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EGRETS TO THE FLAMES
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85704More details Price: $16.50 -
THE MIDDLESTEINS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2012). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel, fourth book. "For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's obsession with food - thinking about it, eating it - and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live." SIGNED on the title page. Finalist, L.A. Times Book Prize for 2013. 272 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82396More details Price: $30.00 -
THE TWENTY-THREE: A Promise Falls Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Berkley, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The third and final thriller set in the troubled town of Promise Falls, featuring private investigator Cal Weaver and Detective Barry Duckworth. SIGNED on the title page. 451 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (light crease to corner of cover).
Book ID: 82568More details Price: $27.50 -
BROKEN PROMISE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, (2015). SIGNED first edition - Issued for the true first edition of this thriller, the first in his trilogy set in Promise Falls, and published as a trade paperback in Canada. Although born in the US, Barclay grew up and still lives in Canada. SIGNED on the title page. Includes several pages of bonus material - rough plot notes, etc. 469 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82567More details Price: $30.00 -
ALL EARS: Cultural Criticism, Essays and Obituaries.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Soft Skull Press, (1999). First edition - Includes essays on AIDS, youth culture, drugs, films and contemporary art as well as "stoic, unsentimental and bracing" obituaries for Kurt Cobain, River Phoenix and William Burroughs and more. Issued as a trade paperback original. 146 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71887More details Price: $20.00 -
THE GEOGRAPHER'S LIBRARY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Penguin, 2005. Hardcover first edition - A highly praised debut novel, one which moves between the twelfth-century where a Sicilian cat burglar snatches a sack of artifacts from the king's geographer's library, and these alchemical tools and objects are soon scattered all over the world. Nine hundred years later that a young reporter investigating the suspicious death of a local professor stumbles upon evidence that someone is collecting them again. Alan Furst called this 'magnetic and sharply written, with excellent history, a strong narrative, and a mind of its own.' 374 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86640More details Price: $19.50 -
MY SISTER FROM THE BLACK LAGOON: A Novel of My Life
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First edition - Her first novel, a very well-received and touching autobiographical story about growing up with a mentally ill sister. 336 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed wraps.
Book ID: 9540More details Price: $15.00 -
MY SISTER FROM THE BLACK LAGOON: A Novel of My Life
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. SIGNED first edition - Her first novel, a very well-received and touching autobiographical story about growing up with a mentally ill sister. SIGNED on the title page. 336 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 49944More details Price: $24.00 -
A MIRACLE IN PARADISE: A Lupe Solano Mystery.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Avon, (1999). First edition - The fourth mystery featuring Cuban-American Lupe Solano mystery, by an author who was a private investigator in Miami. 277 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85119More details Price: $20.00 -
THE AFRICAN BOOK OF NAMES: 5,000+ Common and Uncommon Names from the African Continent.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications Inc, (2009). First edition - A comprehensive guide to traditional African names, which includes more than 5,000 common and uncommon names organized by theme from 37 countries and at least 70 different ethnolinguistic groups (note the cover of this advance copy states 6000+, while the title page notes 4000+ but the final published version has 5000+). Pronunciation guide, naming ceremonies and more. Endnotes, bibliography. Index to come. 397 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (some crinkling to the upper corners of several pages from dampness).
Book ID: 87560More details Price: $21.50 -
THE MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2015). First edition - "A forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille PissarroÑthe Father of Impressionism. Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules." SIGNED on the title page. Afterword, bibliography. 369 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66439More details Price: $40.00 -
THE LEGEND OF THE FIRE HORSE WOMAN
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Kensington, (2003.). First edition - The author's first novel - the story of three generations of Japanese women, from an arranged marriage which sent the matriach, Sava, to America through their internment during World War II. Glossary. 329 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 48461More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LEGEND OF THE FIRE HORSE WOMAN.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Kensington, (2004.). SIGNED - First novel by the author of the classic "Farewell to Manzanar." The story of three generations of Japanese women, from an arranged marriage which sent the matriach, Sava, to America through their internment during World War II. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Best Wishes." Glossary. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-7582-04566.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (usual light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 54060More details Price: $20.00 -
MR PHILLIPS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2000). First edition - Second novel by this highly praised writer (his first won 4 major prizes including England's Whitbread Prize.) This story of a middle-aged accountant who finds his life changed in one day has been described as both "comic and profound, brilliant and moving."
Condition: Near fine in stiff printed white wrappers.
