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GRACELAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nigerian-born author's powerful first novel, the story of a teenage Elvis impersonator living in a sprawling slum of Lagos. Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-374-165890.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69212More details Price: $20.00 -
GOOD RIDDANCE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - the story of a woman set adrift by her divorce but also of her ability to survive not only that, but a brutal rape, and to regain possession of herself.
Condition: VG/VG (closed tears, pc.)
Book ID: 8994More details Price: $12.50 -
DUEL SITE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1970. SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, and the last in the series of limited edition poetry pamphlets published by this press. Issued in a limited edition of only 300 copies. An interesting association copy INSCRIBED on the title page to poet Barbara Guest, one of the dedicatees - "Having stumbled on the secret platform, the cartographer serenely gazed into the blue . . . with my love, Walter. The poem dedicated to Guest is titled 'Don't Speak to Me about Cartographers.'
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to the back cover).
Book ID: 60585More details Price: $275.00 -
THE ROMANCE READER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books (Putnam), 1995. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the story of a young girl in the Hasidic world in Brooklyn - a secret reader of Charlotte Bronte and Victoria Holt in violation of the prohibition against reading books in English.
Condition: F/F.
Book ID: 8544More details Price: $18.00 -
FOBBIT.
Edition: Trade paperback original.
New York: Black Cat / Grove Atlantic, (2012). SIGNED - The author's first novel, an "Iraq war comedy." SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Karl Marlantes (who called it "hilarious, but the subject matter is deadly serious"), Jonathan Evison ("it deserves a place alongside Slaughterhouse-Five and Catch 22 as one of our great comic novels about the absurdity of war") and more. 369 pp. ISBN: 9780802120328.
Condition: Fine in wrappers with French flaps. Promotional postcard laid in.
Book ID: 62815More details Price: $16.50 -
ARABIAN JAZZ.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set among a large and loving Arab family living in a mostly poor-white small town in upstate New York - a community where "ethnics" are few and far between. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-151078629).
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39247More details Price: $30.00 -
ARABIAN JAZZ.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set among a large and loving Arab family living in a mostly poor-white small town in upstate New York - a community where "ethnics" are few and far between. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-151078629).
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80849More details Price: $30.00 -
HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Broadway Books, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in a quiet New Jersey town in 1983, this is a coming-of-age story of an 'overly theatrical and sexually confused' 17 year old. Boldly SIGNED on the half title page with the words 'Be Splendid!' 276 pp. ISBN: 0-76791841X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62220More details Price: $30.00 -
HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Broadway Books, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in a quiet New Jersey town in 1983, this is a coming-of-age story of an 'overly theatrical and sexually confused' 17 year old. Boldly INSCRIBED on the half title page with the words 'Be Splendid!' and with a small blue "property of Wallingford High School" stamp. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-76791841X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with a crease on the rear flap of the dj, with a light impression on the last couple of pages)
Book ID: 65704More details Price: $28.50 -
JUMP.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Toronto: McArthur & Company, (2000). First edition - Set in Montreal, this is the first novel by this playwright - the story of a woman who is a freelance journalist, a single mother and a passionate Montrealer - her ex-husband is heading for a breakdown, her children are declaring their independence and she is trying to find a new sense of purpose. 350 pp. ISBN: 0-15528133X.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to pages)
Book ID: 84506More details Price: $15.00 -
HARBOR.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 85134More details Price: $18.50 -
A WALK ACROSS THE SUN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & London: SilverOak, (2012. SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, interwoven stories of two young Indian girls who are swept up into the international sex trade and the young American lawyer who becomes involved in trying to rescue them. SIGNED on the half title page. 370 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 54939More details Price: $25.00 -
A WALK ACROSS THE SUN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & London: SilverOak, (2012. SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, interwoven stories of two young Indian girls who are swept up into the international sex trade and the young American lawyer who becomes involved in trying to rescue them. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 370 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 54938More details Price: $25.00 -
SWEET EYES.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83383More details Price: $20.00 -
PANIC IN A SUITCASE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2014. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - the story of two decades in the life of a Russian immigrant family living in Brighton Beach - Brooklyn - and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream, when the dissolution of the Soviet Union makes returning just a matter of a plane ticket, and the Russian-owned shops in their adopted neighborhood stock even the most obscure comforts of home. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-1594632143.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75567More details Price: $15.00 -
HOME MOVIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, about a 14-year old orphan rearing herself in Illinois and LA.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (faint line bottom edge)
Book ID: 3946More details Price: $18.00 -
FOREST GATE.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Free Press, (2010.). First edition - First novel by this young author, of Nigerian ancestry, raised in Forest Gate, London and now living in New York. A graphic, poetic and shattering story set among young Somalian refugees in the slums of London. Although drugs play a very significant role in the novel, Akinti wants to show that the tragedy of young men dying is about much more than that. This edition includes a reading guide and a question and answer section with the author. 210 pp. ISBN: 9781439172179.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 48609More details Price: $15.00 -
ST. BURL'S OBITUARY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Denver & Aspen: MacMurray and Beck, (1996.) dj. First edition - The author's very highly praised -and genuinely original - first novel: "A burlesque on death, resurrection and dinner. . When Bennett stumbles one night into a gangland slaying, his life of moral virtue and culinary vice is turned upside down." 269 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83579More details Price: $30.00 -
ST. BURL'S OBITUARY.
