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SLEEPING IN FLAME.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel - a "sophisticated supernatural thriller that collapses the boundary between fantasy and reality." SIGNED on the title page. 273 pp. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 0-385-24957-8.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60481More details Price: $50.00 -
CHICANO CHICANERY: Short Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Houston, TX:' Arte Publico Press, (2000). First edition - A collection of thirteen short stories: "From Mexico City to 'Aztlan'Oregon, in bittersweet comic fables and through tales of frightening realism, Daniel Chacon captures the shrewd, furtive, and sometimes tortuous ways by which Mexican Americans manage to survive in intimidating territory." "Review copy"stamped on first page. 152 pp. ISBN: 1558852808.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66294More details Price: $15.00 -
HELLO GOODBYE.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, (2009). SIGNED first edition - The author's highly praised first adult novel, one which explores a family's struggle with love and loss, as a summer vacation in New Hampshire becomes a time for saying good-bye and an occasion for awakening. SIGNED on the title page. Publisher's material laid in with praise from Alice Sebold, Ann Hood and others. 275 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy blue and white printed wrappers.
Book ID: 80948More details Price: $30.00 -
HELLO GOODBYE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2009). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first adult novel, one which explores a family's struggle with love and loss, as a summer vacation in New Hampshire becomes a time for saying good-bye and an occasion for awakening. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Thom Jones, Ann Hood, Dave King and others. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 273 pp. ISBN: 978-1400065172.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80947More details Price: $30.00 -
HEROIC MEASURES.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pantheon, (2009). SIGNED first edition - The author's fourth novel set in New York, a city on edge after 9/11. "In shifting points of view Alexs, Ruths, and the little dogs man, woman, and one small tenacious beast try to make sense of the cacophony of rumors, opinions, and innuendos coming from news anchors, cable TV pundits, pollsters, bomb experts, hostages, witnesses, real estate agents, house hunters, bargain seekers, howling dogs, veterinarians, nurses, and cab drivers." SIGNED on the title page. 195 pp. ISBN: 978-0375425226.
Condition: Fine in printed white wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 80517More details Price: $30.00 -
HEROIC MEASURES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel set in New York, a city on edge after 9/11. "In shifting points of view Alexs, Ruths, and the little dogs man, woman, and one small tenacious beast try to make sense of the cacophony of rumors, opinions, and innuendos coming from news anchors, cable TV pundits, pollsters, bomb experts, hostages, witnesses, real estate agents, house hunters, bargain seekers, howling dogs, veterinarians, nurses, and cab drivers." SIGNED on the title page. 193 pp. ISBN: 978-0375425226.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80516More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DARK RIVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1949) dj. Hardcover first edition - Moody mystery set on the South Carolina coast. Selected by Barzun and Taylor as one of their ninety classic mysteries published between 1900-1975. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 233 pp. Dust jacket art by H.Lawrence Hoffman. ISBN: my18.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (unusually fresh and bright)
Book ID: 87706More details Price: $100.00 -
FIRSTBORN: A Time Odyssey 3 (Three.)
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The conclusion of the Time Odyssey trilogy, set in the near future. Afterword. 364 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 9780-345-491572.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53098More details Price: $25.00 -
PRISONER FOR POLYGAMY: The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (some sunning to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 75897More details Price: $21.50 -
FOE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Penguin, 1987. A variation on the story of Crusoe, Friday - and another castaway, Susan Barton - and Foe, the man who will tell their story. 117 pp. ISBN: 0-14-009623x.
Condition: Near fine (usual light toning to the pages.) Review copy with publisher's slip laid in.
Book ID: 46645More details Price: $13.50 -
THE LEDGE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - New collection by this award-winning poet who is also the director of the Breadloaf Writers Conference. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 60 pp. ISBN: 0-618-050140.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55560More details Price: $18.00 -
ANGEL IN BLACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: New American Library - NAL, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eleventh mystery in his award winning series featuring sleuth Nathan Heller - in this, he tackles the Hollywood murder known as the "Black Dahlia. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note - "I Owe Them One." Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-451202635.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82527More details Price: $40.00 -
TAILSPIN: The Strange Case of Major Call.
Edition: First printing.
New York: British American Publishing, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A dramatized, but factual, account by a former FBI agent of the story of decorated Air Force Major James Arlon Call's descent into a life of crime and murder and his role as the 'bushy-haired man' the killer of Marilyn Sheppard, a murder where her husband, Sam Sheppard, was originally convicted. SIGNED on the front endpaper 'with admiration and appreciation.' Extensive notes, exhibits, photographs. 507 pp. Schematic timeline on the rear endpapers. ISBN: 0-945167-504.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.) Review copy with publisher's material laid in.
Book ID: 52033More details Price: $35.00 -
RESURRECTION: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, winner of the 1995 Walt Whitman Award selected by Cynthia Macdonald. Dark monologues in which Frida Kahlo, Helen Keller, Diane Arbus, Alice Liddell (Alice in Wonderland), Patty Hearst, Snow White, Thumbelina and others - real and imaginary women transfigured by suffering - speak eloquently. 79 pp. Review copy with slip laid in. ISBN: 0-807120588.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 31932More details Price: $22.00 -
GOATWALKING: A Guide to Wildland Living.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book by one of the founders of the Sanctuary movement - one which presents "his beliefs and experiences as a former goat raiser, naturalist, activist, and Quaker whose wanderings have led him to many locations in the United States and Latin America. [He] describes the brutality he has witnessed as an activist in the sanctuary movement.. and expounds upon human rights and civil disobedience in the spirit of Henry David Thoreau, Saul Alinsky, and Gandhi." (Library Journal)" Review copy with publisher's material, including a photograph of the author laid in. xi, 237 pp. ISBN: 0-670828467.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 84216More details Price: $50.00 -
FOLKLORE FROM AFRICA TO THE UNITED STATES.
