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THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CITY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers (crease to lower corner of front cover, some rubbing to edges of covers, no creases on the spine.)
Book ID: 53168More details Price: $65.00 -
BLACK FLAG: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865.
Edition: Hardcover.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - An account of the almost unbelievable destruction along the Missouri-Kansas border from 1861-1865 and the greatest atrocities of the Civil War, including the massacres at Lawrence, Baxter Springs, & Centralia, based on contemporary documents - diaries, letters, and firsthand newspaper accounts. Illustrated, bibliography, index. 172 pp. ISBN: 9780253213037.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (prev owner's name, but otherwise a tight, clean copy which appears unread).
Book ID: 41143More details Price: $18.00 -
LILIES THAT FESTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third gardening mystery, featuring Bretta Solomon, who leaves her flower shop in a small town in Missouri for a florist convention in Branson. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-312284063.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 90486More details Price: $18.50 -
ROOTS OF MURDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first gardening mystery, introducing Bretta Solomon, whose flower shop in a small town in Missouri is her whole life since her cop husband died a year ago of a heart attack. Her whole life, that is, until an Amish farmer who supplied her with flowers is found dead under suspicious circumstances. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-312203047.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 90485More details Price: $21.50 -
MURDER SETS SEED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second gardening mystery, featuring Bretta Solomon, who has been combining her work as a florist in River City, Missouri, with restoring her new home, the historic Beauchamp mansion - but at a preview dinner party just before Christmas, the former owner, River City matriarch Cameo Beauchamp is strangled in a roomful of people during a momentary blackout. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-312203829.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87449More details Price: $17.50 -
SOMEBODY ELSE'S MAMA
Edition: Book club edition.
Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1995. dj. Hardcover - Granta author's second highly praised novel, set in a small, almost exclusively African American town in northern Missouri. Haynes was the only Granta winner who was published exclusively by small presses, which makes his selection even more unusual. ISBN: 1-57131-0037.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 29108More details Price: $12.50 -
SOMEBODY ELSE'S MAMA.
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Milkweed, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Granta author's second highly praised novel (and the first to be published in hardcover), set in a small, almost exclusively African American town in northern Missouri. Haynes was the only Granta winner who was published exclusively by small presses, which makes his selection even more unusual. 340 pp. ISBN: 1571310037.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44838More details Price: $18.00 -
SOMEBODY ELSE'S MAMA.
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Milkweed, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Granta author's second highly praised novel (and the first to be published in hardcover), set in a small, almost exclusively African American town in northern Missouri. Haynes was the only Granta winner who was published exclusively by small presses, which makes his selection even more unusual. SIGNED by the author. ISBN: 1571310037.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 4907More details Price: $65.00 -
CHAMELEON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring psychologist and computer forensics expert Dr PJ Gray, set in St. Louis. 328 pp. ISBN: 1575663473.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (upper corner slightly bumped, short tear to dj.)
Book ID: 48491More details Price: $12.50 -
THE BOLD BRAHMINS: New England's War Against Slavery: 1831-1863.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - A combination of well-researched popular history and biographies of some of the New England abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, John Quincy Adams, The Reverend Theodore Parker, Abby Kelley Foster, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who was violently beaten on the floor of the senate for speaking out against slavery, and more. Illustrated. Bibliography, index. 318 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (slight fading to spine of dj - a tight, clean copy.)
Book ID: 34800More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BOLD BRAHMINS: New England's War Against Slavery: 1831-1863.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - A combination of well-researched popular history and biographies of some of the New England abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, John Quincy Adams, The Reverend Theodore Parker, Abby Kelley Foster, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who was violently beaten on the floor of the senate for speaking out against slavery, and more. Illustrated. Bibliography, index. 318 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dustjacket.
Book ID: 34449More details Price: $12.50 -
THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Spiegel & Grau / Random House, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a suspense story about two mysterious disappearances and murders a generation apart, set in the small town of Henbane, Missouri, deep in the Ozark Mountains. Winner of the 2015 Thriller Award for best first novel, finalist for the Barry. SIGNED on the title page. 297 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76668More details Price: $35.00 -
THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Spiegel & Grau / Random House, (2014). First edition - The author's first novel, a suspense story about two mysterious disappearances and murders a generation apart, set in the small town of Henbane, Missouri, deep in the Ozark Mountains. Winner of the 2015 Thriller Award for best first novel, finalist for the Barry. . 297 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76669More details Price: $20.00 -
THE HOLY WARRIOR: The House of Winslow, Book 6.
Edition: Reprint.
Carmel, NY: Guideposts, (1989.). Hardcover - Historical fiction set on the Missouri frontier in the late 18th century. 299 pp. ISBN: 1556610548.
Condition: Very good+ in illustrated boards.
Book ID: 46942More details Price: $12.50 -
FIFTY BEAUTIFUL YEARS: A Tribute.
Edition: First edition.
By the author, n,d, (ca 1935). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A moving remembrance - one he calls a 'simple story of a beautiful life' - of the author's wife Maggie, a dedicated Christian who focused her ministry on the Women's Bible Class and the Missionary Society at Trinity Methodist, South Church in downtown Los Angeles in the 1920s and 30s, until her early death in 1935. SIGNED on the front endpaper 'With kindest regards of the author, F.N. Peters.' Illustrated with photographs. 150 pp.
Condition: Near fine in dark green cloth with black lettering on front cover.
Book ID: 89214More details Price: $25.00 -
WHITE TOWN DROWSING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at his childhood hometown on the Missouri River by the Pulitzer prize winning journalist. The title is from Mark Twain's recollection of Hannibal, Missouri, which he left at 17, the same age Powers was when he left there in 1959. "In 1984, as plans for the Mark Twain sesquicentennial were being formed, Powers returned to his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, and here lovingly compares contemporary Hannibal with the Hannibal of his boyhood and of Mark Twain's early years." (Publishers Weekly) vii, 313 pp. ISBN: 0-87113103X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (address sticker on front endpaper)
Book ID: 90469More details Price: $16.50 -
FRONT PORCH STORIES AT THE ONE-ROOM SCHOOL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Stories told by Margie's father to her and her younger cousin about growing up in Nutbrush, Missouri and attending the one-room school there. A "celebration of family, friendship, and childhood - and of the storytelling tradition." Author's note - in which she states that while Nutbrush is fictional, it is based on the real Missippi River town of Canton, Missouri. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Eric Velasquez. 98 pp. ISBN: 0-553-083848.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 45191More details Price: $18.00 -
PRISON LIFE AND REFLECTIONS or a Narrative of the Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Imprisonment, Treatment, Observations, Reflections, and Deliverance of Work, Burr, and Thompson Who Suffered an Unjust and Cruel Imprisonment in Missouri Penitentiary: Three Parts in One Volume.
Edition: Second edition.
Condition: Very good overall in publisher's original blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering on the spine - significant sunning to the spine and some to the edges of the boards, foxing throughout mostly affecting the margins, previous owner's name dated 1848. A tight and straight copy, uncommon both in this 1848 edition (it was reprinted numerous times by Work in the 1850s) and in this condition.
Book ID: 84555More details Price: $150.00 -
THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1981). Hardcover - Novel originally published in 1907, Wright's best-known and most beloved book, set in the Ozark hill country. 299 pp. ISBN: 0-448-010569.
Condition: Very good in illustrated boards.
Book ID: 46943More details Price: $12.50
