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LUCKY AT LOVE.
Edition: First printing.
Santa Barbara: Woodstock Press, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Journalist Allison Tyler-Wilcox sees a good story in that of Jake Sorenson, a man who had been unsuccessfully married seven times, but who still thinks that he has been 'lucky in love' - and who has changed occupations as many times - he is now working as a mule-breeder on his ranch in Eastern Oregon. SIGNED in full on the title page and also INSCRIBED on the dedication page. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-977627802.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Promotional postcard laid in.
Book ID: 39411More details Price: $25.00 -
ISLAND YEAR.
Edition: First printing.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on 20 years of Heckman's close observations of the flora and fauna on Anderson Island, a small island in Puget Sound off the coast of Washington. "A diary of the natural world where the same things happen again and again but are always new. Each month brings surprises, expected or not." IIllustrated with a map and drawings by Laurie Olin Index. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-295951710.
Condition: Very near fine in very good dust jacket (rubbing and light edgewear to the dust jacket).
Book ID: 55706More details Price: $16.50 -
BURIED DIAMONDS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Claire Montrose mystery, set in Portland, Oregon. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp plus vanity license plate key. ISBN: 0-312-30403x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62898More details Price: $28.50 -
THE LAST SANCTUARY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, the story of an innocent man, a veteran of the Gulf War, accused of murder, who "plunges into America's dark underworld of armed militias and terrorist cults." Dustjacket praise from Tony Hillerman, Robert B Parker, James Crumley (who calls this 'A wonderful read. a terrific chase novel through the Great Northwest. Craig Holden has a sharp eye and a fine, devious mind and he plots like the devil himself.') Map of Alaska. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-385-312091.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39087More details Price: $20.00 -
RUNNING WEST.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42393More details Price: $30.00 -
RUNNING WEST.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Crown, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by this writer, artist and naturalist, who spent many years living among the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic. Based on real people and actual events, and told in a rollicking style, appropriate to the era in which it is set, this is a story of growing love between a young Indian woman of the Dene Nation and a Scottish bank clerk who had been banished from his country as they traverse the Northwest in the early 1700's, enduring deprivation, violence and near starvation. Illustrated with a map and in text drawings by the author. Includes an epilogue with the historical information. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-517-577321.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 28992More details Price: $18.00 -
30 FOR A HARRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: M Evans and Company, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a mystery featuring soft-boiled Seattle sleuth John Denson. ISBN: 0-87131-357X.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price clipped)
Book ID: 4428More details Price: $20.00 -
30 FOR A HARRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: M Evans and Company, 1981. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a mystery featuring soft-boiled Seattle sleuth John Denson. Boldly INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens, "from the wandering Hoyt" and dated in Ravenswood, WV in 1998. Uncommon signed. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-87131-357X.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (name on front endpaper)
Book ID: 60652More details Price: $40.00 -
WHOO?
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A John Denson mystery, set in Washington state and revolving around the spotted owl controversy -what starts out as a minor marijuana case turns into a majory murder. INSCRIBED and dated on the half title to the noted book collector Larry Owens "from the owl man." 214 pp. ISBN: 0-312851499.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 68375More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LADY IN KICKING HORSE RESERVOIR.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Norton, (1973). SIGNED - His fourth collection of poems - although many of these are set in Montana, where Hugo lived and taught for years, they are far more than just "regional" poetry. The final poem "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" is one of his best known and most widely anthologized and in its bleakness it is more appropriate now than when it was written "The principal supporting business now is/ rage. Hatred of the various grays/ the mountain sends. Hatred of the mill." Warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page to another poet "For -- who will never end in a reservoir. Fondly, Dick." 79 pp. ISBN: 0-39300936X.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 70156More details Price: $85.00 -
FIRE AND ICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring both Seattle private investigator J. P. Beaumont and Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-380-977303.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 62024More details Price: $25.00 -
BIRDS OF PREY.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Morrow, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Mystery featuring former Seattle homicide detective J. P. Beaumont. SIGNED on the title page. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-380-97407x.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 23001More details Price: $16.00 -
FOLLY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. After being hit by several tragedies, a woman goes to a remote San Juan island off the coast of Washington in an attempt to rebuild her life and her sanity by rebuilding the house (the 'folly') her great-uncle had created 60 years before. A gripping story, with a very real woman at the center, and an interweaving of the old mysteries surrounding her great uncle and the dangers she is currently facing. Winner of the Macavity Award for best novel.
Condition: Good only in a near fine dust jacket (publication flaw with creasing, tears and other damage to the front endpapers)
Book ID: 68900More details Price: $20.00 -
FOLLY.
Edition: Full size book club edition.
