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THE SKY ISN'T VISIBLE FROM HERE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2008. First edition - A memoir of a childhood growing up in New York, with a drug addicted mother, and the author's divided life -as a successful college graduate who kept her past hidden - and one who was struggling with addiction herself. 255 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. Uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 59619More details Price: $24.50 -
GHOST DANCE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Avon, (1999). SIGNED first edition - A thriller set in a small town in Vermont, featuring a documentary filmmaker looking for a new start and a Lakota policewoman, but "a series of grisly, senseless murders threatens to unlock evil secrets from the past and to reveal a dark legacy for which a maniacal killer seeks revenge." In addition to writing highly praised suspense novels, Sullivan has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer for investigative journalism. SIGNED on the title page. 385 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy royal blue wrappers.
Book ID: 81982More details Price: $30.00 -
RED.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy for a paperback original.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - "Gina Santiago has devoted her life to apprehending the most heinous criminals that prey on society-and now she's after the worst one yet. On her own, with no backup, the trail takes her to a dusty, tight-knit town on the fringes of society, where everyone's a suspect." SIGNED by the author on the first page, author's business card laid in. 356 pp.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 43651More details Price: $14.00 -
TRAIL OF CRUMBS: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 73673More details Price: $20.00 -
YOUR HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF A FIST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown / Lee Boudreaux, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, set in Seattle in 1999 - "on a rainy cold day in November, young Victor - boyish, scrappy and homeless - sets out to sell as much marijuana as possible to the throng of WHO demonstators determined to shut down the city." SIGNED on the half title page and dated in October 2015, before publication. 306 pp.
Condition: Fine in yellow illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67371More details Price: $40.00 -
THE TRICKING OF FREYA.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a story of a little known Icelandic-Canadian immigrant culture. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (corners of covers curling a little.)
Book ID: 48700More details Price: $25.00 -
THE TRICKING OF FREYA.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a story of a little known Icelandic-Canadian immigrant culture. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication on the title page. 344 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (as new.)
Book ID: 51894More details Price: $30.00 -
THIS CRUEL DESIGN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon Pulse/ Simon & Schuster, (2018). SIGNED first edition - The second novel in The Mortal Coil young adult trilogy about gene-hacking, One review called it "a necessary read for critical readers of speculative, dystopian, and apocalyptic literature. . . Suvada has created a fascinating, complex world where DNA can be easily manipulated (and where race isnt easily defined) and technology can open the mind to endless possibilities. She offers plenty of food for thought about how far technology can take humanity and how far we should let it." SIGNED on the title page. 392 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75908More details Price: $30.00 -
SUCKER BET.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ballantine, (2003). First edition - The third thriller featuring Florida ex-cop Tony Valentine, who is still nabbing crooks, but a very special breed of them - hustlers trying to rob casinos. 304 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 73823More details Price: $18.50 -
HER EVERY FEAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2017). SIGNED first edition - A "Hitchcockian psychological thriller . . . involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and murder." Set in Boston. SIGNED by the author on the dedication page. 329 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71634More details Price: $30.00 -
HER EVERY FEAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2017). SIGNED first edition - A "Hitchcockian psychological thriller . . . involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and murder." Set in Boston. SIGNED by the author on the dedication page and dated in October 2016. 329 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71635More details Price: $35.00 -
EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020). First edition - A novel of psychological suspense, set in Boston on Beacon Hill, and featuring bookseller Malcolm Kershaw. "Years ago, Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack - which he titled 'Eight Perfect Murders' - chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie's A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin's Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, John D. Macdonald's The Drowner, and Donna Tartt's A Secret History." Now a serial killer is using that list, and the FBI is on his doorstep. 270 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78948More details Price: $21.50 -
BEFORE SHE KNEW HIM.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019). First edition - A quietly developing thriller set in a suburban neighborhood where a young wife, with a history of pyschological instability, becomes convinced that their neighbor is a serial killer. 312 pp
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85078More details Price: $21.00 -
THE NEST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first book, a warm, funny and perceptive novel about four adult siblings from a spectacularly dysfunctional family, who have spent years relying on an inheritance they expected to receive - "the nest" - only to find that it is no longer there. SIGNED on the title page. 353 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. A surprisingly uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 86476More details Price: $45.00 -
EVER AFTER.
Edition: Advance Excerpt (slim paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First edition - Uncommon advance issue containing just the opening chapters of this book, and highlighting the fact that this is the first one of his novels to be published by Knopf. 52 pp.
