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AGAINST THE CURRENT: How One School Struggled and Succeeded with At-Risk Teens.
Edition: First printing.
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the Urban Collaborative in Providence, Rhode Island - an independent, public middle school founded in 1989. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-435-081403.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 25348More details Price: $15.00 -
THE CHINATOWN DEATH CLOUD PERIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual first novel, a bibliomystery set in the years of the Great Depression with two authors of pulp fiction - Walter Gibson, the creator of "The Shadow" and Lester Dent, creator of "Doc Savage" - put aside their rivalry to track down the killer of H. P. Lovecraft, joined in this quest by another young pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard. Introduction and epilogue. 371 pp. ISBN: 978-0743287852.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the edges of the textblock, light toning to pages)
Book ID: 64765More details Price: $20.00 -
FADEAWAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring former baseball player turned private investigator, Harvey Blissberg (the first in the series won the Edgar award), Set in the world of professional basketball, mostly in Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-06-015599x.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj).
Book ID: 62246More details Price: $17.50 -
FADEAWAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring former baseball player turned private investigator, Harvey Blissberg (the first in the series won the Edgar award), Set in the world of professional basketball, mostly in Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-06-015599x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 85631More details Price: $16.50 -
CITY ON FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel in an epic new crime trilogy, set in New England in the 1980s and focusing on Danny Ryan, and themes of family, love, honour, loyalty and betrayal amongst the Irish and Italian mobsters who have until now co-existed peacefully in Providence, Rhode Island. A contemporary retelling of the Iliad. 371 pp. ISBN: 978-0062851192.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89012More details Price: $24.50
