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  • PRESSURE DROP. by Abrahams, Peter.
    Abrahams, Peter.
    PRESSURE DROP.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dutton, (1989) dj
    . SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller in which two different story lines come together - that of a woman, a successful publicist in New York City whose baby is kidnapped from the hospital and a man, owner of a rustic resort in the Bahamas, on the verge of losing it all because of a lawsuit alleging negligence in a diving fatality. SIGNED on the title page. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-525248218.

    Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages) in a near fine dust jacket (crease to lower edge of back cover of dj)

    Book ID: 81363
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  • PARADISE OVERDOSE. by Antoni, Brian.
    Antoni, Brian.
    PARADISE OVERDOSE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the Bahamas, "land of turquoise seas and heavenly beaches, cocaine, quackery, and postcolonial racial inequity. Chris is a native, but he is white, filthy rich, and utterly depressed. His best friend Shark is black, poor, and just a little fed up with Chris's angst. Both men have developed worrisome drug habits.. . Then they meet Robin, an American artist seriously ill with cancer. While Chris struggles to come to terms with painful elements of his past, to kick his habit, and to love a woman he's doomed to lose, Shark manages to enrage a Colombian drug cartel, placing all three of…

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    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the Bahamas, "land of turquoise seas and heavenly beaches, cocaine, quackery, and postcolonial racial inequity. Chris is a native, but he is white, filthy rich, and utterly depressed. His best friend Shark is black, poor, and just a little fed up with Chris's angst. Both men have developed worrisome drug habits.. . Then they meet Robin, an American artist seriously ill with cancer. While Chris struggles to come to terms with painful elements of his past, to kick his habit, and to love a woman he's doomed to lose, Shark manages to enrage a Colombian drug cartel, placing all three of them in grave danger." (Booklist) SIGNED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-671884263.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 84336
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  • BONEFISHING. by Babson, Stanley M.
    Babson, Stanley M.
    BONEFISHING.

    Edition: Revised edition.

    New York: Winchester Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover - Information on where to find and how to catch these fish - in the mangrove swamps and coral flats of Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Index. 144 pp.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 61378
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  • BAHAMA BURNOUT. by Bruns, Don.
    Bruns, Don.
    BAHAMA BURNOUT.

    Edition: First printing.

    Ipswich, MA: Oceanview Publishing, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring music journalist Mick Sever, set on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-1933515205.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 72741
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  • FAMILY HOLIDAY. by Burstein, Patricia.
    Burstein, Patricia.
    FAMILY HOLIDAY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: William H. Morrow, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - a young woman reporter is in the Bahamas on a vacation with her family. Even from the beginning, the peacefulness of the island is offset by the tensions within her family, but the situation becomes much worse when Leslie loses money she doesn't have at the casino and finds herself being blackmailed by the manager. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-688037526.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 66992
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  • DARK BAHAMA. by Cheyney, Peter.
    Cheyney, Peter.
    DARK BAHAMA.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Collins, 1950. Hardcover first edition - The second in a trilogy featuring the private detective Johnny Vallon, a hard-drinking former army officer and head of Chennault Investigations, set in Miami and on a small fictitious island in the Bahamas, where the headstrong daughter of a wealthy family seems to have disappeared. 236 pp.

    Condition: Fair condition only in pale gold cloth with some soiling, corners bumped and toning to the pages, no dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88891
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  • SEA TRIAL. by de Felitta, Frank.
    de Felitta, Frank.
    SEA TRIAL.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New York: Avon, 1980. First edition - Horror novel of a private pleasure cruise by two lovers in the Bahamas that gradually turns into a nightmare and a thing of pure evil. ISBN: 0-380760428.

    Condition: Near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers ( light toning to pages,no creasing to spine.)

    Book ID: 76113
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  • Doris, Michael.
    MORNING GIRL.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Hyperion, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A children's book by this Native American author - the story of a 12 year old girl who lives on an island in what is now the Bahamas in 1492 - at the time of the arrival of Christopher Columbus. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 74 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-2845.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 36635
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  • WHITE RUSH GREEN FIRE. by McGarrity, Mark (aka Bartholomew Gill)
    McGarrity, Mark (aka Bartholomew Gill)
    WHITE RUSH GREEN FIRE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: William H. Morrow, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Three ordinary American couples - attractive, successful, normal, long time friends - are sailing in the Bahamas when they accidentally come across millions of dollars - and millions of dollars worth of cocaine. It was a drug deal gone bad, but the dealers want their money and drugs back. James Ellroy called this "a brutal exploration of the corrosive effects of greed." 459 pp. ISBN: 0-688086586.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 85545
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  • THE SHALLOW SEA. by Ruzic, Neil.
    Ruzic, Neil.
    THE SHALLOW SEA.

    Edition: First printing.

    Madison, CT: St. Clair Press, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (his previous books were about science and space), set in the Bahamas in the near future. An ex-lunar scientist businessman who never made it to the moon has created his own 'moon colony' on earth on a tropical island, and when the crew of his supply ship is killed for allegedly running cocaine, and his daughter is kidnapped, he tries to rescue her. SIGNED on the front endpaper. A massive novel at 536 pages, this has dj blurbs from Arthur C. Clarke and Scott Carpenter among others. ISBN: 0-963235702.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 51796
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  • BOILING ROCK. by Sutton, Remar.
    Sutton, Remar.
    BOILING ROCK.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    Latham, NY: British American Publishing, 1991. First edition - "On Grand Bahama island , around the tiny village of Boiling Rock, strange doings are afoot. Dolphins swim ashore to die, a body disappears from a graveyard and several tourists drown inexplicably--all within a few terrifying days. Amateur sleuth and genteel Southern lady Evelyn Wade, seen before in Long Lines , is convinced that the incidents are related and sets out to discover how. In this literate, well-crafted mystery, Sutton incorporates such disparate dark elements as voodoo, head-hunting, biological warfare and drug-running without once straining credibility. "(Publishers Weekly) 261 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in printed pale yellow wrappers.

    Book ID: 71812
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  • AN AMERICAN TRAVELER: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Sport. by White, Randy Wayne.
    White, Randy Wayne.
    AN AMERICAN TRAVELER: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Sport.

    Edition: First printing.

    Guilford, Connecticut : The Lyons Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on his adventures in Costa Rica, with Peter Blake and the New Zealand sailing team, crocodile hunting in Australia, diving with the great white sharks in South Africa and much more by the author best known for his Doc Ford mysteries - but who has also been a fishing guide and the author of the "Out There" column for Outside magazine. SIGNED on the title page. xv, 195 pp. ISBN: 1592280331.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 68994
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