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A COAST OF TREES.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of new, mostly shorter poems in the lyric mode by this award winning poet. The brevity and the economy of words add to the power of the images created - the poem "Parting" begins "She was already lean / when a stroke or two slapped / her face like drawn / claw prints: akilter she / ate less and / sat too much on the edge of beds...." Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. 52 pp. ISBN: 0-393014479.
Condition: Fine in gray cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86886More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BROKEN CORD
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1989.) dj. Hardcover - The deeply moving story of Dorris's adopted son, an affectionate young Sioux Indian boy whom he named Adam, as he discovered that the boy suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome. Foreword by Louise Erdrich. SIGNED on the title page by Erdrich. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Notes, bibliography. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0160713.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 47520More details Price: $30.00 -
LOVE MEDICINE.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Andre Deutsch, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Native American author's first novel (second book, following a book of poetry) and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A 'story of the intertwined fates of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines on and around a North Dakota reservation from 1934 to 1984.' This went quickly into later printings. Cover praise from Anne Tyler, Kay Boyle and Peter Matthiessen (who called this a 'remarkable first novel . .. conveying unflinchingly the funkiness, humor and unspoken sadness of the Indian reservations, and a people exiled to a no-man's land between two worlds.') 272 pp. ISBN: 0-233-977414.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58575More details Price: $50.00 -
FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital.
Edition: 5th printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 70013More details Price: $45.00 -
A LESSON BEFORE DYING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Powerful novel set in Cajun Lousiana in the 1940's. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis of the film starring Don Cheadle and Cicely Tyson. 256 pp . ISBN: 0-679-414770.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35820More details Price: $35.00 -
A LESSON BEFORE DYING.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. Hardcover - Powerful novel set in Cajun Lousiana in the 1940's. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis of the film starring Don Cheadle and Cicely Tyson. 256 pp . ISBN: 0-679-414770.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remnants of old price on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 45893More details Price: $17.00 -
FINDING A FORM: Essays.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on art, writing, culture and nature by this award winning writer. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award three times - including for this book (front cover of the book has a sticker saying that it was a finalist for the award) x, 354 pp. ISBN: 0-679446621.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76560More details Price: $21.50 -
FACTS OF LIFE
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir, of sorts, about growing up Irish Catholic in Bridgeport, CT - but much more. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (gift inscription, pc, dj spine somewhat faded.)
Book ID: 9396More details Price: $16.50 -
TRANSPARENT GESTURES.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. First edition - The third collection of poems by this Southern writer, winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award. 68 pp. ISBN: 0-395510635.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85773More details Price: $18.50 -
THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel (preceded by a collection of short stories), a story of the ancient curse that has haunted Oscar's family as they moved from Santo Domingo to Washington Heights to New Jersey and back again.SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Diaz is a recipient of the MacArthur 'genius' award. 333 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (publisher's letter laid in).
Book ID: 72416More details Price: $100.00 -
THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories by this Nobel prize winning Canadian writer. This collection won Canada's Giller Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-375-403957.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83085More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories by this Nobel prize winning Canadian writer. This collection won Canada's Giller Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-375-403957.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (upper corner of front endpaper torn, signs of being read)
Book ID: 83086More details Price: $20.00 -
GILEAD.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004.) dj. Hardcover - Author's award-winning second novel (both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award ), a powerful, but quietly told, story of spiritual battles that rage between fathers and sons. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-374-153892.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 85277More details Price: $17.50 -
HELLO DARKNESS: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Boston: Little Brown, 1979. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry in 1979, this contains 134 poems, including 3 complete collections, originally published in 1968 to 1971 - Dying: an Introduction, Scattered Returns, Pursuit of Honor - and also a posthumous collection of 34 poems not previously published in book form. Edited and with a preface by Peter Davison. Index of titles. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-316-793124.
Condition: Good condition - some creasing and wear to the covers, contents clean.
Book ID: 27178More details Price: $9.00 -
A THOUSAND ACRES.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. SIGNED on the title page. 371 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-577736.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47818More details Price: $24.50