Book of the Day: a Nicholas Sparks-autographed first edition

Local and regional books is one of Henry Bemis Books’ strong suits, so we’re proud to offer Nicholas Sparks fans a  treat today:

Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight (Warner Books, 1st stated ed., 1st printing, 2005). Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, 277 pp. Very good condition. Autographed on the title page; “Autographed Copy” stocker on front of dust jacket along with discount sticker). HBB price: $65 obo.

At First Sight was Sparks’ twelfth book, and, like most since he moved to New Bern on the $1 million advance for this first novel, The Notebook, is set in eastern North Carolina. Publishers Weekly said,

When we last left 37-year-old Jeremy Marsh (a scant six months ago, in Sparks's April pub True Believer ), the science columnist had traveled from his New York base to Boone Creek, N.C., to get a story—and ended up falling in love with Lexie Darnell, the 30-year-old town librarian. Now Lexie's pregnant—but it's true love (and a portable job) that's allowing divorcé Jeremy to move down so they can marry and build a life together. The book centers on the tension-filled runup to the wedding. Sparks pulls out all the smalltown stops—psychic grandmother, meddling mayor, sullen townie ex, jealous best friends—and offers Mars/Venus commentary on what makes his characters tick. Jeremy's writer's block, instead of heightening the will-they-or-won't-they tension, is as enervating for readers as it is for him. More compelling are the mysterious e-mails Jeremy receives that suggest Lexie may not be telling the truth (about who the father is, for one thing), and the character of Lexie's psychic grandmother, Doris, who has correctly predicted the sex of every child born in the town. As the wedding gets closer (and house renovations suck more and more money from Jeremy's dwindling savings), Jeremy and Lexie have some serious talking to do, and Sparks throws in a substantial zinger at the end. It's majorly manipulative and totally effective. Have plenty of tissues on hand.

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