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WHEELS FOR CONQUEST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, (1957) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in the sprawling frontier town of Pittsburgh - gateway to the West - this is the story of George, the son of a wagonmaker in the Conestoga Valley. 185 pp.
Condition: Good in a good dust jacket (foxing to the endpapers, significant rubbing and wear to the edges and folds of the dust jacket.)
Book ID: 62553More details Price: $18.00 -
THE STRIKER: An Isaac Bell Adventure.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth historical thriller featuring detective Isaac Bell -it is 1902 and Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship, is hired to hunt for radical union sabateurs in the coal mines. Instead he witnesses a terrible accident which makes him realize that it is not the union members who are the problem. SIGNED by Cussler on the facing title page. Pittsburgh map endpapers. 375 pp. ISBN: 9780-399-161773.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73300More details Price: $50.00 -
AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover - An evocation of her childhood - 'growing up in Pittsburgh in a house full of books and comedians.' 214 pp, map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-0158050.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26502More details Price: $12.50 -
AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover - An evocation of her childhood - 'growing up in Pittsburgh in a house full of books and comedians.' 255 pp, map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-0158050.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 29673More details Price: $12.50 -
AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - An evocation of her childhood - 'growing up in Pittsburgh in a house full of books and comedians.' 255 pp, map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-0158050.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (gift inscription, price-clipped dj.)
Book ID: 31990More details Price: $18.00 -
AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD.
Edition: 4th printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover - An evocation of her childhood - 'growing up in Pittsburgh in a house full of books and comedians.' 255 pp, map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-0158050.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35141More details Price: $12.50 -
AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - An evocation of her childhood - 'growing up in Pittsburgh in a house full of books and comedians.' 255 pp, map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-0158050.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35763More details Price: $22.50 -
AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - An evocation of her childhood - 'growing up in Pittsburgh in a house full of books and comedians.' 255 pp, map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-0158050.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35831More details Price: $25.00 -
BING CROSBY'S LAST SONG.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Picador, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1968 in the dying Irish-American community of Oakland Park, Pittsburgh. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-312-195400.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53860More details Price: $15.00 -
ATTORNEY FOR THE SITUATION.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Good overall in a fair only dust jacket (name on front endpaper, newpaper obituary of his wife tipped onto to rear endpaper, dust jacket is split along side of spine, overall edgewear, now protected by an archival cover)
Book ID: 90712More details Price: $35.00 -
EMILY ALONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking Press, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - As the sequel to 'Wish You Were Here,' the novel follows the main character Emily Maxwell, a widow in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose grown children have all moved away. A quiet and detailed portrait of old age, of mourning loss and change, but also the courage involved in moving on in life. 255 pp. ISBN: 9780670022359.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 60176More details Price: $18.00 -
EVERYDAY PEOPLE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grove Press, (2001). First edition - A novel set during one week in 1988 in an African American community of Pittsburgh, and centering around Chris Tolbert - an eighteen-year old left paralyzed and haunted by the loss of his best friend after a recent accident. . O'Nan was selected by Granta as one of America's best young novelists. 268 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 62468More details Price: $18.00 -
EVERYDAY PEOPLE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grove Press, (2001). SIGNED first edition - A novel set during one week in 1988 in an African American community of Pittsburgh, and centering around Chris Tolbert - an eighteen-year old left paralyzed and haunted by the loss of his best friend after a recent accident. . O'Nan was selected by Granta as one of America's best young novelists. SIGNED on the title page. 268 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80640More details Price: $28.50 -
THE KING'S ORCHARD.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel about two Irish immigrants to America in 1772, and their roll in settling the area around what is now Pittsburgh, and was then the far western frontier of Ft. Pitt. Based not only on historical facts of the time but also on the personal history in the unpublished family records. Map endpapers. 467 pages.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (bookplate.)
Book ID: 20299More details Price: $25.00 -
HOOP ROOTS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's memoir of "discovering the game that has been his singular passion for nearly fifty years. It is equally, inevitably, the story of the roots of black basketball in Ameica Ñ a story inextricable from race, culture, love, and home. " 242 pp. ISBN: 0-395-857317.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 43233More details Price: $16.00 -
DAMBALLAH.
Edition: First UK printing and first hardcover edition.
London: Allison & Busby, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 12 interrelated stories which traces the fortunes of an African American family from slavery to escape and resettlement in the North, and also follows the history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh community founded by a runaway slave. Oriignally published as a paperback original in the US, this is the first hardcover edition. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-85031-5492.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 54420More details Price: $35.00
