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  • EATING CHINESE FOOD NAKED. by Ng, Mei.
    Ng, Mei.
    EATING CHINESE FOOD NAKED.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's very highly praised first novel - "explores the complex relationship between a mother and daughter, and the daughter's reluctant homecoming to a family she couldn't wait to leave." 252 pp. ISBN: 0-684-814161.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)

    Book ID: 34127
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  • A MONK JUMPED OVER A WALL by Nussbaum, Jay.
    Nussbaum, Jay.
    A MONK JUMPED OVER A WALL

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (issued as a trade paperback original. )

    New York & London: The Toby Press, (2007). First edition - The author's second novel - both humorous and insightful - J.J Spencer a young lawyer hungry to climb the corporate ladder, until a chance good deed leads to his discovering how swiftly no good deed goes unpunished as he finds himself fired, beaten up and arrested for drunk driving. 352 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 59611
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  • DISASTERAMA!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997. by Orloff, Alvin; Introduction by Alexander Chee.
    Orloff, Alvin; Introduction by Alexander Chee.
    DISASTERAMA!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New York: Three Rooms Press, (2019). SIGNED first edition - A memoir and a social history in which Orloff attempts to answer the question "what was it like when everyone started dying?" He describes the "delirious adventures of his youthfrom San Francisco to Los Angeles to New York where insane nights, deep friendships with the creatives of the underground, and thrilling bi-coastal living led to a free-spirited life of art, manic performance, high camp antics, and exotic sexual encounters, until AIDS threatened to destroy everything he lived for. . [He] looks past the politics of AIDS to the people on the ground, friends of his who did not survive AIDS wrath the boys in black leather jackets and cackling…

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    New York: Three Rooms Press, (2019). SIGNED first edition - A memoir and a social history in which Orloff attempts to answer the question "what was it like when everyone started dying?" He describes the "delirious adventures of his youthfrom San Francisco to Los Angeles to New York where insane nights, deep friendships with the creatives of the underground, and thrilling bi-coastal living led to a free-spirited life of art, manic performance, high camp antics, and exotic sexual encounters, until AIDS threatened to destroy everything he lived for. . [He] looks past the politics of AIDS to the people on the ground, friends of his who did not survive AIDS wrath the boys in black leather jackets and cackling queens in tacky frocks remembering them not as victims, but as people who loved life, loved fun, and who were a part of the insane jigsaw of his friends." Introduction by Alexander Chee. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 232 pp. Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 978-1941110829.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 87482
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  • THE STREET. by Petry, Ann.
    Petry, Ann.
    THE STREET.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    London: Michael Joseph, (1947). Hardcover - An uncommon early UK printing (just one month after the first) of this novel, was has been described as a "living portrait of Harlem in the forties." In pale blue cloth with red illustration on the front cover, red lettering on spine. The novel upon which Petry's reputation rests - and the first novel by a black woman writer to sell more than 1 million copies. 312 pp.

    Condition: Very good (corners slightly bumped), no dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88158
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  • ADAM BY ADAM: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. by Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. (1908-1972)
    Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. (1908-1972)
    ADAM BY ADAM: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dial Press, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir by one of the most influential, controversial, and complex Black politicians of the first half of the 20th century, one which details his childhood in Harlem, his education at an all-white college, his years spent preaching the gospel, and his rise to political fame, as a flamboyant black congressman, a civil-rights activist who was also notorious for his private life. "As the congressman from Harlem, he denounced racist southern colleagues and introduced the 'Powell Amendment' to deny federal funds to projects or organizations that practiced discrimination. In 1960, he became chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, then the strongest position ever held by a…

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    New York: Dial Press, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir by one of the most influential, controversial, and complex Black politicians of the first half of the 20th century, one which details his childhood in Harlem, his education at an all-white college, his years spent preaching the gospel, and his rise to political fame, as a flamboyant black congressman, a civil-rights activist who was also notorious for his private life. "As the congressman from Harlem, he denounced racist southern colleagues and introduced the 'Powell Amendment' to deny federal funds to projects or organizations that practiced discrimination. In 1960, he became chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, then the strongest position ever held by a black in the US government - and he became a thorn in the side of ally and foe alike. He was a maverick seldom bound by party, duty, or conventional morality, although in this book, he barely mentions the charges of corruption that led to his exclusion from Congress. Nor does he discuss his opposition to Bayard Rustin, as depicted in the recent film. Illustrated with photographs. Index. x, 260 pp. Dust jacket by Wendell Minor.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 88677
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  • STEALING FOR A LIVING: An Emma Price Novel. by Rand, Naomi.
    Rand, Naomi.
    STEALING FOR A LIVING: An Emma Price Novel.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harper Collins, (2003). SIGNED first edition - Second novel featuring private investigator Emma Price - who is also juggling life as a single parent of a toddler and troubled teenager. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 246 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 86011
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  • AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL. by Rexroth, Kenneth.
    Rexroth, Kenneth.
    AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL.

