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Brian Cassidy, Bookseller

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	ADAMS, NOAH. Far Appalachia: Following the New River North. New York: Delacorte Press, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0385320108. 8vo. Near fine in green printed wraps. Just a bit of wrinkling (printing flaw) to bottom of spine. Else, bright, tight, clean, and sharp. The UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS (stated) with publisher's letter tipped in. From the former NPR host, this tender portrait of his home. 240pp. Wraps. Near Fine. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 1655 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAKER, NICHOLSON. The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber. New York: Random House, 1996. First Edition. ISBN: 0679439323. 8vo. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF in standard Random House blue wraps. Light shelf-soiling to top & bottom edges. Else sharp and unread. SIGNED by Baker on title page. Baker's first essay collection, which includes his important and now-classic piece on library discards. 356pp. Signed by Author. Wraps. Near Fine. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 1250 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BOWDEN, MARK. Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War. New York: Grove/Atlantic, 1999. First Edition. ISBN: 0871137380. 8vo. Very good plus. Lightly thumbed copy with touches of edge and corner wear. Small faint smudge to bottom page edge. Advance Reader's Edition (stated) / ARC of this harrowing and bestselling account of the raid on Magadishu, Somalia that left eighteen soldiers dead. A fine piece of journalism that reads like a novel. 386pp. Wraps. Very Good+. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 566 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	O'BRIEN, DAN. Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch. New York: Random House, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0375503250. 8vo. Light shelfwear/rubbing, else unread, bright and clean. The advance reading copy / ARC in pictorial wraps identical to hardcover issue. 254pp. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1576 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	O'BRIEN, DAN. Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch. New York: Random House, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0375503250. 8vo. Light shelfwear/rubbing, else unread, bright and clean. The uncorrected proof in standard blue printed Random House wraps. 254pp. Wraps. Near Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1577 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BUTTERWORTH, DAN. Waiting for Rain: A Farmer's Story. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books, 1992. First Edition. ISBN: 0945575785. 8vo. Wraps. Light shelf/edgewear. Else clean throughout and binding strong and uncreased. Advance issue in wraps, a presentation set of folded and gathered sheets of [.] Waiting for the Rain [.] prepared for the friends of Algonquin Books. Memoir of the author's struggle to farm successfully. 226pp. Wraps. Very Good+. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 441] Book number: 1208 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	DWYER, JIM; FLYNN, KEVIN. 102 Minutes: The Untold Story Of The Fight To Survive Inside The Twin Towers. New York: Times Books, 2004. First Edition. ISBN: 0805076824. 8vo. ADVANCE READING COPY in pictorial wraps of this bestselling and award-winning account of Sept. 11th from the moment the first plane hit until the second tower collapsed. Harrowing, page-turning and perhaps the most important work yet on that terrible day. Unread: bright, clean, tight, and sharp. Uncommon in its advanced state. 287pp. Soft Cover. Fine. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1964 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	EARLEY, TONY. Somehow Form a Family: Stories That Are Mostly True. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 1565123026. 8vo. Slight lean, else bright, tight and clean in bright pictorial wraps. SIGNED by Earley to title page. The ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF (stated) of this collection of nostalgic, autobiographical essays from the bestselling author of Jim The Boy. 176pp. Signed by Author. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 1638 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	EGGERS, DAVE [EDITOR]; INTRODUCTION BY VIGGO MORTENSEN. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. First Edition. ISBN: 0618341234. 8vo. ADVANCE READING COPY in pictorial wraps. A few touches of edgewear, else bright, tight and unread. Work by David Mamet, Haruki Murakami, Thom Jones, David Sedaris and more. 408pp. Soft Cover. Near Fine. USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1103] Book number: 1958 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	FOOTE, HORTON. Beginnings: A Memoir. New York: Scribner, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0743211154. 8vo. Faint rubbing, small spot of laminate coming up on front cover, unobtrusive. Else bright, tight, clean, and sharp in glossy pictorial wraps. Second installment of the acclaimed screenwriter and playwright's memoirs. Foote won an Oscar for his adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. 268pp. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 1657 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	HEAT-MOON, WILLIAM. River Horse. Boston-New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1999. First Edition. ISBN: 0395636264. 8vo. Advanced Reading Copy. Fine and unread. Wraps. Fine. The story of Heat-Moon's travels across the US in a custom made boat. A fascinating portrait of the country. According to Heat-Moon, numerous changes and corrections were made to the text even between this late pre-publication edition and the first hardcover; a behind-the-scenes look at a writer at work. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 6 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	HICKAM, HOMER. Coalwood Way. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 2000. First Edition. ISBN: 0-385-33516-4. 