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IN THE GLOAMING: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, a collection of ten short stories. The title story was selected by John Updike for inclusion in 'The Best American Short Stories of the Century' and it was the basis of a 1997 HBO film of the same name, directed by Christopher Reeve, and featuring Glenn Close, Whoopi Goldberg and others. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-395-578183.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 89864More details Price: $21.50 -
A FISTFUL OF EMPTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth in the series of thrillers featuring Washington DC private eye Leo Haggerty - one which opens with the murder of his best friend, and the violent rape of his girl friend Samantha in the home they shared. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-670831115.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 88762More details Price: $17.50 -
UNICORN MOUNTAIN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Arbor House, (1988) dj. Hardcover - A fantasy novel for adults.. "The appearance of unicorns on a Colorado cattle ranch joins a dying man, the ranch owner, and a Ute man and his daughter in a test of courage and humanity". 406 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88214More details Price: $15.00 -
PASSIVE INTRUDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which explores the ideas of haunting and being haunted, of absence being as much of a shape as presence is. "A young woman sees the same mysterious face at each stop of a cross-country train trip. A gay psychiatrist is haunted by the ever-encroaching specter of AIDS. These are the intertwining threads of this gothic-tinged literary ghost tale set in Seattle." 369 pp. ISBN: 0-393038653.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88117More details Price: $18.50 -
DISASTERAMA!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87482More details Price: $30.00 -
CHRISTODORA.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grove Press, (2016). First edition - An "epic, ambitious, and deeply poignant novel, [this] follows a diverse group of people whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattans East Village, the Christodora. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and the activism of the 1980s to a future New York City of the 2020s where subzero winters are a thing of the past, it recounts the heartbreak wrought by AIDS, portrays the allure and destructive power of hard drugs, and brings to life a bohemian Lower Manhattan of artists and idealists." 430 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86032More details Price: $18.50 -
LOVE ALONE: Eighteen Elegies for Rog.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A cycle of poems written during the five months after the death of his lover from AIDS - full of grief and rage. Frontispiece. Preface by Monette. xiii, 65 pp. ISBN: 0-312-014724.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83084More details Price: $21.50 -
THE LIMITS OF JUSTICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the award-winning series featuring gay journalist Benjamin Justice, set in Southern California SIGNED on the title page . 309 pp. ISBN: 0-385491174.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82823More details Price: $28.50 -
SAVING THE WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which goes back and forth between two centuries - from the fight against AIDS in the modern Dominican Republic to the 1803 smallpox expedition of Francisco Xavier Balmis. SIGNED on the title page. 368 pp. ISBN: 1-56512510x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82069More details Price: $30.00 -
IN THE GLOAMING: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book, a collection of ten short stories. The title story was selected by John Updike for inclusion in 'The Best American Short Stories of the Century' and it was the basis of a 1997 HBO film of the same name, directed by Christopher Reeve, and featuring Glenn Close, Whoopi Goldberg and others. SIGNED on the title page. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-395-578183.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81203More details Price: $35.00 -
THE ART LOVER.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel, a story of love, loss, grief, and a harrowing story of the death of one of her best friends from AIDS, and more. Illustrated with photographs. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-4273.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81031More details Price: $35.00 -
THE DINNER PARTY.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by a writer known for his explorations of questions of ethics and morality in his books - the entire action takes place in just one day at the home of a US Senator. " It all sounds like a gracious and well-ordered affair, but as events unfold, the reader is battered from all sides by one startling revelation after another." 250 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78163More details Price: $17.50 -
THE LIMITS OF JUSTICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the award-winning series featuring gay journalist Benjamin Justice, set in Southern California. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-385491174.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77095More details Price: $18.00 -
SIMPLE JUSTICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, introducing Benjamin Justice, a gay journalist in West Hollywood, who had won the Pulitzer Prize several years before only to have it pulled when it turned out the story was fabricated. He is persuaded by his former editor to research the circumstances surrounding a shooting outside a gay nightclub. Winner of the Edgar Award For Best First Mystery. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-385482345.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77094More details Price: $20.00 -
MECCA, MALIBU STORIES, STEAMING & DUENDE (set of 4 books)
Edition: First printing, trade paperbacks.
Houston, TX:' Black Tie Press, 1991-1994. First edition - A set of 4 of Rowley's books of poetry, including his first 2 published works - his obituary after his death from AIDS at only 40 noted that "Donald Rawley was very, very good at entrances and at exits - in real life and in his writing. He first came to public attention as a writer of humid and verdant poetry. His five collections - Duende, Sirens, Steaming, Malibu Stories and Mecca - garnered him several awards, much critical praise and a fan-base that above all loved to hear these poems performed, with Rawley commanding the stage like a ringmaster"
Condition: Very good in wrappers
Book ID: 76798More details Price: $75.00 -
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's third novel, set in New York city's gay art scene in the 1980s, just as AIDS is appearing. 337 pp plus a 16 pp typescript of a work by the protagonist, Hartley Mims. Dust jacket by Chip Kidd. ISBN: 0-394589149.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76479More details Price: $18.50 -
FIRST COMES LOVE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pantheon, (1996.). First edition - Winik's frank and unsentimental account of her love affair and marriage with an openly gay man, of their drug use, the brief happiness of the birth of their two children, and the gradual deterioration of his health as his AIDS progressed. 271 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (corners of a few pages bumped).
