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JUST PASSING THROUGH.
Edition: First US printing.
El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the Spanish by Martin Michael Roberts. An elegant and literate adventure novel set in 1920Õs post-revolutionary Mexico. Striking dust jacket art from Diego Rivera's "Dia de muertos". 173 pp. ISBN: 0-938317-474.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder mark, otherwise as new, appears unread.)
Book ID: 47616More details Price: $17.50 -
RETURN TO THE SAME CITY
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The return of his one-eyed dectective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. Although Taibo was born in Spain, he has lived in Mexico since 1958, and his work often reflects the underside of life there, from the drug trade to the arms trade. Translated by Laura Dail. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2007. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-5908.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37580More details Price: $40.00 -
RETURN TO THE SAME CITY
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The return of his one-eyed dectective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. Although Taibo was born in Spain, he has lived in Mexico since 1958, and his work often reflects the underside of life there, from the drug trade to the arms trade. Translated by Laura Dail. INSCRIBED in Spanish on the title page and dated in 2007. He has been awarded the International Dashiell Hammett prize for three of his novels. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-5908.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43993More details Price: $40.00 -
LIFE ITSELF.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth novel by this award-winning Mexican writer to appear in English. INSCRIBED on the title page ("para John") and dated in 2007. Translated from the Spanish by Beth Henson. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-5185.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44011More details Price: $40.00 -
JUST PASSING THROUGH.
Edition: First US printing.
El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Translated from the Spanish by Martin Michael Roberts. An elegant and literate adventure novel set in 1920Õs post-revolutionary Mexico. Striking dust jacket art from Diego Rivera's "Dia de muertos". SIGNED by Taibo on the title page and dated 2007, uncommon signed. 173 pp. ISBN: 0-938317-474.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 29456More details Price: $45.00 -
AN EASY THING
Edition: First US edition.
New York: Viking, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel of Taibo to appear in English - praised by such diverse writers as Lawrence Block, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Ross Thomas, etc. Introduces his jaded, one-eyed, half Basque detective, Hector Belascoran Shayne; set in Mexico City, this is a combination of irony, black humor and Latin fabulism. Translated from the Spanish by William I. Neuman. Recommended. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2007. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-670-824623.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. (as new, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 3500More details Price: $55.00 -
AN EASY THING
Edition: First US edition.
New York: Viking, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel of Taibo to appear in English - praised by such diverse writers as Lawrence Block, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Ross Thomas, etc. Introduces his jaded, one-eyed, half Basque detective, Hector Belascoran Shayne; set in Mexico City, this is a combination of irony, black humor and Latin fabulism. Translated from the Spanish by William I. Neuman. Recommended. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2007. He has been awarded the International Dashiell Hammett prize for three of his novels. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-670-824623.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (tight, clean copy, bookstore stamp on endpaper)
Book ID: 4613More details Price: $50.00 -
SEEDS OF LIFE: Galaxy Science Fiction Novel # 13.
Edition: First paperback printing - digest size.
New York: Galaxy Publishing, (1952). Originally published by Fantasy Press in 1951, this is a provocative science fiction novel of an experiment using atomic radiation that accidentally creates a super human, in every sense of the word. 174 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers - front cover bright, no creasing (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 84928More details Price: $12.50 -
AN UNLIKELY REVOLUTIONARY: and the Making of Modern Hawai'i.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Hawaii University of Hawai'i press (1998). First edition - The author's own story, of his life and work as one of the "movers and shakers" behind Hawaii's transformation from an isolated, agriculture-based territory to a highly diverse, competitive modern community . Appendices, Chronology, and index, 12 pages of white and photographs. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-8248-20231.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (upper corner of front cover bumped and creased)
Book ID: 60701More details Price: $15.00 -
THE TATTOO MURDER CASE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Japan just after their defeat in World War II. "Written by one of Japan's most popular mystery novelists, [this] was first published in Tokyo in 1948 and won the Mystery Writers Club Award. It remains to this day among the most read of Japanese detective mysteries." Translated from the Japanese and adapted by Deborah Boliver Boehm. 324 pp. ISBN: 1-569471088.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 80162More details Price: $25.00 -
THE INFORMER.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (1999.). Originally published in Japan in 1965, this is an intricate mystery by one of Japan's most popular authors - twice-failed stock trader manipulates stocks, engages in industrial espionage, maybe even commits murder. Based on actual events. Translated from Japanese by Sadako Mizuguchi. 257 pp. ISBN: 1569472432.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 53736More details Price: $11.50 -
SLEEPING SINNING FALLING
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
San Francisco: City Lights, 1992. First edition - Edited and translated by Hiroaki Sato. Selected and new poems written over the last 25 years by one of the major 20th c Japanese poets.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5052More details Price: $12.00 -
CHIEKO and Other Poems of Takamura Kotaro.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, some underlining in the introduction, but otherwise tight and clean in a very good dustjacket.
Book ID: 33873More details Price: $40.00 -
THE INNERMOST CAGE.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in very good- dust jacket (gift inscription on rear pastedown, mostly hidden by dj flap, triangular chip to bottom edge of rear cover of dj, with associated creasing, some other edgewear, especially to top of spine, bright front cover) Uncommon.
