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SHORT FLIGHTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, described as a novel, but far more than that. She was "scarcely eighteen years old when she and another young Spaniard pulled off a daring rescue of political prisoners from one of Franco's concentration camps in the late 1940s. Spain thus became a part of her. This book, a personally political chronicle of the years from 1974 through Franco's seemingly endless dying and the inevitable manoeuvres that have issued, is what Virginia Woolf once called, 'an amalgam of autobiography and fiction, memoir and imaginative improvisation'." 313 pp. ISBN: 0-670330531.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light toning)
Book ID: 77488More details Price: $21.50 -
SHORT FLIGHTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, described as a novel, but far more than that. She was "scarcely eighteen years old when she and another young Spaniard pulled off a daring rescue of political prisoners from one of Franco's concentration camps in the late 1940s. Spain thus became a part of her. This book, a personally political chronicle of the years from 1974 through Franco's seemingly endless dying and the inevitable manoeuvres that have issued, is what Virginia Woolf once called, 'an amalgam of autobiography and fiction, memoir and imaginative improvisation'." 313 pp. ISBN: 0-670330531.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (remainder mark, crease on front flap of dj)
Book ID: 83772More details Price: $15.00 -
EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M.
Edition: First printing of this edition.
London: The Folio Society, 1984. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 18 stories from the three original volumes of the Irish R.M. (resident magistrate) tales, originally published in 1899, 1908 and 1915, by these two women writers whose collaboration continued after the death of Violet Martin ("Martin Ross"") through the use of a medium. Selected and with an introduction by John O'Donovan. Over 32 illustrations by Paul Cox. pp. xvii 267 pp.
Condition: Fine in green illustrated cloth in a fine slipcase.
Book ID: 86031More details Price: $20.00 -
UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this award winning author, many of which are "commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti and others" 204 pp. ISBN: 0-374280762.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 87497More details Price: $19.50 -
UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this award winning author, many of which are "commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti and others" 204 pp. ISBN: 0-374280762.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82947More details Price: $21.50 -
ILLNESS AS METAPHOR and AIDS AND ITS METAPHORS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, (1989). The first publication of these two essays in one paperback volume - the first "Illness as Metaphor" was written in 1978 when Sontag was recovering from cancer; the second was written in 1989 to counter the labeling of AIDS as a plague. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-385267053.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 83415More details Price: $11.50 -
DAUGHTERS OF CAPTAIN COOK.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Birch Lane, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this Kansas-born writer (the wife of Michael Ondaatje, who is credited with the cover photo) who now lives in Canada, but spent a number of years in Hawaii, where this novel is set. SIGNED on the title page. 218 pp. ISBN: 1-559720085.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 10757More details Price: $30.00 -
DAUGHTERS OF CAPTAIN COOK.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition in Canada.
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys 1988. SIGNED first edition - True first edition of the first novel by this Kansas-born writer (the wife of Michael Ondaatje, who is credited with the cover photo) who now lives in Canada, but spent a number of years in Hawaii, where this novel is set. SIGNED on the title page. #40 in the International Fiction List. Cover praise from Timothy Findley and others. 218 pp,. ISBN: 0-88619-1718.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps (some toning to the pages)
Book ID: 25235More details Price: $35.00 -
COLLECTED POEMS I.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Spark's first book of poetry to appear in the US. 97 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75427More details Price: $16.50 -
THE HOTHOUSE BY THE EAST RIVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Short novel set in New York City, where Spark was living at the time, an incisive portrait of a couple whose past returns to haunt them. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-670379603.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 79729More details Price: $20.00 -
THE HOTHOUSE BY THE EAST RIVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Short novel set in New York City, where Spark was living at the time, an incisive portrait of a couple whose past returns to haunt them. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-670379603.
Condition: Good overall in a very good dust jacket (peeled area on front endpaper, bookstore stamp)
Book ID: 71653More details Price: $14.50 -
THE TAKEOVER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourteenth novel by this award-winning and prolific autho, probably still best known for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." Set in Italy where she was living at the time, this is the story of a wealthy woman and those who try to exploit her fortune. Described as combining the pace of a thriller with magical undertones. 266 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Peter Goodfellow. ISBN: 0-670691070.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88946More details Price: $20.00 -
A SWEETNESS RISING: New and Selected Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, (2007). First edition - When Roberta Spear died of leukemia in 2003, she left behind an almost completed fourth book of poetry - those new poems, along with selected poems from her first three books are included here. Edited and with an introduction by Philip Levine. xix, 151 pp. ISBN: 978-1597140638.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88059More details Price: $25.00 -
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, finalist for the National Book Award. 110 pages. 5 x 8" tall. A wealthy American woman is traveling throughout Europe with her beautiful daughter, Clara who falls in love a young Italian in Florence, but things are not as simple as they seem. Basis for the film of the same name. 110 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, in a very good unmarked dj (tape ghosts)
Book ID: 88184More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SALT LINE.
Edition: First edition.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, by this Southern born writer who later resided in Canada. ISBN: 0-385-156987.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 24264More details Price: $30.00 -
THE TIGER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this award winning writer one spanning nearly 70 years, from Caracas to Germany in havoc under the Nazis and back to Venezuela. TThe title refers to the influence that his grandmother had on Lucien long after her death - she was like a tiger on his back. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-531097064.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (blank bookplate.)
