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Wet Work
Buckley, Christopher
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Alfred A.Knopf First Edition
1991 ISBN: 0394571932 Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with minimal edge wear - else Fine; in a clear protective cover. AMAZON,WEALTHY,WEALTH Book #1150 |
US$14.50 |
Cold Sassy Tree
Burns, Olive Ann
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Dell 1986 ISBN: 0440514428 Near Fine Trade Paperback. The very slightest wear of wraps-else fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Cold Sassy, Georgia, had never been a whirlpool of excitement. If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies could make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson - a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee! AMERICAN SOUTH,SOUTHERN LITERATURE,GEORGIA Book #4992 |
US$7.95 |
They Whisper
Butler, Robert Olen
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Henry Holt First Edition
1994 ISBN: 0805019855 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. SENSUALITY Book #1481 |
US$12.00 |
Lost River Bridge
Byers, Stephen P.
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Books by Byers 2001
ISBN: 1929663021 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. SIGNED and DATED by the author. An Ozark storytelling community heals the shattered nerves of Elijah Taber, a WWII veteran who discovers his long-lost relations in the mountains of Missouri. OZARKS,MISSOURI,STORYTELLING,FOLK TALES Book #5180, 5181 |
US$10.95 |
The Emperor of Ocean Park
Carter, Stephen L.
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Alfred A. Knopf First Edition
2002 ISBN: 0375413634 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African-American society of the eastern seaboard - old families who summer on Martha's Vineyard - and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. AFRICAN-AMERICAN,IVY LEAGUE,ORGANIZED CRIME Book #6298 |
US$14.95 |
Brighten the Corner Where You Are
Chappell, Fred
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St. Martin's 1990
ISBN: 0312050577 Near Fine Trade Paperback. Very slight wear of wraps - else fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The story of a day in the life of Joe Kirkman, a North Carolina mountain schoolteacher, sly prankster, country philosopher, and family man, won the hearts of readers and reviewers across the country. Brighten the Corner Where You Are is a beautifully written novel by one of America's most gifted and delightful writers. NORTH CAROLINA Book #5086 |
US$5.95 |
River, Cross My Heart
Clarke, Breena
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Little,Brown 1999
ISBN: Near Fine Trade Paperback. Very slight wear of wraps - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "In scenes alive with emotional truth, this remarkable novel brings to life an entire community - the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington,D.C., circa 1925 - as it weighs the effect of a young girl's tragic death on the people she has left behind." GEORGETOWN,WASHINGTON,D.C.,1920'S,DEATH Book #3387 |
US$7.50 |
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Cleage, Pearl
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Avon 1998 ISBN: 038079487X Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Acclaimed playwright, essayist and columnist Pearl Cleage has created a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate understanding, in a remarkable debut novel... IDLEWILD,MICHIGAN Book #5182 |
US$6.95 |
Mr. Bridge
Connell, Evan S.
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North Point Press 1990
ISBN: 0865470545 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Evan Connell's exploration of upper-middle-class life in America. AMERICAN SOCIETY,MRS.BRIDGE Book #6452 |
US$12.00 |
Beach Music
Conroy, Pat
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Doubleday First Edition
1995 ISBN: Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Small area of roughness on front endpaper from sticker removal - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The author of the Prince of Tides, The Lords of Discipline and The Great Santini tells of the dark memories that haunt generations in a story that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust. SOUTH CAROLINA,ROME,HOLOCAUST,THE PRINCE OF TIDES,THE GREAT SANTINI,THE LORDS DISCIPLINE Book #3335 |
US$13.50 |
Acts of Contrition
Cooney, John
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Crown First Edition
1991 ISBN: 0517576775 Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Small signature of previous owner - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Book #1132 |
US$8.50 |
A Sort of Homecoming
Cremins, Robert
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Holder and Stoughton
1998 ISBN: 034071722X Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Nicely INSCRIBED by the author. "A Sort of Homecoming is as much about old truths as it is about the new Ireland." IRELAND,EIRE,DUBLIN Book #6484 |
US$12.00 |
The Death of Picasso: new & selected writing
Davenport, Guy
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Shoemaker and Hoard
2003 ISBN: 1593760027 New Unread Hardcover in no dustjacket as issued. Decorative laminated binding. Unmarked. A collection of essays and stories in the Davenport style ranging from aspects of the lives of Kafka, Van Gogh and others to scenes of erotic passion between young men. WRITERS,AUTHORS,MALE HOMOSEXUALITY Book #7725 |
US$12.00 |
Corelli's Mandolin
De Bernieres, Louis
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Vintage 1995 ISBN: 067976397X Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army. ROMANCE,GREECE,GREEK ISLES,AEGEAN,ITALY,WORLD WAR II Book #4426 |
US$7.00 |
The Bluff Beacons
Dees, Mary Reaves
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Marmor First Edition
1999 ISBN: Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Once considered a playboy, Peyton Kohl returns to Houston, Texas where he finds success, love, happiness, and sorrow. Despite his accomplishments, he longs for his boyhood home which is built on the steep bluffs in Texas Hill Country. TEXAS,TEXAS HILL COUNTRY,HOUSTON Book #5096 |
US$14.95 |
The Body Artist
Delillo, Don
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Scribner First Edition
2001 ISBN: 074320395X New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A haunting, beautiful and profoundly moving novel from the author of White Noise and Underwood. WHITE NOISE,UNDERWORLD Book #6322,6323 |
US$11.00 |
White Noise
DeLillo, Don
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Quality Paperback Book Club
2001 ISBN: 0965025929 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. MIDWEST,AMERICAN SOCIETY,AMERICAN LIFE,ACADEMIA Book #7130 |
US$8.50 |
The Blessing
Deveraux, Jude
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Pocket Books First Edition
1998 ISBN: New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "... a charming, piquant tale about a take-charge businessman and a daffy but wise young widow, the special bonds of brotherhood, and the eternal love between mother and child, all set in a small Kentucky town during Christmas..." CHRISTMAS,KENTUCKY Book #2376 |
US$14.50 |
The Ginger Man
Donleavy, J.P.
