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A RECIPE FOR BEES .
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised Canadian writer's second novel. Finalist for the Giller Prize for fiction. Illustrated with photographs. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-676971008.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87653More details Price: $24.50 -
WINDHORSE WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Stories of the author's experiences in the Himalayas. Includes black-and-white illustrations.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 14548More details Price: $13.50 -
SISTER.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83576More details Price: $35.00 -
RIVER ANGEL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in a small town in Wisconsin, one which is inexorably changing as the farms give way to tracts of homes for commuters. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Ann Patchett and Lewis Nordan (who says 'Ansay can write like an angel. River Angel is the best novel I've read this year, and I would say for several years. The prose is beautiful, among the best being written, and the story is compelling and funny and sad.') 243 pp. ISBN: 0-688-15243-0.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46326More details Price: $28.00 -
SISTER.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83575More details Price: $28.50 -
CARRY THE ONE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2012). First edition - Fourth novel by this award-winning author, one in which the lives, accomplishments and failures disconnect and reconnect among those who met at a wedding reception, one which was followed by the death of a young girl in an alchohol-fueled automobile accident. Scott Spencer comments that "this deceptively simple novel is both intimate and mysterious, frank and elusive - full of the stuff of life - love, lust, drugs, dogs, marriage, children.. . " Includes an interview with author, 269 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60147More details Price: $20.00 -
SEVEN MOVES.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel, a story of psychological suspense, set mostly in Chicago. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-395-691311.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 13673More details Price: $16.00 -
SEVEN MOVES.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel, a story of psychological suspense. ISBN: 0-395-691311.
Condition: Near fine in very good dustjacket.
Book ID: 23353More details Price: $12.50 -
UNHOLY ALLIANCES: New Women's Fiction.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
San Francisco: Cleis Press, (1989). SIGNED first edition - A collection of stories "of allies and foes, strangers and strugglers, stories of the margin, of relationships just a bit off center." SIGNED by Julia Alvarez at her story "Daughter of Invention" and uncommon thus. Also includes contributions from Barbara Selfridge, Dorothy Bryant and many others. Notes on contributors. 159 pp. ISBN: 0-939416158.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 64922More details Price: $25.00 -
EROTIC INTERLUDES: Tales Told By Women.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of erotic fiction by women including Susan Griffin, Kim Chernin, Caroline Banks, Deena Metzger and many others. SIGNED by Griffin at her story Cradles of Light." Includes brief biographies of the authors. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-385-233191.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 46164More details Price: $28.50 -
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 -
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.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner bumped.) Review copy with publisher's material laid in.
Book ID: 55350More details Price: $60.00 -
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: 80507More details Price: $35.00 -
BAD GIRLS: 26 Writers Misbehave.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2007). SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of essays by women writers with an uncommon premise. As Sussman states: "I behave badly to set myself apart. To test myself. To push myself. To prove something. To shock someone....I behave badly because I can." and she invited 25 other "bad girls" to share their stories. SIGNED by THREE authors - INSCRIBED on the title page by Sussman and SIGNED by Ann Hood at her essay "Lying" and by Pam Houston at "Executrix." Also includes essays by Elizabeth Benedict, Mary Roach, Kim Addonizio, Susan Straight, M. J. Rose and more. Notes on contributors. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0393064636.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75492More details Price: $40.00 -
THE FOURTH WOMANSLEUTH ANTHOLOGY: Contemporary Mystery Stories by Women.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Freedom, California: Crossing Press, (1991.). SIGNED first edition - Collects 15 stories by women writers. SIGNED by S, J. Rozan at her story 'Prosperity Restaurant.' Also includes stories by Caroline Stafford, Barbara Wilson, Judith Post and others. Notes on contributors. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-89594-5215.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 56059More details Price: $18.00 -
THE FOURTH WOMANSLEUTH ANTHOLOGY: Contemporary Mystery Stories by Women.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Freedom, California: Crossing Press, (1991). SIGNED first edition - Collects 15 stories by women writers. SIGNED by S, J. Rozan at her story 'Prosperity Restaurant.' Also includes stories by Caroline Stafford, Barbara Wilson, Judith Post and others. Notes on contributors. 194 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed wrappers.
