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HAPPY POLICEMAN.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78598More details Price: $18.50 -
SACRAMENT OF LIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: BlueHen Books (Penguin Putnam) (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by this highly regarded young writer (her previous books were published under Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn.) Dustjacket praise from Richard Ford and Ann Patchett (who called this a 'literary thriller that will keep us up all night. This book is riveting.') among others. Set against Louisiana politics, this is a variation on the story of Hamlet - but with the genders reversed. SIGNED by author. ISBN: 0-399-14854x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 30253More details Price: $29.50 -
SACRAMENT OF LIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: BlueHen Books (Penguin Putnam) (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by this highly regarded young writer (her previous books were published under Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn.) Dustjacket praise from Richard Ford and Ann Patchett (who called this a 'literary thriller that will keep us up all night. This book is riveting.') among others. Set against Louisiana politics, this is a variation on the story of Hamlet - but with the genders reversed. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-399-14854x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 30648More details Price: $30.00 -
SACRAMENT OF LIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: BlueHen Books (Penguin Putnam) (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this highly regarded young writer (her previous books were published under Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn.) Dustjacket praise from Richard Ford and Ann Patchett (who called this a 'literary thriller that will keep us up all night. This book is riveting.') among others. Set against Louisiana politics, this is a variation on the story of Hamlet - but with the genders reversed. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-399-14854x.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (lamination flaw to dj.)
Book ID: 41261More details Price: $12.50 -
THE QUEST OF YOUTH.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1927. Hardcover first edition - An historical romance and adventure novel set in 19th century England, the fifth in the Jasper Shrig series. 364 pp. .
Condition: Near fine in dark blue cloth, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 83349More details Price: $18.00 -
CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Powerful novel based on a fragment of history: an unsolved triple murder committed in Australia in 1898. SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 0-374-118892.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (a tight, clean and unread copy but with a remainder mark, small bump to outer edge of rear board.)
Book ID: 31484More details Price: $25.00 -
CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Powerful novel based on a fragment of history: an unsolved triple murder committed in Australia in 1898. SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 0-374-118892.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (P stamped on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 32591More details Price: $28.00 -
VICTIM OF THE AURORA.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1978.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1910 in the Antarctic, this novel is a combination of polar adventure, murder mystery and an exploration of what men are capable of when faced with intense cold and hunger. SIGNED on the title page with a small doodle. 219 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-15-1936315.
Condition: Good only in a near fine like dustjacket (bookstore stamp, some crinkling to several pages from dampness).
Book ID: 58806More details Price: $24.00 -
VICTIM OF THE AURORA.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1910 in the Antarctic, this novel is a combination of polar adventure, murder mystery and an exploration of what men are capable of when faced with intense cold and hunger. 219 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-15-1936315.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 76350More details Price: $17.50 -
THE SECRETS OF THE CAMERA OBSCURA
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first book, set in San Francisco, where a beautiful young woman who frequented the Camera Obsura is found murdered. SIGNED on the title page. 139 pp. ISBN: 0-8118-06553.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (light crease on flap.)
Book ID: 49401More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SECRETS OF THE CAMERA OBSCURA
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - His first book, set in San Francisco, where a beautiful young woman who frequented the Camera Obsura is found murdered. 139 pp. ISBN: 0-8118-06553.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped).
Book ID: 69808More details Price: $15.00 -
FAMILY LINEN.
Edition: 4th printing.
New York: Putnam, (1985) dj. Hardcover - A comic novel set in the small town of Booker Creek in the Virginia mountains not far from the North Carolina line - part murder mystery, part social commentary, part family history. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-399-130802.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 60130More details Price: $12.50 -
THE QUIET BOY.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which is a legal thriller (with two trials -one for malpractice, the other for murder), a medical mystery, and speculative fiction. One reviewer commented that this is a book you can't put down - an "expertly crafted a narrative that felt both thoughtful and intense, full of suspense but never rushed, and packed with characters that each had their own motivations, personality, and goals." 434 pp. ISBN: 978-0316505444.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89208More details Price: $22.50
