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  • Ansay, A. Manette
    VINEGAR HILL.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Avon, (1998.). Set in 1972, this is the story of Ellen, who finds herself living with her in-laws, narrrow-minded, rigid, eccentric, former farmers, Catholics who live in a world 'as rigid, as precise as a church.' A quiet, intense novel, often poetic in its language - Amy Tan called the author ".a powerful storyteller with lyrical gifts and a wry, observant eye." 240 pp. ISBN: 0-670852538.

    Condition: Very good condition.

    Book ID: 47045
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  • AQUAMARINE. by Anshaw, Carol.
    Anshaw, Carol.
    AQUAMARINE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel. Finalist for the Lambda award. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-395-585627.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 57194
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  • DIVINA TRACE. by Antoni, Robert.
    Antoni, Robert.
    DIVINA TRACE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, 1992 winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, set in the "fictional world" of "Corpus Christi", an invented island (based on Trinidad). The central narrator, Johnny Domingo, relays the story of the mysterious Magdalena and her frog child, as he hears it from seven different narrators, each speaking their own distinctly Caribbean dialect. Antoni has won many other awards for his work - among them the 1999 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by The Paris Review for "My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head" and a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2010 for his work on the historical novel "As Flies…

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    Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, 1992 winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, set in the "fictional world" of "Corpus Christi", an invented island (based on Trinidad). The central narrator, Johnny Domingo, relays the story of the mysterious Magdalena and her frog child, as he hears it from seven different narrators, each speaking their own distinctly Caribbean dialect. Antoni has won many other awards for his work - among them the 1999 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by The Paris Review for "My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head" and a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2010 for his work on the historical novel "As Flies to Whatless Boys." SIGNED on the title page. Mirror bound in. 427 pp. ISBN: 0-879514450.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some light toning to the pages).

    Book ID: 83846
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  • THE UNAMERICANS: Stories. by Antopol, Molly.
    Antopol, Molly.
    THE UNAMERICANS: Stories.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Norton, (2014). First edition - The author's first book, a highly praised collection of eight short stories, longlisted for the National Book Award. WVery good in very good dust jacket.ith settings ranging from the United States to Israel to Russia, this has been called "a stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history." Author's note. 260 pp.

    Condition: Very good in printed wrappers (some crinkling from dampness to front cover and several pages - no staining)

    Book ID: 81831
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  • IN THE TWELTH YEAR OF THE WAR. by Appleman, Philip.
    Appleman, Philip.
    IN THE TWELTH YEAR OF THE WAR.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Poet's first novel, "an erotic, darkly satirical tale - a story of alienation and despair, of war and revolution played out on shipboard, in a dozen different ports and on a strife-torn Carribbean island." 236 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (short tear to dj at one corner)

    Book ID: 82074
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  • Arkin, Frieda
    THE DORP

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dial Press, 1969. Hardcover first edition - Her first book, a novel set in a small town in upstate New York.

    Condition: NF/NF.

    Book ID: 8112
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  • Arlen, Michael J.
    SAY GOODBYE TO SAM

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning author's first novel.

    Condition: NF/NF.

    Book ID: 8454
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  • Arthur, Elizabeth
    ISLAND SOJOURN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a couple who, seeking to escape from the materialism of city living, build a house on a small island in a remote Canadian lake. ISBN: 0-06-0101563.

    Condition: Very good+ in very good dust jacket (some toning to pages, small chip, light edgewear to dj.)

    Book ID: 23935
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  • THE FLOOD. by Ascher, Carol.
    Ascher, Carol.
    THE FLOOD.

    Edition: First printing.

    Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The uncommon hardcover edition of the author's first novel (preceded by short stories and a biography of Simone de Beauvoir), this is the story of "ten-year-old Eva Hoffman's family, Austrian refugees, who have found precarious safety in Topeka, Kansas. It is 1951, the year of the landmark desegregation case. As the rising river inundates the town, the Hoffmans open their home to refugees from the flood, and Eva learns the complexities of prejudice and courage both within and outside her family." Rosellen Brown described this as "sensitively observed, full of affection and life, and . . . passionately concerned with crucial moral questions." 191 pp. ISBN: 0-895942275.

