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  • WILDLY ROMANTIC: THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous. by Andronik, Catherine M.
    Andronik, Catherine M.
    WILDLY ROMANTIC: THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Henry Holt and Company, (2007). First edition - A study of the works and influence of the young Romantic poets of the early 1800s - Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe, Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats - rebels who believed that poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language and whose words changed English literature forever. Illustrated. Notes, list of further reading. 262 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 59639
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  • I SHALL NOT BE MOVED. by Angelou, Maya.
    Angelou, Maya.
    I SHALL NOT BE MOVED.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Title comes from the poem "Our Grandmothers," one of the longer and more moving poems in the collection. 48 pp. ISBN: 0-394-586182.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark)

    Book ID: 55189
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  • AMAZING PEACE: A Christmas Poem. by Angelou, Maya; illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher.
    Angelou, Maya; illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher.
    AMAZING PEACE: A Christmas Poem.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Schwartz & Wade Books (2008) dj. First edition - A poem first read by Maya Angelou at the White House Christmas tree lighting ceremony in 2005 - "it is Christmas time, a halting of hate time" - illustrated with beautiful full color illustrations, each spreading over a page and a half, by Johnson and Fancher. Oblong format. Unpaginated.

    Condition: Fine in plain white wrappers in a fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 68767
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE V: Best of the Small Presses, 1980 - 1981 Edition (with an index to the first five volumes) . by [Anthology] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor.
    [Anthology] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor.
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE V: Best of the Small Presses, 1980 - 1981 Edition (with an index to the first five volumes) .

    Edition: First printing.

    Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Henderson. Contains 63 selections, including 33 poems, 12 essays and 18 short stories by many authors, including Cynthia Ozick, David Plante, Seamus Heaney, Charles Wright, Jorie Graham, Al Young, Carol Muske, W. P. Kinsella, and more. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 608 pp. ISBN: 0-916366-103.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (sunning to the spine of the dj.)

    Book ID: 60470
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE XI: Best of the Small Presses, 1986 - 1987 Edition (with an index to the first eleven volumes) . by [Anthology] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. .
    [Anthology] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. .
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE XI: Best of the Small Presses, 1986 - 1987 Edition (with an index to the first eleven volumes) .

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Penguin, (1987.). "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Cynthia Ozick. Contains poems, essays and short stories by many authors, including Francince Prose, Denis Johnson, Wendell Berry, Richard Ford, Andre Dubus, Linda Hogan, Mark Doty, Mona Simpson, Mary Hood, Paul Auster and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 539 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0094695.

    Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages, tiny holes in upper corner of front cover)

    Book ID: 75805
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2009. by [Anthology] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor.
    [Anthology] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor.
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2009.

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

    Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press / Norton, (2009). First edition - An annual anthology of essays, short stories and poems, selected from small literary journals across America - a reflection of the diversity and excellence to be found in offbeat publications from across the United States. Includes works by Derek Walcott, Wells Tower, Louise Gluck, Anthony Doerr, John d'Agato, Louis B. Jones, Marvin Bell, Bill McKibben and many more. List of special mentions, brief notes on the authors, and index to the first 33 volumes. 618 pp. ISBN: 978-1888889512.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 76778
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  • (anthology) Braithwaite, William Stanley, editor. (Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, and others, contributors.)
    ANTHOLOGY OF MAGAZINE VERSE FOR 1915.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Gomme & Marshall, 1915. Hardcover first edition - In addition to including works by many poets: Wallace Stevens (Peter Quince at the Clavier), Robert Frost (The Road Not Taken and others), Sara Teasdale, Edward Arlington Robinson, James Weldon Johnson and Amy Lowell, to name only a few - this book is also a yearbook of poetry for 1915 and it includes information on poetry books published that year, the contributors, and on magazines which publish poetry. Braithwaite, an African American poet himself, was the foremost American poetry anthologist of his time.

