Category: Signed

Price: $25.00

Publisher: James Brunner: 1990

Seller ID: 2205698

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper - inscribed Clune books are somewhat unusual, as his usual habit was to visit bookstores, sign copies of his books that were on the shelf, and leave without announcing he had done so. Inscription appears to read 'For Eta ts alga, with all good wishes, Henry W Clune', but perhaps this was meant to be a fraternity [Eta psi alpha?]). 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 218 pp. 8vo. The hallmark of these stories is precision of observation. For three quarters of a century, Henry W. Clune has reported with wry sympathy on o...
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Souvenir and Other Stories

Price: $15.00

Publisher: James Brunner: 1990

Seller ID: 2164089

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition, #239 of 1000. Signed and hand-numbered by author on colophon. Jacket toned, jacket price clipped, owner sticker on front endpaper. Very Good. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 218 pp. 8vo. The hallmark of these stories is precision of observation. For three quarters of a century, Henry W. Clune has reported with wry sympathy on our hopes and fears, loves and loathings. As newspaper reporter, columnist and, above all, cunning storyteller, he has conveyed the essence of a full spectrum of sometimes surprising, sometimes familiar American lives. That ...
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The Good Die Poor

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1937

Seller ID: 2206753

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. No jacket, light stain to bottom edge of front board, sticker to front paste-down endpaper, ink note to front endpaper. 1937 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 294 pp. Clune's novel about the career of a newspaperman during the Great Depression. His first novel. He was a writer and columnist who appeared several times a week in The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, from 1914 to 1969. He wrote 14 books, including novels and a history of his native Rochester, New York.
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O'Shaughnessy's Cafe

Price: $25.00

Publisher: ., Macmillan Company: 1969

Seller ID: 2266152

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket edges rubbed, minor tear along bottom edge of jacket front. Address label on front endpaper. 1969 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 473 pp. A con woman and her unlikely corporation take over the town in the wildest, most hilarious package of rollicking Americana to come along in decades!
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I Always Liked It Here: Reminiscences of a Rochesterian

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1983

Seller ID: 2281335

ISBN: 0961082402

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition, #53 of 250 copies. Hand numbered and signed by author on limitation page. Includes publisher's slipcase. 1983 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 377 pp. 8vo. Black & white photographs. At 92, Henry W. Clune could be forgiven for setting aside the rigorous labors of the literary life and sitting instead on one of his lawn chairs and spending long hours contemplating the beautiful vista which stretches behind his home in Scottsville, New York. The author of six fine novels, a volume in the Rivers of America Series (The Genesee, 1963) and his history ...
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I Always Liked It Here: Reminiscences of a Rochesterian

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1983

Seller ID: 2300595

ISBN: 0961082402

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition, #118 of 250 copies, signed by author on limitation page. Ink gift note on front endpaper. 1983 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 377 pp. 8vo. Black & white photographs. At 92, Henry W. Clune could be forgiven for setting aside the rigorous labors of the literary life and sitting instead on one of his lawn chairs and spending long hours contemplating the beautiful vista which stretches behind his home in Scottsville, New York. The author of six fine novels, a volume in the Rivers of America Series (The Genesee, 1963) and his history of his home cit...
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I Always Liked It Here: Reminiscences of a Rochesterian

By: Cohn, Arthur B.; Bartley, Barbara; Beil, Eloise; Blow, David; Carlisle, Lilian Baker; Crisman, Kevin; Haas, Ernie; Kane, Adam; Loven, Adam; McKibben, Alan; McLaughlin, Scott; Taylor, Roger; Vincent, Jane

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1983

Seller ID: 2301332

ISBN: 0961082402

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition, # 178 of 250. Signed by author and numbered on limitation page. Ink gift note on front endpaper, spine faintly soiled. 1983 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 377 pp. 8vo. Black & white photographs. At 92, Henry W. Clune could be forgiven for setting aside the rigorous labors of the literary life and sitting instead on one of his lawn chairs and spending long hours contemplating the beautiful vista which stretches behind his home in Scottsville, New York. The author of six fine novels, a volume in the Rivers of America Series (The Genesee, 1963) an...
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Second Feature: The Best of the 'B' Films

By: Cocchi, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Citadel Press: 2000

Seller ID: 2275518

ISBN: 0806511869

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

SIGNED by author. Light edge wear. 2000 Soft Cover. A pictorial history of B movies profiles stars and featured players, and includes a list of films in such categories as comedies, dramas, horror, musicals, and westerns.
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Age of Iron

