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THE IMPOSSIBLE KNIFE OF MEMORY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Viking, (2014). SIGNED first edition - Young adult novel by this award-winning writer, about a young girl trying to deal with her own anger and fears and to combat the demons that are haunting her father. SIGNED on the title page. 371 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61163More details Price: $24.50 -
THE IMPOSSIBLE KNIFE OF MEMORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2014) dj. SIGNED first edition - Young adult novel by this award-winning writer, about a young girl trying to deal with her own anger and fears and to combat the demons that are haunting her father. SIGNED on the half title page. 391 pp. ISBN: 978-0670012091.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69285More details Price: $25.00 -
CONCERNING CASEY.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Julian Messner, (1958) dj. Hardcover - "The trouble with Casey was that she loved her family so much, she was more concerned with their problems than her own." A coming of age story about a 17 year old girl in a large and loving family. 190 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (long closed tear on front cover of dj).
Book ID: 67276More details Price: $12.00 -
CHEROKEE BAT AND THE GOAT GUYS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Her third book, a coming of age story for young adults or older children. SIGNED on the title page. 116 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0202696.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 57288More details Price: $20.00 -
NO MORE REUNIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a coming-of-age story set in the 1940s. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-525168052.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 71082More details Price: $17.50 -
NO MORE REUNIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a coming-of-age story set in the 1940s. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-525168052.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 66991More details Price: $15.00 -
TUPELO NIGHTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Louisiana born author's first novel - a small-town, coming-of-age story with some wicked and humorous twists. John Fowles called it "a vividly imagined and sad-voiced novel of the sour end of the American dream." SIGNED on the front endpaper. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-1757.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.(appears unread but with a remainder line on bottom edge)
Book ID: 64962More details Price: $30.00 -
TUPELO NIGHTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Louisiana born author's first novel - a small-town, coming-of-age story with some wicked and humorous twists. John Fowles called it "a vividly imagined and sad-voiced novel of the sour end of the American dream." 239 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-1757.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 16862More details Price: $17.50 -
SOLEMN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by this award winning African American writer, a coming of age story which focuses on Solemn Redvine, as well as life in the small Mississippi town of Bledsoe. "Solemn's life changes when a baby who could be her half-sibling is born to her neighbor Pearletta Hassle, and she sees Pearletta's husband throw the baby into a well. The plot becomes more complicated when Pearletta disappears and Earl Redvine, Solemn's father, commits a robbery, landing Solemn in a group home. . . This standout novel is anchored by its vulnerable and brave heroine." (Publisher's Weekly) 296 pp. ISBN: 978-1250091598.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 78444More details Price: $18.50 -
THE JEALOUS KIND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A coming-of-age story set in 1952 Texas - in Galveston and Houston - a story of class warfare, of Mob control, and of first love, set in an era while the Korean War was raging. SIGNED on the title page. 382 pp. ISBN: 978-1501107207.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 81666More details Price: $40.00 -
MONKEY BRIDGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the coming-of-age story of a young girl who left Vietnam with her family in 1975, just before the fall of Saigon, and began life with her family in Maryland - and also the story of her mother, whose journey began in a rural village to a convent school and to life in Saigon with her wealthy husband - and then to a grocery store in Maryland. SIGNED on the title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-670873675.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81827More details Price: $28.50 -
SORORITY REBEL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1958.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Interesting picture of a time when women's roles were just beginning to questioned in the US. A young girl from a small town goes to a large public university, and participates in the sorority rush, even as she questions whether or not she wants her ability to choose her own life constrained by the expectations of being a Gamma. 158 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (some biopredation to the folds and edges of the dj, rear flap separating, but it is still quite attractive and protected now by a new archival cover.).
Book ID: 54810More details Price: $40.00 -
A YEAR OF RHYMES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1993). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first novel, second book, set in 1950s southern California. A coming of age story in which Burt has to come to terms both with his own attraction to men and his older brother's slow death from leukemia. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Annie Dillard, Amy Hempel, Paul Monette and others. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-670847321.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82583More details Price: $30.00 -
GOD'S MOUNTAIN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Riverhead Books, (2002). First edition - Translated from Italian by Michael Moore. The first book by this author to be published in the US, it is the story of a thirteen year old boy who lives in Montedidio (God's Mountains) in Naples in 1960. It is a year of discovery when he begins to become a man, has his first crush while working in a carpentry workshop. 168 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61305More details Price: $13.50 -
FIREBIRD: A Memoir.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (1999). First edition - An account of his childhood and his coming of age by this award-winning poet. 198 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in printed yellow wrappers (appears unread, but the ink of the title is smeared, a printing flaw.)
Book ID: 70438More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LOVE WE ALL WAIT FOR.
Edition: First printing.