    Condition: Very good condition - one small spot to front cover, a little peeling of paper label on sprine, and acidification on 2 pages where a piece of paper was laid in (marking Frost's Death of a Hired Man.) - overall a tight and clean copy with the first book appearances of many important poems.

    Book ID: 1652
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • MANY CALIFORNIAS: Literature from the Golden State by [Anthology] Haslam, Gerald W., editor. Floyd Salas, signed.
    [Anthology] Haslam, Gerald W., editor. Floyd Salas, signed.
    MANY CALIFORNIAS: Literature from the Golden State

    Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback.

    Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (1992). SIGNED first edition - A wonderful anthology, covering a very broad range of writers - included are sections on the rise of regions in California, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Fresno poets and many more. Contributors range from Mary Austin to John Muir to Chandler, from Sherley Anne Williams, Wanda Coleman and Amy Tan to Ella Leffland, from Jack Kerouac to Charles Bukowski, Bob Kaufamn, Kate Braverman. and Maxine Hong Kingston. SIGNED by Floyd Salas at his poem "To Sergei, My Sweet Old Dog." Introductory essays to each section, and brief biographies of the writers included. 388 pgs. ISBN: 0-87417-1830.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 64488
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  • (Anthology) Rodman, Selden
    A NEW ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, 1938. dj. Hardcover first edition - The extremely uncommon true first edition of one of the most important and influential anthologies of (mostly) American poetry - includes a long introduction by Rodman in which he discusses modern poetry and the reasons for his selections. Among the poets are Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, Spender, Dorothy Parker, Marriane Moore, Rukeyser, Yeats, Pound, Sandburg and many more - and also included are anonymous Negro folk songs, and poems of protest and in the language of the common man - including the last speech of Bartolomeo Vanzetti which, as Rodman states, "falls into lines as easily as the frost into crystals." This was later issued as a Modern Library Giant.

    Condition: VG+/VG (prev owner's name, a loss of about 1/4" at the top of the spine on the dj, other small chips.)

    Book ID: 8451
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIV: Best of the Small Presses, 1989 - 1990. by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Alberto Alvarez Rios, signed
    [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Alberto Alvarez Rios, signed
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIV: Best of the Small Presses, 1989 - 1990.

    Edition: First printing.

    Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Tess Gallager. SIGNED by Alberto Rios at his poem "Incident at Imuris." Poetry, essays and short stories by many authors, including Alistair MacLeod, Marilyn Hacker, Julian Barnes, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Brenda Hillman, Charles Baxter, Joyce Carol Oates, Mark Doty, Lorna Goodison and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 534 pp. ISBN: 0-916366588.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket. Uncommon signed. A contributor's copy with a SIGNED letter laid in from Bill Henderson.

    Book ID: 73037
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE X: Best of the Small Presses, 1985 - 1986. by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Alberto Alvarez Rios, signed
    [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Alberto Alvarez Rios, signed
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE X: Best of the Small Presses, 1985 - 1986.

    Edition: First printing.

    Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Tenth anniversary edition with an introduction by George Plimpton. Poetry Editors: Stanley Plumly, William Stafford. SIGNED by Alberto Rios at "The Secret Lion." Poetry, essays and short stories by 53 other authors, including Tim O'Brien, T.C. Boyle, William Kittredge, Bukowski, Amy Clampitt, Russell Banks, Doris Lessing and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. xxiv, 499 pp. ISBN: 0-916366375.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket. Uncommon signed.

    Book ID: 60035
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIII: Best of the Small Presses, 1988 - 1989. by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Alberto Alvarez Rios, signed
    [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Alberto Alvarez Rios, signed
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIII: Best of the Small Presses, 1988 - 1989.

    Edition: First printing.

    Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Richard Ford. SIGNED by Alberto Rios at his poem "What She Had Believed All Her Life." Poetry, essays and short stories by many authors, including Rick Bass, Sharon Olds, Francine Prose, William Kittredge, Tess Gallager, Stephen Dunn, Jane Hirshfield, Carol Muske and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. xxvii, 475 pp. ISBN: 0-916366529.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket. Uncommon signed.

