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  • INKLINGS. by Wolff, Geoffrey.
    Wolff, Geoffrey.
    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: 85442
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  • PROVIDENCE. by Wolff, Geoffrey
    Wolff, Geoffrey
    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: 63912
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  • A DAY AT THE BEACH: Recollections by Wolff, Geoffrey
    Wolff, Geoffrey
    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: 46462
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  • LITTLE BROWN BROTHER: America's Forgotten Bid for Empire Which Cost 250,000 Lives. by Wolff, Leon.
    Wolff, Leon.
    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: 78480
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  • MADELEVA: A Biography. by [Wolff, Madeleva CSC, 1887-1964] Mandell, Gail Porter
    [Wolff, Madeleva CSC, 1887-1964] Mandell, Gail Porter
    MADELEVA: A Biography.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Albany: State University of New York Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - "Before her death in 1964, Madeleva Wolff, CSC (Congregation of the Holy Cross), was recognized as one of American Catholicism's most extraordinary women. Known as an educator who founded the School of Sacred Theology (the first and, for more than a decade, the only institution to offer graduate degrees in theology to women) Madeleva was also renowned as a scholar, mystical poet, and the author of more than twenty books. . . Her friendships with C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Jacques Maritain, Charles Du Bos, and Clare Boothe Luce, among others, put her in touch with a wide range of Christian intellectuals. As a spokeswoman for the education…

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    Albany: State University of New York Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - "Before her death in 1964, Madeleva Wolff, CSC (Congregation of the Holy Cross), was recognized as one of American Catholicism's most extraordinary women. Known as an educator who founded the School of Sacred Theology (the first and, for more than a decade, the only institution to offer graduate degrees in theology to women) Madeleva was also renowned as a scholar, mystical poet, and the author of more than twenty books. . . Her friendships with C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Jacques Maritain, Charles Du Bos, and Clare Boothe Luce, among others, put her in touch with a wide range of Christian intellectuals. As a spokeswoman for the education of women and an advocate for the improvement of the status of women in the church, Madeleva anticipated the women's movement of the late 1960s and the reforms of Vatican II by more than a generation." Illustrated with photographs. Extensive notes, selected readings, index. SIGNED on the title page. xv, 303 pp. ISBN: 0-791434400.

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    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (compliments of Madeleva Society stamped on half title page)

    Book ID: 87163
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  • WHITE KIDS. by Wolff, Michael.
    Wolff, Michael.
    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: 85429
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  • Wolff, Robert Paul
    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: 10763
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  • THE BARRACKS THIEF. by Wolff, Tobias.
    Wolff, Tobias.
    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: 51141
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  • THE NIGHT IN QUESTION by Wolff, Tobias
    Wolff, Tobias
    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: 45734
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  • THE NIGHT IN QUESTION by Wolff, Tobias
    Wolff, Tobias
    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: 45735
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  • THE NIGHT IN QUESTION by Wolff, Tobias
    Wolff, Tobias
    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: 35738
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  • OLD SCHOOL. by Wolff, Tobias.
    Wolff, Tobias.
    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: 80246
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  • THE BARRACKS THIEF. by Wolff, Tobias.
    Wolff, Tobias.
    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: 65856
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  • Title Story from THE NIGHT IN QUESTION. by Wolff, Tobias
    Wolff, Tobias
    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: 66587
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  • THE NEW FAMILY: The Graywolf Annual Eight by (Wolff, Tobias; Braverman, Kate; Baxter, Charles; Bryant, Dorothy; McElroy, Colleen and others) edited by Scott Walker.
    (Wolff, Tobias; Braverman, Kate; Baxter, Charles; Bryant, Dorothy; McElroy, Colleen and others) edited by Scott Walker.
    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: 12900
    Keywords: Anthology
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  • THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 1995. by (Wolff, Tobias, signed; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., Gass, William H. ) Kincaid, Jamaica, editor.
    (Wolff, Tobias, signed; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., Gass, William H. ) Kincaid, Jamaica, editor.
    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: 15671
    Keywords: Essays
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  • THE LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, Volume Four: 1929 - 1931 (original title in England: A Reflection of the Other Person.) by [Wolff, Virginia] edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann
    [Wolff, Virginia] edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann
    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: 54729
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  • THE LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, Volume Three: 1923 - 1928 (original title in England: A Change of Perspective.) by [Wolff, Virginia] edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann
    [Wolff, Virginia] edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann
    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: 52741
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  • ISLAND OF DEATH: A New Key to Easter Island's Culture Through an Ethno-Psychological Study. by Wolff, Werner.
    Wolff, Werner.
    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: 86917
    Keywords: Hawaii and Pacific
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  • THE PLAY-PARTY IN INDIANA. by Wolford, Leah Jackson.
    Wolford, Leah Jackson.
    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: 88436
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  • ROSIE COLORED GLASSES. by Wolfson, Brianna.
    Wolfson, Brianna.
    ROSIE COLORED GLASSES.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: MIRA, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel - "Just as opposites attract, they can also cause friction, and no one feels that friction more than Rex and Rosies daughter, Willow. Rex is serious and unsentimental and tapes checklists of chores on Willows bedroom door. Rosie is sparkling and enchanting and meets Willow in their treehouse in the middle of the night to feast on candy. After Rex and Rosies divorce, Willow finds herself navigating their two different worlds. She is clearly under the spell of her exciting, fun-loving mother. But as Rosies behavior becomes more turbulent, the darker underpinnings of her manic love are revealed." Bound in is a printed letter from the author…

