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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 -
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 -
THE RETURN.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2020) dj. Hardcover - The story of an injured Navy doctor, who returns to a cabin in North Carolina which he inherited from his grandfather and begins to put his life back together. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. 355 pp. The dust jacket is reversable with a spring cover on the front and a Christmas cover on the back. ISBN: 978-1538728574.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 84652More details Price: $16.50 -
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. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American author's second book, and highly praised 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: $225.00 -
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: 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 -
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 -
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 -
NOWHERE ELSE ON EARTH.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80794More details Price: $28.50 -
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 -
WINTER'S CHILD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring North Carolina judge Deborah Knott. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-8095.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65131More details Price: $16.50 -
DEATH'S HALF ACRE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Grand Central Publishing, (2008). First edition - Mystery novel set in rapidly changing rural North Carolina featuring sleuth and judge Deborah Knott. 262 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65072More details Price: $17.50 -
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: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64220More details Price: $30.00 -
RITUALS OF THE SEASON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring North Carolina judge Deborah Knott. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-8095.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62362More details Price: $16.50 -
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 -
BAROQUE AND DESPERATE: A Den of Antiquity Mystery.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Avon, (1999) dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring North Carolina antique dealer Abigail Timberlake. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-7394-01688.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61850More details Price: $15.00 -
UP THROUGH THE WATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Virginia-born author's first novel, the story of a divorced woman and her 16 year old son, set during a summer on an island just off the coast of North Caroline. SIGNED on the title page. 162 pp. ISBN: 0-385246870.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61744More details Price: $30.00 -
UNCOMMON CLAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2001)
dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring North Carolina judge Deborah Knott. SIGNED by author on title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-7201.Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 60259More 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: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56708More details Price: $18.00 -
THE WOMAN WHO WAS NOT ALL THERE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Harper & Row, (1988.). Author's first novel, the story of a woman and her four children, set mostly in a small Southern town in the 1960's and 70's. 340 pp
Condition: Good overall in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner bumped).
Book ID: 56339More details Price: $10.00 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
CRUEL DOUBT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A riveting account of small-town murder; a terrifying tale of a seemingly ordinary family whose lives and illusions about each other were shattered one hot summer night in 1988." Drugs, the fantasy world of Dungeons and Dragons and the desire to inherit his stepfather's money led a North Carolina State Student to arrange for the brutal murder of his stepfather and the attempted murder of his mother. Photographs. 460 pp. ISBN: 0-671-679473.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47308More details Price: $12.50 -
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. 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 -
THE WOMAN WHO WAS NOT ALL THERE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Harper & Row, (1988.). Author's first novel, the story of a woman and her four children, set mostly in a small Southern town in the 1960's and 70's. 340 pp
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 47072More details Price: $10.00 -
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
