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IMAGINE THE ANGELS OF BREAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth collection of poems by this highly praised, Brooklyn-born, Puerto Rican poet - included are a series of autobiographical poems, and others about political persecution and transcendance. The final long poem in the book 'Hands Without Irons Become Dragonflies" was written as an elegy for the Puerto Rican poet and nationalist Clemente Soto Velez. Winner of the American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. 107 pp. ISBN: 0-393039161.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (as new)
Book ID: 88510More details Price: $21.50 -
THE RED MAGICIAN
Edition: First hardcover printing.
New York: TOR, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Author's first book, originally published in paperback only in 1982, Winner of the American Book Award, and called both a masterpiece of fantasy literature and a notable book about the Holocaust. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-312-854625.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 5830More details Price: $40.00 -
THE LAST PARADISE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1998). Novel set in Hawaii, where Travis Doyle, a Vietnam vet and insurance claims adjuster, has been sent to investigate a fire at the site of geothermal evacuations near an active volcano. Winner of the 1999 American Book Award. The second volume in the Literature of the American West series. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-806132906.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72511More details Price: $12.50 -
THE LAST PARADISE.
Edition: First printing.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in Hawaii, where Travis Doyle, a Vietnam vet and insurance claims adjuster, has been sent to investigate a fire at the site of geothermal evacuations near an active volcano. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the 1999 American Book Award. The second volume in the Literature of the American West series. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-806130334.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (some sunning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 72877More details Price: $30.00 -
WODE SHUOFA (My Way of Speaking)
Edition: First printing.
Santa Fe: Tooth of Time Books, 1988. SIGNED first edition - Chinese-American poet's uncommon - and quite wonderful - first collection, issued in an edition of only 750 copies. INSCRIBED at the back (opposite her photograph) "to -- - thank you for your interest." and dated in 1990. American Book Award winner 1989. Notes. 71 pp. Cover drawing by Elizabeth Ennis. ISBN: 0-940510-154.
Condition: Fine in stiff black illustrated wrappers
Book ID: 53540More details Price: $40.00 -
THE GREEN RIPPER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Lippincott, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 18th Travis McGee novel. Won the American Book Award for Best Mystery of 1979. ISBN: 0-397-013620.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 12460More details Price: $20.00 -
PIE-BITER.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Design Enterprises of San Francisco. (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Based on the true story of a young boy, brought from China to work on building the trans-continental railroad, who grew from a skinny boy to a strong man by eating lots of pies, and thus earned the nickname Pie-Biter. When work on the railroads was finished, he learned how to run a pack-horse business, and after 15 years as a successful businessman in the Northwest, he finally returned to China INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by McCunn "For.... may you have the strength, ingenuity and humor of Pie-Biter - but not the appetite!" Illustrated by You-Shang Tang using a combination of Chinese and Western art techniques. American Book Award winner 1984. Oval format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-932538096.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards (prev owner's name) in a very good- dustjacket with a gold award sticker on the front cover.
Book ID: 37210More details Price: $30.00 -
BRUISED HIBISCUS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Armistad Press, 1994. First edition - Author's second book - a novel set in her native Trinidad, in the 1950s. Based on actual events, this is the story of two women, once childhood friends, who are reunited when the body of a murdered white woman is pulled from the sea. 312 pp plus author's notes. Despite the fact that this advance issue was produced, Amistad never actually published this novel. In 2000, it was finally published by Seal Press (now described as her third novel) - and won the American Book Award!
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 11858More details Price: $20.00 -
BRUISED HIBISCUS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Seattle: Seal Press, 2000. First edition - Author's second book, but her third to be published - a novel set in her native Trinidad, in the 1950s. Based on actual events, this is the story of two women, once childhood friends, who are reunited when the body of a murdered white woman is pulled from the sea. 288 pp plus author's notes. Winner of the American Book Award.
Condition: Very near fine illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 64740More details Price: $20.00 -
BRUISED HIBISCUS.
Edition: First printing.
Seattle: Seal Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, but her third to be published - a novel set in her native Trinidad, in the 1950s. Based on actual events, this is the story of two women, once childhood friends, who are reunited when the body of a murdered white woman is pulled from the sea. 286 pp plus author's notes and publisher's ad. Winner of the American Book Award. ISBN: 1580050360.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64783More details Price: $21.50 -
MY YEAR OF MEATS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The debut novel from this independent filmmaker features Jane Tagaki-Little, a struggling filmmaker in New York, who is given her big break - a chance to travel through the United States to produce a Japanese television program sponsored by American meat exporters. SIGNED on the title page. Dustjacket praise from Arthur Golden ("Romance, agri-business,self-discovery, cross-cultural misunderstanding - it takes a talent like Ruth Ozeki's to blend all these together") and John Sayles. Winner of the American Book Award and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for fiction. Bibliography, notes, 366 pp. ISBN: 0-670-879045.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60358More details Price: $40.00 -
BEYOND DESERVING
Edition: First printing.
New York: Permanent Press, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, short-listed for the National Book Award and winner of the American Book Award in 1992. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 1-877946-079.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket..
Book ID: 7504More details Price: $45.00 -
BEYOND DESERVING
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Permanent Press, 1991. Author's second novel, short-listed for the National Book Award and winner of the American Book Award in 1992. ISBN: 1-877946-07-9.
Condition: Good condition.
Book ID: 16483More details Price: $9.00 -
BEYOND DESERVING
Edition: First printing.
New York: Permanent Press, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, short-listed for the National Book Award and winner of the American Book Award in 1992. ISBN: 1-877946-07-9.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 16514More details Price: $22.00 -
SOMETIMES THE SOUL: Two Novellas of Sicily.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Vintage Books, (1999). Winner of an American Book Award from the before Columbus Foundation. A novel about " two young women and the transformative power of art. . . a baroness locks herself up in the Green Palace, only to have her seclusion interrupted by a parrot that flies through the window. When a sailor arrives to retrieve his companion, the young man and his pet delight her with three inspiring stories, while an unscrupulous suitor schemes to lure her out of her house and into his arms." 183 pp. ISBN: 0-375-707220.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61297More details Price: $11.50 -
INCOGNEGRO: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Cambridge, MA: South End Press, (2008). First edition - An account by this award-winning writer, poet, activist and filmmaker of the five years he spent in South Africa and after his return to the United States. Winner of the American Book Award. "Fast-paced, critical, humorous, hilarious at times, 'Incognegro' asks provocative questions about post-Apartheid South Africa and post-civil rights America with all the passion, the drama, and the political clarity of a great autobiography. . .. a multi-layered narrative of a life molded in struggles for human dignity in America and Africa, at once a gripping story of racial politics and a biography of his soul." (Ngugi wa Thiong'o) 489 pp. ISBN: 0-896087832.
Condition: Near fine in glossy black illustrated wrappers with self flaps (minor soiling to outside of textblock).
Book ID: 90265More details Price: $24.50