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THE SAME RIVER TWICE. Honoring the Difficult.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book Walker spent 10 years in the writing, this is perhaps her most personal book yet. The story of the making of the film "Color Purple" and of the changes in her life. ISBN: 0-684-814196.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74854More details Price: $18.50 -
TO HELL WITH DYING
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Walker's first book for children, beautifully illustrated in full color by Catherine Deeter SIGNED by Walker on the title page. Unpaginated, oblong format. ISBN: 0-15-2890750.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot, light crease on back cover of dj).
Book ID: 73120More details Price: $50.00 -
FINDING THE GREENSTONE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Walker's second book for children, once again produced in collaboration with illustrator Catherine Deeter. ISBN: 0-15-227538x.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 73121More details Price: $35.00 -
WARRIOR MARKS: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the making of a documentary film to educate people about the harmful practice of female genital mutilation. Color frontispiece. Photographs. Bibliography, map endpapers. 373 pp. Slightly oversized. ISBN: 0-15-1000611.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 41155More details Price: $12.50 -
WARRIOR MARKS: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of the making of a documentary film to educate people about the harmful practice of female genital mutilation. Photographs. Errata slip laid in. ISBN: 0-15-1000611.
Condition: SIGNED by Walker on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 25112More details Price: $45.00 -
WARRIOR MARKS: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the making of a documentary film to educate people about the harmful practice of female genital mutilation. Color frontispiece. Photographs. Bibliography, map endpapers. 373 pp. Slightly oversized. ISBN: 0-15-1000611.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 26013More details Price: $15.00 -
ALICE WALKER'S THE COLOR PURPLE and Other Works: A Critical Commentary. (Monarch notes)
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Monarch Press / Simon & Schuster, (1987). First edition - Looks at Walker's life, and the influences on her work, especially her discovery of the novels of Zora Neale Hurston. While this focuses on Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning The Color Purple, it also discusses her work both before and after its publication. Bibliography, 121 pp. ISBN: 0-671648616.
Condition: Very near fine in stapled red and white wrappers (some rubbing to the covers)
Book ID: 79241More details Price: $20.00 -
BANNED
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A small book printed by a small San Francisco press - it contains 2 of Walker's stories ("Roselily" and "Am I Blue) and an excerpt from "The Color Purple" and a discussion of how frequently attempts have been made to censor Walker's works. ISBN: 1-879960478.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26097More details Price: $24.00 -
PRIZE STORIES 1986: The O. Henry Awards.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Doubleday / Anchor, 1986. In addition to the prizewinners and contributors shown above, this also includes stories by Bobbie Ann Mason, Ward Just, Elizabeth Spencer, Stephanie Vaughn and more. Introduction by Abrahams. Walker won first prize for 'Kindred Spirits' and Oates received a special award for continuing achievement for 'Master Race." 274 pp. ISBN: 0-385-231563.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 55948More details Price: $11.50 -
HIDDEN IN PLAIN VIEW
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Avon, 1999. The second mystery featuring Darryl Billups, young African American reporter in Baltimore.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 10256More details Price: $15.00 -
29 GIFTS: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45645More details Price: $30.00 -
FIXED IN HIS FOLLY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery, introducing Chicago private investigator Malachy Foley. Edgar Award nominee for Best First Novel. SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-312130740.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 77097More details Price: $31.50 -
NO SHOW OF REMORSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel featuring Chicago private investigator Malachy Foley, who has applied to have his law license reinstated - but he still steadfastly refuses to express remorse for his actions. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-312252404.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 86876More details Price: $18.50 -
THE GREAT TREK.
Edition: Fifth edition.
London: Adam and Charles Black, (1965). Hardcover - Later printing of a book originally published in 1934. The Great Trek was the journey undertaken in South Africa in the late 1830s and 1840s of Afrikander sheep and cattle farmers from the frontier districts of the Cape Colony to Natal the Orange Free State and Transvaal. A title in The Pioneer Histories series. Illustrated with four plates, 3 maps, including 2 folding map.Index vii, 389 pp.
Condition: Good overall in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine - a tight, straight copy but with highlighting throughout. No dust jacket.
Book ID: 79730More details Price: $15.00 -
BUFFALO DANCE: The Journey of York.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a good dust jacket (long tape repaired tear and small chip to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 88340More details Price: $75.00 -
MEG: The Secret of the Witch's Stairway. #2
Edition: Hardcover edition.
Racine, WI: Whitman, (1967). Hardcover - A Whitman "Tween Age Book" - not too hard and not too easy for inbetween readers. Illustrated in orange on white. Illustrated endpapers. The second title in the Meg mystery series. In addition to writing the first 6 books of the Meg Duncan series, Bond wrote 3 of the books in the Trixie Belden series in the late 1970's (#17, 21 and 25.). ISBN: 0-307-215288.
