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  • Allende, Isabel
    PAULA.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: HarperCollins, 1994. dj. SIGNED first edition - A powerful memoir, inspired by the tragic death of Allende's daughter. SIGNED on the first page.

    Condition: Fine in printed yellow wrappers, with a glossy preliminary dustjacket wrapped around them (the dj has only the cover illustration, no text, and since it is larger than the proof, has a some creasing the upper edge, but is otherwise fine.)

    Book ID: 11570
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  • NECESSARY MADNESS. by Crowell, Jenn.
    Crowell, Jenn.
    NECESSARY MADNESS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Putnam, (1997). First edition - The author's first novel (set in England, though Crowell is American), and written when she was just 18 - the story of 30-year-old Gloria Burgess coming to grips with the premature death from cancer of a beloved husband, a grief she has to deal with for the sake of her young son. Kirkus Reviews praised it for its fully developed characters and maturity of content. Publisher's material, including a glossy photograph of the author, laid in. 194 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 84855
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  • SUMMER AT LITTLE LAVA: A Season at the Edge of the World. by Fergus, Charles.
    Fergus, Charles.
    SUMMER AT LITTLE LAVA: A Season at the Edge of the World.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / North Point, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a season spent by the author, his wife and young son, at a remote farm in Iceland - without electricity, running water or other modern conveniences - "Little Lava is a farm on the west coast of Icland. No roads lead to it; the way lies across a lagoon flooded twice a day by the tide. A lava field borders the farm. From the house, views give onto mountains, volcanoes, rugged coast, and the pure Icelandic sky".Map frontispiece, note on Icelandic. .289 pp. ISBN: 0-374525528.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 64832
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  • SUMMER AT LITTLE LAVA: A Season at the Edge of the World. by Fergus, Charles.
    Fergus, Charles.
    SUMMER AT LITTLE LAVA: A Season at the Edge of the World.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / North Point, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a season spent by the author, his wife and young son, at a remote farm in Iceland - without electricity, running water or other modern conveniences - "Little Lava is a farm on the west coast of Icland. No roads lead to it; the way lies across a lagoon flooded twice a day by the tide. A lava field borders the farm. From the house, views give onto mountains, volcanoes, rugged coast, and the pure Icelandic sky". SIGNED on the half title page. Map frontispiece, note on Icelandic. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-374525528.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88078
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  • Park, Barbara.
    MICK HARTE WAS HERE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Apple Soup Books, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A girl remembers her brother, just ten months younger than her, and full of life and mischief - until he was killed in a bicycle accident. 89 pp. ISBN: 0-679-877355.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (creases to the corners of a couple of pages, but overall tight and clean.)

    Book ID: 50166
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  • A PERFECT FRIEND. by Price, Reynolds.
    Price, Reynolds.
    A PERFECT FRIEND.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atheneum, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first book for young readers, one which uses the friendship between a boy, grieving over the death of his mother, and an elephant to explore the boundaries between joy and sorrow. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate on the half title page. Frontispiece and dust jacket art by Maurice Sendak. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-689830297.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 66354
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  • Sagan, Miriam
    SEARCHING FOR A MUSTARD SEED: One Young Widow's Unconventional Story.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Costa Mesa, CA: Quality Words in Print (QWP), (2003.). First edition - Poet's account of her attempt to deal with grief and to move on in her own life, when her husband, Robert, a Zen priest, died of colitis at the age of 36. The title refers to a Buddhist teaching story. 207 pp.

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

    Book ID: 29662
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  • EVER AFTER: A Father's True Story. by Wharton, William (pseudonym of Albert du Aime)
    Wharton, William (pseudonym of Albert du Aime)
    EVER AFTER: A Father's True Story.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Newmarket Press, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Published in the UK under the title 'Wrongful Death' this is the first nonfiction book by this award-winning novelist and artist. Wharton's daughter, her husband and two infant daughters were killed in a highway accident caused by poor visibility due to smoke from field burning - this is an account of how he dealt with his grief and of his fight to get the practice of burning outlawed. INSCRIBED on the dedication page. 246 pp. ISBN: 1557042233.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 64272
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