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  • Fullerton, John.
    THE MONKEY HOUSE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Crown, 1996. The author's first novel, a story of suspense and mystery set in Sarajevo.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 11544
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  • SEASON IN PURGATORY by Keneally, Thomas
    Keneally, Thomas
    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: 58807
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  • BLOOD TIES: A Woman's History. by Mander, Anica Vesel with Sarika Finci Hofbauer
    Mander, Anica Vesel with Sarika Finci Hofbauer
    BLOOD TIES: A Woman's History.

    Edition: First printing.

    San Francisco & New York: Moon Books / Random House, (1976) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Part an account of the author's life - she was born in Yugoslavia in 1934, and with her family fled to Dalmatia during World War II, where they were interned on an Italian-controlled island - and part an oral history of her maternal grandmother (Hofbauer), a Jewish woman of Serbo-Croation heritage, who was 84 when this book was written. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "Happy Birthday dear Sally and to us all" and signed as Ani, dated in San Francisco in 1978. Only of one 5000 copies. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-394407660.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (toning to the pages, short closed tear to back cover of dj)

    Book ID: 72770
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  • THE SKELETON ROAD. by McDermid, Val.
    McDermid, Val.
    THE SKELETON ROAD.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2014). First edition - Suspense novel featuring cold case investigator Karen Pirie - builders are preparing to demolish a disused Victorian gothic building and discover skeletal remains from many years previously. 404 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a few spots on edge of textblock, light crease to lower corner.).

    Book ID: 63358
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  • THE SKELETON ROAD. by McDermid, Val.
    McDermid, Val.
    THE SKELETON ROAD.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2014) dj. First edition - Suspense novel featuring cold case investigator Karen Pirie - builders are preparing to demolish a disused Victorian gothic building and discover skeletal remains from many years previously. 404 pp.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 63548
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  • NIGHT MUSIC. by Palmer, Lilli.
    Palmer, Lilli.
    NIGHT MUSIC.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this German born actor and writer. "Professor Kaspar Schulte finds his tranquil life transformed by the mysterious deaths of his wife and a night porter at a Yugoslavian resort, events that may be linked to several of his pupils." 323 pp. ISBN: 0-060151056.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (creasing to front flap of dj).

    Book ID: 77822
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  • LIFE IN THE DARK AGES: A Memoir. by Pawel, Ernest.
    Pawel, Ernest.
    LIFE IN THE DARK AGES: A Memoir.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Fromm International, 1995. First edition - At age 72 and facing death from lung cancer, Pawel looks back at his life beginning in 1934 Belgrade, where he and his family moved to from Berlin shortly after the Nazis took power. Pawel is best known for the landmark biography of Franz Kafka "The Nightmare of Reason." 247 pp.

    Condition: Fine in printed green wrappers.

    Book ID: 66795
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