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Burke, James Lee. Half of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

Price: US$425.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition. First edition. 'First printing c,' stated on the copyright page. Jacket has wear and creases. Price has been clipped. There is a dampstain on the back of the jacket. Edge wear has occurred. Book is slightly cocked. Pages are tanning.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half Of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.

Price: US$455.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A lovely copy of the author's first book.

Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. HALF OF PARADISE. Houghton Mifflin, 1965. [, 1965.

Price: US$475.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: ] Hardback, octavo, 5 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches, [viii] + 312 pages, Near Fine in G+ dj (dj now in clear protective mylar). Tight square binding with hinges intact, clean endpapers, crisp & clean throughout interior. Cloth covers immaculately clean and with square corners. Book's only flaw is relatively light marker streak through publisher's brown stain across top edges of textblock. DJ clean, price corner intact, no spine fading, pretty minor wear spine ends & some edge areas, has single real flaw of appx 1/2 inch x 1 inch serious surface scuff from partial removal of a garage sale price on brown paper tape. (This dj would probably rate VG+ without the front panel scuff, and I'd think that the white area of the scuff could be colorized-in sufficiently as to make it much less noticeable.) RWR5 Fiction

Seller: Reiner Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1965.

Price: US$575.00 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: Hardcover, stated "First Printing" on the copyright page. Book is VG +, with NO marks in or on the book, some light tanning to inside front and rear end pages / boards. Dustjacket is NOT price clipped ( $4.95 ) , has some fading to the spine of the jacket. DJ has minor chipping ( 1/8 ") at top and bottom of jacket, and at front cover fold. Wrapped in a mylar cover.

Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: SIGNED FIRST EDITION. (1st printing with date of 1965 on title page, stated "First Printing" on copyright page.) Signed by James Lee Burke on bottom margin of the title page. Good+ with dampstain to back board, foxing to edges, in a Very Good+ dust jacket, spine a little sunned, light wear, unclipped ($4.95). Burke's first boorke-- uncommon in the first printing.

Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965.

Price: US$725.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Author's first novel. Signed on half title page. Slight wear on bottom board corner and some fading on top page edges. Dust jacket, with price on flap, has a few 1/2" to 1" tears, rubs and edgewear. Mylar cover on jacket. Housed in a a very good brown and tan slipcase. SIGNED

Seller: Old Algonquin Books, Arvada, CO, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Signed. First Edition. First printing stated, signed by the author on the title page. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector with very slight rubbing to the edges. A copy in fine condition.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.95), lightly rubbed at the edges. Brown buckram with a brown ink panel on the spine with white ink lettering. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean and a brown top stain, clean internally. Burke's debut novel about the harsh lives of three Louisana men that "evokes the white-hot violence of convicts in a jailbreak, the passion and lyric sweetness of Avery's love affair in New Orleans, J.P.'s tawdry world of brothels and cheap politicians and one-night stands, the terror of Toussaint's last-ditch struggle against the bullets and bloodhounds of his pursuers."

Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Clean, tight book in bright, near fine dustjacket but for light bumping at crown of spine resulting in two very short, closed tears but no loss. Cloth 8vo. 312pp. First printing of the author's first book.

Seller: 12th Street Books, ABAA, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1965.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: SIGNED. 312pp. Octavo [22 cm] in tan cloth. Light dampstaining to the price-clipped jacket and spine.

Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.

Price: US$800.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. 312 pp. Original tan cloth, blocked and lettered in brown, spine lettered in white, burgundy topstain. A few slightly corner-creased pages, a few tiny droplet stains to top edge, else Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with barely any sunning to spine panel, small creased tear to top edge of front panel, light shelf wear. An attractive copy of the crime author's first novel.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

James Lee Burke. Half of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

Price: US$800.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first printing of Burke's debut novel, signed by the author to the title page. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. Publisher's original brown cloth boards, dark brown spine label with titles stamped in white; pp. (viii), 312. A near fine copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square, minimal wear to boards, internally clean. Jacket show slight shelfwear and rubbing to extremities with a touch of sunning to spine, protected in archival mylar.

Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half of Paradise (Inscribed). Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.

Price: US$800.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Octavo, 312 pages, publisher's tan cloth, top edges stained tan (with faint remainder mark); pictorial dust jacket, with $4.95 on front flap, faint stain at top of rear panel. Inscribed on title page to booksellers Charles and Sandy Parkhurst: "To Chuck and Sandy, / All the best, / James Lee Burke" with Charles Parkhurst armorial bookplate laid in. A handsome copy, with staple holes at top of FEP.

Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half Of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.

