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  • Attanasio, A. A.
    WYVERN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First edition - Intriguing tale of a boy born in 1609, his mother a native of Borneo and his father a Dutch trader. Caught between two cultures, Jaki experiences the jungle, ocean pirate life, and eventually America.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 13229
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  • THE KEPT MAN by Attenberg, Jami.
    Attenberg, Jami.
    THE KEPT MAN

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First edition - The author's first novel (preceded by a collection of short stories) - the story of a young woman whose artist husband has fallen into a coma, and six years later she is still waiting,still dealing with his legacy and his life. 291 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art is very different from the final edition.

    Book ID: 59621
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  • Atwood, Margaret.
    THE ROBBER BRIDE

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Doubleday, 1993. First edition - An "intricate and subversive novel" by this award-winning writer. This novel won the Trillium Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize . 542 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 20648
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  • DEATH FROM THE SNOWS. by Aubert, Brigitte.
    Aubert, Brigitte.
    DEATH FROM THE SNOWS.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Welcome Rain Publishers, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The authpr's second crime novel - her first won the 1997 Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, the equivalent of the Edgar Allan Poe Award - once again featuring Elise Andrioli who was left blind, mute, and quadriplegic after a terrorist bomb explosion in Northern Ireland that killed her fiance. and told in the first person. Now, after several surgeries, which have only restored some movement in her left arm, she is leaving for Switzerland to stay at her uncle's chalet in a small ski town. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Bien Cordialement." Translated from the French by David L. Koral. 248 pp.

    Condition: Fine in printed cream wrappers with a black cloth spine.

    Book ID: 84191
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  • WILD INDIGO. by Ault, Sandi.
    Ault, Sandi.
    WILD INDIGO.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Berkley, (2006.). First edition - The award-winning first book in the series featuring Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild, and her wolf Mountain. Set in New Mexico, the culture of the Pueblo Indians is an important part of each novel. 304 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 63353
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  • WILD PENANCE. by Ault, Sandi.
    Ault, Sandi.
    WILD PENANCE.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Berkley, (2010.). SIGNED first edition - The fifth in her award-winning series featuring Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild, and her wolf Mountain. Set in New Mexico - the culture of the Pueblo Indians is an important part of each novel. SIGNED on the title page and dated in March 2010, in the year of publication. Promotional brochure laid in. 297 pp.

    Condition: Fine in printed orange wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 82398
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  • THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS. by Auster, Paul
    Auster, Paul
    THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Henry Holt, (2002.). SIGNED first edition - A powerful novel about obsession by a writer whose work is consistently original and riveting - advance praise from Jonathan Letham and Peter Carey. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 81043
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  • MAN IN THE DARK. by Auster, Paul.
    Auster, Paul.
    MAN IN THE DARK.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Henry Holt, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Paul Auster's "brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us" begins ÔI am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.' SIGNED on the title page. 180 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (vertical crease on front cover, a bit of rubbing to back cover) .

    Book ID: 81042
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  • BROOKLYN FOLLIES. by Auster, Paul.
    Auster, Paul.
    BROOKLYN FOLLIES.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Henry Holt, (2006). SIGNED first edition - "Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. This is only the latest in a long line of follies." SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 80851
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  • 4 3 2 1. by Auster, Paul.
    Auster, Paul.
    4 3 2 1.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Henry Holt, (2017). First edition - A long and provocative novel, one which follows four different lives of one boy - shortlisted for the Man-Booker Award. 866 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 71648
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  • TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM. by Auster, Paul.
    Auster, Paul.
    TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Henry Holt, (2007.). First edition - A short metaphysical novel which begins with an old man waking in a room, disorientated and with no knowledge of who he is or where he is. 145 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 55414
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  • THE TEAHOUSE FIRE. by Avery, Ellis.
    Avery, Ellis.
    THE TEAHOUSE FIRE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First edition - The author's first novel, the story of two women - one an American orphan adopted by a Japanese family and the other the daughter of that family -whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan. 390 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (toning to the pages.)

    Book ID: 55555
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  • THE TEAHOUSE FIRE. by Avery, Ellis.
    Avery, Ellis.
    THE TEAHOUSE FIRE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of two women - one an American orphan adopted by a Japanese family and the other the daughter of that family -whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan. 391 pp. ISBN: 1-594489300.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 80878
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  • Azzopardi, Trezza.
    THE HIDING PLACE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. First edition - Her first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in England (the only debut novel on the shortlist that year), set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales in the 1960s.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 18429
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  • Azzopardi, Trezza.
    THE HIDING PLACE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. First edition - Her first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in England (the only debut novel on the shortlist that year), set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales in the 1960s.

    Condition: Fine.

