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  • A DIVING ROCK ON THE HUDSON: Mercy of a Rude Stream, Volume II. by Roth, Henry.
    Roth, Henry.
    A DIVING ROCK ON THE HUDSON: Mercy of a Rude Stream, Volume II.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume in the Mercy of a Rude Stream, set in 1920s literary New York. This follows adolescent Ira Stigman from 921 to 1925 as he begins to encounter the harsh realities of life, and also awakens to the beauties of modern literature. It depicts him as a tormented teenager doomed to near madness by the violent urges he carries within. Glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew words and phrases. 418 pp. Photo illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-312143419.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (initials on front endpaper)

    Book ID: 87159
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  • VESPERS. by Rovin, Jeff.
    Rovin, Jeff.
    VESPERS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: St Martin's, (1998.). First edition - A thriller involving mutant bats: "Investigating the bizarre bat attacks throughout New York City, scientist Nancy Joyce and detective Robert Gentry team up to uncover the source of these malevolent attacks." 309 pp

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 46513
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  • THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER. by Rubenfeld, Jed.
    Rubenfeld, Jed.
    THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's award-winning first novel, a mystery set in 1909 New York City during a week when Sigmund Freud, accompanied by Carl Jung, made his first - and only - trip to America. Author's note. 367 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-80988.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 45078
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  • 5 GOOD BOYS. by Rutman, Leo.
    Rutman, Leo.
    5 GOOD BOYS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this New York playwright and author, based on a point-shaving scandal from the 1950s, a compassionate story of five street-smart kids from the ghetto who play for a city college basketball team, driven by their coach to become champions. Even though they faced greatness they lacked the wisdom to resist the "easy money" that came from winning, but not by too much - A book which is an indictment of the greed behind sports, and sees the boys as victims as much as they are guilty themselves. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-670317047.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, some edgewear to dj, short tear at foot of spine)

    Book ID: 88177
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  • BEHOLD THE FIRE. by Salinger, Steven D.
    Salinger, Steven D.
    BEHOLD THE FIRE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Warner, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - "When POW/MIA Zach Johnson mysteriously emerges from the jungles of Southeast Asia 25 years after his capture, a number of interested parties -- including the U.S. government -- are deeply disturbed by his reappearance. As a spiral of pursuit, ambush, and betrayal escalates, a dedicated New York cop, a renegade international adventurer, and a soldier who refuses to die are propelled on a desperate journey that will test the limits of passion, justice, and human endurance." SIGNED on the title page and dated 10/97, just one month after publication. 372 pp. ISBN: 0446520799.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 64860
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  • ALMOST A WOMAN. by Santiago, Esmeralda.
    Santiago, Esmeralda.
    ALMOST A WOMAN.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Vintage Books, (1999.). Highly praised Puerto Rican's writer tells the story of her emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the theaters of Manhattan. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70521X.

    Condition: Fine.

    Book ID: 56763
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  • VALENTINE. by Savage, Tom.
    Savage, Tom.
    VALENTINE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Little Brown, (1996). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second thriller, set in New York City. Successful "suspense novelist Jillian Talbot finds her idyllic life in Greenwich Village shattered by the increasing attentions of a stalker, who grows more deadly as Valentine's Day approaches." SIGNED on the title page with the words "Happy Valentine's Day." 328 pp. ISBN: 0-316771643.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82577
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  • ROLLER SKATES. by Sawyer, Ruth.
    Sawyer, Ruth.
    ROLLER SKATES.

    Edition: Later printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, (1965, c 1936) dj. Hardcover - A story of a tomboy in old New York, who wanted to roller skate to school and everywhere else. Illustrated with drawings by Angelo Valenti. Awarded the Newbery Medal in 1936. 186 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket with a Newbery award sticker on front cover, price-clipped. .

    Book ID: 83338
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  • FIN AND LADY. by Schine, Cathleen.
    Schine, Cathleen.
    FIN AND LADY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's ninth novel - "A wise, clever story of New York in the '60s. It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging '60s." 273 pp. ISBN: 978-0374154905.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (remainder dot)

    Book ID: 88834
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  • THE HOUSE OF JOYFUL LIVING. by Schotter, Roni; Illustrated by Terry Widener.
    Schotter, Roni; Illustrated by Terry Widener.
    THE HOUSE OF JOYFUL LIVING.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on the authorÕs own New York City childhood, this is a warm story about community and friendship and family. "High on the roof of an apartment building is a garden where neighbors come to laugh, to dance, and to share Ð stories of helping others, breakfasts of challah and herring, and, once a summer, a Roof Party!" Illustrated with full color, full page paintings by Terry Widener. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0374334291.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (written on front endpaper is 'do not remove! hand down' - otherwise as new).

