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FIRST COMES LOVE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pantheon, (1996.). First edition - Winik's frank and unsentimental account of her love affair and marriage with an openly gay man, of their drug use, the brief happiness of the birth of their two children, and the gradual deterioration of his health as his AIDS progressed. 271 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (corners of a few pages bumped).
Book ID: 76018More details Price: $15.00 -
ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Viking, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a semi-autographical story of drugs and crime, told from the viewpoint of a 14 year old junkie. Basis for the movie of the same name starring James Woods and Melanie Griffith. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the half title page. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-670872172.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68495More details Price: $30.00 -
NARCOPOLIS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Penguin, 2012. dj. Hardcover first edition - Poet's first novel, a "rich hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its squalor." Covering over three decades from the 1970s on, this is a "book about drugs, sex, death, perversion, addiction, love and god." Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Man Asian Prize. Published in the UK as a trade paperback, so this US edition is the first hardcover. 288 pp. ISBN: 9781594203305.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 64321More details Price: $35.00 -
BLUES DANCING.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (1999.). First edition - African American author's third novel, the story of a young woman fighting her addiction to heroine and her attraction to the man who introduced her to the drug when they were both college students. 307pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (soiling to last blank page.)
Book ID: 50323More details Price: $13.50 -
FIRST COMES LOVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winik's frank and unsentimental account of her love affair and marriage with an openly gay man, of their drug use, the brief happiness of the birth of their two children, and the gradual deterioration of his health as his AIDS progressed. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-679-445722.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36607More details Price: $15.00