The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America $16.00

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New York, NY: Vintage Books (2004) Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, … Continue reading The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

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Wide-Open World $26.00

by • First Edition • Past Events • Signed

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New York, NY: Ballantine (2015) As new dust jacket. An award-winning writer, producer and director shares his experiences volunteering around the world for six months with his family, during which they had many life-changing adventures that forever changed them and reconnected them in ways they never thought possible.

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Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League $27.95

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New York, NY: Maiden Lane Press (2015) As new in dust jacket. Set in pre-Civil Rights Mississippi, Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League is the story of two young mothers, Hazel and Vida – one wealthy and white and the other poor and black – who have only two things in common: the devastating … Continue reading Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League

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Breathing Lessons $125.00

by • Limited Edition • Signed

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Read about the Franklin Library’s Signed First Edition Series here. Philadelphia, PA: Franklin Library (1988) Like new with the original letter from the publisher enclosed. Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years–and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other’s eccentricities. Maggie, a … Continue reading Breathing Lessons

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The Monsters of Templeton $24.95

by • 2008 • First Edition • First Editions Club • Signed

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New York, NY: Hyperion (2008) In the wake of a disastrous affair with her older, married archeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned born-again-Christian??’s house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass.& nbsp; Upon her arrival, … Continue reading The Monsters of Templeton

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Law of Similars $35.00

by • 1999 • First Edition • First Editions Club • Signed

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New York, NY: Harmony Books (1999) From the number one bestselling author of Midwives comes this rivetting medical thriller about a lawyer, a homeopath, and a tragic death. When one of homeopath Carissa Lake’s patients falls into an allergy-induced coma, possibly due to her remedy, Leland Fowler’s office starts investigating the case. But Leland is … Continue reading Law of Similars

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Jazz $40.00

by • First Edition

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New York, NY: Knopf (1992) Near fine in dust jacket.

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Let Me Be Frank with You: A Frank Bascombe Book $27.99

by • 2014 • First Edition • First Editions Club • Past Events • Signed

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New York, NY: Ecco Press. (2014) As new in dust jacket. A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The … Continue reading Let Me Be Frank with You: A Frank Bascombe Book

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Poachers $35.00

by • 1999 • First Edition • First Editions Club • Signed

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New York, NY: William Morrow (1999) Faulkner meets Hemingway, Jim Harrison, and Cormac McCarthy, along with Rick Bass and Larry Brown, in these stunning tales set in southern Alabama, where emotions run as raw as moonshine whiskey. Tom Franklin’s eloquent, deceptively simple prose evokes a world of hunting and fishing, shotgun shacks and trailer parks, … Continue reading Poachers

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Talk Talk $26.00

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New York, NY: Viking (2006) Having fallen completely in love with hearing-impaired Dana, Bridger is unable to believe her guilty of charges ranging from assault to auto theft and discovers that a man named Peck Wilson has been living a life of criminal excess at Dana’s expense. By the author of Drop City

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Spinning The Crystal Ball $50.00

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Washington DC: Library of Congress (1967) “Some Guesses at the Future of American Poetry”

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Hotel Room Trilogy $50.00

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Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi (1995) One of 500 copies signed by the author. Near fine in dust jacket.

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The Last Carousel $50.00

by • First Edition

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New York, NY: Putnam (1973) The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren’s lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world, and includes accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico, stories of the boxing ring, and reminiscences of Algren’s beloved … Continue reading The Last Carousel

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Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs $32.00

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New York, NY: Little Brown (2015) As new in dust jacket. A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann’s preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically … Continue reading Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs

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An Ember in the Ashes $19.95

by • First Edition • New Releases • OZ Young Readers • Young Adult

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New York, NY: Penguin (2015) Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear. It is in … Continue reading An Ember in the Ashes

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Team of Rivals $500.00

by • First Edition • Signed

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New York: Simon & Schuster (2005) Signed and inscribed by the author. Compliments of the author card laid in. Fine in dust jacket.

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Cradle and All $45.00

by • Advanced Reader

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New York: Little Brown (2000) Very good in plain wrappers.

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Hell at the Breech $40.00

by • 2003 • First Edition • First Editions Club • Signed

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New York, NY: William Morrow (2003) Based on incidents that occurred a few miles from the author’s childhood home, this extraordinary first novel is set in 1897 Alabama at a time when residents formed a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish townspeople for the murder of an aspiring politician.

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October Journey $70.00

by • First Edition

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Detroit: Broadside Press (1973) Chapbook of Walker’s poetry. Very good in decorated wrappers.  

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Book of the Dead $35.00

by • First Edition • Signed

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New York, NY: Putnam (2007) Near fine in dust jacket.  

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