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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 -
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 -
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