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THE BEAUTY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, (2001.). First edition - A pyschological thriller set in New York City, Newport, Rhode Island and on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. 290 pp.
Condition: Very good in red wrappers (crease to upper corner of front cover.)
Book ID: 56158More details Price: $12.00 -
WEST WIND: Poems and Prose Poems.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 40 new poems and a few prose poems by this award-winning writer, including 19 which had not previously been published. One review described her as a 'poet of wisdom and generosity' and these poems fit that definition, deceptively simple and lovely and very human, many inspired by Cape Cod, where she lived and wrote. Oliver was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. 63 pp. ISBN: 0-395850827.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82634More details Price: $45.00 -
AT SEA.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87372More details Price: $19.50 -
CROSSING THE WATER: Eighteen Months on an Island Working With Troubled Boys - A Teacher's Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School. where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. Lyrical and heartfelt, it is the memoir of his first 18 months on Penikese." 287 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-02384.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58098More details Price: $18.50 -
CROSSING THE WATER: Eighteen Months on an Island Working With Troubled Boys - A Teacher's Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School. where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. Lyrical and heartfelt, it is the memoir of his first 18 months on Penikese." 287 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-02384.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 84940More details Price: $17.50 -
THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - New novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author, the story of one year in a marriage, a year which began and ended with a wedding - the first on Cape Cod, the second in Maine. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-375-414967.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 52153More details Price: $30.00 -
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE OFF-SEASON
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a coming of age story set in the world of exclusive prep schools, Malibu beach houses, Fifth Avenue apartments and deserted Cape Cod resorts. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-671-625039.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (remainder line, previous owner's name).
Book ID: 79104More details Price: $15.00 -
PAST TENSE: A Brady Coyne Novel.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81759More details Price: $35.00 -
PAST TENSE: A Brady Coyne Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighteenth mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing - this one set mostly on Cape Cod. Publisher and bookseller Otto Penzler in his review described Coyne as "one of those mystery heroes in whom decency is perhaps the paramount characteristic. . .
A steady intelligence is always present, and the reader increasingly appreciates the carefulness with which his creator regards the human condition: the relationships between men and women, parents and children, workers and their colleagues, the guilty and the innocent. Betrayal, above all, is something he seems to have made a special area of study." SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-31228442x.Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86837More details Price: $31.50 -
OUTWITTING TROLLS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The last mystery completed by Tapply before his death in the series featuring Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing, Publisher and bookseller Otto Penzler described Coyne as "one of those mystery heroes in whom decency is perhaps the paramount characteristic. . .
A steady intelligence is always present, and the reader increasingly appreciates the carefulness with which his creator regards the human condition: the relationships between men and women, parents and children, workers and their colleagues, the guilty and the innocent. Betrayal, above all, is something he seems to have made a special area of study." 273 pp. ISBN: 978-0-312531270.Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87618More details Price: $18.50 -
DIPLOMATIC CORPSE.
Edition: Reprint - first thus.
New York: Norton, (1971) dj. Hardcover - An Asey Mayo mystery, set in a 'friendly' Cape Cod town, originally published in 1951. 244 pp. Dustjacket design by Robert Ritter. ISBN: 0-393086348.
Condition: Ex-library with markings and some spine slant, in a good dust jacket (spine label).
Book ID: 74921More details Price: $13.50 -
A CRIME OF PRIVILEGE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ballantine, (2013). SIGNED first edition - A thriller about power, corruption and the law in America. A murder on Cape Cod - a rape in Palm Beach - and what they have in common is the presence of a member of one of America's most powerful families. INSCRIBED on the title page. 413 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58784More details Price: $32.50 -
A CRIME OF PRIVILEGE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ballantine, (2013). SIGNED first edition - A thriller about power, corruption and the law in America. A murder on Cape Cod - a rape in Palm Beach - and what they have in common is the presence of a member of one of America's most powerful families. SIGNED on the title page. 413 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58783More details Price: $30.00