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  • SLAVES IN THE FAMILY. by Ball, Edward.
    Ball, Edward.
    SLAVES IN THE FAMILY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, winner of the 1998 National Book Award. From the dj flap: this "is the story of one man's exploration of his family's slave-owning past and his search for the descendants of the people his family kept as slaves. In 1698, Elias Ball traveled from his home in Devon, England, to Charleston, Carolina to take possession of his inheritance: part of a plantation and twenty slaves. Elias and his progeny built an American dynasty that lasted six generations, acquiring more than twenty plantations along the Cooper River near Charleston, selling rice known as Carolina Gold, and enslaving close to four thousand Africans and African-Americans…

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    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, winner of the 1998 National Book Award. From the dj flap: this "is the story of one man's exploration of his family's slave-owning past and his search for the descendants of the people his family kept as slaves. In 1698, Elias Ball traveled from his home in Devon, England, to Charleston, Carolina to take possession of his inheritance: part of a plantation and twenty slaves. Elias and his progeny built an American dynasty that lasted six generations, acquiring more than twenty plantations along the Cooper River near Charleston, selling rice known as Carolina Gold, and enslaving close to four thousand Africans and African-Americans until 1865, when Union troops arrived on the lawns of Balls' estates to force emancipation. ... A nonfiction American saga that is part history, part journey of discovery. This is the story of black and white families who have lived side-by-side through three hundred years.." Illustrated with black and white photographs. Genealogy charts, notes, index. 495 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-374-265828.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 36579
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  • SLAVES IN THE FAMILY. by Ball, Edward.
    Ball, Edward.
    SLAVES IN THE FAMILY.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998.). First edition - The author's first book, winner of the 1998 National Book Award. "The story of one man's exploration of his family's slave-owning past and his search for the descendants of the people his family kept as slaves. In 1698, Elias Ball traveled from his home in Devon, England, to Charleston, Carolina to take possession of his inheritance: part of a plantation and twenty slaves. Elias and his progeny built an American dynasty that lasted six generations, acquiring more than twenty plantations along the Cooper River near Charleston, selling rice known as Carolina Gold, and enslaving close to four thousand Africans and African-Americans until 1865, when Union troops arrived on the…

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    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998.). First edition - The author's first book, winner of the 1998 National Book Award. "The story of one man's exploration of his family's slave-owning past and his search for the descendants of the people his family kept as slaves. In 1698, Elias Ball traveled from his home in Devon, England, to Charleston, Carolina to take possession of his inheritance: part of a plantation and twenty slaves. Elias and his progeny built an American dynasty that lasted six generations, acquiring more than twenty plantations along the Cooper River near Charleston, selling rice known as Carolina Gold, and enslaving close to four thousand Africans and African-Americans until 1865, when Union troops arrived on the lawns of Balls' estates to force emancipation. ... A nonfiction American saga that is part history, part journey of discovery. This is the story of black and white families who have lived side-by-side through three hundred years.." Illustrated with black and white photographs. Genealogy charts, notes, index. 489 pp.

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    Condition: Very good in printed cream colored wrappers (some creasing to the corners). A very uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 43608
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  • THE LACE READER. by Barry, Brunonia.
    Barry, Brunonia.
    THE LACE READER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: William H. Morrow, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - The author's very hard to describe first novel about a family of women from Salem, Massachusetts who can read the future in the patterns of lace. SIGNED on the title page. Author's disclaimer. 300 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 57593
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  • RARE BIRDS: An American Family. by Bessie, Dan.
    Bessie, Dan.
    RARE BIRDS: An American Family.

    Edition: First printing.

