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THE ORIGINAL COMING OUT STORIES.
Edition: Second edition, expanded and enlarged.
Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, (1989). SIGNED - A classic anthology with very personal accounts by women who describe what "coming out" meant to them, originally published in 1980. Among the contributors are Margaret Cruikshank, Joanna Russ, Pat Dean, Judith Katz and many others. SIGNED by Cherrie Moraga at her essay "La Guerra." This edition includes a new introduction by the editors. Notes on contributors. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-895943395.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to corner, contents clean)
Book ID: 77664More details Price: $30.00 -
FROM THE DEVOTIONS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1998). First edition - Third collection by this award winning poet. Notes. 81 pp. ISBN: 1-555972632.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (bookstore stamp inside front cover).
Book ID: 71256More details Price: $15.00 -
LIKE PEOPLE IN HISTORY.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Viking, (1995). SIGNED - A gay American epic spanning the decades from the 1950s to the 1990s. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 512 pp. ISBN: 0-670-860476.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (covers slightly bent. no creasing on the spine).
Book ID: 63494More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BOOK OF LIES.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Los Angeles: Alyson Books, (2000). Set in a world of backbiting academic intrigues this is the story of a professor in the field of queer studies who discovers a "lost" manuscript of an unknown writer as he is sorting through a collection of papers. 423 pp. ISBN: 1-55583-5929.
Condition: Good only (toning to the pages, creasing to the corners of the covers)
Book ID: 69595More details Price: $10.00 -
THE BOOK OF LIES.
Edition: First US printing.
Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in a world of backbiting academic intrigues this is the story of a professor in the field of queer studies who discovers a "lost" manuscript of an unknown writer as he is sorting through a collection of papers. INSCRIBED on the title page. Includes a bibliography and appendix. 423 pp. ISBN: 1-55583-5414.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82889More details Price: $30.00 -
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fifth novel, set in working class Detroit. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0133392.
Condition: Very good+ in like dust jacket.
Book ID: 9107More details Price: $20.00 -
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fifth novel, set in working class Detroit. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0133392.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (light edgewear, hint of spine slant.)
Book ID: 9108More details Price: $16.50 -
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fifth novel, set in working class Detroit. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0133392.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 37525More details Price: $25.00 -
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1978) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fifth novel, set in working class Detroit. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1982 at Wellfleet (on Cape Cod) 268 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0133392.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66078More details Price: $35.00 -
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1978) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fifth novel, set in working class Detroit. SIGNED and dated on the front endpaper. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0133392.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (name on front endpaper, toning to the flaps of the dj)
Book ID: 80617More details Price: $25.00 -
BLACK DEUTSCHLAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - The highly praised second novel by the author of the award-winning 'High Cotton,' the story of a young gay black American man living in West Berlin in the years just before the wall came down. Dust jacket comments from Peter Schneider, Edmund White and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-0374113810.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78866More details Price: $21.50 -
THE EDITH WHARTON MURDERS: A Nick Hoffman Mystery.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999). A satire of academic pretensions - academia at its worst when murder occurs at a convention on Edith Wharton at a thinly disguised Michigan State University. A title in the Stonewall Inn Mysteries series. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-312-198639.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58720More details Price: $10.00 -
MECCA, MALIBU STORIES, STEAMING & DUENDE (set of 4 books)
Edition: First printing, trade paperbacks.
Houston, TX:' Black Tie Press, 1991-1994. First edition - A set of 4 of Rowley's books of poetry, including his first 2 published works - his obituary after his death from AIDS at only 40 noted that "Donald Rawley was very, very good at entrances and at exits - in real life and in his writing. He first came to public attention as a writer of humid and verdant poetry. His five collections - Duende, Sirens, Steaming, Malibu Stories and Mecca - garnered him several awards, much critical praise and a fan-base that above all loved to hear these poems performed, with Rawley commanding the stage like a ringmaster"
Condition: Very good in wrappers
Book ID: 76798More details Price: $75.00 -
RUSHES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Press, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel describing a single evening in a "leather and Western" bar near the waterfront of a large American city. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-394-508610.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket. (remainder mark.)
Book ID: 42983More details Price: $15.00 -
RUSHES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Press, 1979. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel describing a single evening in a "leather and Western" bar near the waterfront of a large American city. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-394-508610.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 52230More details Price: $35.00 -
EYE OF A HURRICANE.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Firebrand Books, 1989. SIGNED first edition - Collection of short stories, set in Florida. SIGNED on the first page with the comment "Thanks for coming to Judith's Room."
