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  • McPhee, John.
    TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 8 shorter pieces, originally published, as most of McPhee's work has been, in the New Yorker. They range from descriptions of the arrival of telephones in a small village in the Artic to the arrival of bears in New Jersey. Included is one of his best known pieces on the family practice medical speciality 'Heirs of General Practice' and the story of another John McPhee, a bush-pilot, writer and fish-and-game warden in northern Maine. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-374-272417.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (gift inscription, short tear at fold of dj flap)

    Book ID: 38201
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  • McPhee, John.
    TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985.) dj. Hardcover - A selection of 8 shorter pieces, originally published, as most of McPhee's work has been, in the New Yorker. They range from descriptions of the arrival of telephones in a small village in the Artic to the arrival of bears in New Jersey. Included is one of his best known pieces on the family practice medical speciality 'Heirs of General Practice' and the story of another John McPhee, a bush-pilot, writer and fish-and-game warden in northern Maine. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-374-272417.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 36790
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  • GIVING GOOD WEIGHT. by McPhee, John
    McPhee, John
    GIVING GOOD WEIGHT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 5 pieces: the title piece refers to the farmers selling at the Greenmarket in New York City. Also included is are essays on a white water trip in Maine, a proposed floating nuclear power plant which would be off the coast of New Jersey, and on pinbal machines. The longest piece is about a chef just outside NYC, who wants to remain anonymous, so the focus will be on his food. The comments made by this chef caused a lot of controversy when first published in the New Yorker, and now, on pg. 245 there is a meek little footnote "Otto guessed wrong." Review copy with glossy photograph of McPhee laid in. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-374-163065.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to corner of photograph)

    Book ID: 86136
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  • McPhee, John
    GIVING GOOD WEIGHT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 5 pieces: the title piece refers to the farmers selling at the Greenmarket in New York City. Also included is are essays on a white water trip in Maine, a proposed floating nuclear power plant which would be off the coast of New Jersey, and on pinbal machines. The longest piece is about a chef just outside NYC, who wants to remain anonymous, so the focus will be on his food. The comments made by this chef caused a lot of controversy when first published in the New Yorker, and now, on pg. 245 there is a meek little footnote "Otto guessed wrong.". ISBN: 0-374-163065.

    Condition: Good in a good dust jacket (edgewear, creasing to front flap of dj.)

    Book ID: 30985
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  • MAIL-ORDER MURDER. by Meier, Leslie.
    Meier, Leslie.
    MAIL-ORDER MURDER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Viking, (1991). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel, introducing amateur sleuth, Lucy Stone, set in the small town of Tinker's Cove, Maine. While moonlighting during the Christmas rush for a trendy mail-order house, she stumbles upon the body of the company's founder and turns sleuth to find the killer. 198 pp. ISBN: 1-575668327.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 87481
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  • THE BODY IN THE KELP. by Page, Katherine Hall.
    Page, Katherine Hall.
    THE BODY IN THE KELP.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild, set in the fictitious Massachusetts town of Aleford. In this book, she and Tom have gone to the island of Sanpere off the coast of Maine - and when Tom leaves to attend a religious retreat, Faith is left on her own - and almost stumbles on a body on the beach. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-312-053924.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 74692
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  • CATS FROM AWAY. by Parnall, Peter.
    Parnall, Peter.
    CATS FROM AWAY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Macmillan, (1989). Hardcover first edition - Meet the cats who have wound up living on the author's farm in Maine. Most of them were rescued cats, others were strays that found their way to his warm home. Illustrated with lines drawings with color highlights. Oblong format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-027701506.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 80440
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  • THE BUBBLE REPUTATION by Pelletier, Cathy.
    Pelletier, Cathy.
    THE BUBBLE REPUTATION

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crown, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by an author who has been highly praised, by writers as diverse as Stephen King and Florence King, and who was the winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction, but who is not as widely read as she should be. SIGNED on the title page. This is a wonderful story of an oddball family in rural Maine. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-517-59311-4.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 61141
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  • Reid, Van.
    CORDELIA UNDERWOOD Or the Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Authors first book, a New Times Notable book of 1998, and the first of a popular and very entertaining series. The plot summary from the dustjacket flap only gives a hint of the pleasures to be found within: 'In the idyllic summer of 1896 in Portland, Maine, several people are embarking on adventure of a most audacious and entertaining nature. The lovely redheaded Cordelia Underwood finds, in the newly discovered sea chest of her late uncle, the deed to a large parcel of land. ... Cordelia and her family soon suspect that a mystery surrounds her land, that something on it might hold the key to a secret…

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    New York: The Viking Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Authors first book, a New Times Notable book of 1998, and the first of a popular and very entertaining series. The plot summary from the dustjacket flap only gives a hint of the pleasures to be found within: 'In the idyllic summer of 1896 in Portland, Maine, several people are embarking on adventure of a most audacious and entertaining nature. The lovely redheaded Cordelia Underwood finds, in the newly discovered sea chest of her late uncle, the deed to a large parcel of land. ... Cordelia and her family soon suspect that a mystery surrounds her land, that something on it might hold the key to a secret two centuries old. The large-hearted and wise Mister Walton, who never hears of an excursion he isn't eager to join, finds he attracts a trio of hapless friends, the exuberant founders of the Moosepath League. As these memorable and appealing chaacters wend their way up the coast of Maine into the northern wilds, they encounter old salts and bootleggers, tellers of tale tales, grande dames, and prospective beaus, they witness apparitions, meet opinionated relatives, search for Maude, the fugitive bear-and, of course, espy the moose that puts the moose the Moosepath League.' Author's note. 400 pp. Wraparound dustjacket illustration by David Beck. ISBN: 0-670-880973.

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    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (closed tear at fold of rear flap of dj.)

    Book ID: 31709
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  • THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC. by Russo, Richard.
    Russo, Richard.
    THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - New novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author, the story of one year in a marriage, a year which began and ended with a wedding - the first on Cape Cod, the second in Maine. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-375-414967.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 52153
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  • COLONY. by Siddons, Anne Rivers.
    Siddons, Anne Rivers.
    COLONY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: HarperCollins, 1992. First edition - As 90-year-old Maude waits to be taken home from Retreat, a summer colony in Maine, she looks back on her life since she first arrived there nearly 70 years before - when she was a 19 year old bride from Charleston, South Carolina. 449 pp plus author's note.

    Condition: Very good (slight spine slant, some signs of having been read, but much less common than the trade edition which had a first printing of 150,000 copies.)

    Book ID: 47098
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  • THE MAINE MASSACRE. by van de Wetering, Janwillem
    van de Wetering, Janwillem
    THE MAINE MASSACRE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - A de Gier mystery set on the Maine coast. ISBN: 0-395-273951.

    Condition: Good in a good dustjacket (bumping to lower edge, closed tears, edgewear.)

    Book ID: 5950
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