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CONJUNCTIONS 14.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
New York: Collier Macmillan. (1989.). SIGNED first edition - A bi-annual journal of new writing. SIGNED by THREE authors: Jamaica Kincaid at her story "Ovando"; Peter Straub at an excerpt from his forthcoming novel 'Mrs God' and Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge at the poem 'Irises.' This issue includes contributions by Salman Rushdie, Walter Abish, Barbara Guest, John Edgar Wideman, William Vollman, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Peter Straub, Gary Indiana, Patrick McGrath and more. Notes on contributors. 287 pp plus advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 0-02-0352905.
Condition: Near fine in stiff wrappers.
Book ID: 57484More details Price: $50.00 -
WHAT LIES BETWEEN US.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (2016). SIGNED first edition - Second book by this award winning author, who was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Nigeria, and is now living in California - a story of a woman driven by the demons of her past. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 305 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67208More details Price: $30.00 -
WHAT LIES BETWEEN US.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book by this award winning author, who was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Nigeria, and is now living in California - a story of a woman driven by the demons of her past. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-1250043948.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 77740More details Price: $18.50 -
WHAT LIES BETWEEN US.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second book by this award winning author, who was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Nigeria, and is now living in California - a story of a woman driven by the demons of her past. INSCRIBED on the title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-1250043948.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88393More details Price: $30.00 -
THE EAGLES OF HEART MOUNTAIN: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. Publisher's letter laid in.
Book ID: 84746More details Price: $21.50 -
THE NECESSARY HUNGER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this author of Japanese and Polish ancestry who grew up in Tokyo and Los Angeles. The story centers on two high school women's basketball stars, one Japanese American, one African American, who are both intense rivals and friends. When their parents move in together, their relationship becomes even more complicated. 365 pp. ISBN: 0-312-181426.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73311More details Price: $20.00 -
THE NECESSARY HUNGER.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: St Martin's / Stonewall Inn, (1998.). SIGNED - The first novel by this author of Japanese and Polish ancestry who grew up in Tokyo and Los Angeles. The story centers on two high school women's basketball stars, one Japanese American, one African American, who are both intense rivals and friends. When their parents move in together, their relationship becomes even more complicated. SIGNED on the title page. 365 pp. ISBN: 0-312-181426.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 54227More details Price: $20.00 -
WATER GHOSTS (original title Locke, 1928.)
Edition: First hardcover edition.
New York: Penguin, 2009. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, originally published in trade paperback only by a small press. Set in the Chinese town of Locke, in the Sacramento delta of California in 1928. Author's notes. SIGNED on the title page. 259 pp. ISBN: 978159420270.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 67214More details Price: $30.00 -
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 -
THE MOON LADY
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Tan's first book for children, adapted from her novel "The Joy Luck Club" illustrated in gorgeous full color by Gretchen Shields. SIGNED by Tan on the title page. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-02-788304.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 8100More details Price: $65.00 -
WALKING THE TWILIGHT II: Women Writers of the Southwest.
Edition: First printing, a large square trade paperback.
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing, (1996.). First edition - Contributions from 25 women, edited and with an introduction by Wilder. Among the authors are Paula Gunn Allen, Denise Chavez, Pam Houston, Demetria Martinez, Mary Sojourner, Yoshiko Uchida, Terry Tempest Williams, Melissa Pritchard and seventeen others. A brief biographical note precedes each piece. x, 245 pp. ISBN: 0-87358-6484.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56436More details Price: $20.00 -
WILD MEAT AND THE BULLY BURGERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel (second book) by this highly praised young Hawaiian writer, set on the big island of Hawai'i. 277 pp. Small square format. ISBN: 0-374-290202.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 46975More details Price: $18.00 -
SWORDBIRD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - First book - and first in a trilogy - by this young author, who was born in China, came to the US with her parents at age 7, and wrote this just a few years later to give a message of peace to the world. Illustrated. 219 pp. ISBN: 978-0061243356.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64697More details Price: $13.50 -
SWORDBIRD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2007). First edition - First book - and first in a trilogy - by this young author, who was born in China, came to the US with her parents at age 7, and wrote this just a few years later to give a message of peace to the world. Illustrated. 219 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78271More details Price: $12.50