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THE BUTCHER'S APRON: New & Selected Poems Including 'Greed: Part 14.'
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with a small limited hardcover edition.
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. First edition - A delightful and very accessible collection of her poems, with the selection centering on the themes of harvesting, purchasing, preparation, and enjoyment of food. 256 pp. ISBN: 1-574231448.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 38058More details Price: $18.00 -
THE MAN WHO SHOOK HANDS.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of poems, "poignant, provocative and personal," by this award winning California writer. SIGNED on the front endpaper with a tiny doodle. 118 pp. ISBN: 0-38513407X.
Condition: Very near fine in a fair only dustjacket.(tear to back cover of dj, chipping along the top edge and other wear)
Book ID: 65860More details Price: $25.00 -
THE GARDENS OF KYOTO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this award winning writer of short fiction - ""I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?" . . . a novel about a young woman, Ellen, coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. Forty years later she relates the events of this period, beginning with the death of her favorite cousin, Randall, with whom she had shared Easter Sundays, secrets, and perhaps, love. In an isolated, aging Maryland farmhouse that once was a stop on the Underground Railroad." 286 pp. ISBN: 0-684869489.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 62951More details Price: $19.50 -
THE GARDENS OF KYOTO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this award winning writer of short fiction - ""I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?" . . . a novel about a young woman, Ellen, coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. Forty years later she relates the events of this period, beginning with the death of her favorite cousin, Randall, with whom she had shared Easter Sundays, secrets, and perhaps, love. In an isolated, aging Maryland farmhouse that once was a stop on the Underground Railroad." 286 pp. ISBN: 0-684869489.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (as new, but with a remainder line)
Book ID: 62952More details Price: $16.50 -
WHERE SHE WENT: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Walbert's very highly praised debut collection, containing fourteen interlocked short stories, set in the years ranging from 1954 to 1992. "The first half of the book chronicles the life of Marion Clark, a 'company wife' who repeatedly packs the household and accompanies her husband around the globe with a 'melancholy view before her of what seemed like endless houses with endless garages and endless kitchen windows.' In the stories that follow, her adult daughter, Rebecca, dutifully attempts to fulfill her mother's thwarted aspirations, 'but isn't sure where to go'." SIGNED on the title page. 197 pp. ISBN: 1-889330159.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80622More details Price: $40.00 -
THE SUNKEN CATHEDRAL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2015). First edition - Award-winning author's fifth book - 'lyrical, ominous, and unexpectedly funny novel' (Tom Perotta) that follows a cast of characters as they negotiate one of Manhattans swiftly changing neighborhoods, extreme weather, and the unease of twenty-first-century life." 198 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77821More details Price: $18.50 -
THE GARDENS OF KYOTO.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2001). First edition - First novel by this award winning writer of short fiction - ""I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?" . . . a novel about a young woman, Ellen, coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. Forty years later she relates the events of this period, beginning with the death of her favorite cousin, Randall, with whom she had shared Easter Sundays, secrets, and perhaps, love. In an isolated, aging Maryland farmhouse that once was a stop on the Underground Railroad." 288 pp. ISBN: 0-684869489.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78467More details Price: $22.50 -
THE BOUNTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of poetry by this Caribbean author to be published after he was awarded the Nobel Prize - many of the poems evoke his native island of Santa Lucia. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-374-115567.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 54916More details Price: $25.00 -
DREAM ON MONKEY MOUNTAIN and Other Plays
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of plays by this Caribbean writer who was both the director of the Trinidad Theater Workshop as well as its chief playwright.
Condition: Ex-library with pocket inside front endpaper, but overall a fairly tight copy in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 9587More details Price: $25.00 -
THE BOUNTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of poetry by this Caribbean author to be published after he was awarded the Nobel Prize - many of the poems evoke his native island of Santa Lucia. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-374-115567.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (as new but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 13675More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ANTILLES, FRAGMENTS OF EPIC MEMORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Walcott's lecture given when he received the Nobel Prize in December 1992. A small, slim book, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-374-105308.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 3016More details Price: $18.00 -
WHAT THE TWILIGHT SAYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays -on the Caribbean and on poets and writers ranging from Robert Lowell to Hemingway to the Creole writer from Martinque, Patrick Chamoiseau. Includes his Nobel Prize acceptance speech and a short story 'Cafe Martinque.'. ISBN: 0-374-28841-0.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 17047More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ARKANSAS TESTAMENT.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.). Collection of poems, set both in his native Caribbean and "elsewhere." 117 pp. ISBN: 0-37452099.
