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  • Ian Ousby  :  Occupation   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. History of occupied France 1940-1944. F/F. $30.00.

  • Barbara Cleverly  :  An Old Magic   Suffolk Press, Suffolk, UK, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Number 74 of 400 cloth bound copies. Ripples of tragedy reach into the present day when architect Anna Claydon, surveying a house built over the remains of a Roman villa, inadvertently opens a window to the past. That past will reveal itself to Anna and involve her in romance, buried treasure, ancient curses, and a dash of the supernatural. F/F. $60.00.

  • Tobias Wolff  :  Old School   Knopf, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. In his first novel, Wolff tells the story of literary obsession at a small New England prep school. F/F. $25.00.

  • Christine Aziz  :  The Olive Readers   Macmillan, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In the future there is no past, no history, no nationality, no tradition. A system of companies governs the world. But in the olive-producing region of Olea, the Readers are smuggling and storing books in a secret library. Winner of the UK Richard and Judy How To Get Published Award. F/F. $45.00.

  • Ian McEwan  :  On Chesil Beach   Jonathan Cape, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • Sebastian Faulks  :  On Green Dolphin Street   Random House, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. A novel set in New York and Washington in the year 1960. F/F. $5.00.

  • Lorraine Bracco  :  On the Couch   Putnam, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Candid autobiography of "Dr. Melfi" from The Sopranos. F/F. $45.00.

  • C.E. Poverman  :  On the Edge   Ontario Review Press, Princeton, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. F/F. $15.00.

  • Robert Littell  :  The Once and Future Spy   Bantam, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. Intrigue and espionage. F/F. $45.00.

  • Anthology  :  One City   Polygon, Edinburgh, 2005. Paperback. First Edition. Original stories by Alexander McCall Smith, Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh who wrote in support of OneCity Trust, a charity supporting projects fighting social injustice and inequality in Edinburgh. With an introduction by J.K. Rowling. In wraps as issued. Fine. $14.00.

  • Philip Kerr  :  The One From the Other   Putnam, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Bernie Gunther thriller set in Munich in 1949. Signed on tipped in page. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Kate Atkinson  :  One Good Turn   Doubleday, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Kate Atkinson  :  One Good Turn   Doubleday, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second Jackson Brodie mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

  • Henning Mankell  :  One Step Behind   Harvill Press, London, 2002. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $225.00.

  • Mark Z. Danielewski  :  Only Revolutions   Pantheon, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. National Book Award Nominee. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • C.J. Box  :  Open Season   Putnam, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. Introduces Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. F/F. $40.00.

  • Alice Munro  :  Open Secrets   McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Short stories. . F/F. $65.00.

  • Helen Oyeyemi  :  The Opposite House   Bloomsbury, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

  • Leone Ross  :  Orange Laughter   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Love, loss and betrayal in a small southern town. F/F. $12.00.

  • Thomas H. Cook  :  The Orchids   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1982. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Peter Langhof lives an anonymous life in South America. He was in the Waffen SS and once performed medical experiments - a man with no politics who worked at the very center of evil. Some shelfwear to the extremities of the dustjacket. A bright, tight copy. NF/NF. $55.00.

  • David Searcy  :  Ordinary Horror   Viking, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Frank Delabano sends away for an organic remedy to help him deal with the pests in his flowerbeds. He gets more than he bargained for. Author's First Novel. F/F. $20.00.

  • P.D. James  :  Original Sin   Faber & Faber, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine in price clipped dustjacket. $40.00.

  • P.D. James  :  Original Sin   Faber & Faber, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

  • David Cannadine  :  Ornamentalism   Oxford University Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. With the return of Hong Kong to the Chinese government in 1997, the empire that had lasted three hundred years loosened its hold on the world and slipped into history. This book takes a look at the British Empire through the eyes of those who created and ruled it. F/F. $20.00.

  • Margaret Atwood  :  Oryx and Crake   McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

  • Margaret Atwood  :  Oryx and Crake   McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another extraordinary story set in the future, by the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE. . F/F. $60.00.

  • Mary Lawson  :  The Other Side of the Bridge   Chatto & Windus, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Long listed for the Man Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. VeryGood. $45.00.

