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Condition: Near fine, dust jacket has light stain to rear flap otherwise fine. Advance uncorrected proof.Author's first book under a pseudonym. Basis for the film of the same name that starred Matthew Modine and Nicholas Cage, directed by Alan Parker.

Minotaur Books/St. Martin's Press, New York, 2021. First edition, advance reader's copy. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and spine wear.In the follow up to the critically acclaimed The Mountains Wild, Detective Maggie D''arcy tackles another intricate case that bridges Long Island and Ireland in A Distant Grave.Long Island homicide detective Maggie D''arcy and her teenage daughter, Lilly, are still recovering from the events of last fall when a strange new case demands Maggie''s attention. The body of an unidentified Irish national turns up in a wealthy Long Island beach community and with little to go on but the scars on his back, Maggie once again teams up with Garda detectives in Ireland to find out who the man was and what he was doing on Long Island. The strands of the mystery take Maggie to a quiet village in rural County Clare that''s full of secrets and introduce her to the world of humanitarian aid workers half a world away. And as she gets closer to the truth about the murder, what she… Read More

Condition: Near fine, very slight spine wear and top edge creases. Advance uncorrected proof which has some proofing marks on several pages margins so it seems this might have been a slightly later copy of the proof.J.G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical tale of World War 2 and it's effects on a young boy in Shanghai. Made into a film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring a young Christian Bale and John Malkovich.

Del Rey, New York, 1999. ARC, first edition thus. Condition: Near fine softcover, slight nicks at corners. Advance uncorrected proof, for review purposes. More pictures available upon request.From the publisher: The moment young Ivan stumbled upon a clearing in the dense Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed. Atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, the beautiful princess Katerina lay as still as death...

Thomas Dunne / St. Martin's Press, New York, 2009. ARC, first edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear. Advance uncorrected proof, for review purposes.From the publisher: One day you're heading to work, playing with the kids, kissing the wife goodnight, the next day you're a killer. In the tradition of H.G. Wells, Anthony Burgess, and Richard Matheson, Hater is one man's story of his place in a world gone mad - a world infected with fear, violence, and hate...

Tor Books, New York, 1998. First edition thus. Condition: Near fine softcover, slight nicks at corners, light sunning at spine. Advance, uncorrected proof, for review purposes. More pictures available upon request.From the publisher: In this new episode of the Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin's wife Peggy, whose knack is to read the heartfire of other people and know their futures, makes a perilous journey to the court of the exiled king of England...

Condition: Good, slight staining on front and back covers, one wrinkle on front, a few bumps on spine and corners. Softcover. Advance, uncorrected proof, for review purposes. Signed and inscribed by Robinson "For ---- - assuming you've survived Clarion...Good luck! Yaws, Spider Robinson". More pictures available upon request.The person inscribed to could have been one of the instructors at Clarion Writer's workshop in 1992 as the first name is similar to one of the instructors. More information available upon request.Short stories by one of Canada' best-known science fiction authors.

Knopf, New York, 1985. ARC, first edition thus. Condition: Very good, corner creasing and some sunning on spine, slight wear on back. Advance uncorrected proof, for review purposes. Softcover.Concluding the best selling trilogy that began with Berlin Game and Mexico Set. Bernard Samson is a spy for for British Intelligence, where he suspects there is a traitor leaking information. As he begins to investigate, he finds that people close to him may be involved...

Knopf, New York, 1985. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, very light sunning on edges. Advance uncorrected proof, for review purposes. Softcover.The middle book in the best selling trilogy that began with Berlin Game and ended with London Match. Bernard Samson is a spy for for British Intelligence, where he suspects there is a traitor leaking information. As he begins to investigate, he finds that people close to him may be involved...

St. Martin's Press, New York, 2021. First edition, advance reader's copy. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and spine wear.From the authors of The Fifty-Year Mission and So Say We All, comes the first and only comprehensive oral history of the Star Wars movie franchise.For the past four decades, no film saga has touched the world in the way that Star Wars has, capturing the imaginations of film goers and filmmakers alike. Now, for the first time ever, Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman, the bestselling authors of The Fifty-Year Mission, are telling the entire story of this blockbuster franchise from the very beginning in a single exhaustive volume. Featuring the commentaries of hundreds of actors and filmmakers involved with and impacted by Star Wars, as well as writers, commentators, critics, executives, authors, film historians, toy experts and many more, Secrets of the Force, will reveal all in Altman and Gross's critically acclaimed oral history format from the birth of the original film through… Read More

Viking, New York, 1995. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light wear, one very light crease on back top corner. Advance uncorrected proof, for review purposes. Softcover.A collection of prolific writings from correspondence with friends, family members, and lovers follows the period between 1940, when Kerouac was a college freshman, and 1956, immediately before he became a celebrity. Keroauc sets down the raw material of the life that he transmuted into his multi-volume "Legend of Duluoz".

Condition: Advance uncorrected proof, very good in paperwraps, slight wear at top and bottom where labels have been removed (presumably by the critic who received this advance uncorrected proof before selling it on), light soiling on back as well crease line, slight edge nicks. Uncommon copy that is signed.Created by Eric Bogosian and Ted Savinat.Original New York production of Talk Radio by New York Shakespeare Festival produced by Joseph Papp. The original version of Talk Radio was produced in 1985 at the Portland Center for the Visual Arts through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Metropolitan Arts Commission.

Condition: Near fine advance uncorrected proof, for review purposes. Softcover.A novel by the author of The Commitments continues to trace the up and down life of the Rabbitte family in working class Dublin.

Little Brown & Co. Boston, 2000. Advance uncorrected proof. Condition: Very good minus, fading on the front cover, eight edge wear, light corner creases.From the publisher: Acompelling blend of science, history, politics, and biblical scholarship that explains how modern archaeology is challenging our understanding of the Bible and its accounts of ancient history, and reformulating the politics of the middle east.