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SEXING THE CHERRY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize winning author's fourth book, ostensibly set in 1666, during the reign of Charles II, this is a fusing of historical fiction and the fantastic. 167 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-3504.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39174More details Price: $25.00 -
LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A modern fable of the power of storytelling - the story of an orphaned and anchorless girl who is taken in by a blind lighthouse keeper -- who tells her tales of the history of Cape Wrath, of love and of loss. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1011176.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 45573More details Price: $18.00 -
GUT SYMMETRIES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her 6th novel, a complex tale of love, physics and the modern world. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454756.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20263More details Price: $18.00 -
ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. First edition - The uncommon first US printing of Winterson's first book (only issued as a trade paperback in the US.) At least 3 issues have a copyright page which states "1st printing" but only the first does not include the publisher's name or a number line on the copyright page, has a price of $6.95 on the rear cover. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-1633.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers - toning to the pages as is common to this title, light crease to front cover.
Book ID: 78112More details Price: $30.00 -
GUT SYMMETRIES.
Edition: First printing.
London: Granta, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her 6th novel, a complex tale of love, physics and the modern world. SIGNED on the title page. 219 pp. ISBN: 1-862070008.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 80641More details Price: $30.00 -
ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. Winterson's first book (only issued as a trade paperback in the US.) 176 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-1633.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers .
Book ID: 46859More details Price: $10.00 -
ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. Winterson's first book (only issued as a trade paperback in the US.) Although the copyright page states "1st printing" this is a later printing as shown by the price of $10.95. ISBN: 0-87113-1633.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 14765More details Price: $12.50 -
ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. Winterson's first book (only issued as a trade paperback in the US.) Although the copyright page states "1st printing" this is a later printing as shown by the price of $10.95. ISBN: 0-87113-1633.
Condition: Very good + in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease on back cover.)
Book ID: 14766More details Price: $12.00 -
GUT SYMMETRIES.
Edition: First printing.
London: Granta, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her 6th novel, a complex tale of love, physics and the modern world. 219 pp. ISBN: 1-862070008.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 16092More details Price: $25.00 -
GUT SYMMETRIES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her 6th novel, a complex tale of love, physics and the modern world. SIGNED on the title page. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454756.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60551More details Price: $30.00 -
ARTS & LIES: A Piece for 3 Voices and a Bawd.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26696More details Price: $20.00 -
HORNDOG BLUE.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson, AZ: Edward R. Smallwood, (1995.). Hardcover first edition - A novel about a man trapped by flawed dreams, by the author of 'Snorkel Bob's Reality Guide to Hawaii.' 344 pp. ISBN: 1-881334384.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70522More details Price: $15.00 -
BREATH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008.). First edition - An unusual coming of age story - one about testing the limits - set in a small Australian town and along the coastline, where surfing provides a dangerous challenge. 205 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. Letter from publisher bound in.
Book ID: 58891More details Price: $21.50 -
MINIMUM OF TWO: Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this prize-winning Australian author. 153 pp. ISBN: 0-689-11978x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38517More details Price: $25.00 -
THE RIDERS
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Powerful novel of love and obsession by the author whom Keneally called "the most brilliant of younger Australian writers.". ISBN: 0-684-802961.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41318More details Price: $19.00 -
MINIMUM OF TWO: Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this prize-winning Australian author. 153 pp. ISBN: 0-689-11978x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35823More details Price: $25.00 -
THE RIDERS
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Powerful novel of love and obsession by the author whom Keneally called "the most brilliant of younger Australian writers.". ISBN: 0-684-802961.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (rem line.)
Book ID: 7396More details Price: $16.00 -
SHALLOWS.
Edition: First US trade paperback printing.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 53515More details Price: $12.00 -
DIRT MUSIC.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner's, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Powerful novel set in a remote section of Western Australia, short-listed for the Booker Prize and winner of Australia's Miles Franklin Literary Award.. SIGNED on the title page. 407 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-28022.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 54112More details Price: $35.00 -
BUY BACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A noir crime novel set in New York's underworld - "Tom Davin is a Brooklyn investigator in a jam. His girl friend split and stuck him with four cats and a debt to a ruthless loan shark. He arranges an art theft to cover his debt - only someone swipes the paintings from his crew." 309 pp. ISBN: 9780312601881.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57811More details Price: $17.50 -
COURAGEOUS WINGS.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Near fine in red cloth with black lettering. Quite uncommon in the original edition, although the 1940 Books Inc edition is easy to locate.
Book ID: 62745More details Price: $45.00 -
THE SILKEN LADDER (A Penny Parker Mystery #5.)
Edition: First edition.
New York: Cupples & Leon, (1941). Hardcover first edition - The 5th Penny Parker mystery story - a girls' mystery story series written under her own name by the author of the original Nancy Drew series. Wirt has claimed that the Penny Parker books were her favorites, with their spunky leading character and the newspaper background (Wirt was a journalist most of her life). Glossy frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. 207 pp. Lists through #6 in the front of the book (two titles were issued each year - thus #5 and 6 were both issued in 1941) .
