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  • THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2002. by [Anthology, signed] Gould, Stephen Jay, editor; Bernard Cooper and Barbara Ehrenreich, signed.
    [Anthology, signed] Gould, Stephen Jay, editor; Bernard Cooper and Barbara Ehrenreich, signed.
    THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2002.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by TWO authors: Bernard Cooper at his essay "Winner Take Nothing" about his relationship with his father after he won the Hemingway award and Barbara Ehrenreich at "Welcome to Cancerland." Includes contributions by Jacques Barzun, Sebastian Junger, Darryl Pinckney, Richard Price, Gore Vidal, Mario Vargas Llosa and others. Introduction by Gould and brief biographies of the contributors. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-9283.

    Condition: Very near fine.

    Book ID: 62975
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  • THE ROMANCE OF ELSEWHERE. by Freed, Lynn.
    Freed, Lynn.
    THE ROMANCE OF ELSEWHERE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of sometime provocative and always entertaining essays, primarily on traveling and writing, but also on aging (and writing), growing up in South Africa under apartheid, marriage, and much more. SIGNED on the title page. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1619029279.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 71535
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  • THE ROMANCE OF ELSEWHERE. by Freed, Lynn.
    Freed, Lynn.
    THE ROMANCE OF ELSEWHERE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of sometime provocative and always entertaining essays, primarily on traveling and writing, but also on aging (and writing), growing up in South Africa under apartheid, marriage, and much more. INSCRIBED on the title page. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1619029279.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 71536
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  • LIFE BEFORE DEATH. by Frucht, Abby
    Frucht, Abby
    LIFE BEFORE DEATH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's fourth novel (fifth book), SIGNED on the title page. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-684-83507X.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 61513
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  • Knef, Hildegard.
    THE VERDICT.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiographical work in which this actress and writer describes the events following 'the verdict' - that she has breast cancer - and also gives glimpses of her life in the past. Translated from the German by David Anthony Palastanga. ISBN: 0374283222.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 16036
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  • HAD SHE BUT KNOWN: A Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart. by MacLeod, Charlotte.
    MacLeod, Charlotte.
    HAD SHE BUT KNOWN: A Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Mysterious Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of America's first best-selling suspense novelist and playwright, from her years as a student nurse, as a World War I correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, her life as the wife as a doctor to a socialite with an oppulent lifestyle that even her income had trouble supporting. She went to Washington to champion the rights of the Blackfeet Indians, and she was one of the first to write candidly about her experiences with breast cancer. Photographs, bibliography. xii, 335 pp. ISBN: 0-892964448.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 67965
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  • ICE BOUND: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole. by Nielsen, Dr. Jerri with Maryanne Vollers.
    Nielsen, Dr. Jerri with Maryanne Vollers.
    ICE BOUND: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole.

    Edition: Later printing.

    New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The true of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the physician stranded at a South Pole research station who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer until she could be airlifted out several months later. In addition, though, this is a book about the wonders of Antarctica and of the difficulties encountered by the scientists and researchers there. Boldly INSCRIBED on the title by Nielsen. Map, photographs. xvi, 362 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66845.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (the pen used in signing scored the title page.)

    Book ID: 55025
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  • ICE BOUND: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole. by Nielsen, Dr. Jerry (with Maryanne Vollers.)
    Nielsen, Dr. Jerry (with Maryanne Vollers.)
    ICE BOUND: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Neilsen was the physician at the Admundsen-Scott South Pole Station when she discovered a lump in her breast after the ice had set in, isolating the station from any help. This is her account of how she treated herself, of the support of the other members, and finally was air-lifted out in a dangerous rescue flight. Illustrated with photograhs. 362 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66845.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 42533
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