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TAHOE ICE GRAVE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original,
South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - Third mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot. Bibliomystery involving a long-lost manuscript by Mark Twain, reportedly hidden on the Hawaiian island of Kauia in 1866. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's letter. 288 pp. ISBN: 1931296146.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 58376More details Price: $25.00 -
ST. NICHOLAS ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, OCTOBER, 1916, Volume XLIII, No 12.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Good only in illustrated wrappers - loss of about 1/2 at the base of the spine, and some tape reinforcement to the spine, contents are clean and near fine.
Book ID: 92752More details Price: $21.50 -
MARK TWAIN REMEMBERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Barricade Books, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - A meticulously researched novel set in 1910 with Mark Twain on his deathbed and reflecting back a 6 week period in 1856 that changed his life. While fiction, the author has commingled Twain's words and ideas with his own. ISBN: 1-56980-1541.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 18615More details Price: $30.00 -
TERRORISTS AND NOVELISTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first collection of essays, on topics ranging (as the title suggests) from author to contempory events - from Maxine Hong Kingston to George Sands and black novelists Toni Morrison and Gayl Jones to Patty Hearst and Jonestown. List of books discussed. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-394-521617.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 54059More details Price: $18.00 -
MARGINAL SIGHTS: Staging the Chinese in America.
Edition: First printing.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the history and prevalence of stereotypes in depicting the Chinese in films and theatre, from Bret Harte and Mark Twain's play 'Ah Sin' to O'Neill's Marcos Millions and the contemporary Broadway hit 'Miss Saigon' and from early silent films to modern pornography. The stereetypes range from Charlie Chan to Fu Manchu to Madame Butterfly. Includes a chapter on the photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown by Arnold Genthe. A title in the 'Theatre History and Culture' series. 158 pp. with notes and bibliography. ISBN: 0-87745-4272.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 26466More details Price: $20.00 -
WHITE TOWN DROWSING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at his childhood hometown on the Missouri River by the Pulitzer prize winning journalist. The title is from Mark Twain's recollection of Hannibal, Missouri, which he left at 17, the same age Powers was when he left there in 1959. "In 1984, as plans for the Mark Twain sesquicentennial were being formed, Powers returned to his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, and here lovingly compares contemporary Hannibal with the Hannibal of his boyhood and of Mark Twain's early years." (Publishers Weekly) vii, 313 pp. ISBN: 0-87113103X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (address sticker on front endpaper)
Book ID: 90469More details Price: $16.50 -
MISSISSIPPI PILOT: With Mark Twain on the Great River.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Cavalcade series for older children. 253 pgs, illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Near fine in a very good- dustjacket (partially price-clipped, chip on front cover, other edgewear.)
Book ID: 12989More details Price: $18.00 -
ST. NICHOLAS ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, SEPTEMBER, 1916, Volume XLIII, No 11.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Good only in illustrated wrappers - loss of about 1/2 at the base of the spine, and some tape reinforcement to the spine, contents are clean and near fine, newstand stamp on table of contents page.
Book ID: 92753More details Price: $21.50
