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BLACK WATER RISING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young black lawyer in Houston, Texas, in 1981, trying to put his past behind him and barely succeeding in staying above water. Nominated for the Edgar, short listed for the Orange award, this grips you from the first page. SIGNED on the title page. 427 pp. ISBN: 978006173868.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 90493More details Price: $35.00 -
THINGS ARE NEVER SO BAD THAT THEY CAN'T GET WORSE: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (2022). First edition - A book which "investigates how the country with the largest oil reserves in the world fell into a protracted crisis. . . an insightful survey of Venezuelas downfall, offering valuable lessons about 21st-century populism, authoritarianism, economic mismanagementand the failure of efforts to contain these forces." (Americas Quarterly)" The disaster is so complete that more than 10% of the population has fled. Notes, 325 pp. Publisher's letter laid in.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 90266More details Price: $23.50 -
SIBERIAN LIGHT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Delacorte, (1997). First edition - A thriller featuring Gregori Nowek and involving a savage triple murder in a small river town in Siberia which takes the reader from the intricate workings of a Siberian oil field to the bitter resolve of a gulag survivor, and a wild, violent chase across the frozen taiga. As a former oil roughneck and oil-logging engineer who has lived in Siberia, White knows the terrain he is writing about. 441 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner slightly bumped).
Book ID: 81448More details Price: $19.50 -
SIBERIAN LIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller featuring Gregori Nowek and involving a savage triple murder in a small river town in Siberia which takes the reader from the intricate workings of a Siberian oil field to the bitter resolve of a gulag survivor, and a wild, violent chase across the frozen taiga. As a former oil roughneck and oil-logging engineer who has lived in Siberia, White knows the terrain he is writing about. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late Oklahoma collector Larry Owens - "new directions and a great old read." 441 pp. ISBN: 0-385316887.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81447More details Price: $35.00 -
BLACK WATER RISING.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: HarperPerennial, (2010.). SIGNED - The author's first novel, the story of a young black lawyer in Houston, Texas, in 1981, trying to put his past behind him and barely succeeding in staying above water. Nominated for the Edgar, short listed for the Orange award, this grips you from the first page. SIGNED on the title page. 427 pp. ISBN: 9780061735851.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 59370More details Price: $21.50