Walnut Creek, CA: Komenar, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in California's Salinas Valley in 1975, where 17 year old Sheila finds her world changing at an overwhelming pace. SIGNED by the author and dated in the year of publication. 286 pp. ISBN: 9780981727103.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63430More details Price: $30.00 -
A TOUCH OF INNOCENCE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1959.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Noted African American dancer's memoir (written in the third person) of her childhood in the Midwest. Her second book, and quite uncommon in the first edition, especially in this condition. 312 pp. Dust jacket design by Jules Maidoff.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dust jacket (minor chipping to the ends of the dj spine, one short closed tear on the back cover, soiling to white background of dj.)
Book ID: 56788More details Price: $85.00 -
CADY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Because his mother had died during childbirth and his father disappeared afterwards, 12-year-old Cady was shuffled from relative to relative for all of his life. After the death of his grandmother, when he was caught up in a flooded river and presumed dead, he took things in his own hands and went to the home of a cousin - still almost a child herself - and from there he was sent to stay on an old farm, where he was gradually able to build a world with people who cared about him. Illustrated with drawings by Janet Wentworth. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-060217928.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (spine cocked, upper corner of dj flap clipped, but price still present in lower corner)
Book ID: 82944More details Price: $17.50 -
CANADA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press/ Harper Collins, (1912) dj. Hardcover first edition - "First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." Gripping novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author. 420 pp. ISBN: 978-0061692048.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62865More details Price: $18.00 -
CANADA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press/ Harper Collins, (1912) dj. Hardcover first edition - "First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." Gripping novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author. 420 pp. ISBN: 978-0061692048.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (a new copy but with a remainder dot)
Book ID: 71941More details Price: $17.50 -
WATERBOYS.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Mercury House, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story set in the 1960s in New York City - "A well-written, finely tuned first novel about coming of age in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in the 1960s. . . . Gabriel is a subtle writer - especially in his understanding of Matthew's prepubescent sexuality - and his characters catch at your heart and take hold." (Kirkus) SIGNED on the half title page and dated in San Francisco in the year of publication. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-916515-540.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (usual light toning to the pages, rem dot, a bit of wear to the ends of the dj spine) Books signed by Eric Gabriel Lehman are quite uncommon.
Book ID: 62798More details Price: $45.00 -
WATERBOYS.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Mercury House, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story set in the 1960s in New York City - "A well-written, finely tuned first novel about coming of age in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in the 1960s. . . . Gabriel is a subtle writer - especially in his understanding of Matthew's prepubescent sexuality - and his characters catch at your heart and take hold." (Kirkus) 234 pp. ISBN: 0-916515-540.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (rubbing and slight edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 76156More details Price: $16.50 -
VISIBLE AMAZEMENT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1999.). First edition - First novel by this Canadian (although born in New Zealand) writer and actress - the story a very precocious 14 year old girl's journey of discovery - from Eugene, Oregon to Malibu and more -
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 31564More details Price: $15.00 -
THE BOY WHO WENT AWAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's "darkly funny" first novel, set in the summer of 1967, this is the story of an adolescent boy struggling to find suburban normality, despite a philandering mother, a father driven to drink and an autistic brother. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-312150709.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78943More details Price: $15.00 -
HELM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stirring adventure of a young man's difficult coming-of-age on a lost colony planet. Third novel by one of the best of the young science fiction writers. SIGNED on the title page. 383 pp. Dust jacket art by Jim Burns. ISBN: 0-312-864604.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56421More details Price: $35.00 -
MARSBOUND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A young girl and her family are selected by lottery to be among those going on an expedition to Mars. A coming of age novel set on the frontiers of space. SIGNED on the title page. 296 pp. ISBN: 9780441015955.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 51269More details Price: $30.00 -
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FLOOD: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, 11 interconnected stories that follow the coming to age of a young woman living in rural small town Minnesota in the 1960s - at the same time as her family is disintegrating, from poverty, drugs and alcohol, and their house is literally sinking, Dustjacket praise from Kay Gibbons, Richard Russo (who described it as " like finding a hot slot machine in a casino. One winner after another") and Mark Childress, 212 pp. ISBN: 0-375-413936.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 67501More details Price: $17.50 -
GIRL IN THE BLUE COAT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67766More details Price: $16.50 -
SATISFIED WITH NOTHIN'
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story which powerfully portrays the African American male experience. It starts in rural 1970s Louisiana where Jamie Ray Griffin is attending the newly integrated high school and chronicles Jamie Ray Griffin's difficult journey from naive teen to football star to cynical adult. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-684822598.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57723More details Price: $30.00 -
SATISFIED WITH NOTHIN'
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story which powerfully portrays the African American male experience. It starts in rural 1970s Louisiana where Jamie Ray Griffin is attending the newly integrated high school and chronicles Jamie Ray Griffin's difficult journey from naive teen to football star to cynical adult. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-684822598.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57166More details Price: $18.00
