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THE WIVE'S TALE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In this rich, shocking, and darkly comic debut novel, Alix Wilber introduces the reader to four generations of understandably melancholy Dufores, as well as those members of the LaFleur, LaStrange, and Woodie clans unfortunate enough to mix with or marry into the Dufore family... a magical and horrifying family narrative." 351 pp. ISBN: 0-393029751.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42003More details Price: $15.00 -
ALIEN MORNING.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 88099More details Price: $18.00 -
ANTIQUE MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS. Price Guide Included.
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
West Chester, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1987. First edition - A hand-lettered tour of medical history via the doctors' instruments, illustrated with careful and detailed drawings by Wilbur, who is both a physician and an artist. Depicts a wide range of medical instruments from the mid-1700s through current usage, including microscopes, reflex hammers, stethoscopes, blood pressure instruments, electro-cardiographs, ophthalmoscopes, otoscopes, endoscopes, vaginal specula, thermometers, forceps, bullet probes, bloodletting instruments, vaccination lancets, trepanning tools, and others. Includes a price guide, a list of museums, index. Large format, 149 pp. ISBN: 0-88740-0949.
Condition: Near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 31066More details Price: $16.00 -
ADVICE TO A PROPHET AND OTHER POEMS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1962.) dj. Hardcover - Fourth book of poetry by this National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize poet. Stated "first edition," but with "B.1.62" underneath. Notes. 64 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.(some toning to the pages. name of previous owner, poet Elizabeth Harrod.)
Book ID: 43571More details Price: $18.00 -
ELOQUENCE IN TROUBLE: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh.
Edition: First edition.
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1998). Hardcover first edition - "The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to troubles talk, combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology." A title in the Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics series. Photographs, list of key characters, notes, references, index and glossary. xix, 300 pp. ISBN: 0-195106873.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in light tan boards with silver lettering, no dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 72781More details Price: $25.00 -
SILENT WITNESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Alan Bernhardt mystery, a story of murder in California's wine country. 279 pp. . ISBN: 0-312-931611.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket(appears unread, but remainder dot bottom edge).
Book ID: 71100More details Price: $18.00 -
EXCEPT FOR THE BONES
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring Alan Bernhardt, actor, director and private investigator. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-312-93162x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 71101More details Price: $17.50 -
FIND HER A GRAVE
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover - The fourth mystery set in San Francisco featuring theater director and part-time private investigator, Alan Bernhardt. SIGNED on title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-312-852444.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71129More details Price: $16.50 -
A LONG WAY DOWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings. ISBN: 0-394-486811.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder mark.)
Book ID: 33713More details Price: $24.00 -
THE PARIAH
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 14th mystery featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-2801.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34028More details Price: $14.00 -
SWITCHBACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Lt. Hastings mystery, set in San Francisco. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-31043.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (appears unread, but rem line top edge, an "80" in corner of front endpaper.)
Book ID: 6159More details Price: $13.50 -
POWER PLAYS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Another mystery featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings.
Condition: NF/VG (rem mark, short tear to dj at top of spine, other edgewear.)
Book ID: 6161More details Price: $15.00 -
THE PARIAH
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 14th mystery featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-2801.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 6162More details Price: $15.00 -
CALCULATED RISK
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Lt. Hastings mystery, set in San Francisco.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 15761More details Price: $12.50 -
SWITCHBACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Lt. Hastings mystery, set in San Francisco. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-31043.
Condition: Very near fine in like dustjackets (an unread copy.)