Condition: Fine in stapled blue illustrated wrapper.
Book ID: 41412More details Price: $20.00 -
CRIME SONG.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown / Mulholland Books, 2017. SIGNED first edition - Second thriller featuring private investigator and ex-cop Frank Marr, whose addictions to alcohol and cocaine forced his retirement from the DC police. He takes on a family case, as a favor to an aunt - and finds himself with his own life on the line. SIGNED on the title page. 353 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bent)
Book ID: 69934More details Price: $27.50 -
THE SECOND GIRL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy).
Book ID: 68760More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SECOND GIRL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy).
Book ID: 68941More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BOOK OF SPECULATION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67243More details Price: $30.00 -
RED RIVER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, (2007.). First edition - The author's second novel, the story of the "Riot of Colfax" on April 13, 1873 or more accurately a massacre set in the small Louisiana town during the early Reconstuction era. A blending of fact and fiction, this is illustrated by photographs from the author's own family. Map, family tree. 418 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 53066More details Price: $20.00 -
JUST PASSING THROUGH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, (2000.). First edition - Translated from the Spanish by Martin Michael Roberts. An elegant and literate adventure novel set in 1920Õs post-revolutionary Mexico. 161 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71956More details Price: $17.50 -
GREAT WHITE FATHERS: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mount Rushmore.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: PublicAffairs, (2002). First edition - A blend of travelogue, history and biography, this is an account of how "Rushmore was conceived and built, and why controversy surrounded the project from the start. [It] is about the meaning of public art, the rise of automobile tourism, and the development of kitsch culture. At its center is Rushmore's feisty sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who waged an energetic campaign on behalf of his artistic vision and then carved the faces of four presidents into a mountainside. Taliaferro discusses every conceivable aspect of the monument, from the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (a minor hullabaloo) to the Native American activists who have threatened it." Photographs, bibliographic notes. 440 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85879More details Price: $21.50 -
SCRATCHED: A Memoir of Perfectionism.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2020). SIGNED first edition - A book in which Tallent explores "the ferocious desire for perfection" which has shaped her writing life as well as her personal life. Sigrid Nunez called it "that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist." SIGNED on the title page. Notes on sources. 227 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79514More details Price: $27.50 -
A HUNDRED SECRET SENSES
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (1995.). SIGNED first edition - Third novel by this Chinese American writer, the story of the relationship between two half-sisters, one who grew up in San Francisco, and the older sister who was born and lived in a remote village in China until she was brought to California to be a caretaker for her sister. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp.
Condition: Very good in printed blue wrappers (some minor wear to covers, lower corner a bit bumped, straight uncreased spine)
Book ID: 66979More details Price: $30.00 -
BADGE OF THE ASSASSIN.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, (1979.). First edition - True story of the manhunt following a brutal double murder of 2 off-duty policemen at a Harlem housing project - the shooting was by members of the Black Liberation Army and the search led from the underground in San Francisco to small towns in the South. Tanenbaum, now a sucessful mystery novelist, was then the young district attorney prosecuting the cases, and this is his first book.
Condition: Near fine in orange printed wrappers (light crease to edge of front cover.)
Book ID: 49353More details Price: $25.00 -
SPOTTED CATS.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Delacorte, (1991). SIGNED (on a bookplate) first edition - The tenth mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing. In this novel he goes to Montana in search of some golden leopards stolen during a brutal robbery from his invalid friend on Cape Cod. SIGNED by Tapply on a special bookplate affixed inside the front cover. 241 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed orange wrappers (light crease to upper corner). A rather uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 81020More details Price: $25.00 -
ONE WAY TICKET: A Brady Coyne Novel.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2007). First edition - The 23rd mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing, who finds his quiet life upset when he goes against the mob. 292 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy printed white wrappers (corners slightly bent)
Book ID: 81022More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BATTLE FOR CARNILLO: Book II (Two) of the Estorian Chronicles.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Winlaw, British Columbia: Sono Nis Press, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - Young adult fantasy novel issued as a trade paperback original, SIGNED on the half title page with the words "Best wishes" and dated in the year of publication. Illustrations by F. Colin Williams. 322 pp. ISBN: 1550391275.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy.)
Book ID: 51688More details Price: $15.00 -
NIGHT LIFE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82113More details Price: $35.00 -
NIGHT WORK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corners very slightly bumped).
Book ID: 82114More details Price: $35.00