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THE GODDESS AND THE MOON MAN. The Sacred Art of the Tiwi Aborigines.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in brown cloth in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88960More details Price: $50.00 -
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine first issue dust jacket.
Book ID: 88951More details Price: $60.00 -
FEVER IN THE EARTH.
Edition: First printing.
Newcastle, CA: The Blue Oak Press / Capra Press, 1977. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An epic narrative poem, set in the Sierra Nevada foothills, a book which he said it took him 13 years to write. An association copy INSCRIBED on the title page to fellow poet and author, Gary Elder and dated in 1978 (among other things, Elder wrote an afterward to the 1979 edition of Elder's 'Arnulfsaga'. Publisher's material laid in. Illustrated with the author's photographs. 314 pp plus a note by the author 3 additional photographs. Uncommon in hardcover, and especially so inscribed. ISBN: 0-912950331.
Condition: Very near fine in burgundy boards with gilt lettering in a near fine dust jacket with some wear to the top edge of the front cover, a few spots. Overall tight and straight.
Book ID: 88940More details Price: $50.00 -
THE POETICS OF THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - An impressive follow-up to the seminal 'New American Poetry,' this is a collection of writings about poetry by twenty-poets including Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Lenore Kandel, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Frank O'Hara, Walt Whitman, Gary Snyder, Gertrude Stein, and many others. xv, 463 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, and rather severe toning to the pages, but in a near fine unmarked dustjacket. An important book which is scarce in the hardcover first edition.
Book ID: 88932More details Price: $45.00 -
RAINBOW SKIRTS & FEATHER JACKETS: Twenty Chinese Poems.
Edition: First printing.
Hollywood: W. M. Hawley, (1956) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Parallel text translations Of T'ang Dynasty Poetry (618-906 A. D.) with the original Chinese on the left facing the English translation on the right. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and simply signed "Shirley." Black, a British born Sinologist, is perhaps best known for her 1960 translation of "Chapters from a Floating Life" by Fu Shen. 45 pp.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth in a very worn dust jacket (front flap of dj is detached, but present, rear flap is partially detached, approx half of the spine of the dj is missing, other edgewear.)
Book ID: 88926More details Price: $75.00 -
AND THIS TOO SHALL PASS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set in the world of professional football. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 347 pp. ISBN: 0-38548030X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88921More details Price: $35.00 -
DRUMS AT DUSK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1939. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by this writer closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance, although at the time this was written he was living in Chicago, where he was also influential in the Chicago Renaissance. Set in Saint Domingue in 1791 at the beginning of the Haitian rebellion, this focuses on the white, privileged people of French descent rather than on Toussaint L'Overture, the leader of the revolution. At the end, Toussaint is instrumental in helping his friend, the young French hero, Diron, escape with Celeste, the girl he loves. 226 pp. Surprisingly uncommon in the first edition.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth with red endpapers (some toning to the pages, rubbing to the lettering on the spine, but a tight and straight copy).
Book ID: 88903More details Price: $125.00 -
CAMPFIRES OF THE DEAD: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88901More details Price: $200.00 -
SEASONED TIMBER.
Edition: Hardcover in slipcase.
Condition: Near fine in oatmeal colored linen cloth with a tan paper spine label in a very good slipcase (usual toning to the pages, name of Thomas Tullos,Trumann, Arkansas on front endpaper). Scarce signed.
Book ID: 88898More details Price: $125.00 -
THE DARKER BROTHER.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88897More details Price: $40.00 -
BORN WITH THE BLUES: Perry Bradford's Own Story. The True Story of the Pioneering Blues Singers and Musicians in the Early Days of Jazz.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good red cloth in a good only dust jacket (some offsetting from the red cloth to the interior of the dj, several chips and other edgewear to the dj) Hard to find in any edition, but scarce in hardcover in a dustjacket.
Book ID: 88879More details Price: $100.00 -
THE END OF THE MYTH: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new but with some of the common toning to edges of textblock.)
Book ID: 88873More details Price: $40.00 -
THE CASE OF THE MISSING BRONTE.
