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WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE, May 1997. Volume XXXII (32), Number 1.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1997. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes an interesting article from the new editor, Graulich; articles on Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, a mixed race Siouzx woman) , on race and domesticity in Winona and Deadwood Dick, and another on the Western hero. Photographs, notes and bibliographical infomation following each article, book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Fine in tan printed wrappers.
Book ID: 32247More details Price: $12.00 -
WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE, February 1998. Volume XXXII (32), Number 4.
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Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1998. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. The last issue to include the annual bibliography of studies in Western American literature. Illustrated with Laura Gilpin photographs. Book reviews, index to volume 32. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Fine in tan printed wrappers.
Book ID: 32254More details Price: $10.00 -
WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE, WINTER 1999. Volume 33, Number 4.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1999. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes a long article on Wanda Coleman, illustrated with full-color paintings by Elizabeth Catlett and Elsie Palmer Payne; an article on the 20th century nature writer by Ann Roland and essay reviews on Edward Abbey and the critics, and on the letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman. Photographs, notes and bibliographical infomation following each article, book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Fine in white illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 32250More details Price: $13.00 -
GRANTA 32, [Summer] 1990: HISTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Granta, 1990. First edition - A paperback magazine of new writing, This issue includes stories and articles by authors such as Alan Gurganus, Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Hardwick, Gore Vidal, Jonathan Raban and more. 253 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 0-14-0138560.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 43598More details Price: $10.00 -
THE KENYON REVIEW: New Series, Volume XIII (13), Number 4, Fall 1991. De Colores issue.
Edition: First printing.
Gambier, Ohio: Kenyon College, 1991. SIGNED first edition - Special issue featuring writers of color - among the poets are Michael S. Weaver, Wendy Rose, Joy Harjo, Colleen McElroy, Martin Espada and many others; short stories by Reginald McKnight, Paule Marshall, Kyoko Mori and more; essays by Toi Derricotte, Henry Taylor and Barbara DiBernard, and reviews by Marilyn Nelson Waniek and Jewelle Gomez. SIGNED by THREE authors at their contributions: by Cyrus Cassells at his poem, 'Life Indestructible', Quincy Troupe at his poem 'Reflections on Growing Older' and by Marilyn Nelson (Waniek) at her reviews. Uncommon signed. Notes on contributors, index to Volume 21. 236 pp. plus ads. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (small spot on bottom edge) .
Book ID: 84837More details Price: $55.00 -
ANTAEUS 52, Spring 1984.
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
New York: Ecco Press, 1984. First edition - Features previously unpublished prose by Walt Whitman on Dante, the opera, paintings and slavery. Also includes poetry by Robert Pinsky, Carolyn Kizer, Paul Zweig. W.S. Merwin, Henri Cole, David St. John and others; fiction by Lisa St Aubin de Terrin, Joseph McElroy, Larry Woiwode and others; Edward Hoagland on John Muir and much more. Notes on contributors, 215 pp plus ads.
Condition: Very good - minor wear to the covers, small chip to lower corner of back cover, hint of sunning to spine, contents clean.
Book ID: 85804More details Price: $21.50 -
ETC. a Review of General Semantics. Volume 26, No. 2. June 1969.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: International Society for General Semantics. 1969. First edition - Include articles on the semantics of color, the doctor-nurse game, Finnegan's Wake and more. Illustrated with drawings by Wynne Hayakawa. Book reviews. Paperback format. 256 pp.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 86563More details Price: $15.00 -
ZYZZYVA 17: FOURTH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE: The Last Word: West Coast Writers and Artists, Volume V, Number 1, Spring 1989.
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San Francisco: ZYZZYVA, Inc. 1989. SIGNED first edition - The fourth anniversary issue of this interesting and eclectic magazine -SIGNED by Eloise Klein Healy at her article 'Travel Diaries of a Prodigal Daughter' about Susan King, founder of Paradise Press. Also included are works by Jack Marshall, Gary Snyder, Alev Lytle Croutier, and more. Art and photography by Ruth Bernhard, Morris Graves , Breck Parkman and others. Cover by Robert Dawson. 136 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Near fine in stiff wrappers (sunning to spine and edges of cover.)