    Book ID: 18528
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  • ONE SOLDIER'S WAR. by Babchenko, Arkady.
    Babchenko, Arkady.
    ONE SOLDIER'S WAR.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Grove Press, (2008). First edition - The author's incredibly powerful first book which won Russia's inaugural Debut Prize, which recognizes authors who write 'despite, not because of, their life circumstances.' "In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an eighteen-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from naive conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages. Babchenko takes the raw and mundane realities of war--the constant cold, hunger, exhaustion,…

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    New York: Grove Press, (2008). First edition - The author's incredibly powerful first book which won Russia's inaugural Debut Prize, which recognizes authors who write 'despite, not because of, their life circumstances.' "In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an eighteen-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from naive conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages. Babchenko takes the raw and mundane realities of war--the constant cold, hunger, exhaustion, filth, and terror--and twists it into compelling, haunting, and eerily elegant prose." Translated from the Russian by Nick Allen. 395 pp.

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

    Book ID: 66335
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  • DO NOT RISE. by Bachman, Beth.
    Bachman, Beth.
    DO NOT RISE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (2015). First edition - A title in the Pitt Poetry series, issued as a trade paperback original. The second collection by this award-winning poet: one "haunted by the cruelties of war." Notes, 60 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 63479
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  • THE DOUBT FACTORY. by Bacigalupi, Paolo.
    Bacigalupi, Paolo.
    THE DOUBT FACTORY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2014). SIGNED first edition - A young adult novel which explores the issue of how public information is distorted for monetary gain, nominated for the Edgar Award. SIGNED on the first page. 486 pp (Note: this advance issue has an error on the copyright page with a publication date of Oct 2015)

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 63920
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  • THE HERO'S WALK. by Badami, Anita Rau.
    Badami, Anita Rau.
    THE HERO'S WALK.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Chapel Hill, NC: Allan Swallow, Publisher, (2001). First edition - Second novel by this award-winning writer who was born in India, now lives and writes in Canada. "In a small town by the Bay of Bengal in India, Sripathi Rao, a headstrong man and disenchanted copywriter, lives in his crumbling ancestral home, uncomfortably aware of the encroaching modern world. Then, early one morning, Sripathi is awakened by a call from Canada: his long-estranged daughter and her husband have been killed in a car accident. Their surviving seven-year-old child, Nandana, is about to become his reluctant ward. Yet Nandana has never met her grandfather, has never been to India, and hasn't spoken a word since the tragedy." 359 pp. ISBN: 1-565123123.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner of front cover clipped).

    Book ID: 82859
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  • KILL SWITCH by Baer, Neal. and Jonathan Greene, .
    Baer, Neal. and Jonathan Greene, .
    KILL SWITCH

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Kensington Books, (2012). First edition - The first novel from the former producers of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" - a thriller set in the world of forensic psychiatry. 289 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 59645
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  • BUNKER 13. by Bahal, Aniruddha.
    Bahal, Aniruddha.
    BUNKER 13.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003). First edition - "A brilliant international thriller, set in contemporary Kashmir, about an investigative journalist, espionage, and the temptations of drugs, sex, and corruption in the Indian Army Our hero, known as MM, is a pleasure-seeking journalist working for an upstart Indian newsweekly." The first novel by this investigative journalist. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-374-117306.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 60660
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  • THE YEAR OF JUBILO: A Novel of the Civil War. by Bahr, Howard.
    Bahr, Howard.
    THE YEAR OF JUBILO: A Novel of the Civil War.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Henry Holt, (2000). SIGNED first edition - The second novel by the author of the highly praised and award-winning 'The Black Flower,' this is set in Cumberland, Mississippi, in the summer of 1865. "A reluctant soldier, Gawain Harper was goaded into joining the Confederate forces in 1862 by the rabid secessionist Judge Rhea, father of the woman Harper loves. After three years of fighting the Union, the former professor of literature is now trudging home defeated and confused. The South of his past has indeed vanished, and the town Harper returns to is now governed by the victorious (but wary) soldiers of the North and overflowing with vengeful planters, opportunistic spies, and the fear and ingrained attitudes…

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    New York: Henry Holt, (2000). SIGNED first edition - The second novel by the author of the highly praised and award-winning 'The Black Flower,' this is set in Cumberland, Mississippi, in the summer of 1865. "A reluctant soldier, Gawain Harper was goaded into joining the Confederate forces in 1862 by the rabid secessionist Judge Rhea, father of the woman Harper loves. After three years of fighting the Union, the former professor of literature is now trudging home defeated and confused. The South of his past has indeed vanished, and the town Harper returns to is now governed by the victorious (but wary) soldiers of the North and overflowing with vengeful planters, opportunistic spies, and the fear and ingrained attitudes of its vanquished citizens." SIGNED on the title page. 376 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 79147
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  • FRANKENSTEIN'S BRIDE with Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN or The Modern Prometheus. by Bailey, Hilary and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
    Bailey, Hilary and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
    FRANKENSTEIN'S BRIDE with Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN or The Modern Prometheus.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Naperville,IL: Sourcebooks Landmark, (2007). First edition - From the back cover:"The sequel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with Mary Shelley's unabridged Frankenstein included. Hilary Bailey has created a classic horror story in the vein of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein-and a monster even more terrifying than the original." Bailey's book was originally published in the UK in 1995; thjs edition includes a new introduction to Shelley's book by Bailey. xxi, 236, 253 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 73067
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  • THE HOUSE OF THE STAG. by Baker, Kage.
    Baker, Kage.
    THE HOUSE OF THE STAG.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - A fantasy novel set in the world of 'The Anvil of the World.' SIGNED on title page and dated 6/1/08 before publication . 350 pp. Nominated for the World Fantasy award for best novel.