    Condition: Very near fine in pale gray boards in a very good dustjacket with significant rubbing.

    Book ID: 83666
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  • WHACKED. by Asner, Jules.
    Asner, Jules.
    WHACKED.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Weinstein Books, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Funny first book by this Hollywood insider. "Dani Hale is obsessed with Hollywood murders, from Marilyn Monroe's suspicious death to the killings she writes about for the TV crime series Flesh and Bone. Smart, sexy, savvy, but not a little unsure of herself, Dani is determined to carve a place among the Los Angeles entertainment elite - becoming a creditcard-carrying member of the very world whose rituals and absurdities she loves to satirize." SIGNED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 294 pp. ISBN: 1602860173.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 42648
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  • Atlas, Jacoba
    PALACE OF LIGHT

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dutton, 1989. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a novel set in Los Angeles in 1912.

    Condition: NF/NF.

    Book ID: 6916
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  • THE KEPT MAN by Attenberg, Jami.
    Attenberg, Jami.
    THE KEPT MAN

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First edition - The author's first novel (preceded by a collection of short stories) - the story of a young woman whose artist husband has fallen into a coma, and six years later she is still waiting,still dealing with his legacy and his life. 291 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art is very different from the final edition.

    Book ID: 59621
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  • THE KEPT MAN. by Attenberg, Jamie.
    Attenberg, Jamie.
    THE KEPT MAN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (her second book, following a collection of short stories), the story of a young woman waiting for six years while her artist-husband is in a coma. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 978-1594889525.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 70565
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  • Attwood, Adeline.
    TREASURE OF THE SUN.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - California-born author's first and apparently only novel (although she also published many short stories), a story set among the simple people of the Andes, who guard the secret of the hiding place of the lost Inca treasure. SIGNED on the front endpaper with the words "Best Regards."

    Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 32490
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  • LOVE-ACT. by Austen, Michael.
    Austen, Michael.
    LOVE-ACT.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harmony, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a story about a jaded high-priced call girl and a man with a unique fantasy. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-517546744.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some bleeding from the bottom of the cloth spine to the interior of the dj)

    Book ID: 78420
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  • SOULCATCHER. by Austin, Barbara.
    Austin, Barbara.
    SOULCATCHER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (second book) set in a California convent perched high above the Pacific Ocean, with "six nuns and one prurient priest, falling away day by day - a book as recessive as the life there which is in turn a reduction of the world outside to pain, loneliness and violence." The author herself spent 5 years in a convent before leaving the religious life. 190 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-030075661.

    Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (remainder dot, chip to front cover of dj).

    Book ID: 87339
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  • Averbukh, Bena and Lynne Sinton.
    BRIDGE FROM NOWHERE.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.

    Seattle: Hara Publishing Group, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - This engrossing novel tells the story of one woman's determination to find a better life in the US, giving a dimension to the immigrant's life not often seen. The protagonist, Anya Fishman, orphaned during World War II, suffering a life of deprivation as a woman and mother, flees the Soviet Union with her daughter to find a better life in the United States. Includes a Russian glossary, 474 pp. ISBN: 0-971072485.

    Condition: SIGNED by both authors on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Promotional bookmark laid in. Fine condition (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 32118
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  • THE TEAHOUSE FIRE. by Avery, Ellis.
    Avery, Ellis.
    THE TEAHOUSE FIRE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First edition - The author's first novel, the story of two women - one an American orphan adopted by a Japanese family and the other the daughter of that family -whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan. 390 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (toning to the pages.)

    Book ID: 55555
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  • THE TEAHOUSE FIRE. by Avery, Ellis.
    Avery, Ellis.
    THE TEAHOUSE FIRE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of two women - one an American orphan adopted by a Japanese family and the other the daughter of that family -whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan. 391 pp. ISBN: 1-594489300.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 80878
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  • THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY. by Aw, Tash.
    Aw, Tash.
    THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Riverhead Books, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - "The Harmony Silk Factory is the textiles store run by Johnny Lim, a Chinese peasant living in rural Malay in the first half of the twentieth century. It is the most impressive and truly amazing structure in the region, and to the inhabitants of the Kinta Valley Johnny Lim is a hero-a Communist who fought the Japanese when they invaded, ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people. But to his son, Jasper, Johnny is a crook and a collaborator who betrayed the very people he pretended to serve, and the Harmony Silk Factory is merely a front for his…