    Lexington, KY: The University Press Of Kentucky, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition - "What does a writer do when he's got a family that includes a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten, the brains behind Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man, a trio of gay puppeteers, the world's leading birdwatcher, sixties hippies, a Dutch stowaway who served in an all-black regiment during the American Civil War, a mother of unusual compassion and understanding, and a convicted murderer? He tells their stories and secrets, illuminating 150 years of American life along the way. Dan Bessie begins the journey through his family history with his great-grandfather in the cargo hold of a ship bound for New York on the storm-tossed…

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    Lexington, KY: The University Press Of Kentucky, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition - "What does a writer do when he's got a family that includes a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten, the brains behind Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man, a trio of gay puppeteers, the world's leading birdwatcher, sixties hippies, a Dutch stowaway who served in an all-black regiment during the American Civil War, a mother of unusual compassion and understanding, and a convicted murderer? He tells their stories and secrets, illuminating 150 years of American life along the way. Dan Bessie begins the journey through his family history with his great-grandfather in the cargo hold of a ship bound for New York on the storm-tossed Atlantic." An account of his family by this screenwriter and the son of blacklisted writer Alvah Bessie. Warmly INSCRIBED on half title page and dated November 30, 2000. xv, 287 pp. ISBN: 0-813121795.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 79852
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  • AVA'S MAN. by Bragg, Rick.
    Bragg, Rick.
    AVA'S MAN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Hardcover first edition - Award winning author's "evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her. Charlie Bundrum was a roofer, a carpenter, a whiskey-maker, a fisherman who knew every inch of the Coosa River, and made boats out of car hoods. He could not read, but he asked his wife, Ava, to read him the paper every day so he would not be ignorant. He was a man who took giant steps in rundown boots, a true hero whom history would otherwise have overlooked. In the decade of the Great Depression, Charlie moved his family twenty-one times, keeping…

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    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Hardcover first edition - Award winning author's "evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her. Charlie Bundrum was a roofer, a carpenter, a whiskey-maker, a fisherman who knew every inch of the Coosa River, and made boats out of car hoods. He could not read, but he asked his wife, Ava, to read him the paper every day so he would not be ignorant. He was a man who took giant steps in rundown boots, a true hero whom history would otherwise have overlooked. In the decade of the Great Depression, Charlie moved his family twenty-one times, keeping seven children one step ahead of the poverty and starvation that threatened them from every side." Frontispiece portrait. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-375410627.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83058
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  • WHAT WE HAD: A Memoir. by Chace, James.
    Chace, James.
    WHAT WE HAD: A Memoir.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Summit Books, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - More than just a memoir of the author's own life, this is the story, told in brief glimpses, of his family, frozen in time in the jazz age, while in 1931 in Fall River, Massachusetts, the mills were closing - and of the impact of Pearl Harbor, his own experiences as a student at Harvard where he agreed to be injected with mind-altering drugs as part of an experiment at a famous hospital, a brief and funny stint as a CIA agent. ISBN: 0-671-694782.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 31429
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  • TREETOPS: A Family Memoir. by Cheever, Susan.
    Cheever, Susan.
    TREETOPS: A Family Memoir.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Bantam, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of several generations of her family, including of course, her father, the writer John Cheever. Treetops was the name given to a cluster of cottages built by her grandfather and used by her family as a summer home. Photographs. Family tree on endpapers. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-553-072250.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 59337
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  • MOTT STREET: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming. by Chin, Ava.
    Chin, Ava.
    MOTT STREET: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Penguin, (2023). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning author's look at the history of one Chinese American family from breakbaking work on the transcontinental railroad through the racism of frontier towns to New York City where they established businesses, began families and struggled to survive under the shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography. xv, 369 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 87838
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  • THE LAST TRUE POETS OF THE SEA. by Drake, Julia.
    Drake, Julia.
    THE LAST TRUE POETS OF THE SEA.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Hyperion, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a young adult novel, inspired by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, about a lost shipwreck off the coast of Maine, "a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life." Boldly SIGNED on the title page and dated in September 2019, that is before publication. 391 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 80993
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  • SWEET WHISPERS, BROTHER RUSH. by Hamilton, Virginia (1936-2002)
    Hamilton, Virginia (1936-2002)
    SWEET WHISPERS, BROTHER RUSH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Philomel, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Young adult novel - a "Newbery Honor Book" and Coretta Scott King award winning book. A book which combines a real understanding of the challenges teen-agers often face with a bit of fantasy to reveal hidden secrets in the past. Hamilton won numerous awards for her books, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing (the highest international recognition bestowed on an author or illustrator of children's literature the National Book Award and several Newbery awards, in addition to being named a MacArthur fellow. INSCRIBED on the title page. 215 pp. Dust jacket design by Leo and Diane Dillon. ISBN: 0-399-208941.

