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MY PRESENT AGE.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: Macmillan, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel (second book) by this prize-winning writer who in 1986 was named one of Canada's 10 best fiction writers. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-7715-98149.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (book slightly over-opened before half title page)
Book ID: 62514More details Price: $25.00 -
HOMESICK.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this prize-winning writer who in 1986 was named one of Canada's 10 best fiction writers. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-9259.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62096More details Price: $20.00 -
HOMESICK.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1990) dj. Hardcover - Novel by this prize-winning writer who in 1986 was named one of Canada's 10 best fiction writers. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-9259.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 62097More details Price: $14.50 -
HUMMINGBIRD, SALAMANDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2021). Hardcover first edition - A novel of speculative fiction, a requiem for the end of the world as endangered species disappear. 351 pp. ISBN: 978-0374173548.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88365More details Price: $18.50 -
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 -
LITTLE SLAM BANG.
Edition: Hardcover.
Chicago: Algonquin Publishing Company, (1928.). Hardcover - A story about an elephant 'child' who has a good time playing in the jungle with his friends, until one day he gets in the way of Old Sharptooth, the bad tiger. Sunny Book series no. 101. Delightful color illustrations. Small format, measuring 7 1/4 inches tall by 5 3/4 inches wide, bound in illustrated boards. 38 pp. plus list of other Sunny Books.
Condition: Binding is in poor condition - spine covering is missing, tape has been added to hold the boards together, missing rear free endpaper - but the contents are quite clean and with a lot of vintage appeal - a good reading copy, or a book worth repairing.
Book ID: 38042More details Price: $12.50 -
YELLOW RAIN: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86008More details Price: $40.00 -
CINQ (X-RAY)
Edition: First printing - a limited edition.
Los Angeles: The Red Hill Press, 1974. First edition - Published in an edition of only 200 copies, in calligraphy by Rosie Thomas.
Condition: Near fine in stapled wrappers (name of poet Elizabeth Harrod and date). A rather fragile little booklet.
Book ID: 41816More details Price: $15.00 -
CINQ (X-RAY)
Edition: First printing - a limited edition.
Los Angeles: The Red Hill Press, 1974. First edition - Published in an edition of 200 copies, in calligraphy by Rosie Thomas.
Condition: Very near fine in stapled wrappers. A rather fragile little booklet.
Book ID: 18985More details Price: $18.00 -
ALONE I WAIT.
Edition: First printing.
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1970. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of thirty poems by this Arizona architect, each illustrated with his drawings on a tan background on the verso of each page. INSCRIBED on the half title page "with fondest regards. I hope you find one page that's meant only for you." 67 pp. plus colophon.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good minus dustjacket (sunning to spine of dj, closed tears to edge of dj and along fold of flap).
Book ID: 68640More details Price: $20.00 -
WALKING MARY
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming of age novel of a young girl and her brother set in a small midwestern town in the 1950s - "To escape problems with both of her parents throughout her childhood in the 1940s and 1950s, Pearl Harbor Keenan reaches out to Walking Mary, a strange old woman who meets every single passenger train that pulls into the Framburg Depot." 130 pp. ISBN: 9780060284725.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 57133More details Price: $15.00 -
YESTERDAY I CRIED: Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. ISBN: 0-684-867486.
Condition: Near fine (gift inscription.)
Book ID: 21427More details Price: $10.00 -
CHANGES IN LATITUDE: An Uncommon Anthropology.
Edition: First UK printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36860More details Price: $18.50 -
CHANGES IN LATITUDE: An Uncommon Anthropology.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37234More details Price: $25.00 -
THE REAL LIFE OF ALEJANDRO MAYTA.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Peru in the near future, a country in decay and turmoil, as the narrator is attempting to reconstruct the life of Mayta, a Trotskyist revolutionary of the late 1950's. Translated by Alfred MacAdam. ISBN: 0-374-247765.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (little white-out on first page.)
