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A SUGGESTION OF DEATH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pocket Books, (2000). First edition - Second legal thriller featuring Cinda Hayes, set in Boulder, Colorado, where the author is a law professor and a former federal prosecutor. Bibliography. 341 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy wrappers (a preliminary cover, very different from the final trade edition).
Book ID: 71885More details Price: $18.00 -
THE LIFE I REALLY LIVED.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. First edition -
Condition: Very good+ in glossy illustrated wrappers (faint crease on rear cover.)
Book ID: 7536More details Price: $18.00 -
AMERICAN PIE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (1996.). First edition - Southern author's third novel, the story of three sharply contrasted sisters, separated by personality, geography and circumstances, but drawn together again by a freak accident. 377 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (different cover art than the final version.)
Book ID: 54752More details Price: $18.50 -
SHARKMAN SIX.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63182More details Price: $20.00 -
BABY, WOULD I LIE? A Romance of the Ozarks.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Mysterious Press, (1994). First edition - A crime thriller - or maybe this is more accurately described as a humorous caper novel - set in Branson, Missouri, the new home of country music. 291 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated covers.
Book ID: 45916More details Price: $18.00 -
GOOD AS ANY: Stories.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.). First edition - The author's first book, a collection of eight short stories set in rural New England and rural Texas, which "explore the reality of life among the ill, the dying and the disadvantaged people who seem to exist at the margins."274 pp.
Condition: Fine in very light gray printed wrappers.
Book ID: 59246More details Price: $20.00 -
THE BUCCANEERS
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Viking, 1993. First edition - Wharton's last novel, uncompleted at the time of her death in 1937, completed for this edition by Marion Mainwaring (it was originally published in its uncompleted form in 1938, and even then received praise as one of her most sophisticated novels.) Set in the 1870's, this is the story of five wealthy American girls, denied entry into New York society because their parents' money is too new, who travel to England and marry lords, earls and dukes who find their beauty charming, and their money useful.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 27847More details Price: $24.50 -
THE WOWZER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy black and white wrappers.
Book ID: 53737More details Price: $12.50 -
THE GIRL ON LEGARE STREET.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: New American Library - NAL, (2009). First edition - Psychic suspense novel set in Charleston, South Carolina. Issued as a trade paperback original. 335 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58538More details Price: $18.00 -
BLACK WIDOW.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2008.). First edition - Mystery set in Florida, feauturing marine biologist (and former deepcover operative) Doc Ford. 342 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60882More details Price: $25.00 -
TEN THOUSAND ISLANDS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2000.). First edition - The 7th mystery featuring marine biologist Doc Ford - set in the labyrinth of mangrove trees, sawgrass and swamp on the Gulf coast of Florida called the Ten Thousand Islands. 320 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 39325More details Price: $25.00 -
TAMPA BURN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2004.). Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Florida, feauturing marine biologist (and former deepcover operative) Doc Ford. 372 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 50939More details Price: $20.00 -
DEEP BLUE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2016.). First edition - Thriller set in Florida and Mexico, feauturing marine biologist (and deepcover operative) Doc Ford. 316 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69431More details Price: $20.00 -
SIBERIAN LIGHT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Delacorte, (1997). First edition - A thriller featuring Gregori Nowek and involving a savage triple murder in a small river town in Siberia which takes the reader from the intricate workings of a Siberian oil field to the bitter resolve of a gulag survivor, and a wild, violent chase across the frozen taiga. As a former oil roughneck and oil-logging engineer who has lived in Siberia, White knows the terrain he is writing about. 441 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner slightly bumped).
Book ID: 81448More details Price: $19.50 -
MANNER OF DEATH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, (1999). First edition - The seventh Alan Gregory thriller. 354 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to upper corner of back cover.)