Book ID: 76018More details Price: $15.00 -
THE ANGEL OF HISTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which creates a "portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval. Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, [it] follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS." INSCRIBED on the title page with both his English and Arabic signatures. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-0802125767.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 75478More details Price: $35.00 -
DOUBLE HELIX.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy for a trade paperback original.
Ashland, OR: Ashland Hills Press, (2000.). First edition - The author's second novel featuring investigative reporter Kate Lipton, an edgy techno-thriller involving the disappearance of three AIDS sufferers after they traveled to Grenada in the Caribbean in search of a cure. 252 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72931More details Price: $20.00 -
SAVING THE WORLD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2006.). First edition - A novel which goes back and forth between two centuries - from the fight against AIDS in the modern Dominican Republic to the 1803 smallpox expedition of Francisco Xavier Balmis. 368 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72659More details Price: $18.50 -
THE ANGEL OF HISTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which creates a "portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval. Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, [it] follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS." SIGNED on the title page with both his English and Arabic signatures, and dated in October 2016. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-0802125767.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 72616More details Price: $35.00 -
SENSING LIGHT FROM DARK: A Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Ulysses Press. (2016). First edition - "San Francisco, 1979 an epidemic begins" Written by a doctor who was just beginning his internship days after the CDC reported a mysterious, fatal form on immundeficiency, and who went on to become a leading Bay Area AIDS physician, this novel "follows the lives of three people from vastly different walks of life, who find themselves thrown together by a shared urgency to find out what is killing so many men in the prime of their lives." 346 pp.
Condition: Fine in blue printed wrappers with clear acrylic covers..
Book ID: 69979More details Price: $15.00 -
THE LIMITS OF JUSTICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the award-winning series featuring gay journalist Benjamin Justice, set in Southern California SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-385491174.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69096More details Price: $30.00 -
SIMPLE JUSTICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, introducing Benjamin Justice, a gay journalist in West Hollywood, who had won the Pulitzer Prize several years before only to have it pulled when it turned out the story was fabricated. He is persuaded by his former editor to research the circumstances surrounding a shooting outside a gay nightclub. Winner of the Edgar Award For Best First Mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-385482345.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69094More details Price: $35.00 -
THE RULES OF SEDUCTION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, the story of Jack Newland, a handsome and wealthy young man on his 28th birthday, the day in which he came into his trust, and his coming to grips with his life and his past in the days following it. SIGNED on the title page. 422 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 68289More details Price: $30.00 -
MAYDAY RAMPAGE.
Edition: First printing, the trade paperback issue.
Sacramento, CA: Lookout Press, (1993). First edition - "In love, In trouble. In terror." A frank and powerful novel on dealing with AIDS written for high school students. 198 pp. ISBN: 1-882405013.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (interesting gift inscription on the first page - from a great grandmother - who hopes that her great-grandchildren will read and learn from this book, and that they will loan it to teachers or others).
Book ID: 66345More details Price: $12.00 -
SAVING THE WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which goes back and forth between two centuries - from the fight against AIDS in the modern Dominican Republic to the 1803 smallpox expedition of Francisco Xavier Balmis. INSCRIBED on the title page "for Mary" with a drawing of a heart and dated in the year of publication. 368 pp. ISBN: 156512510x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64330More details Price: $30.00 -
TOUCH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American writer's second novel, third book. A woman who is an artist supports herself by working for a telephone crisis line. INSCRIBED on the title page. "To -- thank you for the wonderful work that you do." 214 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0169257.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 64238More details Price: $28.50 -
PEOPLE WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE / LES GENS PEU ORDINAIRES.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: Viking Press, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of full page black and white photographs of more than one hundred Canadians who have excelled in the arts, as entrepreneurs, as athletes and more - including Leonard Cohen, Wayne Gretzky, k.d. lang, Yousouf Karsh and many others. A bilingual edition with brief introductions to each person in both English and French. A project of the Photographers and Friends United Against Aids. List of photographers with notes on each. Large format, approx 9 1/2 inches by 12 inches. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-670-864757.
Condition: Very good+ in very good+ dust jacket (a bit of shelfwear, remainder dot on bottom edge, but otherwise a clean, tight copy)
Book ID: 60186More details Price: $25.00 -
THERE IS NO ME WITHOUT YOU: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bloomsbury, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Haregewoin Teffera of Ethiopa, whose Addis Ababa home became an unofficial orphanage and day school for the children left bereft by the AIDS crisis. Illustrated with color photographs. ISBN: 1596911166.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 59120More details Price: $15.00