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BLUEPRINTS
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Bantam, 1990. First edition - Her fourth novel - about a family in crisis and a woman on the brink of discovery who, when tragedy strikes in the form of a fire which destroys her parents' home, begins questioning her role as a daughter and as a lover. ISBN: 0-553-349597.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 7926More details Price: $9.00 -
BLUEPRINTS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel - about a family in crisis and a woman on the brink of discovery who, when tragedy strikes in the form of a fire which destroys her parents' home, begins questioning her role as a daughter and as a lover. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-553-070320.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 9477More details Price: $18.00 -
BLUEPRINTS
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Bantam, 1990. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by the author on the title page with "1990" and signed again on the dedication page with a personal inscription. Her fourth novel - about a family in crisis and a woman on the brink of discovery who, when tragedy strikes in the form of a fire which destroys her parents' home, begins questioning her role as a daughter and as a lover. ISBN: 0-553-349597.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 9818More details Price: $20.00 -
LOSS OF FLIGHT.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
New York: Bantam, 1989. First edition - A title in the Bantam New Fiction series. ISBN: 0-553-34580x.
Condition: Very good (small blacked out spot on first page.)
Book ID: 21713More details Price: $10.00 -
ALL IT TAKES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second collection of short stories. Dust jacket praise from such writers as Richard Yates, Gordon Lish and Terry McMillan. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-689-120613.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 62061More details Price: $16.50 -
MAYBE IN MISSOULA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised Montana writer. 280 pp. ISBN: 1-56947-0073.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 12870More details Price: $18.00 -
MAYBE IN MISSOULA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised Montana writer. ISBN: 1-56947-0073.
Condition: Near fine in a like dustjacket (rem dot bottom edge.)
Book ID: 15564More details Price: $14.00 -
MONTANA WOMEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Montana-born author. Follows the stories of two sisters' lives during and after World War II in which one lost a husband, the other a fiance - feminists before the word was created, because they had to be to survive. Cover praise from William Kittredge who called this novel "as beautiful and stark as the high, short grass plains where it all happens." 305 pp. ISBN: 0-939149605.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. (light crease to flap of dj.)
Book ID: 35904More details Price: $18.00 -
THE UNFASTENED HEART.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second book, an 'extravagantly sensual novel' about discovering and rediscovering love and friendship, set in a small California town. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-525-938907.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 68385More details Price: $17.50 -
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ELDERLY WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in olive green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover.
Book ID: 85411More details Price: $50.00 -
LIFE STUDIES: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories, many set in the art worlds of the 19th and 20th centuries. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-670-031771.
Condition: Good in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark, creasing to the outer edges of several pages in the middle of the book.)
Book ID: 42336More details Price: $12.50 -
GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE.
Edition: First printing.
Denver: MacMurray and Beck. 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her highly acclaimed and prize-winning novel, a surprise best-seller which went quickly into later printings. ISBN: 0-878448-900.
Condition: SIGNED on the half title page with the words 'Real living had begun.' Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20616More details Price: $75.00 -
TWO TALES OF THE EAST INDIES. The Last House in the World - Beb Vuyk / The Counselor - H.J. Friedericy.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (a bit of fading and edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 86500More details Price: $40.00 -
EMPTY SLEEVES.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (1991). First edition - A collection of poems which stand "at the interval between the real and the surreal, between the earthly and the eternal." A title in The Contemporary Poetry Series edited by Bin Ramke. 72 pp. Cover illustration by Debora Greger. ISBN: 0-820312797.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 87992More details Price: $18.50 -
BUMP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page and dated 2003."The story of a trio of motorists and one policeman linked together by a tangled, life-altering web of coincidence in the immediate aftermath of a three-car pile-up in Los Angeles." 327 pp. ISBN: 0-78671106X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 36330More details Price: $30.00 -
MRS. HORNSTIEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1997). Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, an apparently simple story novel which follows a woman from the day when she met her future mother-in-law to the present, as she prepares to meet her future daughter-in-law. 117 pp. ISBN: 0-805049568.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 69932More details Price: $12.50 -
THE SUNKEN CATHEDRAL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2015). First edition - Award-winning author's fifth book - 'lyrical, ominous, and unexpectedly funny novel' (Tom Perotta) that follows a cast of characters as they negotiate one of Manhattans swiftly changing neighborhoods, extreme weather, and the unease of twenty-first-century life." 198 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77821More details Price: $18.50 -
WHERE SHE WENT: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Walbert's very highly praised debut collection, containing fourteen interlocked short stories, set in the years ranging from 1954 to 1992. "The first half of the book chronicles the life of Marion Clark, a 'company wife' who repeatedly packs the household and accompanies her husband around the globe with a 'melancholy view before her of what seemed like endless houses with endless garages and endless kitchen windows.' In the stories that follow, her adult daughter, Rebecca, dutifully attempts to fulfill her mother's thwarted aspirations, 'but isn't sure where to go'." SIGNED on the title page. 197 pp. ISBN: 1-889330159.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80622More details Price: $40.00 -