Book ID: 14870More details Price: $20.00 -
WORLD GONE BY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2015). SIGNED first edition - A complex novel which continues the story of Joe Coughlin, during the years of World War II, as he tries to raise his son in peace, and also to navigate the criminal underworld between Bautista's Cuba and Ybor City, Florida. SIGNED on the title page and dated 2015. 308 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with wraparound band.
Book ID: 82544More details Price: $30.00 -
CORONADO: Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (2006.). First edition - A collection of five short stories and the title two act play. 232 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82510More details Price: $19.50 -
THE OPHELIA CUT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Atria - Simon & Schuster, (2013.). SIGNED first edition - A courtroom thriller featuring San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy and homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky. A father is accused of murdering his daughter's rapist. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the month of publication. 418 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81994More details Price: $30.00 -
THE HUNT CLUB.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, (2006.). SIGNED first edition - Mystery set in San Francisco and introducing private investigator Wyatt Hunt and his informal group of associates - including lawyers and a homicide detective - known as the the Hunt Club. SIGNED on the title page. 405 pp. ISBN: .
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81991More details Price: $30.00 -
DARK ALCHEMY: A Dr. Sylvia Strange Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2003). SIGNED first edition - The author's fifth novel, a thriller featuring forensic psychaitrist Dr. Sylvia Strange - forensic psychiatrist. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 292 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81369More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BLOOD RUNS LIKE A RIVER THROUGH MY DREAMS: A Memoir.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2000). SIGNED first edition - A moving and poetic memoir about family love, and especially a father's love for his son. Nasdijj, "the son of a Native American mother and cowboy father describes life growing up on the harsh fringes of American society and his own adopted son, Tommy Nothing Fancy, the victim of fetal alcohol syndrome, and their final fishing trip together." SIGNED on the title page. Publisher's letter laid in. 216 pp. "
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82607More details Price: $35.00 -
A WICKED SNOW.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (pocket paperback format. )
New York: Pinnacle Books, (2007.). First edition - Thriller involving a mass-murder years in the past, and repressed in the memory of one of the child survivors - a woman who is now a CSI. Issued as a paperback original. Includes a preview of his next book. 383 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56021More details Price: $10.00 -
BOYS & SEX: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2020). SIGNED first edition - Based on interviews with young men, psychologists, academics, and experts in the field, this book is both an examination of sexual culture and a guide on how to improve it. It "dissects so-called locker room talk; how the word 'hilarious' robs boys of empathy; pornography as the new sex education; boys understanding of hookup culture and consent; and their experience as both victims and perpetrators of sexual violence." SIGNED on the title page. Notes, bibliography. 285 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82535More details Price: $25.00 -
SIMISOLA.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Crown, (1995.). First edition - An Inspector Reginald Wexford mystery novel. 311 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 83706More details Price: $17.50 -
BLACK ORDER: A Sigma Force Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2006.). First edition - A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a hunt across four continents. Author's note "Truth or fiction?" 426 pp. Promotional cards laid in.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82470More details Price: $18.00 -
AIN'T GONNA BE THE SAME FOOL TWICE
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion Press, (1996.). First edition - Author's second novel - continues the adventures of Stevie, exploring her new turf - San Francisco in the 70's. 332 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 44779More details Price: $18.00 -
AIN'T GONNA BE THE SAME FOOL TWICE
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion Press, 1996. SIGNED first edition - Author's second novel - continues the adventures of Stevie, exploring her new turf - San Francisco in the 70's. SIGNED by the author.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 20242More details Price: $30.00 -
AIN'T GONNA BE THE SAME FOOL TWICE
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion Press, 1996. SIGNED first edition - Author's second novel - continues the adventures of Stevie, exploring her new turf - San Francisco in the 70's. SIGNED on title page.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers, as issued.
Book ID: 3059More details Price: $35.00 -
THE GREENLANDERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Her fifth book, an epic historical novel set in 14th century Greenland, in Europe's farthest outpost, settled by the Norwegians 500 years earlier. 558 pp,
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82876More details Price: $30.00 -
IN THE BLOOD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pocket Books, (2014). SIGNED first edition - A psychological thriller. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp
Condition: Very good in glossy red and black wrappers (light toning to the pages, some minor wear from handling).
Book ID: 69228More details Price: $25.00 -
THE GARDENS OF KYOTO.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2001). First edition - First novel by this award winning writer of short fiction - ""I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?" . . . a novel about a young woman, Ellen, coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. Forty years later she relates the events of this period, beginning with the death of her favorite cousin, Randall, with whom she had shared Easter Sundays, secrets, and perhaps, love. In an isolated, aging Maryland farmhouse that once was a stop on the Underground Railroad." 288 pp. ISBN: 0-684869489.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78467More details Price: $22.50