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THE PRACTICAL HEART: Four Novellas.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In addition to the award-winning title novella, this includes Preservation News, He's One Too and Saint Monster. SIGNED on the title page. 332 pp. ISBN: 0-679437630.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68050More details Price: $30.00 -
VAMPIRE RESURRECTION: Evil Has No Death.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Pittsburgh, PA: SterlingHouse Publisher, (2008). First edition - "Count Roget, a 500-year-old French vampire responsible for the deaths of the 'lost' colonists in Roanoke during the 16th Century, is once again on the rampage in modern-day North Carolina." 206 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83414More details Price: $15.00 -
CHESTNUT MARE BEWARE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery set in North Carolina and Virginia featuring equestrian journalist Nattie Gold and her fellow reporter Henry Goode. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-449909980.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84008More details Price: $17.50 -
A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: Memoirs of a Wartime Boomtown.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 77823More details Price: $30.00 -
WHERE ALL LIGHT TENDS TO GO.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2015). First edition - Southern author's very highly praised first novel, a Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. "The area surrounding Cashiers, North Carolina, is home to people of all kinds, but the world that Jacob McNeely lives in is crueler than most. His father runs a methodically organized meth ring, with local authorities on the dime to turn a blind eye to his dealings. Having dropped out of high school and cut himself off from his peers, Jacob has been working for this father for years, all on the promise that his payday will come eventually." 260 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps, letter from publisher bound in (some toning to the pages).
Book ID: 78699More details Price: $25.00 -
THE PRODIGAL JUDGE.
Edition: First edition.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1911.). Hardcover first edition - The author's most popular book, an ante-bellum novel with settings ranging from North Carolina to Tennessee, with romance, suspense and adventure. Illustrated by M. Leone Bracker. 448 pp
Condition: Good condition in blue-gray cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, gilt panel on front (a little fraying to the ends of the spine, but gilt is bright and fresh).
Book ID: 44389More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MERMAID CHAIR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by the author of "The Secret Life of Bees," an exploration of the nature of desire. "Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion." Author's note. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-670033944.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82336More details Price: $16.50 -
RIVER TIME: The Frontier on the Lower Neuse.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Lyons Press, (1997). First edition - An "account of life on the banks of North Carolina's Lower Neuse River, of the people who live there, and of a way of living in step with the rhythms of the natural world that has all but disappeared today - rhythms replete with fill nets, crab pots, fickle winds, and resourceful neighbors." 160 pp. ISBN: 1-55821657X.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83838More details Price: $14.50 -
SLOW DOLLAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring North Carolina judge Deborah Knott. Glossary of carnival terms. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-7641.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 46980More details Price: $16.50 -
SLOW DOLLAR.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring North Carolina judge Deborah Knott. Glossary of carnival terms. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-7641.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46981More details Price: $12.50 -
UP JUMPS THE DEVIL.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1996. dj. Hardcover - The 4h mystery featuring North Carolina judge Deborah Knott. Winner of the Agatha award. ISBN: 0-89296-5681.
Condition: Very good in a very good dj.
Book ID: 14867More details Price: $12.50 -
UP JUMPS THE DEVIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 4h mystery featuring North Carolina judge Deborah Knott. Winner of the Agatha award. ISBN: 0-89296-5681.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (glue remnants under dj flaps)
Book ID: 22726More details Price: $15.00 -
UP JUMPS THE DEVIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 4h mystery featuring North Carolina judge Deborah Knott. Winner of the Agatha award. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-5681.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 37801More details Price: $17.50 -
FERRIS BEACH.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel, set in the changing South of the 1970's. ISBN: 0-945575-394.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dustjacket (rem line, hint of spine slant.)
Book ID: 13772More details Price: $15.00 -
CRASH DIET: Stories.
Edition: 1st printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Press, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised Southern writer's fifth book (her first collection of short stories), a SIGNED on the title page, and dated in 1996. 253 pp . ISBN: 0-945575750.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (some spine slant).