Book ID: 74446More details Price: $16.50 -
DISTANT BUGLES, DISTANT DRUMS: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, (2006). First edition - A look at an almost unknown episode in the Civil War from the Union perspective. Based on diaries, letters and contemporary newspaper accounts, this account describes the recruitment of 1,000 men in Colorado, their epic march to Glorieta Pass, New Mexico, and their triumph over 3,000 Confederate (mostly Texan) soldiers. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes, bibliography. xix, 278 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80128More details Price: $20.00 -
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 -
NECESSARY ENDS: A Tai Randolph Mystery.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Scottsdale, AZ Poisoned Pen Press (2018) dj. SIGNED first edition - The sixth book in the Tai Randolph mystery series set in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 308 pp. ISBN: 9781590585467.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72155More details Price: $25.00 -
DEEP BLUE HOME: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. First edition - An account of the ocean river and of the creatures dependent on this - a combination of cutting edge science by this documentary film-maker and diver and accounts of her encounters with oceanside and underwater creatures ranging from the Gulf of California in 1980 to Newfoundland, the Galapagos and more. Notes. 245 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57617More details Price: $15.00 -
DONOVAN'S WIFE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: William H. Morrow, (1992). First edition - Novel by this long time political columnist: "A tale of backstabbing, attack television, dirty pool and sexual double dealings" in a race for the Senate. 335 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69169More details Price: $18.00 -
THIS COMMON SECRET: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Public Affairs, (2007). First edition - A chronicle of her more than 20 years as an activist devoted to women's reproductive health. An honest and compassionate portrait of the clinics that opponents denigrate as slaughterhouses. 268 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59643More details Price: $17.50 -
FEVER: Twelve Stories
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Henry Holt, (1989.). First edition - First collection of short stories by this African American writer. 161 pp. plus notes and preceded by 3 pp of description and reviews of Wideman's books.
Condition: Fine in printed red wrappers.
Book ID: 41802More details Price: $25.00 -
JUST BREATHE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (some toning to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 87061More details Price: $25.00 -
A CERTAIN AGE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2016). First edition - Novel set during the Jazz Age - the Roaring Twenties - in New York CIty. Author's note. 326 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.
Book ID: 69429More details Price: $20.00 -
REPRODUCTION.
Edition: Uncorrected proof for the first US edition, issued as a trade paperback.
Condition: Fine in printed blue wrapppers.
Book ID: 84207More details Price: $95.00 -
REPRODUCTION.
Edition: Uncorrected proof for the first US edition, issued as a trade paperback.
Condition: Fair condition in printed blue wrapppers (crinkling from dampness to the fore-edge of many pages, no spine creasing)
Book ID: 84317More details Price: $30.00 -
PAY THE PIPER
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, 1988. Hardcover first edition - "A novel set in the Deep South about a woman's passionate dangerous affair with a prison convict" - the fifth novel by the author of 'The Morning and the Evening..' 312 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed stiff red wrappers.
Book ID: 38934More details Price: $20.00 -
SHAYLA'S DOUBLE BROWN BABY BLUES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001). First edition - African American author's second novel - written for young adults, set in a poor Houston neighborhood. 300 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63421More details Price: $18.50 -
WHEN KAMBIA ELAINE FLEW IN FROM NEPTUNE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000). First edition - African American author's first novel - written for young adults, this is a coming-of-age story set in a poor Houston neighborhood, a book which gives a voice to children who suffer abuse in silence. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-689824688.
Condition: Near fine in foil wrappers (corners bumped)
Book ID: 64985More details Price: $17.50 -
THE YUMMY MUMMY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion, (2007). First edition - The author's first novel, one which uses humor to "weigh in on nearly every maternal controversy (from extended breastfeeding to the return to paid employment). Thirty-one-year-old Amy Crane, six months postpartum, is stuck between two groups of mommy friends. On one side are the women from her childbirth class, dedicated mothers with chubby figures and comfy clothes. . On the other side is Amy's new friend Alice, a so-called 'yummy mummy,' who, with her similarly slim and elegant West London friends, takes Amy on as her newest project." (Publishers Weekly) 372 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87576More details Price: $17.50