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THE 47TH SAMURAI: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007). SIGNED first edition - A thriller with its roots in World War II, featuring Bob Lee Swagger who helps a Japanese veteran recover his sword, only to vow revenge when the veteran and his family are brutally murdered. SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (usual toning to pages)
Book ID: 81607More details Price: $28.50 -
BLACK CROSS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a thriller with its roots in World War II and Nazi Germany - one that demonstrates that "in a world with all at stake, war has no rules." Author's afterword. 516 pp,. ISBN: 0-52593829X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82702More details Price: $24.50 -
THE SHADOW KILLER .
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second thriller in the Reykjavik Wartime Mystery series. "August 1941. When a travelling sales rep is found murdered in a Reykjavik flat, killed by a bullet from a Colt 45, the police initially suspect a member of the Allied occupation force. . . .Flovent, Reykjavik's sole detective, is joined by the young military policeman Thorson, the son of Icelandic emigrants to Canada. Their investigation focuses on a family of German residents, the retired doctor Rudolf Lunden and his estranged son Felix, who is on the run, suspected of being a spy." Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-1250124043.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86357More details Price: $19.50 -
SHINING THROUGH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper & Row, 1988. SIGNED first edition - Basis for the movie of the same name (starring Melanie Griffiths and Michael Douglas), the story of a secretary from Queens, NY, who becames a hero of World War II. According to the back cover of this ARC, the first printing had 300,000 copies, making this advance issue much less common than the trade edition. SIGNED on the title page by the author. 402 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy wrappers (some toning to the pages, name on first page.)
Book ID: 2192More details Price: $35.00 -
SHINING THROUGH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Basis for the movie of the same name (starring Melanie Griffiths and Michael Douglas), the story of a secretary from Queens, NY, who becames a hero of World War II. SIGNED on the title page by the author. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-06-015790.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (sunning to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 8978More details Price: $35.00 -
SHINING THROUGH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Basis for the movie of the same name (starring Melanie Griffiths and Michael Douglas), the story of a secretary from Queens, NY, who becames a hero of World War II. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-06-015790.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages, some soiling to the dj.)
Book ID: 49920More details Price: $15.00 -
FIVE BOYS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (as new but usual light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 75760More details Price: $35.00 -
THE ALICE FACTOR.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto, Canada: Stoddart, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A suspenseful tale of espionage and romance set against the dramatic events of the Second World War." It is 1937, and Nazi Germany is struggling to build its war machine - but in Antwerp, a diamond salesman is determined to stop them from obtaining the industrial diamonds they need so desperately. 377 pp. ISBN: 0-77372415X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75685More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LOST GIRLS OF PARIS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Toronto: Park Row Books, (2019). First edition - Issued as a trade paperback original, this is a novel inspired by true events. In 1946 Manhattan, Grace Healey finds a suitcase containing a dozen photographs of women - "the suitcase belonged to a woman named Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents who were deployed out of London during the World War II. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never returned home, their fates a mystery", and so Grace sets out to find the truth behind these women. 363 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 77789More details Price: $18.00 -
NIGHTFALL OVER SHANGHAI.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Forge / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2016). Hardcover first edition - The third book in this Canadian author's trilogy set in Shangaii against the backdrop of World War II. "It's 1944 and the Japanese are losing the war, but Shanghai is more dangerous than ever. After fleeing Nazi Europe, Dr. Franz Adler and his daughter, Hannah, have adjusted to life in their strange adopted city, but they are now imprisoned in the Shanghai Ghetto for refugee Jews. Franz is compelled to work as a surgeon for the hated Japanese military, while his Eurasian wife, Sunny, is recruited into a spy ring, providing crucial information to the Allies about the city's port." 404 pp. ISBN: 978-0765383808.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76897More details Price: $18.50 -
THE ALIBI.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story of "revenge love and murder set in post-war Venice." Set in 1946, in a Europe slowly beginning to recover from the ravages of war, where a US Army war crimes investigator has come for a break from the horrors of his work, only to discover that in a seemingly unchanged Venice, everyone was compromised by the Occupation. 405 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-8050-7886x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63161More details Price: $17.50 -
THE ALIBI.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story of "revenge love and murder set in post-war Venice." Set in 1946, in a Europe slowly beginning to recover from the ravages of war, where a US Army war crimes investigator has come for a break from the horrors of his work, only to discover that in a seemingly unchanged Venice, everyone was compromised by the Occupation. SIGNED on the title page. 405 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-8050-7886x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63266More details Price: $30.00 -
SOMEONE WILL CONQUER THEM.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon second novel by the author best known for "Patch of Blue." Set in Japan in an isolated village on the slopes of a volcano in the years from 1941 to 1945, this is the story of an oddly assorted group of foreign civilians living out the war in near starvation and misery, and especially of the American wife of a Japanese scientist. Kata, born in Australia and married to a Japanese scientist, based this on many of her own experiences, although she commented on how good both her in-laws and her Japanese friends were to her. 206 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in very good dust jacket (small peeled spot on front cover of dj, toning to spine)
Book ID: 81554More details Price: $21.50 -
SEASON IN PURGATORY
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1977.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a young doctor who volunteers for battle surgery during WWII and is parachuted into Yugoslavia to set up a hospital on a small island off the Dalmatian coast. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1799229.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant).
Book ID: 58807More details Price: $18.00 -
A MAN WITHOUT BREATH.
Edition: First printing.