Book ID: 88153More details Price: $20.00 -
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 -
WHORE.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Grove Press / Black Cat, (2005). First edition - Canadian author's semi-autobiographical first novel, a look at the world's oldest profession by a writer who worked within it. "Cynthia," as the nameless narrator calls herself professionally, is a French-Canadian Catholic who escapes her strict upbringing and schooling by the nuns, and moves to Montreal where she finds work in a bar. One day she answers the ad of an escort agency, and so she is found by new calling. Translated from the French by Bruce Benderson. Finalist for both the Prix MŽdicis and the Prix FŽmina. 172 pp. ISBN: 0-802170021.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79690More details Price: $25.00 -
BAD GUYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third book, but her first novel in a comic mode, interwoven with tragedy and combined with her lyrical descriptions of the far Northern wilderness. Set against the backdrop of the Gulf of Alaska, this is the story of the inhabitants of an island work camp for juvenile delinquents. ISBN: 0-394-55442-6.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, some spine slant, in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 24866More details Price: $12.50 -
BINDING SPELL.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Bantam, (1990.). An aspiring witch, an Hungarian herbalist, the town's sheriff, and two visiting professors from Russia are only some of the characters that come together in this novel set in America's heartland. ISBN: 0-553-348051.
Condition: Very good+.
Book ID: 27139More details Price: $10.00 -
PLAYING AFTER DARK.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1987). The author's first collection of essays - mostly succinct and to the point - on love, motherhood, middle age, on writers (including a visit with Eudora Welty) and more. Although written many years ago, her essay on "Unborn Baby Roe" reminds us of what it was like to be a young girls in the years before Roe vs Wade. 147 pp. ISBN: 0-060971126.
Condition: Very near fine (appears unread, usual toning to pages)
Book ID: 82055More details Price: $12.00 -
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: 83666More details Price: $25.00 -
FRAGMENTS I SAVED FROM THE FIRE: Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Watsonville, CA: Papier Mache Press, (1989). First edition - The author's first book, a collection of 21 short stories, many of them focusing on women getting older and living on the edge - stories which quickly draw you in. Cover praise by Meridel Le Sueur, among others. 110 pp. Cover art by Valeria Crystle. ISBN: 0-918949068.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87038More details Price: $16.50 -
THE HALF-CROWN HOUSE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1956) dj. Hardcover - The story of the struggle to preserve an old English manor by opening it to the public for a "half-crown" admission ticket. 253 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83188More details Price: $15.00 -
OCTAVIA.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this English noblewoman, best known for her very controversial autobiography. A glimpse of life among the upper classes in the 1920's.
Condition: Very good+ in a very good dustjacket - dustjacket is of embossed gold foil, with purple bands at the top and bottom, has some edgewear, including several small chips, but is overall quite striking. (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 20590More details Price: $30.00 -
BEACHMASTERS.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Viking, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Tenth novel by one of Australia's most noted writer (ther-time winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award.) Review copy with publisher's material laid in.
Condition: F/VG (fading to dj spine, top edge)
Book ID: 6924More details Price: $25.00 -
TWO BY ASTLEY: A Kindness Cup & The Acoylyte
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Putnam, 1988. Hardcover first edition - First publication in the United States of two of Astley's early (1974 and 1972) award-winning novels.
Condition: NF/F (rem mark, some browning to pages.)
Book ID: 6926More details Price: $15.00 -
IT'S RAINING IN MANGO
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Putnam, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Subtitled "Pictures from a family album," this is the story of one Australian family, spanning over a century starting in 1861 when Cornelius Laffey slipped ashore.
Condition: Very good in a very good- dustjacket (toning to pages, dj is priced clipped and has some edgewear, one closed tear.)
Book ID: 13000More details Price: $12.50 -
CODA.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Putnam, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - A brief novel by this award-winning Australian novelist in which old age is looked at with both irony and grief.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the pages, slight fading on the spine of the dj.)
Book ID: 15711More details Price: $15.00 -
CODA.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Putnam, 1994. dj. Hardcover - A brief novel by this award-winning Australian novelist in which old age is looked at with both irony and grief.
Condition: Near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the pages, slight fading on the spine of the dj.)
Book ID: 15740More details Price: $12.50