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THE GLOVES: A Boxing Chronicle.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: North Point Press, (2002). First edition - First time author Robert Anasi writes a personal memoir of amateur boxing today - at the age of thirty-two, the last year of his eligibilty, he sets out to train for the Golden Gloves tournament. 238 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59855More details Price: $16.50 -
THE FAITHFUL NARRATIVE OF A PASTOR'S DISAPPEARANCE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The author's second book, a satire of adultery, real estate, religion and intrigue in suburban Boston. SIGNED on the title page. 277 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81339More details Price: $25.00 -
THE CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2019). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, a story of the bonds formed by three women, and set on a "dying planet - divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk." SIGNED on the title page.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner of front cover creased).
Book ID: 74998More details Price: $35.00 -
TURN OF THE CENTURY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, 1999. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000, which focuses on a "power couple" in Manhattan, with three kids in a private school, he is a TV producer and she owns a software start-up. . A New York Times Notable Book of the year, SIGNED on the title page. A rather uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed. 677 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a illustrated wrappers (crease to upper corner of back cover)
Book ID: 80757More details Price: $30.00 -
TURN OF THE CENTURY.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, 1999. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000, which focuses on a "power couple" in Manhattan, with three kids in a private school, he is a TV producer and she owns a software start-up. . A New York Times Notable Book of the year, SIGNED on the title page. The earlier of two advance issues, quite uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed. Publisher's letter laid in. 677 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy blue and white wrappers.
Book ID: 80758More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LION'S GRAVE: Dispatches from Afghanistan.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grove Press, (2002). First edition - "Two weeks after September 11, Jon Lee Anderson became one of the first Western journalists to get into Afghanistan" Photographs. 201 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63471More details Price: $15.00 -
THE IMPOSSIBLE KNIFE OF MEMORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2014) dj. SIGNED first edition - Young adult novel by this award-winning writer, about a young girl trying to deal with her own anger and fears and to combat the demons that are haunting her father. SIGNED on the half title page. 391 pp. ISBN: 978-0670012091.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69285More details Price: $25.00 -
THE IMPOSSIBLE KNIFE OF MEMORY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Viking, (2014). SIGNED first edition - Young adult novel by this award-winning writer, about a young girl trying to deal with her own anger and fears and to combat the demons that are haunting her father. SIGNED on the title page. 371 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61163More details Price: $24.50 -
THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008.). First edition - Sequel to his National Book Award winner. Although these two books which follow the adventures a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. Slightly oversized. 561 pp plus author's note.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 46171More details Price: $22.50 -
DISCIPLES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993.). First edition - The author's first novel which "reinvents the spy thriller." 431 pp.
Condition: Near fine in black covers. With an unusually large first printing for a first novel of 100,000 copies, this advance issue is much more uncommon than the trade edition.
Book ID: 45594More details Price: $15.00 -
MIDAS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Mysterious Press, (2005). SIGNED first edition - The fourth thriller written under this pseudonym, set in the Hampton's - the summer playground for New York's big shots - where a local cop becomes involved in investigating the first suicide bomber in the US and a string of unexplained events. SIGNED on the title page as Russell Andrews aka Peter Gethers. 371 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 68360More details Price: $30.00 -
ICARUS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ballantine, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The second thriller written under this pseudonym - one which "hearkens back to the classic Hitchcockian formula: an ordinary man finds himself faced with an inexplicable moral danger whose source he alone must root out." SIGNED on the title page as Russell Andrews aka Peter Gethers. 406 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 68371More details Price: $30.00 -
GIDEON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ballantine, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The first thriller written by these two authors under this pseudonym - the story of an innocent man on the run, "embroiled in a conspiracy greater than he can imagine." SIGNED on the title page as Russell Andrews aka Peter Gethers. 435 pp.