Book ID: 35802More details Price: $16.00 -
A FISH IN THE WATER: A Memoir.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Faber & Faber, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A memoir by one of Latin America's most celebrated writers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru. and the story of his organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990." Translated by Helen Lane. 532 pp. ISBN: 0-571-169694.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (small stamp of prev owner on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 43723More details Price: $18.00 -
THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic historical novel of an uprising in the backlands of Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century and of the state created there - Canudos - a revolutionary utopia, an example of ideological fanaticism. Translated by Helen Lane. 568 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-374-286515.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 50338More details Price: $45.00 -
THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic historical novel of an uprising in the backlands of Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century and of the state created there - Canudos - a revolutionary utopia, an example of ideological fanaticism. Translated by Helen Lane. 568 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-374-286515.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (tear to back cover of dj at fold of flap).
Book ID: 62368More details Price: $35.00 -
THE FEAST OF THE GOAT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001.). First edition - Novel set in the Dominican Republic towards the end of the regime of terror of Trujillo - the 'goat' of the title. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. 409 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (an unread copy, but some toning to the edges of the textblock)
Book ID: 76151More details Price: $21.50 -
DEATH IN THE ANDES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the mountains of Peru, part detective novel and part political allegory. Translated by Edith Grossman. ISBN: 0-374-140014.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, slight spine slant.)
Book ID: 17605More details Price: $15.00 -
THE TIME OF THE HERO.
Edition: Advance issue, unbound.
New York: Grove Press, 1966. dj. Author's first novel, which caused a scandal in his native Peru ( a thousand copies were burnt at the military academy in Lima which was the books setting) but which was also awarded the Biblioteca Breve Prize for the best new work of fiction in the Spanish language. Translated by Lysander Kemp. This copy is an advance issue, consisting of unbound signatures laid into a dustwrapper. Pre-publication examples of this book are extremely uncommon.
Condition: The pages are in very near fine condition, the dustjacket has a tear at the top of the spine, some yellowing, so is overall very good.
Book ID: 17760More details Price: $175.00 -
IN PRAISE OF THE STEPMOTHER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - An erotic novel by this prize-winning Peruvian author, illustrated with classical paintings, and translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. 149 pp. ISBN: 0-374-175837.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 17765More details Price: $25.00 -
MAKING WAVES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - First collection of essays by this important Peruvian novelist. Edited and translated by John King. Provacative discussions of writers - ranging from James Joyce to Doris Lessing to Saul Bellow - and of current attitudes, education, film-making and more. Index. 338 pages. ISBN: 0-374-200386.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 21809More details Price: $20.00 -
DEATH IN THE ANDES.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996. dj. Hardcover - Novel set in the mountains of Peru, part detective novel and part political allegory. Translated by Edith Grossman. ISBN: 0-374-140014.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 19267More details Price: $12.50 -
IN PRAISE OF THE STEPMOTHER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - An erotic novel by this prize-winning Peruvian author, illustrated with classical paintings, and translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. 149 pp. ISBN: 0-374-175837.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 29294More details Price: $20.00 -
IN PRAISE OF THE STEPMOTHER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - An erotic novel by this prize-winning Peruvian author, illustrated with classical paintings, and translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. 149 pp. ISBN: 0-374-175837.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 29295More details Price: $18.00 -
THE REAL LIFE OF ALEJANDRO MAYTA.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Peru in the near future, a country in decay and turmoil, as the narrator is attempting to reconstruct the life of Mayta, a Trotskyist revolutionary of the late 1950's. Translated by Alfred MacAdam. ISBN: 0-374-247765.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 29296More details Price: $20.00 -
WHO KILLED PALOMINO MOLERO?
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detective novel by this Nobel Prize winning author: "Set on an air force base in Peru, where a young airman is found tortured and murdered. An entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery, this book also takes up one of Vargas Llosa's great themes: despair at how difficult it is to be an honest man in a society based on a corruption of motives and feelings." Translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam. 151 pp. Dust jacket by Honi Werner. ISBN: 0-374289786.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (remainder mark, tiny nick to upper edge of dj)
Book ID: 74857More details Price: $16.50 -
AMERICAN VISTAS 1607-1877
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Condition: VG (cover loose)
Book ID: 10201More details Price: $8.50 -
TITAN
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Putnam, 1979. dj. Hardcover - Novel of an artificial world, the product of alien intelligence, which orbits the planet Saturn. Illustrated with full page drawings by Freff. 277 pp. Dust jacket art by Ron Walotsky.
Condition: NF/VG- (dj- taped to book, slight edge wear)
Book ID: 10843More details Price: $12.50