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THE BODY IN THE SNOWDRIFT: A Faith Fairchild Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifteenth mystery in the award-winning series featuring Faith Fairchild, caterer and minister's wife, set a ski resort in Vermont where her entire family has gathered to celebrate the 70th birthday of her father-in-law. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note, recipes. Agatha Award for best novel of 2006. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-060525304.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89901More details Price: $30.00 -
SEASONED TIMBER.
Edition: Hardcover in slipcase.
Condition: Very good in oatmeal colored linen cloth with a tan paper spine label in a fair only slipcase (usual toning to the pages and spine of book, slipcase is separated into 2 pieces, could be reglued).
Book ID: 88949More details Price: $20.00 -
SEASONED TIMBER.
Edition: Hardcover in slipcase.
Condition: Near fine in oatmeal colored linen cloth with a tan paper spine label in a very good slipcase (usual toning to the pages, name of Thomas Tullos,Trumann, Arkansas on front endpaper). Scarce signed.
Book ID: 88898More details Price: $125.00 -
CAMPING OUT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel with a deceptively simple title by this National Book Award winning writer - it "starts with the return of Dennie Hensley to America for her mother's funeral. (The wife of a diplomat, she now lives in Rome.) When Marilyn Groves, a woman Dennie has known casually for years, invites her to an outing on a Vermont lake, she accepts, despite misgivings. . . the women are interrupted by an intruder whom they fear, although he leaves them unharmed. The next day the man who had invaded the camp returns, this time bent on rape and murder. The women survive the horror, but later revelations, up to the ironic close, leave the reader shaken." (Publisher's Weekly)223 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 86979More details Price: $17.50 -
THE SKELETON'S KNEE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1993) dj. SIGNED first edition - Fourth in the series featuring Joe Gunther, Brattleboro Vermont's chief of detectives. Well-written, suspenseful and an interesting background. SIGNED on the title page. Recommended. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-892964707.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86748More details Price: $30.00 -
AROUND THE MOUNTAINS: Historical Essays about Charlotte, Ferrisburgh, and Monkton.
Edition: First edition.
Charlotte, Vermont: Charlotte Historical Society, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - An historical account of three towns in the mid-Champlain valley, all chartered on June 24, 1762. Illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, reproductions and maps. A large and rather heavy octavo. Several appendices, endnotes, index. xxvi, 332 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-914960881.
Condition: Near fine in navy blue cloth with silver lettering in a very good dust jacket (gift inscription, some overall edgewear to the dj, small chips, now protected by an archival cover)
Book ID: 86579More details Price: $40.00 -
WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1962.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Jackson's final novel - "A strange, terrible, and beautiful tale. From the first page, a mystery hangs over the three people living in the big old house on the hill. Shunned by the villagers, they live their private life behind closed doors. As their story quietly and deftly unfolds, the reader is led into a situation both startling and macabre." 214 pp. Red topstain. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.
Condition: Very good in cranberry boards with cream cloth spine with cranberry lettering in a good dust jacket (gift inscription dated 1962, price-clipped, chipping at ends of spine, other edgewear and toning to dj ) Reviews of 'Haunting of Hill House' on back cover of dj.
Book ID: 84648More details Price: $450.00 -
THIRD PERSON RURAL: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Boston: Godine, (1983.) dj. Hardcover - Third volume of essays by this urban man turned framer and teacher, now living in Thetford Vermont and teaching at Dartmouth. The NY Times Review stated that "Perrin makes a fine defense of country living, not as a retreat from the world but as a place to use one's talents to battle it out. These essays for guaranteed to amuse confirmed urbanites and set them dreaming of the country." Included are such topics as the gourmet potato grower, farm flowers, a cow's plea to vegetarians and more - but despite the often light-hearted tone, but the underlying theme - how to preserve and protect the land - is serious. Illustrated by Robin Brickman.188 pp. ISBN: 0-879234679.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (gift inscription).
