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PORTRAIT IN SEPIA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in late 19th century Chile; it continues the story told in 'Daughter of Fortune.' Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Family tree chart on endpapers. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6211611.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 26343More details Price: $15.00 -
PORTRAIT IN SEPIA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in late 19th century Chile; it continues the story told in 'Daughter of Fortune.' Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Family tree chart on endpapers. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6211611.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33242More details Price: $13.50 -
PORTRAIT IN SEPIA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in late 19th century Chile; it continues the story told in 'Daughter of Fortune.' SIGNED on the title page with a small flower drawing. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Family tree chart on endpapers. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6211611.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80877More details Price: $30.00 -
MAMAW: A Novel of an Outlaw Mother
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the remarkable woman who was the mother of the James boys. Frontispiece portrait. Author's afterword. 350 pp. ISBN: 0-670-821802.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 22618More details Price: $17.50 -
NATIVES OF MY PERSON.
Edition: First thus.
New York & London: Allison & Busby, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A reissue of Lamming's allegorical novel which tells the story of a journey of a slave ship toward San Christobal during the early colonial period. Originally published in 1972, this is one of the most important novels by this award-winning author, who was born and educated in Barbados. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, and uncommon thus. 351 pp. ISBN: 0-850316952.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83250More details Price: $85.00 -
NATIVES OF MY PERSON.
Edition: First thus.
New York & London: Allison & Busby, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A reissue of Lamming's allegorical novel which tells the story of a journey of a slave ship toward San Christobal during the early colonial period. Originally published in 1972, this is one of the most important novels by this award-winning author, who was born and educated in Barbados. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, and uncommon thus. 351 pp. ISBN: 0-850316952.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 83508More details Price: $25.00 -
HEATHEN VALLEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1962. dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon first edition of this author's first novel, based on the history of the Valle Crucis mission in the mountains of North Carolina in the mid-nineteenth century, and of the struggles of the bishop who conceived it and the deacon who ran it. Linney wrote a play with the same title based on his novel, and in 2004, this novel was finally reissued in paperback. 311 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with markings , binding cracked mid-book, but in a very near fine and unmarked dustjacket. Striking dust jacket art by Walter Ferro.
Book ID: 30268More details Price: $25.00 -
AFTER THE AFTERNOON.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (gift inscription dated 1944, chip to upper end of spine of dj, some discoloration to the edges of the dj.)
Book ID: 50299More details Price: $21.00 -
A COVENANT OF WATER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in blue illustrated wrappers (a different cover than the trade edition). An uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 87703More details Price: $150.00