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Deliverance $75.00
New York, NY: Armchair Detective Library (1991) One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in slipcase. This is the classic tale of four men caught in a primitive and violent test of manhood. The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of … Continue reading Deliverance
Life on the Mississippi $700.00
Boston: James R. Osgood & Company (1883) We’re sorry this book has sold. Please call us or e-mail firsteditions@lemuriabooks.com if you are interested in a first edition of Life on the Mississippi. First Edition, Second State. Top and bottom edges of spine are edge worn. Back cover slightly rubbed. Front hinge is weak. Interior is clean … Continue reading Life on the Mississippi
Witnessing $75.00
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (2004) Sixteen essays that lyrically affirm writer Ellen Douglas’s lifelong role as a witness to humanity and history.
Redefining Manhood $14.99
UK: Findhorn Press (2015) While women have forged ahead in the workplace and society, men are finding themselves increasingly marginalized, socially, professionally, economically enough so that one book on bestseller lists recently has been titledThe End of Men. This has led to calls for a men’s movement and courses are being taught, but they are … Continue reading Redefining Manhood
Three Rivers $25.99
New York , NY: Thomas Dunne Books (2015) As new in dust jacket. Melody Mahaffey, trapped into touring for years with a third-rate Christian pop band she can hardly stand, is almost relieved to receive her mother’s distress call. But when she returns home to care for her dying father and brain-damaged brother at the … Continue reading Three Rivers
Tidewater Morning $65.00
New York, NY: Random House (1993) In this brilliant collection of “long short stories,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie’s Choice returns to the coastal Virginia setting of his first novels. Through the eyes of a man recollecting three episodes from his youth, William Styron explores with new eloquence death, loss, war, and racism.
The Resurrectionist $14.95
New York, NY: Norton (2014) “Dog days and the fresh bodies are arriving once again.” So begins the fall term at South Carolina Medical College, where Dr. Jacob Thacker is on probation for Xanax abuse. His interim career working public relations for the dean takes an unnerving detour into the past when the bones of … Continue reading The Resurrectionist
The Silence of the Lambs $1,300.00
New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press (1988) Very good plus in dust jacket. Two dates faintly written on the front end paper. Signed by Harris on the half title page.
Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now $50.00
New York, NY: Random House (1993) Fine in dust jacket.
Like You’d Understand, Anyway $75.00
New York, NY: Knopf (2007) Fine in dust jacket. Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus at Marathon, still vying for parental approval. A maddeningly indefatigable Victorian explorer hauling his expedition, whaleboat and all, through the Great Australian Desert in midsummer. The first … Continue reading Like You’d Understand, Anyway
New Mysteries of Paris $400.00
Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press (1991) One of 26 numbered copies signed by the author. Russell Chatham print signed and numbered (1 of 26) laid in. The book is burgundy cloth in a marbled burgundy slipcase.
Hellhound on His Trail $45.00
New York, NY: Doubleday (2010) Near fine in dust jacket. On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox. Fashioning himself Eric Galt, this nondescript thief and con man—whose real name was James Earl Ray—drifted through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he … Continue reading Hellhound on His Trail
Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature $16.95
Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press (2014) We see familiar shapes in nature all around us–this orange looks like a sphere, that icicle a cone, those cucumbers are almost cylinders. But trees, clouds, or broccoli–what shapes are they? In this photo-filled conceptual picture book, young readers will not only get an introduction to those amazing and … Continue reading Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature
The Roy Stories $30.00
New York: Seven Stories Press (2013) Fine in decorated wrappers. For forty years—a Biblical time span—The Roy Stories has been the one continuous unbroken line in the otherwise kaleidoscopic career of one of America’s greatest living writers. Collected here for the first time, the Roy stories of Barry Gifford chronicle his personal history of a … Continue reading The Roy Stories
Ellen Foster $100.00
London: Cape (1988) First English Edition. Near fine in dust jacket.
Author and Agent: Eudora Welty and Diarmuid Russell $75.00
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1991) Signed by the editor Michael Kreyling. Near fine in dust jacket. Diarmuid Russell was Eudora Welty’s literary agent and her friend for over thirty years. This book, written with an emphasis on their spirited correspondence, shows the professional bond which existed between agent and author, as her … Continue reading Author and Agent: Eudora Welty and Diarmuid Russell
Nosferatu $50.00
New York, NY: Knopf (1998) Fine in dust jacket. From the airfields of World War I to Berlin’s postwar cafes, a fictional portrait of F. W. Murnau, the German director behind the landmark film, Nosferatu, portrays him as a solitary genius haunted by the loss of a lover.
Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series $50.00
New York, NY: The Museum of Modern Art (2015) As new in dust jacket. In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, completed a series of 60 small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration, the mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in … Continue reading Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series