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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 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 -
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 -
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: Fine in fine dust jacket (P stamped on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 32591More details Price: $28.00 -
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 -
HIGH IDEALS?
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1978). Hardcover first edition - The author's rather uncommon first novel (and apparently only novel), despite being highly praised upon its publication in England - "a work of mad and moral philosophy, and something of a psychic thriller; it is also about drugs and murder, Phantom Radio and whether the earth is flat or not." But mostly about drugs... from the dust jacket which depicts sniffing cocaine to the entire fictional world Harris creates. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-151402213.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some soiling to edges of textblock, short tear to fold of dj at lower edge)
Book ID: 76192More details Price: $30.00 -
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
