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THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First edition - First novel by this law professor (following 7 books of non-fiction), a sprawling story of suspense and murder. 657 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Much more uncommon than the hardcover edition whch had a projected first printing of 500,000 copies.
Book ID: 32200More details Price: $25.00 -
THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this law professor (following 7 books of non-fiction), a sprawling story of suspense and murder. 657 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, hidden by dj flap.)
Book ID: 31827More details Price: $15.00 -
THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this law professor (following 7 books of non-fiction), a sprawling story of suspense and murder. 657 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 60022More details Price: $18.50 -
MIRROR OF HER OWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, 1981, dj. Hardcover first edition - Coming of age novel set in the African American upper class social world of Oak Bluff on Martha's Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-440-05513X.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (remainder spray, tear on back cover of dj, crease to flap.)
Book ID: 18645More details Price: $17.00 -
THE GHOST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - An international thriller rooted in the war on terrorism: the story of a ghostwriter brought in to help a newly retired British Prime Minister to write his memoirs. Set on Martha's Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod, Massachusett. Basis for the 2010 Roman Polanski film, The Ghost Writer, starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. A hardcover Advance Reader's Edition, in a special promotional dust jacket with a letter from the publisher on the rear cover. 335 pp. ISBN: 1416551816.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58790More details Price: $25.00 -
BLACK WATER.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dutton, 1992. dj. Hardcover - A short, but intensely imagined novel, based on an incident which everyone will recognize. 154 pp. ISBN: 0-525-934553.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 49799More details Price: $11.50 -
CHANCES ARE . . .
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which explores friendship, aging, and memory. Three men, now in their sixties and friends for 40 years, since their college days, have arrived on Martha's Vineyard for a Memorial Day weekend. Not present is Jacy, with whom they were all in love, and what starts as a novel about aging baby boomers, opens up into a mystery as they try to uncover the events that led to Jacy's disappearance so long ago. 302 pp. ISBN: 978-1101947746.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (small peeled spot at base of dj spine)
Book ID: 84621More details Price: $20.00 -
UP ISLAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Left adrift and angry by the death of her domineering mother, and a husband who leaves her after 20 years of marriage for a younger woman, Molly takes refuge by visiting some friends of Martha's Vineyard - and decides to stay there in a small cottage up island. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0176156.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (a tight and clean copy but with the usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 56343More details Price: $15.00