    Condition: Fine in cream boards with burgundy cloth spine and silver lettering in a first issue fine dust jacket without the award stickers.

    Book ID: 84184
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  • SONS OF MISSISSIPPI: A Story of Race and Its Legacy. by Hendrickson, Paul.
    Hendrickson, Paul.
    SONS OF MISSISSIPPI: A Story of Race and Its Legacy.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the Civil Rights era and post Civil Right era and how it affected the children and grandchildren of seven Mississippi law enforcement officers who were captured in an infamous 1962 Life magazine photo portrait in a story on James Meredith's effort to integrate the University of Mississippi. Illustrated with a map and photographs. Bibliographical essay, index. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-375404619.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 64857
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  • PEARL'S SECRET: A Black Man's Search for His White Family. by Henry, Neil.
    Henry, Neil.
    PEARL'S SECRET: A Black Man's Search for His White Family.

    Edition: First printing.

    Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An autobiography and family history which "combines elements of history, investigative reporting, and personal narrative . . . Neil Henry - a black professor of journalism and former award winning correspondent for the Washington Post - sets out to piece together the murky details of his family's racial past" Ranges from the story of overseer and Confederate veteran who fathered both sides of the family in Louisiana in the post Civil War era to the present day. Photographs. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-520-222571.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant.)

    Book ID: 56298
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  • GOLDEN MOUNTAIN: Beyond the American Dream. by Kai, Irene.
    Kai, Irene.
    GOLDEN MOUNTAIN: Beyond the American Dream.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.

    Ashland, OR: Silver Light Publications, (2004). SIGNED first edition - The story of four generations of Chinese women, and of how the author, who was born in Hong Kong, found the courage to rebel against the cultural dictates handed down by her family, SIGNED on the title page. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-97448900X.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 65691
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  • GOLDEN MOUNTAIN: Beyond the American Dream. by Kai, Irene.
    Kai, Irene.
    GOLDEN MOUNTAIN: Beyond the American Dream.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.

    Ashland, OR: Silver Light Publications, (2004). SIGNED first edition - The story of four generations of Chinese women, and of how the author, who was born in Hong Kong, found the courage to rebel against the cultural dictates handed down by her family, INSCRIBED on the title page "To --- Enjoy the journey". 368 pp. ISBN: 0-97448900X.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 67485
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  • POWDER KEG: A Personal Memoir of Growing Up a Knickerbocker and the Family History of How They Came. by Knickerbocker, Barbara.
    Knickerbocker, Barbara.
    POWDER KEG: A Personal Memoir of Growing Up a Knickerbocker and the Family History of How They Came.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New London, NH: BKB Press, (2008). SIGNED first edition - Although Knickerbocker is an American name (there are no Knickerbockers in The Netherlands), the author grew up with her family history drummed into her by her elders. Raised during the Great Depression, she found her adult life profoundly influenced by her family's history. The first part of this book is a memoir of growing up during the Great Depression. "She and her parents were crammed into the top floor of Grandma Knickerbocker's home. Childhood was spent dealing with a feisty housekeeper, and an unrepentant grandmother who needed her son's help, but resented his young family's intrusion into her life." Part II recounts the history of the Walloons in the…

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    New London, NH: BKB Press, (2008). SIGNED first edition - Although Knickerbocker is an American name (there are no Knickerbockers in The Netherlands), the author grew up with her family history drummed into her by her elders. Raised during the Great Depression, she found her adult life profoundly influenced by her family's history. The first part of this book is a memoir of growing up during the Great Depression. "She and her parents were crammed into the top floor of Grandma Knickerbocker's home. Childhood was spent dealing with a feisty housekeeper, and an unrepentant grandmother who needed her son's help, but resented his young family's intrusion into her life." Part II recounts the history of the Walloons in the Belgic lowlands, and Part III is an early history of the two families - the Vincents and the Knickerbakkers and the founding of New York City. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED on the title page and very personally INSCRIBED and signed on the half title page. Bibliography, index. xiv, 287 pp. ISBN: 0-981776817.