Edition: First printing.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Inspector Perry Trethowan mystery, involving a previously unknown Bronte manuscript, a crazy collector, a smooth millionaire, a shifty evangelist and lots of violence. SIGNED by the author on the front free end paper. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-002314894.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88869More details Price: $75.00 -
RIVER WOMAN, RIVER DEMON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, (2022). SIGNED first edition - A novel by this award-winning Mexican-American and Indigenous poet and novelist, who grew up in a small border community in the Imperial Valley in the Southern California desert, "a genre-blurring psychological thriller with an unstable Latina & indigenous mama protagonist that weaves together threads of folk Magick and the horror of everyday life in the margins." Author Ana Castillo called this "a delectable spellbinder. . . a conjuring of equal parts murder mystery, brujera, sex and romance, hauntings and terror, femme empowerment, all with a dash of Northern New Mexican cooking. " SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped)
Book ID: 88858More details Price: $35.00 -
A PITCHER'S STORY.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967, dj. Hardcover first edition - "The greatest pitcher in the Major Leagues tells the inside story of his rise to the top." Autobiography from his birth in the Dominican Republic when Trujillo was dictator to his induction into his country's air force, as a baseball player to his discovery by major league baseball. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 215 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some discoloration to the gutters from binder's glue, minor wear to dj, toning to dj and folded slightly offcenter)
Book ID: 88855More details Price: $40.00 -
A MIRROR TO AMERICA: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this noted historian, whose work "From Slavery to Freedom" remained the classic text for over 60 years. Born in 1915, he was "confined to segregated schools, threatened and consistently subjected to racismÕs denigration of his humanity." Yet he went on to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard & become the first black historian to assume a full professorship at a white institution; he has reshaped the understanding and teaching of African American history. INSCRIBED on the half title page.Photographs, index. xi, 401 pp. ISBN: 0-374-29944-7.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88851More details Price: $50.00 -
THE UNCOMMON TOUCH: Fiction and Poetry from the Stanford Writing Workshop.
Edition: First printing, a thick trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Stanford, CA: Stanford Alumni Association, (1989). SIGNED first edition - Published to celebrate Stanford's Centennial. Foreword by Wallace Stegner. Includes selections from 100 contributors from Edward Abbey through Peter Beagle, Wendell Berry, Robert Haas, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, Tillie Olsen and more. SIGNED by 3 authors at their contributions: Marilyn Chin, Thomas McGuane and Al Young, and uncommon thus.xxii, 512 pp. ISBN: 0-916318338.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (corners curling a bit, crease to lower corner of back cover).
Book ID: 88828More details Price: $50.00 -
RESTLESS DAYS: A German Girl's Autobiography
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. Hardcover first edition - An autobiography of a young German girl, "reaching maturity after the war, deeply moving, grimly dramatic. The picture of wartime Germany, of children standing in line for food, stealing butter and vinegar from the pitiful family larder, wearing clothes made out of any available bit of material - this has never been told, in quite so direct and evidently authentic a way. Then comes the post-war fever of revolution, civil war, communism quickly crushed, the youth movement," (Kirkus) and finally the realization that she can never support Hitler, even as her family and most of her friends see him as the hero that Germany needs, and so it ends as she is leaving Germany. xi, 431 pp
Condition: Very good in original black cloth with the thin title strip around binding still intact (minor sunning to spine), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 88827More details Price: $85.00 -
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANDY WARHOL (From A to B and Back Again)
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1975) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Warhol's irreverent, funny, but also true comments and jibes on such topics as Love (puberty), Love (prime), Love (senility), Beauty, Fame, Success and Art and more. Dedicated to his frequent collaborator, Pat Hackett, and Interview magazine editor Bob Colacello, who helped him put this book together. SIGNED with his initials in the lower corner of the half title page. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-151890501.
Condition: Good only in a very good dust jacket (minor damage from dampness affecting the lower corners nd bottom edges of the corners of both boards, but otherwise a clean, straight and tight copy) Reasonably priced due to condition.
Book ID: 88826More details Price: $250.00 -
DOG STORIES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW
Edition: Vintage hardcover.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., for The Parents' Institute, Inc., (c 1922). Hardcover - Contains 11 stories which tell the further adventures of Lad. A title in The What Every Child Should Know, third series. Full-color frontispiece. Bound in blue cloth with an embossed border of children in different poses and a pasted-on illustration reproducing the frontispiece. 341 pp.
Condition: Very good (rubbing to the gilt lettering on the spine, so barely legible)
Book ID: 88825More details Price: $35.00 -
OUT OF THE UNKNOWN.
Edition: Second edition.
Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing, (1948) dj. Collects six stories, three by each author. Uncommon soft cover issue in off-white printed wrappers. 141 pp. Dust jacket by Roy Hunt.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket(tpning to pages, price-clipped, some edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 88820More details Price: $35.00 -
GOD'S HOTEL: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (upper corners bumped) Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 88819More details Price: $35.00 -
HER FIRST SIN.
Edition: Vintage hardcover.
New York: Phoenix Press, (1944). Hardcover - A novel by this prolific author of pulp fiction, set against the backdrop of World War II. Clara had been too ill most of her life to think about being loving a man, but now that she has been cured, her blossoming is the more flamboyent for being delayed - but she is in danger of being burnt. 253 pp.
Condition: Good overall in red boards - wear to the corners and ends of the spine, but an easily readable copy, clean contents. Rather hard to find in hardcover.
