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THE BUBBLE REPUTATION
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by an author who has been highly praised, by writers as diverse as Stephen King and Florence King, and who was the winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction, but who is not as widely read as she should be. SIGNED on the title page. This is a wonderful story of an oddball family in rural Maine. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-517-59311-4.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 61141More details Price: $28.50 -
WHAT BECOMES US.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
San Francisco: Outpost19, (2016). SIGNED first edition - An offbeat new novel by this award winning writer - cover praise from Karen Joy Fowler and Alison Lurie who commented that "Micah Perk's wonderful and surprising new novel proves that the life of a small-town schoolteacher can be by turns comic, dramatic, joyful, and violent" and others. SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp. ISBN: 978-1937402983.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84756More details Price: $24.50 -
FIRST PERSON RURAL: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer.
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Godine, (1978.) dj. Hardcover - The first book in his delightful series of essays on adjusting to, and learning to appreciate, the rural life - among the topics in this book are buying a pick-up truck and a chainsaw, selling firewood, grades of maple syrup, and more. Illustrated by Stephen Harvard. 124 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-2323.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35454More details Price: $14.50 -
FIRST PERSON RURAL: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer.
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Godine, (1978.) dj. Hardcover - The first book in his delightful series of essays on adjusting to, and learning to appreciate, the rural life - among the topics in this book are buying a pick-up truck and a chainsaw, selling firewood, grades of maple syrup, and more. Illustrated by Stephen Harvard. 124 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-2323.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (a couple of small ink spots to edges of textblock, tear to front cover of dj, other edgewear) .
Book ID: 81349More details Price: $12.50 -
SECOND PERSON RURAL: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Godine, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second volume of essays by this urban man turned framer and teacher, now living in Thetford Vermont and teaching at Dartmouth. The NY Times Review stated that "Perrin makes a fine defense of country living, not as a retreat from the world but as a place to use one's talents to battle it out. These essays for guaranteed to amuse confirmed urbanites and set them dreaming of the country." Included are such topics as lamb to lamb chop, winter in the woods, Vermont silences and more - but despite the often light-hearted tone, but the underlying theme - how to preserve and protect the land - is serious. Illustrated by F. Allyn Massey.152 pp. ISBN: 0-879233419.
Condition: Very near fine in dark green cloth in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87217More details Price: $28.50 -
THIRD PERSON RURAL: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Boston: Godine, (1983.) dj. Hardcover - Third volume of essays by this urban man turned framer and teacher, now living in Thetford Vermont and teaching at Dartmouth. The NY Times Review stated that "Perrin makes a fine defense of country living, not as a retreat from the world but as a place to use one's talents to battle it out. These essays for guaranteed to amuse confirmed urbanites and set them dreaming of the country." Included are such topics as the gourmet potato grower, farm flowers, a cow's plea to vegetarians and more - but despite the often light-hearted tone, but the underlying theme - how to preserve and protect the land - is serious. Illustrated by Robin Brickman.188 pp. ISBN: 0-879234679.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (gift inscription).
Book ID: 83332More details Price: $16.50 -
A TRIP AROUND CAPE COD: Our Summer Land and Memories of My Childhood.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Good overalll in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover, and beveled edges - some rubbing and wear to the ends of the spine, the corners, and even the lower edges of the boards, front hinge cracking, and title page almost detached, but still holding. Despite the flaws this is an appealing vintage book in the uncommon blue binding.
Book ID: 85206More details Price: $75.00 -
THE NARROWS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, the story of a tragic interracial love affair in the ficticious small New England town of Monmouth, Connecticut. Petry had grown up in a solid middleclass black family in Conneticut (her father was a pharmacist) so she knew the background well. 428 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (lower corner of front cover bumped, price-clipped, some overall edgewear to the dj and chipping at the ends of the spine.)
Book ID: 69120More details Price: $75.00 -
ICE FOR THE ESKIMO: A J. D. Hawkins Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Beaufort, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring wheelchair bound, mystery author Jack Hawkins. Great Boston setting. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-8253-04032.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (bookseller's black line to bottom edge.)
Book ID: 45269More details Price: $14.50 -
PAINT IT BLACK: A J. D. Hawkins Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring wheelchair bound, mystery author Jack Hawkins. Great Boston setting. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-312-029624.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (short tear, edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 70534More details Price: $15.00 -
HEART SONGS AND OTHER STORIES.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Scribner, (1995.). A collection of thirteen short stories set in rural New England by this award-winning author. 203 pp. ISBN: 0-02-0360754.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. (as new.)
Book ID: 45616More details Price: $12.00 -
L IS FOR LOBSTER: A Maine Alphabet.
Edition: 3rd printing.
Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A history of Maine for children, told through the alphabet from A is for Augusta, the state capitol to Z is for zillions, the number of stars that can be seen in the skies. Includes 2 pages of Maine facts. SIGNED by both the author and the illustrator - Reynolds added 'Welcome to Vacationland' above her signature and Brett included a drawing of a lobster. Oblong format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 1-585360244.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87375More details Price: $21.50 -
BLACK ANGELS.
Edition: First edition.
