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PAPER PRODUCTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First collection of short stories by this writer who is best known for his Florida mysteries. 172 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 4095More details Price: $20.00 -
TROPICAL FREEZE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second mystery, set in the Florida Keys. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-393-026949.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 38896More details Price: $20.00 -
BUZZ CUT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern Florida thriller featuring Key Largo loner Thorn. SIGNED on the title page, 374 pp. ISBN: 0-385-312342.
Condition: Very good in a fine dustjacket (thinned spot on front endpaper from label removal.)
Book ID: 52307More details Price: $25.00 -
A SURVEY OF THE ATLANTIC BEACHES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - a wild and funny road-trip as a divorced father escorts his 16 year old son back from prep school in New England to Alabama - by way of many Atlantic beaches - from Wellfleet on Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras to St Augustine in Florida. Dust jacket praise from Andre Dubus, John Irving, Wright Morris and more. ISBN: 0-517566915.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36408More details Price: $17.50 -
HOOT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2002.). First edition - His first young adult novel, winner of a Newbery Honor Award, a story with humor and adventure overlaying serious environmental issues. A "wildly funny satire features the new kid, Roy, joining forces with tough Beatrice and the elusive Mullet Fingers to defeat a bully, thwart an avaricious corporation and save a colony of burrowing owls." . 263 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 61189More details Price: $20.00 -
SICK PUPPY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - A wickedly funny thriller as Hiassen takes on the politicians and developers who are destroying what little remains of the natural Florida. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454454.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 43498More details Price: $14.50 -
SKIN TIGHT
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Florida based thriller from this highly praised author: Hillerman called him "the Mark Twain of the crime novel" and Elmore Leonard described this book as "the funniest I've read in a long,long time." In this book, he skewers the cosmetic surgery industry. SIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-399134891.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65534More details Price: $75.00 -
TOURIST SEASON .
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first solo novel, a hilarious thriller set in Florida, "a novel of dark suspense and even darker comedy, in which a most unusual band of terrorists decides to rid Florida of the greed and corruption infesting its shores by attacking the root source: tourists" . SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the 1987 Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-399131450.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some toning to the pages, but otherwise as new).
Book ID: 65645More details Price: $150.00 -
NATURE GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - Another Florida based, and very funny, thriller from this highly praised author: Hillerman called him 'the Mark Twain of the crime novel' 306 pp. ISBN: 9780307262998.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41154More details Price: $12.50 -
NATIVE TONGUE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. SIGNED first edition - The fourth Florida based thriller from this highly praised author: Hillerman called him "the Mark Twain of the crime novel". SIGNED on the half title page. 325 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86366More details Price: $40.00 -
BASKET CASE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Another Florida based, and very funny, thriller from this highly praised author: Hillerman called him 'the Mark Twain of the crime novel' "Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, 'plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff.' Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba 'accident,' might be the stiff of Jack's dreams - if only he can figure out what happened." SIGNED on the title page and dated 1-28-02, in the year of publication. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-375-411070.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (sunning to edge of front cover of dj)
Book ID: 78065More details Price: $30.00 -
SKIN TIGHT
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third Florida based thriller from this highly praised author: Hillerman called him "the Mark Twain of the crime novel" and Elmore Leonard described this book as "the funniest I've read in a long,long time." In this book, he skewers the cosmetic surgery industry. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-399134891.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (light toning to edges of textblock, some creasing and minor wear to dj, original price of 18.95 still present)
Book ID: 85491More details Price: $24.50 -
A LITTLE DEATH MUSIC.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd Mead, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - murder at a music festival in Florida. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-396-089313.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, edgewear and 1 short closed tear to dj)
Book ID: 54156More details Price: $14.50 -
RETRIBUTION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Former Miami Assistant District Attorney Jilliane Hoffman' s first novel, the suspenseful story of a serial killer who targets a woman district attorney who had been - back when she was a law student - a rape victim. Nominated for the Anthony Award. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-399151273.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 37608More details Price: $20.00 -
FAMILIAR HEAT.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First edition - Southern author's first novel (preceded by two highly acclaimed and award-winning collections of short stories), set in a small coastal Florida town. 449 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed tan wrappers.
