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THE 7TH VICTIM.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Vanguard, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - A psychological thriller, featuring FBI agent Karen Vail, the first female ever promoted to the elite profiling group, the Behavioral Analysis Unit. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 420 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (slight bump to edge of textblock)
Book ID: 62019More details Price: $25.00 -
CHESTNUT MARE BEWARE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery set in North Carolina and Virginia featuring equestrian journalist Nattie Gold and her fellow reporter Henry Goode. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-449909980.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84008More details Price: $17.50 -
AUDREY.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902. Hardcover first edition - Romantic historical novel set in the early years of the colony of Virginia. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 5 lightly tinted glossy plates by F.C. Yohn. Basis of a 1916 silent film. 418 pp.
Condition: Very good in olive green cloth with gilt border and lettering. .
Book ID: 35113More details Price: $17.50 -
LEWIS RAND.
Edition: Later printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (c 1908.). Hardcover - Novel of old Virginia, during the days of Thomas Jefferson. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 3 inserted glossy black and white plates by F. C. Yohn. 510 pp,
Condition: Very good in cream colored cloth a pasted on full color illustration on the front cover, lettering in red (bookplate, corners slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 53563More details Price: $12.50 -
LEWIS RAND.
Edition: First printing (with date on title page).
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Hardcover first edition - Novel of old Virginia, during the days of Thomas Jefferson. Illustrated with a color frontispiece with tissue guard and 3 inserted color plates by F. C. Yohn. 510 pp,
Condition: Very good in embossed tan cloth with giltl lettering on front cover and spine (some wear to corners and ends of spine, gift inscription), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 73909More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LONG ROLL.
Edition: First edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. Hardcover first edition - Civil War novel, based primarily on Stonewall Jackson - in her brief introduction she states that many of the incidents from the book are based on "actual happenings, recorded by men and women writing of that through which they lived." . Illustrated with four full-color illustrations by N.C. Wyeth, including a frontispiece of Jackson, and three inserted plates. . 683 pp. Map of the Valley and Piedmont, Virginia on front endpaper and of The Region of the Seven Days' Fighting on the rear endpapers.
Condition: Good overall in gray cloth with gilt lettering - rubbing and soiling to the covers, and especially to the spine. Binding sturdy, contents clean.
Book ID: 41025More details Price: $20.00 -
THE KNOWN WORLD.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Condition: Very good- (some wear to the covers.).
Book ID: 34610More details Price: $12.50 -
THE KNOWN WORLD.
Edition: Later printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36218More details Price: $19.50 -
THE KNOWN WORLD.
Edition: Trade paperback printing.
Condition: Good condition (some wear to the covers.).
Book ID: 38819More details Price: $11.50 -
THE KNOWN WORLD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine condition.
Book ID: 39298More details Price: $75.00 -
THE KNOWN WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51108More details Price: $50.00 -
THE KNOWN WORLD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61554More details Price: $125.00 -
THE KNOWN WORLD.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74871More details Price: $20.00 -
THE KNOWN WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83077More details Price: $35.00 -
A QUAKER LOVE STORY and Other Poems.
Edition: First edition.
Chicago: J. L. Regan & Co., Printers, 1885. Hardcover first edition - The title poem retells in verse a story first told by the 'heroine' sixty years ago - that is, it was a story of travel over 400 miles of rough mountains by two young women, courting and love, set on the Virginia - Ohio border in the 1820s. The other poems had been published in such magazines as Scribner's, The Century, etc. Engraved frontispiece, one other illustration of Prospect Hill (by Baker), a few decorative tailpieces. 79 pp.
Condition: Near fine in gray cloth with black lettering and illustration on the front cover, beveled edges to the boards, decorative endpapers. Gift inscription to "Miss Bigelow from Laura April 15th, 1886" and small bookplate of Oakella Bigelow (1857-1916, Toledo, Ohio.)
Book ID: 41044More details Price: $45.00 -
MURDER ON THE BRIDE'S SIDE: A Mystery.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010). Hardcover first edition - Set in Virginia, this is the second mystery featuring Elizabeth Parker, a Jane Austen-quoting sleuth. "Elizabeth suspected that fulfilling her duties as maid-of-honor for her best friend, Bridget, was going to be murder. And no sooner is the last grain of rice thrown thanshe finds herself staring into the dead eyes of Bridgets Aunt Roni, a woman whose death is almost as universally celebrated as Bridgets nuptials." 291 pp. ISBN: 978-0312537579.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75686More details Price: $15.00 -
SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS: A Comparative Study of Virginia and Cuba.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Chicago: Elephant Paperbacks / Ivan R. Dee, (1989.). In each section - Conquest, Colonization and the Establishment of Imperial Control; The Legal Structure; Anglicanism, Catholicism and the Negro Slave; Slavery and the Economy; the Freedman as an Indicator of Assimilation - the experiences of slaves in Virgina and Cuba are compared and the uniqueness of chattel slavery as it existed in the US is highlighter. Index. xi, 270 pp. ISBN: 0-929587049.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (straight uncreased spine, clean contents).