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    New York: Riverhead Books, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - "The Harmony Silk Factory is the textiles store run by Johnny Lim, a Chinese peasant living in rural Malay in the first half of the twentieth century. It is the most impressive and truly amazing structure in the region, and to the inhabitants of the Kinta Valley Johnny Lim is a hero-a Communist who fought the Japanese when they invaded, ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people. But to his son, Jasper, Johnny is a crook and a collaborator who betrayed the very people he pretended to serve, and the Harmony Silk Factory is merely a front for his father's illegal businesses." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Whitbread award. 378 pp. ISBN: 157322300X.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 63660
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  • THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY. by Aw, Tash.
    Aw, Tash.
    THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Riverhead Books, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - "The Harmony Silk Factory is the textiles store run by Johnny Lim, a Chinese peasant living in rural Malay in the first half of the twentieth century. It is the most impressive and truly amazing structure in the region, and to the inhabitants of the Kinta Valley Johnny Lim is a hero-a Communist who fought the Japanese when they invaded, ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people. But to his son, Jasper, Johnny is a crook and a collaborator who betrayed the very people he pretended to serve, and the Harmony Silk Factory is merely a front for his father's…

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    New York: Riverhead Books, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - "The Harmony Silk Factory is the textiles store run by Johnny Lim, a Chinese peasant living in rural Malay in the first half of the twentieth century. It is the most impressive and truly amazing structure in the region, and to the inhabitants of the Kinta Valley Johnny Lim is a hero-a Communist who fought the Japanese when they invaded, ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people. But to his son, Jasper, Johnny is a crook and a collaborator who betrayed the very people he pretended to serve, and the Harmony Silk Factory is merely a front for his father's illegal businesses." Winner of the Whitbread award. 378 pp. ISBN: 157322300X.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 76347
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  • THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY. by Aw, Tash.
    Aw, Tash.
    THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Riverhead Books, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - "The Harmony Silk Factory is the textiles store run by Johnny Lim, a Chinese peasant living in rural Malay in the first half of the twentieth century. It is the most impressive and truly amazing structure in the region, and to the inhabitants of the Kinta Valley Johnny Lim is a hero-a Communist who fought the Japanese when they invaded, ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people. But to his son, Jasper, Johnny is a crook and a collaborator who betrayed the very people he pretended to serve, and the Harmony Silk Factory is merely a front for his…

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    New York: Riverhead Books, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - "The Harmony Silk Factory is the textiles store run by Johnny Lim, a Chinese peasant living in rural Malay in the first half of the twentieth century. It is the most impressive and truly amazing structure in the region, and to the inhabitants of the Kinta Valley Johnny Lim is a hero-a Communist who fought the Japanese when they invaded, ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people. But to his son, Jasper, Johnny is a crook and a collaborator who betrayed the very people he pretended to serve, and the Harmony Silk Factory is merely a front for his father's illegal businesses." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Winner of the Whitbread award. 378 pp. ISBN: 157322300X.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 61267
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  • Azzopardi, Trezza.
    THE HIDING PLACE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. First edition - Her first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in England (the only debut novel on the shortlist that year), set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales in the 1960s.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 18429
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  • Azzopardi, Trezza.
    THE HIDING PLACE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. First edition - Her first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in England (the only debut novel on the shortlist that year), set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales in the 1960s.

    Condition: Fine.

    Book ID: 18528
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  • THE HIDING PLACE. by Azzopardi, Trezza.
    Azzopardi, Trezza.
    THE HIDING PLACE.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Picador, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in England (the only debut novel on the shortlist that year), set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales in the 1960s. SIGNED on the title page. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-8158.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 60488
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  • Baer, Martha.
    (AS FRANCESCA)

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Broadway Books, 1997. Author's first novel is the story of a young woman, professional and successful by day, and caught in the allure of cybersex at night, when she signs on "as Francesca."

