
E-list # 136
Fine and Signed
DAVIS, Kathryn

DEANE, Seamus
Belfast, Field Day Theatre Company, 1983. Published as Field Day Pamphlet Number 3. Signed by the author. Fine in stapled self-wrappers.
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DEANE, Seamus
(Dublin), Gallery, (1983). The hardcover issue. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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DERSHOWITZ, Alan M.
(NY), Oxford University Press, 2001. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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$55
DERSHOWITZ, Alan M.
(Hoboken), John Wiley, (2003). Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#916084]
$45
DESAI, Kiran
London, Faber and Faber, (1998). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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DILLARD, Annie

DODGE, Jim

DOIG, Ivan
NY, Atheneum, 1987. His fifth book, and the second novel in his McCaskill trilogy, which chronicles the settlement and development of the state of Montana. This volume spans three decades from 1889, when Montana became a state, to the 1920s. Inscribed by Doig: "For Steve [Krauzer] another word guy/ with all good wishes/ Ivan Doig/ Fact & Fiction/ Sept. 29, 1987." A good association copy. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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DRURY, Tom
Providence, Mason Press, (1989). A chapbook, with three stories by Drury. Number 135 of 150 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in stapled wrappers.
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DUBUS, Andre

DUBUS, Andre
NY, Knopf, 1998. His last book, a collection of essays. Signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Fine in jacket.
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DUBUS, Andre III
NY, Dutton, (1989). His first book, a well-received collection of stories. Signed by the author on the title page and additionally inscribed by Dubus on the half-title: "For ___, with deep gratitude for your generous response to Bluesman. I hope you enjoy these stories! Yours in friendship, Andre/ Newburyport, Massachusetts." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Together with a 1993 autograph letter signed to the fan/book dealer who has sent him nine copies of his second book, Bluesman, to sign. Dubus generously signs the copies and, in addition, sends the recipient this signed copy of Cage Keeper. The letter is folded to fit in the book; the recipient's address is inked out; else fine.
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DUFRESNE, John
New Orleans, Perdido Press, 1994. A trial edition, one of reportedly 10 copies printed by Edwin Blair of Perdido Press for John Dufresne and John LeBow, in preparation for a print run of 176 copies. This edition was never issued: John LeBow issued his own edition later that same year. A fine copy in saddle-stitched wrappers, and signed by Dufresne. With a 2003 letter of provenance laid in from the bookseller who first got the copy from Blain. A scarce, unpublished edition, much more elaborately designed and illustrated than the final published book.
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DUFRESNE, John
NY, Norton, (2003). Nonfiction, a guide to writing fiction. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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$80
DUFRESNE, John
NY, Norton, (1991). His first book, a collection of stories. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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$35
DUFRESNE, John
Candia, John LeBow, 1996. Limited edition consisting of two stories and thirteen poems. Of a total edition of 476 copies, this is one of 26 lettered copies. Signed by the author and the artist, Dina Knapp. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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DUNN, Katherine
(n.p.), (n.p.), (1979). A prose poem with an illustration by Alaina Lara. Printed as Arboreal Abomination #1. Signed by the author. Fine in stapled wrappers.
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DUNN, Katherine
NY, Harper & Row, (1970). The first book by the author of the much-acclaimed Geek Love. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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(EGGERS, Dave)
(n.p.), McSweeney's, (2004). A re-definition of terms, by over 200 American writers, artists and musicians. Signed by co-editor and contributor, Dave Eggers. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with CD tipped to the rear pastedown.
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EGOLF, Tristan
(London), Picador, (1998). The first British edition of this first novel which, after being rejected by some 70 U.S. publishers, was published in France in a French translation. From there, world English rights were sold to Picador, who published the novel to substantial praise, with reviewers comparing the writing to Thomas Pynchon's and the book's publishing history to that of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. After its success in England, it was finally published in the U.S. This copy is signed by the author, who committed suicide in 2005. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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ELLISON, Harlan

EVANS, Nicholas
(NY), Delacorte, (1995). A novel that made headlines when it was reported that the screen rights had been sold for $3 million before the novel was even completely written -- a remarkable occurrence for a first-time novelist. With the attendant publicity (not to mention money) surrounding this title, the first printing was slated at 600,000. A Waterstone's Book of the Century (#100 on their list). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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$50
EVERETT, Percival and ALEXIE, Sherman
Boston, Beacon Press, (2003). First thus, with an introduction by Sherman Alexie. Signed by both Everett and Alexie. Only issued in wrappers; fine.
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EVERSON, William

