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Little, Brown, London, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021 SIGNED with a Sharpie by Val McDermid on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 418 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, black-papered boards with white lettering on spine, dockland scene on endpapers, repeated on jacket. NEW book (unread). Condition is Fine in Fine, a bright copy with minimal edge wear to jacket. Packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. The First Allie Burns Thriller from the celebrated and best-selling Scottish crime writer. The year 1979 marked, of course, the end of the 1970s and the beginnings of the 1980s, but decades tend to bleed into each other; definite ends are only a calendar device. And each decade is rife with problems, from political to culture upheavals — all of which play major parts in Val McDermid's masterful "1979."

Faber & Faber, London, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Sally Rooney on the half-title page: Independent Bookseller (INDIE) Edition with YELLOW jacket and THEMED BOOKMARK. Hardcover with dust jacket, 337 numbered pages, 22 x 14 cm, light blue boards, yellow ribbon marker, yellow jacket with cartoon images in windows. NEW (unread). Fine in Fine. Rooney's work has garnered critical acclaim and commercial success, and she is regarded as one of the foremost Millennial writers. A massive best seller, with talk of a TV series.

Canongate Books, Edinburgh, UK Independent Bookshop Special 1st Edition,1st Printing, 2021, SIGNED in characteristic fun style by Ruth Ozeki on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 546 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm. Yellow boards with black lettering on spine. Jacket features shiny, colored lettering telling its own story on a purplish-blue background, most effective. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, a bright copy. Packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her novel A Tale for the Time Being was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize. The Book of Form and Emptiness is a compassionate book that is filled with ideas, and an original, inventive coming-of-age tale about grief and loss and mental health, and our modern, all-consuming obsession with acquiring materialistic possessions. It is also a story about the vital relationship between a boy and his very own book.

Penguin Random House UK, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021 neatly SIGNED by Colm Toibin on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 437 numbered pages, 24 x 15 cm, green boards with black title on spine, pictorial wraps of gondolas in Venice. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. "No living novelist dramatized artistic creation as profoundly, as luminously, as Colm Toibin, or conveys so well the entanglement of imagination and desire" (GARTH GREENWELL).

Mantle (Pan McMillan imprint), London, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2021, SIGNED by Ray Celestin on a tipped-in page (printed with "Signed by the Author" text). Hardcover with dust jacket, 535 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, black boards with titling and series skull design, in bright yellow, jacket printed in magenta and orange with black skull motif. NEW (unread) - Condition is Fine in Fine. The final book in the City Blues Quartet Series, which charts the twin histories of jazz and the Mob through the middle fifty years of the twentieth century. Intricate jazz-soaked thrills featuring Louis Armstrong. Sunset Swing won BOTH CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year (2022) and CWA Historical Dagger for Historical Crime Novel of the Year (2022).

White Rabbit Books, London, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021 boldly SIGNED by Steve Van Zandt on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 403 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, navy blue boards with bold purple titling on spine, photographs of Van Zandt with mesmerizing rock star stare in color on front, and Sopranos' stare in black and white on rear. NEW (unread copy). Condition is Fine in Fine - no flaws observed, jacket bright, book corners sharp. Packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. Steven Van Zandt (né Lento; born November 22, 1950), also known as Little Steven or Miami Steve, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer, actor, and activist. He is best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, in which he plays guitar and mandolin. He is also known for his roles in several television drama series, including as Silvio Dante in The Sopranos (1999–2007) and as Frank Tagliano in Lilyhammer (2012–2014). After leaving the E Street Band in 1984, Van… Read More