    Book ID: 72469
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  • THE FATIGUE ARTIST. by Schwartz, Lynne Sharon.
    Schwartz, Lynne Sharon.
    THE FATIGUE ARTIST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A 40 year old woman struggling to deal with the murder of her reporter-husband suddenly finds herself beset by a mysterious lethagy. A blend of comedy and grief, this is also an acute picture of our modern urban life. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-684-802473.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 56924
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  • THE WRITING ON THE WALL. by Schwartz, Lynne Sharon.
    Schwartz, Lynne Sharon.
    THE WRITING ON THE WALL.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Counterpoint, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel about the effects of Sept 11 even on those not directly affected by the tragedy - in this case, a librarian, a young woman who has learned to keep the world - and men - at bay. SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 1582432996.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 57728
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  • BURNING QUESTIONS. by Shulman, Alix Kates.
    Shulman, Alix Kates.
    BURNING QUESTIONS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a feminist coming of age story - it follows the experiences of a young woman over two decades - in the 50s, she escapes her midwestern suburban town to live among the Beats in New York's Greenwich Village in the 1950s, but it is only in the 60s, with the beginnings of the feminist movement, that she finds herself fully committed and engaged. Bibliography. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-394-400216.

    Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (faint remainder mark, crinkling to the spine of the dj.)

    Book ID: 63773
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  • Simmons, Sharrif.
    FAST CITIES AND OBJECTS THAT BURN.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New York: Moore Black Press, (1999.). First edition - African American's first collection of poetry - Simmons was born in New York, but spent several years as a child living in Ethiopia, was poetry editor for African Voices and is a founding member of the 'poetry-funk-rock-world band' Black Monsoon. In this collection, he captures the hopelessness of homelessness, the challenge of being young, black and male in American cities and the 'genocidial way' in which drugs infest poor minority communities. INSCRIBED on the first page " to.... Thank U for your energy and spirit. Hope you enjoy the words and vibes. Love and respect." Illustrated. 75 pp. Cover art by Keba Armand Konte. ISBN: 0-965830829.

    Condition: Very good overall (prev owner's comments on first page, marginal notations on about 4 pages, some corners dog-eared.)

    Book ID: 38357
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  • A WIDER WORLD: Portraits in an Adolescence. by Simon, Kate.
    Simon, Kate.
    A WIDER WORLD: Portraits in an Adolescence.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1986) dj. Hardcover - The story of growing up in Depression-ridden but still vital New York City in the 1930s. Sex was strange but fascinating, birth control haphazard and abortions primitive, and the need to learn about everything - life, literature, politics, the city - was urgent. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-060155264.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 87256
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  • LIES THAT COMFORT AND BETRAY. by Simpson, Rosemary.
    Simpson, Rosemary.
    LIES THAT COMFORT AND BETRAY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Kensington, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third historical mystery, featuring heiress Prudence MacKenzie, a valuable partner to former Pinkerton agent and now attorney Geoffrey Hunter, despite the fact that women are not admitted to the bar in New Yorks Gilded Age. A novel which captures both the elegance and sophistication of nineteenth-century New York, and the secrets and bloody terrors that lurked behind its gilded facades. 391 pp. ISBN: 978-1496709110.

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with just a bit of wear at corners.

    Book ID: 87592
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  • THE LIGHT AT THE END. by Skipp, John and Craig Spector.
    Skipp, John and Craig Spector.
    THE LIGHT AT THE END.

    Edition: First hardcover edition.

    Lancaster, PA: Stealth Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Attractive hardcover edition of a work published in paperback in 1986, a grisly vampire novel set in New York City, which was one of the most important early titles in the Splatterpunk genre (maybe even the one that started it all). 370 pp. Jacket design by Steve Montiglio. ISBN: 1-58881002X.

    Condition: Fine in black boards with silver lettering on the spine in a fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88113
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  • Smith, Dennis.
    A SONG FOR MARY: An Irish-American Memory.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Warner, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second memoir by this New York City fireman, this one focusing on what it is like to grow up in a big city, Irish, Catholic and poor. 369 pp. ISBN: 0-446-524476.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)

    Book ID: 32196
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  • REPORT FROM GROUND ZERO. by Smith, Dennis.
    Smith, Dennis.
    REPORT FROM GROUND ZERO.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the heroic rescue efforts at the World Trade Center on 9/11 by a writer who was a himself a New York City firefighter. Photographs. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-670-03116X.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 46193
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  • TRINITY. by Smith, Harry.
    Smith, Harry.
    TRINITY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Horizon Press, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long, somewhat narrative, poem which revolves around the 1970 attack on a peace parade by construction workers at the World Trade Center, and the Trinity Church became a Red Cross station for the wounded. 61 pp. ISBN: 0-8180-15756.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dust jacket.

    Book ID: 84106
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  • CATCHING FIRE. by Smith, Kay Nolte.
    Smith, Kay Nolte.
    CATCHING FIRE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second suspense novel by this Edgar-award winning writer, a story of murder, ambition and romance, set in the New York theater world - a world the author, who had been a professional actor, knows well. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-698111346.

    Condition: Good in a good dust jacket - a tight and straight copy but with discoloration from glue on pastedowns, rear free endpaper and dj flaps.