FELD, Ross

FODEN, Giles
(London), Faber and Faber, (1998). Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers and dust jacket.
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$60
(FOER, Jonathan Safran)
(NY), Distributed Art Publishers, (2001). A collection of original writings inspired by the work of Joseph Cornell and edited by Foer. Contributors include Barry Lopez, Rick Moody, Howard Norman, Diane Ackerman, Siri Hustvedt, Lydia Davis, Robert Coover, Bradford Morrow, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul West, Joanna Scott and others, including Foer, who contributes both a chapter and the introduction. There was a limited edition and a trade edition; this is the trade edition. Fine, with tipped-in photographs of Cornell's work, in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Foer.
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(FOER, Jonathan Safran)
(London), (Hamish Hamilton), (2005). A two-page profile of Foer and his book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, in the British publisher's annual magazine. Signed by Foer. Fine in wrappers.
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$50
(FORD, Richard)

FORD, Richard
Derry/Ridgewood, Babcock & Koontz, (1987). Ford's first limited edition and the first and only separate appearance of this story, which was originally published in Esquire and later collected in Rock Springs. Of a total edition of 240 copies, this is copy 5 of 200 numbered copies in wrappers signed by the author. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers.
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(FORD, Richard)

(FORD, Richard)
(NY), (Newsweek), 1981. An essay about major league ballparks. Signed by Ford. Fine.
[#914985]
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(FORD, Richard)
San Francisco, Chronicle Books, (1996). Photographs of boxers by Charles Hoff, with essays on boxing (by James Baldwin, A.J. Liebling, and others) selected by Richard Ford and with an introduction ("In the Face") by Ford. Signed by Ford. Quarto; fine in a fine dust jacket.
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FORD, Richard

FORD, Richard
London, Harvill Press, (2001). The first separate appearance of this story, which first appeared in The New Yorker and is here published as an advance reading excerpt from the collection A Multitude of Sins, with small textual variations from the final, published version. No comparable U.S. issue. Signed by the author. Fine in stapled wrappers.
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FORD, Richard
NY, Vintage Books, (2004). A selection of Ford's previously published work. Only issued in wrappers. Signed by the author. Fine.
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FORD, Richard
London, Collins Harvill, 1990. The first British hardcover edition of his fifth book, a novel. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. It has been reported that there were only 600 copies of this title printed in the U.K., although we don't know how reliable that figure is.
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(FORD, Richard)
(NY), (Smart American), 1990. An excerpt from his novel. Signed by Ford at his contribution. Fine.
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(FORD, Richard). YATES, Richard
NY, Vintage Contemporaries, (2000). Later printing of the second Vintage Contemporaries edition of Yates' 1961 novel, with a 12 page introduction by Richard Ford. Signed by Ford. Fine in wrappers.
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FOWLER, Karen Joy
NY, Bantam, (1986). Signed by the author in the month prior to publication. Paperback; fine.
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$55
FOWLES, John
London, Jonathan Cape, (1985). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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FOWLES, John
London, Jonathan Cape, (1977). A large, ambitious novel that spans three decades and self-consciously sets out to explore "what it is to be English." Signed by the author in 2000, with the added exhortation "Go very well!" Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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FOWLES, John

FOWLES, John
(NY), Ecco Press, (1973). Signed by the author in 2002 with the added exhortation "Go well!" Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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FOWLES, John
Helsinki, Eurographica, (1987). The first separate edition, copy number 172 of 350 copies, of a story first published in The Ebony Tower. Signed by the author. An attractive limited edition printed in Italy at Tipografia Nobili, on special Michelangelo paper made in Pescia, Italy. Part of the Eurographica series of Contemporary Authors in Signed Limited Editions. Fine in wrappers and fine dust jacket.
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FRANCIS, Gavin
London, Chatto & Windus, 2012. Inscribed by the author to Peter Matthiessen, "another polar and penguin enthusiast," with a drawing of a penguin saying,"Hello Peter, I hope you come and see us again sometime." Matthiessen's book of Antarctic voyages, End of the Earth, was published in 2003, and this book uses lines from that book as an epigraph for the first chapter. Laid into Francis' book is an autograph letter signed by Francis thanking Matthiessen for the use of his words and for the inspiration found both in End of the Earth and The Snow Leopard. Two sides of one sheet, folded in thirds; near fine. The book is fine in a fine dust jacket.
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FRANZEN, Jonathan

