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CRESCENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel, the story of a thirty-nine year old, and still unmarried, Iraqi-American woman who lives and works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant in the Persian and Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles - a novel both sensible, realistic and romantic. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Sigrid Nunez, Whitney Otto and others. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-39305747X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36581More details Price: $30.00 -
ORIGIN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (2007). First edition - Her third novel, fourth book - a suspenseful literary mystery set in Syracuse, New York, where there is a number of unexplained 'crib deaths.' 388 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (some light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 58218More details Price: $20.00 -
CRESCENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel, the story of a thirty-nine year old, and still unmarried, Iraqi-American woman who lives and works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant in the Persian and Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles - a novel both sensible, realistic and romantic. Cover praise from Sigrid Nunez, Whitney Otto and others. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-39305747X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53228More details Price: $15.00 -
CRESCENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel, the story of a thirty-nine year old, and still unmarried, Iraqi-American woman who lives and works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant in the Persian and Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles - a novel both sensible, realistic and romantic. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Sigrid Nunez, Whitney Otto and others. 349 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-39305747X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80920More details Price: $35.00 -
IN MEMORIAM TO IDENTITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "interweaves the stories of three characters who share the same tragic flaw: a predilection for doomed, obsessive love. Rimbaud, the delinquent symbolist prodigy, is deserted by his lover Verlaine time and time again. Airplane takes a job dancing at Fun City, the seventh tier of the sex industry, in order to support her good-for-nothing boyfriend. And Capitol feels alive only when she's having sex with her brother, Quentin." Reviewer Tim Clark called this "a weird, violent, searing, angry work, full of pain, dislocation, desire, hate and the raging drive of resistant creation." 265 pp. ISBN: 0-80211170X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (one corner slightly bumped)
Book ID: 90825More details Price: $45.00 -
ON EXTENDED WINGS: An Adventure in Flight.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning poet Diane Ackerman describes how she gained mastery over the mysteries of flight and earned her private pilot's license, of her frustration and exhilaration during hours of lessons and seemingly endless touch and go's of her first solo and her first cross-country flights, and of the teachers and pilots and aviation enthusiasts with whom she flew. Glossary. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-689115407.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, 2 small chips to dj)
Book ID: 86504More details Price: $17.50 -
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 -
ANY SMALL THING CAN SAVE YOU: a Bestiary.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bluehen Books (Penguin Putnam), (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which combines "wisdom, insight and a hawk's eye for detail" (Kim Barnes) Each animal that passes by in this book reflects a truth about love - between a husband and a wife, a child and a parent, or a brother and a sister. Like a traditional bestiary, each chapter highlights one letter of the alphabet - K is for Kestrel, P is for Porcupine - but then takes off from there. SIGNED on the half title page. Erratum sheet laid in. Small format. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-399148140.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81315More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LAST LOVELY CITY: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories with settings ranging from San Francisco to a North Carolina college town to a rundown Mexican resort. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454411.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 39894More details Price: $15.00 -
AFTER YOU'VE GONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth collection of short stories. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-394-579267.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 41373More details Price: $15.00 -
BEAUTIFUL GIRL.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first collection of sixteen short stories. ISBN: 0-394-42737-8.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (faint rem mark.)
Book ID: 16973More details Price: $20.00 -
SUPERIOR WOMEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which begins at Radcliffe College in 1943 and follows the lives of five young women who meet there over the next four decades. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-394-536320.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (a bit of curling to the upper edge of dj, and fading to the pink on the spine.)
Book ID: 56656More details Price: $15.00 -
AFTER YOU'VE GONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth collection of short stories. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-394-579267.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 36087More details Price: $16.00 -
RETURN TRIPS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories. ISBN: 0-394-536339.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 21776More details Price: $24.00 -
SECOND CHANCES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth novel by this very accomplished writer, set in a small town in the hills south of San Francisco, and focusing on a group of friends who suddenly discover that they are getting older. Although Adams was born in Virginia, as a writer she lived in San Francisco and knows the area well. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-394568249.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 41364More details Price: $15.00 -
A SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition -. ISBN: 0-679-444521.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 11122More details Price: $16.00 -
CAROLINE'S DAUGHTERS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in San Francisco in the 1980's - the story of a mother and her 5 very different daughters (from 3 different marriages.) INSCRIBED on the title page and uncommon thus. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-394-568257.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36645More details Price: $40.00 -
RICH REWARDS.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in San Francisco in the 1970's. ISBN: 0-394-511018.
