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JESS, CHUNK, AND THE ROAD TRIP TO INFINITY
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Immediately after graduation, Jess and her best friend, Chunk, embark on a road trip from San Jose, CA, to Chicago. Trans teen Jess has tried to fly under the radar, but now she's ready to show her true self. Where better to make her debut than a surprise appearance at her transphobic dad's wedding to her mom's former best friend?" SIGNED by the author on the title page with the comment "first book I've signed" and dated in 2016, the year of publication. 263 pp. ISBN: 978-0374380069.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76273More details Price: $28.00 -
A YEAR OF RHYMES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1993). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first novel, second book, set in 1950s southern California. A coming of age story in which Burt has to come to terms both with his own attraction to men and his older brother's slow death from leukemia. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Annie Dillard, Amy Hempel, Paul Monette and others. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-670847321.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82583More details Price: $30.00 -
GORDO: Stories
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.
Book ID: 88381More details Price: $31.50 -
GORDO: Stories
Edition: 5th printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88382More details Price: $24.50 -
DARK AND DEEPEST RED.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Feiwel & Friends / Macmillan, (2020). SIGNED first edition - A novel inspired both by Hans Christian Andersen's tale "The Red Shoes" and the history of a "dancing plague" which began in Strasbourg, France in the summer of 1518, when a strange sickness swept through the city - and five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Olivas feet, making her dance uncontrollably. A novel which combines the magic of a fairy tale with a modern story of passion and betrayal. SIGNED on the title page and dated in Sept 2019 (that is, before publication) Author's note. 306 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80991More details Price: $30.00 -
THE MAYOR OF CASTRO STREET: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A definitive biography of Harvey Milk, who even before his election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, was known as the 'mayor of Castro Street." His "personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. His is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope." Boldly and warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 1990. Illustrated with photographs. Notes on sources, index. xvii, 388 pp.". ISBN: 0-312523300.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (corners bumped, short tear to dj, some handling wear, but a tight, straight and sturdy copy) Uncommon signed. Original price of $14.95 on dj flap.
Book ID: 85645More details Price: $150.00 -
THE MAYOR OF CASTRO STREET: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A definitive biography of Harvey Milk, who even before his election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, was known as the 'mayor of Castro Street." His "personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. His is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope." Boldly and warmly INSCRIBED("keep the dream alive")on the title page and dated in 1982,the year of publication. Illustrated with photographs. Notes on sources, index. xvii, 388 pp.". ISBN: 0-312523300.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (slight spine slant and some handling wear, overall lisght edgewear to dj, minor sunning) A sturdy copy, uncommon signed. Original price of $14.95 on dj flap.
Book ID: 88397More details Price: $120.00 -
DISASTERAMA!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87482More details Price: $30.00 -
REFUSE: Poems
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (2018). SIGNED first edition - African American poet's first collection winner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. "Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, [this] documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape." SIGNED on the half title page. A title in the Pitt Poetry Series. xii, 90 pp. ISBN: 978-0822965602.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79901More details Price: $21.50 -
THE GIFT OF ANGER: Use Passion to Build Not Destroy.
Edition: First printing.
Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Former Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese shares powerful lessons learned from negotiating and collaborating with others who disagreed and even despised him." Foreword by Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard who was brutally murdered in Wyoming; she was instrumental in passing the anti-hate crime bill named after her son. SIGNED by Solmonese on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Index. 190 pp. ISBN: 978-1626565883.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (an unread copy, but boards slightly bowed).
Book ID: 85441More details Price: $25.00