FRAZIER, Charles
NY, Atlantic Monthly, (1997). His first book, a Civil War novel and a publishing phenomenon: after a modest 25,000 copy first printing, the book eventually sold more than a million copies in hardcover and won the National Book Award -- a rare combination of literary and commercial success for any work of fiction, let alone a first novel. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with the John Berendt blurb attached on a label to the front panel (not exactly an issue point, as some copies had this affixed on publication day, while others didn't). Signed by the author in the year of publication.
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FREUD, Esther
(London), Hamish Hamilton, (2003). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Also signed by a "ferry girl," as mentioned on page 28 of the text. With two photos of the ferry girl at work laid in.
[#915005]
$50
FUNKE, Cornelia
Somerset, Chicken House, (2003). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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$150
GALLAGHER, Tess
(Port Townsend), Graywolf Press, 1976. The poet's second book, this being the issue in wrappers, one of 1350 copies of a total edition of 1500. Inscribed by the author to another poet in 1981, with reference to "our days in Seattle," and signed with "Love." With the recipient's ownership signature. Fine in wrappers. A nice literary association.
[#022701]
$100
GALLANT, Mavis

GARLAND, Alex

GARRIS, Mark
(Springfield), Gauntlet, 2000. Issued in an edition of 350 copies, this is a Publisher's Copy ("PC" on the colophon), signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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GAY, William
(Hohenwold), (Book Source), (1999). A chapbook published as Oxford Series: One. Number 173 of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers.
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GIBBONS, Kaye
Chapel Hill, Algonquin, 1987. Her highly acclaimed first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded a special citation by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. It was also selected in London as one of the 20 best novels of the 20th century, and has become a classic coming-of-age novel and a part of the canon, frequently being combined on school reading lists with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Catcher in the Rye. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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GIBSON, Margaret

GILBERT, Elizabeth

GILCHRIST, Ellen
NY, Albondocani, 1988. A limited edition printing the previously unpublished "The Man Who Kicked Cancer's Ass" and "Some Blue Hills at Sundown," which appeared in The London Daily News in 1987. Of a total edition of 176 copies, this is one of 150 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in saddle-stitched self-wrappers.
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GLASS, Julia
NY, Pantheon, (2010). Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen], with admiration and with an apology for stealing his time, adding "What a pleasure to spend the day with you." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Glass won the National Book Award for Three Junes.
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GOLDEN, Arthur
NY, Knopf, 1997. His highly praised first novel, written from the point of view of a young geisha, which became a surprise bestseller and was also made into a film. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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GORDON, Roxy
Austin, Place of Herons, 1984. The simultaneous wrappered issue of this collection of stories and poems by a writer of Choctaw descent, with illustrations by the author. His second book, the earlier one having been published in 1972. Inscribed by the author to Joseph Bruchac. Fine in wrappers. Blurbs by Gary Snyder, Leonard Cohen, and others.
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(Anthology)
(GORMAN, Ed; HAUTALA, Rick; KETCHUM, Jack; PRONZINI, Bill; VAN BELKOM, Edo; WILSON, F. Paul; et al.) LAYMON, Richard, ed.

GRADY, Wayne
(Toronto), McClelland & Stewart, (2006). Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen], "with friendship, admiration & fond memories of Pelee Island and the Connecticut warbler. And vague memories of the tequila." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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GREGG, Linda

GRENVILLE, Kate
(Sydney), Picador, (1999). Winner of the Orange Prize. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers.
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GRUMBACH, Doris
NY, Macmillan, (1987). A novel by one of the great American "women of letters" -- novelist, biographer, critic, essayist, memoirist -- and a proto-feminist author, who wrote about women's issues and perspectives before the term "feminist" had even come into use. Inscribed by Grumbach to the former President of the University of Iowa and later Dartmouth College and his wife "in true friendship" in November, 1986 -- i.e., two months prior to publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Long blurb by Cynthia Ozick on the rear panel.
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GURGANUS, Allan
(Durham), (North Carolina Wesleyan College Press), 1981. The first separate publication by the author of the acclaimed Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. A single short story, printed in an edition of 500 copies; this is one of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in stapled wrappers.
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HARJO, Joy
NY, Norton, (1994). Poetry and prose poems. Inscribed by the author in the month of publication: "For ___ ____-/ you are part of/ these stories &/ songs/ with ongoing/ love,/ Joy Harjo/ 12/94." Fine in a fine dust jacket (not price-clipped, as most of the jackets were), with a black & white photo of the author and her daughter laid in.
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HARRIS, Thomas

