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THESE WERE THE CHILDREN.
Edition: First edition.
Menlo Park, California: Albert Wilson Publishing Co., (1963) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of the San Francisco Nursery for Homeless Children, as told by one of the children who lived there and who found it a happy place, one which saved his life and that of many other children. SIGNED by Wilson on the title page. Illustrated with line drawings by John Milton Ramm and photographs. 358 pp plus index. A newspaper clipping of the obituary of harriet Ackerman, who served on the board for many years, written by Wilson, is tipped onto the rear endpaper.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, some foxing to the dj, toning to the pages)
Book ID: 81553More details Price: $24.50 -
AS IF BY MAGIC.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1973.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An entertaining novel - but one which is also a critique of modern society - one reviewer called it "Dickensian... not only in the sense that it has a strong sense of social purpose but because the author is showing a wonderful skill in creating a whole range of brilliantly realized characters." Dust jacket praise from Jonathan Raban and Michael Moorcock, among others. 415 pp. ISBN: 0-670-137251.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36862More details Price: $20.00 -
MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM: A Play in Two Acts.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Plume, (1985.). Drama set in a run-down recording studio in Chicago in 1927 where legendary blues singer Ma Rainey is due to arrive -111 pp. ISBN: 0-452261139.
Condition: Good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 40944More details Price: $8.50 -
SISTERS OF THE ROAD.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Seattle: Seal Press, 1986. First edition - The third feminist mystery featuring Pam Nilsen - in this one the search for a young girl brings her into contact with the world of teenage prostitutes and runaways on the streets of Seattle and Portland. 202 pp. ISBN: 0-931188-458.
Condition: Near fine condition. (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 32652More details Price: $9.50 -
SISTERS OF THE ROAD.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Seattle: Seal Press, 1986. First edition - The third feminist mystery featuring Pam Nilsen - in this one the search for a young girl brings her into contact with the world of teenage prostitutes and runaways on the streets of Seattle and Portland. 202 pp. ISBN: 0-931188-458.
Condition: Fine condition.
Book ID: 19752More details Price: $12.50 -
SISTERS OF THE ROAD.
Edition: A trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Seattle: Seal Press, 1986. First edition - The third feminist mystery featuring Pam Nilsen. ISBN: 0-931188-458.
Condition: Tape on spine, contents very good.
Book ID: 19918More details Price: $10.00 -
SISTERS OF THE ROAD.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Seattle: Seal Press, 1986. First edition - The third feminist mystery featuring Pam Nilsen - in this one the search for a young girl brings her into contact with the world of teenage prostitutes and runaways on the streets of Seattle and Portland. 202 pp. ISBN: 0-931188-458.
Condition: Near fine condition (remainder mark, bookstore stamp.)
Book ID: 52280More details Price: $11.50 -
TROUBLE IN TRANSYLVANIA.
Edition: First printing.
Seattle: Seal Press, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Cassandra Reilly mystery- called "a wonderful blend of travel writing, feminism and political commentary." 277 pp. ISBN: 1-878067-346.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 13710More details Price: $14.50 -
ANTIPODES JANE: A Novel of Jane Austen in Australia.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: The Viking Press, (1985.). First edition - Interesting premise that Jane Austen might have accompanied her aunt (who really was arrested for shoplifting some lace) when she was deported to Australia. First adult novel by this Australian author. Notes on the real-life characters. 330 pp.
Condition: Fine in pale blue printed wrappers.
Book ID: 55303More details Price: $18.00 -
DEAD MEN DON'T LEAVE TIPS: Adventures X Africa.
Edition: Trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Paia, HI: Pilgrim's Tales Inc., (2006.). First edition - Adventures of the author and his wife, a young couple who live in Hawaii when not traveling, on a trip from Morocco to the southern tip of Africa, partly as part of a group of "overlanders" (a group trip from hell), and partly on their own, Written with humor but also with a deep respect for both the people and the natural environment of Africa. Photographs. Map. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-9770536-44.
Condition: Very good - slight spine slant, reading crease to front cover,
Book ID: 47856More details Price: $15.00 -
LIBERIA: Black Africa in Microcosm.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of Liberia and a study of its possible significance: Although much of its past was stormy, Liberia is unique in Africa both in its founding and its history (by black people) and, at the time this book was written, in its role as a peace-keeper in Africa. Bibliography, photographs, index. 249 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 24714More details Price: $18.00 -
THE PERSONALITY SURGEON: A Novel.
Edition: First US printing.
San Francisco: Mercury House, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about an overworked, underpaid London general practicioner who develops a revolutionary method of psychotherapy. 322 pp. Dust jacket by Tom Bourret. ISBN: 0-916515-0414.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (some spine slant.)
Book ID: 43713More details Price: $12.50 -
THE SEX DIARY OF GERARD SORME.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dial Press, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - An "original and often outrageous" novel by the author of "The Outsider." 256 pp.
Condition: Very good in tan boards in a fair only dust jacket (price-clipped, rubbing to the dj, and blue tape reinforcement to the interior edges of the dj) .
Book ID: 82301More details Price: $15.00 -
ROBOGENESIS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to Robopocolypse by this author who is a citizen of the Cherokee nation. "The machine is still out there. And still alive." 362 pp. ISBN: 978-0385537094.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning)
Book ID: 78890More details Price: $17.50 -
THE COACHMAN RAT.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (short tear and associated creasing at bottom of front cover of dj)
Book ID: 86219More details Price: $16.50 -
IN THE PRESENCE OF NATURE.