London: Quercus, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of the ninth novel in the award-winning Bernie Gunther series, set in Nazi Germany. It is winter 1943. . . Author's note. 517 pp. ISBN: 978-1780876245.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 62747More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WINTER HORSES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2014). First edition - Young adult novel by this award-winning writer. "Kalinka has lost her home, her family, her belongings - everything but her life. Still, she has gained one small, precious gift: a relationship with the rare wild and wily Przewalski s horses that wander the reservation. Apart from Max, these endangered animals are her only friends until a Nazi campaign of extermination nearly wipes them out for good. Now Kalinka must set out on a treacherous journey through the frozen Ukrainian forest to save the only two surviving horses - and herself." 274 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63463More details Price: $17.50 -
PRAGUE FATALE: A Bernie Gunther Novel.
Edition: First US printing.
Norman, OK: Putnam, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in Nazi-controlled Czechoslovakia in 1941, this mystery featuring homicide inspector Bernie Gunther is a "tense political thriller wrapped inside a locked-room mystery." . Author's note. 517 pp. ISBN: 978-0399159022.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 64877More details Price: $18.00 -
AND THEN WE HEARD THE THUNDER.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, blue tinting to top edge, in a very good dust jacket with some overall light edgewear and small chips (original price of 5.95 still present - and overall a better than average dust jacket).
Book ID: 88174More details Price: $650.00 -
AND THEN WE HEARD THE THUNDER.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, light blue tinting to top edge in a a fair only dust jacket with a large chip at the top of the spine extending to the back cover, over tears and edgewear, rear flap almost separated and toning to the dj, especially the back cover (original price of 5.95 still present).
Book ID: 88173More details Price: $40.00 -
THE LACUNA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An epic journey from the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR and J. Edgar Hoover. . . A poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities." Awarded the 2010 Women's Prize for Fiction. 507 pp. ISBN: 9780060852573.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, but with a remainder line)
Book ID: 55259More details Price: $18.50 -
THE LACUNA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An epic journey from the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR and J. Edgar Hoover. . . A poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities." Awarded the 2010 Women's Prize for Fiction. 507 pp. ISBN: 9780060852573.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68418More details Price: $21.50 -
PARTY GAMES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - In the spirit of 'The Night of the Generals' this is a satirical novel of the life of the little man in Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, set in a small town in Prussia. Translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-671252674.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark, price-clipped)
Book ID: 71429More details Price: $18.00 -
WHITE SANDS, RED MENACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A sequel to her award-winning historical novel 'The Green Glass Sea.' In this book, it is 1946 and World War II is over - and the Gordons have moved from Los Alamos south to Alamogordo, New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 337 pp plus an author's note. ISBN: 9780670062355.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 50293More details Price: $30.00 -
WHITE SANDS, RED MENACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A sequel to her award-winning historical novel 'The Green Glass Sea.' In this book, it is 1946 and World War II is over - and the Gordons have moved from Los Alamos south to Alamogordo, New Mexico.INSCRIBED on the title page "To -- rockets away!" and dated in the year of publication. 337 pp plus an author's note. ISBN: 9780670062355.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52455More details Price: $30.00 -
WHITE SANDS, RED MENACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A sequel to her award-winning historical novel 'The Green Glass Sea.' In this book, it is 1946 and World War II is over - and the Gordons have moved from Los Alamos south to Alamogordo, New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page dated in the year of publication. 337 pp plus an author's note. Postcard laid in. ISBN: 9780670062355.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 56665More details Price: $35.00 -
THE GREEN GLASS SEA.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: The Viking Press, (2006.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel for young adults set at Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1943 where 11 year old Dewey's father is one of the scientists working on "the gadget." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the 2007 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and Judy Lopez Award for Childrens Literature. Author's note. 321 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57988More details Price: $30.00 -
A FEAST IN THE GARDEN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A major novel, the first in ten years, by Hungary's most distinguished writer -
the "rich, poetic story of a man, a family, and a country. David Kobra's enchanted childhood in a small town in the heart of Central Europe comes to an abrupt end. As the Jews of the town are being put on trains to concentration camps, young Kobra escapes to Budapest. He survives the war years in a protected house, grows up with death and violence, witnesses Soviet liberation, lives under Soviet oppression. David Kobra is a writer; he remembers, and he creates. Sharp images of the past alternate with the confused present." Translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein. 394 pp. ISBN: 0-15130548X.Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 88942More details Price: $18.50 -
THE TRANSLATION OF LOVE.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 83378More details Price: $17.50 -
A LILY OF THE FIELD.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh Inspector Troy novel, one which spans the years from 1934 to 1948."The book follows two characters Meret Voytek, a talented young cellist living in Vienna at the novel's start, and Dr. Karel Szabo, a Hungarian physicist interned in a camp on the Isle of Man. . . it seamlessly from Vienna and Auschwitz to the deserts of New Mexico and the rubble-strewn streets of postwar London, following the fascinating parallels of the physicist Szabo and musician Voytek as fate takes each far from home and across the untraditional battlefields of a destructive war to an unexpected intersection at the novel's close." Author's note. 380 pp.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages, binder's flaw affecting the front hinge).
Book ID: 77668More details Price: $15.00 -
BLACK OUT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (1995). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller which combines espionage with a murder investigation. Set in 1944 London, when the Luftwaffe is making its final desperate assaults on the city, this introduces Detective Sergeant Frederick Troy. A charred dismembered corpse has been found by some children in an East End bomb site. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-67085767X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83889More details Price: $40.00