Book ID: 74618More details Price: $11.50 -
FINDERS WEEPERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel for young adults involving a lost family treasure in the mountains of Virginia.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (signs of an erasure on the front endpaper, crease to front flap of dj.)
Book ID: 11908More details Price: $15.00 -
PRINCE EDWARD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A blend of fiction and fact, this novel is set in the memorable summer of 1959 - when Prince Edward County, ordered to desegregate its public schools after the Supreme Court decision of Brown vs the Board of Education, decides instead to close all of the schools and have only private, white-only schools - and how it affected two boys, 10 year old Benjamin whose family is involved in setting up the new schools, and his friend, Burghardt, the son of the hired hand who works for his grandfather. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 354 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-68333.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (small abraded spot on dj).
Book ID: 37473More details Price: $20.00 -
PRINCE EDWARD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Henry Holt, (2004). First edition - A blend of fiction and fact, this novel is set in the memorable summer of 1959 - when Prince Edward County, ordered to desegregate its public schools after the Supreme Court decision of Brown vs the Board of Education, decides instead to close all of the schools and have only private, white-only schools - and how it affected two boys, 10 year old Benjamin whose family is involved in setting up the new schools, and his friend, Burghardt, the son of the hired hand who works for his grandfather. Author's note.354 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Publisher's material laid in.
Book ID: 60169More details Price: $21.50 -
POLAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Eighth novel by this highly praised writer, a bittersweet tale of Deputy Ray Tatum's search for a missing child in the wilds of the Virginia Blue Ridge, but much more - his own reinvention of magical realism and a funny and corrosive look at rural America. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-67003035X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 30214More details Price: $16.50 -
GHOSTS IN AMERICAN HOUSES.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Bonanza Books, (c 1955.) dj. Hardcover - "His haunting apparitions are found from New England to New Orleans, from Manhattan's Central Park to San Francisco's Nob Hill, and he reports on several notorious ghosts of the far West." Illustrated with 18 full page half-tone illustrations plus 4 color plates by the author.ix, 229 pp. Large format, illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (sunning to back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 47209More details Price: $16.00 -
THEN CAME CAROLINE, #1 in series.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1922. Hardcover - The first book in this three volume series - the story of the youngest daughter of an impoverished Southern family, which begins with Caroline as an imaginative and impulsive ten year old in their decaying Virginia mansion. It follows her as the family moves to Colorado, along with their servants, in the hopes that the father, a physicain and former Major in the Army, will be able to regain his health. llustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three glossy internal plates by M. L. Greer. 306 pp. plus 2 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated khaki cloth (slight spine slant, prev owner's name, other minor wear)
Book ID: 69921More details Price: $21.50 -
THE YOUNGER SON: The Youth and War Years of a Distinguished American Poet.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first volume in Shapiro's autobiography. Photographs. 287 pgs.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, but with a remainder line top edge.)
Book ID: 11479More details Price: $18.00 -
SISTER GOLDEN HAIR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (crease to back cover and last few pages).
Book ID: 81811More details Price: $14.50 -
THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Controversial novel based on the 1831 uprising - the most sustained revolt in the history of US slavery . Styron grew up in Virginia not far from Tidewater County where the revolt took place. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 428 pp.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, discoloration to interior of dj) Original price of 6.95 present on the dust jacket. An attractive copy of a first edition of a book which appears more common than it actually is, since false firsts abound (the Book of the Month Club edition is ubiquitious and some copies also state first printing). Bright dust jacket with none of the usual fading on the spine.
Book ID: 59093More details Price: $35.00 -
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES IN THE MAKING: Political Practices in Washington's Virgnia.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: The Free Press, 1965. Originally published as 'Gentlemen Freeholders.' Index, bibliographical notes, 160 pages.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 21711More details Price: $10.00 -
NANCY: The Life of Lady Astor.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1972) dj. Hardcover - The life story of Nancy Astor from her childhood in Virginia, her unhappy first marriage and her second to one of the richest men of the era, to being the first woman Member of Parliament. Illustrated with photographs, Notes on sources at the end of each chapter, index, 543 pp. ISBN: 060141840.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj).
Book ID: 85921More details Price: $16.50 -
THE NEGRO IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WILLIAMSBURG.
Edition: Fourth printing, a trade paperback..
Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, (1987, c 1965). History originally written as a research report for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Footnotes, bibliography, index. x, 141 pp. ISBN: 0-910412294.
Condition: Very near fine in wrappers.
Book ID: 66869More details Price: $12.50 -
THE WEIRDO.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1991) dj. Hardcover - Mystery set in the Powhattan Wildlife Refuge which is the center of a heated battle between environmentalists and local hunters, as a ban on hunting is set to expire. Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp was the inspiration for the Powhattan in this book. Edgar Allan Poe Award winner for best young adult mystery for 1992. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-15-2949526.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72214More details Price: $12.50
