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Abbott, Megan Bury Me Deep (signed)
Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A. Simon & Schuster 2009 1416599096 / 9781416599098 First Edition Pictorial Trade Paperback Fine No DJ Issued 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author
New Book. Pictorial cover reminiscent of the 1930's and 40's. 240 clean pages. A novel inspired by the true story of Winnie Ruth Judd, the Trunk Murderess. Signed on title page by author at Book People in Austin on July 14, 2009 in my presence. A paperback original. First Edition, First Printing. Abbott is the 2008 Edgar Award Winner for Best Paperback Original.
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30.00 USD
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Abbott, Megan The Song Is You (signed)
Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A. Simon & Schuster 2008 0743291727 / 9780743291729 First Edition Trade Paperback Very Good No DJ Issued 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author
Very Good Condititon. Signed on title page. A True First Edition, First Printing Paperback Original. Slightly cocked and minor edgewear. Top corner of back cover creased. About 8 pages show a hint of a crease due to the back cover page crease. 242 clean pages. This is fiction based on the real life missing person case of starlet Jean Spangler in 1949. Abbott is an award-winning author.
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15.00 USD
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Abu-Jaber, Diana Origin
W. W. Norton & Company 2007 0393064557 / 9780393064551 First edition. Hard Cover Fine Fine
384 pages. 2007- First Edition, First Printing, full number line. Book and Dust Jacket are Fine. Covered in mylar. Clean and crisp. From Chuck Palahniuk's blurb on back panel--"With the narrator, Lena Dawson, we get someone entirely new, a hybrid of forensic science and animal instinct. Here's a brilliant protagonist who can trust her intuition when she reaches the limits of her professional training. "
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12.00 USD
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Alexie, Sherman Ten Little Indians (signed)
New York, New York, U.S.A. Grove Pr 2003 0802117449 / 9780802117441 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed
Yellow boards with bright blue lettering on spine. Short inscription on title page in blue pen. Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine condition. Crown and tail a little soft, tending to turn inward. Light smudge upper right corner of first free page. Full number line. 243 pages, appears unread. Dust Jacket has light edgewear. Covered with a clear jacket protector. Ten Little Indians includes nine stories about Native Americans who are often at odds with who they are and who they love. Humorous, irreverent and sentimental.
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20.00 USD
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Ali, Tariq The Stone Woman
New York, New York, U.S.A. Verso Books 2000 1859847641 / 9781859847640 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Black boards. Light wear to book. Jacket in Near Fine condition. Historical novel. Ali has written much on world history and politics. He won the Archbishop San Clemente del Instituto Rosalia de Castro Prize for the Best Foreign Language Fiction published in Spain in 1994.
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9.00 USD
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Allende, Isabel;Peden, Margaret Sayers City Of The Beasts
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Harpercollins Childrens Books 2002 006050918x / 9780060509187 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Black spine over dark blue boards. First Edition with full number line. Near fine with like dust jacket. 406 clean pages. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Near fine dust jacket is protected in a clear sleeve. Very light edge crinkling at tail of jacket. City of Beasts is a Young Adult novel that attracts adults as well.
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9.00 USD
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Anam, Tahmima A Golden Age
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. HarperCollins Publishers 2007 0061478741 / 9780061478741 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Black boards with gilt lettering on cream spine. Near fine condition. 1st edition/1st printing. Dust jacket in very good + condition with trace wear to edges. Protected in slip cover. Debut novel. Starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. 2008 Commonwealth Prize, Best First Book.
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18.00 USD
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Anam, Tahmima A Golden Age (SIGNED)
Harper & Row 2008 0061478741 / 9780061478741 First edition. Hard Cover Fine Fine Signed
Fine in Fine dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. 2008 Harper-First U.S. Edition-Book set against the backdrop of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence . Author's first novel. 276 pages. Unread, only opened for signing. Dust jacket is covered with a clear archival quality protector. As New. This is the first book in a proposed trilogy.
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50.00 USD
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Anderson, W. Paul Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the Baroque
New York, New York, U.S.A. Carroll & Graf Publishers 2005 0786715413 / 9780786715411 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Rust colored boards with metallic copper lettering on spine. First American edition. Fine condition. Unread. Dust jacket has small closed end tear on head of spine and some shelfwear on corners. Protected in slip cover. Very good condition. "A tour de force of a debut novel, recounting the life of the last great poet (Sor Juana) of Spain’s Golden Age...Anderson’s is a tale of hidden messages, of secrets kept from inquisitors, of manifold mysteries... A Da Vinci Code for the literate, reminiscent of Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Carlos Fuentes at their best; sure to draw attention to Sor Juana, who remains one of the most fascinating figures in world literature." Kirkus Starred Review. Awarded Writers Guild of Alberta Novel of the Year for 2005, finalist for Commonwealth Writer's Prize and W.O. Mitchell Prize.
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Ash, Sarah Tracing the Shadow: Book One of the Alchymist's Legacy
Bantam Books 2008 0553805193 / 9780553805192 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
417 pages. Illustrated. 2008-First Edition, First Printing. Bantam Spectra Book. Book One of the Alchymist's Legacy. Binding fault at back of book, second rear free end page not attached properly. Small closed tear to top of dust jacket. Unobtrusive as dust jacket protected in clear cover. Clean, crisp text. Very Good book and Very Good dust jacket condition. Ash also wrote Children of the Serpent Gate, Lord of Snow and Shadows and Prisoner of the Iron Tower.
