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RATZ ARE NICE (PSP)
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82891More details Price: $150.00 -
ABIDE WITH ME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, (1999). First edition - Fifth novel by this black - and gay - author. An exploration of the bonds of friendship and love, and learning to explore your own dreams. 353 pp. .
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65824More details Price: $20.00 -
COLLECTED POEMS.
Edition: Trade paperback - 2nd printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997.). SIGNED - Powerful collection by this writer, born in England, but closely associated with San Francisco for most of his life (Edmund White described him as "the last of the commune dwellers [...] serious and intellectual by day and druggy and sexual by night".) In 2003, he was the first poet to be awarded the prestigious David Cohen British Literature Award for lifetime achievement. SIGNED on the title page. Postcript, notes, index of titles. 495 pp. ISBN: 0-374-524335.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (bookstore stamp inside front cover, otherwise as new, appears unread.) Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 54761More details Price: $60.00 -
SPEAK NO EVIL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 83476More details Price: $21.50 -
RHAPSODIES OF A REPEAT OFFENDER.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Persea Books, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second collection of poems. The first section in this book, "Erotic Collectibles" tells, in an unsentimental fashion, the story of a gay man's sexual awakening. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-89255-200X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 4383More details Price: $20.00 -
RHAPSODIES OF A REPEAT OFFENDER.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Persea Books, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second collection of poems. The first section in this book, "Erotic Collectibles" tells, in an unsentimental fashion, the story of a gay man's sexual awakening. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-89255-200X.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (spine of dj sunned.)
Book ID: 53635More details Price: $18.00 -
THE WATERS OF THIRST.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition -
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 2758More details Price: $15.00 -
A SON CALLED GABRIEL.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Pegasus Books, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The author's award-winning first novel, originally published in 2004 but revised for this edition. Set in the 1960s and 1970s, it weaves together two story lines: Gabriel's struggle to come to terms with who he is throughout a loving but often brutal childhood, and a family mystery that Gabriel intuitively senses but cannot solve. Both issues are intrinsically related to growing up Catholic in a small town in Northern Ireland. SIGNED by the author. Includes a new afterword for this edition in which he explains why he made the changes he did. 390 pp. ISBN: 978-1681775043.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83473More details Price: $25.00 -
A DIFFERENT PERSON: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A great American poet - winner of every major prize America can offer its poets, from the Pulitzer to the Bollingen-opens his life to us in a memoir that puts wit, sensibility, and elegance of mind to the service of unflinching autobiographical truth." A presentation copy, INSCRIBED on the title page "with love to J -- from her old neighbor." 271 pp. ISBN: 0-679-423176.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (some rubbing to the folds of the dj.)
Book ID: 56637More details Price: $75.00 -
A SMALL GATHERING OF BONES
Edition: Uncorrected proof for this trade paperback original.
London & Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994. First edition - A title in the Caribbean Writers Series. First novel (second book) by this young writer who was born in Jamaica, described as 'a frank and sensitive novel exploring the complexity of homosexuality' set at in the late 1970's when a mysterious illness was just beginning to threaten the gay community. 139 pp. .
Condition: Fne in white printed wrappers.
Book ID: 35135More details Price: $25.00 -
THE RAINBOW KITE.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Marshall Cavendish, (2002.). First edition - Young adult novel about the struggles of a 15 year old boy to come to terms with his homosexuality, told from the viewpoint of his younger brother.
Condition: Near fine in pink printed wrappers.
Book ID: 31497More details Price: $12.00 -
A SIGNAL VICTORY;
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Good in beige cloth in a good dust jacket (a tight copy with clean covers but some crlnkling to the upper edge of the textblock in a dj with some rubbing, chips and wear to the ends of the spine)
Book ID: 85413More details Price: $35.00 -
THE STORY OF THE NIGHT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Argentina, in the time of the generals, this is both a suspense novel and a love story. Richard Garay is enabled by Falklands War to discard the "Britishness "he inherited from his mother and to take chances, both sexual and professional. SIGNED by the author. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-52119.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 59903More details Price: $45.00