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THE 49 DAYS OF DEATH.
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather than a suspense novel, which Ballinger was best known for, this is a "novel of the mysterious." A badly injured man is brought to a Buddhist monastery in Tibet and the aged guru there helps him to prepare for as good a death as he can. 214 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64575More details Price: $18.00 -
THE GIFTS OF THE BODY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Stories, both moving and imbued with an understanding of death, narrated by an unnamed home care worker who assists people dying with AIDS. SIGNED on the title page. 165 pp. ISBN: 0-060171596.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67543More details Price: $27.50 -
THE GIFTS OF THE BODY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Stories, both moving and imbued with an understanding of death, narrated by an unnamed home care worker who assists people dying with AIDS. 165 pp. ISBN: 0-060171596.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76160More details Price: $16.50 -
BLUE NIGHTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book in which Didion reflects on the loss of her daughter, Quintana Roo, not long after the death of her husband, and on the memories woven into her life with Dunne and Quintana - of Quintana's childhood in Malibu and Brentwood, and of her wedding, just 7 years before this book opens. 188 pp. ISBN: 978-0307267672.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86846More details Price: $40.00 -
YOU DON'T MISS YOUR WATER: Poems
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Henry Holt, (1995). First edition - The author's fifth collection, a slim book of 21 prose poems, in which he meditates on the dying of his cold and unloving father. 33 pp. ISBN: 0-805036687.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82511More details Price: $15.00 -
BLUE SKIES FALLING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Sam Bonner is on a journey.He and his young wife, Sara, are traveling through the Southwest, visiting the sights that Sam himself immortalized as one of Hollywood's premier directors of a genre of film that captured a generation of viewers: the Western. There was a day when Sam ruled the industry, and death was but a far-off rumor" - but now the films are fading, and the end Sara is facing is coming inexorably closer. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-31287779X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 63885More details Price: $16.50 -
SILVIE'S LIFE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Berkeley, CA: Zenobia Press (1995). SIGNED first edition - A moving account of life with a new born baby, born profoundly brain-damaged, who was first given only days to live - but who survived seven months. INSCRIBED on title page, smaller size, 132 pp. ISBN: 1-57143-0458.
Condition: Just about fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61319More details Price: $21.50 -
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 -
A RECKONING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sarton's 16th novel, the story of a woman with inoperable cancer who wants only to be allowed to die in her own way, and realizes that it is the 'real connections' which matter most in these last days. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-393-088286.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant, pc)
Book ID: 2152More details Price: $20.00 -
A RECKONING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sarton's 16th novel, the story of a woman with inoperable cancer who wants only to be allowed to die in her own way, and realizes that it is the 'real connections' which matter most in these last days. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-393-088286.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (few light foxing spots on half title page and fore-edge.)
Book ID: 35652More details Price: $25.00 -
A RECKONING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sarton's 16th novel, the story of a woman with inoperable cancer who wants only to be allowed to die in her own way, and realizes that it is the 'real connections' which matter most in these last days. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-393-088286.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36085More details Price: $30.00 -
A RECKONING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, (1978.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sarton's 16th novel, the story of a woman with inoperable cancer who wants only to be allowed to die in her own way, and realizes that it is the 'real connections' which matter most in these last days. INSCRIBED on the half title page "For . . . love from May" and dated in 1983. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-393-088286.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (one corner and upper edge bumped slightly, some light soiling and wear to the dj, now in an archival protector.)
Book ID: 49396More details Price: $45.00 -
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