New York & London: Abelard-Schuman, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, historical fiction which moves from Wiltshire in 1685 to the New England frontier and Jamaica and the Bahamas. 256 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Dick Hart.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 58536More details Price: $13.50 -
CROSSING THE WATER: Eighteen Months on an Island Working With Troubled Boys - A Teacher's Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School. where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. Lyrical and heartfelt, it is the memoir of his first 18 months on Penikese." 287 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-02384.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58098More details Price: $18.50 -
CROSSING THE WATER: Eighteen Months on an Island Working With Troubled Boys - A Teacher's Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School. where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. Lyrical and heartfelt, it is the memoir of his first 18 months on Penikese." 287 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-02384.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 84940More details Price: $17.50 -
MURDER ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Walker, (1981) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The final mystery by this husband and wife team, set on the island where they themselves live during the summer. The story of a woman who returns to the island three years after she was acquitted of the charge of murdering her husband, even though many islanders still believed in her guilt. Determined to prove her innocence she hires an aging private detective. SIGNED on the half title page by both authors and uncommon thus. 197 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Audrey Newell. ISBN: 0-8027-54368.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 72983More details Price: $35.00 -
THE HEBREW LION.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Portland, Maine: The Ascensius Pess, 1989. First edition - The author's third collection of poetry which was the winner of the Maine Arts Commission Poetry Competion. Afterword by Amy Clampitt, who said "In an exuberantly down-to-earth way it takes on life as it is lived; but also and equally its concern is with how that life and the work of the imagination are to be yoked and harnessed, made to acknowledge one another." Illustrated with woodcuts by Richard Wilson. One of 500 copies, "designed and printed by Scott Vile during the summer of 1989. The typeface is Monotype Dante, set by Golgonooza Letter Foundry." 37 pp plus afterword and colophon. Tall thin format.
Condition: Very good in illustrated orange wrappers - corners bumped, very short tear to upper edge of front cover.
Book ID: 68432More details Price: $25.00 -
THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - New novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author, the story of one year in a marriage, a year which began and ended with a wedding - the first on Cape Cod, the second in Maine. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-375-414967.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 52153More details Price: $30.00 -
WITH OR WITHOUT YOU: A Memoir.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Spiegel & Grau, (2013). Hardcover - The author's first book, an account of an unconventional coming of age in the 1990s. "Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving town north of Boston, in a trash-filled house on a dead-end road surrounded by a river and a salt marsh. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious local figure, was a drug addict and sometimes dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches. . despite the fact that there was not a book to be found in her household, Domenica developed a love of reading, which helped her believe that she could transcend this life of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts lived by." 207 pp. ISBN: 978-0812993240.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79310More details Price: $15.00 -
TRUTH BE TOLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: FORGE / Tom Doherty Associates, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Boston reporter Jane Ryland and police detective Jake Brogan. It begins with all too-common scenario recently - a family being evicted from their foreclosed on suburban home.SIGNED on the title page. 400 pp. ISBN: 978-0765374936.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72534More details Price: $30.00 -
TRUST ME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: FORGE / Tom Doherty Associates, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of psychological suspense and manipulation. "There are three sides to every story. Yours. Mine. And the truth." SIGNED on the title page. 397 pp. ISBN: 978-0765374936.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77278More details Price: $35.00 -
SAY NO MORE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: FORGE / Tom Doherty Associates, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Boston reporter Jane Ryland and police detective Jake Brogan. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page. 379 pp. ISBN: 978-0765385352.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 79295More details Price: $28.50 -
FEATHERTOP: Based on the Tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A powerful witch creates a scarecrow from old scraps and transforms into a handsome young man. A story written originally by Nathaniel Hawthorne and retold by Robert San Souci. Illustrated in full color and SIGNED on the front endpaper by the illustrator, Daniel San Souci. Oblong format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-385-420447.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (name on front endpaper.).
Book ID: 57919More details Price: $27.50 -
AS DOES NEW HAMPSHIRE And Other Poems.
Edition: First printing thus, a trade paperback.
Dublin, NH: William L. Bauhan, Publisher, 1987. SIGNED - Reissue of the 1967 edition of this collection of poems with additional material. Illustrated by several full -page black and white photographs. SIGNED on the first page. 61 pp. ISBN: 0-872330982.
Condition: Very near fine in orange illustrated wrappers (slight rubbing to the front cover.)
Book ID: 31833More details Price: $25.00 -
AS DOES NEW HAMPSHIRE And Other Poems.
Edition: First printing thus, a trade paperback.
Dublin, NH: William L. Bauhan, Publisher, 1987. SIGNED - SIGNED on the first page by Sarton. Reissue of the 1967 edition of this collection of poems with additional material. Illustrated by several full -page black and white photographs. 61 pp. ISBN: 0-872330982.
Condition: Ex-library with a couple of "discard" stamps, peeled spot on front cover, but overall tight and clean in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 35944More details Price: $15.00 -
MISS PICKTHORN AND MR. HARE: A Fable.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1966.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This simple tale set in a small New England village is a 'quiet tender allegory of love, neighbors, independence and the true function of solitude. Illustrated with drawings by James J. Spanfeller. INSCRIBED by Sarton on the half title page and dated in 1986. 92 pp.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj, crease to rear flap.)
Book ID: 53879More details Price: $50.00 -
MISS PICKTHORN AND MR. HARE: A Fable.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1966.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This simple tale set in a small New England village is a 'quiet tender allegory of love, neighbors, independence and the true function of solitude. Illustrated with drawings by James J. Spanfeller. 92 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in near fine dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 80254More details Price: $25.00 -
TIME IN ITS FLIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic novel of a hundred years in the lives of a New England family.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket - in extremely good condition for such a massive book (782 pgs.)
Book ID: 11657More details Price: $20.00 -
THE WITCHES: SALEM 1692.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2016). First edition - A fresh and comprehensive look at the Salem Witch trials, and their aftermath, by this Pulitzer Prize winning historian. Notes, bibliography. xiv, 482 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67368More details Price: $21.50 -
RESERVATION ROAD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, set in a small Connecticut town, a thriller about a man determined to hunt down the hit-and-run driver who killed his ten year old son. SIGNED on the title page. 301 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61269More details Price: $30.00