Book ID: 7975More details Price: $17.50 -
THE SLOW TRAIN TO MILAN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second semi-autobiographical novel by this writer (her first book won the Somerset Maugham award.) Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize. 254 pp. Dust jacket art by Fred Marcellino. ISBN: 0-06-0152397.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 58343More details Price: $19.50 -
A VALLEY IN ITALY: The Many Seasons of a Villa in Umbria.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novelist's account of her purchase of the magnificent Villa Orsolo deep in the Umbrian hills, only to discover that it was a vast ruin, and the year of camping out with her family in the midst of the work of restoration. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168862.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46526More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BAY OF SILENCE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this award winning writer (her first book won the Somerset Maugham award and her third won the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize) Set on the Italian Riviera where a young couple return to the place they spent their honeymoon, driven by dread that the secret of their dead baby will might be revealed. 163 pp. ISBN: 0-53115016x.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some crinkling to the dj, and bleeding from the spine to the interior of the dj) .
Book ID: 81587More details Price: $16.50 -
THE TIGER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this award winning writer one spanning nearly 70 years, from Caracas to Germany in havoc under the Nazis and back to Venezuela. TThe title refers to the influence that his grandmother had on Lucien long after her death - she was like a tiger on his back. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-531097064.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (a bit of wear to the bottom of the dj spine)
Book ID: 83005More details Price: $18.50 -
THE BAY OF SILENCE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this award winning writer (her first book won the Somerset Maugham award and her third won the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize) Set on the Italian Riviera where a young couple return to the place they spent their honeymoon, driven by dread that the secret of their dead baby will might be revealed. 163 pp. ISBN: 0-53115016x.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (short tear and associated creasing on front cover of dj) .
Book ID: 84159More details Price: $17.50 -
JOANNA.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this award winning writer which centers on a trio of women - from the 1880s through World War II - bound together by compulsion and secrecy as little Joan, now Joanna, finally begins to understand the terrible inheritance that has shadowed her family for generations. 260 pp. Cover art by Robbie Duff-Scott, the author's husband. ISBN: 0-881846902.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84953More details Price: $18.50 -
BAD CHARACTERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1968) dj. Hardcover - A collection of ten short stories, most which originally appeared in the New Yorker, with an introductory note by Stafford. vii, 276 pp. Dust jacket by Ellen Raskin.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, spine slant and reading wear in a very good dustjacket (wear to base of spine)
Book ID: 79099More details Price: $13.50 -
THE INTERIOR CASTLE: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A critical biography which captures both the genius and the neuroses of this brilliant and influential mid-century writer - one who who drew from her own past in Colorado to forge a unique writing style until alcohol and depression destroyed her lifelong quest for inner strength. Notes, index. xv, 430 pp. ISBN: 0-394557042.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86565More details Price: $30.00 -
WAKEFIELD HALL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Villard, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set at an estate in the Berkshires. Combines echoes of the Brontes with modern 1980's New York. SIGNED on the half title page. ISBN: 0-679-412980.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 52724More details Price: $25.00 -
THE LOWEST BLUE FLAME BEFORE NOTHING.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, (1998). SIGNED first edition - The first book by this award winning Filipina American writer, a collection of twelve short stories with settings ranging from Manila to the US Midwest. They "unerringly map that place in the human heart where exaltation and humiliation, hope and fear, merge." SIGNED by the author on the first page. 195 pp. ISBN: 1-879960540.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80086More details Price: $25.00 -
UNDERTOW.
Edition: First printing.
Dallas: Baskerville, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young woman's struggle for life and love against the undertow of a loveless childhood and sexual abuse and imposed silence. Set on California's central coast, where Anne McBain is an aspiring marine biologist. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp. . ISBN: 1880909022.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67555More details Price: $30.00 -
UNDERTOW.
Edition: First printing.
Dallas: Baskerville, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young woman's struggle for life and love against the undertow of a loveless childhood and sexual abuse and imposed silence. Set on California's central coast, where Anne McBain is an aspiring marine biologist. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp. . ISBN: 1880909022.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket. (short closed tear on upper edge of back cover)
Book ID: 70422More details Price: $18.00 -
THREE LIVES.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: New Directions, (c. 1933.) dj. Hardcover - Gertrude Stein's first - and perhaps best - book originally published in a small edition in 1909. Includes two short stories ('The Good Anna' and 'The Gentle Lena') and a novella ('Melanctha') which focus on the bleak existence that faced immigrant and minority women in turn-of-the century America. 'Melanctha,' the story of a young black woman, is a true masterpiece and unusual for its time in its uncondescending depiction of her as a woman and a human being. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Number Three in the New Classic Series. xi, 279 pp. Small format. Cover design by Alan Lustig, original price of $1.50 on dj flap.
Condition: Very good in light blue cloth with black lettering on the spine in a good dust jacket (sunning to the spine, several small chips and other edgewear.)
Book ID: 88137More details Price: $95.00 -
BEE TIME VINE AND OTHER PIECES (1913-1927)
Edition: First printing.
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1953. dj. Hardcover first edition - Preface and Notes by Virgil Thomson. Volume Three of the Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein (series editor Carl van Vechten). xii. 294 pp.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth in a very good dust jacket (prev owner's name - some light toning to the pages, more severe toning to the spine of the dj.)
Book ID: 64593More details Price: $65.00