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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: $12.50 -
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: $12.50 -
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 -
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 -
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: $18.50 -
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 -
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, the story of a spunky woman, a stray dog and a teenage delinquent 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.' Photograph of Edgerton at signing laid in. ISBN: 0-912697-512.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (slight spine slant).
Book ID: 44501More details Price: $55.00 -
LUNCH AT THE PICCADILLY.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - Edgerton's 8th novel,a "breezy comedy tinged with sadness," set at a convalescence home in North Carolina, where nonagenarian Lil is recuperating from a bad fall. But Lil is restless and wants some adventure and before long Lil and "the girls" steal a car and hit the road. 252 pp. ISBN: 1-565121953.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86989More details Price: $18.00 -
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. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-945575-53x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 47263More details Price: $15.00 -
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 -
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 -
IN MEMORY OF JUNIOR.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44503More details Price: $30.00 -
IN MEMORY OF JUNIOR.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44502More details Price: $18.50 -
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: $13.50 -
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: $27.50 -
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: $16.50 -
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: $10.00 -
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 -
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 -
NOWHERE ELSE ON EARTH.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80794More details Price: $28.50 -
SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in a small coastal town in North Carolina, where an unlikely cast of characters convene one summer. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-945575416.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84027More details Price: $16.50 -
LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. ` + dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's second book, and first collection of short stories - set in a small North Carolina town called Tim's Creek. SIGNED on the title page. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1498865.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82461More details Price: $125.00 -
SIX FIGURES.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised second novel set in boomtown North Carolina - "An intricately nuanced novel of psychological investigation and suspense, riveting in the depth and intensity of the questions it raises about ourselves - and about our status-obsessed society." SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed pale blue wrappers (appears unread but lower corner bumped).
Book ID: 81788More details Price: $30.00 -
SIX FIGURES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised second novel set in boomtown North Carolina - "An intricately nuanced novel of psychological investigation and suspense, riveting in the depth and intensity of the questions it raises about ourselves - and about our status-obsessed society." SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-375406409.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88149More details Price: $35.00 -
SIX FIGURES.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised second novel set in boomtown North Carolina - "An intricately nuanced novel of psychological investigation and suspense, riveting in the depth and intensity of the questions it raises about ourselves - and about our status-obsessed society." SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed pale blue wrappers.
Book ID: 81787More details Price: $35.00 -
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