Price: US$800.02 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: VG/VG in mylar. A stated 1st edition/1st printing in very good condition. Signed (twice) and inscribed by author on title page. There is some wear to jacket, minor chipping to top of spine. The jacket is not price clipped, the covers are clean and bright, with a small indent on front boards, and the edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark, NOT ex. lib. Slight foxing to fore edge.

Seller: Cul de Sac Books, Clarkston, GA, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. HALF OF PARADISE. The Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. The author's first book. A near fine copy, small bookstore ink stamp to front paste down, in a very good dust jacket, slight rubbing to corners and folds, light shelf wear to spine ends, two small closed tears to upper rear panel. (9991)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

BURKE, James Lee. Half of Paradise [with Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.

Price: US$935.00 + shipping

Description: First Printing. Octavo; tan cloth, blocked and titled in dark brown and white on spine and front cover; burgundy topstain; dustjacket; 312pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Subtle fading to topstain, with a small rubbed spot to same, else a tight, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.95), gently spine-sunned, with light shelfwear and a short tear at lower edge of rear panel; Very Good+. Clean copy of the author's first book, a novel following the struggles of three down-and-outer's in Louisiana.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

BURKE, James Lee. Half of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Fine in a moderately rubbed, else very good plus dustwrapper with slightest of wear at the spine ends. A bit rubbed, but a fresher than usual and much nicer than usual copy of the author's first book.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

BURKE, JAMES LEE.. Half of Paradise. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1965, 1965.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition of the author's first book. Very good to fine in a similar dust jacket with a faded spine. Signed by the author. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half of Paradise.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965., 1965.

Price: US$1100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First printing. 8vo. 312 pp. Original light brown cloth binding. The author's first book. INSCRIBED by Burke on the title page. This is a near fine book in a very good price intact DJ with some edge wear/shallow very small edge tears.

Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.

Price: US$1200.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First Printing of this beautiful copy of Burke's first book. Bump to spine end, else Fine. Sticker gum residue over original price of $4.95., light edge wear along bottom, bump to top of spine with wrinkle and a double pin head scuff. Signed by Burke on the FFEP.

Seller: Rio Bound Books, San Marcos, TX, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee.. HALF OF PARADISE.. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY., BOSTON, 1965.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: SIGNED & warmly INSCRIBED by James Lee Burke on the title page. Close to fine in a near fine dj. (Couple short edge tears & traces of light shelf wear to dj.) Author's FIRST book. (B)

Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

James Lee Burke. Half Of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, 1965.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First Edition of the Author's first book. Book is near fine with no markings. Dust jacket is near fine with slight rubbing, minute fading, price intact, no tears or chips. Photos on request.

Seller: IEBOOKMAN, PRESCOTT, AZ, U.S.A.

BURKE, James Lee. HALF OF PARADISE. Houghton Mifflin Company; Riverside Press, Boston; Cambridge, 1965.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Virtually Fine First Edition of the esteemed, award-winning author's first book, a widely applauded, highly reviewed work which signaled the arrival of a major voice in contemporary American literature. Rarely seen in such collectible condition, this is a Fine copy in what would easily qualify as an equally Fine example of its original pictorial dust jacket were it not for a degree of mild light staining to its verso.

Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.

BURKE, JAMES LEE. HALF OF PARADISE. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965., Boston, 1965.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Author's first book. Brief gift presentation by the author on the half title page, "To Greg, with best wishes, James Lee Burke," and signed again by the author on the title page. Fine, bright, clean copy in a fine, bright dust jacket. Housed in a full leather clamshell case that has the book's dust jacket's front cover on the front panel and the titles stamped in white on the spine. Handsome and impressive presentation and well protected.

Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half of Paradise. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.

Price: US$2750.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by James Lee Burke on a laid in signature. An attractive First Issue dustjacket that is vibrant in color with light wear to the edges. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has no chips or pieces missing. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean, with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a sharp copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the author. We buy James Lee Burke First Editions.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

Burke, James Lee. Half Of Paradise [Uncorrected Proof / Signed]. Houghton Mifflin; Boston; 1965/1965/FP, 1965.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Description: ; 129 pp.; Wraps; VG; Uncorrected galley proofs, printed on the rectos only. Spiral bound wrappers with typed label on front cover.____ Signed by the author on the half-title.____ The author's first book.____All of Jim's early books received good critical review, but enjoyed little monetary success.____Perhaps they were viewed as being too regional and so dismissed.____If so he turned that "regionalism" to good purpose when he created and sustained the Dave Robicheaux mystery series.____Sometimes nice guys do finish first. [kwA_ 1st Ed. ]

Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.