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WANTED: A Husband.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good in light green cloth with darker lettering in a fair only white illustrated dust jacket with several tears and some small chips. Dust jacket now protected by an archival cover.
Book ID: 72734More details Price: $40.00 -
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine first issue dust jacket.
Book ID: 88951More details Price: $60.00 -
EPITAPH FOR A SPY. With a footnote by the author.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (one line is underlined on p 173, and the binding is cracking between pp 186-187, but overall it is still a sturdy, tight and attractive copy in a bright dust jacket with a bit of wear to the ends of the spine, original price of $3 still present.)
Book ID: 83019More details Price: $150.00 -
THE 25TH HOUR.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Benioff's first book, the story of the last night of freedom for Monty Brogan before he begins serving a seven-year jail term for drug dealing. Basis for the Spike Lee film starring Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox, and Anna Paquin. SIGNED on the title page. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-340822287.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. (usual light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 61717More details Price: $40.00 -
THE INVISIBLE HOST.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant, and a short closed tear to the uncommon dust jacket, a bit of overall edgewear. Overall an attractive copy and in better condition than usually found.
Book ID: 87708More details Price: $175.00 -
THE DA VINCI CODE.
Edition: First printing (complete number line.)
New York: Doubleday, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The runaway bestseller, basis for the movie of the same name. "Scotoma" misspelled as "skitoma" on page 243. 454 pp. ISBN: 0-385-504209.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81367More details Price: $25.00 -
THE DA VINCI CODE.
Edition: First printing (complete number line.)
New York: Doubleday, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The runaway bestseller, basis for the movie of the same name. 454 pp. ISBN: 0-385-504209.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 49987More details Price: $21.50 -
LONDON BOULEVARD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2009). First edition - A "dark twist on the classic story 'Sunset Boulevard' " by this award-winning Irish writer. Basis for the 2010 independent film of the same name. 250 pp,
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79717More details Price: $20.00 -
IRON MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, 1930. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (his first, 'Little Caesar' was made into the 1931 film, starring Edward G. Robinson and considered the first gangster movie) is a powerful and brutal story of boxing, and the basis for two films: in 1931 featuring Lew Ayres and Jean Harlow and a film noir in 1951 starring Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes and Rock Hudson. 312 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark blue cloth - darkening to spine, some toning to pages, but tight and straight, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 85892More details Price: $27.50 -
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Hardcover first edition - A classic noir novel - the story of a jewelry heist in a midwestern city that goes wrong - from its planning to execution to the aftermath ending in death or capture. Basis for 1950 classic film noir directed by John Huston and starring Sterling Hayden, and notable for an early appearance by Marilyn Monroe. 271 pp.
Condition: Very good in original paper covered boards (toning the spine, a bit of wear to the top of the spine), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 85582More details Price: $65.00 -
"KEITH" in THE PEREGRINE READER
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith, 1996. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by two authors: by Ron Carlson at his story "Keith" - basis for the award-winning film of the same name - and by Houston at his story "Faith." A retrospective collection of works read by participants at the National Undergraduate Literature Conference over the past 12 years - included are prose, poetry and essays by the authors shown above and by others including Richard Ford, Tess Gallager, Carolyn Forche, John Barth, John Edgar Wideman, Tobias Wolff, Robert Stone, Jeanne Houston, Maxine Kumin, George Garrett, Robert Olen Butler, Ray Bradbury and more. A wonderful anthology which includes previously unpublished essays on the reading and writing process. 348 pgs, a slightly oversized format. ISBN: 0-87905-8161.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 42252More details Price: $35.00 -
THE PEREGRINE READER
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith, 1996. First edition - A retrospective collection of works read by participants at the National Undergraduate Literature Conference over the past 12 years - included are prose, poetry and essays by the authors shown above and by others including Richard Ford, Tess Gallager, Carolyn Forche, John Barth, John Edgar Wideman, Tobias Wolff, Robert Stone, Jeanne Houston, Maxine Kumin, George Garrett, Robert Olen Butler, Ray Bradbury and more. A wonderful anthology which includes previously unpublished essays on the reading and writing process. 348 pgs, a slightly oversized format. ISBN: 0-87905-8161.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56164More details Price: $14.50 -
THE SILENT WORLD OF NICHOLAS QUINN.
Edition: First thus.
Pleasantville, New York: ImPress Mystery, (2005). Hardcover first edition - A handsome new hardcover edition of this novel originally published in 1977, the third novel in the Inspector Morse series. A title in the Best Mysteries of All Time series. Includes 4 pp about the author. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-762188901.
Condition: Fine in navy boards with silver lettering and copper decorations on the front cover, copper lettering on the spine.