    Book ID: 60089
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE V: Best of the Small Presses, 1980 - 1981 Edition (with an index to the first five volumes) . by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Carol Muske, signed.
    [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Carol Muske, signed.
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE V: Best of the Small Presses, 1980 - 1981 Edition (with an index to the first five volumes) .

    Edition: First printing.

    Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1980.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Henderson. Contains 63 selections, including 33 poems, 12 essays and 18 short stories by many authors, including Cynthia Ozick, David Plante, Seamus Heaney, Charles Wright, Jorie Graham, Al Young, Carol Muske, W. P. Kinsella, and more. INSCRIBED by Carol Muske at her poem "Idolatry." Index to the series, notes on contributors. 608 pp. ISBN: 0-916366-103.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (sunning to the spine of the dj.)

    Book ID: 69888
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE XV: Best of the Small Presses, 1990 - 1991. by (Anthology, signed) Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Christopher Merrill, signed.
    (Anthology, signed) Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Christopher Merrill, signed.
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE XV: Best of the Small Presses, 1990 - 1991.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The rather uncommon hardcover edition of this annual anthology of essays, short stories and poems, selected from small literary journals across America - a reflection of the diversity and excellence to be found in offbeat publications from across the United States. SIGNED by Christopher Merrill at his poem "Because." Also includes contributions from Russell Banks, Clarence Major, Wally Lamb, Lydia Davis, Kent Nelson, Joy Harjo, Laura Kalpakian and many more. List of special mentions, brief notes on the authors, and index to the first 15 volumes. 581 pp. ISBN: 0-671-73332.

    Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (some wear to dj at ends of spine)

    Book ID: 84873
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIX: Best of the Small Presses, 1994 - 1995. by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Edwidge Danticat and Andre Dubus III, signed.
    [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Edwidge Danticat and Andre Dubus III, signed.
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIX: Best of the Small Presses, 1994 - 1995.

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

    Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1995.). SIGNED first edition - "An annual small press reader." SIGNED by TWO authors - Andre Dubus III at his short story "Tracks and Ties" and Edwidge Danticat at "Between the Pool and the Gardenias." Contains poems, essays and short stories by many authors, including Louise Erdrich, Ha Jin, Linda Hogan, Edwidge Danticat, Louise Gluck, Gail Mazur, W. S. Merwin, Rita Dove, Joy Williams, Maria Flook, Charles Baxter, A. Annette Mansay, Vicki Hearne, Andre Dubus III. Louise Gluck, Carol Maso, Gillian Conoley, Brigit Pegeen Kelly and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 630 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0094695.

    Condition: Very good (minor wear to covers.)

    Book ID: 60028
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIX: Best of the Small Presses, 1994 - 1995. by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Edwidge Danticat, Marilyn Chin, Andre Dubus III and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, signed.
    [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Edwidge Danticat, Marilyn Chin, Andre Dubus III and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, signed.
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIX: Best of the Small Presses, 1994 - 1995.

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

    Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1995.). SIGNED first edition - "An annual small press reader." SIGNED by FOUR authors at their contributions - Chitra Divakaruni at her poem 'The Walk', Marilyn Chin at "A Self-Portrait of the Self as Nation, 1990-1991"; Andre Dubus III at "Tracks and Ties," and Edwidge Danticat at "Between the Pool and the Gardenias." Contains poems, essays and short stories by many authors, including Louise Erdrich, Ha Jin, Linda Hogan, Edwidge Danticat, Louise Gluck, Gail Mazur, W. S. Merwin, Rita Dove, Joy Williams, Maria Flook, Charles Baxter, A. Annette Mansay, Vicki Hearne, Andre Dubus III. Louise Gluck, Carol Maso, Gillian Conoley, Brigit Pegeen Kelly and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 630 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0094695.

    Condition: Very good (usual toning to the pages, minor wear to covers.)