    Condition: Fine in plain printed white wrappers (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 55646
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  • VOX. by Baker, Nicholson.
    Baker, Nicholson.
    VOX.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Random House, (1992) dj. SIGNED first edition - A long telephone seduction between two strangers, who first encountered each other on an adult party line, a combination of mundane and sexual fantasies. A modern erotic classic. SIGNED on the second title page. 166 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers in a very near fine outer plain brown wrapper with only a dark brown X on it .

    Book ID: 81690
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  • MERCY SNOW. by Baker, Tiffany.
    Baker, Tiffany.
    MERCY SNOW.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2014). First edition - Her third novel, set in a tiny paper mill town in New Hampshire where nineteen-year-old Mercy, ekes out a living in the harshest of circumstances while caring for a young sister and battling the town as they blame her brother for a tragic bus accident. 324 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 81118
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  • THE LITTLE GIANT OF ABERDEEN COUNTY. by Baker, Tiffany.
    Baker, Tiffany.
    THE LITTLE GIANT OF ABERDEEN COUNTY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.). First edition - The author's rather offbeat but very highly praised first novel - Publisher's Weekly says that this "mixes the exuberant eccentricities of John Irving's Garp, Anne Tyler's relationship savvy and the plangent voice of Margaret Atwood. . . Haunting the margins of Truly's story is that of Tabitha Dyerson, a rumored witch whose secrets afford a breathtaking role reversal for Truly. It's got all the earmarks of a hitÑinfectious and lovable narrator, a dash of magic, an impressive sweep and a heartrending but not treacly family drama." 341 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with French flaps (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 45685
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  • THE LITTLE GIANT OF ABERDEEN COUNTY. by Baker, Tiffany.
    Baker, Tiffany.
    THE LITTLE GIANT OF ABERDEEN COUNTY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - The author's rather offbeat but very highly praised first novel - Publisher's Weekly says that this "mixes the exuberant eccentricities of John Irving's Garp, Anne Tyler's relationship savvy and the plangent voice of Margaret Atwood. . . Haunting the margins of Truly's story is that of Tabitha Dyerson, a rumored witch whose secrets afford a breathtaking role reversal for Truly. It's got all the earmarks of a hitÑinfectious and lovable narrator, a dash of magic, an impressive sweep and a heartrending but not treacly family drama." SIGNED on the title page with the word "Enjoy." 341 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with French flaps.

    Book ID: 80523
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  • SLAVES IN THE FAMILY. by Ball, Edward.
    Ball, Edward.
    SLAVES IN THE FAMILY.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998.). First edition - The author's first book, winner of the 1998 National Book Award. "The story of one man's exploration of his family's slave-owning past and his search for the descendants of the people his family kept as slaves. In 1698, Elias Ball traveled from his home in Devon, England, to Charleston, Carolina to take possession of his inheritance: part of a plantation and twenty slaves. Elias and his progeny built an American dynasty that lasted six generations, acquiring more than twenty plantations along the Cooper River near Charleston, selling rice known as Carolina Gold, and enslaving close to four thousand Africans and African-Americans until 1865, when Union troops arrived on the…

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    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998.). First edition - The author's first book, winner of the 1998 National Book Award. "The story of one man's exploration of his family's slave-owning past and his search for the descendants of the people his family kept as slaves. In 1698, Elias Ball traveled from his home in Devon, England, to Charleston, Carolina to take possession of his inheritance: part of a plantation and twenty slaves. Elias and his progeny built an American dynasty that lasted six generations, acquiring more than twenty plantations along the Cooper River near Charleston, selling rice known as Carolina Gold, and enslaving close to four thousand Africans and African-Americans until 1865, when Union troops arrived on the lawns of Balls' estates to force emancipation. ... A nonfiction American saga that is part history, part journey of discovery. This is the story of black and white families who have lived side-by-side through three hundred years.." Illustrated with black and white photographs. Genealogy charts, notes, index. 489 pp.

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    Condition: Very good in printed cream colored wrappers (some creasing to the corners). A very uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 43608
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  • DAUGHTER. by Bandele, Asha.
    Bandele, Asha.
    DAUGHTER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Scribner, (2003.). First edition - A moving first novel by this African American poet and mother: Miriam finds her world shattered when her daughter is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity, a situation that forces her to confront her past, her identity - a novel 'that explores the perils of silence and illuminates the fragile complexity of the mother-daughter bond.'. 264 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrapppers.

    Book ID: 76176
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