8vo. Advanced Readers Copy, near fine overall with some slight bumping/rubbing/small crease on cover near spine. From the bestselling author of October Sky (aka Rocket Boys). The followup to that, the first volume of his memoirs. Pictorial Cover. Very Good+. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 187 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	HOAGLAND, EDWARD. Compass Points: How I Lived. New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0375402462. 8vo. Light edge and shelfwear, slight lean. Else bright and clean throughout, tight binding. Unread. ADVANCE READER'S EDITION of this memoir of the acclaimed author's loss and subsequent regaining of his sight. 293pp. Wraps. Very Good+. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 1169 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	HOOKS, BELL. All About Love : New Visions. New York, NY: Morrow/Avon, 2000. First Edition. ISBN: 0688168442. 8vo. Near fine with touches os edgewear. Else, bright, sharp, clean, and tight. Advance, uncorrected bound galleys (stated). A look at love in all its forms from the cultural critic and writer. 239pp. Wraps. Near Fine. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 403 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	LELLENBERG, JON; DANIEL STASHOWER, AND CHARLES FOLEY. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: A Life in Letters. New York: Penguin Books, 2008. First edition. 8vo. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS in pictorial wraps. Near fine with just touches of shelfwear to edges. Else clean, bright, and sound. Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps. Well-assembled biography in letters from/of the Sherlock Holmes author. 686pp. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 11311 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	LINGEMAN, RICHARD R. Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street. New York: Random House, 2002. First edition. ISBN: 0679438238. 8vo. UNCORRECTED PROOD in blue Random House wraps (softcover). Thumbed and lightly shelfworn, but sound and internally clean. Wraps. Very Good-. Well-received biography of the writer. 636pp. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 9266 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	MILLER, ARTHUR; CENTOLA, STEVE. Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000. New York: Viking Press, 2000. First Edition. ISBN: 0670893145. 8vo. Just traces of rubbing and edgewear to glassy wraps. Else tight and bright throughout. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS (stated) preceding first hardcover edition. Wraps. Near Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1415 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	MUSKE-DUKES, CAROL. Life After Death. New York: Random House, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0-375-50515-6. 8vo. Fine in wraps. Debut novel from the well-regarded poet. Praised on cover by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. This is the Advance Reader's Edition. Pictorial Cover. Fine. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 188 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	NORRIS, KATHLEEN. Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. First Edition. ISBN: 1-57322-078-7. 8vo. Very good plus condition with shelf and edge wear, some rubbing. Her follow-up to The Cloister Walk. Uncorrected proof in printed wraps. 386pp. Printer Wrapper. Very Good+. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 114 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	SEDARIS, DAVID. WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2008. First edition. 8vo. ADVANCE READER'S EDITION / ARC in pictorial wraps. Near fine. Touches of rubbing, unobtrusive number stamp to bottom edge, almost certainly as it came from the publisher. SIGNED by author Sedaris to title page. Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps. Latest bestseller from perhaps our premier humorist. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 11201 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	SHAPIRO, LAURA. JULIA CHILD: A Penguin Life. New York: Viking, 2007. First edition. 8vo. Printed wraps. Near fine. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS (stated) Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps. Short biography of the culinary great from the Penguin Lives Series. Uncommon this format. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 11259 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	WARNER, JOHN. Fondling Your Muse : Infallible Advice from a Published Author to a Writerly Aspirant/A Hands-on Guide to Writing Your Very Own New York Times Bestseller. Writers Digest Books, 2005. First Edition. ISBN: 1582973482. 12mo. ADVANCE READING COPY in glossy wraps. As new. Bright, tight, sharp, and clean. Unread. From the McSweeney's writer, this brilliant send-up of writing guides. Wraps. Fine. USD 11.99 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1058] Book number: 1941 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	WERTH, BARRY. Scarlet Professor. New York: Nan A. Talese (Doubleday), 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0-385-49468-8. 8vo. Small scuff to lower spine, light stain to corner of page edges, unobtrusive. Else fine advanced bound galley (stated) in wraps with publisher letter laid in. A tragic story that needed to be told. From the back cover: Newton Arivin was one of America's leading literary critics, admired by Edmund Wilson and Lillian Hellman, and mentor to Truman Capote. As a scholar and writer, Arvin focused on the secret psychological drives of such American masters as.Hawthrone and.Melville and identified the witch-hunt mentality that lies deep in the American psyche. As a commuinst and unproclaimed homosexual, Arvin experienced the national obsession firsthand.The Pink Scare and nationwide antismut campaign.ruined him. A valuable reappraisal of this now overlooked but influencial critic. 310 pp. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good+. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 1073 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.