Condition: Very good minus in red cloth with black lettering (lower corners bumped and fraying. prev owner's name)
Book ID: 63753More details Price: $25.00 -
DAN CARTER AND THE MONEY BOX (The Dan Carter Cub Scouts series #3.)
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1950.). Hardcover - The third book in this series by the writer best known for her Nancy Drew books. Aimed at slightly younger boys than her other series. Frontispiece. 216. pp.
Condition: Good in red cloth with black lettering (corners bumped, small stain at lower edge of front cover, contents clean, spine straight.)
Book ID: 63796More details Price: $12.50 -
THE BROWNIE SCOUTS AND THEIR TREE HOUSE (The Brownie Scouts series #4.)
Edition: First edition.
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1951.). Hardcover - The fourth book in this series by the writer best known for her Nancy Drew books. Aimed at slightly younger children than her other series, these books have a good deal of charm. Frontispiece. 210 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark red cloth with black lettering (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 53794More details Price: $13.50 -
DAN CARTER AND THE HAUNTED CASTLE (The Dan Carter Cub Scouts series #4.)
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1951.). Hardcover - The fourth book in this series by the writer best known for her Nancy Drew books. Aimed at slightly younger boys than her other series. Frontispiece. 203 pp.
Condition: Good in dark red cloth with black lettering (some soiling and wear to the covers.)
Book ID: 53795More details Price: $12.50 -
MYSTERY OF THE LAUGHING MASK.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1940.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth title (and last one listed) in the series "Mystery Stories for Girls" - a rather uncommon book by the author of the original Nancy Drew books. Set in Florida, in the Everglades and at a small beach town, this feautures a girl working for a naturalist for the summer. Glossy frontispiece. 203 pp plus 7 pp of the first chapter from 'The Runaway Caravan,' the first in another Wirt series of books called Trailer Stories for Girls.
Condition: Very good+ in orange cloth with navy lettering in a good dust jacket (dust jacket lists just 7 titles). Gift inscription on the illustrated front endpapers in the box provided for this, usual light toning to pages, chip to upper front corner of dj, slight loss at ends of spine, but overall a clean and tight book in an attractive dust jacket and uncommon thus.
Book ID: 47849More details Price: $120.00 -
BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR: A Penny Parker Mystery, #4.
Edition: First or early printing.
New York: Cupples & Leon, (1940.). Hardcover - A Penny Parker mystery story, set at a ski resort. A girls' mystery story written under her own name by the author of the original Nancy Drew series. Glossy frontispiece, last title listed in book (with notation 'other titles in preparation.') 211 pp.
Condition: Good only in red boards (usual toning to the pages, prev owner's name, spine cocked, shelfwear to edges of boards.)
Book ID: 54375More details Price: $16.50 -
THE CLOCK STRIKES THIRTEEN (A Penny Parker Mystery #7.)
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Cupples & Leon, (1942). Hardcover - The 7th Penny Parker mystery story - a girls' mystery story series written under her own name by the author of the original Nancy Drew series. Wirt has claimed that the Penny Parker books were her favorites, with their spunky leading character and the newspaper background (Wirt was a journalist most of her life). Plain frontispiece, . 207 pp. Lists through #8.
Condition: Good overall in red boards with black lettering (significant toning to the pages, some rubbing and wear to the corners and edges of the boards.)
Book ID: 69158More details Price: $15.00 -
DAN CARTER CUB SCOUT (The Dan Carter Cub Scouts series #1.)
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1949.) dj. Hardcover - The first book in this series by the writer best known for her Nancy Drew books. Aimed at slightly younger boys than her other series. Dan is the leader of his pack and he and his friends have many adventures. Plain frontispiece. 210. pp.
Condition: Good in red boards with black lettering in a fair only dust jacket with overall edgewear, beginning to separate along the folds (now protected by an archival cover)
Book ID: 69881More details Price: $16.50 -
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THROUGH THE MOON-GATE DOOR: A Mystery Story for Girls #5.
Edition: Early printing.(lists to itself in the book, to #7 on the dj flap)
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1938) dj. Hardcover - An uncommon book, written under her own name, by the author who is best known as the original writer on the Nancy Drew series. This series of mysteries for girls are each set in a different locale, and feature different girls: this book is set in San Francisco, and especially in San Francisco's Chinatown. The Moon-Gate Estate is a Chinese amusement park in San Francisco. Reflects the typical prejudices of the time towards the Chinese. Glossy frontispiece
Condition: Very good in gray cloth with burgundy lettering in a good dust jacket. (bookplate on front endpaper, chips/some loss to both ends of the spine of the dj, rubbing on the folds) Still, a very attractive copy of a book which is uncommon in general, and quite scarce in dustjacket.
Book ID: 62574More details Price: $150.00
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