    Edition: First printing.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - More autobiography than novel, this is a recreation of the early years of this poet, painter, bohemian and social critic - years of "speakeasies, great jazz, dazzling wealth and dire poverty" - but years in which he was strongly influenced by generations of his family, including abolitionists, suffragists, and other believers in equality and rights, and also years in which he found friendship with people like Ben Hecht, Sherwood Anderson, Edna St. Vincent Millay and more. 367 pp.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (name with whiteout on front endpaper, minor wear to dj)

    Book ID: 37096
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  • FAGO. by Roueche, Berton (1910-1994)
    Roueche, Berton (1910-1994)
    FAGO.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - A retired couple living in East Hampton on Long Island do not want to believe that this mundane daily existence is all that is left for them, and so they hatch a bold - and dangerous - plot to change it all - one which involves murder and mistaken identity. 143 pp. Dust jacket design by Geoffrey Moss. ISBN: 0-060136898.

    Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (slight chipping to the top of the dj spine, short closed tear, some soiling to white background of dj)

    Book ID: 85750
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  • CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: A Book In The Jugular Vein. by Sims, Dorothy Rice (1889-1960).
    Sims, Dorothy Rice (1889-1960).
    CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: A Book In The Jugular Vein.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1940. Hardcover first edition - Informal autobiography of an uncommon woman, one whose very privileged life was more than just "curiouser." It opens with her leaving school at twelve, since there was "no point in clogging my mind with things that everyone knew." She studied sculpture and painting in Spain and Paris. She was a motorcycle street racer, and the first amateur licensed woman pilot in the United States, training at Wright School, Mineola, New York, in 1916. One of her sisters showed a talent for writing poetry, so their father founded the Poetry Society of America and set up a salon in the grand ballroom of their 22-room apartment at the Ansonia Hotel;…

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    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1940. Hardcover first edition - Informal autobiography of an uncommon woman, one whose very privileged life was more than just "curiouser." It opens with her leaving school at twelve, since there was "no point in clogging my mind with things that everyone knew." She studied sculpture and painting in Spain and Paris. She was a motorcycle street racer, and the first amateur licensed woman pilot in the United States, training at Wright School, Mineola, New York, in 1916. One of her sisters showed a talent for writing poetry, so their father founded the Poetry Society of America and set up a salon in the grand ballroom of their 22-room apartment at the Ansonia Hotel; a salon which was regularly attended by Theodore Dreiser, Gertrude Atherton, Richard LaGallienne and Frank Harris, and others. With her second husband, Hal Sims, she became a famous bridge player, as one of her expert husband's partners and for her frequent use of "psychic" bids, or bluffs. Illustrated with 16 full page plates by the author. Foreword by George Kaufman. The NY Times review comments that far from being as scatterbrained as Kaufman makes her out to be in his foreword, she was a pioneer in motor cycle racing, aviation, modern art and tournament bridge, a pretty impressive list by anyone's standards. xiv, 203 pp plus final illustration.

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    Condition: Very good overall in blue cloth with printed cream spine label (some discoloration to front endpaper, tear to leaf 175/176). no dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83355
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  • LOST IN AMERICA. by Singer, Isaac Bashevis.
    Singer, Isaac Bashevis.
    LOST IN AMERICA.

