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A WOMAN RUN MAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which is part thriller, part social comedy, part psychological suspense novel. Quinn is a struggling writer, now fired from his college teaching post, who becomes obsessed with Brahmin Sarah Slade, whom he spots shoplifting in Bonwit's and follows home to Louisburg Square. A decade earlier, Sarah had murdered and castrated her lover, and had been found mad. The other "woman run mad" is Quinn's tightly controlled wife, Claire, a successful professor, who is determined to win him back. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-67081752x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83551More details Price: $35.00 -
A WOMAN RUN MAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which is part thriller, part social comedy, part psychological suspense novel. Quinn is a struggling writer, now fired from his college teaching post, who becomes obsessed with Brahmin Sarah Slade, whom he spots shoplifting in Bonwit's and follows home to Louisburg Square. A decade earlier, Sarah had murdered and castrated her lover, and had been found mad. The other "woman run mad" is Quinn's tightly controlled wife, Claire, a successful professor, who is determined to win him back. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-67081752x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 83099More details Price: $16.50 -
THE MAN WHO OWNED VERMONT.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Washington Square Press Books, (1988.). A deceptively simple and moving story of an RC Cola's salesman who throws himself into his work to bury the despair he felt when his wife left him. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-671-038206.
Condition: Very good+.
Book ID: 52933More details Price: $9.00 -
THE MAN WHO OWNED VERMONT.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: The Viking Press, (1987.). First edition - A deceptively simple and moving story of an RC Cola's salesman who throws himself into his work to bury the despair he felt when his wife left him. His first book. 220 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed gray wrappers.
Book ID: 46533More details Price: $20.00 -
THE MAN WHO OWNED VERMONT.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Washington Square Press Books, (1988.). A deceptively simple and moving story of an RC Cola's salesman who throws himself into his work to bury the despair he felt when his wife left him. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-671-645870.
Condition: Very good+.
Book ID: 39751More details Price: $10.00 -
THE SKELETON'S KNEE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1993) dj. SIGNED first edition - Fourth in the series featuring Joe Gunther, Brattleboro Vermont's chief of detectives. Well-written, suspenseful and an interesting background. SIGNED on the title page. Recommended. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-892964707.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86748More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SKELETON'S KNEE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Mysterious Press, 1993. First edition - Fourth in the series featuring Joe Gunther, Brattleboro Vermont's chief of detectives. Well-written, suspenseful and an interesting background. Recommended.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers - very slight reading crease to spine and front cover.
Book ID: 1796More details Price: $20.00 -
RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Good in red boards with black lettering on spine in a good only dust jacket (rather severe age-toning to the pages, some damage from dampness to the lower edge of front cover and dj, edgewear and rubbing to the dj, original price of $3.95 still present).
Book ID: 84006More details Price: $40.00 -
MILICENT LE SUEUR.
Edition: First printing.
Dallas, Texas: Three Forks Press, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in a small New England town, where she is the only bag lady, this story is told by Milicent herself. After she witnesses the murder of a high school girl near one of her hangouts, she decides she is going have to figure out herself who did it. SIGNED on the title page. 167 pp. ISBN: 1-893451054.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77160More details Price: $28.50 -
BOX NINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1992). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, winner of the Mysterious Press Discovery contest for best first crime novel. Set in a decaying industrial city in Massachusetts, detective Lenore Thomas is teamed with a Chinese linguist as part of a police task force tracking down the makers and dealers of a new drug that induces murderous rage. Meanwhile her twin brother Ike, a postal worker, is involved in his own investigation. A novel in which the disintegration of a young woman mirrors the decay of the city in which it is set. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-892964723.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81471More details Price: $20.00 -
THE NIGHT COUNTRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrah, Staus and Giroux, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - In New England at midnight on Halloween, a car of five teenagers is involved in a car accident killing three of them. A complex look at how actions can shape and affect one's future, and a chilling ghost story in the tradition of Ray Bradbury (to whom this book is dedicated). 229 pp. ISBN: 0-374-222150.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease on front flap of dj)
Book ID: 60183More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BODY IN THE BOG.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh mystery featuring Faith Fairchild, caterer and minister's wife, set in the fictitious town of Aleford, Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note, recipes. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-688145736.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74229More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BODY IN THE MOONLIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eleventh mystery in the award-winning series featuring Faith Fairchild, caterer and minister's wife, set in the fictitious town of Aleford, Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note, recipes. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-380-978423.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74230More details Price: $30.00 -
GLENLOCH GIRLS' CLUB, #3 in series.
Edition: First edition.
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1911. Hardcover first edition - The third book in this four book series - After a year abroad with her father, Ruth returns to Glenloch in Massachusetts where she will live with her uncle and aunt. One of the Social Six Girls has gone to California, but a new girl has come to town. Illustrated by Ada Clendenin Williamson with a frontispiece with tissue guard and six internal glossy plates. 367 pp. Final page notes that "At Camp" is "in press" - it was actually publised as "At Camp West."
Condition: Very good in light green cloth with pasted on illustration on front cover, white lettering, pale green and white endpapers (hinges cracking, but binding is still sturdy, prev owner's name on blank prelim, tear to first two leaves) Overall an attractive copy of a rather uncommon girls series book,
Book ID: 83923More details Price: $35.00 -
GLENLOCH GIRLS AT CAMP WEST, #4 in series.
