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THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1907, in Battle Creek, Michigan, where Kellogg (the inventor of the cornflake) has built his 'Temple of Health.' SIGNED on the title page. Basis of the movie of the same name. Illustrated. 476 pp. ISBN: 0-670-843342.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. (remainder line, some sunning to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 41051More details Price: $28.00 -
THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1907, in Battle Creek, Michigan, where Kellogg (the inventor of the cornflake) has built his 'Temple of Health.' SIGNED on the half title page. Basis of the movie of the same name. 476 pp. ISBN: 0-670-843342.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 72153More details Price: $25.00 -
THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1907, in Battle Creek, Michigan, where Kellogg (the inventor of the cornflake) has built his 'Temple of Health.' Basis of the movie of the same name. SIGNED on title page. Illustrated. 476 pp. ISBN: 0-670-843342.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35839More details Price: $40.00 -
THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Novel set in 1907, in Battle Creek, Michigan, where Kellogg (the inventor of the cornflake) has built his 'Temple of Health.' Basis of the movie of the same name. ISBN: 0-670-843342.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 25628More details Price: $35.00 -
THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Novel set in 1907, in Battle Creek, Michigan, where Kellogg (the inventor of the cornflake) has built his 'Temple of Health.' Basis of the movie of the same name. ISBN: 0-670-843342.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (tight clean copy, remainder line.)
Book ID: 25627More details Price: $30.00 -
THE POSTMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An inspiring post apocalyptic novel. Winner of 1986 John W. Campbell Memorial Award, nominated for both the 1985 Nebula and 1986 Hugo awards, SF Chronicle and Locus Poll Awards. A Kevin Costner motion picture released Christmas day 1997.
Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-553-051075.Condition: Very near fine in near fine dust jacket (hint of sunning to upper edge of boards)
Book ID: 86245More details Price: $50.00 -
STAR WARS: EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on the George Lucas screenplay, issued with four variant dust jackets, each featuring o n e o f t h e S t a r W a r s c h a r a c t e r s on the front cover: A n a k i n S k y w a l k e r , Q u e e n A m i d a l a , O b i - W a n K e n o b i , a n d D a r t h M a u l . 324 pp. ISBN: 0 - 3 4 5 - 4 2 7 6 5 3.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket with Ewan MacGregor (Obi-Wan Kanobi) on the front panel; Liam Neeson (Qui-Gon Jinn) on the rear.
Book ID: 73659More details Price: $16.50 -
STAR WARS: EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on the George Lucas screenplay, issued with four variant dust jackets, each featuring o n e o f t h e S t a r W a r s c h a r a c t e r s on the front cover: A n a k i n S k y w a l k e r , Q u e e n A m i d a l a , O b i - W a n K e n o b i , a n d D a r t h M a u l . 324 pp. ISBN: 0 - 3 4 5 - 4 2 7 6 5 3.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket with A n a k i n S k y w a l k e r on the front panel.
Book ID: 73661More details Price: $16.50 -
STAR WARS: EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on the George Lucas screenplay, issued with four variant dust jackets, each featuring o n e o f t h e S t a r W a r s c h a r a c t e r s on the front cover: A n a k i n S k y w a l k e r , Q u e e n A m i d a l a , O b i - W a n K e n o b i , a n d D a r t h M a u l . 324 pp. ISBN: 0 - 3 4 5 - 4 2 7 6 5 3.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket with D a r t h M a u l on the front panel.
Book ID: 73660More details Price: $16.50 -
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS & GREENMANTLE.
Edition: Reprint.
Pleasantville, New York: Impress Mystery, (2009). Hardcover - Two classic suspense stores set in Scotland and originally published in 1915 and 1916. Basis for the Hitchcock fim. A title in the Best Mysteries of All Time series. 405 pp.
Condition: Fine in green boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover.
Book ID: 72907More details Price: $15.00 -
HEAVEN'S PRISONERS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery in the highly praised Dave Robicheaux series - this one moves the setting from New Orleans to the bayous of Louisiana. Basis for the Alex Baldwin film. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-06656.
Condition: Good in a near fine dust jacket - A somewhat flawed copy - cocked spine, embossed seal of previous owner - and inked comment "a powerful book" (which it is) on front endpaper. A reasonably priced copy of an increasingly hard-to-find book.
Book ID: 38873More details Price: $95.00 -
SEX AND THE CITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first book, a collection of her columns for the NY Observer, where "they read as a twisted nineties society novel in serial format." The basis for the popular TV series starring Sarah Jessica Parker, which has also been adapted into two movies. In the first issue jacket with the "Advance Praise" comments on the rear panel. Surprisingly uncommon in the first edition. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-6422.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread, but with a remainder line on bottom edge)
Book ID: 60808More details Price: $50.00 -
THE PALACE THIEF: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, second collection of stories - in this case, 4 illuminating long short stories. The title story was the basis for the excellent film 'The Emperor's Club' featuring Kevin Kline. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-679-419624.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43613More details Price: $18.00 -
THE PALACE THIEF: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, second collection of stories - in this case, 4 illuminating long short stories. The title story was the basis for the excellent film 'The Emperor's Club' featuring Kevin Kline. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-679-419624.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 32211More details Price: $15.00 -
SLEEPERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ballantine, 1995. First edition - The true story of the abuse 4 boys suffered in a reform school, and what they did to survive - written by one of the survivors. Gripping and horrifying. Basis of the new movie.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 2516More details Price: $25.00 -
TEA IN THE HAREM.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
London: Serpent's Tail, (1989.). First edition - Algerian-born author's first novel, one that explores the conflict between growing up in an Arab family on the outskirts of Paris and wanting to be accepted as French. The first and best of the 'beur' novels (slang for 'Arab.'), translated from the French by Ed Emery. Basis for the prize winning movie of the same name (winner of the Prix Jean Vigo Award for best first film at Cannes.) 157 pp. ISBN: 1-852421517.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers with French flaps. (crease to lower corner of front cover, usual light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 68603More details Price: $17.50 -
ALTERED STATES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1978). Hardcover first edition - The first (and only) novel by this award-winning playwright and screenwriter, the story of a young scientist's experiment with sensory deprivation - "entombed in an isolation tank and fed with a powerful hallucinogenic drug in an attempt to find the origins of consciousness." Basis for the 1980 film directed by Ken Russell and starring William Hurt in his first movie. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-060107278.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine jacket (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 88887More details Price: $27.50 -
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING.