Book ID: 83332More details Price: $16.50 -
THE HUNGRY SEASON.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Kensington, (2010). SIGNED first edition - Fifth novel by this award-winning writer and like her first novel, this is set on Lake Gormlaith in Vermont where prize-winning novelist Samuel Mason grew up and where he hopes he can rescue his son from a destructive path, salvaging what's left of his family and overcome a writer's block, and a looming deadline. SIGNED on the title page. Reading guide bound in. 371 pp. ISBN: 978-0758228789.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 82748More details Price: $30.00 -
FIRST PERSON RURAL: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer.
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Godine, (1978.) dj. Hardcover - The first book in his delightful series of essays on adjusting to, and learning to appreciate, the rural life - among the topics in this book are buying a pick-up truck and a chainsaw, selling firewood, grades of maple syrup, and more. Illustrated by Stephen Harvard. 124 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-2323.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (a couple of small ink spots to edges of textblock, tear to front cover of dj, other edgewear) .
Book ID: 81349More details Price: $12.50 -
LOOKING FOR THE KLONDIKE STONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir of five perfect summers spent at a camp in the Green Mountains of southern Vermont. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-679-418946.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80850More details Price: $30.00 -
THE PAST.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. A collection of poems, many rooted in his life in rural Vermont. 57 pp. ISBN: 0-395-393868.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 80294More details Price: $10.00 -
READING THE MOUNTAINS OF HOME.
Edition: First printing.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (1998). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book discussing the author's exploration of a northeastern mountain habitat, in this case the Bristol Cliffs Wilderness area near the author's home in Vermont. He hike through this "new" wilderness area, the result of a 1974 act, protecting re-forested (formerly farmed) mountains, noting the many subtle changes and details, and using Robert Frost's poem "Directive" as a guide. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with maps and drawings by Mal Schroder. Notes, selected readings, index. x, 253 pp. ISBN: 0-674748883.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80000More details Price: $25.00 -
HAZARD AND THE FIVE DELIGHTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming age story set in rural Vermont. Noel was a Granta regional finalist. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-394554981.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dustjacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 79041More details Price: $14.50 -
HAZARD AND THE FIVE DELIGHTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming age story set in rural Vermont. Noel was a Granta regional finalist. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-394554981.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 79040More details Price: $16.50 -
A BORROWING OF BONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in a new series set in Vermont, featuring former MP Mercy Carr - who has returned from Afghanistan, where she was shot and her fiance was killed, with Martinez's bomb-sniffing dog, Elvis - and Game Warden Troy Warner. 342 pp. ISBN: 978-1250153036.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78274More details Price: $21.50 -
ROYALL TYLER.
Edition: First printing.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The first book-length study of Royall Tyler (1757-1826), a distinguished Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and a writer who is generally considered to be one of the most significant figures in American Literature in the Period just after the Revolution." This focuses mostly on his literary work - as a playwright, novelist, poet and essayist. Illustrations, chronology, selected bibliography, notes and index. xvi, 281 pp
Condition: Fine in very near fine dust jacket (slight sunning to spine of dj).
Book ID: 78044More details Price: $20.00 -
SCENT OF EVIL
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third in the Joe Gunther series, set in Brattleboro, Vermont. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-4715.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (small nick to upper edge of back cover of dj)
Book ID: 75825More details Price: $23.50 -
THE MARBLE MASK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Joe Gunther mystery, set in Vermont and Quebec. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-7234.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70950More details Price: $30.00 -
CALLED AWAY.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (she is the granddaughter of novelist John Buchan), a fable set in rural Vermont. The story contrasts the 20th century Vermonters, including city slickers, idealistic back-to-the-land young people and Jesus freaks, with their early 19th century counterparts in one of the most difficult years in rural Vermont - 1816 - the year without a summer. 315 pp. ISBN: 0-316114073.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (some sunning to the spine of the dj).
Book ID: 69140More details Price: $16.50 -
IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Arcade Publishing, (2016). First edition - The 25th book by this award-winning author, published 60 years after his first. Set in the 1970s in far northern Vermont, this is the story of a 46 year old former stockbroker, going blind at age 46, who is living in a farmhouse near a hippie commune and bordering an old smuggling trail, not used to move drugs across the border. It is about learning to adjust to life with limitations, to be able to rely on the kindness of others, and is made more poignant by the fact that Hoagland himself has been dealing with diminishing vision for more than 10 years, 184 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69054More details Price: $20.00 -
TASTE OF SPRUCE GUM.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1966. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An eleven year old girl adjusts to life in Vermont after the death of her father. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper "I hope you enjoy Libby's Vermont adventures." and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated with drawings by Lilian Obligado. 212 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in yellow cloth with green lettering and illustration, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 58898More details Price: $20.00 -
MISCHIEF IN THE MOUNTAINS.