Condition: Fine in black and white wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 68361More details Price: $35.00 -
ROCK BOTTOM.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012). First edition - The 12th book in this series featuring forensic geologist Em Hansen - in this, Em and her new husband are rafting on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, with a killer not far behind. 291 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63667More details Price: $20.00 -
A FALL IN DENVER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner's, (1995). First edition - The second mystery featuring geologist Em Hansen (by an author who is herself a geologist.) Wonderful background setting in the oilfields of the West.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 8569More details Price: $25.00 -
WILDLY ROMANTIC: THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (2007). First edition - A study of the works and influence of the young Romantic poets of the early 1800s - Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe, Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats - rebels who believed that poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language and whose words changed English literature forever. Illustrated. Notes, list of further reading. 262 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59639More details Price: $17.50 -
A SONG FLUNG UP TO HEAVEN.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, (2002). First edition - The sixth volume in Angelou's autobiography which began with "I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings." This opens as she is returning from a trip to Africa, and to the news that Malcolm X had been assassinated. 159 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy printed wrappers with a blue geometric border.
Book ID: 66978More details Price: $21.50 -
AMAZING PEACE: A Christmas Poem.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Schwartz & Wade Books (2008) dj. First edition - A poem first read by Maya Angelou at the White House Christmas tree lighting ceremony in 2005 - "it is Christmas time, a halting of hate time" - illustrated with beautiful full color illustrations, each spreading over a page and a half, by Johnson and Fancher. Oblong format. Unpaginated.
Condition: Fine in plain white wrappers in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68767More details Price: $17.50 -
CARRY THE ONE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2012). First edition - Fourth novel by this award-winning author, one in which the lives, accomplishments and failures disconnect and reconnect among those who met at a wedding reception, one which was followed by the death of a young girl in an alchohol-fueled automobile accident. Scott Spencer comments that "this deceptively simple novel is both intimate and mysterious, frank and elusive - full of the stuff of life - love, lust, drugs, dogs, marriage, children.. . " Includes an interview with author, 269 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60147More details Price: $20.00 -
FULL SPECTRUM.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, 1988. First edition - The first book in this series, issued a paperback original. Contains 25 original stories by Lisa Goldstein, Gregory Benford, Thomas M. Disch, Jack McDevitt, Norman Spinrad, Nancy Kress, James Morrow, Pat Murphy, Kevin J. Anderson, Charles Oberndorf and many others. Introduction by Lou Aronica. 384 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed blue wrappers (sunning to spine and edges of covers.)
Book ID: 79832More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, 2004.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2004. First edition - An anthology from magazines in the US and Canada published in 1987. Introduction by Moore. Includes stories by T. C. Boyle, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Sherman Alexie, Jill McCorkle, Thomas McGuane, Edward P. Jones, Annie Proulx, Alice Munro, John Updike, John Edgar Wideman and more. Notes on the contributors, a listing of other distinguished stories, and information on the magazines. Series editor Katrina Kenison. xxii, 462 pp
Condition: Very near fine in glossy wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 79868More details Price: $18.50 -
NEBULA AWARDS 32: SWFA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by FOUR authors at their contributions: Robert Silverberg, Sean McMullen, Harry Turtledove and Dean Wesley Smith. Also includes an appendix of the SFWA, The Guild, about the Nebula Award and The 1996 Nebula Awards ballot, and the past Nebula Award Winners from 1965 to 1995. 326 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in printed yellow wrappers (some sunning to the spine.)