Book ID: 41526More details Price: $27.50 -
FERRIS BEACH.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Press, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel, set in the changing South of the 1970's. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-394.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (hint of spine slant.)
Book ID: 42356More details Price: $35.00 -
TENDING TO VIRGINIA.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Press, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel (the first two were published simultaneously), the story of three generations of women in North Carolina. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1990. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-394.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (hint of spine slant.)
Book ID: 42357More details Price: $35.00 -
CRASH DIET.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Press, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised Southern writer's fifth book (her first collection of short stories). 253 pp. ISBN: 0-945575750.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 79678More details Price: $18.00 -
CRASH DIET: Stories.
Edition: 1st printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Press, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised Southern writer's fifth book (her first collection of short stories), a presentation copy warmly and personally INSCRIBED on the title page, and dated in the year of publication. 253 pp . ISBN: 0-945575750.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 39187More details Price: $27.50 -
TENDING TO VIRGINIA.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Press, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third novel (the first two were published simultaneously), the story of three generations of women in North Carolina. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-394.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52298More details Price: $18.00 -
JULY 7TH
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1992. Southern author's first novel (issued simultaneously with "The Cheerleader.") - the story of 24 hours as the quirky residents of a small town in North Carolina sort through the facts surrounding the murder of the clerk at the Quik-Pik. 387 pp. Chunky square format. ISBN: 0-56512-0027.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 41517More details Price: $9.00 -
THE BALLAD OF FRANKIE SILVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - An Appalachian mystery, with its roots in a murder and execution over 100 years ago - in 1833, Frankie Silver was the first woman sentenced to be hanged in North Carolina. One of the most complex and rewarding of the author's 'ballad' mysteries. Includes an author's note and bibliography. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-525-939695.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. (remainder line, very short closed tear at upper end of spine.)
Book ID: 37510More details Price: $15.00 -
THE BALLAD OF FRANKIE SILVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - An Appalachian mystery, with its roots in a murder and execution over 100 years ago - in 1833, Frankie Silver was the first woman sentenced to be hanged in North Carolina. One of the most complex and rewarding of the author's 'ballad' mysteries. Includes an author's note and bibliography. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-525-939695.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 40436More details Price: $20.00 -
GHOST RIDERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which juxtaposes the legends of the Civil War with modern day life in theAppalachian Mountains. ISBN: 0-525-947183.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72869More details Price: $17.50 -
THE LAST GREAT SNAKE SHOW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by this North Carolina writer - who worked as a snake handler himself at one point. SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-399-142800.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43526More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LAST GREAT SNAKE SHOW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by this North Carolina writer - who worked as a snake handler himself at one point. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-399-142800.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68606More details Price: $18.50 -
KEEPER OF THE MOON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A Southern Boyhood." Southern author's first memoir (preceded by two novels) written when a diagnosis of cancer sent him in two directions - into the world of hospitals and medicine and a transplant in Seattle - and backward into his childhood years in rural hardscrabble North Carolina, where the gift of a telescope made him "the keeper of the moon." Dustjacket praise by Harry Crews, Lee Smith, Larry Brown and more. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-393-02715.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 84895More details Price: $18.50 -
BLANCHE PASSES GO.
Edition: Book club edition (full-size.)
New York: Viking, (2000.) dj. Hardcover - Fourth in the series of mysteries featuring this 'domestic-worker-by-choice', as she leaves her home in Boston to visit her old hometown of Farleigh, North Carolina for the summer. 275 pp plus recipe. ISBN: 0-670-891657.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38922More details Price: $12.50 -
BLANCHE CLEANS UP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third in the series of mysteries featuring this 'domestic-worker-by-choice', as she leaves her home in Boston to visit her old hometown of Farleigh, North Carolina for the summer. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-670-876267.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 36646More details Price: $35.00 -
BLANCHE CLEANS UP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third in the series of mysteries featuring this 'domestic-worker-by-choice', as she leaves her home in Boston to visit her old hometown of Farleigh, North Carolina for the summer. INSCRIBED on the title page "---- Read well and prosper" and dated in 2001. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-670-876267.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 65515More details Price: $35.00