By: Coetzee, J.M.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg: 1990

Seller ID: 2200388

ISBN: 0436200120

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Bookplate signed by author without inscription affixed to half-title page. Pages toned. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 180, [1] pp. 8vo. Coetzee received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is also a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize. Dying of cancer, Elizabeth Curren writes a testament to her lost daughter, now living in America. Her account describes her relationship with the tramp, Vercueil, who becomes her silent companion and confessor as she tries to make her peace with the world. The novel is an anguished lament for a country on th...
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East Wind Rain: A Pictorial History of the Pearl Harbor Attack

By: Cohen, Stan B.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Missoula, MT, Pictorial Histories Publishing Company: 1983

Seller ID: 2303281

ISBN: 0933126158

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Third printing. Signed by author without inscription. Spine creased, page ridges lightly foxed. 1983 Large Softcover. x, 182 pp. A superior historical review, in pictorial form, of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Although of a pictorial nature, the text is scholarly, extremely well-researched and concise. The maps and previously unpublished photographs place the attack in an accurate historical context.
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Lake Champlain's Sailing Canal Boats: An Illustrated Journey from Burlington Bay to the Hudson River - Building the Canal Schooner Lois McClure

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Basin Harbor, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum: 2003

Seller ID: 2304057

ISBN: 0964185628

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

First paperback printing. Inscribed and signed by Arthur Cohn on title page ('to Vicky and Bob, Your hospitality in Palmyra has been so wonderful - and I applaud all the efforts you are making to help keep history alive. Sincerely, Art, August 12, 2007 - Arthur B. Cohn'). Edges lightly rubbed. 2003 Large Softcover. xiv, 187 pp. Color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout. The Lake Champlain - Hudson River corridor has played host to some of this nation's most defining historic events. From its vantage point at Burlington, Vermont, this highly illustrated work... takes th...
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Hollywood Wives: The New Generation

By: Collins, Jackie

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2011

Seller ID: 2196087

ISBN: 0743216342

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed with date by Jackie Collins (Author), small stains to page fore-edge. 2011 Hard Cover. 519 pp. Power. Sex. Fame. The new Hollywood wives have it all, and if they don't have it, they want it. Jackie Collins captures Hollywood and its inhabitants with an anthropologist's eye. Like the original Hollywood Wives, the new breed will shock and surprise, amuse and startle, taking readers on a trip they will not soon forget. First Edition.Signed with date by Jackie Collins (Author).
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Belles and Beaux, with Other Poems

By: Colvin, Laura M.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Rochester, N.Y., Charles Mann: 1883

Seller ID: 2305758

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author with inscription, To Mrs. Joseph Froth(?) with kind regards. Crease on rear board. 1883 Hard Cover. 271 pp. Red cloth boards. A collection of poetry.
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent

By: Connery, Donald S.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1977

Seller ID: 2276380

ISBN: 0399118233

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('To Julian Street Jr., Donald S. Connery'). This volume was acquired as part of Street's personal collection. Related newspaper articles laid in. Boards and jacket lightly spotted on front and spine, small internal tear to jacket on front edge along spine. 1977 Hard Cover. 377, [5] pp. 8vo. Recounts the incredible ordeal of eighteen-year-old Peter Reilly, coerced by Connecticut state police into confessing to the murder of his mother and exonerated three years later through the efforts of outraged friends and neighbors. Includes ...
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Celebrating Our Past: Livingston County in the Twentieth Century

By: Cook, Bill

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Geneseo, Q Publishing: 2000

Seller ID: 2293903

ISBN: 0966522885

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front flyleaf ('To Rita, Enjoy this story of our country's glorious past. Bill Cook'). 2000 Large Hardcover. 198 pp. A history of Livingston County, located in western New York, home to SUNY Geneseo and the Genesee Valley Hunt, and notable as the birthplace of the American Red Cross (the first local chapter was established in Dansville) and of Pledge of Allegiance author Francis Bellamy. Black-and-white photographs throughout.
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Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1995

Seller ID: 2270880

ISBN: 0385467877

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 273 pp. Whether through her stories or her legendary readings, J. California Cooper has an uncanny ability to reach out to readers like an old and dear friend. Her characters are plain-spoken and direct: simple people for whom life, despite its ever-present struggles, is always worth the journey. In Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime, Cooper's characteristic themes of romance, heartbreak, struggle and faith resonate. We meet Darlin, a self-proclaimed femme fatale wh...
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The Matter is Life: Stories

