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SMASH CUT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in Atlanta, Georgia. Defense lawyer Derek Mitchell is hired by a woman who believes that the accidental shooting of her friend, a wealthy businessman, was orchestrated by the victim's nephew - who appears to be a psychotic movie buff who enjoys acting out favorite violent film plots. SIGNED on the title page. 366 pp. ISBN: 978-1416563082.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line) Despite Brown's immense popularity most of her novels are uncommon signed.
Book ID: 75004More details Price: $27.50 -
UNSPEAKABLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which weaves together seemingly unrelated events - "a convicted killer escapes from prison, an unsolved murder case is reopened, and a stranger arrives on an East Texas cattle ranch." SIGNED on the title page. 439 pp. ISBN: 0-446519790.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75016More details Price: $25.00 -
UNSPEAKABLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which weaves together seemingly unrelated events - "a convicted killer escapes from prison, an unsolved murder case is reopened, and a stranger arrives on an East Texas cattle ranch." SIGNED on the title page. 439 pp. ISBN: 0-446519790.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (initials on front endpaper, light toning to pages).
Book ID: 75017More details Price: $20.00 -
EXCLUSIVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Washington, D.C. SIGNED on the title page. 457 pp. ISBN: 0-446519782.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (sticker on front endpaper)
Book ID: 75511More details Price: $25.00 -
FAMILY
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American playwright's first novel (preceded by three award-winning short story collections), set in the years just before and after the Civil War. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-385-411715.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 26527More details Price: $23.50 -
DANSVILLE,
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, set in Texas cattle country in the years right after World War II. The Library Journal review called it an "entrancing romance. . . Their attraction is mutual, their relationship deeply sensuous, often tempestuous, and notably illicit in this time and place. But class and age divide them, and a break seems inevitable, as does the final resolution. McCorquodale tells this story in cadenced, compelling prose that is stunningly sensuous without being either explicit or euphemistic." 371 pp. ISBN: 0-6060155183.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (some toning to the pages)
Book ID: 84035More details Price: $16.50 -
PLAYING THE BONES.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Texas author's first novel, a funny and erotically charged story about a young white woman, on the eve of her marriage, who falls into an affair with a blues musician known as Black Jesus. SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-316-735116.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53957More details Price: $30.00
