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THE UNTHINKABLE THOUGHTS OF JACOB GREEN.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 37420More details Price: $25.00 -
THE UNTHINKABLE THOUGHTS OF JACOB GREEN.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 65668More details Price: $25.00 -
THE UNTHINKABLE THOUGHTS OF JACOB GREEN.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 74965More details Price: $18.00 -
LESSER GOODS and Other Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Tenth Avenue Editions, (1987) dj. SIGNED first edition - His third collection of poems, many which reflect his life on a New Jersey farm. A presentation copy INSCRIBED on the half title page (to another poet) "Ain't that some corn!" (referring to the photograph on the front cover) and dated in the year of publication. 61 pp. ISBN: 0-863161065.
Condition: Fine in glossy printed white wrappers in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63486More details Price: $20.00 -
JERSEY STREET AND JERSEY LANE: Urban and Suburban Sketches.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Hardcover first edition - Six short pieces, alternating between New York City and the country. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and numerous en texte drawings by A.B. Frost, B. West Clinedinst, Irving R. Wiles and Kenneth Frazier. Bound in very dark blue clothe with art nouveau style decorations by Margaret Armstrong (with her monogram on the front cover) and lettering in gilt. Top edge gilt. xiv, 201 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good (gift inscription dated Christmas 1898, some fraying to the top of the spine)
Book ID: 75106More details Price: $30.00 -
CLOSE TO SHORE: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61811More details Price: $19.50 -
FALL OUT OF HEAVEN: An Autobiographical Journey.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83189More details Price: $21.50 -
ONE KISS LED TO ANOTHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel introducing Con Leeds, a private investigator from New Jersey and former NYC cop, who is hired to find the granddaughter and heir of a New York tycoon, who has run away to Atlantic City and fallen in with a drug-trafficking motorcycle gang. Leeds lives in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, and this book contrasts that area and Atlantic City. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-060177373.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a tight and straight copy, light toning)
Book ID: 69058More details Price: $15.00 -
FOUR TO SCORE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring Stephanie Plum, who works for her bail bondsman cousin in New Jersey - the first book in the series won the Dilys award (given by independent booksellers for the mystery that is the most fun to sell - and the later ones in the series continue the fun). This one was the winner of the Lefty Award for best humorous mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-312-18586-3.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 60538More details Price: $35.00 -
OBSERVATIONS ON PROFESSIONS, LITERATURE, MANNERS, AND EMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, made during a residence there in 1832.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Arno Press, 1974. Hardcover - A reprint of this work originally published in London in 1833. The author's had a rather negative but narrow view of American society based on his travels in and around New Jersey, New York, and New England, and a positive experience in Canada. A title in the Foreign Travelers in America, 1810-1935 series. 433 pp. ISBN: 0-405-054521.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings and overall tight and clean in gold cloth with burgundy lettering.
Book ID: 57384More details Price: $30.00 -
THE FAMILY STALKER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second in the Suburban Detective series featuring an ex-Wall Street trader turned detective; set in a small New Jersey town. Clippings of reviews laid in. ISBN: 0-385-469039.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22608More details Price: $18.00 -
THE CEREMONIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of satanic intrigue - "Graduate student Jeremy Freirs and aspiring dancer Carol Conklin, summering in the New Jersey village of Gilead, are trapped in a nightmare of terror, with an evil force emanating from a place once called Maquineanok, the Place of Burning." 502 pp. ISBN: 0-670209821.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder mark, edges of boards and upper corner of textblock bumped, some short tears to dj, crease on front flap)
Book ID: 84288More details Price: $60.00 -
THE COMPANY THAT BOUGHT THE BOARDWALK: A Reporter's Story of Resorts International Came to Atlantic City.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A detailed examination of Resorts International's financial dealings and of the company's connections with Watergate and such figures as Bebe Rebozo and Robert Vesco draws on FBI Justice Department records." Review copy with author's photo laid in.Index. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-394509781.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 71618More details Price: $20.00 -
KILLING THE POORMASTER: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 76498More details Price: $19.50 -
A MEMOIR OF MY DAYS IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85516More details Price: $40.00 -
MIDNIGHT SANDWICHES AT THE MARIPOSA EXPRESS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Houston, TX:' Arte Publico Press, 1997. First edition - Cuban born author's first novel (and second book.). ISBN: 1-55885-216-6.
Condition: Very good-.
Book ID: 16654More details Price: $12.00 -
THE BARBED-WIRE KISS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003). First edition - The author's first novel set in New Jersey and introducing ex-cop Harry Rane. "the Jersey Shore ain't what it used to be, but ex-state trooper Harry Rane still calls it home. After his wife's death, Harry got careless, got shot, and he left the force. He's a changed man, leads a quiet life, except when it comes to helping his friends... Now an old buddy of Harry's wants a big favor. He owes $50,000 to a Jersey crime boss and needs Harry to get him more time to repay the loan." 340 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86568More details Price: $18.00