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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2017 SIGNED by author ON TITLE PAGE, pp. 285, 8.5" x 5.75'' x 1", lavender boards with blue pictorial decoration (coffee shop scene) - attractive film DJ has transparent binocular opening onto image. NEW (unread) copy. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. Debut short story collection from Pulitzer Prize winning author. Beautiful copy with intriguing jacket design by Na Kim.

Doubleday, New York, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Colson Whitehead on a tipped-in page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 318 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, black boards with silver titling, jacket printed with sections in red, yellow, green sections with retro illustrations. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine: tiny crease on rear top corner of jacket. From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s (Courtesy Goodreads).

Hutton Press, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Jason Mott, on a bookplate affixed to the half title. Hardcover with dust jacket, 319 numbered pages, 22 x 15 cm, book features black paper over bright yellow textured boards, jacket printed in yellow and black with a creative "cut-away" book illustration by Christopher Lin. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, a crisp copy with minimal shelf wear. 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Winner (Fiction) . With audacity and invention, Jason Mott s Hell of a Book weaves together three narrative strands an unnamed author, a boy named Soot, and a figure known as The Kid into a masterful novel. In a structurally and conceptually daring examination of art, fame, family and being Black in America, Mott somehow manages the impossible trick of being playful, insightful and deeply moving, all at the same time. A highly original, inspired work that breaks new ground (NBA Judges' Citation).

Random House, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2021, SIGNED by Imbolo Mbue on a tipped-in page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 364 numbered pages, 24 by 16 cm, tan paper over black boards with silver titling on spine, jacket features illustration in gray of arms crossed, decayed ostensibly as from a statue. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an America oil company.

Hutchinson Heinemann, London, 1st UK Edition, 1st Printing 2021 SIGNED by Lauren Groff on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 260 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, blue boards with gilt title in spine, jacket printed in tan, blue and gold with a whimsical illustration of cartoon nuns in a tree, includes publisher's blurb wraparound. A very stylish production. NEW book, unread. Condition is Fine in Fine, a bright copy. The fourth novel by the author of Arcadia and Fates abd Furies, the story of a seventeen-year-old woman who is cast out of courtly life England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. Lauren Groff is a two-time National Book Award Finalist

Riverhead Books, New York, 1st Edition, 7th Printing, 2021, SIGNED by Patricia Lockwood is blue ink on the TITLE PAGE. Small format hardcover with dust jacket, 210 numbered pages, 21 x 14 cm, blue paper over yellow boards, silver titling on spine, jacket has "Eischer" ring in foreground over sunset scene. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. "One of the most incisive observers of the spectacle of digital discourse . . . Lockwood is a sharp and often funny social critic" (Courtesy Wall Street ournal). Named a Best Book of 2021 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, NPR, TIME, Vulture, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, PopSugar, Harper's Bazaar, LitHub and Publishers Weekly. Now everyone is talking about Savannah author Patricia Lockwood after Booker Prize recognition.

Random House, New York, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Gary Shteyngart on the title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 317 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, sky blue boards with gilt titling on spine, jacket features "wine glass at end of road" over a blue merging to green background. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, a gorgeous copy. Packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. "At once comic, sad, and introspective, Our Country Friends is a literary feat. With his trademark wry humor, proclivity towards idiosyncratic characters and conversations, and the ability to explore the contradictions that live within each of us, Gary Shteyngart has written a brilliant pandemic novel" (Courtesy Amazon).

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, 3rd Printing SIGNED by Damon Galgut on the title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 293 numbered pages, 22 x 15 cm, black boards with silver titling, jacket printed in black and white with red lettering, features photograph of child on front. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine: minor crushing at spine top and bottom (no tears, chips or loss of any kind). BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2021. Damon Galgut won the Booker prize for his portrait of a white South African family navigating the end of apartheid. The judges praised The Promise as "a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh", and compared it to the work of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, 5th Printing SIGNED by Damon Galgut on the title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 293 numbered pages, 22 x 15 cm, black boards with silver titling, jacket printed in black and white with red lettering, features photograph of child on front. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine. BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2021. Damon Galgut won the Booker prize for his portrait of a white South African family navigating the end of apartheid. The judges praised The Promise as "a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh", and compared it to the work of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf.

Knopf, New York, First Edition, First Printing, 2022, SIGNED by Tess Gunty on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 338 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, deckled edges (somewhat irregular), blue paper over black cloth, silver titling on spine. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine - jacket has a faint horizontal crease due to manufacturing issues in first printing run. The Rabbit Hutch is a stunning debut novel, shortlisted for the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, It concerns four teenagers—recently aged out of the state foster-care system—living together in an apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest, exploring the quest for transcendence and the desire for love. "Gunty writes with a keen, sensitive eye about all manner of intimacies—the kind we build with other people, and the kind we cultivate around ourselves and our tenuous, private aspirations."—Raven Leilani, best-selling, award-winning author of Luster.

Harper Collins, New York, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Louise Erdrich on a tipped-in leaf (marked "specially bound by the publisher"). Hardcover with dust jacket, 386 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, deckle edges, blue textured paper (with Harper Collins colophon stamp) over black boards, silver titling on spine, jack has multi-colored geometric design. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. "Dazzling...A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. Read The Sentence and then do just that." (USA Today, Four Stars)

Ballantine Books, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2021, SIGNED by Jodi Picoult on a tipped-in page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 321 numbered pages, 24 by 16 cm, navy blue boards with gilt titling on the spine, jacket features photograph of bird on a stone with a blue background and has pleasing matt finish. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis.