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THE ANGEL OF HISTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which creates a "portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval. Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, [it] follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS." SIGNED on the title page with both his English and Arabic signatures, and dated in October 2016. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-0802125767.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 72616More details Price: $35.00 -
THE ANGEL OF HISTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which creates a "portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval. Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, [it] follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS." INSCRIBED on the title page with both his English and Arabic signatures. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-0802125767.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 75478More details Price: $35.00 -
CAVEDWELLER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel about a woman who returns to Georgia, leaving behind the glitz of southern California, to reclaim the two daughters she left behind years ago. SIGNED on the title page. 434 pp. ISBN: 0-525-941673.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 40529More details Price: $35.00 -
CAVEDWELLER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, 1998. First edition - Novel about a woman who returns to Georgia, leaving behind the glitz of southern California, to reclaim the two daughters she left behind years ago. 588 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (one corner slightly bent.)
Book ID: 41076More details Price: $20.00 -
CAVEDWELLER plus a Reader's Guide to the Works of Dorothy Allison.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel about a woman who returns to Georgia, leaving behind the glitz of southern California, to reclaim the two daughters she left behind years ago. SIGNED on the title page. 434 pp. Includes a Reader's Guide to the Works of Dorothy Allison. ISBN: 0-525-941673.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket; brochure is fine.
Book ID: 42508More details Price: $40.00 -
TRASH.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Ithaca, New York: Firebrand Press, nd (c1988.). Author's second book, a collection of short stories. Later printing. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-932379-516.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 47937More details Price: $8.50 -
TRASH.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Ithaca, New York: Firebrand Press, (1988.). SIGNED - SIGNED on the title page. Author's second book, a collection of short stories. Later printing. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-932379-516.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (embossed seal of previous owner.)
Book ID: 34524More details Price: $16.00 -
CAVEDWELLER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel about a woman who returns to Georgia, leaving behind the glitz of southern California, to reclaim the two daughters she left behind years ago. INSCRIBED on the half-title page. ISBN: 0-525-941673.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 21272More details Price: $30.00 -
SKIN: TALKING ABOUT SEX, CLASS & LITERATURE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Firebrand Books, 1994. SIGNED - A forthright collection of essays and autobiographical pieces by this expatriate Southern writer. feminist and lesbian activist. SIGNED on the title page.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers ( a few corners dog-eared.)
Book ID: 34525More details Price: $18.00 -
CAVEDWELLER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel about a woman who returns to Georgia, leaving behind the glitz of southern California, to reclaim the two daughters she left behind years ago. SIGNED on the itle page. ISBN: 0-525-941673.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 22886More details Price: $25.00 -
CONDITIONS: SIX.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Brooklyn, New York: Conditions, 1980. SIGNED first edition - A feminist magazine of writing by women with an emphasis on writing by lesbians. Includes poetry by Alegria, Gloria Anzualdua, Judith Vollmer and others; fiction by Allison ("I Am Working on My Charm"), Stevens, Sauda Jamal, Camille Norton,etc ; an interview with "An Old Dyke" - Doris Lundin - by Elly Bulkin; a rememberance of the Russian poet, Sophia Parnok; reviews and more. SIGNED by Allison at her contribution. 270 pp plus advertisements.
Condition: Good condition in stiff illustrated wrappers (some rubbing and wear to the covers.)
Book ID: 32810More details Price: $27.50 -
FORBIDDEN FIRES.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Tallahassee, FL: The Naiad Press. 1996. First edition - An account of Hill's search for this lost manuscript of an early novel of romantic lesbian love by Anderson, founder (among other things) of the Chicago literary magazine, 'The Little Review.' Edited and with a long biographical introduction and postscript by Dr. Mathilda Hills. Illustrated with 97 photographs from the author's personal collection. Includes bibilogrpahy, 162 pp. ISBN: 1-56280-1236.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 61363More details Price: $12.00 -
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: 57194More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ARC OF LOVE: An Anthology of Lesbian Love Poems.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Introduction by Clare Coss. SIGNED by Marilyn Hacker at her poem "Runaways Cafe II." Includes contributions from more than 80 contemporary lesbian poets - Chrystos, Adrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyser, Paula Gunn Allen, Dorothy Allison, Michelle Cliff, Kate Rushin, and many more. Brief biographies and photographs of the contributors. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-684814463.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (like new, but with a remainder line).
Book ID: 63050More details Price: $28.50 -
HERS: Brilliant New Stories by Lesbian Writers.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78648More details Price: $16.50 -
REINALDO ARENAS: THE PENTAGONIA.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 54181More details Price: $35.00 -
THE FACES OF FIVE O'CLOCK
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: Sister Vision, 1996. First edition - Author's second collection of poems - poetry, as she states, "infused by a lesbian sensibility" - and by her pride in being a woman of color.