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    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 86104
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  • THE SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARRIAGE OF JOHN J. AND SARAH ANN KNOX, OCT 7TH, 1873 together with SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JOHN J. KNOX WILLIAMS, Oldest Grandson of John J. and Sarah A. Knox, Who Fell in Defence of His Country at the Battle of Chapin's Farm, September 29-30, 1864. by Knox, Rev. Charles E.
    Knox, Rev. Charles E.
    THE SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARRIAGE OF JOHN J. AND SARAH ANN KNOX, OCT 7TH, 1873 together with SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JOHN J. KNOX WILLIAMS, Oldest Grandson of John J. and Sarah A. Knox, Who Fell in Defence of His Country at the Battle of Chapin's Farm, September 29-30, 1864.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Edward O Jenkins 1873. Hardcover first edition - Printed "For Private Circulation". Includes an account of the celebration of the sixtieth wedding anniversary (the cover has simply "The Diamond Wedding" on it) of the marriage of John and Sarah Knox of Knoxville, in upstate New York, followed by "A sketch of the military life of Captain Williams with the 117th New York Infantry Regiment, prepared by Rev. Knox from Williams' letters and read at the celebration." This sketch includes 7 small maps and much interesting information about troop movements, descriptions of battles, daily life, and more. The first part consists of 44 pages, illustrated with engravings of the old homestead, the family tree and the church. The…

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    New York: Edward O Jenkins 1873. Hardcover first edition - Printed "For Private Circulation". Includes an account of the celebration of the sixtieth wedding anniversary (the cover has simply "The Diamond Wedding" on it) of the marriage of John and Sarah Knox of Knoxville, in upstate New York, followed by "A sketch of the military life of Captain Williams with the 117th New York Infantry Regiment, prepared by Rev. Knox from Williams' letters and read at the celebration." This sketch includes 7 small maps and much interesting information about troop movements, descriptions of battles, daily life, and more. The first part consists of 44 pages, illustrated with engravings of the old homestead, the family tree and the church. The Civil War sketch is from page 45-106 followed by a list of members of the family present. INSCRIBED by one of the family members "for Mrs Ewing, your cousin, Mrs Anderson" (perhaps the one of the sisters who prepared the family tree) 107 pp. .

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    Condition: Near fine in dark green cloth with gilt stamping on the front cover. Uncommon.

    Book ID: 57603
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  • CLEAR SPRINGS: A Memoir. by Mason, Bobbie Ann.
    Mason, Bobbie Ann.
    CLEAR SPRINGS: A Memoir.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir by this award-winning author which tells her own story, and the story of the Kentucky farm family, the Masons of Clear Springs, which she grew up in. It takes us back to recapture a way of life that has all but disappeared, but it also tells the story of how a "misfit girl who dreamed of distant places grew up in the forties, fifties, and sixties, and fulfilled her ambition to be a writer." SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. xi, 298 pp. ISBN: 0-679449256.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 80988
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  • May, Henry F.
    COMING TO TERMS: A Study in Memory and History.

    Edition: First printing.

    Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A combination of his personal autobiography - growing up in Berkeley in the 1920's, college, adjusting to the Army - and a history of his family within their times, over the past 200 years, from seventeenth century Puritan New England to 20th century California. Photographs, index. 319 pages. ISBN: 0-520-059697.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (small peeled spot on front endpaper where sticker was removed.)

