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BUFFALO NICKEL: A MEMOIR.
Edition: First printing.
Houston, TX:' Arte Publico Press, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This coming of age account of a young man at first following his older brother into a life of crime and drug use, and then struggling to save himself (and failing to save his brother) is an "autobiography that reads like a well-crafted novel in its recording of the excessive human costs of drug addication.". SIGNED and dated on the title page. 347 pp. ISBN: 155885049X.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (creasing to front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 52248More details Price: $35.00 -
A BETTER GOODBYE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Blue Ash, OH: Tyrus Books, 2015. First edition - The author's first novel, set in Los Angeles, and named a Sports Illustrated Sports Book of the Year 2015. "Nick Pafko knows he can't be a professional boxer forever. But he never guessed it would end so quickly, and so wrong. Broke and unemployed, Nick has little choice but to call a number given to him by a friend. On the other end? Scott, a washed-up B-movie actor who runs a so-called massage parlor looking for somebody desperate enough to work security." 298 pp
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 70018More details Price: $15.00 -
THE CRIMSON FLASH: A Mystery Story for Boys #4.
Edition: First or very early edition.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1922.). Hardcover - Mystery and adventure set in the circus world and the world of boxing. 238 pp.
Condition: Very good in green cloth with black lettering (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 63142More details Price: $18.00 -
THE CRIMSON FLASH: A Mystery Story for Boys #4.
Edition: Early printing.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1922). Hardcover - Mystery and adventure set in the circus world and the world of boxing. 238 pp.
Condition: Very good in red cloth with black lettering (prev owner's name dated 1933, a bit of fraying to the ends of the spine)
Book ID: 68827More details Price: $15.00 -
ROPE BURNS: Stories from the Corner (includes 'Million $$$ [Dollar] Baby.')
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book, a powerful collection of five short stories and the title novella, by Boyd, whose years of experience as a 'cut-man' (the one who staunches the blood flow and allows fights to continue), gives these stories a sometimes heart-breaking authenticity. One of the stories - 'Million $$$ Baby' - was the basis for the 2004 Academy-award winning film, produced and directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Hilary Swank. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0198206.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 44476More details Price: $45.00 -
DON'T SKIP OUT ON ME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Perennial, (2018). First edition - A contemporary Western novel about finding your way, finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award, and an ALA Notable Book. Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who has spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese, herding sheep alone in the mountains of Nevada. The Reeses treat him like a son, but he can't shake the shame he feels from being abandoned by his parents, and so he decides to leave and prove his worth by training to become a boxer. Vlautin's books have been praised by such diverse writers as Craig Johnson, Ursula Le Guin, Ann Patchett and many others. 269 pp
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83478More details Price: $17.50 -
DON'T SKIP OUT ON ME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83477More details Price: $27.50 -
UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84204More details Price: $28.50 -
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: 68994More details Price: $40.00