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AMERICANAH.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in printed red wrappers with a sample of the finished cover art bound in. A surprisingly uncommon advance copy.
Book ID: 72631More details Price: $30.00 -
BRIEFINGS: Poems, Small and Easy.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early collection of over 80 short lyric poems - winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and nominated for the National Book Award. 105 pp. ISBN: 0-393043266.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74393More details Price: $21.50 -
THE BROKEN CORD
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1989.) dj. Hardcover - The deeply moving story of Dorris's adopted son, an affectionate young Sioux Indian boy whom he named Adam, as he discovered that the boy suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome. Foreword by Louise Erdrich. SIGNED on the title page by Erdrich. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Notes, bibliography. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0160713.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 47520More details Price: $30.00 -
LOVE MEDICINE.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1984.) dj. Hardcover - Native American author's first novel (second book, following a book of poetry) and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A 'story of the intertwined fates of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines on and around a North Dakota reservation from 1934 to 1984.' This went quickly into later printings. Cover praise from Anne Tyler, Kay Boyle and Peter Matthiessen (who called this a 'remarkable first novel . .. conveying unflinchingly the funkiness, humor and unspoken sadness of the Indian reservations, and a people exiled to a no-man's land between two worlds.') 272 pp. ISBN: 0-03-070611-4.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (bumping to lower corners, date on front endpaper, otherwise tight, straight and clean)
Book ID: 78526More details Price: $19.50 -
LOVE MEDICINE.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Andre Deutsch, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Native American author's first novel (second book, following a book of poetry) and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A 'story of the intertwined fates of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines on and around a North Dakota reservation from 1934 to 1984.' This went quickly into later printings. Cover praise from Anne Tyler, Kay Boyle and Peter Matthiessen (who called this a 'remarkable first novel . .. conveying unflinchingly the funkiness, humor and unspoken sadness of the Indian reservations, and a people exiled to a no-man's land between two worlds.') 272 pp. ISBN: 0-233-977414.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58575More details Price: $50.00 -
FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital.
Edition: 5th printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 70013More details Price: $45.00 -
A LESSON BEFORE DYING.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. Hardcover - Powerful novel set in Cajun Lousiana in the 1940's. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis of the film starring Don Cheadle and Cicely Tyson. 256 pp . ISBN: 0-679-414770.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remnants of old price on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 45893More details Price: $16.00 -
A LESSON BEFORE DYING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Powerful novel set in Cajun Lousiana in the 1940's. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis of the film starring Don Cheadle and Cicely Tyson. 256 pp . ISBN: 0-679-414770.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35820More details Price: $35.00 -
A LESSON BEFORE DYING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Powerful novel set in Cajun Lousiana in the 1940's. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis of the film starring Don Cheadle and Cicely Tyson. Card SIGNED by Gaines laid in. 256 pp . ISBN: 0-679-414770.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 71483More details Price: $50.00 -
FINDING A FORM: Essays.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on art, writing, culture and nature by this award winning writer. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award three times - including for this book. x, 354 pp. ISBN: 0-679446621.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 80207More details Price: $18.50 -
FINDING A FORM: Essays.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on art, writing, culture and nature by this award winning writer. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award three times - including for this book (front cover of the book has a sticker saying that it was a finalist for the award) x, 354 pp. ISBN: 0-679446621.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76560More details Price: $21.50 -
LAB GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a memoir of a woman in science, a geobiologist, and a portrait of a longtime collaboration in work and life. Winner of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award. Endnote, works cited. 290 pp. ISBN: 978-0345809865.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 77184More details Price: $20.00 -
LAB GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a memoir of a woman in science, a geobiologist, and a portrait of a longtime collaboration in work and life. Winner of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award. Endnote, works cited. 290 pp. ISBN: 978-0345809865.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot).
Book ID: 72145More details Price: $17.50 -
THE WOMAN WARRIOR: Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts.
Edition: Paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (1977.). SIGNED - Author's highly acclaimed first book, the story of her childhood in the central valley of California, and of her mother's "talk-story" about the women in her family and about China and its legends, tales which so fascinated the little girl that she saw herself becoming Mu Lan, the woman warrior. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award. SIGNED on the title page. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-394-723929.
Condition: Good only condition (prev owner's name, minor wear to covers, usual toning to the pages. )
Book ID: 45488More details Price: $11.50 -
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THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel (preceded by a collection of short stories), a story of the ancient curse that has haunted Oscar's family as they moved from Santo Domingo to Washington Heights to New Jersey and back again.SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Diaz is a recipient of the MacArthur 'genius' award. 333 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (publisher's letter laid in).
Book ID: 72416More details Price: $100.00 -
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HELLO DARKNESS: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Boston: Little Brown, 1979. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry in 1979, this contains 134 poems, including 3 complete collections, originally published in 1968 to 1971 - Dying: an Introduction, Scattered Returns, Pursuit of Honor - and also a posthumous collection of 34 poems not previously published in book form. Edited and with a preface by Peter Davison. Index of titles. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-316-793124.
Condition: Good condition - some creasing and wear to the covers, contents clean.
Book ID: 27178More details Price: $9.00 -
A THOUSAND ACRES.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. SIGNED on the title page. 371 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-577736.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47818More details Price: $21.50 -
A THOUSAND ACRES.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. SIGNED on the title page."Now a major motion picture" seal on front cover. 371 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-577736.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52981More details Price: $25.00
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