Book ID: 88809More details Price: $35.00 -
BEST AMERICAN FANTASY (2007)
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Prime Books, (2007). SIGNED first edition - The first in a new annual fantasy anthology series praised for being "a breath of eclectic and delightfully innovative fresh air. While the VanderMeers have included such fantasy veterans as Kelly Link and Elizabeth Hand, most of the 29 stories are by nongenre authors as well as gifted newcomers." (Publishers Weekly) SIGNED by 3 authors: on the title page by Jeff Vandermeer, and by Chris Adrian ('A Better Angel') and Daniel Alarcon ('Abraham Lincoln Has Been Shot') at their stories. Preface by Matthew Cheney, introduction by the editors. Notes on contributors. Recommended reading. 459 pp. ISBN: 978-0809562800.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (appears unread but toning to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 88796More details Price: $35.00 -
THE HUNDRED-YEAR HOUSE.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Viking, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Award-winning author's second novel, a "dazzlingly original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield." SIGNED on the title page. 335 pp. ISBN: 978-0525426684.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread, very light toning to edge of textblock.)
Book ID: 88795More details Price: $45.00 -
BLACK GENESIS: A Chronicle.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Macmillan, 1930. Hardcover first edition - Contains tales of the Gullah Negroes of the Carolina low country [told in the Gullah dialect] and, as the title implies, based on the first book of the Bible. In the introduction - "The family tree of Gullah folk speech and folk tales" - the authors comment that "to trace the family tree of Gullah, the language of these stories, is a moving human adventure. . it is the strongest linguist connection between America, the Antilles and Africa; it links two hemispheres and two eras." Foreword by DuBose Heyward. Illustrated by Martha Bensley Bruere, xxix. 192 pp. Green and white illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Very good in green cloth with black lettering and a small illustration on the front cover (some toning to the spine)
Book ID: 88786More details Price: $40.00 -
CROSSING OVER JORDAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel (third book) one which follows the lives of four generations of African-American women from the end of the Civil War to the early 21st century as it explores the hidden effects of slavery. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, and uncommon thus. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-345378571.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88785More details Price: $75.00 -
AFRICA IN AMERICA; Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831,
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (name blacked out on front endpaper, sunning to spine of dj, but overall a tight and clean copy)
Book ID: 88783More details Price: $35.00 -
THE AGE OF NATIONALISM: The First Era of Global History.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Harper & Row, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - Kohn was an American historian and philosopher, who pioneered the academic study of nationalism. Born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he fought in World War I serving time in a prison camp, then lived in Paris and London until he and his wife immigrated to the US in 1934. He was also a prominent supporter of a binational solution in Palestine. This book traces the beginnings of nationalism to the French Revolution, but also covers the movement in Asia and Africa, focusing on both the hopes and dangers it can bring. Volume 28 in the World Perspectives series under the general editorship of Ruth Nanda Anshen. Index. xvi, 171 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (prev owner's name stamped on bottom edge of textblock, price-clipped, sunning to spine, edgewear).
Book ID: 88781More details Price: $35.00 -
A HEALING FAMILY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Kodansha International, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first book published after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, a very personal nonfiction account which presents an intimate portrait of his son, born with a brain deformity, and reflects on the challenges and pleasures of raising a handicapped person and the healing power of the family - and ultimately to see his son find his voice in music. SIGNED by Oe on the title page and uncommon thus. Illustrated with drawings of the family, including a section in full color, by Yukari Oe, his wife. Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. Laid in is a flyer for the book signing event in NYC. 146 pp. ISBN: 4-770020481.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88779More details Price: $250.00 -
THE STORY OF THE JUBILEE SINGERS: With Their Songs
Edition: Revised Edition. Seventy-fifth Thousand.
Condition: Good condition in green cloth with black and gilt illustrations and lettering (fraying to the corners and ends of the spine, hinges cracking.)
Book ID: 88775More details Price: $50.00 -
DARK LAUGHTER.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1925). Hardcover - Anderson's only best-selling novel during his lifetime, this explores the new sexual freedom of the 1920s. The title comes from the protagonist who spent several months in New Orleans, where he watched and listened to African Americans, and thought "listening to their dark laughter, that they lived as simply as children and were happy." 319 pp. Striking illustrated endpapers depict a panoramic collage of African American musicians and a townscape.
Condition: Very good in black cloth with gold lettering, no dust jacket (previous owner's name on front endpaper)
Book ID: 88773More details Price: $40.00 -
THE BLACK COUNT: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88771More details Price: $45.00 -
HAMPTON AND ITS STUDENTS.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Putnam, 1874. Hardcover first edition - Written by "two of its teachers." Includes "Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs" arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. Illustrated with a four-fold engraved frontispiece, depicting several of the school's buildings as seen from the water, and many other engravings. An interesting account of the school, including a brief history of Virginia and of slavery and its aftermath in that state, and one of the earliest publications of slave music. 255 pp plus index to cabin songs.
Condition: Near fine in original green cloth with gold lettering. (top edge slightly bumped, a bit of wear to head of spine and usual light toning to pages, but a tight, clean and very attractive copy)
Book ID: 88764More details Price: $125.00 -
A CASE OF RAPE.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
New York: Targ Editions, 1980. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First US appearance of this work originally published in Europe in 1954; an attractive limited edition with a drawing on the title page by Marc Hinkley. Designed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press and printed at American-Stratford Press. Number 7 of the Targ Editions. One of 350 copies SIGNED by Himes on the colophon. 105 pp plus colophon.