Book ID: 44552More details Price: $100.00 -
ISTHMUS / 4
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
San Francisco: Isthmus Press, (1975). SIGNED first edition - Other contributors include Gerald Malanga (with a translation of Cesar Vallejo's poems), Jerome Rothenberg, Ira Cohen, Paul Vangelisti and more. This copy was signed twice by William Talcott, once on the copyright page where his name appears as Assistant Editor and at his poem "My Vegetable Soul."
Condition: Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers (some toning and discoloration to the white background.)
Book ID: 10570More details Price: $28.00 -
GREAT WHITE FATHERS: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mount Rushmore.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: PublicAffairs, (2002). First edition - A blend of travelogue, history and biography, this is an account of how "Rushmore was conceived and built, and why controversy surrounded the project from the start. [It] is about the meaning of public art, the rise of automobile tourism, and the development of kitsch culture. At its center is Rushmore's feisty sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who waged an energetic campaign on behalf of his artistic vision and then carved the faces of four presidents into a mountainside. Taliaferro discusses every conceivable aspect of the monument, from the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (a minor hullabaloo) to the Native American activists who have threatened it." Photographs, bibliographic notes. 440 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85879More details Price: $21.50 -
VOODOO IN NEW ORLEANS.
Edition: Paperback.
Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Books, (1994.). A classic on the subject, originally published in 1946. 247 pp plus a brief bibliography. ISBN: 0-88289-336x.
Condition: Very good condition (slight spine slant.)
Book ID: 40255More details Price: $10.00 -
IN CONSTANT FLIGHT: Stories
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories, several of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, "framed by the outposts of the new American West - Berkeley, Santa Fe, Boulder." 59 pp.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to front flap of dj, very short closed tear)
Book ID: 35854More details Price: $15.00 -
HONEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories, 207 pp. ISBN: 0-394-583043.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 41349More details Price: $12.50 -
TIME WITH CHILDREN.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Collier Books/ Macmillan, 1988. SIGNED - A highly praised collection of short stories, INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (name.)
Book ID: 15684More details Price: $12.50 -
TIME WITH CHILDREN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second collection of short stories, third book. Four interlinked stories are set in London, another set takes place in New Mexico. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-394-557832.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70918More details Price: $17.50 -
HONEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories, 207 pp. ISBN: 0-394-583043.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69439More details Price: $18.00 -
MUSEUM PIECES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her highly praised first novel - set in Santa Fe, New Mexico. ISBN: 0-394-539281.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 25982More details Price: $15.00 -
SCRATCHED: A Memoir of Perfectionism.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2020). SIGNED first edition - A book in which Tallent explores "the ferocious desire for perfection" which has shaped her writing life as well as her personal life. Sigrid Nunez called it "that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist." SIGNED on the title page. Notes on sources. 227 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79514More details Price: $27.50 -
I'D KILL FOR THAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thirteen award-winning women mystery writers - including Gayle Lynds, Rita Mae Brown, Lisa Gardner, Linda Fairstein, Kay Hooper, Kathy Reichs, Julie Smith, Heather Graham, Jennifer Crusie, Tina Wainscott, Anne Perry, Talley and Katherine Neville - collaborated on this serial novel. SIGNED by Heather Graham on the title page. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-312-290578.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62150More details Price: $30.00 -
NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX.
Edition: Full size book club edition.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A serial novel written by thirteen women novelists including Laurie King, Diana Gabaldon, Val McDermid, Anne Perry, Faye Kellerman, Val McDermid, Nancy Pickard and more. SIGNED on the title page by J. A. Jance and Laurie King. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-312-251947.
Condition: Near fine in a good dustjacket (prev owner's name, tear to dj at fold of rear flap, other light edgewear.)
Book ID: 53806More details Price: $23.50 -
NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A serial novel written by thirteen women novelists including Laurie King, Diana Gabaldon, Val McDermid, Anne Perry, Faye Kellerman, Val McDermid, Nancy Pickard and more. SIGNED on the title page by J. A. Jance. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-312-251947.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 73162More details Price: $24.50 -
NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A serial novel written by thirteen women novelists including Laurie King, Diana Gabaldon, Val McDermid, Anne Perry, Faye Kellerman, Val McDermid, Nancy Pickard and more. SIGNED on the left title page by Laurie King. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-312-251947.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 72090More details Price: $25.00 -
NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A serial novel written by thirteen women novelists including Laurie King, Diana Gabaldon, Val McDermid, Anne Perry, Faye Kellerman, Val McDermid, Nancy Pickard and more. SIGNED on the title page by THREE authors: J. A. Jance, Laurie King and Nevada Barr. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-312-251947.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53805More details Price: $35.00 -
DEATH ON TELEGRAPH HILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1882 in San Francisco (where Oscar Wilde is appearing during his tour of America), this is the fifth mystery featuring Sarah Woolson, the daughter of a judge who is herself an attorney with her own practice, defying the expectations of a woman's "proper" role in society. 341pp. ISBN: 978-1250010438.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 71764More details Price: $21.50