Condition: Good condition only (front hinge cracked, corners bumped usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 63895More details Price: $12.50 -
MEG AND THE DISAPPEARING DIAMONDS .#1.
Edition: Hardcover.
Racine, WI: Western Publishing Company, Inc., (1968.). A Whitman "Tween Age Book" - not too hard and not too easy for in-between readers. Illustrated by Cliff Schule. The first book in the Meg mystery series. In addition to writing the first six books of the Meg Duncan series, Bond wrote three of the books in the Trixie Belden series in the late 1970s (#17, 21 and 25.) As an indication of just how popular these books can be with girls, my daughter named her part-Siamese cat 'Thunder' after Meg's cat. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-307-21527x.
Condition: Good only in illustrated covers (usual toning to pages, wear to corners and ends of spine, hinges starting)
Book ID: 63046More details Price: $10.00 -
THE FLOOD MOUNTAIN MYSTERIES.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering in a near fine dust jacket (minor wear to top edge of dj).
Book ID: 84319More details Price: $30.00 -
THE AGE OF MIRACLES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, (2012). First edition - Her first novel, a wonderful and uncommon coming-of-age story set in the near future where the rotation of the earth has begun to slow, and changes to everyone's lives inexorably follow. Cover praise from Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Karen Russell and more. Letter from publisher bound in. 272 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59145More details Price: $25.00 -
THE AGE OF MIRACLES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first novel, a wonderful and uncommon coming-of-age story set in the near future where the rotation of the earth has begun to slow, and changes to everyone's lives inexorably follow. Dust jacket praise from Amy Bloom, Yiyun Li, Aimee Bender, Karen Russell and more. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780812992977.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated yellow boards in a near fine die-cut dust jacket (small abraded spot from sticker removal on dj).
Book ID: 62394More details Price: $20.00 -
THE PATRIARCH: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery novel featuring Bruno, Chief of Police (and the only policeman) in the small town of Saint-Denis in the Dordogne. "Bruno is invited to the lavish birthday celebration of World War II flying ace and national icon Marco 'the Patriarch' Desaix, itÕs the fulfillment of a boyhood dream. But when the party ends in the death of Gilbert, MarcoÕs longtime friend, itÕs another day on the job for the chef de police." A series which celebrates the pleasures of friendship, good food and good wine. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 978-0385354172.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to front flap of dj)
Book ID: 86108More details Price: $40.00 -
ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this Edgar award winning author and the third featuring Texas based crime reporter Molly Cates, who finds herself investigating the death of her father 25 years ago - a death ruled as suicide at the time. SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-385-478585.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82649More details Price: $30.00 -
UNDER THE BEETLE'S CELLAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1995. SIGNED first edition - Her third book, and second mystery featuring Texas crime reporter Molly Cates - the first won the Edgar, and this novel was the winner of both the 1996 McCavity and Anthony awards. SIGNED on the title page. 398 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60507More details Price: $30.00 -
UNDER THE BEETLE'S CELLAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third book, and second mystery featuring Texas crime reporter Molly Cates - the first won the Edgar, and this novel was the winner of the McCavity, Anthony and the Dashiell Hammett awards.. ISBN: 0-385-468598.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60620More details Price: $24.50 -
THE RED SCREAM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First in a new series featuring Texas based crime reporter Molly Cates. Winner of the 1994 Edgar award for best mystery. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-385-46858X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64037More details Price: $24.50 -
UNDER THE BEETLE'S CELLAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third book, and second mystery featuring Texas crime reporter Molly Cates - the first won the Edgar, and this novel was the winner of the McCavity, Anthony and the Dashiell Hammett awards.. Laid in is Walker's business card SIGNED by her with the words "All the best.". ISBN: 0-385-468598.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64038More details Price: $30.00 -
THE RED SCREAM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First in a new series featuring Texas based crime reporter Molly Cates. Winner of the 1994 Edgar award for best mystery. SIGNED on the title page. In addition, Walker's address label is on the front endpaper, and a handwritten envelope from Walker with a business card inside is laid in. The business card includes a brief SIGNED note. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-385-478585.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64039More details Price: $40.00 -
UNDER THE BEETLE'S CELLAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1995. First edition - Her third book, and second mystery featuring Texas crime reporter Molly Cates - the first won the Edgar, and this novel was the winner of both the 1996 McCavity and Anthony awards. 398 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 44836More details Price: $25.00 -
UNDER THE BEETLE'S CELLAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1995. First edition - Her third book, and second mystery featuring Texas crime reporter Molly Cates - the first won the Edgar, and this novel was the winner of both the 1996 McCavity and Anthony awards. 398 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 35260More details Price: $20.00 -
DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINTOP: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (1991.). Discusses the novels of Margaret Walker, Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, Louise Meriweather, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker and more in the context of the Civil Rights movements, its hopes and its achievements. Bibliography of primary works, notes, index. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-300-054327.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 48037More details Price: $12.00