Condition: Very good in a good+ dustjacket (rem marks, previous owner's name, edgewear to dj).
Book ID: 3932More details Price: $12.50 -
RETURN TRIPS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories. ISBN: 0-394-536339.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 20901More details Price: $18.00 -
SECOND CHANCES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth novel by this very accomplished writer, set in a small town in the hills south of San Francisco, and focusing on a group of friends who suddenly discover that they are getting older. Although Adams was born in Virginia, as a writer she lived in San Francisco and knows the area well. SIGNED on the title page. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-394568249.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (very slight spine slant.)
Book ID: 36657More details Price: $30.00 -
RICH REWARDS.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in San Francisco in the 1970's. ISBN: 0-394-511018.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (sunning to dj spine.)
Book ID: 24898More details Price: $14.00 -
CAROLINE'S DAUGHTERS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in San Francisco in the 1980's - the story of a mother and her 5 very different daughters (from 3 different marriages.) 307 pp. ISBN: 0-394-568257.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 6929More details Price: $15.00 -
RETURN TRIPS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 14154More details Price: $50.00 -
RETURN TRIPS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories. ISBN: 0-394-536339.
Condition: Just about fine in a very good dustjacket (2 short closed tears at lower edge of rear cover.)
Book ID: 14155More details Price: $25.00 -
SUPERIOR WOMEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel which begins at Radcliffe College in 1943 and follows the lives of five young women who meet there over the next four decades. SIGNED on the title page. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-394-536320.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 14860More details Price: $35.00 -
DARK SYMPHONY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1942. dj. Hardcover first edition - The autobiography of a young African American woman who was born in Santa Barbara, California to a family in "comfortable circumstances" although she grew up during the Depression, and who converted to Catholicism after her graduation from high school. This book attempts to reconcile both her sense of herself as a "new Negro" and her spiritual life as a Catholic who eventually became a Franciscan Tertiary. She recounts not only her spiritual awakening, but also the necessity to overcome racial prejudice even within the Church itself.
Condition: Very good in a fair only dust jacket (bookplate on front pastedown, mostly hidden by dj flap, significant rubbing and edgewear to the black dust jacket. Original price of $2.50 still present).
Book ID: 71780More details Price: $40.00 -
A CENTENNIAL READER.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Macmillan, 1960. dj. Hardcover - A selection of the writings of this social reformer, founder of Hull House, and peace activist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, published on the 100th anniversary of her birth. Prefatory note on Addams' life by William Neuman; introduction by William O Douglas. Glossy frontispiece photograph. xix, 330 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (minimal pencil underlining, edgewear to the dj, especially at the ends of the spine.)
Book ID: 54311More details Price: $15.00 -
GREEN CANE AND JUICY FLOTSAM, Short Stories by Caribbean Women.
Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991. In addition to the contributors shown above, this includes selections by Hilda Contreras, Maryse Conde, Rosario Ferre, Hazel Campbell, Olga Nolla, Ana Lydia Vega, Olive Senior and many others. Selected bibliography. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-8135-17389.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 73412More details Price: $15.00 -
DRAWING DOWN THE MOON: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, Other Pagans in America Today.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, short edgetear). Uncommon in the first edition.
Book ID: 86484More details Price: $150.00 -
PITCH DARK.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. Hardcover - A novel of "perceptions, refrains, inventions and cadences," by a writer whom Updike called "amazing .. honest and direct .. ingenious and thoughtful." 144 pp. ISBN: 0-394-503740.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket .
Book ID: 40765More details Price: $12.50
