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Indian Killer

By: Alexie, Sherman

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press: 1996

Seller ID: 5637

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket have only light shelfwear. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 420 pages; Alexie's third book, a dark mystery. Signed on title page. ; Signed by Author
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

By: Alexie, Sherman

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press: 1993

Seller ID: 9374

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket have only minimal shelfwear. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 223 pages; One of Alexie's early, lyrical works.
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Little Fugue

By: Anderson, Robert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, A Ballentine Book (Random House): 2005

Seller ID: 9369

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book appears new and unread. Jacket has light shelf wear along with small nick, probably from packing, on the lower right corner. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 367 pages; First novel by Flannery O'Connor Award winner.
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Affliction

By: Banks, Russell

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Harper and Row: 1989

Seller ID: 7786

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Both book and jacket have only very light wear. Attractive copy. Acclaimed novel by Banks made into an excellent movie starring Nick Nolte. This copy is signed by Banks on the title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 355 pages; Signed by Author
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Letters A Novel

By: Barth, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1979

Seller ID: 8615

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Book has only very light shelf wear. Jacket has bumps at corners. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; One of Barth's later novels.
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East Is East

By: Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1990

Seller ID: 9368

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket appear new and unread with only a hint of shelf wear. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 364 pages; Comic novel of Japanese sailor stranded off the coast of Georgia.
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A Whistling Woman

By: Byatt, A. S.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2002

Seller ID: 9371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Book and jacket are new and unread. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 427 pages; Concluding novel in Byatt's quartet of novels about English life from the 1950's to the 1970's. ; Signed by Author
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Bullet Park

By: Cheever, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York City, Alfred A. Knopf: 1969

Seller ID: 6227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Book corners slightly bumped. DJ has a small tear and crease at top right corner, some age-toning and wear to folds. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 245 pages; One of Cheever's better novels. Title page says this is "First and Second Printings Before Publication."
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Bullet Park

By: Cheever, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York City, Alfred A. Knopf: 1969

Seller ID: 13699

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Both book and jacket have only light shelf wear and aging. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 245 pages; One of Cheever's more acclaimed novels.
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The Reapers

By: Connolly, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York City, Atria Books: 2008

Seller ID: 9494

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in As New dust jacket

The rear pastedown is wrinkled at the bottom of the page, probably a binding flaw. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 351 pages; One of Connolly's Charlie Parker mysteries.
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The Right Madness

By: Crumley, James

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2005

Seller ID: 9445

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Book and jacket are very close to pristine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 289 pages; Hardboiled detective novel. Signed by Crumley on title page. ; Signed by Author
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Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime

By: Dunning, John

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner: 2001

Seller ID: 9373

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Book and jacket are new and unread. Remainder mark on bottom foredge. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 473 pages; John Dunning novel set in the world of radio in 1942. This "Fingerprint" edition has Dunning's signature and fingerprint (index) on a special Limitation page. ; Signed by Author
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The Bookman's Promise A Clif Janeway Novel

By: Dunning, John

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York City, Scribner & Company: 2004

Seller ID: 8709

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Minor shelf wear, appears unread. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 369 pages; One of Dunning's Cliff Janeway novels, signed on the title page. ; Signed by Author
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The Bingo Palace

By: Erdrich, Louise

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins: 1994

Seller ID: 9446

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Book and jacket have almost no wear. They appear new and unread. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 274 pages; Novel dealing with Native American culture and life.
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The Brotherhood of the Grape

By: Fante, John

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1977

Seller ID: 16034

ISBN: 0395250463

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Book has only very light general wear and aging. About fine. Light fading to jacket along edges; spine ends lightly bumped, some old, flattened creasing at rear top of spine. VG. There was a limited edition of this work before this 1st trade edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 178 pages
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Here I Am

By: Foer, Jonathan Safran

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2016

Seller ID: 14890

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

0374900426 Book is New except for small packing ding ate bottom of spine on both book and dj. This is the special signed, first edition with a special tipped in page signed by Foer. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 571 pages; Signed by Author
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

By: Franklin, Tom

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow: 2010

Seller ID: 11106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Boom and jacket are completely unused. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages; Intense novel set in the South.
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The Divine Husband

By: Goldman, Francisco

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Books: 2004

Seller ID: 9444

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Book has some spotting at bottom of front foredge not affecting interiro. Otherwise book is NF. Jacket is about new with some light shelfwear. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 465 pages; Signed by Goldman on title page. ; Signed by Author
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A Sport of Nature

By: Gordimer, Nadine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1987

Seller ID: 12447

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Book has only light, general wear and aging. Jacket has some light edge, corner and surface wear but is still attractive. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 341 pages; South African, Gordimer, won the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Baker Towers

By: Haigh, Jennifer

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York City, William Morrow: 2005

Seller ID: 7814

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

Book and jacket are new, unread. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 334 pages; Novel by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Haigh. Flatsigned on title page. ; Signed by Author
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The Widow of the South

By: Hicks, Robert

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Warner Books: 2005

Seller ID: 10987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Book is new and unread in a new, near pristine jacket. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 426 pages; Signed and inscribed on title page. ; Signed by Author
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Being There

By: Kosinski, Jerzy

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York City , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1970

Seller ID: 6257

ISBN: 0151117004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket; DJ has very light wear to edges.

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 142 pages
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The Deer Park

By: Mailer, Norman

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York City, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1955

Seller ID: 6254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Spine has a dent at the top, front board slightly bowed, slight musty smell, edges have some age-toning. DJ has some wear to folds and edges, several small chips along top edge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 375 pages
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No Country for Old Men

By: McCarthy, Cormac

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2005

Seller ID: 12800

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Red wraps with silhouette image of a man. Black fold over on front stating that this will be McCarthy's first book in seven years. Book is close to fine with some very minor shelf wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 306 pages; No Country for Old men was made into an Oscar-winning movie in 2007, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Badim and Josh Brolin. This is an ARC or Advance Reading Copy for reviewers. It preceded the publication of the book.
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Charming Billy

By: McDermott, Alice

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Delta Trade Paperbacks: 1999

Seller ID: 9941

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Except for a diagonal crease or bend along the lower right front edge, the book is near fine. Unread. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 243 pages; Signed, inscribed and dated on the title page.
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Category: Modern Firsts