Book ID: 10043More details Price: $14.50 -
A DEATH BEFORE DYING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Lt. Hastings mystery, set in San Francisco. The day before her murder, Frank Hastings, now co-commander of the homicide squad had a chance meeting and lunch with Meredith, now a beautiful woman who seemed to have it all - but whom he remembered as a little girl who used to trail after him in the old neighborhood. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-805009795.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 76165More details Price: $15.00 -
THE WATCHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings, one in which he and his son plan a vacation in remote Northern California. ISBN: 0-394412567.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 76172More details Price: $21.50 -
DEAD CENTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings - a killer begins executing members of Rabelais, a private club for San Francisco's elite, putting pressure on Hastings to discover who is responsible quickly. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-805016155.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76358More details Price: $17.50 -
HIDING PLACE.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Robert Hale, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Police procedural featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings - the body of a teenage girl has been found in Golden Gate Park. Rather uncommon in the UK first edition. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-709145144.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some very light foxing to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 75432More details Price: $18.50 -
A LONG WAY DOWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Another mystery featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings. ISBN: 0-394-486811.
Condition: Very good+ in very good - dust jacket ( a tight and clean copy, dj is price-clipped)
Book ID: 29286More details Price: $20.00 -
POWER PLAYS
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Hale, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - Another mystery featuring San Francisco SFPD Lieutenant Frank Hastings. ISBN: 0-7091-93750.
Condition: Very good in good dust jacket (rubbing, edgewear and tears to the dj.)
Book ID: 20314More details Price: $12.50 -
SWITCHBACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Lt. Hastings mystery, set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-31043.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52348More details Price: $28.00 -
PLAIN AND NORMAL.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very funny novel about a middle-aged man's tentative steps out of the closet, a move endorsed by his wife, who can't wait to get him out of the house. Cover praise for Wilcox by Anne Tyler, Robert Penn Warren, Roy Blount, Jr. and more. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-316940267.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42002More details Price: $15.00 -
THE PAINTED LADY: A Hackshaw Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel featuring reporter Elias Hackshaw, set in upstate New York. Hackshaw finds himself embroiled in a scandal involving two painted ladies - one an attractive newcomer to town and the second a beautiful, old Victorian house. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-312105207.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a tight unread copy)
Book ID: 78936More details Price: $16.50 -
BEAST.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scholastic, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning Australian author's first book for older children: the story of Jamie, who is afraid of everything - but especially of the beast who haunts the night darkness, and of Brendan, who bullies him at school. "An honest , unflinching story about the power of fear and the horror of abuse." 102 pp. ISBN: 0-590471589.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39078More details Price: $15.00 -
THE VERY BEST OF FRIENDS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "After the death of his beloved owner, a cat named William wins the heart of his grieving mistress and shows her what a good friend a cat can be." SIGNED by illustrator Julia Vivas on half title page. 29 pp. ISBN: 0-15-2006257.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (crinkling to bottom edge of dj)
Book ID: 59457More details Price: $30.00 -
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OSCAR WILDE.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover - A definitive biography of one of the most controversial - but always interesting and ultimately tragic - writers of the late 19th century. Photographs, notes, index. 680 pp. ISBN: 0-39457768X.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 50944More details Price: $17.50 -
MOTHER TONGUE: An American Life in Italy.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - An American woman tells of her changed life after moving to Parma, Italy with her husband and daughter. Illustrations and photographs in black and white. Bibliography. x, 374 pp. ISBN: 0-865475016.
Condition: Near fine in a very good+ dustjacket (gift inscription on front end page, creasing to back of dustjacket).
Book ID: 54503More details Price: $15.00 -
THE SUMMER'S KING: Volume Three of the Rulers of Hylor.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third and final volume in this young adult fantasy trilogy by this New Zealand born author. 244 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Michael Mariano. ISBN: 0-689311184.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a fine and unmarked dust jacket..
Book ID: 66898More details Price: $13.50 -
WALKING THE TWILIGHT II: Women Writers of the Southwest.
Edition: First printing, a large square trade paperback.
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing, (1996.). First edition - Contributions from 25 women, edited and with an introduction by Wilder. Among the authors are Paula Gunn Allen, Denise Chavez, Pam Houston, Demetria Martinez, Mary Sojourner, Yoshiko Uchida, Terry Tempest Williams, Melissa Pritchard and seventeen others. A brief biographical note precedes each piece. x, 245 pp. ISBN: 0-87358-6484.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56436More details Price: $20.00
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