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  • HUNT WITH THE HOUNDS. by Eberhart, Mignon G.
    Eberhart, Mignon G.
    HUNT WITH THE HOUNDS.

    Edition: Detective Book Club reprint.

    New York: Walter J. Black, (c 1950.) dj. Hardcover - A novel of mystery and murder in the Virginia fox hunting country, 198 pp. As is usual with Black reprints, the dust jacket art reproduces the original.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some spotting to the top edge of the textblock, chips to edges of the dj.)

    Book ID: 53840
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  • RAVEN WINGS. by Edwards, Anne.
    Edwards, Anne.
    RAVEN WINGS.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Millington, (1975.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A suspense novel set in Richmond, Virginia, with its roots in madness - "Eddie Polk believes that he has lived before. He believes that he is Edgar Allen Poe and that Ginnie, his young cousin, is the reincarnation of Poe's thirteen-year-old bride. 174 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Allan Guy. ISBN: 0-86000-0788.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (creasing to front flap of dj.) Rather hard to find, especially in this condition.

    Book ID: 50245
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  • Elliott, James.
    COLD COLD HEART.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Delacorte, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a thriller involving former CIA agent Mike Culley, in prison for 14 months after being sold out by his superiors, who is offered his freedom if he can capture the man suspected of being behind a series of brutal murders on a quiet Virginia campus. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-385313292.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 37965
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  • Elliott, James.
    COLD COLD HEART.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Delacorte, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a thriller involving former CIA agent Mike Culley, in prison for 14 months after being sold out by his superiors, who is offered his freedom if he can capture the man suspected of being behind a series of brutal murders on a quiet Virginia campus. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-385313292.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 37428
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  • COLD COLD HEART. by Elliott, James.
    Elliott, James.
    COLD COLD HEART.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Delacorte, (1994.). First edition - The author's first book, a thriller involving former CIA agent Mike Culley, in prison for 14 months after being sold out by his superiors, who is offered his freedom if he can capture the man suspected of being behind a series of brutal murders on a quiet Virginia campus. 344 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated black wrappers (scratch to back cover.)

    Book ID: 37429
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  • FATHER MELANCHOLY'S DAUGHTER. by Godwin, Gail.
    Godwin, Gail.
    FATHER MELANCHOLY'S DAUGHTER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: William H. Morrow, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a young woman, growing up as the child of a clergyman in a small town in Virginia, coming to terms both with her abandoment by her mother at age six, and the expectations of her father. 404 pp. Dust jacket by Honi Werner. ISBN: 0-688-065317.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 54276
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  • THE MAMMOTH CHEESE. by Holman, Sheri.
    Holman, Sheri.
    THE MAMMOTH CHEESE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction - one reviewer commented that it "winds along through most of the great themes of American fiction (tradition vs. innovation, the weight of the past, the dehumanizing effects of industrialization, the rifts between parents and children, men and women), picking up bits of history along the way, and carrying you wherever Holman wishes. The opening pages introduce at least 15 characters (not including the 11 premature babies born to dog trainer Manda Frank), a rough outline of the history of Three Chimneys, Virginia, and more information on small-farm cheesemaking than you might ever have thought you'd…

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    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction - one reviewer commented that it "winds along through most of the great themes of American fiction (tradition vs. innovation, the weight of the past, the dehumanizing effects of industrialization, the rifts between parents and children, men and women), picking up bits of history along the way, and carrying you wherever Holman wishes. The opening pages introduce at least 15 characters (not including the 11 premature babies born to dog trainer Manda Frank), a rough outline of the history of Three Chimneys, Virginia, and more information on small-farm cheesemaking than you might ever have thought you'd would want to learn, let alone absorb with fascination." SIGNED on the title page. 440 pp. ISBN: 0-871139006.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82827
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  • THE MAMMOTH CHEESE. by Holman, Sheri.
    Holman, Sheri.
    THE MAMMOTH CHEESE.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel, short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction - one reviewer commented that it "winds along through most of the great themes of American fiction (tradition vs. innovation, the weight of the past, the dehumanizing effects of industrialization, the rifts between parents and children, men and women), picking up bits of history along the way, and carrying you wherever Holman wishes. The opening pages introduce at least 15 characters (not including the 11 premature babies born to dog trainer Manda Frank), a rough outline of the history of Three Chimneys, Virginia, and more information on small-farm cheesemaking than you might ever have thought you'd would want…

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    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel, short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction - one reviewer commented that it "winds along through most of the great themes of American fiction (tradition vs. innovation, the weight of the past, the dehumanizing effects of industrialization, the rifts between parents and children, men and women), picking up bits of history along the way, and carrying you wherever Holman wishes. The opening pages introduce at least 15 characters (not including the 11 premature babies born to dog trainer Manda Frank), a rough outline of the history of Three Chimneys, Virginia, and more information on small-farm cheesemaking than you might ever have thought you'd would want to learn, let alone absorb with fascination." SIGNED on the title page. Publisher's material laid in. 440 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in printed orange wrappers.