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Asinof, Eliot, and Miller, Marvin (Foreword by) Man on Spikes (signed)
Southern Illinois University Press 1998 0809321904 / 9780809321902 Soft Cover Very Good Signed by Author
Reprint of the 1955 baseball classic. The realistic struggle of a talented player who struggles through 16 years of false promises, invalid contracts, and corrupt management in AA and AAA before finally appearing in a major league game. The author's character in this novel, Mike Kutner, was based on the real life story of Mickey Rutner. Lauded by many as more true than some of the nonfiction baseball books. This copy was SIGNED BY MICKEY RUTNER on the front free end page. Tight binding. Slight wear to extremities. A faint nickel-sized water stain on the top edges (must disclose). Interior clean with 2 crinkled pages. Overall very good minus condition. This is the only book I've found with Mickey's signature!
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Auchincloss, Louis Last of the Old Guard
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2008 0547152752 / 9780547152752 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Gilt lettering on the spine of this Fine book in Near-fine dust jacket. Dust jacket has very light edge-wear at and is covered in a clear protective sleeve. 212 clean, crisp pages of. Binding is tight. Book does not appear to have been read. An attorney with an inside look at the rich and famous gives a (fictional?) look at more than one aspect of life in the "elite" circles.
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20.00 USD
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Audeguy, Stephane, and Bent, Timothy (Translated by) The Theory of Clouds
Harcourt Inc. 2007 0151014280 / 9780151014286 First edition. Hard Cover New Fine
New in fine dust jacket. First U.S. Edition, First Printingt. A first novel for Stephane Audeguy that won the Grand Prize of the French Academy as well as several other prestigious awards. Translated from the French by Timothy Bent. Book is As New condition and dust jacket is Fine. The dust jacket is Very Good with only minor wear at the top front corner. Covered in mylar. 266 pages about a man who survived the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima and then becomes a collector of information on clouds. Only one copy of a book he would like to acquire exists and the story revolves around the quest.
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Auster, Paul Travels in the Scriptorium
Henry Holt & Company 2007 0805081453 / 9780805081459 First edition. Hard Cover Fine Fine
First Edition/First Printing. Pearl-grey boards with silver lettering on the spine. Crisp clean interior. Tight binding. Pictorial jacket protected in clear mylar cover. Excerpt from jacket, "Awaking in a room with no memory of who he is or how he got there, a man pieces together clues to his past-and the identity of his captors-in this fantastic, labyrinthine novel. "
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12.00 USD
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Bachelder, Chris Bear V. Shark: The Novel
Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A. Scribner 2001 0743219465 / 9780743219464 Soft Cover Very Good No DJ Issued 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Advance Uncorrected Proof--First Edition, full number line. Soft cover in firm glossy boards. Black lettering on white spine. 251 pages of clean, unmarked text. Binding is tight. The novel is a debut for Chris Bachelder.
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10.00 USD
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Badal, Joseph H. The Pythagorean Solution (signed)
Santa Ana, California, U.S.A. Seven Locks Press 2003 1931643210 / 9781931643214 Hard Cover Fine Fine Inscribed
Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front. Near fine condition. Trace edgewear rub on heel of spine. Tight binding. Pristine page edges. 272 pages. Dust jacket in near fine condition protected in slip cover. Inscribed on title page, "Amy - Happy Birthday! - Hope all your dreams come true. Joe H. Badal - 5/9/03" Author's first novel. A fast-moving suspense novel intermingling WWII events, a high-stakes treasure hunt, and a cast of unlikely heroes and shrewd villains.
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10.00 USD
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Bail, Murray Eucalyptus
Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. Farrar Straus & Giroux 1998 0374148570 / 9780374148577 First Edition Soft Cover Fine No DJ Issued
First Edition, uncorrected proof. Green boards are a firm paper with black lettering on front, spine and back of book. Near Fine. Very light handling wear. An Australian romance involving a father, a daughter, and the eucalpytus trees he had planted and the search for Ellen's husband in a most peculiar way. 255 clean, unmarked pages.
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15.00 USD
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Barker, Pat Life Class
New York Doubleday 2008 0385524358 / 9780385524353 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Near Fine
Grey boards with silver lettering on red cloth spine. Sewn binding. First U.S. Edition/first printing. 311 pages. Pristine interior with sharp edges. Dust jacket in near fine condition with minor edgewear along the top. Pat Barker is a multiple award winning author. "Mature, unsentimental and searching. One of this excellent writer's finest books." - Kirkus Reviews.
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Barr, Erika Acquisition of Power (signed)
Baltimore PublishAmerica Inc 2002 1591293073 / 9781591293071 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good Inscribed
Shiny clean covers with trace wear to upper corners. Very good plus condition. Tight binding. First Edition/ first printing. 214 pages. Clean interior with brief author inscription on title page, "To Mary, Readjing for fun is back! Erika Barr" A fast-paced thriller involving the corporate underworld, "ruthless backstabbing, sexcapades, power plays, incompetent executives, and sycophantic employees." Includes promotional postcard.
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6.00 USD
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Barrett, Jo This is How It Happened (signed)
Dresden, Tennessee, U.S.A. Avon Books 2008 0061241105 / 9780061241109 First Edition Soft Cover Fine Signed by Author
Pictorial front cover of stacked brownies in fine condition. Stated first edition. Second printing. Signed on title page. Pristine interior with tight binding. Does not appear to have been read. An entertaining quick-read about the sweet taste of revenge. Second novel.
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12.00 USD
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