LOVE AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE PURSUITS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A insightful look at modern life, as a woman tries to deal with the loss of her own newborn daughter and her inability to bond with her 5 year old stepson. Waldman's second 'serious' novel after several Mommy Track mysteries. SIGNED on the title page. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-385-515308.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49189More details Price: $25.00 -
RED HOOK ROAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The death of a newly wed couple alters the lives of two families forever, as they cope with bitterness and grief and yet eventually come to a deeper appreciation of the small details of daily life. SIGNED on the title page. 343 pp. ISBN: 970385517867.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62861More details Price: $30.00 -
RED HOOK ROAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The death of a newly wed couple alters the lives of two families forever, as they cope with bitterness and grief and yet eventually come to a deeper appreciation of the small details of daily life. SIGNED on the title page. 343 pp. ISBN: 970385517867.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63690More details Price: $25.00 -
RED HOOK ROAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The death of a newly wed couple alters the lives of two families forever, as they cope with bitterness and grief and yet eventually come to a deeper appreciation of the small details of daily life. 343 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68843More details Price: $18.00 -
LOVE AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE PURSUITS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A insightful look at modern life, as a woman tries to deal with the loss of her own newborn daughter and her inability to bond with her 5 year old stepson. Waldman's second 'serious' novel after several Mommy Track mysteries. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-385-515308.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87409More details Price: $30.00 -
![ALICE WALKER'S THE COLOR PURPLE and Other Works: A Critical Commentary. (Monarch notes) by [Walker, Alice] Christian, Barbara.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/79241---200.jpg?v=1593654495)
ALICE WALKER'S THE COLOR PURPLE and Other Works: A Critical Commentary. (Monarch notes)
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Monarch Press / Simon & Schuster, (1987). First edition - Looks at Walker's life, and the influences on her work, especially her discovery of the novels of Zora Neale Hurston. While this focuses on Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning The Color Purple, it also discusses her work both before and after its publication. Bibliography, 121 pp. ISBN: 0-671648616.
Condition: Very near fine in stapled red and white wrappers (some rubbing to the covers)
Book ID: 79241More details Price: $20.00 -
DR. NORTON'S WIFE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Literary Guild, (1938). Hardcover - Walker's third novel, the Literary Guild selection for January 1938, a book which was praised on its appearance for its quite portrayal of a loving marriage strained by invalidism. "[A] disturbing book. . . . For those who are interested in the world of unuttered thoughts, Dr. NortonÕs Wife will prove an absorbing study." (New York Times) 269 pp.
Condition: Ex-library but with relatively few markings, and overall tight and clean in salmon colored cloth, spine label, some rubbing and wear to covers, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 87533More details Price: $20.00 -
FLAMSTED QUARRIES.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1910. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with a frontispiece and three glossy plates by G. Patrick Nelson. Dedicated "To those who toil" with this phrase incorporated into the design on the front cover. 493 pp plus 4 pp of ads for other books by Waller.
Condition: Good in blue-gray cloth covers (wear at corners and top and bottom of spine), lettering faded on spine, previous owner's name, dated Dec 25, 1910, on front endpaper.
Book ID: 3730More details Price: $25.00 -
GLASS CASTLE.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (general reading wear, tear to dj at corner fold)
Book ID: 89118More details Price: $20.00 -
HOW TO BE LOST.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Denver: McAdam / Cage, (2004). First edition - The author's highly praised second novel - The seemingly perfect lives of the affluent Winters family in suburban New York begin to unravel when their five-year-old daughter, Ellie, mysteriously vanishes. 15 years later, Caroline, Ellie's older sister, working as a cocktail waitress in New Orleans, sees a photograph in People magazine, and convinced it is her sister, now grown, embarks for a search for her - through the New Mexico desert, the Colorado mountains, Montana and more. Andrew Sean Greer commented that Ward "shines her with the same brilliance and humor she showed in her first novel." 291 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed red wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 88800More details Price: $18.50 -
FENWICK'S CAREER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Hardcover first edition - The story of an artist, self-taught and rather rough in manners, from the country, who leaves behind his wife and daughter to seek his fortune in London. Illustrated by Albert Sterner with a glossy frontispiece with a tissue guard and 3 glossy plates. 367 pp
Condition: Good in red-orange cloth with gilt lettering and decorative panel on front cover (some fading to the spine, previous owner's name and address on front endpaper with the notation "bought in El Paso en route to California, Jan 2007. Pasted into the front cover is a photograph of the Bosquet d'Appollon as referenced in the book on p 255)
Book ID: 69190More details Price: $17.50 -
THE DISTANCE FROM THE HEART OF THINGS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. SIGNED first edition - Young Southern author's first novel - returning home to her grandfather's vineyard in Carolina after college, Mavis becomes aware of the emotional distance from those who were once closest to her. SIGNED on the title page. At just 23, Warlick was the youngest ever to win Houghton Mifflin's Literary Fellowship. 256 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover art is very different from the trade edition.
Book ID: 76303More details Price: $30.00
![ALICE WALKER'S THE COLOR PURPLE and Other Works: A Critical Commentary. (Monarch notes) by [Walker, Alice] Christian, Barbara.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/79241---800.jpg?v=1593654495)