    Book ID: 82828
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  • MURDER AT MONTICELLO: A Homer Kelly Mystery. by Langton, Jane..
    Langton, Jane..
    MURDER AT MONTICELLO: A Homer Kelly Mystery.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: The Viking Press, (2001). First edition - Fifteenth in the Homer Kelly mystery series - in this, Homer has been invited to attend the bicentennial celebration of Jefferson's presidency and finds himself in the middle of controversy over Jefferson's role in history, while a vicious murderer is on the prowl. Illustrated with drawings by the author. xii, 254 pp. ISBN: 0-670-882100.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 87932
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  • IF I KILLED HIM WHEN I MET HIM. by McCrumb, Sharyn.
    McCrumb, Sharyn.
    IF I KILLED HIM WHEN I MET HIM.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth mystery feauturing forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson. 276 pp. ISBN: 9780345365750.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 71016
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  • BLUE RIDGE. by Pearson, T. R.
    Pearson, T. R.
    BLUE RIDGE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Viking, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This highly acclaimed Southern writer's seventh novel, and his first mystery novel. "Ray Tatum and his dog, Monroe, are on a journey to Hogarth, a small town in Virginia. Ray is taking the job of deputy sheriff in this small town, known for nothing except its proximity to the Appalachian Trail. . . However, Ray has no sooner settled into this bucolic existence when hikers on the A.P., as it is known, discover a skeleton of a man that has been just off the main trail for some time. Ray will have to solve this gruesome murder with help from a group of rusty law enforcement officers and a…

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    New York: Viking, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This highly acclaimed Southern writer's seventh novel, and his first mystery novel. "Ray Tatum and his dog, Monroe, are on a journey to Hogarth, a small town in Virginia. Ray is taking the job of deputy sheriff in this small town, known for nothing except its proximity to the Appalachian Trail. . . However, Ray has no sooner settled into this bucolic existence when hikers on the A.P., as it is known, discover a skeleton of a man that has been just off the main trail for some time. Ray will have to solve this gruesome murder with help from a group of rusty law enforcement officers and a park ranger with the unlikely name of Kit Carson, a black woman. In a parallel story, Paul Tatum, Ray's cousin, an insurance actuary from Roanoke, is called by the police and asked to come to New York City to identify a body believed to be that of his son. . . Ray and Paul Tatum are very different men, both caught up in worlds they hardly understand. Pearson's writing, funny and taut, will make it difficult for any reader to put down the story of these likable men." (Otto Penzler) SIGNED on the title page. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-670892696.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82250
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  • Powers, Nani.
    THE GOOD REMAINS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Grove Press, (2002.). First edition - The author's second novel, a tribute to 'A Christmas Carol' set in a small Virginia town: 'Dr. C. R. Ash, a neonatologist and chronic bachelor, is a man in the winter of his soul, and last in the line of an old Southern family. During a snowy prelude to a much-anticipated hospital Christmas party, C. R. crosses paths with a world of local characters, living and dead. In a town adrift with housing developments, strip malls, and Civil War history, this motley assemblage of characters is impelled by their search to solve the ancient human riddles of love, loss, and desolation. At once Victorian in its feel and yet starkly modern,…

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    New York: Grove Press, (2002.). First edition - The author's second novel, a tribute to 'A Christmas Carol' set in a small Virginia town: 'Dr. C. R. Ash, a neonatologist and chronic bachelor, is a man in the winter of his soul, and last in the line of an old Southern family. During a snowy prelude to a much-anticipated hospital Christmas party, C. R. crosses paths with a world of local characters, living and dead. In a town adrift with housing developments, strip malls, and Civil War history, this motley assemblage of characters is impelled by their search to solve the ancient human riddles of love, loss, and desolation. At once Victorian in its feel and yet starkly modern, 'The Good Remains' explores life, death, and our own attachments to this mortal coil'

