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MY FATHER IN THE NIGHT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
San Francisco: Mercury House, (1991). First edition - A coming-of-age novel set in 1950s San Francisco's bohemian North Beach. The story of three generations of an Irish family - 11 year old Pearce, his father Joe, and Joe's father MJ. Haunted by his past with the IRA, MJ hides his crimes - and condemns his son for supporting the IRA, driving a wedge into the family. 273 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 70161More details Price: $15.00 -
JOSIE, CON AMORE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1966) dj. SIGNED (by dedicatee) hardcover first edition - A warm hearted novel about a restaurant owner in San Francisco's North Beach, "who can't resist helping people--even when they don't know they're in trouble." Dedicated to real life restauranteur Rena Nicolai who has INSCRIBED the title page "To our dear friend --- Hope you will enjoy my book" with La Pantera, and the date of 2-26-66 underneath her signature. 255 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (usual toning to the pages, but a tight and straight copy, Dust jacket has light edgewear, sunning to the spine, original price of 4.95 still present).
Book ID: 79903More details Price: $25.00 -
CHASING THE DRAGON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in this award-winning writer's North Beach series, a hard-boiled novel set in San Francisco and introducing Dante Mancuso who is leading a double life. He " works for The Company, a nebulous security organization operating just this side of the law. Dante wants out, but it's a hard life to leave behind-rich with its own seductions, its own dark attractions." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-312324677.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84249More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BIG BOOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in this award-winning writer's North Beach series, a noir novel set in San Francisco featuring private investigator Dante Mancuso who has been hired to find the missing daughter of an old North Beach Italian family. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-312324707.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84250More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LAST DAYS OF IL DUCE,
Edition: First printing.
Sag Harbor, NY: The Permanent Press, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in the old Italian neighborhood of North Beach in San Francisco - one which flashes back and forth between their childhood days in the 1950s and events thirty years later. Although this begins with the murder of Nick's brother, Joe, and his determination to get revenge, it is more about the secrets of the past than it is about the sins of the present. Finalist for the Edgar Award and the Hammett Prize. Blue endpapers. 168 pp. ISBN: 1-579620043.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (light crease on front endpaper)
Book ID: 84295More details Price: $18.50