    Book ID: 56544
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE XV: Best of the Small Presses, 1990 - 1991. by (Anthology, signed) Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Henri Cole and Christopher Merrill, signed.
    (Anthology, signed) Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Henri Cole and Christopher Merrill, signed.
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE XV: Best of the Small Presses, 1990 - 1991.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991.). SIGNED - An annual anthology of essays, short stories and poems, selected from small literary journals across America - a reflection of the diversity and excellence to be found in offbeat publications from across the United States. SIGNED by TWO authors: Henri Cole at his poem 'Ascension on Fire Island' and Christopher Merrill at "Because." Also includes contributions from Russell Banks, Clarence Major, Wally Lamb, Lydia Davis, Kent Nelson, Joy Harjo, Laura Kalpakian and many more. List of special mentions, brief notes on the authors, and index to the first 15 volumes. 581 pp. ISBN: 0-671-73332.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 57276
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE XVI: Best of the Small Presses. by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Joyce Carol Oates, signed.
    [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Joyce Carol Oates, signed.
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE XVI: Best of the Small Presses.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, (1992.). SIGNED first edition - An annual anthology of essays, short stories and poems, selected from small literary journals across America - a reflection of the diversity and excellence to be found in offbeat publications from across the United States. SIGNED by Joyce Carol Oates at her story "The Hair." Also includes Li-Young Lee, Ursula Le Guin, Marvin Bell, Katha Pollitt, Susan Straight, Linda Gregg, Eric Chock, Jess Mowry, Yann Martel, Brenda Hillman and many more. List of special mentions, brief notes on the author, and index to the first 16 volumes. 574 pp. ISBN: 0-671734350.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (spine slightly sunned)

    Book ID: 73039
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE VI: Best of the Small Presses, 1981 - 1982 Edition (with an index to the first six volumes) . by [Anthology, signed] () Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Leslie Marmon Silko, signed.
    [Anthology, signed] () Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Leslie Marmon Silko, signed.
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE VI: Best of the Small Presses, 1981 - 1982 Edition (with an index to the first six volumes) .

    Edition: First printing.

    Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1982.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Henderson. SIGNED by Leslie Marmon Silko at her story 'Coyote Holds a Full House in Her Hand.' Contains 52 selections, including poems, essays and short stories by many authors, including Raymond Carver, Louise Gluck, Daniel Halpern, Sharon Olds, William Stafford, Elizabeth Spires, Derek Walcott, C.K . Williams and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 539 pp. ISBN: 0-91636612X.

    Condition: Near fine in very good-dust jacket. (some wear to the ends of the spine of the dj.)

    Book ID: 53025
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE XI: Best of the Small Presses, 1986 - 1987 Edition (with an index to the first eleven volumes) . by [Anthology -signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Mona Simpson and Garrett Hongo, signed.
    [Anthology -signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Mona Simpson and Garrett Hongo, signed.
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE XI: Best of the Small Presses, 1986 - 1987 Edition (with an index to the first eleven volumes) .

    Edition: First printing.

    Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Cynthia Ozick. SIGNED by TWO authors at their contributions: by Mona Simpson at "Lawns" and by Garrett Hongo at "Morro Rock," Contains poems, essays and short stories by many authors, including Francince Prose, Denis Johnson, Wendell Berry, Richard Ford, Andre Dubus, Linda Hogan, Mark Doty, Paul Auster, Mona Simpson, Donald Barthelme,Antonio Cisneros, Tobias Wolff, Amy Hempel, Marilyn Waniek, Paul Auster and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 459 pp. ISBN: 0-916366-391.

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 59007
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE XI: Best of the Small Presses, 1986 - 1987 Edition (with an index to the first eleven volumes) . by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Mona Simpson, signed.
    [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Mona Simpson, signed.
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE XI: Best of the Small Presses, 1986 - 1987 Edition (with an index to the first eleven volumes) .

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Penguin, (1987.). SIGNED - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Cynthia Ozick. SIGNED by Mona Simpson at her story 'Lawns.' Contains poems, essays and short stories by many authors, including Francince Prose, Denis Johnson, Wendell Berry, Richard Ford, Andre Dubus, Linda Hogan, Mark Doty, Paul Auster and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 539 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0094695.

