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VOICES FROM THE SILENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel about one of the Los Desaparecidos of Argentina and the affect it had on the family of the 'disappeared one' as seen by an American journalist, who had become a close friend of the family's son as an exchange student 10 years earlier. Makes the terror and oppression of the military regime real and heart-wrenching. Dust jacket praise from Hayden Carruth, Ana Castillo and others. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-312-132042.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32959More details Price: $35.00 -
MORALITY PLAY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A tale as taut as a thriller about foul doings in fourteenth century England." Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Basis for the 2004 film "The Reckoning" with Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-385-479530.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (embossed seal of prev owner).
Book ID: 36586More details Price: $15.00 -
MORALITY PLAY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A tale as taut as a thriller about foul doings in fourteenth century England." Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Basis for the 2004 film "The Reckoning" with Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-385-479530.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48151More details Price: $18.00 -
THE STONE VIRGIN.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A virgin carved in the 15th century holds the key to the secrets of an Italian family - an historical and romantic tour-de-force by this Booker Prize winning author. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-395-354129.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, edgewear and short closed tear to upper edge of back cover of dj,)
Book ID: 55650More details Price: $25.00 -
MOONCRANKER'S GIFT.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's 4th novel, set in "exotic Istanbul and a thermal pool in Anatolia," winner of the Heinemann Award. 288 pp. Dust jacket by Peter Unsworth.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (closed tear to dj along fold of front flap, original price of 5.95 still present.).
Book ID: 55652More details Price: $30.00 -
LOSING NELSON.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel based on the life of Horatio Nelson, nominated for the Booker Prize. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-385-486529.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (lamination flaw to back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 56186More details Price: $18.00 -
THE HIDE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Norton, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early work by this Booker prize winning novelist, originally published in the UK in 1970 and for the first time appearing in the US in this edition. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-393-039552.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy.)
Book ID: 59429More details Price: $18.50 -
MORALITY PLAY.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A tale as taut as a thriller about foul doings in fourteenth century England." Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Basis for the 2004 film "The Reckoning" with Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe. 188 pp. ISBN: 0-385-479530.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65836More details Price: $18.00 -
PASSIVE INTRUDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which explores the ideas of haunting and being haunted, of absence being as much of a shape as presence is. "A young woman sees the same mysterious face at each stop of a cross-country train trip. A gay psychiatrist is haunted by the ever-encroaching specter of AIDS. These are the intertwining threads of this gothic-tinged literary ghost tale set in Seattle." 369 pp. ISBN: 0-393038653.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88117More details Price: $18.50 -
MEMORIES OF THE FORD ADMINISTRATION.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Updike's fifteenth novel, one which alternates between two men - Presidents James Buchanan and Gerald Ford - "two lives, two American centuries - one Victorian, the other modern - shining an irreverent, witty, and sometimes caustic light on the contrasting views of social fictions and sexual politics." Brief bibliography. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-679416811.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68958More details Price: $16.50 -
RABBIT IS RICH.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel in Updike's award-winning series about Rabbit Angstrom. 467 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dust jacket (light foxing to the fore-edge of the text block and the upper corner of the front endpaper)
Book ID: 80932More details Price: $28.50 -
S.: A Novel.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition -. ISBN: 0-394-56835-4.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 24252More details Price: $16.00 -
BECH IS BACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Seven new chapters from the life of the 'peripatetic and unproductive Jewish-American writer' Henry Beck. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-394-528069.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (gift inscrip,some spine slant, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 43545More details Price: $12.50 -
THE COUP.
Edition: 2nd printing (before publication.)
New York: Random House, 1978. dj. Hardcover - Novel describing the violent events in an imaginary land-locked, drought-ridden sub-Saharan African country. 299 pp. ISBN: 0-394-50268x.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear to back edge, rubbing.)
Book ID: 48425More details Price: $14.50 -
RABBIT AT REST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, who has now "acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo and a second grandchild - an exploration of the bleak terrain of late middle age." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 512 pp. ISBN: 0-394-588150.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 52499More details Price: $20.00 -
MARRY ME: A Romance.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - His eighth novel. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-394-40856-x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (just a hint of fading to a spine.)
Book ID: 52500More details Price: $21.00 -
THE BOOK OF SECRETS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Picador, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which opens in 1988, with retired schoolteacher Pius Fernandes discovering the 1913 diary of a British colonial administrator, which draws him into the history of the Asian community of East Africa and the liaisons, secrets, and feelings of its people. Winner of the first Giller Prize in - the jury citation called it Part generational history, part detective story, part social chronicle, the novel is a living tapestry to join the past to the present." Glossary. Map frontispiece. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-312140835.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84574More details Price: $21.50 -
THE DEATH OF FRANK SINATRA .
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Ventura's 7th book, a gritty novel featuring a Las Vegas private detective, the son of a showgirl and a small time hood from the Bugsy Siegel era. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-37381.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64230More details Price: $30.00 -
A COVENANT OF WATER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in blue illustrated wrappers (a different cover than the trade edition). An uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 87703More details Price: $150.00 -
MYRON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The return of Myra Beckinridge - more outrageous than ever. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-394-494776.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (2 short closed tears to front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 45883More details Price: $20.00 -
MYRON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The return of Myra Beckinridge - more outrageous than ever. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-394-494776.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 46299More details Price: $25.00 -
A THIRSTY EVIL: Seven Short Stories.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Heinemann, (1958.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Vidal's first collection of short fiction, containing seven stories with settings from Key West to Washington, D.C and elsewhere. 127 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages, small chip to lower edge of front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 57256More details Price: $30.00 -
DULUTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The entire synopsis on the dust jacket flap is simply "Duluth tears the lid off Dallas." 214 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Carol Wald. ISBN: 0-394-527380.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 58223More details Price: $15.00 -
MYRON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The return of Myra Beckinridge - more outrageous than ever. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-394-494776.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to flap of dj)
Book ID: 63737More details Price: $18.50 -
RUN TO THE WATERFALL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1979.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of interrelated short stories, originally published in The New Yorker magazine, and centering on three members of a Sienese family. 145 pp. ISBN: 0-684162768.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket. (short closed tear to upper edge of dj.)
Book ID: 35597More details Price: $20.00 -
DON'T SKIP OUT ON ME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83477More details Price: $27.50 -
DON'T SKIP OUT ON ME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Perennial, (2018). First edition - A contemporary Western novel about finding your way, finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award, and an ALA Notable Book. Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who has spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese, herding sheep alone in the mountains of Nevada. The Reeses treat him like a son, but he can't shake the shame he feels from being abandoned by his parents, and so he decides to leave and prove his worth by training to become a boxer. Vlautin's books have been praised by such diverse writers as Craig Johnson, Ursula Le Guin, Ann Patchett and many others. 269 pp
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83478More details Price: $17.50 -
THIRTEEN STORIES AND THIRTEEN EPITAPHS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 13 short stories, each followed by a brief epitaph - another even shorter story - by one of the most extraordinary of contemporary writers. Steven Moore in reviewing his books in the Washington Post described his books as' tower[ing] over the works of his contemporaries by virtue of their enormous range, huge ambition, stylistic daring, wide learning, audacious innovation and sardonic wit...' SIGNED by the author. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. ISBN: 0-679-404392.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80896More details Price: $65.00 -
THIRTEEN STORIES AND THIRTEEN EPITAPHS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80897More details Price: $85.00 -
THE RAINBOW STORIES
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 10307More details Price: $175.00