    Book ID: 21371
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  • THE KINGS OF BIG SPRING: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream by Mealer, Bryan.
    Mealer, Bryan.
    THE KINGS OF BIG SPRING: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Flatiron Books, (2018). First edition - A sprawling saga covering four generations of the author's family - from Appalachia to the open ranges of the West, from hardscrabble years, when they suffer through droughts, depression, and dust bowl years with tenacity, faith, and more than a bit of luck, and when their fortunes rise during the oil boom, their newfound wealth catapults them into a fleeting jet set lifestyle. It is a book which illuminates the history of Texas and the American experience. A book which show hows small twists of fate and nature, reminders of the capriciousness of life, where something as simple as a rain that doesn't come - or a weevil that does -…

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    New York: Flatiron Books, (2018). First edition - A sprawling saga covering four generations of the author's family - from Appalachia to the open ranges of the West, from hardscrabble years, when they suffer through droughts, depression, and dust bowl years with tenacity, faith, and more than a bit of luck, and when their fortunes rise during the oil boom, their newfound wealth catapults them into a fleeting jet set lifestyle. It is a book which illuminates the history of Texas and the American experience. A book which show hows small twists of fate and nature, reminders of the capriciousness of life, where something as simple as a rain that doesn't come - or a weevil that does - can alter a family's fortunes forever. Notes. 369 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 83486
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  • HOUSE OF HOUSES by Mora, Pat
    Mora, Pat
    HOUSE OF HOUSES

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Beacon, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A family memoir told in the voices of ancestors by this Mexican American writer. SIGNED on the title page. Several pages of dichos/sayings at the end of the book. 298 pp. ISBN: 0-807072001.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 75102
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  • THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE. by Packer, Ann.
    Packer, Ann.
    THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Scribner, (2015). SIGNED first edition - Award winning author's third novel (fifth book), one "that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades. Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of the family he has yet to create, Bill buys the property on a whim. In Penny Greenway he finds a suitable wife, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life seems compelling and answerable, and they marry and have four children. Yet Penny is a mercurial…

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    New York: Scribner, (2015). SIGNED first edition - Award winning author's third novel (fifth book), one "that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades. Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of the family he has yet to create, Bill buys the property on a whim. In Penny Greenway he finds a suitable wife, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life seems compelling and answerable, and they marry and have four children. Yet Penny is a mercurial housewife, at a time when women chafed at the conventions imposed on them. She finds salvation in art, but the cost is high. Thirty years later, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, are disrupted by the return of the youngest, whose sudden presence and all-too-familiar troubles force a reckoning with who they are, separately and together, and set off a struggle over the family's future" SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 432 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 63720
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  • THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE. by Packer, Ann.
    Packer, Ann.
    THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning author's third novel (fifth book), one "that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades. Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of the family he has yet to create, Bill buys the property on a whim. In Penny Greenway he finds a suitable wife, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life seems compelling and answerable, and they marry and have four children. Yet Penny is a…

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    New York: Scribner, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning author's third novel (fifth book), one "that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades. Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of the family he has yet to create, Bill buys the property on a whim. In Penny Greenway he finds a suitable wife, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life seems compelling and answerable, and they marry and have four children. Yet Penny is a mercurial housewife, at a time when women chafed at the conventions imposed on them. She finds salvation in art, but the cost is high. Thirty years later, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, are disrupted by the return of the youngest, whose sudden presence and all-too-familiar troubles force a reckoning with who they are, separately and together, and set off a struggle over the family's future" . 432 pp.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 64104
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  • THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR: A Memoir of African-American Faith by Proctor, Samuel DeWitt; Foreword by Marion Wright Edelman.
    Proctor, Samuel DeWitt; Foreword by Marion Wright Edelman.
    THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR: A Memoir of African-American Faith

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author, a noted theologian and educator, "reflects on the role of faith in his own life and in the lives of African-Americans, chronicling his family history from the time during which his grandmother was a slave." Foreword by Marion Wright Edelman. xxiv, 243 pp. ISBN: 0-399140891.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 79180
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  • Rips, Michael,
    THE FACE OF A NAKED LADY: An Omaha Family Mystery.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. First edition - 'Upon his father's death, Michael Rips returned to his Omaha family home to discover a hidden portfolio of paintings - all done by his father, of a nude black woman... a 'wryly comic, second work of memoir, part detective story, part disquisition on the mysteries of identity, part journey into an America readers will scarcely recognize.' A fascinating work. 192 pp