Book ID: 39226More details Price: $24.00 -
FIVE FINGERS REVIEW 19: SKIN.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: Five Fingers Review. 2001. SIGNED first edition - A journal of poetry, prose, fiction and art. SIGNED and dated by Hillman at her contribution "Four Poems." Also includes material by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Jack Hirschman, giovanni singleton, Cole Swenson and others. Notes on contributors. 237 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 1880627086.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 47378More details Price: $25.00 -
FOLIO: Spring 1960, Volume XXV-2
Edition: First printing.
Bloomington: Indiana University, 1960. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Hirschman at this contribution - a very early appearance preceding his first regularly published book. Also include in this issue are translations by Hirschman of 2 of Mayakofsky's poems, poetry by Maria Ellen Solt, Jerome Rothenberg and Maria Stranska in addition to the poets listed above, a short story by Michael Rumaker, a glossy insert with several art works and more. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Slight fading to the blue paper along the spine, otherwise fine in printed wrappers.
Book ID: 11079More details Price: $40.00 -
MANOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing: Volume 6, Number 1, Summer 1994.
Edition: First printing.
Honolulu, The University of Hawaii Press. 1994. SIGNED first edition - Interviews, essays, fiction and poetry, with a special feature of Chinese poetry after Tiananmen Square including an interview with Bei Ling and Xue Di by Arthur Sze. Poems by Bei Ling, Bei Dao, Zhang Zhen, Xue Di and others. SIGNED by TWO authors at their contributions: Jane Hirschfield at 'Three Poems" and Barry Lopez at "Ruben Mendoza Vega" a story told in footnotes. Also includes work from Edward Hoagland, James D. Houston, Naomi Shihab Nye, Charlotte Painter and many others. Reviews, notes on contributors. Illustrated. Slightly oversized. 211 pp plus advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Near fine in brown illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 55000More details Price: $35.00 -
MANOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing: Volume 6, Number 1, Summer 1994.
Edition: First printing.
Honolulu, The University of Hawaii Press. 1994. First edition - Interviews, essays, fiction and poetry, with a special feature of Chinese poetry after Tiananmen Square including an interview with Bei Ling and Xue Di by Arthur Sze. Poems by Bei Ling, Bei Dao, Zhang Zhen, Xue Di and others. Includes work from Edward Hoagland, James D. Houston, Barry Lopez. Jane Hirshfield, Naomi Shihab Nye, Charlotte Painter and many others. Reviews, notes on contributors. Illustrated. Slightly oversized. 211 pp plus advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Fine in brown illustrated wrappers (still in shrinkwrap).
Book ID: 75773More details Price: $17.50 -
AQR: ALASKA QUARTERLY REVIEW, vol 21, No. 1 & 2, Fall & Winter 2003.
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Anchorage: University of Alaska, 2003. SIGNED first edition - A substantial and highly praised literary journal - SIGNED by poet Jane Hirshfield at the special section on the nature of language and art, and uncommon thus. Also includes a photo essay 'Cancer Journal' by Richard J. Murphy, 14 short stories, 2 memoirs and 67 poems selected by the guest poetry editor Michael Ryan. 270 pp We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 31538More details Price: $30.00 -
ZYZZYVA 43/44: STRANGE ATTRACTION: : The Best of Ten Years of ZYZZYVA.The Last Word: West Coast Writers and Artists, Volume XI, Number 3/4, Fall/Winter 1995
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (1995.). SIGNED first edition - A book which is both a celebration of ten years of survival for this 'anti-canonic and quirky' literary journal and an introduction to the quality and the breadth of the material it publishes. This copy is SIGNED by Jane Hirshfield at her poem 'Justice Without Passion') . Other contributors include Gary Snyder, Sherman Alexie, Robert Haas, Philip Levine, Michelle Clinton, Jess Mowry, Kate Braverman, Po Bronson, William Vollmann, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Tess Gallagher, Dennis Cooper, Karen Karbo and many others. Introduction by Junker. Notes on the contributors. A title in the Western Literature series.). xii, 335 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 0-87417-2756.