Edition: First printing.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of three eighteenth naturalists on what was then the American frontier - Jonathan Carver was a Yankee explorer of the interior; John Bartram was a Pennsylvania botanist,and Mark Catesby, who was called the 'colonial Audubon' was an English-born artist and naturalist. Introduction by Gene Wise. Includes a full-color plate opposite the title page and 23 black and white plates, mostly botanical, but also including birds, animals, reptiles, and more. Extensive notes. Index. xvii, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-870230204.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (some rubbing to the folds and wear to the ends of the spine).
Book ID: 60439More details Price: $30.00 -
THE NATURE OF RARE THINGS,
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Nathaniel Gye, university lecturer and paranormal investigator. When he is asked by a dead man through a medium to investigate his death, he is skeptical - but when his wife disappears on a trip to Italy - a trip the medium also warned against - he finds himself involved. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-786715642.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 82351More details Price: $16.50 -
THE TWENTIES: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which Wilson was working on at the time of his death in 1972, edited and with a long introduction by his literary executor, Leon Edel. The first volume of the collected papers of this noted critic, who was himself the recipient of many awards, including two National Book Awards. Chronology. Includes many first person anecdotes about such writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, Mencken, e. e. cummings, Dorothy Parker and more. Arranged in two sections - 1919 (when Wilson was discharged from the Army and returned to New York City)-1925 and 1926-1930 and geographically within each section - from New York to Provincetown on Cape Cod to California. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xlviii, 557 pp. ISBN: 0-374279632.
Condition: Near fine in beige cloth in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 87033More details Price: $25.00 -
THE THIRTIES: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume of the collected papers of this noted critic, who was himself the recipient of many awards, including two National Book Awards. Edited and with an introduction by Leon Edel. Chronology. This includes both information about his political life - including his marriage to Margaret Canby in 1930- and his political activism as he records his visit to the labor barricades in the Kentucky coal fields, and saw first hand the cruelty and ruthlessmen of the mine owners. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xxix, 753 pp. ISBN: 0-374275726.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth in a very good dust jacket (some wear to ends of spine, and fold of front flap)
Book ID: 87034More details Price: $25.00 -
NATURALIST.
Edition: First printing.
Washington, DC / Covelo, CA: Island Press / Shearwater Books, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this Pulitzer Prize winning scientist, a "champion of biodiversity, arguably one of the most important thinkers of the Twentieth century. [He] describes for the first time both his growth as a scientist and the evolution of the science he has helped define." Alan Lightman called it "One of the greatest scientific autobiographies ever written." Illustrated with drawings by Laura Simonds Southworth. Index. xii, 380 pp. ISBN: 1-559632887.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86354More details Price: $25.00 -
THE KOOTENAY KIDNAPPER: A Tom Austen Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: Collins, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in a lonely ghost town in the mountains of British Columbia. ISBN: 0-00-2226421.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards, no dj as issued.
Book ID: 17343More details Price: $30.00 -
IMPLANT
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doherty, (1995.). SIGNED first edition - A novel of medical suspense. SIGNED on the title page. 348 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 5589More details Price: $30.00 -
BY THE SWORD: A Repairman Jack Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The twelfth Repairman Jack novel - Jack is "'a self-styled "fix-it" man who is no stranger to the macabre or the supernatural, hired by victimized people who have no one else to turn to." 383 pp. ISBN: 978-0765317070.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (stain to lower corner of textblock)
Book ID: 78766More details Price: $15.00 -
FATAL ERROR: A Repairman Jack Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 14th Repairman Jack novel - Jack is "'a self-styled "fix-it" man who is no stranger to the macabre or the supernatural, hired by victimized people who have no one else to turn to." 332 pp. ISBN: 978-0765322821.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78822More details Price: $17.50 -
THE DARK AT THE END: A Repairman Jack Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 15th Repairman Jack novel - Jack is "'a self-styled "fix-it" man who is no stranger to the macabre or the supernatural, hired by victimized people who have no one else to turn to." 331 pp. plus a brief advertisement for 'Nightworld.'. ISBN: 978-0765322838.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78861More details Price: $17.50 -
PANACEA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - A medical thriller by this award-winning writer. "Two secret societies vie for control of the ultimate medical miraclePanacea. Medical examiner Laura Fanning has two charred corpses and no answers. Both bear a mysterious tattoo but exhibit no known cause of death. Their only connection to one another is a string of puzzling miracle cures. Her preliminary investigation points to a cult in the possession of the fabled panaceathe substance that can cure all ills." 383 pp. ISBN: 978-0765385161.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75314More details Price: $17.50 -
HOSTS: A Repairman Jack Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth Repairman Jack novel - Jack is "'a self-styled "fix-it" man who is no stranger to the macabre or the supernatural, hired by victimized people who have no one else to turn to." 383 pp. ISBN: 0-312-878664.
Condition: Good in very good dust jacket (spine slant, some light edgewear to dj )
Book ID: 74808More details Price: $15.00 -
COLD CITY: A Repairman Jack Novel: The Early Years Trilogy, Book 1.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Repairman Jack prequel, "revealing the past of one of the most popular characters in contemporary dark fantasy: a self-styled "fix-it" man who is no stranger to the macabre or the supernatural, hired by victimized people who have no one else to turn to." 370 pp. ISBN: 978-0765330147.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning)
Book ID: 85200More details Price: $17.50 -
SELECT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (1994.). First edition - A medical thriller which draws upon Wilson's years of experience as a medical practicioner. According to the publisher's comments on the back cover, this was originally submitted anonymously. 332 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 49020More details Price: $15.00 -
SELECT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A medical thriller which draws upon Wilson's years of experience as a medical practicioner. According to the publisher's comments on the advanced edition of this book, this was originally submitted anonymously.SIGNED on the title page. 332 pp. ISBN: 0-688-046185.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49104More details Price: $30.00