Still More New Listings, March 17, 2015: Some dystopias, Grisham 1st eds, 2 Pynchons, and some amazing Tiffany jewelry art.

Here’s what Henry has added today:

Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1st ed, 1st printing, 1986). Famed tale of the United States’ evolution into a monotheocracy whose people made the Puritans seem like an average night at Studio 54. A dystopian favorite! Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $79.95.

Crews, Harry, Scar Lover (Poseidon Press/Simon & Schuster, 1st ed, 1st printing, 1992). ISBN 0-671-74489-5. A man in Jacksonville, avoiding his past, his family gone, is slowly drawn back into life by a good woman. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Rare copy of a critically-acclaimed writer’s work. HBB price: $45.

Crichton, Michael, Disclosure (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed. 1994), ISBN 0-679-41945-4. Fatal Attraction meets the dot.com boom. Made into a Michael Douglas movie. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $45.

Drakulic, Slavenka, S. (Viking, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1999). 0-670-89097-9. Searing novel of the atrocities of the Balkan war, as experienced by one woman. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $35.

DeVoto, Bernard, The Course of Empire (Houghton Mifflin, 1st ed. 1952). LOC 52-5261. The settlement of America, from the Spanish to Lewis & Clark, by one of the most prominent public intellectuals of the mid-20th century. Hardcover, price clipped dust jacket, a bit chapped in spots, otherwise very good condition. HBB price: $25.

Grisham, John, The Client (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1993). ISBN 0-385-42471-X. CHild sees murder, hires an unlikely lawyer.Menace ensues. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $100.

Grisham, John, The Chamber (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1994). ISBN 0-385-42472-8. A Mississippi Klan’s member’s long-delayed retrial for a racially-motivated murder. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. HBB price: $125.

Grisham, John, A Painted House (Doubleday, 1st ed. 1st printing, 2001). Six weeks in the life of a young boy on a sharecropping Arkansas farm. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Grisham, John, The King of Torts (Doubleday, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2003). ISBN 0-385-50804-2. Public defender meets loser client meets Big Pharma. Piles of cash are contended over. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $75.

Gurganus, Allan, Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed. 1989). CHild bride of an ancient Civil War soldier, Lucy Marsden is now herself 99, and seized of the notion to tell her life’s story. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $79.95.

Harris, Joanne, Chocolat (Viking, 1st American ed., 1st printing, 1999). ISBN 0-670-88179-1. A mysterious woman moves into a French town along with a strong north wind. She is a single mom, refuses to attend church, and opens a chocolate shop. A hit movie. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $150.

Lamb, Wally, I Know This Much Is True (Regan Books/HarperCollins, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1998). ISBN 0-06-039162-6. The 900 pp. saga of twins born at the turn of 1949-50, one schizophrenic. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $95.

Loring, John Tiffany Flora/Tiffany Fauna (Harry N. Abrams, 1st ed, 1st printing, 2003). ISBN 0-8109-4573-8. Pair of beautifully-photographed volumes illustrating Tiffany’s output of jewelry and other goods in designs drawn from nature. In a striking white slipcase with nine open circles, front and back, allowing the dust jacket illustrations to show through. Hardcover, unclipped dust jackets, fine condition. HBB price: $125.

McCullough, Colleen, Caesar’s Women (William Morrow, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1996). ISBN 0-688-09731-X.  Absorbing tale of the ten years of Julius Caesar’s rise to power in Republican Rome. One of a series of novels by the author of The Thorn Birds on the first emperor’s life and times. Extravagantly autographed on the title page. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition.  696 pp. HBB price: $50.

Michener, James A., Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections (Random House, 1st ed. 1968). LOC 67-22623. Michener’s conception of “a 19th century English-style travel book with much personal observation, much reflection and much affection”, and with photographs by Robert Vavra.Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $99.95.

Moorcock, Michael, Corum: The Coming of Chaos (White Wolf, 1st hardcover edition, 1st hardcover ed., Feb., 1997). ISBN 1-56504-182-8. Rare reissue of one of Moorcock’s series characters in the Eternal Champion series. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $50.

Picoult, Jodi, Nineteen Minutes (Atria Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2007). ISBN 13: 978-0-7434-96728. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $75.

Pynchon, Thomas, Vineland (Little, Brown, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1990). That special brand of fiction known as Pynchonesque, this time set in a northern California town in an alternative version of 1984. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, near-fine condition. Rare. HBB price: $250.

Pynchon, Thomas, Against the Day (The Penguin Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2006). ISBN 1-59420-120-X. Sprawling historical fantasy set in the United States between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. A real doorstop of a novel: 1084 pp. HBB price: $65.

Reilly, Matthew J., Ice Station (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 1st U.S. ed., 1st printing, 1999). International thriller involving a large metal object discovered way under the Antarctic ice. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $95.

Rice, Anne, The Tale of the Body Thief, (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed. 1992). ISBN 0-679-40528-3. Fourth of her Lestat the Vampire series. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. Small inkstains, one at the bottom of the cover, a couple on the dust jacket spine. Otherwise in very good condition. HBB price: $60.

Sheldon, Sidney (William Morrow, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1990). ISBN 0-688-08488-5. Another page turner by the Hollywood novelist/television producer, set in the brilliant sunset of the Age of the Greek Tycoon. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. HBB price: $95.

Siddons, Anne Rivers, Low Country (HarperCollins, 1st ed., 1998). South Carolina saga of rampant real estate development vs. environmental toryism. All the ladies look fabulous. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $79.95.

Smith, Lee, Guests on Earth (A Shannon Ravenel Book/Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2013). ISBN 978-1-616230-253-8. North Carolina novelist Smith recreates life in an Asheville women’s asylum, among whose patients is Zelda, wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Autographed on the title page. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $50.

Tolkien, J.R.R., Unfinished Tales (Houghton Mifflin, 1st American ed., 1st printing, 1980). Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. One inch tear in dust jacket at top of cover. HBB price: $125.

Vidal, Gore, Burr (Random House, 1st ed. 1973). Recreation of the life of the vice president and adventurer who got the better end of the duel with Alexander Hamilton. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, fine condition. HBB price: $100.

Wolfe, Tom, I Am Charlotte Simmons (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st ed. 1st printing, 2004). ISBN 0-374-28158-0. Wolfe’s novel of turn-of-the-century American college life managed to come out just around the Duke University lacrosse scandal. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $69.95.

Wouk, Herman, Marjorie Morningstar (Doubleday, 1st ed. 1955). LOC 55-6485. Well-regarded story of a Jewish girl who takes on Broadway, and the bad choices that follow. Made into a hit movie. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. good condition. HBB price: $35.

Wouk, Herman, The Caine Mutiny (Doubleday, 1st ed., 2nd printing, 1951). The first printing was of 22,500 copies, but, as First Edition Points notes, “It is unclear how many came  with first issue dust jackets.” The jacket was changed to correct the misnaming of Wouk’s 1948 novel, City Boy, as The City Boy. We assume this copy is a second printing. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, and in very good condition. HBB price: $150.

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