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INKLINGS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - "a novel of suspense, a comic entertainment, a plunge into the literary underworld." 190 pp. ISBN: 0-394493494.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 85442More details Price: $20.00 -
PROVIDENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which describes the effect of violence on five people - but also a novel in which the setting, the city of Providence, Rhode Island, plays a large part. Providence is a city "big enough to have neighborhoods, small enough so that everyone knows overone. . . steeped in history and corruption, [a] rough and pretty old Yankee port. . . the biggest organized crime operation in New England jostles with and sometimes runs the action at City Hall." 217 pp. ISBN: 0-670804614.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 63912More details Price: $15.00 -
A DAY AT THE BEACH: Recollections
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second volume of his memoirs, an account of his coming of age, and of his family - the title piece is a hilarious account of a misbegotten a Caribbean holiday in which he was struck down by a heart attack and the book concludes with a long piece 'Waterway' about a perilous trip at sea. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-679-403337.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 46462More details Price: $15.00 -
LITTLE BROWN BROTHER: America's Forgotten Bid for Empire Which Cost 250,000 Lives.
Edition: First UK edition..
London: Longmans, (1961). Hardcover first edition - The story of the United States's annexation of the Philippines - in 1898, the US, with the help of Filipino patriots under Emilio Aguinaldo, had driven out the Spanish - only to find themselves betrayed and once again under domination. The result was a bloody three year war in which a quarter of a million Filipinos and Americans were killed. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, index 383 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Good overall in orange boards, no dust-jacket (synopsis from dj flap taped to verso of front endpaper and half title page, tape over final lines of copyright info)
Book ID: 78480More details Price: $15.00 -
MADELEVA: A Biography.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (compliments of Madeleva Society stamped on half title page)
Book ID: 87163More details Price: $21.50 -
WHITE KIDS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Summit Books, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A revolution, a crime, a remarkable boy, a honeymoon, a war - A generation revealed 1970-1979." Wolff's first book, a series of essays which show what happened to some white kids after the 60s ended - including the story of Angela Atwood, a neighbor of his family who helped kidnap Patricia Hearst as a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army - although he uses a quote from James Baldwin as an epigraph: ". . .the troubles of what people failed to impress me as being real troubles." Wolff is best known now for his trilogy of unflattering books about Trump's presidency. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-671400010.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line, slight spine slant)
Book ID: 85429More details Price: $35.00 -
STYLES OF POLITICAL ACTION IN AMERICA
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Random House, 1972.
Condition: VG (slight edge wear, very small chip in corner)
Book ID: 10763More details Price: $8.50 -
THE BARRACKS THIEF.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (1984.). SIGNED - Wolff's second novel (or perhaps more accurately, a novella), a PEN Faulkner award winner, the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped to Vietnam who forge bonds of friendship when they confront a fire near an ammunition dump, only to see those bonds break under the stress of suspicion when there is a series of thefts. SIGNED on the title page, and rather uncommon thus. 101 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-0495.
Condition: Very good+ in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 51141More details Price: $30.00 -
THE NIGHT IN QUESTION
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third collection of short stories by this prize-winning and highly praised writer. A New York Times Notable book for 1996. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-679-402187.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 45734More details Price: $25.00 -
THE NIGHT IN QUESTION
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover - Third collection of short stories by this prize-winning and highly praised writer. A New York Times Notable book for 1996. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-679-402187.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 45735More details Price: $15.00 -
THE NIGHT IN QUESTION
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third collection of short stories by this prize-winning and highly praised writer. A New York Times Notable book for 1996. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-679-402187.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 35738More details Price: $20.00 -
OLD SCHOOL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first novel (third book), set at a New England prep school. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-375401466.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 80246More details Price: $21.50 -
THE BARRACKS THIEF.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format) for the UK edition.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1987.). SIGNED first edition - Wolff's second novel (or perhaps more accurately, a novella), a PEN Faulkner award winner, the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped to Vietnam who forge bonds of friendship when they confront a fire near an ammunition dump, only to see those bonds break under the stress of suspicion when there is a series of thefts. SIGNED on the title page, and dated in 1988. 101 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed terra cotta wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 65856More details Price: $65.00 -
Title Story from THE NIGHT IN QUESTION.
Edition: Limited, signed edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A special production of just the title story from Wolff's third collection - one of 1500 copies SIGNED by Wolff on a blank preliminary page. 27 pp.
Condition: Fine in silver boards with a gray cloth spine in a folded wrapper with an intact silver seal.
Book ID: 66587More details Price: $30.00 -
THE NEW FAMILY: The Graywolf Annual Eight
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1991.). First edition - A collection of short stories which celebrate our broader understanding of what a family can be. In addition to the writers above, this includes contributions by Maxine Kumin, Dennis McFarland, Molly Best Tinsley, Ellen Hunnicutt, Joan Wickersham and more. Brief notes on the authors. 337 pp. ISBN: 1-55597-152.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 12900More details Price: $15.00 -
THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 1995.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Wolff at his essay 'Civilian.' In addition to the contributions by the writers shown above, this includes selections by James Alan McPherson, Edna O'Brien, Grace Paley, Maxine Kumin and more. Robert Atwan, series editor. ISBN: 0-395-691834.
