- Author = Paule Marshall
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PRAISESONG FOR THE WIDOW
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by this African American writer, the story of the spiritual regeneration of a 62 year old widow. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-399-127542.
Condition: Fine in a very good dustjacket (tear to front cover of dj, book appears unread)
Book ID: 45739More details Price: $55.00 -
THE FISHER KING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set against the backdrop of contemporary Brooklyn, New York and Paris and of those cities in the late 1940's, this is a story of family estrangement, love and hope for the future, when the young grandson of a great jazz pianist, an ex-patriot who lived and died in Paris, comes to the US for the first time and meets both sides of his warring family. A warm and appealing book. ISBN: 0-684-872838.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 29397More details Price: $16.00 -
DAUGHTERS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the Caribbean and in New York City . SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 0-689-121393.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 18816More details Price: $40.00 -
PRAISESONG FOR THE WIDOW
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1983. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on title page by author. ISBN: 0-399-127542.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket (upper corners slightly bumped, and some dampstaining to the edge of the rear endpaper, nick to dj at top of spine.)
Book ID: 18817More details Price: $85.00 -
PRAISESONG FOR THE WIDOW.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Virago Press, 1983. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED on the title page. A somewhat smaller format and a very different (and more colorful) dustjacket from the more often found US edition. ISBN: 0-86068-4539.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket (top edge dusty, stamp on copyright page re "powys library service" but no other markings.)
Book ID: 18818More details Price: $70.00 -
REENA AND OTHER STORIES.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
New York: The Feminist Press, (1983). SIGNED first edition - An uncommon Marshall title: the first time her short stories appeared together in book form. Included are new commentaries by the author, a wonderful autobiographical essay entitled "From the Poets in the Kitchen" and a new novella "Merle" which is a reshaped excerpt from her novel "Chosen People." SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-935312-242.
Condition: Very good overall in glossy illustrated wrappers ( a little wear to the covers, crease to lower corner of front cover, sunning to the spine.)
Book ID: 62292More details Price: $40.00 -
DAUGHTERS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the Caribbean and in New York City, by this writer who was born and raised in Brooklyn . 408 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121393.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 19689More details Price: $17.50 -
PRAISESONG FOR THE WIDOW
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by this African American writer, the story of the spiritual regeneration of a 62 year old widow. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-399-127542.
Condition: Near fine in a just about fine dustjacket ('P" top edge of textblock, but a nice tight copy)
Book ID: 5177More details Price: $50.00 -
THE CHOSEN PLACE, THE TIMELESS PEOPLE.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1970.). Hardcover - Important third novel by this Brooklyn-born African American writer, who has spent much time in the Caribbean. Set in a remote, devasted part of a small Caribbean island, this is the story of an advance team for an ambitious American- funded redevelopment project, and of the ambivalent relationships which these Americans form with the islanders. 472 pp.
Condition: Near fine condition - a lovely early printing, bound in turquoise cloth with black lettering - lacking the dj.
Book ID: 38279More details Price: $10.00 -
DAUGHTERS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED on the title page by the author with the words' in sisterhood' and dated in 1992. Novel set in the Caribbean and in New York City . ISBN: 0-689-121393.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (publisher's defect: front free endpaper is partially pasted down - otherwise book is in fine condition.)
Book ID: 24304More details Price: $30.00 -
PRAISESONG FOR THE WIDOW
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Putnam, (1983.) dj. Hardcover - The third novel by this African American writer, the story of the spiritual regeneration of a 62 year old widow. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-399-127542.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (P stamped on bottom edge, chip to dj at top of spine.)
Book ID: 59002More details Price: $18.50 -
DAUGHTERS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the Caribbean and in New York City, by this writer who was born and raised in Brooklyn . 408 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121393.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a tight copy but some bleeding from base of spine to interior of dj)
Book ID: 59005More details Price: $15.00