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    Condition: Fine (a new copy) in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 29553
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  • THE MULLIGANS OF MT. JEFFERSON. by Reid, Don.
    Reid, Don.
    THE MULLIGANS OF MT. JEFFERSON.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Colorado Springs: David C Cook, (2012). SIGNED first edition - A novel by a member of country musics Grammy award-winning Statler Brothers - the story of three boys growing up together in a small Virginia town. "Now its 1959, and police lieutenant Buddy receives an early-morning phone call: his friend Harlan, a store owner, has been shot in a break-in. Cal, now a preacher, meets Buddy at the hospital, and together, as professionals and as friends, they begin to unravel what might have happened to Harlan." SIGNED by author on the half title page. 326 pp plus a reading guide and an interview with the author. ISBN: 978-1434764942.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 86201
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  • BY BLOOD POSSESSED. by Santangelo, Elena.
    Santangelo, Elena.
    BY BLOOD POSSESSED.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, introducing Pat Montella, one in which events from the Civil War are still affecting the present. "Pat Montella is summoned from her dreary office job in suburban Pennsylvania by an unusual request from a stranger. Ninety-one-year-old Magnolia Shelby wants to bequeath to Pat, in her will, her house and acreage in rural Virginia. The only condition is that Pat must visit during the first week of May in order to learn what this is all about. What she finds is Bell Run, a Civil War-era estate and battleground inhabited by the enigmatic Miss Maggie, a retired history teacher with a passion for the Civil War. " 326 pp. ISBN: 0-312-209606.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (upper corners bumped)

    Book ID: 75398
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  • HANG MY HEAD AND CRY. by Santangelo, Elena.
    Santangelo, Elena.
    HANG MY HEAD AND CRY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel in this series set in rural Virginia, featuring a woman who can "see" into the past. Pat Montello has moved onto Miss Maggie Shelby's estate, Bell Run. Suddenly her visions return, and she begins to see 1870s Virginia - a time when the KKK was coming into existence - through the eyes of a young black boy. When Pat and Miss Maggie uncover a skeleton on the estate grounds, once again past and present collide and Pat must use her unusual talents to solve this both the mystery of the past and a murder in the present. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-312269390.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 75569
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  • MURDER IN THE MIDST. by Scott, Willard with Bill Crider.
    Scott, Willard with Bill Crider.
    MURDER IN THE MIDST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dutton, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery by weatherman Willard Scott featuring Virginia weatherman Stanley Waters - who is also an innkeeper by avocation - and a sleuth by necessity.244 pp. ISBN: 0-525-943242.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (prev owner's name, slightly cocked spine.)

    Book ID: 52594
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  • MURDER UNDER BLUE SKIES. by Scott, Willard with Bill Crider.
    Scott, Willard with Bill Crider.
    MURDER UNDER BLUE SKIES.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Dutton, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Mystery by weatherman Willard Scott introducing a series featuring Virginia weatherman Stanley Waters - who is also an innkeeper by avocation - and a sleuth by necessity.SIGNED on the title page by Bill Crider. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-525-943242.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (toning to pages, otherwise a tight, clean copy.)

    Book ID: 38129
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  • MURDER UNDER BLUE SKIES. by Scott, Willard with Bill Crider.
    Scott, Willard with Bill Crider.
    MURDER UNDER BLUE SKIES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dutton, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery by weatherman Willard Scott introducing a series featuring Virginia weatherman Stanley Waters - who is also an innkeeper by avocation - and a sleuth by necessity.SIGNED on the title page by Bill Crider. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-525-943242.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 52388
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  • Shreve, Susan Richards.
    A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's unusual 2nd novel, set in Virginia in 1942. The story of 2 families, one white, one black, one from the Midwest, the other the descendants of the slaves who had worked on the plantation for generations. ISBN: 0-671-644092.

    Condition: Very good in a fine dust jacket (toning to the pages, remainder mark.)

    Book ID: 29625
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  • FAMILY LINEN. by Smith, Lee
    Smith, Lee
    FAMILY LINEN.

    Edition: 4th printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1985) dj. Hardcover - A comic novel set in the small town of Booker Creek in the Virginia mountains not far from the North Carolina line - part murder mystery, part social commentary, part family history. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-399-130802.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)

    Book ID: 60130
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  • BIG STONE GAP. by Trigiani, Adriana.
    Trigiani, Adriana.
    BIG STONE GAP.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Random House, 2000. SIGNED first edition - Set in Big Stone Gap, Virginia in the year 1973. A family scandal sends the heroine, 35 year-old Ave Maria Mulligan into new levels of activity, shattering her quiet spinster life. First novel by this playwright. With a projected first printing of 150,000 copies, this ARC is much less common than the hardcover copy. SIGNED on the title page, and dated April 2000. 328 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 87113
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