    Condition: Very good (usual toning to the pages, remainder line.)

    Book ID: 53699
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2014. by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Natasha Tretheway, David St John and Andre Dubus III, signed.
    [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Natasha Tretheway, David St John and Andre Dubus III, signed.
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2014.

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

    Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press / Norton, (2014). SIGNED first edition - An annual anthology of essays, short stories and poems, selected from small literary journals across America - a reflection of the diversity and excellence to be found in offbeat publications from across the United States. SIGNED by THREE authors: Natasha Trethewey at her poem"Enlightenment," David St John at this poem "Late Oracle Sonnet" and by Andre Dubus III at "Writing and Publishing a Memoir." Also includes works by Natasha Trethewey, Pam Houston, Amy Hempel, Claudine Rankin, Charles Baxter, Howard Norman, Carl Phillips, and many more. List of special mentions, brief notes on the authors, and index to the first 38 volumes. 653 pp. ISBN: 978-1888889710.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 72722
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  • THE PUSHCART PRIZE VII: Best of the Small Presses, 1982 - 1983 Edition (with an index to the first seven volumes) . by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Pollitt, Katha and Gary Soto, signed
    [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Pollitt, Katha and Gary Soto, signed
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE VII: Best of the Small Presses, 1982 - 1983 Edition (with an index to the first seven volumes) .

    Edition: First printing.

    Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Henderson. SIGNED by two authors: by Pollitt at her poem "Turning Thirty" and by Soto at "Mexicans Begin Jogging." Includes 32 poems, 9 essays and 16 short stories by many authors, including Wendell Berry, Derek Walcott, C.K. Williams, Charles Baxter, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Robison, Jorie Graham and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 568 pp. Endpapers illustrated with engravings by Michael McCurdy of Penmaen Press. ISBN: 0-916366154.

    Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket. (corners somewhat bumped, severe sunning to spine of dj, minor edgewear.)

    Book ID: 72656
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  • DEEP DOWN: The New Sensual Writing by Women by [Anthology,signed] Chester, Laura, editor; Mona Simpson, Jane Hirshfield, Mary Mackey and Wanda Coleman, signed
    [Anthology,signed] Chester, Laura, editor; Mona Simpson, Jane Hirshfield, Mary Mackey and Wanda Coleman, signed
    DEEP DOWN: The New Sensual Writing by Women

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Faber & Faber, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology containing over 150 pieces by 71 contemporary women writers from Kathy Acker to Alice Walker. The tone ranges from innocent to erotic, from playful and humourous to dark. SIGNED by FOUR authors: by Hirshfield at her poem 'Of Gravity & Angels', by Mona Simpson at her story 'Lawns' ; by Wanda Coleman at her story 'The Blues in the Night' and by Mary Mackey at her essay, "Golden Cords: Erotic Attachments." Other contributors include Margaret Atwood, Marge Piercy, Toi Derricotte, Lyn Lifshin, Anne Rice, Kathleen Fraser, Ai, Bobby Louise Hawkins, Louise Shivers, and many more. 330 pp. ISBN: 0-571-129579.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (bit of crinkling to dj at top of spine)

    Book ID: 9788
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  • HOME PLACES. Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks (Vol. 31) by [Anthology, signed] Evers, Larry. And, Zepeda, Ofelia., editors (JoyHarjo, N. Scott Momaday, Elizabeth Woody, Linda Hogan, Wendy Rose, Luci Tapahonso and others, contributors.)
    [Anthology, signed] Evers, Larry. And, Zepeda, Ofelia., editors (JoyHarjo, N. Scott Momaday, Elizabeth Woody, Linda Hogan, Wendy Rose, Luci Tapahonso and others, contributors.)
    HOME PLACES. Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks (Vol. 31)