Book ID: 88127More details Price: $20.00 -
PRIMAL FEAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Villard, 1993. SIGNED first edition - The author's sixth novel, a legal thriller set in Chicago in 1983 and the basis for the film of the same name starring Richard Gere and Edward Norton. SIGNED on the title page. 423 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82881More details Price: $35.00 -
CRITICAL CARE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the basis for the very funny movie of the same name.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 5767More details Price: $20.00 -
THE DANISH GIRL: A Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Viking, 2000. SIGNED first edition - Author's unusual first novel, set in 1920s Copenhagen and inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife - the "nearly forgotten story of the love between a man who discovers that he is, in fact, a woman and the woman who would sacrifice anything for him." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Lambda Literary Award, and a NY Times Notable Book. Basis for the Academy Award winning motion picture of the same name starring Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sex reassignment surgery. 277 pp plus author's note.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84834More details Price: $60.00 -
FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Ex-library with missing front endpaper but relatively few markings, and overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dust jacket with some sunning to spine.
Book ID: 86194More details Price: $16.50 -
INTRUDER IN THE DUST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1948) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about murder and racial prejudice, set in Mississippi and the basis for the powerful 1949 Clarence Brown film. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Faulkner's last novel before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949. 247 pp. Dust jacket art by E. McKnight Kauffer. Original price of 3.00 on dj flap.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth with blue and gold lettering in a very good dustjacket (initials on front pastedown, light edgewear to dj, tear to middle of dj spine parially affecting the author's name)
Book ID: 88141More details Price: $125.00 -
CIMARRON.
Edition: First edition (stated)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1930. Hardcover first edition - Novel which begins with the Oklahoma land rush - on the Cherokee strip - in 1893.Twice adapted for the movies (in 1931 and again in 1960.) 388 pp Illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Fair condition only in the original tan cloth covers (soiling to the covers, binding somewhat shaken, but still sturdy, prev owner's name) .
Book ID: 63396More details Price: $13.50 -
HIGH CRIMES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a legal thriller and basis for the 2002 film of the same name, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-688-149626.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87749More details Price: $18.50 -
HIGH CRIMES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a legal thriller and basis for the 2002 film of the same name, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-688-149626.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 48721More details Price: $28.50 -
HIGH CRIMES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a legal thriller and basis for the 2002 film of the same name, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-688-149626.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82368More details Price: $31.50 -
THE JUROR
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, 1995. First edition - The second mystery by the author of "The Caveman's Valentine," basis for the movie of the same name. 420 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61974More details Price: $20.00 -
THE JUROR
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, 1995. First edition - The second mystery by the author of "The Caveman's Valentine," basis for the movie of the same name. 420 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 7082More details Price: $15.00 -
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A young adult novel, both an enormous best seller and the basis of the very popular movie of the same name. SIGNED (in green) by the author on a blank preliminary page. 313 pp. ISBN: 978-0525478812.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 68339More details Price: $40.00 -
OLDEST LIVING CONFEDERATE WIDOW TELLS ALL.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, of the South from the Civil War to the present, told in the voice of a woman who lived through it all. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize. Basis for the 1994 American television miniseries starring Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Cicely Tyson (who won the Emmy award for her role) and Anne Bancroft. The earlier - and far more uncommon - of the two proofs, with the page numbers handwritten in the upper corner. 737 pp.
Condition: Fine in plain printed salmon colored wrappers.
Book ID: 82887More details Price: $75.00 -
BONGWATER.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Quartet, (1995). First edition - The author's first novel - a "neo-beat grungeoisie love story" which follows a group of young people as they move between Portland, Oregon, and New York, "circulating lazily on the perimeters of society, their days structured around a cup of coffee, scoring a little weed, jobs that come and go." Reportedly based on Hornburg's relationship with then-unknown Courtney Love, and the basis for a 1998 film of the same name. Issued only as a trade paperback in the UK. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-704302527.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with self-flaps. .
Book ID: 81019More details Price: $18.00 -
BONGWATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Press, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - a "neo-beat grungeoisie love story" which follows a group of young people as they move between Portland, Oregon, and New York, "circulating lazily on the perimeters of society, their days structured around a cup of coffee, scoring a little weed, jobs that come and go." SIGNED on the title page. Reportedly based on Hornburg's relationship with then-unknown Courtney Love, and the basis for a 1998 film of the same name. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-802115101.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81018More details Price: $35.00 -
THE DESERT HEALER.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Small, Maynard and Co,. (1923). Hardcover first edition - Romantic novel by this British author, set in the deserts of North Africa and published just a few years after her novel, The Sheik, which was not only a huge bestseller, but the basis of the 1923 film of the same title starring Rudolf Valentino. This novel was the basis for the 1926 film "Old Loves and New" starring Walter Pidgeon. 302 pp
Condition: Fair condition only in charcoal cloth with red lettering - some rubbing and fading to the spine, spine slant, previous owner's name,
Book ID: 81971More details Price: $18.50 -
RICH IN LOVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1987). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning Southern author's second novel, set in South Carolina, this is the story of how the Odom family fell apart and then reconfigured itself in a new pattern, as told by their 17 year old daughter. Basis for the 1992 film of the same name starring Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise by Louise Erdrich and Gloria Naylor, among others. 261 pp. Dust jacket by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-670818100.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 80795More details Price: $30.00