Book ID: 51541More details Price: $40.00 -
SEX FOR AMERICA: Politically Inspired Erotica.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperPerennial, 2008. SIGNED first edition - A collection of 25 short stories, cartoons and illustrations centered around sex and politics. Contributors include Steve Almond, Jonathan Ames, Charlie Anders, Jami Attenberg, Nick Flynn, James Frey, Avital Gad-Cykman, Daphne Gottlieb, Liz Henry, Keith Knight, Tsaurah Litzky, Lydia Millet, Mistress Morgana, Rick Moody, Vanessa Norton, Susan O'Doherty, Eric Orner, Peter Orner, Michelle Richmond, Jerry Stahl, Anthony Swofford, Michelle Tea, and Alison Tyle. SIGNED by THREE authors: inscribed by the editor Stephen Elliott on the title page, and signed by Lydia Millet at her story "Desert Shield" and by Charlie Jane Anders at "Transfixed, Helpless and Out of Control." Illustrated. Notes on contributors. xiii, 270 pp
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72380More details Price: $40.00 -
SEX FOR AMERICA: Politically Inspired Erotica.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperPerennial, 2008. SIGNED first edition - A collection of 25 short stories, cartoons and illustrations centered around sex and politics. Contributors include Steve Almond, Jonathan Ames, Charlie Anders, Jami Attenberg, Nick Flynn, James Frey, Avital Gad-Cykman, Daphne Gottlieb, Liz Henry, Keith Knight, Tsaurah Litzky, Lydia Millet, Mistress Morgana, Rick Moody, Vanessa Norton, Susan O'Doherty, Eric Orner, Peter Orner, Michelle Richmond, Jerry Stahl, Anthony Swofford, Michelle Tea, and Alison Tyle. SIGNED by THREE authors: by the editor Stephen Elliott on the title page, and signed by Lydia Millet at her story "Desert Shield" and by Charlie Jane Anders at "Transfixed, Helpless and Out of Control." Illustrated. Notes on contributors. xiii, 270 pp
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (stray ink line on outside edge of textblock).
Book ID: 74996More details Price: $38.50 -
FULL SPECTRUM 5.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, (1995.). SIGNED first edition - Contains 28 cutting edge original stories. SIGNED by THREE authors twice - each author signed the title page and also signed at their stories: Karen Joy Fowler, Doug Beason and Howard V. Hendrix. Also includes contributions from Jonathan Lethem, Neal Stephenson, Gene Wolfe, Patricia McKillip, Lawrence Watt-Evans and many others. 478 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed green wrappers. An uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 67212More details Price: $45.00 -
THE FOURTH WOMANSLEUTH ANTHOLOGY: Contemporary Mystery Stories by Women.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Freedom, California: Crossing Press, (1991). SIGNED first edition - Collects 15 stories by women writers. SIGNED by S, J. Rozan at her story 'Prosperity Restaurant.' Also includes stories by Caroline Stafford, Barbara Wilson, Judith Post and others. Notes on contributors. 194 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed wrappers.
Book ID: 88153More details Price: $20.00 -
STRANGER AT THE GATES.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1973). First edition - On a tranquil tree-lined street in Paris, a woman exits a taxi. She has come from Bonn, Germany, on a mission of desperation and revenge. And in a house on the Rue de Varenne, a wife and mother is about to relive the past she thought shed left far behind. In 1944, in Nazi-occupied France, circumstances forced Jean de Bernard and his wife to put up a German officer at their isolated chateau in St. Blaize. A novel which looks at the complexities of loyalty and accomodation during war time, ending in post-war Germany where an SS officer is being tried for wartime atrocities. 332 pp.
Condition: Good in printed orange wrappers (some wear to the covers) An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 88128More details Price: $25.00 -
AS FLIES TO WHATLESS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Akashic Books, 2013. First edition - Award-winning historical novel set in 1845 Trinidad. "In 1845 London, an engineer, philosopher, philanthropist, and bold-faced charlatan, John Adolphus Etzler, has invented machines that he thinks will transform the division of labor and free all men. He forms a collective called the Tropical Emigration Society (TES), and recruits a variety of London citizens to take his machines and his misguided ideas to form a proto-socialist, utopian community in the British colony of Trinidad." Edwidge Danticat called this "a marvel of narrative and documents, which collide to create a book that is at times breathtaking and tragic and at other times laugh-out-loud hilarious." Winner of the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize. 327 pp plus final message.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a very different cover than the trade edition)
Book ID: 81115More details Price: $24.50 -
MY GRANDMOTHER'S EROTIC FOLKTALES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82294More details Price: $35.00 -
THE UNAMERICANS: Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (2014). First edition - The author's first book, a highly praised collection of eight short stories, longlisted for the National Book Award. WVery good in very good dust jacket.ith settings ranging from the United States to Israel to Russia, this has been called "a stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history." Author's note. 260 pp.
Condition: Very good in printed wrappers (some crinkling from dampness to front cover and several pages - no staining)
Book ID: 81831More details Price: $15.00