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SCREAM IN SILENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Eighth mystery in the highly praised series featuring African American homicide detective Marti MacAlister, who is settling in to her new marriage and a larger family. Set in a formerly rural but changing area outside Chicago. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203780.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84179More details Price: $30.00 -
SCREAM IN SILENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Eighth mystery in the highly praised series featuring African American homicide detective Marti MacAlister, who is settling in to her new marriage and a larger family. Set in a formerly rural but changing area outside Chicago. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203780.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's address label, short tear and crinkling to bottom edge of dj)
Book ID: 87389More details Price: $16.50 -
SEE NO EVIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery in the highly praised series featuring African American homicide detective (and widowed mother) Marti MacAlister, who is investigating the death of a young Chicago woman found on the shores of Lake Michigan. Dust jacket praise from Sara Paretsky who commented "Marti MacAlister. brings a complexity to the personal side of police work seldom presented in fiction." 274 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203780.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 87390More details Price: $16.50 -
POLAROID MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Birch Lane Press, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Dan Kruger detective novel, set in a small town in Illinois. 228 pp. ISBN: 1-55972-0697.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light shelf and handling wear.)
Book ID: 4380More details Price: $15.00 -
POLAROID MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Birch Lane Press, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Dan Kruger detective novel, set in a small town in Illinois. 228 pp. ISBN: 1-55972-0697.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49251More details Price: $17.50 -
JERRY TODD AND THE BUFFALO BILL BATHTUB #13.
Edition: First or early edition.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1936). Hardcover - The thirteenth book in this series set in the fictional town of Tutter, Illinois. In his autobiography Ronald Reagan, who also grew up in Illinois, said he had a childhood much like Jerry Todd. Illustrated by Bert Salg with a gloddy frontispiece and three glossy internal plates.. 232 pp. Map endpapers, gray top edge tinting.
Condition: Good only in tangerine cloth with navy blue lettering (damage to the upper corner of several pages at the end of the book, not affecting the text, some spine slant, other wear but still a tight and sturdy copy)
Book ID: 73688More details Price: $17.50 -
POPPY OTT AND THE GALLOPING SNAIL #3.
Edition: First or early edition.
Condition: Good only in light red cloth with yellow and black lettering (some fraying at the ends of the spine, previous owner's name, corners bumped but still a tight and sturdy copy)
Book ID: 84056More details Price: $15.00 -
THE BLUE HOUR.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2010. The first novel by this Iowa-born author, set in Illinois - cover praise from Joy Williams (who said: "The time is 1959 and an American family is evoked in all its tricky, tainted innocence. A wonderfully engaging and suprising novel, part mystery and part cherished recall"), Robert Boswell and others. 347 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-0183.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35888More details Price: $25.00 -
THE SUMMER THAT LASTED FOREVER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. Hardcover first edition - A young girl's coming-of-age set in a small Illinois town in the late 1940s. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-395-353882.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (some rubbing to the dj, minor edgewear).
Book ID: 70477More details Price: $12.50 -
WIDE BLUE YONDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - set in Springfield, Illinois, this is about "a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that hit their atmosphere, and a midwestern town where chaos doesn't reign - it pours." Named a New York Times Notable Book and Chicago Tribune Best Fiction selection. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp. ISBN: 0-74320512X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82519More details Price: $30.00 -
WIDE BLUE YONDER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel - set in Springfield, Illinois, this is about "a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that hit their atmosphere, and a midwestern town where chaos doesn't reign - it pours." Named a New York Times Notable Book and Chicago Tribune Best Fiction selection. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp.
Condition: Fine in blue illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82520More details Price: $28.50 -
WIDE BLUE YONDER.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel - set in Springfield, Illinois, this is about "a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that hit their atmosphere, and a midwestern town where chaos doesn't reign - it pours." Named a New York Times Notable Book and Chicago Tribune Best Fiction selection. SIGNED on the title page. The earlier (and less common) of two advance issues, this has a sticker on the front cover with an incorrect publication date. 367 pp.
Condition: Fine in yellow printed wrappers.
Book ID: 82521More details Price: $30.00 -
DO NOT DENY ME: Stories.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009). SIGNED first edition - A collection of twelve new stories by this award-winning author, issued as a trade paperback original. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp.
Condition: Fine in yellow printed wrappers.
Book ID: 82864More details Price: $30.00 -
WIDE BLUE YONDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - set in Springfield, Illinois, this is about "a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that hit their atmosphere, and a midwestern town where chaos doesn't reign - it pours." Named a New York Times Notable Book and Chicago Tribune Best Fiction selection. 367 pp. ISBN: 0-74320512X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85650More details Price: $17.50 -
WIDE BLUE YONDER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002). First edition - The author's third novel - set in Springfield, Illinois, this is about "a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that hit their atmosphere, and a midwestern town where chaos doesn't reign - it pours." Named a New York Times Notable Book and Chicago Tribune Best Fiction selection. 367 pp.
Condition: Fine in blue illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88619More details Price: $18.50