  • Andrew Taylor  :  Our Father's Lies   Dodd Mead, New York, 1985. Hardcover. First US Edition. Celia Prentiss refuses to believe that her historian father deliberately drowned himself. She convinces her father's old friend of this and his son, Major William Dougal, once Celia's boyfriend agrees. Price clipped. Slight sunning on spine. NF/NF. $20.00.

  • Philip Roth  :  Our Gang   Random House, New York, 1971. Hardcover. First Edition. Slight shelfwear top and bottom of spine. In fine dustjacket. F/F. $70.00.

  • A.J. Langguth  :  Our Vietnam   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Definitive history of the war in Vietnam 1954-1975. F/F. $20.00.

  • Robert Goddard  :  Out of the Sun   Bantam Press, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Harry Barnett, who was featured in Into The Blue, is anonymously informed that his son is languishing in a hospital in a diabetic coma. Harry is certain there is a mistake since he doesn't have a son, but he discovers that he does. F/F. $20.00.

  • Ross Thomas  :  Out on the Rim   Mysterious Press, New York, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert, is deeply interested in the five million dollars being funnelled by well-financed interests to rebels in the Philippine mountains. . F/F. $45.00.

  • Jose Latour  :  Outcast   Akashic Books, New York, 1999. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. Paperback original. Very well received Cuban noir. Edgar Award Nominee. Fine. $30.00.

  • Robert Stone  :  Outerbridge Reach   Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First Trade Edition. SIGNED. Man pitting himself against the sea, against society, and against himself. . F/F. $40.00.

  • Dylan Jones  :  Outside the Rules   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First US Edition. Dr. Thomas Meredith has never recovered from the night a hooded serial killer tortured and murdered his girlfriend before his eyes. He is working night shift at the local diner and is terrified of the dark. The police would like a forensic psychiatrist to unlock Meredith's memories to help them catch the killer who is still at large. Slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $5.00.

  • Chris Simms  :  Outside the White Lines   Chris Simms, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Killer finds his victims in the breakdown lanes on the motorways of England. Told from three perspectives: the killer, the cop who is tracking him, and a strange young man who haunts the motorways. Author's first novel. F/F. $40.00.

  • Liza Ward  :  Outside Valentine   Henry Holt, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Three people, three voices, three different times, all mysteriously linked by a shocking crime. Author is granddaughter of one of Charlie Starkweather's victims. Author's First Novel. F/F. $25.00.

  • janwillem van de Wetering  :  Outsider in Amsterdam   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1975. Hardcover. First Edition. The owner of a sleazy restaurant-cum-commune in the old quarter of Amsterdam. Introduces detectives Grijpstra and de Gier who are colled in to investigate. Stain ffe, glue residue. F/F. $20.00.

  • Lucie Aubrac  :  Outwitting The Gestapo   University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1993. Hardcover. First English Translation. Lucie Aubrac, newly married, was teaching history in Lyons when World War II broke out. She and her husband soon joined the Resistance movement. This is her account of the months when, pregnant with her second child, she planned and took part in raids to free captive comrades - including her husband. F/F. $10.00.

  • Jess Walter  :  Over Tumbled Graves   HarperCollins, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces Detective Caroline Mabry who investigates the deaths of young prostitutes in Washington state. Author's First Novel. F/F. $40.00.

  • Samuel Hirsh Gottlieb  :  Overbooked in Arizona   Camelback Gallery, Arizona, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Hilarious spoof on book collecting. A must for the bibliophile. F/F. $50.00.

  • James Barrington  :  Overkill   Macmillan, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. America and Europe have been seeded with nuclear weapons by a group of renegade Russians and their Arab allies. Maverick trouble-shooter Paul Richter finds himself up against a mastermind determined to bomb America back into the Stone Age. F/F. $20.00.

  • Jonathan Rabb  :  Overseer   Crown, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. It has long been rumored in academic circles that a 16th Century monk wrote a masterplan for world domination so dangerous that the Pope had him killed to suppress it. But the text survived! Wonderful biblio thriller. F/F. $40.00.

  • Steve Yarbrough  :  The Oxygen Man   MacMurray & Beck, Denver, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Ned Rose works nights checking the oxygen levels in the fish farm ponds. Since his angry teenage years, Ned's life has been marred by violence that erupts loudly and quickly disappears leaving him filled with secrets and regret. Stunning. Author's First Novel. F/F. $25.00.

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