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HER EVERY FEAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2017). SIGNED first edition - A "Hitchcockian psychological thriller . . . involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and murder." Set in Boston. SIGNED by the author on the dedication page. 329 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71634More details Price: $30.00 -
HER EVERY FEAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2017). SIGNED first edition - A "Hitchcockian psychological thriller . . . involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and murder." Set in Boston. SIGNED by the author on the dedication page and dated in October 2016. 329 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71635More details Price: $35.00 -
EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020). First edition - A novel of psychological suspense, set in Boston on Beacon Hill, and featuring bookseller Malcolm Kershaw. "Years ago, Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack - which he titled 'Eight Perfect Murders' - chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie's A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin's Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, John D. Macdonald's The Drowner, and Donna Tartt's A Secret History." Now a serial killer is using that list, and the FBI is on his doorstep. 270 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78948More details Price: $21.50 -
BEFORE SHE KNEW HIM.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019). First edition - A quietly developing thriller set in a suburban neighborhood where a young wife, with a history of pyschological instability, becomes convinced that their neighbor is a serial killer. 312 pp
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85078More details Price: $21.00 -
THE NEST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first book, a warm, funny and perceptive novel about four adult siblings from a spectacularly dysfunctional family, who have spent years relying on an inheritance they expected to receive - "the nest" - only to find that it is no longer there. SIGNED on the title page. 353 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. A surprisingly uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 86476More details Price: $45.00 -
THE SECOND GIRL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy).
Book ID: 68760More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SECOND GIRL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy).
Book ID: 68941More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BOOK OF SPECULATION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67243More details Price: $30.00 -
RED RIVER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, (2007.). First edition - The author's second novel, the story of the "Riot of Colfax" on April 13, 1873 or more accurately a massacre set in the small Louisiana town during the early Reconstuction era. A blending of fact and fiction, this is illustrated by photographs from the author's own family. Map, family tree. 418 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 53066More details Price: $20.00 -
JUST PASSING THROUGH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, (2000.). First edition - Translated from the Spanish by Martin Michael Roberts. An elegant and literate adventure novel set in 1920Õs post-revolutionary Mexico. 161 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71956More details Price: $17.50 -
GREAT WHITE FATHERS: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mount Rushmore.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: PublicAffairs, (2002). First edition - A blend of travelogue, history and biography, this is an account of how "Rushmore was conceived and built, and why controversy surrounded the project from the start. [It] is about the meaning of public art, the rise of automobile tourism, and the development of kitsch culture. At its center is Rushmore's feisty sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who waged an energetic campaign on behalf of his artistic vision and then carved the faces of four presidents into a mountainside. Taliaferro discusses every conceivable aspect of the monument, from the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (a minor hullabaloo) to the Native American activists who have threatened it." Photographs, bibliographic notes. 440 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85879More details Price: $21.50 -
SCRATCHED: A Memoir of Perfectionism.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2020). SIGNED first edition - A book in which Tallent explores "the ferocious desire for perfection" which has shaped her writing life as well as her personal life. Sigrid Nunez called it "that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist." SIGNED on the title page. Notes on sources. 227 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79514More details Price: $27.50 -
NIGHT LIFE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82113More details Price: $35.00 -
NIGHT WORK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corners very slightly bumped).
Book ID: 82114More details Price: $35.00 -
ALL THE DAYS PAST, ALL THE DAYS TO COME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84722More details Price: $20.00 -
ALL THE DAYS PAST, ALL THE DAYS TO COME.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (very light crease on upper corner of front endpaper, a bit of pushing at the ends of the spine, but overall a tight and clean copy, rather uncommon signed.)
Book ID: 84754More details Price: $45.00 -
AN IRISH COUNTRY GIRL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2010.). SIGNED first edition - The fourth novel in his Irish country series, this one tells the story of Maureen Kincaid, the doctor's housekeeper, as a young girl back in 1922. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in Oct 2009, before publication. Includes an afterword with recipes and a long glossary. 319 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue and especially so signed.
Book ID: 55530More details Price: $30.00 -
MONSTRESS: Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ecco Press, (2012.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, published as a trade paperback original, a collection of short stories 'which explore the clash and meld of American and Filipino culture.' SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 54942More details Price: $30.00 -
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, 1993. First edition -
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 2478More details Price: $20.00 -
WHITE STAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995). SIGNED first edition - Formerly America's best military sniper with a record kill in Vietnam, Owen Gray just wants to live out his life peacefully as an assistant U.S. attorney in New York with his three adopted children, but now, 25 years later, he finds himself hunted by a sniper. Clive Cussler described this as a "compelling yet thoughtful thriller." INSCRIBED on the title page. 303 pp. .
