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THE TIME OF THEIR DYING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1977 dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the death of both of his parents, of cancer, within a few months of each other. ISBN: 0-393-087719.
Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 17707More details Price: $15.00 -
THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new, but with a remainder dot.)
Book ID: 66293More details Price: $15.00 -
SOMEBODY UP THERE HATES YOU.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2013. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book for young adults. "Smart-mouthed and funny, sometimes raunchy, Richard Casey is in most ways a typical seventeen-year-old boy. Except Ritchie has cancer, and he s spending his final days in a hospice unit." 238 pp. ISBN: 1616202602.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 58548More details Price: $18.00 -
ILLNESS AS METAPHOR and AIDS AND ITS METAPHORS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, (1989). The first publication of these two essays in one paperback volume - the first "Illness as Metaphor" was written in 1978 when Sontag was recovering from cancer; the second was written in 1989 to counter the labeling of AIDS as a plague. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-385267053.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 83415More details Price: $11.50 -
EDEN.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grove Press, (2002). First edition - The author's first novel, a story of a young black girl in the Deep South who comes to confront the realities of sex, race, disease, and the brutal finality of death, as she watches her tough, strong-minded aunt waste away. 263 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed white wrappers.
Book ID: 63473More details Price: $20.00 -
WHEN YOU WERE HERE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). First edition - A young adult novel which "explores the two most powerful forces known to man - death and love. . . Danny's mother lost her battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation - the one day that she was hanging on to see. Now Danny is left alone. . When he gets a letter from his mom's property manager in Tokyo, where she had been going for treatment, it shows a side of a side of his mother he never knew. So, with no other sense of direction, Danny travels to Tokyo to connect with his mother's memory and make sense of her final months."
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (some toning to the pages).
Book ID: 88008More details Price: $18.00