Condition: Near fine in glossy white and black covers (crease to back cover.)
Book ID: 39772More details Price: $25.00 -
STORY [Magazine]: VOL. 38, No. 4 Summer 1990
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Condition: Very near fine in white illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 37384More details Price: $20.00 -
STORY [Magazine]: VOL. 38, No. 4 Summer 1990
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Condition: Very good minus in white illustrated wrappers (some soiling to covers.)
Book ID: 37385More details Price: $20.00 -
CHASE PARK, VOL. I, NO. I.
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Oakland, California: 20 Mule, 2001. First edition - A poetry journal which planned to be a bi-annual publication of poetry, essays on poetics and topics of interest to the poetic community and book reviews. Among the contributors to this first issue are Virgil Suarez, Barbara Barrigan, Rosmarie Waldrop, Richard Kostelanitz, Lyn Lifshin, Maria Elena Caballero-Robb, Charles Bernstein and more. 3 pp of brief book reviews and notes on contributors. 58 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated black wrappers.
Book ID: 88513More details Price: $21.50 -
GRANTA 54, Summer 1996: The Best of Young American Novelists.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 68080More details Price: $13.50 -
GRANTA 59, Autumn 1997: France, the Outsider.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Granta USA, 1997. First edition - "The Magazine Of New Writing" This issue "presents fresh voices from a country searching for a new idea of itself." Includes contributions by Luc Sante, Michel Houellebecq, Ivan Klima, Harold Pinter, a selection of photographs by Raymond De pardon and more. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0141472.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67216More details Price: $12.00 -
GRANTA 84, Winter 2003: OVER THERE: How America Sees the World.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Granta, 2003. First edition - A paperback magazine of new writing. Contributors include Edmund White, James Kelman, Paul Theroux, A. M. Homes, Judith Hermann, Julian Barnes, Adam Hochschild and more. Features a full color section of photographs on the "home front" and a section of new maps of America by Martin Rowson.. Notes on the contributors. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 1-929001142.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 70249More details Price: $14.50 -
GRANTA 57, Spring 1997: India.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Granta USA, 1997. First edition - "The Magazine Of New Writing" This issue features stories on India as she celebrates 50 years as a nation. Reports, memories, poems and stories by writers James Buchan, Anita Desai, R. K. Narayan, Mark Tully, Jan Morris, Vikram Seth, Michael Ondaatje, Arundhati Roy, and V. S. Naipaul and more. Section of photographs by Dayanita Singh. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0141472.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57084More details Price: $12.00 -
GRANTA 56, Winter 1996: What Happened to Us?
Edition: First printing.
New York: Granta USA, 1996. First edition - "The Magazine Of New Writing" This issue is focused on "Britain's valedictory realism." Includes contributions from Hilary Mantel, John Banville, Simon Winchester, Harif Kurieshi, Tim Binding, Norman McLean and others. Section of photographs by Donovan Wylie, other illustrations. 254 pp. plus notes on contributors. ISBN: 0-14-014143X.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78162More details Price: $12.00 -
GRANTA 82, Summer 2003: LIFE'S LIKE THAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Granta, 2003. First edition - A paperback magazine of new writing. Contributors include Simon Gray, Lynn Barber, Paul Murray, Jayne Anne Phillips and more. Features a full color section of photographs on the old steam machines of the Industrial Revolution and the people who love them. Notes on the contributors. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 1929001002.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 69995More details Price: $13.50 -
GRANTA 60, Winter 1997: UNBELIEVABLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Granta USA, 1997. SIGNED first edition - A paperback magazine of new writing. SIGNED by Aimee Bender at her story 'Loser." Also includes contributions from Ariel Dorfman, Clive Sinclair, a photographic essay on the Nuba people of Sudan and more. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes on contributors. 256 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only (some wear to the covers, creasing to first page)
Book ID: 60361More details Price: $16.00 -
GRANTA 85, SPRING 2004, HIDDEN HISTORIES..