Edition: First printing.
Montpelier: Vermont Life Magazine, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - "From deep within the green mountains- thirteen incredible tales of mystery, criminality, hardship and humor." Illustrated with both full page and small en texte black and white drawings by Jane Clark Brown. Prologue, notes. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-828901171.
Condition: Fine in good+ dust jacket (chip and several short closed tears on top edge of dust jacket).
Book ID: 55769More details Price: $20.00 -
JEMIMA REMEMBERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - "It's time to return to the city, but Jemima isn't ready. Only after she takes one last solitary walk on this cold, rain-pricked autumn day, remembering the full summer she's shared with her aunt, can she leave the Vermont farm." Illustrated in color by Troy Howell. Square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-027330702.
Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket (edgewear and rubbing to dj, tear on top left of front cover).
Book ID: 55746More details Price: $12.50 -
THE FLOWER OF THE REPUBLIC.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - An old man in a Vermont tavern recounts stories of his youth, and of the loves that have been lost to him. Dust jacket praise from Raymond Carver, Tom Wolfe and James Purdy. A concise novel at only 128 pp. ISBN: 0-394-525396.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49264More details Price: $25.00 -
RETURN TO SENDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. A moving story, with no easy answers, inspired by Alvarez's own work with the increasing number of Mexican farm workers and their children in Vermont. The title of the book refers to the name given by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (the ICE or "la migra") to their raids in 2006 - Operation Return to Sender. SIGNED on the title page. Novel written for young adults or older children. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-375-858385.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45722More details Price: $37.50 -
RETURN TO SENDER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2009.). First edition - After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. A moving story, with no easy answers, inspired by Alvarez's own work with the increasing number of Mexican farm workers and their children in Vermont. The title of the book refers to the name given by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (the ICE or "la migra") to their raids in 2006 - Operation Return to Sender. Unlike most ARCs, this advance issue has a very different cover than the design used on the dust jackets of the trade edition. Author's letter to the reader. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-375-858385.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45682More details Price: $20.00 -
LITTLE JOHN OF NEW ENGLAND.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1936.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the "Children of America Stories" series. A combination of fiction and fact, this is the story of 9 year old John who is left at his uncle's house while his parents motor through New England, and his mother sends him letters every week describing the sites they have visited. Meanwhile, John has encountered a mysterious old man named 'C.F.' Illustrated with photographs. Green and white map endpapers. Bound in glossy white boards with a blue cloth spine and a full color illustration on the front (illustration is repeated on the dust jacket.) and printed throughout on good quality semi-glossy paper. 156 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (gift inscription dated 1937, dj has a loss of about 1/2 inch at top of spine, long closed tear on front cover, other chips and edgewear, but original price of 50c is still present, cover illustration is bright and attractive)
Book ID: 39361More details Price: $45.00 -
FIRST PERSON RURAL: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer.
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Godine, (1978.) dj. Hardcover - The first book in his delightful series of essays on adjusting to, and learning to appreciate, the rural life - among the topics in this book are buying a pick-up truck and a chainsaw, selling firewood, grades of maple syrup, and more. Illustrated by Stephen Harvard. 124 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-2323.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35454More details Price: $14.50 -
UPSTREAM: a Voyage on the Connecticut River.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. dj. First edition - From the dustjacket flap: 'Traveling by tugboat, canoe, train, a nd on foot, Ben Bachman takes us on a voyage up the Connecticut, from its mouth on Long Island Sound to its headwaters in the wildness of Northern New Hampshire. .. He writes of wildlife and plant life, of the rise and fall of the mills and railroads, of Indians and pioneers, of the Gilded Age on the lower river and dairy farming on the upper.' ix, map, 217 pp. ISBN: 0-395-343895.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear on front cover.)
Book ID: 30815More details Price: $25.00