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    New York: MIRA, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel - "Just as opposites attract, they can also cause friction, and no one feels that friction more than Rex and Rosies daughter, Willow. Rex is serious and unsentimental and tapes checklists of chores on Willows bedroom door. Rosie is sparkling and enchanting and meets Willow in their treehouse in the middle of the night to feast on candy. After Rex and Rosies divorce, Willow finds herself navigating their two different worlds. She is clearly under the spell of her exciting, fun-loving mother. But as Rosies behavior becomes more turbulent, the darker underpinnings of her manic love are revealed." Bound in is a printed letter from the author to the reader describing how this book was an attempt to understand the story of her own mother, who was much like the Rosie in the book, and who died when she was just nine. SIGNED on the title page. 329 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in rose-colored illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.

    Book ID: 73085
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  • Wolitzer, Hilma.
    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: 53651
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • THE POSITION. by Wolitzer, Meg.
    Wolitzer, Meg.
    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: 88945
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  • THE DIRT FROM TRIPP STREET: Everyday Lessons About Life, Love and Loss, Sadness and Joy, and all the In-Betweens. by Wolk, Daniel S.
    Wolk, Daniel S.
    THE DIRT FROM TRIPP STREET: Everyday Lessons About Life, Love and Loss, Sadness and Joy, and all the In-Betweens.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In this charming, pensive, humorous collection of stories, Daniel Wolk shows that the hidden meaning of the world is something we encounter every day, in the faces of our neighbors and in the ordinary events of our lives. In twenty-five years as a rabbi, lecturer, and teacher, Daniel Wolk has explored the heavenly and theological spheres regularly, but he finds his most inspiring truths closer to home. Wolk draws profound lessons from the daily life on Tripp Street, four-tenths of a mile of meandering road in Westchester County, New York. There, Mrs. Martha Parsons, ninety-five-year-old matriarch of Tripp Street, teaches him that 'we grow old by not growing.'…

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    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In this charming, pensive, humorous collection of stories, Daniel Wolk shows that the hidden meaning of the world is something we encounter every day, in the faces of our neighbors and in the ordinary events of our lives. In twenty-five years as a rabbi, lecturer, and teacher, Daniel Wolk has explored the heavenly and theological spheres regularly, but he finds his most inspiring truths closer to home. Wolk draws profound lessons from the daily life on Tripp Street, four-tenths of a mile of meandering road in Westchester County, New York. There, Mrs. Martha Parsons, ninety-five-year-old matriarch of Tripp Street, teaches him that 'we grow old by not growing.' The Asplundh man, a master tree pruner who stimulates growth by cutting back branches, offers insight into our own rejuvenating powers. And Teddy of Hopeless Junction, a mutt with real class, invites us all to look at people, not just at their pedigrees." 223 pp. ISBN: 0-671747711.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 71733
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  • MIKE MARS SOUTH POLE SPACEMAN, #6. by Wollheim, Donald A.
    Wollheim, Donald A.
    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: 72292
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  • THE UNIVERSE MAKERS: Science Fiction Today. by Wollheim, Donald A.
    Wollheim, Donald A.
    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: 78892
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  • THE 1973 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF. by Wollheim, Donald A., editor.
    Wollheim, Donald A., editor.
    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: 77780
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  • Wollheim, Donald A., editor. (John Varley, C. J. Cherryh, Somtow Sucharitkul and others, contributors.)
    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: 31180
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  • THE GOLDEN QUEEN by Wolverton, Dave
    Wolverton, Dave
    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: 6430
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  • EMBERS: A Novel in Poems. by Wolverton, Terry.
    Wolverton, Terry.
    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: 52028
    Keywords: Poetry
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