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1991

Seller ID: 2270881

ISBN: 0385411731

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 227 pp. Collects a set of tales of simple people and events that are rich, lyrical, humorous, ironic, and full of wonder at life's mysteries.
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The Future Has a Past: Stories

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2000

Seller ID: 2270882

ISBN: 038549680X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 265 pp. From the highly acclaimed author of the classic A Piece of Mine comes a magnificent collection of stories about ordinary women who discover that love sometimes comes when you least expect it. Passionately re-creating the lives of just everyday people trying to live every day, J. California Cooper limns the mysterious way in which people discover what is important. Maisha, the narrator of A Shooting Star, chronicles the much-gossiped-about affairs of her ...
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Homemade Love

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2270884

ISBN: 0312388950

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps faintly toned. 1986 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 175 pp. Author's second book, and the first to be published in hardcover. Offers a collection of stories full of wonder at the mystery of life, the hardness of fate, and the whimsical humor the Lord indulges in.
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Some Soul to Keep

By: Copperfield, David; Berliner, Janet; Beagle, Peter S.; Williams, Tad; McCaffrey, Anne; Anderson, Kevin J.; Gaiman, Neil; Lustbader, Eric; Feist, Raymond

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1987

Seller ID: 2270885

ISBN: 0312006845

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 211 pp. J. California Cooper writes with a transparent clarity and such exuberant energy that her characters leap off the page, bursting with stories they've got to tell--stories of simple people, stories of families and fate, of love and marriage, of death and the triumph of the human spirit.
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David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, HarperPrism: 1996

Seller ID: 2287989

ISBN: 0061052299

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Signed by author with inscription, Linda. Rear jacket flap creased. Pages faintly toned. 1996 Hard Cover. xii, 353 pp. A collection of original fantasy tales includes contributions by such popular authors as Neil Gaiman, Peter S. Beagle, Anne McCaffrey, Tad Williams, Greg Bear, Eric Lustbader, Kevin J. Anderson, Robert Silverberg, and Katherine Dunn, among others.
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The Lake Country. An Annal of Olden Days in Central New York. The Land of Gold.

By: Corbett, John

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Rochester, N.Y., Democrat and Chronicle Print: 1898

Seller ID: 2306718

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front flyleaf ('Elizabeth Warner, October, 1898, Compliments of John Corbett.'). Endpapers faintly foxed. 161 pp. An account of the history and local folklore of central New York, as well as a section on travels in Alaska, based on the author's own experiences. Includes a map showing the locations of Native American tribes, and a map of the Alaskan mainland.
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The Front

By: Cornwell, Patricia

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 2008

Seller ID: 2287865

ISBN: 0399154183

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author with inscription, To Stephany. A fine copy. 2008 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 180 pp. Dispatched by the district attorney to a declining Massachusetts neighborhood to address a case related to a new public relations campaign, state investigator Win Garano suspects a deeper agenda and becomes involved with a loosely organized association of vigilante police officers, in a case during which he is assisted by his intuitive grandmother.
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Eleventh Hour (An FBI Thriller)

By: Coulter, Catherine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Putnam: 2002

Seller ID: 2290777

ISBN: 0399148779

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

SIGNED by author. Rear jacket faintly rubbed. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. When FBI agent Dane Carver's twin brother, Father Michael Joseph, is brutally murdered in his San Francisco church, husband-and-wife agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich take a personal interest in the investigation. Then Nicola Nick Jones, a homeless woman and the only witness to the shooting, is scared out of her mind because she's trying to hide from her own monsters-who are drawing closer and closer.
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Bird of Paradise: A Novel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1990

Seller ID: 2270475

ISBN: 0671686348

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 206 pp. A novel about unexpected love and the things that can happen, almost magically, when expectations cease centers on an Alabama widow whose adult life has been shaped by her late husband's alcoholism.
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Gathering Home: A Novel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1988

Seller ID: 2270476

ISBN: 0671660551

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed and dated 10-8-88 by author. Jacket very faintly toned. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 240 pp. Her adoptive father's decision to run for Congress spurs Whitney Gaines to trace her biological parents, bringing her both painful and joyous revelations about her two families and about herself.
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The Last Hotel for Women: A Novel

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1996

Seller ID: 2270604

ISBN: 0684811111

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 300 pp. A fictional recreation of the events of Mother's Day, 1961, when a bus full of freedom riders was attacked by the Klan in Birmingham, portrays the incident from the perspective of its local citizens.
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Night Ride Home: A Novel