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RAVEN ROCK.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1986. dj. Hardcover - The author's first book, a novel of suspense, set in a small town in the mountains of North Carolina. ISBN: 0-396-087949.
Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket (spine slant.)
Book ID: 26243More details Price: $10.00 -
BONEMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Jackie Swann of the North Carolina Bureau of Investigation and Phoenix City cop Dallas Reid. ISBN: 0-312-853076.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (small blacked over spot on front endpaper, light edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 31604More details Price: $12.00 -
LOST BOYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This account of a family's move to a small town in North Carolina is a 'powerful, uplifting tale of loss and redemption around an American family's bittersweet triumph over a welter of dark forces, both natural and supernatural.' Very different from Card's other works, and at least partially inspired by his own move to NC with his wife and 3 children. .SIGNED on the half title page. 448 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0166932.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 31858More details Price: $35.00 -
HOMEBODY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A change of pace for this science fiction writer, a supernatural tale of renovating an old house, set in Greensboro, North Carolina, where Card now lives. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0176555.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 43901More details Price: $18.00 -
LOST BOYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This account of a family's move to a small town in North Carolina is a 'powerful, uplifting tale of loss and redemption around an American family's bittersweet triumph over a welter of dark forces, both natural and supernatural.' Very different from Card's other works, and at least partially inspired by his own move to NC with his wife and 3 children. 448 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0166932.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 54794More details Price: $17.50 -
FORMS OF SHELTER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's highly praised second novel, with comments from Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton and more. Attractive dust jacket cover is by Wendell Minor. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-395-593123.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 8594More details Price: $15.00 -
FORMS OF SHELTER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's highly praised second novel, with comments from Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton and more. Attractive dust jacket cover is by Wendell Minor. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-395-593123.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 8595More details Price: $18.00 -
THE EMPTY CHAIR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000.). First edition - Mystery featuring forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs. 427 pp.
Condition: Good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease on front cover, other reading wear).
Book ID: 66279More details Price: $12.00 -
THE EMPTY CHAIR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs. SIGNED on the title page. 411 pp. ISBN: 0-684-855631.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62279More details Price: $30.00 -
KILLER DILLER
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel. ISBN: 0-945575-53x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 47263More details Price: $12.50 -
KILLER DILLER
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel, set in North Carolina. SIGNED on title page. 247 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-945575-53x.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant.)
Book ID: 44248More details Price: $24.00 -
KILLER DILLER
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel, set in North Carolina. SIGNED on title page. 247 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-945575-53x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64220More details Price: $30.00 -
KILLER DILLER
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1992.). Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel. ISBN: 0-345370724.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 42244More details Price: $7.50 -
KILLER DILLER
Edition: 2nd printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. dj. Hardcover - Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel. ISBN: 0-945575-53x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot, slight fading to the dj.)
Book ID: 27749More details Price: $10.00 -
WALKING ACROSS EGYPT.
Edition: First printing (first state)
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel, set in North Carolina, this is the story of a spunky woman, a stray dog and a teenage deliquent whom she befriends. INSCRIBED on the title page - "For D. G. Thanks for introducing me to your Mom" and dated in 1988. 215 pp plus 2 pp of the music for the song 'Walking Across Egypt.'. ISBN: 0-912697-512.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (slight spine slant), Photograph of Edgerton at signing laid in.
Book ID: 44501More details Price: $55.00 -
IN MEMORY OF JUNIOR.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44502More details Price: $18.00 -
IN MEMORY OF JUNIOR.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44503More details Price: $30.00 -
RANEY.
Edition: Later printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1985. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first novel, set in North Carolina and INSCRIBED on the title page - "For - - All best" and dated in 1988. "The story of the first two years, two months, and two days of a modern Southern marriage." 227 pp. ISBN: 0-912697-172.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (hint of foxing to edge of textblock), Photograph of Edgerton at signing laid in.
Book ID: 44504More details Price: $40.00 -
WHERE TROUBLE SLEEPS.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His seventh novel, set in Listre, North Carolina in 1950, population 511. INSCRIBED on the title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 15651206212.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44505More details Price: $30.00 -
KILLER DILLER
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel, set in North Carolina. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-53x.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket
Book ID: 19162More details Price: $15.00 -
CHARMS FOR THE EASY LIFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel, the story of three generations of strong North Carolina women. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-399-137912.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53679More details Price: $15.00 -
CHARMS FOR THE EASY LIFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel, the story of three generations of strong North Carolina women. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-399-137912.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56708More details Price: $18.00 -
THE ODD WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this author - mostly set in North Carolina - cover praise from Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Yates (who called her "a strong,witty, resourceful), Joyce Carol Oates and many others. 419 pp. ISBN: 0-394-489284.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (bookplate, remainder mark, price-clipped, some wear to dj.)
Book ID: 35908More details Price: $18.00 -
NOWHERE ELSE ON EARTH.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80794More details Price: $28.50 -
HEATHEN VALLEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1962. dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon first edition of this author's first novel, based on the history of the Valle Crucis mission in the mountains of North Carolina in the mid-nineteenth century, and of the struggles of the bishop who conceived it and the deacon who ran it. Linney wrote a play with the same title based on his novel, and in 2004, this novel was finally reissued in paperback. 311 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with markings , binding cracked mid-book, but in a very near fine and unmarked dustjacket. Striking dust jacket art by Walter Ferro.
Book ID: 30268More details Price: $25.00 -
DEATH ON THE ENO.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Dr. Hannah Land, professor of political science at Duke University, and shrewd amateur sleuth. Set in tobacco growing country. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-316-559938.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48440More details Price: $20.00 -
FIRST LADY.
Edition: First printing.
Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Landmark, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In the small college town of Hillston, North Carolina, a town heralded as an emblem of the "new South, a young womans body has been found - murdered, mutilated, tagged and addressed to Lt. Justin Savile V and Police Chief Cuddy R. Mangum. Since this was the second body found clothed in a Guess T-shirt, the press dubs this as the work of a serial killer they call the "Guess Who Killer" and pressure mounts on the police to find the killer. SIGNED on the title page. In addition to being a gripping and literate mystery, this is a picture of the changing politics and culture in the South. 430 pp. ISBN: 1-570717435.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81162More details Price: $30.00 -
FIRST LADY.
Edition: First printing - a special hardcover advance issue.
Condition: Fine in black cloth, no dust jacket as issued. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 81163More details Price: $40.00 -
RITUALS OF THE SEASON.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Mysterious Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring North Carolina judge Deborah Knott. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-8095.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39756More details Price: $9.50 -
HOME FIRES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 8th mystery by this award-winning writer - features North Carolina judge Deborah Knott. ISBN: 0-89296-6556.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 40308More details Price: $12.00