Condition: Fine in original white cloth-backed black boards.
Book ID: 88761More details Price: $95.00 -
WHITE BUTTERFLY
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's third novel featuring Easy Rawlins, set in Los Angeles in 1956. Edgar award nominee. SIGNED on title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-393-03366x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88760More details Price: $45.00 -
NATIVE SONS, a Critical Study of Twentieth Century Negro American Authors.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes authors from W. E. B. DuBois and William Attaway through Jean Toomer and Claude McKay to Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones, as well as Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and William Demby. More than just an evaluation of these writers it is a look at some of the factors that shaped their writing - life in the South, migration, existence in the urban ghetto, interracial love, the Negro church, the historical perspective, the new nationalism, the Negro author as expatriate and more. SIGNED on the half title page. Bibliography and index. 210 pp
Condition: Good overall in a near fine dustjacket (a tight copy, but highlighting and marginal brackets on several pages)
Book ID: 88757More details Price: $35.00 -
SEGREGATION: The Inner Conflict in the South.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1956) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author Warren returns to the South where he was brought up and recounts conversations he had regarding segregation and integration - although his conclusion that "despite the suspicion, evasion, hatred and fear engendered by the problem now, integration one day will appear as just one small episode in the long effort for human justice" was perhaps too optimistic. Noted journalist and author Tom Wicker's copy with his handwritten name on the front endpaper. 66 pp.
Condition: Near fine in black and white boards in a very good black dust jacket with some rubbing, foxing to the interior.
Book ID: 88750More details Price: $60.00 -
SIX EASY PIECES: Easy Rawlins Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atria Books (Simon & Schuster), 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 7 stories: six were published in reissued Washington Square Press editions of the Easy Rawlins mysteries, but this is the first appearance of the 7th story, 'Amber Gate.' SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-7434-42520.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. A hard to find title by Mosley, especially signed.
Book ID: 88749More details Price: $145.00 -
FEARLESS JONES.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1954 Los Angeles: when Paris Minton's finds himself beaten up, shot at and robbed, and his used bookstore burned to the ground, he has no choice but to turn to his friend and fellow World War II veteran, Fearless Jones. Mosley at his best.SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316-592382.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88748More details Price: $35.00 -
LITTLE SCARLET.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Easy Rawlins mystery, set in Los Angeles in 1965 at the height of the Watts riots. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-316-073032.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Magazine review laid in.
Book ID: 88747More details Price: $35.00 -
THE TIME OF OUR TIME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One of an undisclosed number of copies SIGNED by Mailer on a tipped in page. A giant retrospective of Mailer's work, selected and edited by him to create an ongoing narrative of events that have shaped America over the past 50 years. A massive book xix, 1286 pages. ISBN: 0-375500979.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket with the notation 'signed first edition' on the front cover of the dj.
Book ID: 88746More details Price: $35.00 -
MAD DOG BLACK LADY.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American poet's first regularly published collection. #129 out of 200 copies numbered and signed by Coleman. 133 pp plus colophon and final photograph of author. ISBN: 0-876854129.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards with burgundy cloth spine, paper title label on spine, in original acetate wrapper.
Book ID: 88745More details Price: $500.00 -
CLARA'S HEART.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Arbor House, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, winner of The London Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writer's Award, the story of an extraordinary friendship between a young boy and a wise black Jamaican woman hired to care for him. Basis for the film of the same name featuring Whoopie Goldberg. Dustjacket praise by Ian McEwan, Gail Godwin and others. SIGNED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-877957444.
Condition: Fine in very near fine dust jacket (spine of dj slightly toned).
Book ID: 88744More details Price: $45.00 -
THE AUTOGRAPH MAN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Random House, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by the author of the award-winning 'White Teeth.' The story of an autograph dealer who becomes obsessed with finding one rare autograph, that of a 1940's movie star. SIGNED on the title page. 347 pp. ISBN: 0-375-50188x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88743More details Price: $40.00 -
COMING UP DOWN HOME.
Edition: First printing.
Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir of a Southern childhood (in the small farming village of Bolson, North Carolina) by this African American novelist, and of his struggle to free himself from his family's violent history. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author "Thanks for the inspiration for this book." and dated in 1994. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-2935.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88742More details Price: $45.00 -
VOLUNTEER SLAVERY: My Authentic Negro Experience
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: Noble Press, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book - the story of her 4 years at the Washington Post's new Sunday magazine, where she was both the first African American writer and the first woman writer - and also a look back at her childhood, and at her life and her attempts to "walk the thin line between Uncle Tomming and Mau-Mauing." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 243 pp. ISBN: 1-879360241.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88741More details Price: $35.00 -
KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - At the turn of the century, when European political powers were carving up Africa. King Leopold II of Belgium carried out brutal acts in the territory surrounding the Congo River, which reduced the population of that area by ten million,while he still managed to cultivate a reputation as a humanitarian. In this book, the author recounts the horrific details of the monster verses the man, and tells of those who defied Leopold - rebel leaders, and a handful of missionaries and travelers. SIGNED on the title page. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography and Index. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-395759242.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the hardcover first edition, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 88740More details Price: $125.00 -
COLD VENGEANCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 11th thriller in the Agent Pendergast Series. "Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife's betrayers--a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York City and the darkest bayous of Louisiana--he is also forced to dig further into Helen's past." SIGNED by Preston on the title page and uncommon thus. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-1455500130.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 88737More details Price: $65.00 -
RUSSIA UNDER THE OLD REGIME.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a few scattered ink notations and marginal lines, price-clipped)
Book ID: 88733More details Price: $100.00 -
ADDRESS UNKNOWN.
Edition: 5th printing of original edition.
Condition: Very good in beige boards with red text and white envelope embossed on front cover. Black spine with white lettering (previous owner's name on front endpaper, some offsetting from newsprint, affecting the front endpapers and 2 interior pages, but otherwise clean and tight)
Book ID: 88728More details Price: $75.00 -
EVA'S MAN
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant, offsetting on endpapers, toning to cream background of dj)
Book ID: 88727More details Price: $150.00 -
SWAN SONG
Edition: First edition.
Arlington Heights, Illinois: Dark Harvest Books, 1989. dj. SIGNED by illustrator, hardcover first edition - A beautiful illustrated edition of this 1987 Bram Stoker award-winning novel set in a post-apocalyptic world. Illustrated with a full color front plate and 11 full page black and white illustrations by Charles Lang. Laid in is an original sketch of the art work for the dust jacket reproduced for the Overlook Connection and SIGNED by Charles Lang. 608 pp. ISBN: 0-913165468.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88721More details Price: $500.00 -
THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE: My Life with Carlos Castaneda.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88720More details Price: $50.00 -
THE MYSTERY OF THE FOLDING KEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery connecting World War II with the Civil War: when June and her young brother Chuck are collecting keys to aid in the war effort, they are given many by elderly Miss Abbie, and when the box is accidentally dropped they find a strange folding key - a key which enables them to resolve a mystery with its roots in the Civil War era. Illustrated by Manning de V Lee. One of Seaman's most difficult to find titles, and very scarce in dust jacket. 208 pp.
Condition: Near fine in dark green boards in a good only dust jacket with overall edgewear, some sunning to the spine, the loss of some paper at the ends of the spine, but complete and with price of $2.00 on dj flap)
Book ID: 88715More details Price: $500.00 -
MOVING MOUNTAINS: The Principles and Purposes of Leon Sullivan.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88659More details Price: $350.00 -
ACE BOON COON: Tales of Elliot Caprice.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.) Uncommon in the hardcover edition, and especially so signed by the author.
Book ID: 88708More details Price: $75.00 -
TO PURGE THIS LAND WITH BLOOD: A Biography of John Brown.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thorough and well-researched biography of one of the most influential and controversial figures in American history, the first full-scale biography and the first based on original research to appear in 60 years. Brown was profoundly religious man dedicated to the overthrow of slavery and Negro rights, a failure at many things but one who. in his doomed attempt to seize the armory at Harper's Ferry, became a martyr to the abolitionist cause. a man who shaped the course of history. Photographs, extensive notes, index. xii, 434 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (price of $10 on dj flap). Uncommon in the first edition, and especially so in this condition
Book ID: 88705More details Price: $60.00 -
THE STARS OF SABRA.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Near fine in red cloth with black lettering, bright red top tint in a very good dust jacket with original price of $1.75 still present (wear at the ends of the spine, a few small chips and a large chip to the upper edge of the back cover of the dj) A scarce title and especially so in this condition and in a dust jacket!
Book ID: 88702More details Price: $450.00 -
CONFIRMATION: Anthology of African American Women.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Very good overall in black illustrated wrappers - usual light toning to the pages, some wear to covers, including a reading crease on front cover, but a tight, straight and clean copy.
Book ID: 88697More details Price: $35.00 -
RUINED TIME: The 1950s and the Beat.
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88693More details Price: $35.00 -
ADAM BY ADAM: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 88677More details Price: $65.00 -
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSE.
Edition: Early printing.
Condition: Very good condition overall in tan covers with a black and red illustration on the front cover. Minor wear to covers, but spine is straight, binding is tight and contents are very clean. An attractive copy of this rather uncommon book.
