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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 -
NOWHERE ELSE ON EARTH.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80794More details Price: $28.50 -
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-obessed society." SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed pale blue wrappers.
Book ID: 81787More 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-obessed 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 -
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 -
TIME'S WITNESS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery novel set In the small college town of Hillston, North Carolina, and featuring Lt. Justin Savile and Police Chief Cuddy R. Mangum. Hours before his scheduled execution, a young Black man on death row gets a brief stay - the following day, his brother a controversial activist is found murdered. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. In addition to being gripping and literate mysteries, Malone's crime novels are also a picture of the changing politics and culture in the South. 537 pp. ISBN: 0-316544809.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 82908More details Price: $40.00 -
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