Edition: First printing.
London: Harper Collins, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A melding of history and fiction, inspired by one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's most famous portraits, set in 17th century Delfi. Basis for the movie of the same name. SIGNED on the title page. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-525-94527x.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (a tight clean copy which appears unread, but with the usual toning to the pages, dj has the correct spelling of earring on the back cover, original price of 9.99 on flap).
Book ID: 74335More details Price: $150.00 -
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, 2000. First edition - A melding of history and fiction, inspired by one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's most famous portraits, set in 17th century Delfi. Basis for the movie of the same name. 233 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 29503More details Price: $45.00 -
DARK WATERS: A Mystery Novel.
Edition: First edition.
Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing Co., (1944) dj. Hardcover first edition - First book publication of this mystery, set on a Louisiana plantation, originally published as a serial in The Saturday Evening Post, and the basis for the 1944 film starring Merle Oberon and Franchot Tone. Movie tie-in edition, illustrated with four stills from the film, a photograph of Oberon on the front cover of the dust jacket and 4 other scenes on the back cover. 191 pp.
Condition: Very good in teal boards (usual age-toning to the pages) in a fair only dust jacket with creasing, edgewear and some loss to the ends of the spine.
Book ID: 87534More details Price: $30.00 -
THE HUNGER GAMES.
Edition: First printing (complete number line ending in a '1')
New York: Scholastic, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather hard to find first printing of the first book in this powerful trilogy set in the near future with unsettling parallels to our present. Basis for the movie of the same name. 487 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (not an unread copy, but one which has been read with care)
Book ID: 62966More details Price: $150.00 -
BRINGING OUT THE DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very well received, gritty first novel that chronicles 48 hours in the life of an EMS medic working the graveyard shift on the streets of Hell's Kitchen in New York. Basis of the Martin Scorsese film of the same name starring Nicholas Cage. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-375400400.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot.)
Book ID: 47256More details Price: $17.50 -
BRINGING OUT THE DEAD.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Vintage Books, (1999.). The author's very well received, gritty first novel that chronicles 48 hours in the life of an EMS medic working the graveyard shift on the streets of Hell's Kitchen in New York. Basis of the Martin Scorsese film of the same name starring Nicholas Cage. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-375400400.
Condition: Good in illustrated wrappers (few notes inside front cover, usual light toning to pages.)
Book ID: 49725More details Price: $12.00 -
BLOOD WORK
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Former FBI agent Terrell McCabe is the recipient of a heart transplant - and he agrees to investigate the murder of the woman whose heart he received. Grand Prix, Anthony, and Macavity Award Winner for Best Novel, and the basis for the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name. SIGNED on the title page. 393 pp. ISBN: 0-316-153990.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 61983More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LINCOLN LAWYER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First legal thriller by this Edgar-award winning author of the Harry Bosch series, set in Los Angeles county. Winner of the 2006 Macavity Award, and basis for the movie of the same name. SIGNED on the title page. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-316-734934.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (dust jacket beginning to delaminate.)
Book ID: 43551More details Price: $28.50 -
BLOOD WORK
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Little Brown, 1998. SIGNED first edition - Former FBI agent Terrell McCabe is the recipient of a heart transplant - and he agrees to investigate the murder of the woman whose heart he received. Grand Prix, Anthony, and Macavity Award Winner for Best Novel, and the basis for the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name. SIGNED on the title page by the author.
Condition: Fine in stiff printed wrappers
Book ID: 25788More details Price: $32.50 -
THE LINCOLN LAWYER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First legal thriller by this Edgar-award winning author of the Harry Bosch series, set in Los Angeles county. Winner of the 2006 Macavity Award, and basis for the movie of the same name. SIGNED on the title page. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-316-734934.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 40901More details Price: $31.50 -
BLOOD WORK
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Little Brown, 1998. SIGNED first edition - Former FBI agent Terrell McCabe is the recipient of a heart transplant - and he agrees to investigate the murder of the woman whose heart he received. Grand Prix, Anthony, and Macavity Award Winner for Best Novel, and the basis for the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name. 393 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff printed wrappers
Book ID: 51831More details Price: $30.00 -
BLOOD WORK
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Former FBI agent Terrell McCabe is the recipient of a heart transplant - and he agrees to investigate the murder of the woman whose heart he received. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Grand Prix, Anthony, and Macavity Award Winner for Best Novel, and the basis for the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name. 391 pp. ISBN: 0-316-153990.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 50384More details Price: $35.00 -
INNOCENT: HER FANCY AND HIS FACT.
Edition: First edition.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1914.). Hardcover first edition - The story of Innocent, a young girl who discovers from her dying father that she was abandoned as a baby. Basis for the 1921 silent black and white film which featured Madge Stuart and Basil Rathbone (his first film - he was later to be best known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes.) Tissue-guarded frontispiece of the author.462 pp.
Condition: Very good in original light blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and white (slight spine slant, rubbing to corners.)
Book ID: 55469More details Price: $20.00