Book ID: 88675More details Price: $135.00 -
SONG IN THE SILENCE: The Tale of Lanen Kaelar.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a fantasy story introducing Lanen Kaelar who she "sets out on a dangerous voyage to the remote West to find the land of the True Dragons. What she discovers is a land of real dragons more beautifuland surprisingthan any dream she could have imagined." The first book in the Tales of Kolmar trilogy. Includes a glossary and pronunciation guide. 378 pp. ISBN: 0-312857802.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88671More details Price: $35.00 -
MARIHUANA: An Annotated Bibliography.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Macmillan Information, 1976. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A comprehensive bibliography. Includes subject index. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by Johnson - "to Bob, with fond memories of the summers spent close to the marihuana patches on the Kentucky River. Jacqueline." 560 pp.
Condition: Some soiling to the light yellow cloth and fraying on the corners of the boards, and wear to the ends of the spine, but overall very good - tight,sturdy, intact hinges.
Book ID: 88668More details Price: $125.00 -
BLACK NEIGHBORS: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 88661More details Price: $45.00 -
FRESH AIR FIEND; Travel Writings 1985-2000.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 51 essays on travel from Plymouth to Cape Cod and Nantucket to Hawaii, Palau, Florida, Amsterdam, London, Britain, the Zambezi river, the Yangtze, the Mosquito Coast, the edge of the Great Rift and more. SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography ix, 466 pp. ISBN: 0-618034064.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88655More details Price: $40.00 -
UMBRA ANTHOLOGY 1967-1968.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in stapled illustrated wrappers (toning to both pages and covers, a rather fragile production)
Book ID: 88651More details Price: $500.00 -
NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1865-1869.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The definitive account of this unprecedented engineering feat, and of the politicians, investors, engineers and surveyors, defeated Confederate soldiers, and Chinese and Irish laborers who were involved in it. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs, notes, index. 431 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-684846098.
Condition: Near fine (name on front endpaper) in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88650More details Price: $65.00 -
MELISSA-ACROSS-THE-FENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Century Co., 1918. Hardcover first edition - Seaman's first book for younger readers ('the very little boys and girls between the ages of six and ten years') and perhaps the best of these books. A charming story of two lonely children - Melissa who lives in the top floor of a very small house - and Victor, who moves into the grand house behind hers - and how they communicate by messages held up to the window. Illustrated by C. M. Relyea with a frontispiece and 2 glossy plates. 121 pp. Bound in tan cloth with black lettering on the spine and front cover, and a black, pink and green illustration on the front cover (a simplified version of the frontispiece).
Condition: Good overall - missing the front endpaper, one plate is loose but still present, school stamp on endpapers - but still an appealing copy with clean boards, straight spine.
Book ID: 88649More details Price: $70.00 -
BLIND TOM: The Post-Civil War Enslavement of a Black Musical Genius, Book I.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (a few scattered words are underlined)
Book ID: 88648More details Price: $65.00 -
WE WON'T MOVE: Poems and Photographs of the International Hotel Struggle.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Near fine in stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 88646More details Price: $100.00 -
SIGNED TORI AMOS' COMIC BOOK TATTOO LITHOGRAPH.
Edition: Limited, signed edition.
Portland, OR: Image Comics, 2008. SIGNED first edition - Uncommon promotional item for the anthology "Comic Book Tattoo" in which over 80 of the best creators from every style and genre contributed over 50 stories, inspired by the songs of recording artist, Tori Amos. A limited edition lithograph, signed by artist and cartoonist and editor of the book, Rantz A. Hoseley - a print which was only available at the Book Expo America Convention in Los Angeles, California in May 2008. The striking artwork is by the Scottish cartoonist known as "Jock" (Mark Simpson.) Oblong format - 17 inches wide by 11 inches high. Numbered 164 out of 200.
Condition: Fine in a protective acrylic sleeve.
Book ID: 88645More details Price: $150.00 -
"MOTHER BIRD HATCHING THE ALPHABET" (An Untitled Limited Edition Drawing).
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
Charleston, WV: Parchment Gallery Graphics, University of Charleston, [1998.]. SIGNED first edition - An ink drawing, measuring 7 by 8 1/2 inches, printed on Arches fine rag, signed and numbered by Atwood. Accompanying this is a separate sheet of paper with the colophon, which states "This is her first individually printed art work and it does not have a title, but clearly it shows an interesting metaphor that connects her to her craft as writer-- mother bird hatching the alphabet." Although best known for her writing, Atwood also illustrated her first book "Double Persephone" and provided the original cover illustrations for several other of her earlier works. One of 99 numbered copies (out of a total edition of 120 copies).
Condition: Fine with colophon sheet in original unused mailing envelope.
Book ID: 88644More details Price: $125.00 -
PARIS TROUT
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's powerful third novel - the story of a brutal killing (of a 14 year old black girl by a white man,named Paris Trout) and its effects on a small Georgia town. National Book Award winner. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-394-563700.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (small spot on top edge of textblock, some wear to top edge of dj, but a tight straight copy, 17.95 price on dj flap)
Book ID: 88636More details Price: $40.00 -
SCARLET SISTER MARY.
Edition: Limited, signed "airplane" edition.