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	ADAMS, NOAH. Far Appalachia: Following the New River North. New York: Delacorte Press, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0385320108. 8vo. Near fine in green printed wraps. Just a bit of wrinkling (printing flaw) to bottom of spine. Else, bright, tight, clean, and sharp. The UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS (stated) with publisher's letter tipped in. From the former NPR host, this tender portrait of his home. 240pp. Wraps. Near Fine. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 1655 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAKER, NICHOLSON. The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber. New York: Random House, 1996. First Edition. ISBN: 0679439323. 8vo. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF in standard Random House blue wraps. Light shelf-soiling to top & bottom edges. Else sharp and unread. SIGNED by Baker on title page. Baker's first essay collection, which includes his important and now-classic piece on library discards. 356pp. Signed by Author. Wraps. Near Fine. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 1250 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BOWDEN, MARK. Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War. New York: Grove/Atlantic, 1999. First Edition. ISBN: 0871137380. 8vo. Very good plus. Lightly thumbed copy with touches of edge and corner wear. Small faint smudge to bottom page edge. Advance Reader's Edition (stated) / ARC of this harrowing and bestselling account of the raid on Magadishu, Somalia that left eighteen soldiers dead. A fine piece of journalism that reads like a novel. 386pp. Wraps. Very Good+. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 566 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	O'BRIEN, DAN. Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch. New York: Random House, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0375503250. 8vo. Light shelfwear/rubbing, else unread, bright and clean. The advance reading copy / ARC in pictorial wraps identical to hardcover issue. 254pp. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1576 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	O'BRIEN, DAN. Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch. New York: Random House, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0375503250. 8vo. Light shelfwear/rubbing, else unread, bright and clean. The uncorrected proof in standard blue printed Random House wraps. 254pp. Wraps. Near Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1577 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BUTTERWORTH, DAN. Waiting for Rain: A Farmer's Story. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books, 1992. First Edition. ISBN: 0945575785. 8vo. Wraps. Light shelf/edgewear. Else clean throughout and binding strong and uncreased. Advance issue in wraps, a presentation set of folded and gathered sheets of [.] Waiting for the Rain [.] prepared for the friends of Algonquin Books. Memoir of the author's struggle to farm successfully. 226pp. Wraps. Very Good+. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 441] Book number: 1208 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	DWYER, JIM; FLYNN, KEVIN. 102 Minutes: The Untold Story Of The Fight To Survive Inside The Twin Towers. New York: Times Books, 2004. First Edition. ISBN: 0805076824. 8vo. ADVANCE READING COPY in pictorial wraps of this bestselling and award-winning account of Sept. 11th from the moment the first plane hit until the second tower collapsed. Harrowing, page-turning and perhaps the most important work yet on that terrible day. Unread: bright, clean, tight, and sharp. Uncommon in its advanced state. 287pp. Soft Cover. Fine. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1964 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	EARLEY, TONY. Somehow Form a Family: Stories That Are Mostly True. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 1565123026. 8vo. Slight lean, else bright, tight and clean in bright pictorial wraps. SIGNED by Earley to title page. The ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF (stated) of this collection of nostalgic, autobiographical essays from the bestselling author of Jim The Boy. 176pp. Signed by Author. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 1638 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	EGGERS, DAVE [EDITOR]; INTRODUCTION BY VIGGO MORTENSEN. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. First Edition. ISBN: 0618341234. 8vo. ADVANCE READING COPY in pictorial wraps. A few touches of edgewear, else bright, tight and unread. Work by David Mamet, Haruki Murakami, Thom Jones, David Sedaris and more. 408pp. Soft Cover. Near Fine. USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1103] Book number: 1958 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	FOOTE, HORTON. Beginnings: A Memoir. New York: Scribner, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0743211154. 8vo. Faint rubbing, small spot of laminate coming up on front cover, unobtrusive. Else bright, tight, clean, and sharp in glossy pictorial wraps. Second installment of the acclaimed screenwriter and playwright's memoirs. Foote won an Oscar for his adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. 268pp. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 1657 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	HEAT-MOON, WILLIAM. River Horse. Boston-New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1999. First Edition. ISBN: 0395636264. 8vo. Advanced Reading Copy. Fine and unread. Wraps. Fine. The story of Heat-Moon's travels across the US in a custom made boat. A fascinating portrait of the country. According to Heat-Moon, numerous changes and corrections were made to the text even between this late pre-publication edition and the first hardcover; a behind-the-scenes look at a writer at work. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 6 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	HICKAM, HOMER. Coalwood Way. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 2000. First Edition. ISBN: 0-385-33516-4. 