Book ID: 71881More details Price: $20.00 -
A VOYAGE LONG AND STRANGE: Rediscovering the New World.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A "blend of history, myth, and misadventure, [this] captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs, these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers. Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek - from Florida's Fountain of Youth to Plymouth's sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges - Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget." Maps and illustrations. Notes on sources, bibliography, index. xii, 445 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-0805076035.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (one corner slightly bumped)
Book ID: 76756More details Price: $18.50 -
RED MONEY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Pittsburgh, PA: SterlingHouse Publisher, (2008). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, issued as a trade paperbaock, a suspense thriller set in Florida in the 1970s where a ruthless faction of the Russian Mob has infiltrated Florida's high society and takes over the lucrative drug trade." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in May 2008, that is before publication. Promotional cards laid in. 223 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80168More details Price: $21.50 -
DOUBLE DOWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - His third mystery set in South Florida and featuring Timothy Waverly, once a professor, now an excon and a professional poker player, who is literally playing in a game for his life. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-52593363.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 76213More details Price: $15.00 -
WHITEWASH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: MIRA, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel on the cutting edge of alternative energy - Sabrina Galloway is the top scientist at EcoEnergy, leading the company's research team to a successful breakthrough in the quest for an alternative fuel. Then she makes an alarming discovery: someone has tampered with the production process, resulting in toxic waste leaking into the Florida waterways and the Gulf of Mexico."429 pp. ISBN: 978-0778324409.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (toning to edge of textblock)
Book ID: 88836More details Price: $17.50 -
SHOOT THE MOON.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87420More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SUGAR ISLAND.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a story of the love and conflict between a mother and daughter in 1960's Cuba, at the height of the revolution, and in Miami. Dustjacket praise from Bob Shacochis, Mary Morris and Russell Banks. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-395-860407.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44266More details Price: $16.00 -
THE SUGAR ISLAND.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. First edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a story of the love and conflict between a mother and daughter in 1960's Cuba, at the height of the revolution, and in Miami. Praise from Bob Shacochis, Mary Morris and Russell Banks. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-395-860407.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner of back cover slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 46433More details Price: $20.00 -
MIGRANT'S ROAD.
Edition: First printing.
Salt Lake City: Hawkes, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - A true story of a family of four in the 1930s. They knew the glory and the sorrow of the full spectrum of life.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 13882More details Price: $20.00 -
WORLD GONE BY.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2015). 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. 308 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed white wrappers (the earlier of the two advance issues for this title, preceding the advance reading copy).
Book ID: 73106More details Price: $18.00 -
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 -
STICK
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Allen Lane, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set on Florida's Gold Coast. Basis for the movie featuring Burt Reynolds. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-7139-16540.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (slightly cocked spine)
Book ID: 58982More details Price: $25.00 -
KILLING ME SOFTLY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first Gideon Lowry mystery, set in Key West, Florida. SIGNED by the author on the title page with 'Key West 1996' added. ISBN: 0-671-864203.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60927More details Price: $31.50 -
DEXTER IS DELICIOUS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel featuring forensic investigator / serial killer Dexter Morgan. Set in Florida. Basis for the television show 'Dexter.' 350 pp plus 2 pp ads. ISBN: 978-0385532358.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59143More details Price: $18.50 -
DEXTER IN THE DARK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel featuring forensic investigator / serial killer Dexter Morgan. Set in Florida. Basis for the television show 'Dexter.' 303 pp plus 1 pp ad for the tv series. ISBN: 978-0385518338.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64630More details Price: $35.00 -
DEXTER BY DESIGN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel featuring forensic investigator / serial killer Dexter Morgan. Set in Florida. Basis for the television show 'Dexter.' 285 pp plus 2 pp ads. ISBN: 978-0385518369.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64631More details Price: $18.50