Condition: Fine in still illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 6577More details Price: $15.00 -
BITTERSWEET.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
San Francisco: Spinsters - Aunt Lute Books, (1989.). SIGNED - Barr's first novel, the story of two women, determined to stay together, in a frontier outpost in remote northern Nevada. Originally published in 1984. SIGNED on the title page. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-933216-645.
Condition: Very good. Review copy, with stamp stating this on first page. Light creasing to corners of cover, no creases on spine. Although this has been reprinted since, it is rather uncommon in this first softcover edition, published by a small women's press.
Book ID: 31085More details Price: $40.00 -
BITTERSWEET.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
San Francisco: Spinsters - Aunt Lute Books, (1989.). SIGNED - Barr's first novel, the story of two women, determined to stay together, in a frontier outpost in remote northern Nevada. Originally published in 1984. SIGNED on the title page. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-933216-645.
Condition: Very good minus (reading crease on front cover, no creases on spine.) Although this has been reprinted since, it is rather uncommon in this first softcover edition, published by a small women's press.
Book ID: 40358More details Price: $28.50 -
MEN ON MEN 2000: Best New Gay Fiction from the Millennium.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Plume / Penguin Group, (2000.). An anthology of 20 short stories edited and with an introduction by Begman and Woelz. Contributors include Jim Grimsley, Edmund White, Alexander Chee, Bill Gordon, Tom House, David Groff, Patrick Ryan, Richard McCann and others. Notes on the authors. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-452-2080826.
Condition: Very good in wrappers (crease to corner of front cover.).
Book ID: 47235More details Price: $9.50 -
IN THE WESTERN NIGHT: Collected Poems, 1965-90.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes the four eariy books of this award-winning poet (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and Bollingen among others) - Golden State in 1973, The Book of the Body in 1977, The Sacrifice in 1983 and the First Hour of the Night in 1990 - as well as a selection of new poems. The earlier books contained his notable dramatic monologues 'Ellen West' and 'Herbert White.' Also includes a 1983 interview with Mark Halliday. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. Notes. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-374176604.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83573More details Price: $125.00 -
SWEAT: Stories and a Novella.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Seattle: Seal Press, (1995.). First edition - Cover praise from Jewel Gomez, Jenifer Levin and Carol Anshaw who calls these stories about "women's relationship with sport, each other and themselves...intelligent, deeply perceptive." 161 pp. ISBN: 1878067648.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 42838More details Price: $12.00 -
THE NOTEBOOKS OF LENI CLARE and Other Short Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, (19820. First edition - A collection of short stories. In addition to the long title story, this includes Kansas in the Spring, The Cutting Room, Charm School and 3 other stories. A title in the Crossing Press Feminist Series 150 pp. ISBN: 0-895940760.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (some creasing to the covers, red stain on bottom edge)
Book ID: 78663More details Price: $13.50 -
FOLLY.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, (1982). First edition - The author's second novel - " Set in a Carolina mill town, the novel blends the story of a union organising strike by Black and white working-class women who sew in the local factory with the personal struggles of their daily lives." 197 pp. ISBN: 0-895940906.
Condition: Very good (some sunning to the spine)
Book ID: 64958More details Price: $15.00 -
THE QUESTION SHE PUT TO HERSELF: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, (1987). Hardcover first edition - The author's first collection of short stories (third book), a title in The Crossing Press Feminist Series. Uncommon hardcover binding of burgundy leatherette and glossy pasted on covers. 117. ISBN: 0-895942291.
Condition: Fine (appears unread.)
Book ID: 64957More details Price: $25.00 -
OSCAR WILDE AND A DEATH OF NO IMPORTANCE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. First edition - "One of Britain's premiere royal biographers pens the first in a series of a fiendishly clever historical murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as the detective." A young artist's model has been murdered and Wilde enlists his friends, Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Sherrard to help him investigate. Published in the UK in 2007 under the title "Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders." 343 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59628More details Price: $17.50 -
A TO Z: 26 Sermonettes.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Mill Valley, CA: Syzygy Press, (1986.). First edition - Twenty-six brief and sometimes humorous poems by this San Francisco poet and avant garde film-maker. A slim chapbook, produced by Joel Singer. Unpaginated (20 pp). ISBN: 0-9608372-48.
Condition: Fine in dull gold stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 51557More details Price: $18.50 -
ANNIE OAKLEY'S GIRL.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: City Lights, 1993. First edition - Highly praised collection of short stories - Tillie Olsen called it "one of the freshest, most memorable collections" of her lifetime.
Condition: Near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 14455More details Price: $17.50 -
WHAT KEEPS ME HERE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories, both realistic and fantastic, by this prize-winning author. INSCRIBED on the title page. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0174404.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64775More details Price: $28.50 -
SUDDEN DEATH.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Bantam, 1984. A story of a tennis champion in love with an attractive professor. The true depth of the two women's feelings for each other will be tested when word of their unconventional relationship is leaked to the press. ISBN: 0-553-240307.
Condition: Very good-.
Book ID: 23987More details Price: $10.00