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Atlantic Monthly 1988
ISBN: Near Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Gentle corner creasing of several leaves - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man relates the bawdy, picaresque misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American studying at Trinity College, Dublin. IRELAND,DUBLIN,TRINITY COLLEGE Book #3851 |
US$7.50 |
The Deadwood Beetle
Dressler, Mylene
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Penguin Putnam First Edition
2001 ISBN: 0399148051 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Tristan Martens, a retired entomologist is shaken by the discovery of his mother's sewing table in a New York antique shop...Only Tristan knows the painful truth behing the scrawled - and misunderstood - inscription on the bottom of the table... NETHERLANDS,HOLLAND,WORLD WAR II,GERMAN OCCUPATION,MYSTERY,SUSPENSE Book #6007 |
US$12.50 |
Lovers and Tyrants
du Plessix Gray, Francine
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Simon and Schuster Book Club
edition 1976 ISBN: Fine Hardcover in Fair Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild edge wear and several small chips and closed tears; now nicely held in a clear protective cover. "Francine Gray delivers us from many traditional literary inhibitions and opens a startling new perspective into the inner lives of women. The history of Stephanie - the woman whose life is chronicled - follows her from her extraordinary childhood in France through her father's mysterious disappearance, her emigration to America, her picaresque schooling in New York, her tempestuous sexual relationship with a melodramatic, tragicomic European nobleman." WOMEN'S LITERATURE,WOMEN'S ISSUES,WOMEN'S STUDIES,FEMINISM Book #3898 |
US$12.00 |
Another City, Not My Own: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir
Dunne, Dominick
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Crown First Edition
1997 ISBN: New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "This is the story of the Trial of the Century as only Dominick Dunne can write it. Told from the point of view of one of Dunne's most familiar fictional characters - Gus Bailey - Another City, Not My Own tells how Gus, the movers and shakers of Los Angeles, and the city itself are drawn into the vortex of the O.J. Simpson trial." OJ,O.J.SIMPSON,TRIALS,THE LAW,LAWYERS,MURDER,HOMICIDE,LOS ANGELES,CALIFORNIA Book #3340 |
US$17.50 |
Happy Ending
Duranti, Francesca
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Random House First American
Edition 1991 ISBN: 0394575482 Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Bottom edge remainder mark and slight edge spotting. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ with slight edge/corner wear; in a clear protective cover. Prizewinning Italian novelist Francesca Duranti has written an elegant contemporary comedy of character and social class, a story of pasts redeemed, relationships righted, and a future secured during the course of a summer weekend on a Tuscan estate. TUSCANY,ITALY,ARISTOCRACY Book #6462 |
US$6.00 |
All Around Atlantis: Stories
Eisenberg, Deborah
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Farrar,Straus,Giroux First
Edition 1997 ISBN: Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Her deeply etched and mysterious stories focus on individuals grappling with the dislocations, ironies, and compromises levied by ordinary reality and the vivid, troubling worlds her characters inhabit. SHORT STORIES Book #3385 |
US$13.50 |
A Parting Gift
Erickson, Ben
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Warner First Edition
2000 ISBN: New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Originally written by a father to his son upon his high school graduation, the novel deals with a relationship between an elderly reclusive widower and a directionless seventeen-year-old. MOBILE BAY,ALABAMA,COMING OF AGE Book #4003 |
US$10.50 |
The Horse Whisperer
Evans, Nicholas
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Delacorte First Edition
1995 ISBN: Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Several small areas of mild fading of binding. Creasing of lower corners of some leaves and a small spot of one page. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with minor corner wear and a small stain on reverse; in a clear protective cover. The author's first and famous novel. AMERICAN WEST Book #1634 |
US$12.50 |
The Smoke Jumper
Evans, Nicholas
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Delacorte First Edition
2001 ISBN: 0385334036 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The Smoke Jumper is the story of three people's quest for happiness and self-fulfillment, played out against the heroism of fire fighting in the wilderness and photojournalism at the edge of human experience.. By the author of The Horse Whisperer. FOREST FIRES,FIREFIGHTERS,PHOTOJOURNALISM,MONTANA Book #5629 |
US$14.75 |
The Christmas Box
Evans, Richard Paul
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Simon & Schuster First
Edition 1996 ISBN: 0684814994 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Decorative binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The Christmas Box is a Christmas story unlike any other. SPIRITUALITY,TIMEPIECE Book #7753 |
US$10.50 |
The Letter
Evans, Richard Paul
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Simon & Schuster First
Edition 1997 ISBN: 0684834723 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The Letter, the final book of the Christmas Box collection....is about the storms that all relationships must face when the blissful state of romance vanishes into one of real-life challenges and difficulties. LOVE,ROMANCE,PSYCHOLOGY,MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS,FAMILY Book #6161 |
US$12.00 |
The Locket
Evans, Richard Paul
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Simon & Schuster First
Edition 1998 ISBN: 0684834731 Fine Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Cloth binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge/corner wear; in a clear protective cover. A story of the love between generations and the nurturing and forgiveness those relationships always require. LOVE,ROMANCE,PSYCHOLOGY,GENERATIONS Book #6162 |
US$8.00 |
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Fielding, Helen
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Viking First American Edition
2000 ISBN: 0670892963 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Another unnervingly accurate take on modern womanhood by the author of the bestselling Bridget Jones Diary. WOMEN'S ISSUES,ROMANCE,LONDON Book #5902 |
US$14.00 |
