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New York:: Grove Press,, (2003). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. Sri Lanka-born author's fourth book, one which combines memory and romance with violent adventure. "Set on an environmentally devastated tropical island this follows a Londoner named Marc, who comes to the island to find his father but instead gets caught… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper & Row,, (1987). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. A title in the Harper Short Novel series. - a "succint satire set in the Thatcherite England of cuts (in spending, nuclear stockpiles, production, pensions, wages, services) and divisions (between North and South, rich and poor, black… Read more about this item

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (2008). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Award-winning author and screenwriter's eighth novel, one which "tears the shiny veneer off the 'new' New York to show us the hidden cracks, the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour." 455 pp.

New York:: Putnam,, (1998). First edition -. Fine in cream printed wrappers. An uncommon advance copy. . Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) Author's second novel and third book: "A suburban New Jersey high school teacher confronts a student-body election gone haywire in this darkly comic novel." Basis for the 1999 film starring Matthew Broderick and Reese… Read more about this item

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1975.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dust jacket (some toning to background of dj flaps, original price of $5.95 on flap). First printing. A typical, virtually indescribable Brautigan novel, this one set in an apartment house on Chestnut Street in San Francisco. 167 pp. Dust jacket design… Read more about this item

New York:: Random House,, (1995). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First US printing. When a lumber baron tries to clear-cut the part of the Algonquin Forest he considers his own, and in the remote Maine town of Abenaki Juntion, only Madeleine Cody, the owner of a small newspaper, The… Read more about this item

New York:: Scribner,, (2022). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. The sixth novel by this award-winning writer. A companion novel to her Pulitzer prize novel 'A Visit from the Goon Squad,' set in a world of new technology in which memories are uploaded and shared, but primarily one which explores… Read more about this item

New York:: Bloomsbury,, (2020). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A novel by this noted gay American author, a self-proclaimed 'archaeologist of gossip', the story of twin sisters fleeing a dried up oil town in 50s Texas, one to a convent, the other to a glitzy life in Paris. 287 pp.

New York:: Pantheon,, (2001.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Dustjacket praise from Bret Lott and Kevin Baker (who describes this novel as "like a half-remembered dream, both tantalizing and unsettling. The chronicle of a murder played out before thirty million viewers, a beautiful evocation of the first, electrifying days of television,… Read more about this item

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2022.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (hint of spine slant). First printing. The author's captivating 6th novel, a tale of "art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later,… Read more about this item

New York:: Viking,, (2011). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. The final book in his award winning Albany cycle, featuring journalist Daniel Quinn, who meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957. "A tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany race… Read more about this item

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1983.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. A novel by this award-winning writer - born in North Carolina, but living in Canada. "A tour de force of inventive wit - the eccentric and high-spirited story of William Shakespeare and how he came to bed… Read more about this item

New York & Boston:: Twelve,, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book by the author of "A Perfect Storm" and "Fire" which combines history, psychology, and anthropology, as it explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the quest for meaning. "It explains the irony that… Read more about this item

Hood River, OR:: Crispin / Hammer, (2009). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. Award-winning Oregon author's highly praised second novel. Molly Gloss commented that it is "a mystery novel, and a page turner, but [also] one that engages authentically with a dishonorable part of our past - that… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins,, (1995). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards in a like dust jacket with a window cut out in the front. . First printing. Maguire's first novel for adults, a fantasy based on the Oz stories - but told from the viewpoint of the vanquished Wicked Witch of the West.… Read more about this item

New York:: HarperPerennial,, (2013). First edition -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) First collection of short stories by this award-winning author, which "veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once hip Seattle to… Read more about this item

New York:: Fourth Estate - Harper Collins,, (2004.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (some rubbing to folds of dj). First US printing. A novella that re-imagines the classic detective story of the 19th century - set in 1944, this is a puzzle involving a mute 9 year old boy who escaped from… Read more about this item

Jackson: : University Press of Mississippi, , (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. An account by an award-winning writer of conversations that took place between 1980 through October 1997, just days before Michener's death. "The two discussed topics of both a personal and professional nature and touched on subjects Michener… Read more about this item

New York:: Doubleday,, (2014). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A novel of the power of friendship, narrated by a teenage runaway - "Emily Shepard is a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear… Read more about this item

New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (2016). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A thought-provoking novel and one of the best books by an author who "is not as popular as she should be." Although marketed as a "thriller" this is much more. Author Lisa Zeidner in reviewing this book commented… Read more about this item