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BAD GIRLS WITH PERFECT FACES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pulse - Simon & Schuster, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A young adult thriller about the darkness that lurks inside all of us. SIGNED on the title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 978-1481418607.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Promotional bookmark laid in.
Book ID: 71235More details Price: $27.50 -
THE PROMISE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scholastic, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young adult novel by this award-winning writer. A teenage boy makes a promise to a dying girl but now he doesn't know how to deal with her death. 170 pp. ISBN: 0-590437607.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. A rather hard-to-find title.
Book ID: 72774More details Price: $18.50 -
THE YOUNG EDITOR.
Edition: Early reprint.
Philadelphia: David McKay, (1900, c 1889). Hardcover - Story for older boys set in the world of journalism -includes a mystery about a missing father. Glossy frontispiece by C. M. Relyea. 321 pp.
Condition: Very good in cream cloth with black and red illustrations and lettering (Christmas gift inscription in pencil)
Book ID: 68281More details Price: $20.00 -
STARRY NIGHTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bloomsbury, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Paris, this is a book about the magic of art and the magic of love. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Believe in the magic of art!" Author's note. Illustrated endpapers. 275 pp. ISBN: 9781619631335.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 58516More details Price: $31.50 -
WHEN YOU WERE HERE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). First edition - A young adult novel which "explores the two most powerful forces known to man - death and love. . . Danny's mother lost her battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation - the one day that she was hanging on to see. Now Danny is left alone. . When he gets a letter from his mom's property manager in Tokyo, where she had been going for treatment, it shows a side of a side of his mother he never knew. So, with no other sense of direction, Danny travels to Tokyo to connect with his mother's memory and make sense of her final months."
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (some toning to the pages).
Book ID: 88008More details Price: $18.00 -
COUNTDOWN: The Sixties Trilogy, Book One.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Scholastic, (2010) dj. Hardcover - Set in 1962, this is the first book in The Sixties Trilogy, a "documentary novel" which combines fiction- the story of a young girl during that time - with photographs of historical events and people. Includes a beginning bibliography for further reading. ISBN: 978-0545106054.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 71804More details Price: $14.50 -
THE TOPPLING TOWERS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second young adult novel about the Tower family.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 12842More details Price: $25.00 -
CHARITY AT HOME.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming of age story for a fourteen year old girl, who discovers that she has a talent for sculpture, but still finds it difficult to deal with others. Illustrated by Douglas Hall. 187 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings, and overall tight and clean in a near fine and unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 66346More details Price: $12.50 -
THE SPACE BETWEEN TREES.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2013). SIGNED - Author's suspenseful first novel. When a classmate's body is found in the woods, Evie's lies about her friendship with an older boy get her involved in trying to track down the killer. SIGNED on the title page. 268 pp plus a discussion guide and a brief excerpt from her second book "Absent.". ISBN: 978-1452119595.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72920More details Price: $17.50 -
INTO THE VALLEY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Philomel Books, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of self-discovery, set against the backdrop of contemporary South African politics, this is based on an actual incident that occurred in Shongweni Valley in 1989. Winner of the 1990 Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature. ISBN: 0-399-225161.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (crease on front flap.)
Book ID: 20415More details Price: $20.00 -
THE KOOTENAY KIDNAPPER: A Tom Austen Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: Collins, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in a lonely ghost town in the mountains of British Columbia. ISBN: 0-00-2226421.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards, no dj as issued.
Book ID: 17343More details Price: $30.00 -
KEROSENE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Scholastic, (2002). Young adult novel about a boy obsessed with fire. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-439-09013X.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 61423More details Price: $8.50 -
KEROSENE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scholastic, (2002). First edition - Young adult novel about a boy obsessed with fire (issued as a trade paperback original). 195 pp. ISBN: .
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 62054More details Price: $10.00 -
LOCADIO'S APPRENTICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - An historical novel about a young doctor's apprentice in ancient Pompeii. The first book for young adults by this author who is best known for her science fiction & fantasy books. Glossary. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-060266376.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, short closed tear to dj.
Book ID: 78120More details Price: $16.50 -
THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76137More details Price: $15.00 -
A TASTE BERRY TEEN'S GUIDE TO MANAGING THE STRESS AND PRESSURES OF LIFE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Deerfield Beach, FL: HCI Teens, (2001). SIGNED - A book which "tackles the pressures of being a teen through a combination of stories and compassionate wisdom provided by the mother/daughter team of Bettie and Jennifer Youngs.. . Stories written by teens demonstrate the issues that are a source of stress for them, including schoolwork, dating, moving, parents' divorce, weight problems and sexual identity." SIGNED on the page following the title page by author Bettie Youngs. Suggested resources and readings. 310 pp. ISBN: 1-558749322.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76549More details Price: $18.50 -
ELSEWHERE.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005) dj. Hardcover - An offbeat answer to "where do we go when we die?" When 15 year old Gabrielle is killed in a hit and run accident, she finds herself in 'Elsewhere' which is a lot like earth, only better, except that instead of getting older, you get younger every day.275 pp. ISBN: 0-374-320918.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62556More details Price: $14.50 -
BRIDGE OF CLAY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised novel by the author of 'The Book Thief,' the story of five brothers "who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their fatherÕs disappearance." 534 pp. ISBN: 978-1984830159.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (as new, but with a minor binding flaw to rear pastedown)
Book ID: 79317More details Price: $16.50