New York: Bantam, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED by the author on the title page. After being hit by several tragedies, a woman goes to a remote San Juan island off the coast of Washington in an attempt to rebuild her life and her sanity by rebuilding the house (the 'folly') her great-uncle had created 60 years before. A gripping story, with a very real woman at the center, and an interweaving of the old mysteries surrounding her great uncle and the dangers she is currently facing. Winner of the Macavity Award for best novel. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-553-11035.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 59911More details Price: $20.00 -
FOLLY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, 2001. First edition - After being hit by several tragedies, a woman goes to a remote San Juan island off the coast of Washington in an attempt to rebuild her life and her sanity by rebuilding the house (the 'folly') her great-uncle had created 60 years before. A gripping story, with a very real woman at the center, and an interweaving of the old mysteries surrounding her great uncle and the dangers she is currently facing.Winner of the Macavity Award for best novel. 400 pp plus 12 pp advertising King's other books.
Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 36764More details Price: $16.50 -
FOLLY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, 2001. SIGNED first edition - After being hit by several tragedies, a woman goes to a remote San Juan island off the coast of Washington in an attempt to rebuild her life and her sanity by rebuilding the house (the 'folly') her great-uncle had created 60 years before. A gripping story, with a very real woman at the center, and an interweaving of the old mysteries surrounding her great uncle and the dangers she is currently facing. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Macavity Award for best novel.
Condition: Very near fine .
Book ID: 18537More details Price: $35.00 -
FOLLY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - After being hit by several tragedies, a woman goes to a remote San Juan island off the coast of Washington in an attempt to rebuild her life and her sanity by rebuilding the house (the 'folly') her great-uncle had created 60 years before. A gripping story, with a very real woman at the center, and an interweaving of the old mysteries surrounding her great uncle and the dangers she is currently facing. Winner of the Macavity Award for best novel. SIGNED on the title page. 400pp. ISBN: 0-553-11035.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81766More details Price: $35.00 -
WHO OWNS THE WEST?
Edition: Second printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: Mercury House, (1996.). SIGNED - SIGNED on the title page. Essays on growing up in his bit of heaven - on his father's huge ranch in Eastern Oregon - and on the inevitable changes coming to the West now. 'Kittredge gives us not easy answers but a sustained meditation on what it means to be a Westerner today. The three essays in Who Owns the West? comprise both a celebration of the new West and an elegy for an old West that is fading.' 168 pp. ISBN: 1-562790781.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 39383More details Price: $20.00 -
WHO OWNS THE WEST?
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: Mercury House, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - Essays on growing up in his bit of heaven - on his father's huge ranch in Eastern Oregon - and on the inevitable changes coming to the West now. 'Kittredge gives us not easy answers but a sustained meditation on what it means to be a Westerner today. The three essays in Who Owns the West? comprise both a celebration of the new West and an elegy for an old West that is fading.' INSCRIBED on the title page to collector Larry Owens and dated in the year of publication. 168 pp. ISBN: 1-562790781.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60971More details Price: $45.00 -
RISING DOG
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Eldon Larkin mystery, set on Oregon's remote south coast. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-312-070756.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57134More details Price: $16.50 -
THE SKY FISHERMAN.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by the author of 'Winterkill' and 'River Song,' this is the story of a young boy coming of age in a small town in Oregon. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Ivan Doig, Terry Tempest Williams, and Barry Lopez. vii, 304 pp. ISBN: 0-395677246.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36629More details Price: $28.50 -
THE SKY FISHERMAN.
Edition: 3rd printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Third novel by the author of 'Winterkill' and 'River Song,' this is the story of a young boy coming of age in a small town in Oregon. Very nicely INSCRIBED on the title page. "For -- I hope each page honors the hardworking men and women of the rural West" and dated in 2007. Dust jacket praise from Ivan Doig, Terry Tempest Williams, and Barry Lopez. vii, 304 pp. ISBN: 0-395677246.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36443More details Price: $24.50 -
THE SKY FISHERMAN.
Edition: 3rd printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Third novel by the author of 'Winterkill' and 'River Song,' this is the story of a young boy coming of age in a small town in Oregon. Dust jacket praise from Ivan Doig, Terry Tempest Williams, and Barry Lopez. vii, 304 pp. ISBN: 0-395677246.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85601More details Price: $16.50 -
LOST LAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller by this former defense attorney, Set in Portland, Oregon. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0735023.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74992More details Price: $30.00 -
LOST LAKE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Harper Collins, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A legal thriller by this former defense attorney, Set in Portland, Oregon. SIGNED on the title page. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0735023.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62913More details Price: $20.00 -
PROOF POSITIVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller by this former defense attorney, Set in Portland, Oregon. SIGNED on the title page. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0735058.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 62911More details Price: $25.00 -
THE ASSOCIATE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller by this former defense attorney, Set in Portland, Oregon. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0196254.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62631More details Price: $30.00 -
THE UNDERTAKER'S WIDOW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller by this former defense attorney, Set in Oregon. SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-385-480547.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 42362More details Price: $27.50 -
PROOF POSITIVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller by this former defense attorney, Set in Portland, Oregon. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0735058.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86675More details Price: $35.00 -
THE ASSOCIATE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller by this former defense attorney, Set in Portland, Oregon. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0196254.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74896More details Price: $28.50