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Hachette/Little Brown, 2019. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Hachette/Little Brown trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. Chapter decorations. CONTENT: One of the Best Books of the Year: Parade, Glamour, Real Simple, Refinery29, Yahoo! Lifestyle (2019). Journey back to 1930's Paris with this "startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman's self-transformation from muse to artist." "I'd rather take a photograph than be one," Lee Miller declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray. Though he wants to use her only as a model, Lee convinces him to take her on as his assistant and teach her everything he knows. As they work together in the darkroom, their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined, changing the course of Lee's life forever. Lee's journey of self-discovery takes took her from the cabarets of… Read More

Dutton, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: What makes this book "AS NEW" - a small red remainder dot bottom edges at spine - other wise, NEW. UNREAD 2019 Dutton large hardcover, first edition, first printing. B&W genealogy chart. CONTENT: A wry and addictive debut about a modern-day American dynasty and its unexpected upheaval when the patriarch wills his dwindling fortune to his youngest, adopted son-setting off a chain of events that unearths secrets and tests long-held definitions of love and family. The money is old, the problems are new. Meet the Whitbys: an American dynasty once inundated with ungodly real estate wealth and now facing a new millennium of unfamiliar obstacles. There was a time when the death of a Whitby would have made national news, but when the family patriarch, Roger, dies, he is alone. Word of his death travels from the long-suffering family lawyer to Roger's clan of children (from four different marriages), and the outlook… Read More

Scout Press, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Scout Press hardcover (black boards) & DJ, first edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: A darkly gripping debut novel about a teenage girl's fierce struggle to reclaim her life from her abusive father. Fifteen-year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery has only ever known two worlds: inside the riding arena, and outside of it. Both, for as long as she can remember, have been ruled by her father, who demands strict obedience in all areas of her life. The warped power dynamic of coach and rider extends far beyond the stables, and Roan's relationship with her father has long been inappropriate. She has been able to compartmentalize that dark aspect of her life, ruthlessly focusing on her ambitions as a rider heading for the Olympics, just as her father had done. However, her developing relationship with Will Howard, a boy her own age, broadens the scope of her vision. At the intersection… Read More

Little, Brown & Company, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Little, Brown hardcover (red boards0 & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Deckle-edges. CONTENT: Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale". Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they each grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the newfound power of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires. Gio proves himself an unforgettable… Read More

Harper, 2021. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. No Illustrations. CONDITION: What makes this book "as new"? - short remainder mark bottom edges at spine. AS NEW 2021 Harper trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: "In real life, Mary Pinchot Meyer had a love affair with JFK, may have done LSD with him and was mysteriously murdered in 1964. Wolfe's riveting novel imagines what Meyer's diary--burned by the CIA after her death--might have revealed. Great fun for conspiracy theorists and romantics alike." - [People] She was a longtime lover of JFK. She was the ex-wife of a CIA chief. She was the sister-in-law of the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee. She believed in mind expansion and took LSD with Timothy Leary. She was a painter, a socialite and a Bohemian in Georgetown during the Cold War. And she ended up dead in an unsolved murder a year after JFK's assassination. The diary she kept was never found. Until now. . . . [There… Read More

Henry Holt, 2020. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Henry Holt hardcover (blue boards, 2 lbs.) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first US edition, second printing. Deckle edges. CONTENT: This is a book in 6 parts with lots of information to keep the reader on track: Cast of Characters, Simplified Tudor Genealogical Chart, and an interesting Author's Note. Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian. With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. The story begins in May 1536: Anne… Read More

London: Ashgate, 2015. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. New/New. B&W newspaper/magazine art repros; magazine articles. CONDITION: NEW 2015 Ashgate (London) hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket ( in mylar cover), first edition, assumed first printing. Illustrated throughout with B&W newspaper/magazine art and articles. CONTENT: Examining the Victorian serial as a text in its own right, Catherine Delafield re-reads five novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Dinah Craik and Wilkie Collins by situating them in the context of periodical publication. She traces the roles of the author and editor in the creation and dissemination of the texts and considers how first publication affected the consumption and reception of the novel through the periodical medium. Delafield contends that a novel in volume form has been separated from its original context, that is, from the pattern of consumption and reception presented by the serial. The novel's later re-publication still bears… Read More

Forge, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Forge trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. Chapter decorations - small but there. CONTENT: "History, Romance, Crime, and Action - a Great Book" - Historical Novel Society. "Full of charm and sly humor, SIDE BY SIDE tells the story of Bonnie and Clyde's slide from lovebirds to jailbirds?and what an action-packed story it is! Vivid storytelling and a few shots of humanity breathe new life into this notorious duo. This book should be on everyone's "most wanted" list this summer." Texas: 1931. It's the height of the Great Depression, and Bonnie is miles from Clyde. He's locked up, and she's left waiting, their dreams of a life together dwindling every day. When Clyde returns from prison damaged and distant, unable to keep a job, and dogged by the cops, Bonnie knows the law will soon come for him. But… Read More

Viking, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Viking hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: This is a "convoluted" book - historical, biographical novel. The Author has taken the life of real-life writer Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) - a Greek-Japanese writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West - added here and there and come up with a fascinating character and three women in his life. [Truong] imagines the extraordinary lives of three women who loved an extraordinary man [and] creates distinct, engaging voices for these women. A Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her father's cloistered house, married an Irish officer in the British Army, and came to Ireland with her two-year-old son in 1852, only to be forced to leave without him soon after. An African American woman, born into slavery on a Kentucky… Read More