Edition: First printing.
Denver & Aspen: MacMurray and Beck, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised -and genuinely original - first novel: "A burlesque on death, resurrection and dinner. . When Bennett stumbles one night into a gangland slaying, his life of moral virtue and culinary vice is turned upside down." 370 pp. ISBN: 1878448684.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56940More details Price: $17.50 -
ST. BURL'S OBITUARY.
Edition: First printing.
Denver & Aspen: MacMurray and Beck, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised -and genuinely original - first novel: "A burlesque on death, resurrection and dinner. . When Bennett stumbles one night into a gangland slaying, his life of moral virtue and culinary vice is turned upside down." SIGNED on the title page. 370 pp. ISBN: 1878448684.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64248More details Price: $28.50 -
ST. BURL'S OBITUARY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Denver & Aspen: MacMurray and Beck, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised -and genuinely original - first novel: "A burlesque on death, resurrection and dinner. . When Bennett stumbles one night into a gangland slaying, his life of moral virtue and culinary vice is turned upside down." SIGNED on the title page and dated 7/9/96, in the year of publication. 269 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80690More details Price: $30.00 -
TEMPTING FATE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Allie, who, at 20, had already "used up the lower 48 states", and arrived in Vladimir, Alaska where she found work on a salmon fishing boat. Author's first novel.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (light edgewear.)
Book ID: 3947More details Price: $25.00 -
THE SECOND STORY MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Fiction Collective, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's hard-to-find first novel, narrated by a 17 year old girl and set mostly in the bars and hangouts of New York's East Village in the 1950s.
Condition: Very good+ in a very good dustjacket. (chip at bottom of spine.)
Book ID: 15088More details Price: $40.00 -
LEELA'S BOOK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (2011). First edition - The author's first novel (second book). Set in India, this has been described as a 'multi-threaded, raucous epic about family and faith.' 422 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58227More details Price: $15.00 -
FEEDING THE EAGLES.
Edition: First printing.
St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of eleven interrelateds short stories which feature Miriam Batson, a native Southerner transplanted to the Midwest by marriage, as she confronts and comes to term with the shifting ground of her life. Alden was herself born in Greenville, South Carolina, and was writer in residence as the University of Minnesota at the time this was published. Dust jacket praise from Wallace Stegner and Scott Turow. 176 p. ISBN: 1-555971113.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 30891More details Price: $20.00 -
SAFE HOUSES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's very highly praised first novel, set in Budapest during World War II. ISBN: 0-689-11606-3.
Condition: Good only in a good dustjacket (binding cracked at title page.)
Book ID: 16747More details Price: $12.50 -
RICARDO: DIARY OF A MATINEE IDOL.
Edition: First printing.
Santa Barbara: John Daniel & Co., 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the Hollywood of the 1920s and 1930s during the era of silent films, the story of a Jewish-Italian boy from the Bronx, presented to the public as a new Latin lover, Paramount's answer to Valentino. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-936784652.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 68024More details Price: $25.00 -
BRICK LANE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Doubleday, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this young writer who was born in Bangladesh, but grew up in England, the story of two sisters, one living in London, the other still in Bangladesh. SIGNED on the title page. Short-listed for the Booker Prize. ISBN: 0-38560484X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 70462More details Price: $45.00 -
BRICK LANE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this young writer who was born in Bangladesh, but grew up in England, the story of two sisters, one living in London, the other still in Bangladesh. . Short-listed for the Booker Prize. 369 pp. ISBN: 0-743243307.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80805More details Price: $17.50 -
BRICK LANE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Scribner, (2003). First novel by this young writer who was born in Bangladesh, but grew up in England, the story of two sisters, one living in London, the other still in Bangladesh.. Short-listed for the Booker Prize. 415 pp. ISBN: 0-38560484X.
Condition: Very good (small address sticker inside front cover)
Book ID: 73624More details Price: $10.00