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CITY OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2014.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 13th novel in this award winning series set in early 20th century New York and featuring the spunky recent Irish immigrant Molly Murphy and her husband police Captain Daniel Sullivan. Facing gang threats, he encourate Molly and their infant son to go to Paris and stay with their friends Sid and Gus - but when Molly arrives, Sid and Gus are nowhere to be found - and when she discovers a body, Molly begins to feel that maybe Paris is more dangerous for her than New York. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 978-1250011664.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 93086More details Price: $28.50 -
THE WAKE-UP.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 93039More details Price: $30.00 -
THE FLAMETHROWERS
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Scribner, (2013.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Kushner's highly praised second novel (both her first novel and this one were nominated for the National Book Award). Christina Garcia calls this a "frequently dazzling novel [which] thrusts us into the white-hot center of the 1970s conceptual art world, motorcycle racing, upper-class Italy and the rampant kidnappings and terrorism that plagued it. It's an irresistible, high-octane mix . . Kushner's insights into place, society and the complicated rules of belonging, and unbelonging, can be mordantly brilliant." SIGNED on the title page. 383 pp. ISBN: 978-1439142004.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 91631More details Price: $75.00 -
THE WAKE-UP.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 91215More details Price: $27.50 -
GIRL IN THE AFTERNOON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the male-dominated art world of Belle Epoque Paris. "Out of The Gilded Age comes this glittering canvas of a novel, full of light and life, shadow and darkness, stillness and movement. A rich portrait of a world and one unconventional familys place in it, . . a love story, a mystery, a tragedy, and a moving study of the human capacity to contain both reckless error and surprising redemption. (author Carrie Brown). SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 978-1250082671.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 90666More details Price: $28.50 -
BLUE LADIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Seaview Books, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a group of wealthy East Side women who serve on the board of a small art museum in New York City and of three staff members who find themselves under attack when the museum receives a huge donation which catapults it into the public eye. As a first time author at age 40, Burr feels like she write from the perspective of mid-life women. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-872235858.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (creasing to front flap of dj)
Book ID: 83598More details Price: $16.50 -
THE FLAMETHROWERS
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2013.). SIGNED first edition - Kushner's highly praised second novel (both her first novel and this one were nominated for the National Book Award). Christina Garcia calls this a "frequently dazzling novel [which] thrusts us into the white-hot center of the 1970s conceptual art world, motorcycle racing, upper-class Italy and the rampant kidnappings and terrorism that plagued it. It's an irresistible, high-octane mix . . Kushner's insights into place, society and the complicated rules of belonging, and unbelonging, can be mordantly brilliant." SIGNED on the title page. 385 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61046More details Price: $150.00