Edition: First printing.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1976. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An annotated bibliography of 190 African folklore books for both adults and children, including 40 from the United States - one which was "undertaken to reveal African sources of many familiar tales found in this country and the West Indies." Foreword by Virginia Haviland. A presentation copy, INSCRIBED on the title page "To... with all my best wishes and affection. Peggy" Illustrated. Index. x,161 pp. Publisher's press release is laid in.
Condition: Very near fine in yellow and black cloth with traditional African motifs.
Book ID: 87455More details Price: $50.00 -
A FATAL VINEYARD SEASON: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - Recipes. Map. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-684-855445.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's material laid in.
Book ID: 62954More details Price: $21.50 -
THE STRANGE FILES OF FREMONT JONES.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, (1995). First edition - The first book in a wonderful series of historical mysteries, set in 1905 turn-of-century San Francisco. Introduces us to Fremont Jones, who has come West to embark on a career as an independent "type-writer" but who winds up involved in sleuthing, something a properly brought up young Bostonian should never do. Winner of the Macavity award for best first novel. 229 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy wrappers (offsetting from the ink on the frontispiece illustration to the title page) .
Book ID: 59684More details Price: $50.00 -
THE STRANGE FILES OF FREMONT JONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in a wonderful series of historical mysteries, set in 1905 turn-of-century San Francisco. Introduces us to Fremont Jones, who has come West to embark on a career as an independent "type-writer" but who winds up involved in sleuthing, something a properly brought up young Bostonian should never do. Winner of the Macavity award for best first novel. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-385-475497.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73985More details Price: $40.00 -
THE STRANGE FILES OF FREMONT JONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in a wonderful series of historical mysteries, set in 1905 turn-of-century San Francisco. Introduces us to Fremont Jones, who has come West to embark on a career as an independent "type-writer" but who winds up involved in sleuthing, something a properly brought up young Bostonian should never do. Winner of the Macavity award for best first novel. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-385-475497.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59159More details Price: $45.00 -
NICE GUYS FINISH DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing Albie Marx, who wrote a slim book which became a cult classic in the 1960s and has been trying to come up with an encore ever since. When his lover is murdered, he becomes the chief suspect. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-679401415.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76793More details Price: $28.50 -
THE MORTICIAN'S APPRENTICE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Among the praise that this novel received are these comments by Lewis Nordan: "this book is about sex and death and the 1950s, comic and tragic and moving..." what more could one want? Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-393-036626.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 21593More details Price: $21.50 -
NITRO NIGHTS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (2011.). First edition - His tenth book of poems, many reflecting life on the streets in San Francisco where Di Piero now lives. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 65 pp. ISBN: 9781556593802.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57510More details Price: $15.00 -
CABAL.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery and novel of psychological suspense featuring Roman Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen (the first in the series - Ratking - won the CWA Gold Dagger Award.) Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-385-468067.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86150More details Price: $24.50 -
THE UNKNOWN ERRORS OF OUR LIVES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - A collection of short stories set in India and the United States, which explore the tension between the old ways and the new; each story features a woman, young or old, often uprooted - whether by choice or deception or necessity - from her traditional life in India. SIGNED on the title page by this American Book Award winning author.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 30530More details Price: $30.00 -
THE UNKNOWN ERRORS OF OUR LIVES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories set in India and the United States, which explore the tension between the old ways and the new; each story features a woman, young or old, often uprooted - whether by choice or deception or necessity - from her traditional life in India. SIGNED on the title page by this American Book Award winning author. ISBN: 0-385-49727x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's material laid in, including a photocopy of a brief autobiographical piece which Divakaruni wrote called 'Miss World.'
Book ID: 30529More details Price: $40.00 -
THE UNKNOWN ERRORS OF OUR LIVES.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Anchor Books, (2002.). SIGNED - A collection of short stories set in India and the United States, which explore the tension between the old ways and the new; each story features a woman, young or old, often uprooted - whether by choice or deception or necessity - from her traditional life in India.
Condition: Fair condition only in creased covers, but SIGNED on the title page by this American Book Award winning author.
Book ID: 47826More details Price: $10.00 -
JOE'S WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book by this journalist, a humorous comment on the state of things as seen from a dog's point of view: this is 'the personal journal of a newspaper-reading golden retriever with a philosophical turn of mind, who wiles away the hours sipping martinis and commenting on all those things people seem too busy to notice.' John Chancellor described this as giving an entirely new meaning to the phrase 'A dog's life.' Illustrated with drawings by Dobbin and Jean Rather. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 137 pages. ISBN: 0-689-114265.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (appears unread, but closed tear to dj.)
Book ID: 28554More details Price: $18.00 -
SARATOGA FLESHPOT
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Ninth mystery set at the famous racetrack, featuring ex-cop turned private eye, Charlie Bradshaw. 220 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-393-03805x.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 6759More details Price: $20.00 -
WRITING THE BOOK OF ESTER.
Edition: First printing.
Costa Mesa, CA: QWIP / Quality Words in Print, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, the story of a young English teacher in France who becomes involved in the lives of one of her students and his sister, children of a Muslim father killed in the Iraqui bombing of Tehran and a Jewish mother, nicknamed Ester, imprisoned in Iran for her provocative journalism. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-971316015.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (review copy lightly stamped on fore-edge)
Book ID: 85480More details Price: $21.50