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72ND (SEVENTY-SECOND) AND RODEO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - the story of a bicoastal (Manhattan and Hollywood) marriage. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-87795-5352.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 58274More details Price: $15.00 -
THE ROSE GARDEN: Short Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2000). First edition - Posthumous collection of 20 short stories by this Irish-born author, 19 originally published in The New Yorker in the 1950s and 1960s, and set in both her native Dublin and her adopted home of Manhattan. Includes 6 stories which had not previously been collected. 312 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (a bit of rubbing to the covers).
Book ID: 72772More details Price: $17.50 -
FAIR WARNING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Expanded from an award-winning short story, this novel is a glimpse into the world of Manhattan art auction houses. SIGNED on the title page. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-8336.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 61041More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BLACK MADONNA: A Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. A look at Italian-American life which introduces readers to an extraordinary trio of mothers and sons in New York's Little Italy.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 18943More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BOY WITH THE THORN IN HIS SIDE: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The often-moving memoir by a young man who grew up in the 1970's Midwest, attended a Free School there (based on Summerhill), was institutionalized by his father, and saved by being 'adopted' as a teenager by his uncle, the writer Edmund White, who was very involved in the gay world of New York City. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-060959304.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38293More details Price: $16.00 -
CHRONIC CITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires and lies." Chosen as one of the top five fiction books of 2009 by the New York Times Book Review. SIGNED on the title page. 467 pp. ISBN: 978-0385518635.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63042More details Price: $40.00 -
ANOTHER PART OF THE CITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel set in the 5th Precinct in downtown Manhattan. ISBN: 0-89296-1538.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 32305More details Price: $12.00 -
CELESTE'S HARLEM RENAISSANCE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Coming of age novel for older children set in New York City in 1921. 279 pp. plus author's note. Wraparound dust jacket art by Suling Wang. ISBN: 0-316-523941.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 54549More details Price: $15.00