(HARRIS, Thomas)

HAUTALA, Rick
Baltimore, Cemetery Dance, 1999. Number 454 of 500 copies signed by the author with an added skull, and by Glen Chadbourne the illustrator and by Matthew J. Costello, who provides the afterword. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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HEARON, Shelby
NY, Atheneum, 1987. Inscribed by Hearon to William Kittredge: "To Bill - a real nice guy, my vintage, my scars -- it was a pleasure to be with you. Best, Shelby." Fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice inscription and nice association.
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HEARON, Shelby

HEGI, Ursula

HELLENGA, Robert
(NY), Soho, (1994). A complimentary copy of the first edition, sent to booksellers. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with promotional sheet laid in.
[#916270]
$65
HEMON, Aleksandar
(London), Picador, (2000). The first book, a collection of stories, by a writer from Sarajevo for whom English is a second language. The U.K. edition is the first English language edition, preceding the U.S. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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HEMPEL, Amy
NY, Knopf, 1990. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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HIGHWATER, Jamake
NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, (1985). A novel of a young Plains Indian boy coming of age at the time of the westward expansion of the white men, and of the social turmoil and collapse that followed. Inscribed by the author to Henry Kurth in 1986, "in friendship & admiration." A nice association copy. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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HJORTSBERG, William
Fremont, Sumac, (1973). Advance review copy of his third book, limited to 1026 copies. Fine in fine dust jacket and inscribed by the author, in 1974. With jacket flap blurbs by Jim Harrison, Thomas McGuane, and Harry Crews.
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HOAGLAND, Edward
Santa Barbara, Capra Press, (1992). The first book publication of these pieces -- stories and an essay -- which Hoagland wrote in the 1960s, before his first books of nonfiction were published. With an introduction by Hoagland that puts the pieces in context and reflects on writing and writers. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers; there was no hardcover edition. Uncommon signed. From the author's library.
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HOFFMAN, Alice
NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1977). Her first book, a novel of teenage gangs. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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HOGAN, Linda and HENDERSON, Charles Colbert
(Acomita), Acoma Press, 1985. A collection of stories by Hogan derived from a tale her father and grandfather used to tell. Her father's version (by Charles Colbert Henderson) is the first one in the collection; the rest of the writing is by Hogan. Signed by Hogan. Fine in wrappers. An attractive, uncommon volume published by a small press in Acoma Pueblo.
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HOPKINS, John
San Francisco, Cadmus Editions, (1998). The first American edition, the issue in wrappers. Inscribed by the author to Virginia Spencer Carr who, among other things, wrote a biography of Paul Bowles. Several sections pertaining to Bowles are marked in text, presumably by Carr for her biography. Otherwise fine in wrappers. Blurbs by Bowles and William Burroughs.
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HOUELLEBECQ, Michel
London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2005). The first English-language edition. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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HOUSTON, Pam
NY, Norton, (1992). Her first book, a collection of stories, one of which was selected for The Best American Short Stories 1990. The collection won the 1993 Western States Book Award. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#915156]
$55
IRVING, John

(IRVING, John)

IRVING, John

IWEALA, Uzodinma
(London), John Murray, (2005). The first British edition. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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IYER, Pico
NY, Knopf, 2003. Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen]: "With warmest appreciation and respect for having shown so many of us the way." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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JACKSON, Jon A
Woodstock, Foul Play Press/Countryman, (1990). The third Mulheisen novel. Inscribed by the author: "For Dorrit Karasek and Steve Krauzer. Two of my good ol' pals. I've got a joke & I'll tell you one day. But thanks for buying this & hope it keeps you awake. Affectionately, Jon Jackson." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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JACKSON, Jon A
NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, (1993). A Mulheisen mystery. Warmly inscribed by Jackson to fellow writer Steve [Krauzer] and his wife. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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JACKSON, Jon A
NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, (1998). A novel in this Montana author's popular and critically well-received crime series featuring "Fang" Mullheisen, a Detroit policeman. Warmly inscribed by Jackson to fellow writer Steve [Krauzer]. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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JACKSON, Jon A.

JOHNSON, Charles
NY, Scribner, (2005). Stories. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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JOHNSON, Charles
NY, Atheneum, 1986. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#914182]
$60
(KING, Martin Luther, Jr.)
JOHNSON, Charles and ADELMAN, Bob

JOHNSON, Diane
NY, Harcourt Brace World, (1965). Her first novel. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#915192]
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