Condition: Very near fine in black cloth with gold panel on front cover with embossed black lettering and a small vignette of a plane in the lower left corner with the words "Airplane Edition."
Book ID: 88632More details Price: $200.00 -
BLACK BORDERS.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Quite scarce now.
Book ID: 88626More details Price: $750.00 -
KING KONG: An African Jazz Opera.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
Condition: Near Fine in white pictorial wraps with red & black lettering (an export edition with the price on the front cover replaced with 2 small red triangles)
Book ID: 88617More details Price: $35.00 -
SONGS OF THE UNITED STATE MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT, NEW YORK (title on cover: West Point Songs)
Edition: First printing.
West Point, NY: Egner & Mayer, 1911. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon first edition of this collection of military music edited by Egner, bandmaster U.S.M.A. and Mayer, organist and choirmaster, U.S.M.A. 43 songs with #1 Reveille on the front pastedown and #43 Taps on the rear pastedown. 62 pp.
Condition: Very good in beige cloth with dark brown illustration on front cover, gilt lettering (some minor wear to covers, few spots, toning to pages)
Book ID: 88595More details Price: $45.00 -
BLUES BABY: Early Poems
Edition: First printing.
Lewisburg & London: Bucknell University Press / Associated University Presses, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth collection by this avant-garde Black poet. A book which brings together her first book - Tree Tall Woman - with previously uncollected poems from early in her career. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-838755151.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 88623More details Price: $85.00 -
RED TEAM BLUES.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2023). SIGNED first edition - Novel featuring Martin Hench, a self-employed forensic accountant who roams California in a comfortable touring bus - a story of "cryptocurrency, global financial shenigans and the secret wars that underlie the modern world. " SIGNED on the title page. An uncommon advance issue with the pages in typescript. 415 pp.
Condition: Fine in light blue printed wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 88613More details Price: $60.00 -
BORROWED TIME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second mystery featuring former Chicago cop turned PI Cass Raines who is asked to investigate the death of a man found floating in Lake Michigan - the scion of a wealthy family, but who was terminally ill. Who would want to kill a dying man? SIGNED on the title page. 373 pp.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.) Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 88599More details Price: $40.00 -
BRAZEN TONGUE.
Edition: Early printing.
Condition: Good overall in flexible red cloth-covered boards (some wear to the covers, corners slightly bumped, no free rear endpaper, no dj)
Book ID: 88588More details Price: $75.00 -
THE UNIVERSE IN YOU: A Microscopic Journey.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 88587More details Price: $40.00 -
THE ANSWER TO "CLARA, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE?"
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in red cloth with gilt lettering (some dulling to the lettering on the spine). Tipped inside the front cover is a printed letter by the President of Alpha Phi, noting that this book was being given to the attendees of the 1958 convention). Quite scarce now in the original edition.
Book ID: 88585More details Price: $125.00 -
THE HAUNTED LAGOON: The Dana Girls Mystery Series #21
Edition: First edition.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1959). dj. Hardcover first edition - This series features sisters Jean and Louise Dana, who attend Starhurst Academy, and was written under the same Stratemeyer house pseudonym as that used for the Nancy Drew series. The girls try to discover buried treasure and wind up investigating the disappearance of a ship's captain on the eastern shore of Maryland, set against the backdrop of Chincoteague Island, with its wild ponies, Dark green and white "flashlight" illustrated endpapers, light green topstain, plain frontispiece. Lists to itself at the front of the book and on the rear dust jacket flap and to Nancy Drew #36 on back cover of dj. 182 pp.
Condition: Very good in green tweed cloth boards with darker green lettering and illustration on front cover in a very good dust jacket (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 88571More details Price: $40.00 -
LIVING IS EASY.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969. Hardcover - West's first novel originally published in 1948. Although she was born in Boston, and lived most of her life on Martha's Vineyard, she worked in New York City during the Depression and is associated with the Harlem Renaissance, both through her association with Langston Hughes and other figures of the movement, as well as editing the significant but short-lived quarterly literary journals - Challenge in 1934 and The New Challenge in 1937. New introduction by William H. Robinson. A title in "The American Negro, His History and Literature" series. A relatively early publication that called attention to West and surprisingly uncommon. 347 pp.
Condition: Near fine in black and white boards, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 88569More details Price: $40.00 -
CURIOUS GEORGE RIDES A BIKE.
Edition: First printing (with date on title page as required)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952, dj. Hardcover first edition - Scarce first printing of this classic children's book, the 3rd in the series of stories about a lovable and mischievous monkey, written for beginning readers by Margret Rey, and illustrated by H. A. Rey. 46 pp. Illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Very good overall in yellow cloth with red illustration and lettering (tape repair to the bottom edge of one leaf (p 41-42), other minor wear, front hinge has been professionally reglued), in a very near fine supplied dust jacket from a later printing.
