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WHEN DID YOU STOP LOVING ME?
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, (2004). SIGNED first edition - African American author's first novel - third book - a coming-of-age story set in 1970s Brooklyn. One day Angela goes to school and returns home to find her mother gone and her magician father, Teddo, left to raise Angela alone. One reviewer noted that "Chambers paints a vivid image of the political and socio-economic climate of New York in the early 1980s. The most entertaining and heartfelt scenes of this novel come when Angela describes her parents' riveting admiration for Assata Shakur's escape from prison, or her father's sense of pure joy at meeting Muhammad Ali after performing at a PBS telethon to benefit the United Negro College Fund." SIGNED on the title page. 195 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88681More details Price: $28.50 -
THE ARTFUL DODGERS
Edition: New Revised Edition.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1963). Hardcover - A title in The Big League Baseball Library. Includes chapters on Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Gil Hodges and more, and ends begins and ends with a chapters on the move to California- "The Great Trek" and "After Ebbets Field". x, 194 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards.
Book ID: 81414More details Price: $15.00 -
ORACLE NIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His eleventh novel. Covering a period of just 9 days, in Brooklyn in 1982, this is a meditation on the nature of time - but also a book which can be described as 'reading like an old-fashioned ghost story.' SIGNED on the title page. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-73205.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81028More details Price: $50.00 -
BROOKLAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, set in 18th century Brooklyn, this is the story of "a determined and intelligent woman who is consumed by a vision of a bridge: a gargantuan construction of timber and masonry she devises to cross the East River in a single, magnificent span." SIGNED on the illustrated title page and dated 4/30/06, in the year of publication. 478 pp. ISBN: 0-374116903.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 80767More details Price: $40.00 -
GIRL IN TRANSLATION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story about "an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings." Kwok herself immigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, and worked with her family in a sweatshop. 290 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487569.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78825More details Price: $18.50 -
DAY OF ATONEMENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th mystery featuring Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker and his Orthodox Jewish wife, Rina Lazarus. SIGNED on the title page. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-688-086047.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75500More details Price: $28.50 -
STEELWORK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - "Like a series of snapshops, this novel presents a picture of a particular Brooklyn neighborhood between the years 1935 and 1951, covering the Depression, World War II, the beginnings of the Cold War, and the Korean War." 177 pp. ISBN: 0-394447107.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (usual sunning to the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 74620More details Price: $24.50 -
VISITATION STREET.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2013). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, a "riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook. ItÕs summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see. And then they disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore; semi-conscious in the weeds." Printed letter from Dennis Lehane bound in. SIGNED on the title page. 304 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72630More details Price: $35.00 -
DEAD IN THE WATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - "Photographer Lydia McKenzie is taking portraits of prostitutes on the waterfront of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, when her art project takes a deadly turn. She discovers the body of Glenda, the star of her series, floating in the East River." 259 pp. ISBN: 978-0312625047.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69105More details Price: $15.00 -
LEVINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1984). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of six novellas - most written between 1959-1964, but including one first published in this book- which examine the life of a Brooklyn cop. SIGNED on the title page. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-0639.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68682More details Price: $28.50 -
WHERE NOBODY DIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Brooklyn defense attorney Cass Jameson (the first in the series was nominated for an Edgar). 277 pp. ISBN: 0-312-86700x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, some rubbing to edges of dj)
Book ID: 66510More details Price: $16.50 -
SWORN TO DEFEND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth mystery featuring Brooklyn defense attorney Cass Jameson. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-425-163032.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66509More details Price: $16.50 -
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1994. First edition - Author's fourth novel, one which reveals her own brand of Southern humor as she follows her heroine from her girlhood in South Carolina and all the romantic detours in betwen.. 520 pp. Publisher's material laid in.
Condition: Very good in glossy yellow wrappers - indentation in middle of front cover, affecting the first few pages.
Book ID: 63956More details Price: $14.50 -
FRESH KILLS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Brooklyn defense attorney Cass Jameson. SIGNED on the title page. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-425-147851.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63550More details Price: $30.00 -
MEAN STREAK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring Brooklyn defense attorney Cass Jameson. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-425-153177.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62390More details Price: $16.50 -
THE SUNLIT FIELD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (1950.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of two young Irish immigrants who arrived in 1850s Brooklyn. The young man is involved in the rivalry of some of the legendary early baseball clubs of Brooklyn, the Atlantics and the Excelsiors. Kennedy's first novel (although preceded by award winning plays and short stories), which has been credited as the first with a baseball theme to be written for adults by a woman author. 333 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a tiny bit of bumping, but overall a lovely copy of this 1950s novel.
Book ID: 55511More details Price: $35.00 -
UPON THIS ROCK: The Miracle of a Black Church.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: HarperPerennial, (1994.). The story of Saint Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn New York and its controversial pastor, the Reverend Johnny Ray Youngblood, and the work it has done in the community in building affordable housing, creating a school, programs for drug addicts and more. Bibliography. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0924594.
Condition: Very good..
Book ID: 52518More details Price: $8.50 -
UPON THIS ROCK: The Miracle of a Black Church.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperCollins, (1992.). First edition - The story of Saint Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn New York and its controversial pastor, the Reverend Johnny Ray Youngblood, and the work it has done in the community in building affordable housing, creating a school, programs for drug addicts and more. Bibliography. 548 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in printed light blue wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 41791More details Price: $20.00 -
UPON THIS ROCK: The Miracle of a Black Church.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Saint Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn New York and its controversial pastor, the Reverend Johnny Ray Youngblood, and the work it has done in the community in building affordable housing, creating a school, programs for drug addicts and more. 373 pages. ISBN: 0-06-016610X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 40377More details Price: $14.50 -
THE BUILDING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a decaying apartment building in a Brooklyn slum and of its tenants - "whose minds and bodies are touched by every lunacy and perversion known to man, and some that Glynn had to invent... a rollicking nightmare of urban collapse." 371 pp. ISBN: 0-394-545826.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 35043More details Price: $20.00 -
STREET GAMES.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her rather uncommon second book, and her first work of fiction, a collection of short stories about the lives of people on one street in Brooklyn, NY. ISBN: 0-385-098979.
Condition: Very good in good only dust jacket (some wear, chips and creasing at the ends of the spine of the dj, and the corners, other wear.)
Book ID: 20835More details Price: $35.00 -
UPON THIS ROCK: The Miracle of a Black Church.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Saint Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn New York and its controversial pastor, the Reverend Johnny Ray Youngblood, and the work it has done in the community in building affordable housing, creating a school, programs for drug addicts and more. 373 pages. ISBN: 0-06-016610X.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket. (an unread copy, tight and clean.)
Book ID: 15404More details Price: $15.00 -
WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Addison-Wesley, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first book, a memoir of a childhood in two worlds - Puerto Rico where she lived until she was 13, and a Brooklyn tenement. ISBN: 0-201-581175.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (as new.)
Book ID: 14431More details Price: $35.00