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FACTS OF LIFE
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir, of sorts, about growing up Irish Catholic in Bridgeport, CT - but much more. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (gift inscription, pc, dj spine somewhat faded.)
Book ID: 9396More details Price: $16.50 -
DEAD IRISH.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Dell, (1991.). SIGNED - Lescroart's fourth novel. Introduces Dismas Hardy, part time San Francisco bartender, ex-cop, ex-lawyer. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-440207835.
Condition: Good overall - usual toning to pages, some creasing to spine, minor wear to covers.
Book ID: 79263More details Price: $18.00 -
GREEN GRASS GRACE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, (2003). First edition - The author's first novel, issued as a trade paperback original and set during the last weekend of the summer of 1984. Hank Toohey, "a thirteen-year-old altar boy, is an incessant smart-ass with a deep love of life...and other four-letter words.. . Everyone up and down St. Patrick Street, Henry's claustrophobic Irish-Catholic block in Philadelphia -- with its seventy-eight row homes, seventy-eight skinny mile-high lawns, seventy-eight statues of saints, and seventy-eight Mondale-Ferraro signs -- knows that the Toohey family is falling apart." 286 pp plus a reading guide.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76563More details Price: $15.00