Condition: Very good in stiff wrappers (check marks on several lines of the first poem.)
Book ID: 41636More details Price: $11.50 -
THE ARKANSAS TESTAMENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of poems by this Nobel laureate, set both in his native Caribbean - "there" - and "elsewhere" including the final, long title poem, a meditation on race and American history. 117 pp. ISBN: 0-374-105820.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69528More details Price: $28.50 -
OMEROS
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (c 1990). Epic poem by Nobel winning author. 325 pp. ISBN: 978-0-374-523503.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69779More details Price: $14.50 -
IN THE ROOM OF NEVER GRIEVE: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2003.
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A substantial collection of her work from Fast Talking Woman on - includes a companion audio CD. INSCRIBED by Waldman on the title page "For -- dear courageous auntie, with love" and dated in April 2005. Illustrated with photographs. iv, 491 pp. ISBN: 1566891450.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. CD pocket unopened. A large and heavy book.
Book ID: 72620More details Price: $45.00 -
IN THE ROOM OF NEVER GRIEVE: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2003.
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A substantial collection of her work from Fast Talking Woman on - includes a companion audio CD. Illustrated with photographs. iv, 491 pp. ISBN: 1566891450.
Condition: Ex-library but with almost no markings and overall tight and clean in a fine unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 57124More details Price: $24.50 -
THE ANGEL HAIR ANTHOLOGY: Angel Hair Sleeps with a Boy in My Head.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon and especially so in hardcover and signed.
Book ID: 57647More details Price: $250.00 -
THE CRADLE ROBBERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th 'mommy-track' mystery featuring former public defender Juliet Applebaum. SIGNED on the title page. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-425-202844.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (tanning to the pages)
Book ID: 56245More details Price: $25.00 -
THE BIG NAP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second 'mommy-track' mystery featuring Juliet Applebaum. SIGNED on the title page. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-425-179494.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket.(remainder line.)
Book ID: 47415More details Price: $25.00 -
LOVE AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE PURSUITS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A insightful look at modern life, as a woman tries to deal with the loss of her own newborn daughter and her inability to bond with her 5 year old stepson. Waldman's second 'serious' novel after several Mommy Track mysteries. SIGNED on the title page. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-385-515308.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49189More details Price: $25.00 -
THE CRADLE ROBBERS.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Berkley, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The 6th 'mommy-track' mystery featuring former public defender Juliet Applebaum. SIGNED on the title page. 218 pp. In a reversal of the usual case, this book club edition is slightly larger than the trade edition. ISBN: 0-425-202844.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some tanning to the pages)
Book ID: 54284More details Price: $12.50 -
DAUGHTER'S KEEPER.
Edition: First printing.
Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A compelling novel that exposes the inequities of a legal system, especially regarding the drug laws, one which shines as a testament to the unshakable bond between mothers and daughters. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 1-4022-096x.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (light creasing to upper edge of back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 52367More details Price: $25.00 -
RED HOOK ROAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The death of a newly wed couple alters the lives of two families forever, as they cope with bitterness and grief and yet eventually come to a deeper appreciation of the small details of daily life. SIGNED on the title page. 343 pp. ISBN: 970385517867.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62861More details Price: $30.00 -
MURDER PLAYS HOUSE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Berkley, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The 5th 'mommy-track' mystery featuring former public defender Juliet Applebaum. SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-425-196356.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63043More details Price: $20.00 -
RED HOOK ROAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The death of a newly wed couple alters the lives of two families forever, as they cope with bitterness and grief and yet eventually come to a deeper appreciation of the small details of daily life. SIGNED on the title page. 343 pp. ISBN: 970385517867.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63690More details Price: $25.00 -
NURSERY CRIMES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first 'mommy-track' mystery introducing Juliet Applebaum, a public defender turned stay-at-home mom who is bored with playdates and decides to investigate when the school's principal is killed in a hit and run accident. SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-425-174697.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82420More details Price: $30.00 -
LOVE AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE PURSUITS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A insightful look at modern life, as a woman tries to deal with the loss of her own newborn daughter and her inability to bond with her 5 year old stepson. Waldman's second 'serious' novel after several Mommy Track mysteries. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-385-515308.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87409More details Price: $30.00 -
RED HOOK ROAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The death of a newly wed couple alters the lives of two families forever, as they cope with bitterness and grief and yet eventually come to a deeper appreciation of the small details of daily life. 343 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68843More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BIG NAP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second 'mommy-track' mystery featuring Juliet Applebaum. SIGNED on the title page. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-425-179494.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 34438More details Price: $28.00
