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GRAVESTONE
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Indiana deputy sheriff Marty Hopkins. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-671-76974X.
Condition: Very near in a like dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 11758More details Price: $15.00 -
GRAVESTONE
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Indiana deputy sheriff Marty Hopkins. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-671-76974X.
Condition: Very near in a like dust jacket (appears unread, but with a line on bottom edge.)
Book ID: 58184More details Price: $13.50 -
DEATH IN LACQUER RED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery featuring immigrant Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana home of the Studebaker family at the turn of the century. ISBN: 0-8027-33298.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 51299More details Price: $18.00 -
DEATH IN LACQUER RED.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Walker, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - First mystery featuring immigrant Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana home of the Studebaker family at the turn of the century. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-33298.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (bookstore stamp and black line on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 54869More details Price: $12.50 -
SILENCE IS GOLDEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring immigrant Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana home of the Studebaker family at the turn of the century. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-33735.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55124More details Price: $15.00 -
DEATH IN LACQUER RED.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Walker, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - First mystery featuring immigrant Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana home of the Studebaker family at the turn of the century. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-33298.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59690More details Price: $12.50 -
BODY AND SOIL: An Andrew Broom Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring midwestern lawyer Andrew Broom, set in small town Wyler, Indiana. McInermey was also a professor of medieval studies and a scholar of Catholicism as well as a popular mystery author; he is best known as the author of the Father Dowling Mystery series, which was the basis of a television series) and of the Sister Mary Theresa series, under the pen name Monica Quill . 245 pp. ISBN: 0-689120362.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (remainder line)
Book ID: 87891More details Price: $17.50 -
IN SUSPECT TERRAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second in McPhee's series of books about the geology of the United States; in this, he travels with a geologist from Brooklyn, New York thru the Appalachian Mountains to Indiana observing the land and theories of plate tectonics & glaciation. Chart endpapers. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-374176507.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (very inconspicuous previous owner's name, minor edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 75712More details Price: $25.00 -
BEAN BLOSSOM DREAMS: A City Family's Search for a Simple Country Life.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hearst Books, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - While many of us dream of quitting city life in favor of a "carefree" country life, this is an account of the first two years in the life of one family who acted on their dreams - Sallyann, a print and broadcast journalist, her photographer husband, Greg, and their five-year-old daughter, Charley, leave their Chicago home for a rundown 22-acre farm in Brown County, Indiana. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Glenn Wolff. Includes appendices with recipes and garden plans. ISBN: 0-688123252.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 85855More details Price: $25.00 -
COME AND GET ME: A Caitlin Bergman Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crooked Lane Books, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first published novel featuring journalist Caitlin Bergman who is invited back to the university she left early to receive an honorary degree. "She finds an opportunity for a well-earned victory lap and a chance to face the trauma that almost destroyed her as an undergrad. But her lap becomes an all-out race when a student begs her to probe an unsolved campus disappearance: Angela Chapman went out one Friday night and never came back." SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 978-1683319757.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78635More details Price: $25.00 -
THE STARLITE DRIVE-IN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - " When land developers uncover human bones at the site of an old drive-in, Callie Anne Benton realizes that she alone knows the identity of the victim who mysteriously disappeared thirty-six years ago.. . . [she] recalls the tumultuous summer of 1956. Nearly thirteen, she is stuck at home with her parents during a long hot summer in rural Indiana. Her father, an angry, bitter man, runs the drive-in . . . Her mother is an agoraphobic who hasn't left the house in five years. When a drifter named Charlie Memphis comes to work at the drive-in, everyone's life changes." 282 pp. ISBN: 0-688153895.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83174More details Price: $18.50 -
WAYLAND 33.
Edition: First printing.
London: The Quadriga Press, (1962) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel set in the Midwest by this author, literary critic and professor, who was born in Indiana although he lived most of his life in California. In 1933, in the midst of the Depression, Henry Whitehead comes back to a small town in Northern Indiana determined to kill the man who ruined his father and whom he considered responsible for his father's suicide, but instead he learns that not all is as simple as it seems, as he gradually comes to a greater maturity. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper with the comment 'this moral tale.' 318 pp. Wraparound dust jacket by Gaynor Chapman.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, light toning to pages, some rubbing and edgewear to dj, spine sunned)
Book ID: 91363More details Price: $35.00 -
THREE WOMEN.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, (2019). First edition - Uncommon advance issue of the author's first book - true stories about the sex lives of three real - and very different - American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting. In suburban Indiana, there is Lina, a homemaker and mother of two whose marriage, after a decade, has lost its passion; in North Dakota, there is Maggie, a high school student who allegedly who has a clandestine relationship with her married English teacher, and in the Northeast, there is Sloane, a successful restaurant owner, happily married to a man who likes to watch her have sex with other men and women. Publisher's letter laid in. 302 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed wrappers.
Book ID: 90248More details Price: $25.00 -
THREE WOMEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, (2019) fj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - true stories about the sex lives of three real - and very different - American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting. In suburban Indiana, there is Lina, a homemaker and mother of two whose marriage, after a decade, has lost its passion; in North Dakota, there is Maggie, a high school student who allegedly who has a clandestine relationship with her married English teacher, and in the Northeast, there is Sloane, a successful restaurant owner, happily married to a man who likes to watch her have sex with other men and women. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-1451642292.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 91444More details Price: $25.00 -
RECKLESS DRIVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in Indiana in the 60's, this is the story of a family's disintegration as the father descends into madness, the mother tries to escape, and the child focuses on survival in her increasingly bleak and harsh world. Vice's own life - a runaway at 16, an unwed mother on welfare at 18, a summa cum laude graduate of Hunter College at 33 - is an example of overcoming adversity. Review copy with publisher's material laid in, including a sheet in which Vice talks about her life and writing this book. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-552-93863-x.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 35779More details Price: $25.00