    Edition: First printing.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - Memoir by this Nobel prize winning author of his days as a young man in Poland in the 30s dreaming of getting to America, the sometimes perilous trip there, and the community he found in New York City, including his older brother, the author I. J. Singer. Illustrated with both full color paintings and black and white drawings by Raphael Soyer. A handsome production, printed on coated glossy stock, illustrated endpapers. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-385157568.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)

    Book ID: 85832
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  • CATSKILL CRAFTS: Artisans of the Catskill Mountains. by Smiley, Jane.
    Smiley, Jane.
    CATSKILL CRAFTS: Artisans of the Catskill Mountains.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crown, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first work of non-fiction, preceding her Pulitzer prize winning novel "A Thousand Acres" - "An affectionate, intimate group portrait -- illustrated with nearly fifty photographs -- of fifteen craftsmen and -women and the Catskill Mountains towns where their arts are flourishing." Included among the artisans are a quilter, a Haitian potter, a flytier, a weaver, a glass maker and others. Illustrated throughout with numerous black-and-white photographs, as well as 8 pages in color SIGNED by Smiley on the title page. 174 pp. Decorative endpapers, slightly oversized. ISBN: 0-517567008.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)

    Book ID: 41914
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  • Smith, Murray.
    DEVIL'S JUGGLER.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York Pocket Books, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this former officer in the British Special Forces, a thriller involving the IRA, the Columbian drug cartel, junkies in New York City and more. ISBN: 0-671-784641.

    Condition: Very good- in very good dust jacket (crinkling to some of the pages.)

    Book ID: 28459
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  • LILY DALE: AWAKENING. by Staub, Wendy Corsi.
    Staub, Wendy Corsi.
    LILY DALE: AWAKENING.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Walker, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first in a series of paranormal suspense novels for young adults, set in the real town of Lily Dale in upstate New York (not far from where the author grew up), a spiritualist community founded in 1879. SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 0-8027-96540.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 62051
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  • SOMETHING BURIED, SOMETHING BLUE: A Lily Daly Mystery. by Staub, Wendy Corsi.
    Staub, Wendy Corsi.
    SOMETHING BURIED, SOMETHING BLUE: A Lily Daly Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crooked Lane Books, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second in a series of cozy mysteries, with a bit of the paranormal, set in the real town of Lily Dale in upstate New York (not far from where the author grew up), a spiritualist community founded in 1879. SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-1629537726.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket ("2016" written on front endpaper.)

    Book ID: 78303
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  • LILY DALE: AWAKENING. by Staub, Wendy Corsi.
    Staub, Wendy Corsi.
    LILY DALE: AWAKENING.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Walker, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first in a series of paranormal suspense novels for young adults, set in the real town of Lily Dale in upstate New York (not far from where the author grew up), a spiritualist community founded in 1879. SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 0-8027-96540.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (very short tear to bottom edge of dj) .

    Book ID: 50653
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  • SALTILLO BOYS. by Stoddard, William O. (1835-1925)
    Stoddard, William O. (1835-1925)
    SALTILLO BOYS.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882. Hardcover first edition - An early novel by this journalist and newspaper publisher, who had been one of Abraham Lincoln's three personal secretaries, and who later was a prolific and popular author of boys' adventure stories. This is an account of an educational experiment (where the boys had to "govern themselves") set in the years shortly before the Civil War - a roman a clef based on Stoddard's experiences at a Syracuse prep school in 1850. The publisher described it as a "narrative of bright, manly, and yet thoroughly boy-like life in an inland town, whose actual name and locality may be shrewdly guessed by those familiar with its characteristics. . . The…

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    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882. Hardcover first edition - An early novel by this journalist and newspaper publisher, who had been one of Abraham Lincoln's three personal secretaries, and who later was a prolific and popular author of boys' adventure stories. This is an account of an educational experiment (where the boys had to "govern themselves") set in the years shortly before the Civil War - a roman a clef based on Stoddard's experiences at a Syracuse prep school in 1850. The publisher described it as a "narrative of bright, manly, and yet thoroughly boy-like life in an inland town, whose actual name and locality may be shrewdly guessed by those familiar with its characteristics. . . The drift of the book is wholly on the side of frank, intelligent, and self-reliant manliness; and it is impossible for any boy to read it without absorbing a love for nobility of character, and forming higher aspirations." 362 pp.

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    Condition: Good overall in olive green cloth with dark blue lettering and decorations - significant spine slant, scattered light foxing, some wear to the covers - but still sturdy and easily readable.

    Book ID: 80414
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  • Straight, N.A.
    ARIABELLA: THE FIRST.

    Edition: First printing.