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

    Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1995.). First edition - From the coverj: 'the creative wellspring of American Indian culture is well represented in this anthology, a compilation of stories, songs, poems and other writings taken from 25 years of Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary Series.' ' Also includes contributions from 18 other writers, including N. Scott Momaday, Elizabeth Woody, Linda Hogan, Wendy Rose, Luci Tapahonso, Simon J. Ortiz, Nora Naranjo-Morse, Ofelia Zepeda, Felipe S. Molina and others. Includes a brief history of Sun Tracks and a checklist by Larry Evers covering all of the previous volumes in the series and notes on the contributors to this book. Published primarily as a trade paperback original, with a relatively small cloth issue. 97 pp. ISBN: 0-8165-15212.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 87822
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  • CALIFORNIA HEARTLAND: Writing from the Great Central Valley. by [Anthology, signed] Haslam, Gerald W. and James D. Houston. William Rintoul, signed.
    [Anthology, signed] Haslam, Gerald W. and James D. Houston. William Rintoul, signed.
    CALIFORNIA HEARTLAND: Writing from the Great Central Valley.

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

    Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (1978). SIGNED first edition - A collection of writings about the Great Central Valley of California from Yokut, Maidu and Miwok tales and poems, accounts from the era of European discovery, and classic writers like Mark Twain, John Muir, Mary Austin, Steinbeck (selection from 'Grapes of Wrath' when the Joabs first see the valley from Tehachapi Pass) to present day authors, including Joan Didion, DeWayne Rail, Richard Dokey. Larry Levi, William Everson, Lawson Inada, and more. INSCRIBED and signed by author William Rintoul (signed as Bill Rintoul) on the first page and dated in the year of publication. Woodcut illustrations by Clayton Turner preceding each section. Notes on contributors. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-88496-0846.

    Condition: Very good overall in glossy illustrated wrappers - some wear to the covers, but a straight, clean and tight copy.

    Book ID: 74747
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  • MANY CALIFORNIAS: Literature from the Golden State by [Anthology, signed] Haslam, Gerald W., editor; Maxine Hong Kingston and Floyd Salas, signed.
    [Anthology, signed] Haslam, Gerald W., editor; Maxine Hong Kingston and Floyd Salas, signed.
    MANY CALIFORNIAS: Literature from the Golden State

    Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback.

    Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (1992). SIGNED first edition - A wonderful anthology, covering a very broad range of writers - included are sections on the rise of regions in California, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Fresno poets and many more. Contributors range from Mary Austin to John Muir to Chandler, from Sherley Anne Williams, Wanda Coleman and Amy Tan to Ella Leffland, from Jack Kerouac to Charles Bukowski, Bob Kaufamn, Kate Braverman. SIGNED at TWO authors at their contributions : Maxine Hong Kingston and Floyd Salas (signed and dated) . Introductory essays to each section, and brief biographies of the writers included. 388 pgs. ISBN: 0-87417-1830.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 63943
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  • THE AUNT LUTE ANTHOLOGY OF U. S. WOMEN WRITERS, VOLUME 2: THE 20TH CENTURY. by [Anthology, signed] Hogeland, Lisa Maria and Shay Brawn, editors; Sandra Cisneros, Susan Griffin. Lorna Dee Cervantes and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge signed.
    [Anthology, signed] Hogeland, Lisa Maria and Shay Brawn, editors; Sandra Cisneros, Susan Griffin. Lorna Dee Cervantes and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge signed.
    THE AUNT LUTE ANTHOLOGY OF U. S. WOMEN WRITERS, VOLUME 2: THE 20TH CENTURY.

