First Edition, First Printing. SIGNIFICANCE —Published in 2000, the collection appeared during a period when Sherman Alexie had become one of the most visible Indigenous literary figures in America following the success of ‘The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven’ and the film adaptation ‘Smoke Signals,’ based on his.....

U.S.A. HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Sharpe's Escape is the twenty-third (tenth in chronological order) historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, published in 2004. Sharpe is embroiled in the British retreat through Portugal in 1810 from the defence of the.....

London: University Press of New England / HArdscrabble Books, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Book two of the Frost Saga continues the exciting nautical adventures launched in The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost, hailed as 'an auspicious start' by Library Journal. In.....

New York: Atheneum, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. James Hynes’s debut, this political-literary thriller is set amid the Troubles that follows rogue IRA veteran Jimmy Coogan—determined to sabotage the movement’s turn toward parliamentary politics—and the naive American cousin he draws into a plot involving stolen plastique.....

Norwalk, Conn: Easton Press, 2002. Limited edition of 1000. First Edition, Thus, HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —China Miéville emerged as one of the most influential voices in contemporary speculative fiction, helping reshape fantasy through the fusion of science fiction, horror, surrealism, Marxist theory, and urban dystopian imagery.The Scar won the British Fantasy.....

New York: The Viking Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNIFICANCE —A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, ‘Trinity Fields’ reflects the ambitious character-driven literary fiction that defined much of American trade publishing during the 1990s. Bradford Morrow later became widely known both as a novelist and as.....

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —The Things They Carried is widely regarded as one of the essential American books about Vietnam and among the most influential works of postwar fiction. O’Brien, himself a Vietnam veteran, helped redefine the literary war narrative by rejecting simple.....