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 70472More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WEATHERMAN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Viking, (1995). First edition - Author's second book - a mystery about a serial killer on the loose in Minnesota. 452 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 59745More details Price: $18.00 -
DO NOT SAY WE HAVE NOTHING.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel, the story of two generations of an extended family in China from the days of Mao's Cultural Revolution to their children who were among the students protesting in Tiananmen Square, as two young women- Marie and Ai-Ming - try to piece together the story of their fractured family now living in Vancouver. Winner of the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award and the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. 473 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to the edges of the textblock).
Book ID: 86110More details Price: $75.00 -
CATHERINE HOUSE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Custom House / Harper Collins, (2020). First edition - The author's first novel, a story which is part mystery, part Gothic horror and part the story of a young woman trying to find a sense of belonging in the world. 'or those lucky few selected to attend Catherine House, tuition, room, and board are free - but in return students are required to give the House three years, summers included, completely isolated from the outside world. 309 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps, publisher's letter laid in. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 87253More details Price: $21.50 -
THE ANIMAL WIFE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. SIGNED first edition - Fascinating novel, set in Siberia 20,000 years ago. SIGNED by author.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers - a few corners bent.
Book ID: 1518More details Price: $30.00 -
LINDA BROWN, YOU ARE NOT ALONE: The Brown V. Board of Education Decision.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Jump at the Sun / Hyperion, (2003.) dj. SIGNED first edition - Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of this significant Supreme Court decision, this is an anthology by ten of today's top writers for children - both African American and white - including Eloise Greenfield, Ishmael Reed, Quincy Troupe, Lois Lowry, Jean Craighead George, Jerry Spinelli, Katherine Patterson, Michael Cart, Leona Nicholas Welch and Thomas herself - which presents their experiences and recollections of life before the historical Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools in 1954, and afterwards. SIGNED by Lois Lowry at her contribution "Anthony." Illustrated with full page color pastel drawings by James Curtis. Printed on heavy glossy stock throughout. 114 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (pages are loosely laid into the dust jacket, not bound)
Book ID: 68161More details Price: $35.00 -
THEY CLEARED THE LANE: The NBA's Black Pioneer.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2002). First edition - "In the first half of the twentieth century, pro basketball was tainted by racism, as gifted African Americans were denied the opportunity to display their talents. Through in-depth interviews with players, their families, coaches, teammates, and league officials, Ron Thomas tells the largely untold story of what basketball was really like for the first black NBA players, including recent Hall of Fame inductee Earl Lloyd, early superstars such as Maurice Stokes and Bill Russell, and the leagues first black coaches." Includes a list of the Black players from 1950-1965, notes. 262 pp plus 12 pp of photographs.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86726More details Price: $18.50 -
WIDE BLUE YONDER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel - set in Springfield, Illinois, this is about "a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that hit their atmosphere, and a midwestern town where chaos doesn't reign - it pours." Named a New York Times Notable Book and Chicago Tribune Best Fiction selection. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp.
Condition: Fine in blue illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82520More details Price: $28.50 -
WIDE BLUE YONDER.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel - set in Springfield, Illinois, this is about "a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that hit their atmosphere, and a midwestern town where chaos doesn't reign - it pours." Named a New York Times Notable Book and Chicago Tribune Best Fiction selection. SIGNED on the title page. The earlier (and less common) of two advance issues, this has a sticker on the front cover with an incorrect publication date. 367 pp.
Condition: Fine in yellow printed wrappers.
Book ID: 82521More details Price: $30.00 -
DO NOT DENY ME: Stories.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009). SIGNED first edition - A collection of twelve new stories by this award-winning author, issued as a trade paperback original. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp.
Condition: Fine in yellow printed wrappers.
Book ID: 82864More details Price: $30.00 -
CITY BOY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2004). First edition - The author's fourth novel (seventh book), set during a hot Chicago summer where Jack, newly wed and very much in love with life itself, finds his perceptions shattered by an inconsiderate neighbor's perpetual partying. 306 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87145More details Price: $19.50