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 5568
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  • BUNKER 13, by Bahal, Aniruddha.
    Bahal, Aniruddha.
    BUNKER 13,

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. SIGNED first edition - The first novel by one of India's most famous investigative reporters, described as follows on the back cover: ' MM is a thriller-seeker, a disgraced, self-destructive ex-army cadet with a taste for hard drugs and kinky sex, and a shrewd reporter who will do anything to get a story. His connections reach deep into the heart of India's unsavory political establishment, and into the Army, his current beat where his bravery earns the trust and admiration of even more unsavory sources.Following Special Forces on a series of deadly missions on the Kashmiri border, MM confirms his suspicion that a rogue band of officers is smuggling drugs and captured…

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    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. SIGNED first edition - The first novel by one of India's most famous investigative reporters, described as follows on the back cover: ' MM is a thriller-seeker, a disgraced, self-destructive ex-army cadet with a taste for hard drugs and kinky sex, and a shrewd reporter who will do anything to get a story. His connections reach deep into the heart of India's unsavory political establishment, and into the Army, his current beat where his bravery earns the trust and admiration of even more unsavory sources.Following Special Forces on a series of deadly missions on the Kashmiri border, MM confirms his suspicion that a rogue band of officers is smuggling drugs and captured weapons out of India's jungle frontier. When a raid on an enemy bunker uncovers an enormous cache of arms and high-grade heroin, the commander in charge taps MM to unload the goods and he finds himself enmeshed in an international net of gun-running , gang warfare, and double-dealing more dangerous than anything he has undertaken so far.Cynical, knowing, highly capable, and deeply motivated, MM is an intriguing new postmodern hero. ' SIGNED on the title page by the author. ARC edition includes a letter from the publisher, Jonathan Galassi, bound in.

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    Condition: Fine in silver illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 82377
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  • BUNKER 13. by Bahal, Aniruddha.
    Bahal, Aniruddha.
    BUNKER 13.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. SIGNED first edition - The first novel by one of India's most famous investigative reporters, described as follows on the back cover: ' MM is a thriller-seeker, a disgraced, self-destructive ex-army cadet with a taste for hard drugs and kinky sex, and a shrewd reporter who will do anything to get a story. His connections reach deep into the heart of India's unsavory political establishment, and into the Army, his current beat where his bravery earns the trust and admiration of even more unsavory sources.Following Special Forces on a series of deadly missions on the Kashmiri border, MM confirms his suspicion that a rogue band of officers is smuggling drugs and captured…

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    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. SIGNED first edition - The first novel by one of India's most famous investigative reporters, described as follows on the back cover: ' MM is a thriller-seeker, a disgraced, self-destructive ex-army cadet with a taste for hard drugs and kinky sex, and a shrewd reporter who will do anything to get a story. His connections reach deep into the heart of India's unsavory political establishment, and into the Army, his current beat where his bravery earns the trust and admiration of even more unsavory sources.Following Special Forces on a series of deadly missions on the Kashmiri border, MM confirms his suspicion that a rogue band of officers is smuggling drugs and captured weapons out of India's jungle frontier. When a raid on an enemy bunker uncovers an enormous cache of arms and high-grade heroin, the commander in charge taps MM to unload the goods and he finds himself enmeshed in an international net of gun-running , gang warfare, and double-dealing more dangerous than anything he has undertaken so far.Cynical, knowing, highly capable, and deeply motivated, MM is an intriguing new postmodern hero. ' SIGNED and dated in the year of publication on the half title page ARC edition includes a letter from the publisher, Jonathan Galassi, bound in.

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    Condition: Fine in silver illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 82378
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  • HOW I CAME WEST AND WHY I STAYED. by Baker, Alison
    Baker, Alison
    HOW I CAME WEST AND WHY I STAYED.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.

    San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. First edition - Author's first book - a collection of short stories described by John Nichols as "resonant with magic ... beautifully balanced gems of quirky compassion and surprising observation.". ISBN: 0-8118-03244.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 4764
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  • WOMEN AND HORSES. by Baker, Candida.
    Baker, Candida.
    WOMEN AND HORSES.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Australian author, short listed for the Vogel Award. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-312071272.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (short closed tear to back cover of dj).

    Book ID: 83439
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