Jim has been collecting first editions since the 1980's when he lived in Seattle and Portland. He has a number of first edition rare books including Stephen King's first book, Carrie.
Jim became a book seller on the internet a couple of years ago ... and has over two thousand books on the Advanced Book Exchange or ABE.com.
You can
search for Jim's books
on Abe.com and see what he has to offer. He has many modern as well as hyper-modern books listed. Here's a list of the books that Jim bought in 2007 and some of the reasons behind his purchases:
(various authors)
A Hell of a Woman
Busted Flush Press
2007
M
Sue Grafton
T is for Trespass
Putnam
2007
M
Denis Johnson
Tree of Smoke
FSG
2006
L
Jose Saramago
Journey to Portugal
L
Alexander Smith
Dream Angus
L
Don Graham
Literary Austin
L
Edwin Sharke
Custer's Brothers Horse
H
Joseph Ellis
American Creation
H
Alan Furst
The World at Night
T
Mark Penn
Microtrends
NF
Robert Utley
Lone Star Lawman
H
Wesley Stace
By George
L
Carl Bernstein
A Woman in Charge
B
Jenna Bush
Ana's Story
L
Dagoberto Gilb
Hecho en Tejas
L
Brett Battles
The Cleaner
L
Lee Vance
Restitution
T
Milton Burton
The Sweet and the Dead
L
Brent Ghelfi
Volk's Game
M
Noah Charney
The Art Thief
M
Bill Wittliff
A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove
L
Dan Brown
Deception Point
T
David Guterson
Family Matters
L
Doris Lessing
The Fifth Child
L
Ivan Doig
Heart Earth
L
James Crumley
The Final Country
M
Tennessee Williams
Vieux Carre
L
Nadine Gordimer
World of Strangers
L
Samuel Beckett
Play
L
Sarah Bird
The Tokota Officers Club
M
John Updike
Midpoint
L
Kurt Vonnegut
Bluebeard
L
Chuck Palahniuk
Choke
L
Margaret Atwood
Surfacing
L
Michael Crichton
Five Patients
T
Norman Mailer
The Castle in the Forest
L
Jose Saramago
The Cave
L
Willie Morris
Terrains of the Heart
L
Jose Saramago
Baltasar and Blimunda
L
Robert Stone
A Flag For Sunrise
L
Robert Graves
Poems 1968-1970
L
Larry Brown
Dirty Work
L
Vladimir Nabokov
The Gift
L
(all book listed are first editions)
Note: B = Biography H = History HR = Horror L = Literature M = Mystery SF = Science Fiction NF = Non-fiction T = Thriller
