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  • IT'S A SISTAH THING: A Guide to Understanding and Dealing with Fibroids for African American Women. by Brown, Monique R.
    Brown, Monique R.
    IT'S A SISTAH THING: A Guide to Understanding and Dealing with Fibroids for African American Women.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Kensington, (2002.). First edition - Foreword by by Ifeanyi C. O. Obiakor, M.D. Written by a woman who herself had surgery for her fibroids, this is packed full of good advice - not just for black women with fibroids, but for all women - on exercise, diet, taking control of your health and health care and more. Monique Brown's name and phone number handwritten on first page. Resources, notes. 283 pp.

    Condition: Very good+ in printed orange wrappers (crease to back cover.)

    Book ID: 39906
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  • BAD BUSINESS. by Bruno, Anthony.
    Bruno, Anthony.
    BAD BUSINESS.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Delacorte, (1991). SIGNED first edition - Fourth thriller featuring FBI agents Cuthbert Gibbons and Mike Tozzi, who are assigned the task of protecting a mob informant until he can testify. An association copy INSCRIBED on the title page to Tom and Enid (Schantz, founders of the Rue Morgue Press). 278 pp. Publisher's material laid in.

    Condition: Fine in tan printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 80836
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  • Cadnum, Michael.
    GHOSTWRIGHT.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Carroll & Graf, 1992. SIGNED first edition - INSCRIBED by the author on the title page 'with thanks for all your help' and with a small drawing of a ghost, dated in the year of publication. A successful musician and artist, living a life of splendor and seclusion, south of San Francisco is visited by a friend from his younger days in North Beach and Mexico, a friend thought long dead - and who claims that the music and the ideas were his, and now he wants it all back. 307 pp.

    Condition: Fine in printed yellow wrappers.

    Book ID: 34881
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  • Carrington, Rosyln.
    A THIRST FOR RAIN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Kensington, 1999. Author's first novel, set in the dry hills of her native Trinidad.

    Condition: Fine (as new) in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 23750
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  • FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS. by Carroll, Jonathan.
    Carroll, Jonathan.
    FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Doubleday, (1994.). First edition - A brilliant dark fantasy - selected as a NY Times Notable book, finalist for both the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. 212 pp.

    Condition: Very good in pale grey printed wrappers (a bit of wear to covers, corners slightly bumped.) An uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 50764
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  • Carter, Stephen L.
    THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First edition - First novel by this law professor (following 7 books of non-fiction), a sprawling story of suspense and murder. 657 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Much more uncommon than the hardcover edition whch had a projected first printing of 500,000 copies.

    Book ID: 32200
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  • Chase-Riboud, Barbara.
    THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Crown, 1994. First edition - The story of Harriet Hemings, daughter of Jefferson & Sally Hemings, who is allowed to run away and pass for white.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 5046
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  • Chessman, Harriet Scott.
    SOMEONE NOT REALLY HER MOTHER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Dutton, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - A brief and rather moving novel about mothers and daughters and memory - as Hannah's memory loss and confusion from Alzheimer's disease worsens, other, long hidden and never discussed, memories of her girlhood in France, just before the Nazi invasion, and her years as a refugee in London, become more vivid. Unusual in that it is told mostly from the point of view of Hannah, the mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. SIGNED on the title page and dated in June 2006. 168 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 32320
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  • THE TATTOO ARTIST. by Ciment, Jill.
    Ciment, Jill.
    THE TATTOO ARTIST.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Pantheon, (2005). SIGNED first edition - Her third novel, one which spans much of the 20th century as it tells the story of a woman, the daughter of Jewish immigrants, and a noted artist who returns to New York city in 1970 after spending 30 years on a remote island in the South Pacific. SIGNED on the half title page. Publisher's letter laid in. 211 pp.

    Condition: Fine in pale green printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 81075
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  • THE TATTOO ARTIST. by Ciment, Jill.
    Ciment, Jill.
    THE TATTOO ARTIST.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Pantheon, (2005). SIGNED first edition - Her third novel, one which spans much of the 20th century as it tells the story of a woman, the daughter of Jewish immigrants, and a noted artist who returns to New York city in 1970 after spending 30 years on a remote island in the South Pacific. SIGNED on the title page. 211 pp.

    Condition: Very good in pale green printed wrappers (lower corner near spine slightly bumped, with some light creasing to front cover).

    Book ID: 81076
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  • Clark, Robert.
    MR. WHITE'S CONFESSION.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Picador, 1998. First edition - The author's second novel, a complex story of murder set in Minnesota in 1939, winner of the Edgar award for best novel of 1998.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner slightly bumped.)

    Book ID: 24603
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  • THE MOTH CATCHER. by Cleeves, Ann.
    Cleeves, Ann.
    THE MOTH CATCHER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The seventh novel in the Vera Stanhope series. SIGNED on the title page.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 87646
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  • Connelly, Michael.
    BLOOD WORK

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Boston: Little Brown, 1998. SIGNED first edition - Former FBI agent Terrell McCabe is the recipient of a heart transplant - and he agrees to investigate the murder of the woman whose heart he received. Grand Prix, Anthony, and Macavity Award Winner for Best Novel, and the basis for the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name. SIGNED on the title page by the author.

    Condition: Fine in stiff printed wrappers

    Book ID: 25788
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  • THE LAST SUPPERS. by Davidson, Diane Mott.
    Davidson, Diane Mott.
    THE LAST SUPPERS.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Bantam, (1994). First edition - The 4th culinary mystery, set in Colorado, featuring caterer and amateur sleuth Goldy Bear, who is about the marry homicide detective Tom Schultz, when the Episcopalian priest who was to perform the ceremony is murdered and Schultz disappears. 253 pp plus an index of the recipes in the book.

    Condition: Fine in gold printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 86379
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  • Davidson, Diane Mott.
    THE CEREAL MURDERS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Bantam, 1993. SIGNED first edition - The 3rd culinary mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 305 pp

    Condition: Very good (lower edge slightly bent) in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 3978
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  • TAKE A NUMBER. by Dawson, Janet
    Dawson, Janet
    TAKE A NUMBER.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1993.). SIGNED first edition - The 3rd novel in the award-winning series featuring Oakland private investigator, Jeri Howard. SIGNED on the title page. An uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed. 336 pp.

    Condition: Very good in yellow printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 48578
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  • Dorris, Michael.
    THE BENCHMARK. From the Collection 'WORKING MEN'.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (1993.). Hardcover first edition - An advance publication of one of the stories from the collection "Working Men, "bound in cream linen cloth - an unusually attractive pre-publication issue, designed by Lucy Albanese and printed and bound by The Book Press of Brattleboro, Vermont. 20 pp.

    Condition: Fine condition.

    Book ID: 35483
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  • FLORIDA ROADKILL. by Dorsey, Tim.
    Dorsey, Tim.
    FLORIDA ROADKILL.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, (1999). SIGNED first edition - One of the wildest first novels to come along in years - described as Carl Hiassen with a lot of Hunter S. Thompson - crime, sex, drugs, and very violent and funny. INSCRIBED on the title page. 273 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A surprisingly uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed.

    Book ID: 61129
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  • Dukes, Carol Muske
    SAVING ST. GERM

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Viking, 1993. SIGNED first edition - Second novel by this award winning poet. The story of a mother's fight to protect her child's way of being different. Set in Southern California.

    Condition: SIGNED by author on title page. Good only in printed green wrappers (front edge of textblock is bumped, crease to lower corner of back cover.)

    Book ID: 7477
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  • COP OUT. by Dunlap, Susan
    Dunlap, Susan
    COP OUT.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Delacorte, 1997. SIGNED first edition - A Jill Smith mystery, set in Berkeley, California. SIGNED on the title page. 296 pp.

    Condition: Just about fine in plain printed tan wrappers. An uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed.

    Book ID: 48584
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  • Dunne, John Gregory.
    HARP.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989.). SIGNED first edition - A 'free-wheeling investigation of Dunne's past - ... an examination of a family at once blessed with money and talent and scarred by suicide and other sorrows...Ranging from the Ireland of the Famine to the red-light district of today's Frankfurt,.. [this is] a brilliantly inventive reflection on what it means to be Irish in America." SIGNED on the title page. 235 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy wrappers (the usual toning to the pages), uncommon signed.

    Book ID: 39100
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  • Dunne, John Gregory
    PLAYLAND

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Random House, 1994. Story of Blue Tyler, a child movie star who diasappeared from Hollywood in disgrace, and reappears, 45 years and 11 marriages later, in a trailor park outside Detroit - written by a novelist and screenwriter who really knows Hollywood.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. This edition includes a letter to the publisher from Dunne at the front of the book.

    Book ID: 24387
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  • Dunne, John Gregory
    PLAYLAND

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Random House, 1994. Story of Blue Tyler, a child movie star who diasappeared from Hollywood in disgrace, and reappears, 45 years and 11 marriages later, in a trailor park outside Detroit - written by a novelist and screenwriter who really knows Hollywood.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 5942
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  • Edgerton, Clyde
    KILLER DILLER

    Edition: Uncorrected proof.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. First edition - Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel, set in North Carolina.

    Condition: Fine in printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 10919
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  • Elam, Patricia.
    BREATHING ROOM.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Pocket Books, 2001. Young African American writer's first novel, the story of the friendship between two women, and the testing this bond receives.

    Condition: Fine (as new.)

    Book ID: 21306
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  • Elkins, Aaron.
    LOOT.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Morrow, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - Suspense novel featuring ex-curator Ben Revere - half a century after a truck laden with masterpieces stolen by the Nazis disappeared in a mountain snowstorm, one of the paintings shows up in a seedy Boston pawnshop. 354 pp.

    Condition: INSCRIBED by the author on the title page "To ... may the good guys always win." Fine (a new copy)

    Book ID: 32668
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  • HIS MOTHER'S SON. by Emmons, Cai.
    Emmons, Cai.
    HIS MOTHER'S SON.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.). SIGNED first edition - A combination of psychological thriller and domestic drama - an 'extraordinarily assured' first novel by this playwright and filmmaker. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author. 384 pp

    Condition: Fine (as new) in printed gold wrappers.

    Book ID: 40588
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  • HIS MOTHER'S SON. by Emmons, Cai.
    Emmons, Cai.
    HIS MOTHER'S SON.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.). SIGNED first edition - A combination of psychological thriller and domestic drama - an 'extraordinarily assured' first novel by this playwright and filmmaker. SIGNED on the title page by the author. 384 pp

    Condition: Fine (as new) in printed gold wrappers.

    Book ID: 30511
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  • Fairstein, Linda.
    THE DEADHOUSE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. First edition - The 4th mystery featuring assisant DA Alexandria Cooper. Winner of the Nero Award.

    Condition: Fine (as new.)

    Book ID: 19478
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  • Ferre, Rosario
    ECCENTRIC NEIGHBORHOODS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. First edition - Novel set in Puerto Rico by this National Book Award finalist.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with a wraparound band.

    Book ID: 24262
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