    Book ID: 78229
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  • NONSTOP METROPOLIS: A New York City Atlas by Solnit, Rebecca and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.
    Solnit, Rebecca and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.
    NONSTOP METROPOLIS: A New York City Atlas

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The third and final book in Solnit's highly praised atlas tr+ilogy - The San Fransisco Chronicle described it as "eccentric and inspiring, a nimble work of social history told through colorful maps and corresponding essays" while another review commented that ""The sum of it all is, like New York itself, overwhelming, alluring and dazzlingly diverse." (Jewish Daily Forward) and the NY Times noted that "The maps themselves are things of beauty... a document of its time, of our time." Included are twenty-six colorful and imaginative maps and informative essays, which explore all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. Among the contributors are (more)

    Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The third and final book in Solnit's highly praised atlas tr+ilogy - The San Fransisco Chronicle described it as "eccentric and inspiring, a nimble work of social history told through colorful maps and corresponding essays" while another review commented that ""The sum of it all is, like New York itself, overwhelming, alluring and dazzlingly diverse." (Jewish Daily Forward) and the NY Times noted that "The maps themselves are things of beauty... a document of its time, of our time." Included are twenty-six colorful and imaginative maps and informative essays, which explore all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. Among the contributors are
    Will Butler, Garnette Cadogan, Teju Cole, Joel Dinerstein, Paul La Farge, Francisco Goldman, Margo Jefferson, Barry Lopez, Luc Sante, Heather Smith, Jonathan Tarleton, Astra Taylor, Alexandra T. Vazquez, Christina Zanfagna and many more. Illustrated with both black and white and color photographs in addition to the maps. SIGNED by Solnit on the half title page, and uncommon thus. Winner of the 2017 Brendan Gill Prize from the Municipal Arts Society of New York. Notes on contributors. Tall format. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-0520285958.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.

    Book ID: 84727
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  • ISLAND OF TEARS. by Soos, Troy.
    Soos, Troy.
    ISLAND OF TEARS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Kensington, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Harper's Weekly contributor and dime novelist Marshall Webb, set in 1892 during NewYork's Gilded Age. Webb finds himself drawn into the tragic side of the immigrant experience - the Island of Tears in the title is Ellis Island. 280 pp. ISBN: 1575667673.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 48999
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  • ISLAND OF TEARS. by Soos, Troy.
    Soos, Troy.
    ISLAND OF TEARS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Kensington, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Harper's Weekly contributor and dime novelist Marshall Webb, set in 1892 during NewYork's Gilded Age. Webb finds himself drawn into the tragic side of the immigrant experience - the Island of Tears in the title is Ellis Island. 280 pp. ISBN: 1575667673.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 53487
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  • Spain, Peter.
    BLOOD SCENARIO.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel written using this pseudonym - The "troubles" of Ireland have crossed the sea to New York on St. Patrick's Day as Irish terrorists explode bombs during the parade. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-698110293.

    Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket. (edgewear to dj.)

    Book ID: 36392
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  • Spain, Peter.
    BLOOD SCENARIO.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel written using this pseudonym - The "troubles" of Ireland have crossed the sea to New York on St. Patrick's Day as Irish terrorists explode bombs during the parade. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-698110293.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 36419
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  • DIGGING UP DEATH. by Stein, Triss.
    Stein, Triss.
    DIGGING UP DEATH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Walker, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring journalist Kay Engels. - it involves both an old mystery uncovered by an archeologist's dig at an old tavern in New York City which unearthed a 300 year old skeleton and a very contemporary murder. SIGNED on the title page. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-33190.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 62050
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  • DIGGING UP DEATH. by Stein, Triss.
    Stein, Triss.
    DIGGING UP DEATH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Walker, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring journalist Kay Engels. - it involves both an old mystery uncovered by an archeologist's dig at an old tavern in New York City which unearthed a 300 year old skeleton and a very contemporary murder. SIGNED on the title page. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-33190.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.) Review copy with publisher's material laid in.

    Book ID: 77280
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  • THE FIRE CHRONICLE: Book Two: Books of Beginning. by Stephens, John
    Stephens, John
    THE FIRE CHRONICLE: Book Two: Books of Beginning.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Kate, Michael, and Emma long to continue the hunt for their missing parents. But they themselves are now in great danger, and so the wizard Stanislaus Pym hides the children at the Edgar Allan Poe Home for Hopeless and Incorrigible Orphans. There, he says, they will be safe. How wrong he is!" A frantic chase sends Kate a hundred years into the past, into an enchanted New York City. INSCRIBED on the title page."To --- Happy Reading!" 435 pp. ISBN: 9780375868719.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 59786
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  • PLEASE PASS THE GUILT. by Stout, Rex.
    Stout, Rex.
    PLEASE PASS THE GUILT.

    Edition: An early book club edition.

    New York: Viking, (1973.) dj. Hardcover - A Nero Wolfe mystery, set in the summer of 1969 when the Mets were battling for the pennant and bomb scares abound in New York City. 154 pp. ISBN: 0-670559946.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 57246
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