More details Price: $20.00 -
THE BAD SAMARITAN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (1995). First edition - A novel of suspense featuring Charlie Peace, set in an idyllic English village. 233 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 64999More details Price: $16.50 -
MINIMAL DAMAGE: Stories Of Veterans.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - A collection of seven stories and a novella which explore the lives, legacies and memories of veterans, all damaged by their war experiences, living in a society with no need for soldiers. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. A title in the Western Literature Series. 184 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56873More details Price: $25.00 -
THE TERRIBLE TWO.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Amulet Books / Harry N. Abrams, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The first book in this series for early readers about two terrible pranksters at school - a series "that celebrates inventiveness, friendship, and the power of teamwork - for good, or for terrible." SIGNED by Jory John on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Kevin Cornell. 220 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (some wear at the top of the spine)
Book ID: 83951More details Price: $21.00 -
FIRESTORM.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - Fourth mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - set in Lassen Volcanic National Park where Pigeon is temporarily assigned as a medic and security officer during the Jackknife fire. SIGNED on the title page. 307 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. A very different cover than the final trade edition.
Book ID: 58935More details Price: $30.00 -
FLASHBACK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2003.). First edition - The 11th mystery featuring Ranger Anna Pigeon - this one is set in the Dry Tortugas National Park, a series of small islands 70 miles off Key West in Florida, which served as a prison during the Civil War and later housed the Lincoln assassination conspirators. An interesting blend of modern mystery and historical fiction. 430 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61083More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ROPE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012). First edition - A prequel to the Anna Pigeon stories - set in 1995 with Anna fresh off the bus from New York City working for the summer at Glen Canyon National Park. When she didn't return from a hike one day, her co-workers assumed she had quit - but instead she had been taken. 357 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy wrappers. With a projected 150,000 copy first printing, this ARC is much less common than the trade edition.
Book ID: 84709More details Price: $20.00 -
BLOOD LURE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2001.). First edition - Mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - set in Glacier National Park. SIGNED on the title page/ 320 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 37987More details Price: $30.00 -
THE AIR WE BREATHE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (2007). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. SIGNED on the title page and dated 6/2/07 - that is, before publication. 297 pp plus a family tree.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82966More details Price: $35.00 -
THE AIR WE BREATHE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (2007). First edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. 297 pp plus a family tree.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82965More details Price: $21.50 -
THE VOYAGE OF THE NARWHAL
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, 1998. First edition - Historical novel set against the background of an expedition to the Arctic in 1855-56 by the 1996 winner of the National Book Award. Illustrated on the title page and at the beginning of each chapter. 386 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83036More details Price: $18.50 -
THE THIRD SISTER: A Continuation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1996). First edition - For those of us who wish Austen had written more books, here is a continuation of 'Sense and Sensibility,' featuring the youngest of the sister, Margaret Dashwood, once so underestimated by Austen ""Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life." but who is shown to be an interesting and intelligent character in this novel. Better than many Austen sequels. 247 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72679More details Price: $18.50 -
THE LACE READER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: William H. Morrow, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - The author's very hard to describe first novel about a family of women from Salem, Massachusetts who can read the future in the patterns of lace. SIGNED on the title page. Author's disclaimer. 300 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps (a new copy.)
Book ID: 57593More details Price: $30.00 -
PETER AND THE SHADOW THIEVES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion Books for Children - Disney Editions, (2006.). SIGNED first edition - The second book in this highly praised series for older children which tells of the early adventures of Peter Pan. In this, he leaves Mollusk Island and travels with Tinkerbelle to the cold, damp and dangerous streets of London. SIGNED by Ridley Pearson on the title page. 541 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 43044More details Price: $30.00 -
ESCAPE FROM THE CARNIVALE: A Never Land Book.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion Books for Children, (2006.). SIGNED first edition - The adventures of Peter Pan's friends on Mollusk Island. The second collaboration between these two authors, and the first written for younger children. SIGNED by BOTH authors - by Ridley Pearson on the half title page and by Dave Barry on the title page. Not illustrated. Disney editions. 115 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 43043More details Price: $27.50 -
THE WIDOW.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: New American Library - NAL, 2016. First edition - The author's first novel, part pyschological suspense and part examination of what a marriage is, one which explores the question of "how much do the wives of men who commit terrible crimes actually know.?" Told in alternate voices, from the perspective of the widow, the police detective and the reporter. 324 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 68113More details Price: $19.50 -
THE LOST GRIZZLIES: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. SIGNED first edition - An account of his experiences, along with veteran grizzly expert Doug Peacock and biologist Dennis Sizemore, searching for signs that grizzly bears might still exist in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, a region in which they are presumably extinct. SIGNED by Bass on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Russell Chatham. 239 pp plus an epilogue and final drawing.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81601More details Price: $35.00 -
THE WATCH
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (1989). SIGNED first edition - Author's highly praised first work of fiction, a collection of short stories. SIGNED on the half title page with the words "best of luck and wishes" and dated in Montana in December 1989. 191 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60610More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LOST GRIZZLIES: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of his experiences, along with veteran grizzly expert Doug Peacock and biologist Dennis Sizemore, searching for signs that grizzly bears might still exist in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, a region in which they are presumably extinct. SIGNED by Bass on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Russell Chatham. 239 pp plus an epilogue and final drawing. ISBN: 0-395-717590.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37465More details Price: $35.00 -
THE HERMIT'S STORY: Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. First edition - A collection of short stories, some almost magical in their evocation of man and nature, several set in the Yaak Valley of Montana, where Bass lives. 179 pp. Cover by Russell Chatham.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 44762More details Price: $21.50 -
WE ARE EACH OTHERS HARVEST: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84183More details Price: $25.00