    Condition: Fine (a new copy) in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 30517
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  • A HOUSE NAMED BRAZIL. by Schulman, Audrey.
    Schulman, Audrey.
    A HOUSE NAMED BRAZIL.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: William H. Morrow, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel by this highly acclaimed writer. "A series of long telephone conversations make up the bulk of this beguiling, episodic novel. One evening in 1977, 19-year-old Fran receives an unexpected call from her mother, Gloria, who has been gone for four and a half years, leaving Fran alone in their Ontario farmhouse. Barely saying hello, Gloria launches into the beguiling history of the Mourne family, back to her mysterious great-grandmother, who never married yet bore 14 children on the Ontario farm. . . Like the immense titular house, the novel sprawls untidily but its absurd charms, entrancing characters and sumptuous language more than make up…

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    New York: William H. Morrow, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel by this highly acclaimed writer. "A series of long telephone conversations make up the bulk of this beguiling, episodic novel. One evening in 1977, 19-year-old Fran receives an unexpected call from her mother, Gloria, who has been gone for four and a half years, leaving Fran alone in their Ontario farmhouse. Barely saying hello, Gloria launches into the beguiling history of the Mourne family, back to her mysterious great-grandmother, who never married yet bore 14 children on the Ontario farm. . . Like the immense titular house, the novel sprawls untidily but its absurd charms, entrancing characters and sumptuous language more than make up for its shapelessness. Contributing to the inventive spirit, b&w photographs of "family members" and increasingly annotated family trees accompany the text." (PW review) SIGNED on the title page. Laid in is a promotional postcard with a handwritten signed brief note from Schulman. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-380977990.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83451
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  • ON GOLD MOUNTAIN, the One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family. by See, Lisa
    See, Lisa
    ON GOLD MOUNTAIN, the One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, the story of her family. Photographs, sources. SIGNED on the title page. 394 pp. ISBN: 0-312-119976.

    Condition: Good in good dust jacket (some overall wear to book and edges of dj)

    Book ID: 73377
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  • ON GOLD MOUNTAIN, the One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family. by See, Lisa
    See, Lisa
    ON GOLD MOUNTAIN, the One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, the story of her family. Photographs, sources. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 394 pp. ISBN: 0-312-119976.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 80619
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  • SOME LUCK. by Smiley, Jane.
    Smiley, Jane.
    SOME LUCK.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author which focuses on the five children, originally from an Iowa farming family, over three decades. "Each chapter covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change." SIGNED on the title page. Longlisted for the National Book Award. 395 pp. ISBN: 978-0307700315.

    Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (some rubbing to the dj, especially at the ends of the spine)

    Book ID: 73218
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  • SOME LUCK. by Smiley, Jane.
    Smiley, Jane.
    SOME LUCK.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. SIGNED first edition - A novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author which focuses on the five children, originally from an Iowa farming family, over three decades. "Each chapter covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change." Longlisted for the National Book Award. The first book in a planned trilogy. SIGNED on the title page. 395 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (the outer covers are a letter from Smiley to her readers, and underneath that is the cover which will appear on the trade edition.)

    Book ID: 79812
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  • A SUDDEN LIGHT. by Stein, Garth.
    Stein, Garth.
    A SUDDEN LIGHT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth book: "In the summer of 1990, fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell gets his first glimpse of Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of giant whole trees and is set on a huge estate overlooking Seattle's Puget Sound. . . as Trevor explores the house's secret stairways and hidden rooms, he discovers a spirit lingering in Riddell House whose agenda is at odds with the family plan. Only Trevor's willingness to face the dark past of his forefathers will reveal the key to his family's future." 396 pp. ISBN: 9781439187036.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 65573
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