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ASK: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
Tampa, FL: University of Tampa, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second collection of poems, winner of the 2003 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. It "attempts to grapple with questions of beauty, loss, damage, and redemption in the context of multiple landscapes, including the environments of abused and neglected children placed in foster care, the wilderness of the Northern California cast line, and the geography of the poet's own memory." Ruth Schwartz described it as "a stunning book, intimate with tragedy, rich with hard-earned affirmation. Worlds are laid bare, people do terrible things to one another, and the poet's gaze takes in every kind of shattering. Yet there is also a vast tenderness here." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in winter 2004. Notes. 113 pp. ISBN: 1-879852942.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 90126More details Price: $27.50 -
THE BASEMENT: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1979) dj. Hardcover - More than just an account of the horrifying, prolonged torture and murder of 16 year old Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis in 1965, this is an attempt to understand how this could happen, and how so many people could be complicit in it. 342 pp plus an appendix with black and white photographs. ISBN: 0-671-247638.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (gift inscription)
Book ID: 86787More details Price: $16.50 -
THE COLOR OF MESABI BONES.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, (1989). First edition - A collection of poems and short prose pieces about surviving a violent childhood in the decaying mining towns of the Mesabi Range in northeastern Minnesota. Illustrated with woodcut decorations by R. W. Scholes. Cover praise from Tom Clark and David St John, among others. 128 pp. plus index and final woodcut. ISBN: 0-915943409.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean.
Book ID: 81243More details Price: $14.50 -
IN PURSUIT OF HONOUR.
Edition: Limited edition, a trade paperback.
New York: Poets Alive Press, 2000. First edition - A book of poems about baseball - Humphrey was critically injured the first day of practice, ending his dreams - and child abuse (he is a counselor for abused homeless children) and disability. The final poem is for Bukowski "Maybe we'll meet at a basepark..." One of only 500 copies of the trade edition. Illustrated Small square format. 188 pp plus final comment and photograph. ISBN: 0-936641282.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79627More details Price: $18.50 -
FLYING IN PLACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's prize-winning first book - Jane Yolen called it 'the strongest and wisest novel I have ever read about the problem of child abuse... the book is impossible to read without being moved to fury and tears.' SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Crawford Award for best first fantasy novel.179 pp. ISBN: 0-312-851839.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 73536More details Price: $25.00 -
BLOODROOT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A gritty thriller set on Staten Island in New York City: college history instruction Kevin Curran attempts to help his brother stay away from heroin, but is instead dragged into an underworld plot of murder, mafia hit men and criminal espionage. Bloodroot is a fictional counterpart of the real horrors of Willowbrook. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780399155925.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62840More details Price: $17.50 -
THE BASEMENT: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - More than just an account of the horrifying, prolonged torture and murder of 16 year old Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis in 1965, this is an attempt to understand how this could happen, and how so many people could be complicit in it. 342 pp plus an appendix with black and white photographs. ISBN: 0-671-247638.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 61497More details Price: $24.50 -
THE BASKET MAKER.
Edition: First printing.
GreyCore Press, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poet's first novel, one which 'creates a world in which love, passion, abuse and the possiblity of healing all co-exist.' Set in Colorado. Very warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page and signed simply "Kate" and dated 6/20/065. Praise on back cover from Kent Haruf and others. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-9742074-03.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. Gold sticker on dust jacket that this was Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year.
Book ID: 59360More details Price: $30.00 -
BLOODROOT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A gritty thriller set on Staten Island in New York City: college history instruction Kevin Curran attempts to help his brother stay away from heroin, but is instead dragged into an underworld plot of murder, mafia hit men and criminal espionage. Bloodroot is a fictional counterpart of the real horrors of Willowbrook. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780399155925.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 55097More details Price: $35.00 -
FLYING IN PLACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's prize-winning first book - Jane Yolen called it 'the strongest and wisest novel I have ever read about the problem of child abuse... the book is impossible to read without being moved to fury and tears.' SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Crawford Award for best first fantasy novel.179 pp. ISBN: 0-312-851839.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 51277More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BASKET MAKER.
Edition: First printing.
GreyCore Press, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poet's first novel, one which 'creates a world in which love, passion, abuse and the possiblity of healing all co-exist.' Set in Colorado. SIGNED on the title page. Praise on back cover from Kent Haruf and others. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-9742074-03.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48698More details Price: $25.00 -
TALE OF A SKY-BLUE DRESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Avon, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this award-winning African American poet. Set in the 1950's this is the story of a young girl, the only child of a maid and factory worker who moved from the South to Ohio, whose sheltered childhood was shattered by a babysitter, the girl in the sky-blue dress, who took pleasure in inflicting pain. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-380-975505.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 40239More details Price: $12.50 -
BEAST.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scholastic, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning Australian author's first book for older children: the story of Jamie, who is afraid of everything - but especially of the beast who haunts the night darkness, and of Brendan, who bullies him at school. "An honest , unflinching story about the power of fear and the horror of abuse." 102 pp. ISBN: 0-590471589.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39078More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MEMORY ROOM.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2002.). First edition - The author's first novel, the story of a woman coming to terms with her long-buried memories. Cover praise from Janet Fitch who states: "In her suspenseful, poetic, mysterious, and profound novel The Memory Room, Mary Rakow addresses the big question-how do we live with our knowledge of evil? And then what do we do with this knowledge, and how can we reconcile it with an equally profound awareness of the depth of the world's beauty and the possibility of faith? Approaching these fundamental issues not as a philosopher but as an artist using a subtle poet's touch, she explores the great paradoxes of the human condition without simplification or denial." 459 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 34853More details Price: $12.00 -
COMING HOME.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: Dry Bones Press, 1996. First edition - Autobiographical account of a woman who was sexually molested as a young girl by a nun, a member of the same order as her aunt, and a visitor to her family's home - focuses on her struggle to reconcile her own desire to become a nun - to join the Poor Clares - and the conflict between her deep commitment to the spirituality of the Catholic Church and her anger in the way the situation of abuse was ignored or handled by the authorities. 82 pp. ISBN: 1-88938-252.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in glossy wrappers.
Book ID: 31430More details Price: $10.00 -
THE ENDLESS SEARCH: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at his harrowing childhood in Oklahoma in the 1930's, the abuse he suffered at the hands of a guardian, and his search for the father who abandoned him, for a home, for love and approval, by an award-winning poet and editor. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs. 303 pp. ISBN: 1-887128-522.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 30295More details Price: $30.00 -
WAVERLY PLACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A fascinating first novel by this feminist writer. Based on an actual incident this has the immediacy of a documentary - as Brownmiller says 'the day the child died, I began to write, to imagine how the couple from my neighborhood whose image flashed repeatedly across my television screen - a lawyer and a woman with a bashed-in face who had once been a writer - could have traveled the distance from people I might have known to such a nightmare.' Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-8021-10908.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 28972More details Price: $18.00 -
FLYING IN PLACE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1992.). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first book - Jane Yolen called it 'the strongest and wisest novel I have ever read about the problem of child abuse... the book is impossible to read without being moved to fury and tears.' SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Crawford Award for best first fantasy novel. 179 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (very different cover art from the final version.)
Book ID: 20229More details Price: $35.00 -
TALE OF A SKY-BLUE DRESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Avon, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this award-winning African American poet. Set in the 1950's this is the story of a young girl, the only child of a maid and factory worker who moved from the South to Ohio, whose sheltered childhood was shattered by a babysitter, the girl in the sky-blue dress, who took pleasure in inflicting pain. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-380-975505.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (a new unread copy, remainder line.)
Book ID: 14034More details Price: $15.00