8vo. Advanced Readers Copy, near fine overall with some slight bumping/rubbing/small crease on cover near spine. From the bestselling author of October Sky (aka Rocket Boys). The followup to that, the first volume of his memoirs. Pictorial Cover. Very Good+. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 187 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	HOAGLAND, EDWARD. Compass Points: How I Lived. New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0375402462. 8vo. Light edge and shelfwear, slight lean. Else bright and clean throughout, tight binding. Unread. ADVANCE READER'S EDITION of this memoir of the acclaimed author's loss and subsequent regaining of his sight. 293pp. Wraps. Very Good+. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 1169 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	HOOKS, BELL. All About Love : New Visions. New York, NY: Morrow/Avon, 2000. First Edition. ISBN: 0688168442. 8vo. Near fine with touches os edgewear. Else, bright, sharp, clean, and tight. Advance, uncorrected bound galleys (stated). A look at love in all its forms from the cultural critic and writer. 239pp. Wraps. Near Fine. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 403 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	LELLENBERG, JON; DANIEL STASHOWER, AND CHARLES FOLEY. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: A Life in Letters. New York: Penguin Books, 2008. First edition. 8vo. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS in pictorial wraps. Near fine with just touches of shelfwear to edges. Else clean, bright, and sound. Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps. Well-assembled biography in letters from/of the Sherlock Holmes author. 686pp. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 11311 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	LINGEMAN, RICHARD R. Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street. New York: Random House, 2002. First edition. ISBN: 0679438238. 8vo. UNCORRECTED PROOD in blue Random House wraps (softcover). Thumbed and lightly shelfworn, but sound and internally clean. Wraps. Very Good-. Well-received biography of the writer. 636pp. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 9266 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	MILLER, ARTHUR; CENTOLA, STEVE. Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000. New York: Viking Press, 2000. First Edition. ISBN: 0670893145. 8vo. Just traces of rubbing and edgewear to glassy wraps. Else tight and bright throughout. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS (stated) preceding first hardcover edition. Wraps. Near Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1415 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	MUSKE-DUKES, CAROL. Life After Death. New York: Random House, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0-375-50515-6. 8vo. Fine in wraps. Debut novel from the well-regarded poet. Praised on cover by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. This is the Advance Reader's Edition. Pictorial Cover. Fine. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 188 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	NORRIS, KATHLEEN. Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. First Edition. ISBN: 1-57322-078-7. 8vo. Very good plus condition with shelf and edge wear, some rubbing. Her follow-up to The Cloister Walk. Uncorrected proof in printed wraps. 386pp. Printer Wrapper. Very Good+. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 114 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	SEDARIS, DAVID. WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2008. First edition. 8vo. ADVANCE READER'S EDITION / ARC in pictorial wraps. Near fine. Touches of rubbing, unobtrusive number stamp to bottom edge, almost certainly as it came from the publisher. SIGNED by author Sedaris to title page. Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps. Latest bestseller from perhaps our premier humorist. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 11201 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	SHAPIRO, LAURA. JULIA CHILD: A Penguin Life. New York: Viking, 2007. First edition. 8vo. Printed wraps. Near fine. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS (stated) Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps. Short biography of the culinary great from the Penguin Lives Series. Uncommon this format. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 11259 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	WARNER, JOHN. Fondling Your Muse : Infallible Advice from a Published Author to a Writerly Aspirant/A Hands-on Guide to Writing Your Very Own New York Times Bestseller. Writers Digest Books, 2005. First Edition. ISBN: 1582973482. 12mo. ADVANCE READING COPY in glossy wraps. As new. Bright, tight, sharp, and clean. Unread. From the McSweeney's writer, this brilliant send-up of writing guides. Wraps. Fine. USD 11.99 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1058] Book number: 1941 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	WERTH, BARRY. Scarlet Professor. New York: Nan A. Talese (Doubleday), 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0-385-49468-8. 8vo. Small scuff to lower spine, light stain to corner of page edges, unobtrusive. Else fine advanced bound galley (stated) in wraps with publisher letter laid in. A tragic story that needed to be told. From the back cover: Newton Arivin was one of America's leading literary critics, admired by Edmund Wilson and Lillian Hellman, and mentor to Truman Capote. As a scholar and writer, Arvin focused on the secret psychological drives of such American masters as.Hawthrone and.Melville and identified the witch-hunt mentality that lies deep in the American psyche. As a commuinst and unproclaimed homosexual, Arvin experienced the national obsession firsthand.The Pink Scare and nationwide antismut campaign.ruined him. A valuable reappraisal of this now overlooked but influencial critic. 310 pp. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good+. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 1073 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.