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FISH TALES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Michigan-raised author, one in which the protagonist - a 32 year old woman named Lewis Jones - bounces back and forth between New York City and Detroit in a world full of champagne and cocaine, weird sex, despair and hysteria, recounted in Jones' savagely witty voice. Championed by Gayl Jones, one of Toni Morrison's earlier authors at Random House, this was one of the last books edited by Morrison before she left to become a full-time writer. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-394532945.
Condition: Fine in light green boards with a blue cloth spine, gilt lettering in a very good dust jacket (short closed tear on front cover, small nick at top of spine, original price of 13.95 on dj flap)
Book ID: 87794More details Price: $175.00 -
D E A T H W E A R S A R E D H A T .
Edition: First printing.
K a n s a s C i t y: A n d r e w s a n d M c M e e l , I n c . , (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Father Koesler mystery, set in Detroit, Michigan. 3 0 4 p. ISBN: 0-8362-61119.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (closed tear to lower edge of dj.)
Book ID: 47035More details Price: $15.00 -
OUT OF THE MADNESS: From the Projects to a LIfe of Hope
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, 1994. First edition - A memoir of growing up in the housing projects of west Dallas, among the drug dealers and the abandoned apartments, with a mother who was addicted to heroin.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 20255More details Price: $15.00 -
WAITING FOR THE NEWS.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, set in Detroit between 1938-1943 against the background of the Nazi advance across Europe. The story of a labor organizer whose life is first threatened, and then he is murdered. Inspired by the life of Isaac Litwak, his father, a union leader. Boldly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to "Ann and Abe... friends of my Dad and Ma." An uncommon signature. Cover praise from Herbert Gold and others. 312 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a very good minus dust jacket (tear to back cover of dj, some scratching and toning, now protected by an archival cover).
Book ID: 84168More details Price: $40.00 -
HER.
Edition: Original edition, the trade paperback issue.
San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, (1990). Novel set in Detroit in the 1950s and 1960s, where many Black men and women have come north to work the line at the Ford Motor plant. This focuses on the many and varied relationships between these Black women, their struggles and how the support each other. 179 pp plus a 2 pp glossary. ISBN: 1-879960028.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83389More details Price: $14.50 -
THE RISE OF LIFE ON EARTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: New Directions, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon short novel by Oates, one set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the 1960s and 1970s, and which draws us into the secret life of a nurse's aide, overworked, underpaid and quietly overzealous. 135 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-11711.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53659More details Price: $17.50