Edition: Early printing.
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1914. (c 1912). Hardcover - The fourth and final book in this four book series - the girls spend the summer at a school camp and the Candle Club boys pitch their tents about a mile away. Illustrated by Ada Clendenin Williamson with a frontispiece with tissue guard and six internal glossy plates. 377 pp.
Condition: Very good in light green cloth with pasted on illustration on front cover, white lettering, pale green and white endpapers (rear hinge cracking, but binding is still sturdy) Overall an attractive copy of a rather uncommon girls series book,
Book ID: 83949More details Price: $40.00 -
THE SMALL ROOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sarton's eighth novel - a 'perceptive, deeply questioning novel of a New England college.' 249 pp.
Condition: Ex-library, with all the usual flaws, front endpaper removed, dust jacket somewhat rubbed, edgeworn, tear to back cover.
Book ID: 2156More details Price: $12.50 -
THE SMALL ROOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sarton's eighth novel - a 'perceptive, deeply questioning novel of a New England college.' 249 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with markings and reading wear, but in a good unmarked dust jacket (price-clipped, some toning to the interior of the dj.)
Book ID: 39608More details Price: $12.50 -
THE SMALL ROOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sarton's eighth novel - a 'perceptive, deeply questioning novel of a New England college.' 249 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (gift inscription - for a 'devoted teacher'.)
Book ID: 41077More details Price: $30.00 -
THE ROSE THIEVES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanich, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of short stories set in a small New England town, and, although it was recently issued in trade paperback, it is surprisingly uncommon in the hardcover first edition. ISBN: 0-15-1790132.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (an apparently unread copy, but with a remainder line)
Book ID: 19181More details Price: $17.50 -
THE ROSE THIEVES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanich, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of short stories set in a small New England town, and surprisingly uncommon. ISBN: 0-15-1790132.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.(remainder line, some edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 39490More details Price: $14.50 -
FAMILY HISTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel (fifth book) - set in a small town in Massachusetts this is the story of a woman losing control and discovering that 'you can do everything right and still find the world you've made slipping away.' SIGNED on the title page. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-375-415475.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47333More details Price: $28.50 -
COLONY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. First edition - As 90-year-old Maude waits to be taken home from Retreat, a summer colony in Maine, she looks back on her life since she first arrived there nearly 70 years before - when she was a 19 year old bride from Charleston, South Carolina. 449 pp plus author's note.
Condition: Very good (slight spine slant, some signs of having been read, but much less common than the trade edition which had a first printing of 150,000 copies.)
Book ID: 47098More details Price: $15.00 -
TO DARKNESS AND TO DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the award winning Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne mystery series, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 0 - 3 1 2 - 3 34850.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63847More details Price: $30.00 -
ONE WAS A SOLDIER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel i n t h e a w a r d w i n n i n g C l a r e F e r g u s s o n / R u s s V a n A l s t y n e m y s t e r y s e r i e s, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 327 pp. ISBN: 0 - 3 1 2 - 3 1 2 6 4 4.
Condition: Good in a near fine dust jacket (spine slant)
Book ID: 77272More details Price: $21.50 -
TO DARKNESS AND TO DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel i n t h e a w a r d w i n n i n g C l a r e F e r g u s s o n / R u s s V a n A l s t y n e m y s t e r y s e r i e s, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 0 - 3 1 2 - 3 34850.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77273More details Price: $27.50 -
ALL MORTAL FLESH.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - F i f t h b o o k i n t h e a w a r d w i n n i n g C l a r e F e r g u s s o n / R u s s V a n A l s t y n e m y s t e r y s e r i e s, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 322 pp. ISBN: 0 - 3 1 2 - 3 1 2 6 4 4.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 48666More details Price: $21.50 -
ALL MORTAL FLESH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - F i f t h b o o k i n t h e a w a r d w i n n i n g C l a r e F e r g u s s o n / R u s s V a n A l s t y n e m y s t e r y s e r i e s, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 322 pp. ISBN: 0 - 3 1 2 - 3 1 2 6 4 4.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50258More details Price: $30.00 -
THROUGH THE DAYS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2013.). SIGNED first edition - Novel i n t h e a w a r d w i n n i n g C l a r e F e r g u s s o n / R u s s V a n A l s t y n e m y s t e r y s e r i e s, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp.
Condition: Nea fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped).
Book ID: 59141More details Price: $30.00 -
ONE WAS A SOLDIER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel i n t h e a w a r d w i n n i n g C l a r e F e r g u s s o n / R u s s V a n A l s t y n e m y s t e r y s e r i e s, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 327 pp. ISBN: 0 - 3 1 2 - 3 1 2 6 4 4.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62047More details Price: $30.00 -
OUT OF THE DEEP I CRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel i n t h e a w a r d w i n n i n g C l a r e F e r g u s s o n / R u s s V a n A l s t y n e m y s t e r y s e r i e s, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for both the Edgar and the Agatha. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-312- 3 1 2628.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 63846More details Price: $25.00