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 4646More details Price: $20.00 -
RARA AVIS Number Four (#4), Spring 1981.
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles: Rara Avis, 1981. SIGNED first edition - A women's literary journal with contributions by Barbara Wilson, Susan King, Jan Clausen, Alice Bloch, Alicia Ostriker, Amy Gerstler, Eloise Klein Healy, an interview with Jane Rule, and more. SIGNED by Healy at her poem "Oh My Emotions These Days" with the comment "the best!" (she called this one of her favorite poems.) Review of magazines edited by women and a directory of these magazines. Notes on contributors. 136 pp plus ads.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated wrappers -some light tanning and discoloration to the covers and pages. Unfortunately when Healy was signing this copy, the binding cracked at that page.
Book ID: 69325More details Price: $35.00 -
COLD HEAVEN: Bye-Bye Brunhilde, Sometimes Dead is Better.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
n.p. O Books, 1993. First edition - Contains Roy's first two plays: Bye-Bye Brunhilde (inspired by an actual incident) and Sometimes Dead is Better.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 14382More details Price: $15.00 -
AUNT JANE MCPHIPPS AND HER BABY BLUE CHIPS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket. (some overall edgewear to dj, with several small chips, a bit of toning to the spine, original price of $3.50 on flap. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 70107More details Price: $65.00 -
THE GOD BOX.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel for young adults by this Lambda-award winning author which explores what it means for a high school boy to be both openly gay in a small town and a committed Christian. SIGNED on the title page. 248 pp plus a note from the author. ISBN: 1416908994.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 39218More details Price: $25.00 -
GETTING IT.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007.). SIGNED - An exploration of friendship, homophobia and homosexuality in a Texas high school - serious topics, but "dramatized with humor and truth." SIGNED on the title page. 210 pp plus a glossary of Spanish words, and an excerpt from "The God Box.". ISBN: 1416908986.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 39219More details Price: $12.00 -
RAINBOW BOYS.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001.). First edition - His first novel - and the first book in his highly praised trilogy on what it means to be gay and young in America. 245 pp including 10 pp of information re resources for gay teenagers.
Condition: Fine in printed bright yellow wrappers.
Book ID: 50566More details Price: $25.00 -
THE EDUCATION OF HARRIET HATFIELD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Wonderful story of a woman opening a bookstore - 320 pp. ISBN: 0-393-026957.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 23570More details Price: $16.00 -
EMPATHY
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Dust jacket comments by Harry Crews, Fay Weldon and Kate Millett, who calls this novel "as funny and nervy and outrageous as ever.". ISBN: 0-525-935215.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new, but with a remainder line)
Book ID: 7185More details Price: $15.00 -
EMPATHY
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - DJ blurbs by Harry Crews, Fay Weldon and Kate Millett, who calls this novel "as funny and nervy and outrageous as ever." SIGNED BY AUTHOR. ISBN: 0-525-935215.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 7622More details Price: $30.00 -
EMPATHY
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Dutton, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover - DJ blurbs by Harry Crews, Fay Weldon and Kate Millett, who calls this novel "as funny and nervy and outrageous as ever.". ISBN: 0-525-935215.
Condition: INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Very near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 23733More details Price: $20.00 -
UNDERTOW.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Corvallis, OR: Calyx Books, (2000). First edition - The author's first book, SIGNED on the title page. Promotional bookmark and a reading group guide laid in. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-934971773.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new)
Book ID: 66836More details Price: $20.00 -
SHADOW MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this award-winning writer which, more than her other science fiction books, focuses explicitly on issues of sexuality and gender. Glossary. winner of the Lambda award for best SF. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-312858000.
Condition: Very near fine in a near dustjacket.
Book ID: 73173More details Price: $18.50 -
POINT OF DREAMS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third collaboration between these two authors, a fantasy novel set in the city-state Astreiant, a "late-Renaissance world where magic works, where astrologers and necromancers are the pundits and powerbrokers" and where murder and magic threaten the royal city. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-312867824.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's material laid in.
Book ID: 74006More details Price: $25.00 -
POINT OF HOPES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second collaboration between these two authors, and the first in a series of fantasy novels set in the city-state Astreiant, a "late-Renaissance world where magic works, where astrologers and necromancers are the pundits and powerbrokers" and which is bracing itself for trouble that usually accompanies the Midsummer Fair. 384 pp. Dust jacket art by Kevin Eugene Johnson. ISBN: 0-312858442.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's material laid in.
Book ID: 74007More details Price: $25.00
