A rare copy of a 1910 Craig Kennedy series detective/adventure novel. Style is similar to the Sherlock Holmes series. Hardcover, no dust jacket, in good condition. Pages are clean and intact, a bit of cracking to the spine as noted in photo but overall in very good condition for its age. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Maine

The Craig Kennedy series

The Silent Bullet

Barry Lopez

An excellent copy, all pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Please see all photos.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Guide to the American Landscape

A landmark work hailed as an homage to landscape and language, now in a redesigned, field guide edition

Home Ground

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Richard Watson

An excellent copy with the original dust jacket, both in excellent condition. Signed by the author with the author's dedication to Richard Ford. There's a small amount of light foxing to the upper exterior page edges (see photos). All interior pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Please see all photos.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

"Niagara is the story of two daredevils whose lives are changed forever when they challenge the swirling waters of Niagara Falls. Jean Francois Gravelet has lived much of his life performing on a wire high over the heads of admiring crowds below. But the reputation of a tightrope walker is as precarious as the possibility of a misstep, and Gravelet decides to leave France to make his name by risking the ultimate fall: a wire walk across the great American landmark, Niagara Falls. Widowed schoolteachers in Nebraska of 1901 don’t have many options. So it looks as though Anna Edson Taylor’s life will be just what people expect, until she answers an advertisement offering a brave "man" the chance to put his name in history books by riding inside a barrel over Niagara Falls. When Taylor is the only person brave enough to ride a wheelbarrow across Gravelet’s high wire, the exploits of the two are irrevocably entwined. They tell their stories in parallel, but contradictory, narratives, speaking eloquently about the natures of men and women, how to find balance in life, and living together on the edge of the abyss. A fast-paced story that uncovers profound truths about obsession, courage, and love, Niagara is based on actual historical figures who never met in real life—but who, as these pages reveal, belong together"--Publisher's description.

Niagara

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Archer Mayor

A beautiful copy with original dust jacket, both in excellent condition, in a clear protective cover. SIGNED by the Author, Stated First Printing, all pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Please see all photos. 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The Dark Root

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Howard Norman

An excellent copy with the original dust jacket, both in excellent condition. SIGNED by the Author, National Book Award Nominee, 3rd printing All pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Please see all photos.

"The Bird Artist, Howard Norman's spellbinding new novel, is set in Newfoundland in 1911. Fabian Vas's story, told with disarming simplicity and grace, takes place against a spare and profoundly beautiful landscape where the most powerful of emotions stand out starkly against naked rock, sea and sky. At age twenty, Fabian is working at the boat yard, taking a correspondence course in bird painting, and sleeping with Margaret Handle, a woman of great beauty, intelligence and waywardness - though his parents are determined to marry him to a distant relation he has never met. Then his father leaves on a long hunting expedition, his mother takes up with the lighthouse keeper, Botho August, and Fabian's world loses most of its bearings. The Bird Artist reveals the fire at the heart of human interactions with a rare and enthralling directness."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Bird Artist

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Oliver Sacks

Seven Paradoxical Tales

The author of Awakenings profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome and an artist whose color sense is destroyed in an accident but finds new creative power in black and white. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

An Anthropologist on Mars

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Louis L'Amour

A very nice copy with the original dust jacket, both in great condition. The dust jacket is price clipped and there's a small amount of light foxing/ staining to the upper exterior page edges (see photos). All interior pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Please see all photos.

A Memoir

Louis L'Amour, renowned writer of western stories, left school at the age of 15 and roamed the world armed with books. He worked as a cow-punch, circus roustabout, miner, prize-fighter, and merchant seaman.

Education of a Wandering Man

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Lea Wait

An excellent copy with the original dust jacket, both in excellent condition. Stated first edition and signed by the author! There's a small amount of light foxing/ staining to the upper exterior page edges (see photos). All interior pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Please see all photos.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

An Antique Print Mystery

When two residents at a special dormitory for single parents and their children at Somerset County College are poisoned, history professor Maggie Summer begins her investigation.

Shadows on the Ivy

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William Gibson

An excellent copy with the original dust jacket, both in excellent condition. All interior pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. There is some very light foxing to the exterior upper page edges. Please see photos.

Multilingual Tito engages in sensitive information transfers from his single-room warehouse apartment, while investigative journalist Hollis frets over his start-up magazine's censure of its own promotions, and prescription drug addict Milgrim wonders about the military connections of an enigmatic benefactor. 250,000 first printing.

Spook Country

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Margaret Sayers Peden

By the best selling author of the Flanders Panel and the Seville Communion!
A beautiful copy with original dust jacket, both in excellent condition. Stated First Edition, all pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Please see all photos. 


Coy, a suspended sailor with time on his hands, meets the beautiful Tnger Soto in Barcelona at a maritime auction and embarks on an adventure to recover the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk in the seventeenth century by pirates. 125,000 first printing.

The Nautical Chart

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Bernard Cornwell

A beautiful copy with original dust jacket, both in excellent condition. Stated First Edition, all pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Please see all photos.


Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803

With the return of the brave English sergeant Richard Sharpe--here, to battle the mercenary forces of the Mahratta confederation in India in 1803--Bernard Cornwell claims his rightful place alongside Patrick O'Brian as a contemporary master of historical narrative. Sharpe's Triumph is a riveting story of betrayal and revenge that showcases the deft blend of suspenseful military adventure and sweeping historical detail that has made each new installment of the Richard Sharpe series a number one bestseller in Great Britain and around the world. In the four years since he earned his sergeant's stripes at the bloody siege of Seringapatam, young Richard Sharpe has lead a peaceful existence. But this relatively easy life meets with a brutal end when he is the sole survivor of a murderous attack at the hands of Major William Dodd, a cold-blooded English officer who has defected from the East India Company to join the mercenary forces of the Mahratta confederation. Sharpe rises from the killing field at Fort Chasalgaon vowing to avenge his dead comrades, even if it means pursuing the turncoat Dodd to the very ends of the continent. It is a quest that takes him deep into the heart of enemy territory, where the accepted rules of engagement have been discarded, where ever-shifting loyalties create an environment of dangerous uncertainty, forcing Sharpe to guard against attacks from enemy and friend. The paths of treachery ultimately lead to the small village of Assaye, where Sharpe's company joins the army of Sir Arthur Wellesley--the future Duke of Wellington--to take on the Mahratta horde. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wellesley bravely seizes an unexpected geographical advantage and charges into the white heat of a battle that will make his reputation. It is a bloody confrontation that will make Sharpe's name, too--but first he must survive the carnage and live to tell the tale of what will be remembered as one of the greatest battles of its century.

Sharpe's Triumph

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Philip Caputo

An excellent copy with the original dust jacket. Dust jacket is price clipped and has a very tiny bit of chipping on one edge.. All pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Please see photos.

At the turn of the century, three teenage boys leave their Maine home at the orders of their father, Cyrus Braithwaite, and embark on the voyage of a lifetime down the Atlantic coast, an adventure that years later reveals remarkable truths about the Braithwaite family to Cyrus's great-granddaughter. 40,000 first printing.

The Voyage

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Kent Haruf

An excellent copy with the original dust jacket, both in excellent condition. A very small ink notation mark on the inside of the first blank page (see photo) Otherwise all pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Please see photos.

From the unsettled lives of a small-town teacher struggling to raise two boys alone in the face of their mother's retreat from life, a pregnant teenage girl with nowhere to go, and two elderly bachelor farmers emerges a new vision of life and family as their diverse destinies intertwine. 200,000 first printing.

Plainsong

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Gerald A. Browne

A beautiful copy with original dust jacket both in excellent condition. Stated First Printing. All pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. See photos. 


18mm Blues

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Laurie R. King

A beautiful copy with original dust jacket both in excellent condition. Stated First Edition and Signed by the Author! All pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. See photos.


Signed First Edition 

The Edgar-award winning author of A Grave Talent returns with Kate Martinelli in a story of the San Francisco homeless and Brother Erasmus, a leader who brings joy into desolate lives--and could also be a murderer.

To Play the Fool

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Annie Proulx

A beautiful copy with original dust jacket both in excellent condition. First Trade Edition with full number line, all pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Includes six unique watercolors by artist William Matthews in a unique collaboration with the author. Please see all photos. 

Wyoming Stories

A new collection of award-winning short fiction by the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News includes "Brokeback Mountain," "The Mud Below," and "The Half Skinned Steer," selected by John Updike as one of the best stories of the century. 75,000 first printing.

Close Range

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A beautiful copy with original dust jacket in excellent condition, stated First Edition, all pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. See photos 

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The Hawks Dream 

Loren D. Estleman

A beautiful copy with original dust jacket both in excellent condition. All interior pages are clean, crisp and unmarked, there is one very slight stain/foxing area on front exterior page edges. Please see all photos. 

Sweet Women Lie

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A beautiful copy with original dust jacket both in excellent condition. Stated First Edition and Signed by the Author! All pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. See photos 

A Journey to Boston 

Robert Olen Butler

Recalling all the women he has ever loved, public relations man Ira Holloway explores his sexuality and the profound hold it has on him

They Whisper

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Ben Sherwood

This is a story of the greatest love, ever. An outlandish claim, outrageous perhaps, but trust me-- And so begin the enchanting, unforgettable tale of J. J. Smith, Keeper of the Records for The Book of Records, an ordinary man searching for the extraordinary. J.J. has clocked the world's longest continuous kiss, 30 hours and 45 minutes. He has verified the lengthiest single unbroken apple peel, 172 feet and 4 inches. He has measured the farthest flight of a champagne cork from an untreated, unheated bottle 177 feet 9 inches. He has tasted the world's largest menu item, whole-roasted Bedouin camel. But in all his adventure from Australia to Zanzibar, J.J. has never witnessed great love until he comes upon a tiny windswept town in the heartland of America, where folks still talk about family, faith, and crops. Here, where he last expects it, J.J. discovers a world record attempt like no other: Piece by piece, a farmer is eating a Boeing 747 to prove his love for a woman. In this vast landscape of cornfields and lightning storms, J.J. is doubly astounded to be struck by love from the same woman, Willa Wyatt of the honey eyes and wild blond hair. It is a feeling beyond measure, throwing J.J.'s carefully ordered world upside down, proving that hears, like world records, can be broken, and the greatest wonders in life can not be qualified. Richly romantic, whimsical, and uplifting, The Man Who Ate the 747 is a flight of fancy from start to finish. It stretches imagination, bends physics and biology, but believe it just a little and you may find yourself reaching for your own records, the kind that really count. Written with tenderness, originality, and insight, filled withold-fashioned warmth and newfangled humor, it is an extraordinary novel, a found treasure that marks the emergence of a major storytelling tale.

The Man Who Ate the 747

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Dahlov Ipcar

A very nice copy with original dust jacket in excellent condition, stated First Edition, SIGNED by the author to a previous owner. All interior pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Top page edges show very lite foxing. See all photos.

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

A Dark Horn Blowing

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A beautiful copy of one of the hardest to find of the Burgess books, especially in this condition. Missing the dust jacket, has a previous owners inscription. All interior pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Boards are clean and tight. See photos 

The Burgess Flower Book For Children 

Michael Lewis

An excellent copy with the original dust jacket, both in excellent condition. Stated First Edition. All pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Please see photos.

A Pandemic Story

For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.

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