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

    San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - A massive book, SIGNED by FOUR authors at their contributions: Sandra Cisneros, Susan Griffin. Lorna Dee Cervantes and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge - "A comprehensive collection of twentieth-century US women's writing, this volume contains works by over 150 women writing in a variety of genres. Works include not only fiction, drama, and poetry, but various nonfiction forms (autobiography, movement writing, journalism, essay) as well as other creative forms (opera libretto, spoken word, song lyrics, stand-up comedy). A sample of the writers, A through C: Elmaz Abinader, Jane Addams, Etel Adnan, Marjorie Agosin, Ai, Elizabeth Alexander, Paula Gunn Allen, Dorothy Allison, Maya Angelou, Gloria Anzalda, Harriette Arnow, Mary Austin, Toni Cade Bambara,…

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    San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - A massive book, SIGNED by FOUR authors at their contributions: Sandra Cisneros, Susan Griffin. Lorna Dee Cervantes and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge - "A comprehensive collection of twentieth-century US women's writing, this volume contains works by over 150 women writing in a variety of genres. Works include not only fiction, drama, and poetry, but various nonfiction forms (autobiography, movement writing, journalism, essay) as well as other creative forms (opera libretto, spoken word, song lyrics, stand-up comedy). A sample of the writers, A through C: Elmaz Abinader, Jane Addams, Etel Adnan, Marjorie Agosin, Ai, Elizabeth Alexander, Paula Gunn Allen, Dorothy Allison, Maya Angelou, Gloria Anzalda, Harriette Arnow, Mary Austin, Toni Cade Bambara, Djuna Barnes, Gwendolyn Bennett, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Bikini Kill, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Lucille Bogan, Marita Bonner, Kay Boyle, Beth Brant, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Mae Brown, Pauline Russell Browne, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Octavia Butler, Patrick Califia-Rice, Janet Campbell Hale, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Luisa Capetillo, Ana Castillo, Willa Sibert Cather, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Alice Childress, Marilyn Chin, Margaret Cho, Meg Christian, Chrystos, Frances Chung, Sandra Cisneros, Amy Clampitt, Michelle Cliff, Lucille Clifton, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Wanda Coleman, Lucha Corpi, Mae V. Cowdery, Ida Cox, Ina Cumpiano, Agnes Cunningham, and Silvia Curbelo. The writers D through Z are just as diverse, just as comprehensive." The volume includes a preface, headnotes, annotations, and author/title index. xxxi, 1456 pp. ISBN: 187996077X.

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    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner bumped.) Review copy with publisher's material laid in.

    Book ID: 55350
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  • WOMEN ON HUNTING. by [Anthology, signed] Houston, Pam, editor.
    [Anthology, signed] Houston, Pam, editor.
    WOMEN ON HUNTING.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ecco Press, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of fiction, poetry and essays by women writers on the subject of hunting. Edited with an introduction by Houston (who had worked as a hunting guide in Alaska.) SIGNED by Houston on the title page. Includes contributions from Antonya Nelson, Jane Hirshfield, Susan Griffin, Ann Beattie , Francine Prose. Annie Dillard, Louise Erdrich, Joyce Carol Oates, Jane Smiley, Margaret Atwood, Kim Barnes, Mary Clearman Blew, Tess Gallagher, Alice Hoffman and others. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-332X.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 80507
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  • BERKELEY! A LITERARY TRIBUTE. by [Anthology, signed] La France, Danielle, editor. Susan Griffin and Ishmael Reed, signed.
    [Anthology, signed] La France, Danielle, editor. Susan Griffin and Ishmael Reed, signed.
    BERKELEY! A LITERARY TRIBUTE.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, (1997). SIGNED first edition - Introduction by Malcolm Margolin. Includes stories, poems and essays, arranged roughly chronologically from authors like Jack London and Lincoln Steffens to Simone De Beauvoir, Dorothy Bryant, Philip K. Dick, Robert Duncan, John Kennethy Galbraith, Allen Ginsberg, Susan Griffin, Robert Hass, Jack Kerouac, Maxine Hong Kingston, Josephine Miles, Frank Norris, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Bobby Seale, Jack Spicer, George R. Stewart, Yoshiko Uchida and Al Young. The final selection is a poem by Julia Vinograd "For Moe Who Died", an epitaph for the longtime Berkeley bookseller. SIGNED by TWO authors at their contributions - Susan Griffin and Ishmael Reed. Biographical notes. xv, 240 pp. ISBN: 0-930588-940.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 71110
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