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
New York: Granta, 2004. First edition - A Paperback Magazine of New Writing. "Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations are offered in Granta 85 - an issue that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war." Includes essays by Diana Athill on the baby she never had, Jennie Erdahl on being a literary ghostwriter, plus new fiction by T. C. Boyle (a short story about a sexually naive undergraduate attending a series of lectures by Kinsey) and Anne Enright, Orhan Pamuk, and others. Also includes a portfolio of color photographs on the private life of an Episcopalian priest. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 1-929001150.
Condition: Near fine (a bit of rubbing to the covers)
Book ID: 83741More details Price: $13.50 -
GRANTA 62, Summer 1998: WHAT YOUNG MEN DO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Granta USA, 1998. SIGNED first edition - A paperback magazine of new writing. SIGNED by Dani Shapiro at her story 'The Mistress." The title story: What Young Men Do . Richard Lloyd Parry Discovers Modern Indonesia"s War on Severed Heads Other contributors include Richard Lloyd Parry, Richard Ford, Simon Arimitage, Todd McEwen, Sebastiao Salgado, Nicholas Shakespeare, Tim Lott, Tim Parks.. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes on contributors. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0141545.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower fore-edge slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 57754More details Price: $20.00 -
GRANTA 67, Autumn 1999: Women and Children First.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Granta, 1999. SIGNED first edition - A paperback magazine of new writing. This issue is about "people in extremis over the past hundred years - coping stoically, madly, badly with private and public disaster from the Antarctic to the bombing of Belgrade. SIGNED by Joy Williams at her story "Hawk." Other contributors include Edward Said, Edmund White, Zadie Smith and more. Features a section of photographs on Mennonite colonies in Mexico and Canada by Larry Towell. Notes on the contributors. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71891More details Price: $30.00 -
FOURTEEN HILLS Vol. 5, No. 2 Spring / Summer 1999 The SFSU Review.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: San Francisco State University. 1999. First edition - Includes poetry and fiction by Etel Adan, Norma Cole, Maxine Chernoff, Juan Felipe Herrera. Nathaniel Mackey, Carol Snow, and more. Notes on contributors. 167 pps. plus ads
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76643More details Price: $23.50 -
POET LORE: Volume 83, Number 3, Fall 1988.
Edition: First printing.
Bethesda, MD: Writer's Center, 1988. SIGNED first edition - An issue of this long-running poetry journal (founded in 1889). SIGNED by TWO poets at their contributions: Inscribed by Jacklyn Potter "to Aunt Mary, with love and thanks and greatest admiration" at her poem 'Permanent Vision' and signed by Charles H. Webb at his poem 'According to the Rule.' Also includes poems by John Balaban, Nicole Broadhurst, Juanita Brunk, Kathleen Spivack and more. Reviews. Notes on contributors. 58 pp plus ads.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 68978More details Price: $25.00 -
IR: Indiana Review: Between Cultures. Summer 2004, Volume 26, Number 1.
Edition: First printing.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 2004. SIGNED first edition - A literary journal of fiction, poetry, graphic arts (including an excerpt from American Born Chinese by Gene Yang), nonfiction (an interview with Marilyn Chin) and photographs. SIGNED by TWO authors at their contributions: Tyehimba Jess at his poem "Leadbelly in Angola Prison" and Terese Svoboda at her story "'70s Lilies." Other contributors include Faith Adiele, Timothy Liu, Lucia Perillo and many others. Notes on contributors 218 pp plus ads.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86006More details Price: $35.00