Book ID: 88560More details Price: $350.00 -
THE PARK IN THE CITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which re-creates in simple text and evocative black and white photographs by Binzen, the vitality of a city park. Binzen, who also wrote and illustrated many children's books during his years as a photographer was known for his attention to composition and the evocation of mood - both characteristics seen in these photographs, taken over a period of several months in various parks in New York City. Unpaginated, a slim slightly oversized book. ISBN: 0-525366202.
Condition: Very near fine in a illustrated green boards in a good only photographic wraparound dust jacket (3 closed tears to upper edge, other light edgewear) Uncommon.
Book ID: 88548More details Price: $45.00 -
GREEN GOLD THE TREE OF LIFE: MARIJUANA IN MAGIC & RELIGION.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Frazier Park, CA: Access Unlimited, 1995. First edition - Survey of the use of marijuana over the centuries, from Mesopotamia to the modern age. Foreword by Jack Herer, afterword by George Clayton Johnson. Illustrated, maps, footnotes, bibliography and index. 485 pp. plus a final illustration and poem. Cover illustration by Aaron Marshal. ISBN: 0-962987220.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88542More details Price: $80.00 -
ENGINE SUMMER.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather hard-to-find first edition of the classic third novel by the author probably best known for "Little Big." Set in the far future where the continent's population has been reduced to a handful. Nominated for the National Book Award. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-385128312.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, spine label, and the edges of the dj flaps have been pasted onto the endpapers.
Book ID: 88537More details Price: $35.00 -
LEELA, THE GAME OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE: Commentaries.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1975). First edition - Leela is an ancient Indian game - the version used as the basis for this translation was brought to the US in 1969 by Harish Johari, foreword by Claudio Naranjo. 143 pp. ISBN: 0-698106474.
Condition: Good only in black illustrated wrappers (rubbing to covers). No game board.
Book ID: 88532More details Price: $40.00 -
SPECIAL REPORT ON THE BEET-SUGAR INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED STATES
Edition: First edition.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1898. Hardcover first edition - Includes a report of the chemist who has been working on sugar experiments and a field report on every beet-sugar growing area in the US. Illustrated with 2 large colored folded maps. Index. 240 pp.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine.
Book ID: 88531More details Price: $35.00 -
THE TERRAFORMERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2023). SIGNED first edition - A "science fiction epic for our times and a love letter to the future... Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her. But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn't exist, hidden inside a massive volcano. As she uncovers more about their past, Destry begins to question the mission she's devoted her life to, and must make a choice that will reverberate through Sask-E's future for generations to come." SIGNED on the title page. 337 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (corner slightly bumped).
Book ID: 88527More details Price: $35.00 -
THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart /Douglas Gibson Book, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of this very personal collection of stories - stories inspired by her the history of her Laidlaw ancestors, starting in the wilds of the Scottish Border in 1700 - by this award-winning Canadian writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013. Includes a brief foreword by Munro. x, 349 pp. plus author bio and 5 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 0-771065264.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88520More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BRIDGE.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mano's only science fiction novel and a controversial satirical and dystopian take on what the future could be. The dust jacket calls this "a novel about the last man on earth" but it is actually a novel of environmentalism gone beyond any reasonable bounds - "Set in 2035 CE, where draconian attempts to combat environmental pollution have created a Dystopia, and where a convert to Christianity misunderstands the nature of that Religion and becomes a cannibal." (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). Surprisingly uncommon in the first edition. 240 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-385028709.
Condition: Near fine in a brown cloth spine with gilt lettering over black boards in a very good dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj, original price of 6.95 on dj flap.)
Book ID: 88517More details Price: $125.00 -
THE TRAIL OF THE SANDHILL STAG and 60 Drawings.
Edition: First printing - (stated "First Impression. October 12,1899").
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Hardcover first edition - An early book by this writer who was one of America's most famous naturalists as well as being influential in the Boy Scout movement. A story of tracking and hunting the great stag, although at the end Yan is not able to kill such a beautiful creature. Illustrated with a colored frontispiece and seven other full-page illustrations, with small decorations or drawings on almost every page. It notes that "the designs for title-page, cover, and general make-up, and also literary revision, were done by Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson." 93 pp. (stated "First Impression. October 12,1899").
Condition: Very good in original light olive green pebbled cloth binding, with a small decoration of a stag, borders and titles in gilt on a green panel. Top edge gilt. Bookplate, some rubbing to the lettering and sides of the spine, corners slightly bumped.
Book ID: 88515More details Price: $45.00 -
GOD'S COUNTRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Faber & Faber, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early novel by the author now best known for 'Erasure' (basis for the film "American Fiction") and the first book in the publisher's Callaloo series, dedicated to books by ``writers of African descent.'' This is a "corrosively funny and disquieting picaresque novel which addresses the politics of identity and the racist brutality that marked America's westward expansion after the Civil War. " Hard to find in the first edition, and especially so in this condition. 219 pp. ISBN: 978-057119832-0.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 88508More details Price: $65.00 -
FOR HER DARK SKIN.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88507More details Price: $150.00