Condition: Very near fine in a stiff wrappers.
Book ID: 15671More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, Volume Four: 1929 - 1931 (original title in England: A Reflection of the Other Person.)
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979.) dj. This volume of Woolf's letters cover the years when she was writing her masterpiece, "The Waves." Although this includes letters old friends - including Vita Sackville-West, Vanessa Bell, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, and more - these years (and the letters) are dominated by a new acquaintance - the composer Ethel Smythe. Illustrated with photographs, Index. xxi, 442 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1509263.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (remainder line, but otherwise a tight and clean copy.)
Book ID: 54729More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, Volume Three: 1923 - 1928 (original title in England: A Change of Perspective.)
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1978.) dj. This volume of Woolf's letters cover a period when her literary career and the Hogarth Press were well launched and she was in relatively good health, Includes letters to Dora Carrington, Vita Sackville-West, Vanessa Bell, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Maynard Keynes and more. Illustrated with photographs, Index. 600 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1509263.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (some darkening to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 52741More details Price: $30.00 -
ISLAND OF DEATH: A New Key to Easter Island's Culture Through an Ethno-Psychological Study.
Edition: First edition.
New York: J.J. Augustin, (1948). Hardcover first edition - Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs. Tipped in frontispiece. Includes chapters on the statues, the script, Polynesia, the folklore of Easter Island and more.
Bibliography, index of authors, index. 228 pp plus 20 plates.Condition: Very good in charcoal gray cloth with white lettering on the spine, some spine slant, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 86917More details Price: $21.50 -
THE PLAY-PARTY IN INDIANA.
Edition: First edition.
Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1916 (1917). Hardcover first edition - A discussion of the circumstances which both led to the popularity of play-parties, and its subsequent almost disappearance except in very rural areas. Includes dances, songs, games, for children and adults. A title in the Indiana Historical Collections series (since by law a copy was provided to every library in Indiana and others reserved for Indiana University, it is unusual that this copy is not ex-library) Bibliography. 120 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark green cloth with gilt lettering - some light toning to the pages and rubbing to the lettering, short edge tear on leaf 11-12.
Book ID: 88436More details Price: $50.00 -
ROSIE COLORED GLASSES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in rose-colored illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 73085More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Wolitzer's first novel in more than a decade, this is a portrait of a woman coming to terms with her family history and the fallibility of memory. INSCRIBED on the half title page by Wolitzer. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-345-48584X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53651More details Price: $20.00 -
THE POSITION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2005.). First edition - A "take on sex and the suburban American family at the height of the sexual revolution" of the 1960s and "throughout the 30 year hangover that followed."307 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers. (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 88945More details Price: $18.50 -
THE DIRT FROM TRIPP STREET: Everyday Lessons About Life, Love and Loss, Sadness and Joy, and all the In-Betweens.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71733More details Price: $15.00 -
MIKE MARS SOUTH POLE SPACEMAN, #6.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1962). Hardcover first edition - The sixth Mike Mars book - a space adventure series for young readers carefully researched. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Albert Orbaan, full-color illustrated endpapers. 190 pp.
Condition: Very good in pale green boards, corners slightly bumped, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 72292More details Price: $15.00 -
THE UNIVERSE MAKERS: Science Fiction Today.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the primary major approaches to science fiction, from Verne and Wells (who added a strong social conscience, that has continued in science fiction) to Asimov and Vonnegut. Among the other authors whose works he discusses are Michael Crichton, Nabokov, Bradbury, Andre Norton, Harlan Ellison, Tolkien, Robert Silverberg and many others. Index. 122 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very near fine unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 78892More details Price: $16.50 -
THE 1973 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: DAW Books, (1973.). First edition - An anthology of 10 short stories, originally published in magazines during the year, with an introduction by Wollheim. Includes stories by , Frederik Pohl, Clifford D. Simak, Vernon Vinge, James Tiptree and others. 253 pp. plus 3 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good (light creasing to spine)
Book ID: 77780More details Price: $8.50 -
THE 1982 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: DAW Books, 1982. dj. Hardcover - In addition to the authors shown above this includes stories by Jayge Carr, Michael Shea, James Tiptree, Jr, Michael P. Kube-McDowell and more.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (corner of dj flap clipped)
Book ID: 31180More details Price: $12.50 -
THE GOLDEN QUEEN
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Science fiction adventure novel, described as a mixture of technology and mythology, 318 pp. Dust jacket art by Matt Stawicki. ISBN: 0-312-856563.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 6430More details Price: $16.50 -
EMBERS: A Novel in Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - A 'work of fiction about people who actually lived' - the story of generations of women in one family from 1907 to 2000. INSCRIBED on the title page "For Cat, who's also smelled the smoke." Timeline. xvi, 156 pp. ISBN: 1888996722.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner slightly bumped.).
Book ID: 52028More details Price: $22.00