    NY: Random House, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young woman returns to her family's former vast estate on Naragansett Bay in attempt to find out what happened to Ariabella, her childhood friend. The author's first novel: the 'A.' in her name is for 'Auchincloss' and so she is familiar with the world of this novel, a world where the sprawling mansions were referred to in the society pages as 'summer cottages.'. ISBN: 394-49346X.

    Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped, slight fading to edges of dj.)

    Book ID: 27798
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  • THE SKY ISN'T VISIBLE FROM HERE. by Sullivan, Felicia C.
    Sullivan, Felicia C.
    THE SKY ISN'T VISIBLE FROM HERE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2008. First edition - A memoir of a childhood growing up in New York, with a drug addicted mother, and the author's divided life -as a successful college graduate who kept her past hidden - and one who was struggling with addiction herself. 255 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. Uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 59619
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  • Van Wormer, Laura.
    BENEDICT CANYON.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Crown, 1992. First edition - A story of the growing friendship between two women, set against the backdrop of the New York publishing world, and of the Los Angeles television industry.

    Condition: Good only - corner of ffep clipped, spine tilted, etc. - in glossy illus wrappers.

    Book ID: 2191
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  • Van Wormer, Laura.
    BENEDICT CANYON.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Crown, 1992. First edition - A story of the growing friendship between two women, set against the backdrop of the New York publishing world, and of the Los Angeles television industry.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. This advance issue is much less common than the hardcover edition which had a first printing of 75,000 copies.

    Book ID: 28411
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  • 23 SHADES OF BLACK. by Wishnia, K. J. A.
    Wishnia, K. J. A.
    23 SHADES OF BLACK.

    Edition: Book club edition: the first hardcover printing.

    New York: Signet, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover - An unusual first mystery, featuring a New York street smart cop who is originally from Ecuador - Filomena Buscarsela. Nominee for the Edgar. Originally published as a paperback original by a small press, so this book club edition is the first hardcover edition of this title. SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear to upper edge of front cover of dj)

    Book ID: 62075
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  • RED HOUSE. by Wishnia, K. J. A.
    Wishnia, K. J. A.
    RED HOUSE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring Filomena Buscarsela, a former New York street smart cop originally from Ecuador, now an apprentice to a private investigator. SIGNED on the title page. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-312-28182X.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 62076
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  • RED HOUSE. by Wishnia, K. J. A.
    Wishnia, K. J. A.
    RED HOUSE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring Filomena Buscarsela, a former New York street smart cop originally from Ecuador, now an apprentice to a private investigator. SIGNED on the title page. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-312-28182X.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)

    Book ID: 62663
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  • BLOOD LAKE. by Wishnia, K. J. A.
    Wishnia, K. J. A.
    BLOOD LAKE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery featuring Filomena Buscarsela, a former New York street smart cop originally from Ecuador, turned private investigator. In this novel, she takes her young daughter back to Ecuador to see their extended family, and a priest, who had helped her in the past, is gunned down in front of her. SIGNED on the title page. Highly recommended. Glossary, 324 pp. ISBN: 0-312-281862.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 62664
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  • BLOOD LAKE. by Wishnia, K. J. A.
    Wishnia, K. J. A.
    BLOOD LAKE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery featuring Filomena Buscarsela, a former New York street smart cop originally from Ecuador, turned private investigator. In this novel, she takes her young daughter back to Ecuador to see their extended family, and a priest, who had helped her in the past, is gunned down in front of her. SIGNED on the title page. Highly recommended. Glossary, 324 pp. ISBN: 0-312-281862.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a fine, unmarked, dust jacket .

    Book ID: 67049
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  • 23 SHADES OF BLACK. by Wishnia, K. J. A.
    Wishnia, K. J. A.
    23 SHADES OF BLACK.

    Edition: First paperback printing.

    New York: Signet, (1998). SIGNED - An unusual first mystery, featuring a New York street smart cop who is originally from Ecuador - Filomena Buscarsela. Nominated for the Edgar. SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-451-197488.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 66573
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  • AFTER TUPAC & D FOSTER. by Woodson, Jacqueline.
    Woodson, Jacqueline.
    AFTER TUPAC & D FOSTER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Story of three girls in Queens, NY in 1996, trying to make sense of an unpredictable world, united by the lyrics of Tupac Shakur and their confidence in the way he keeps coming back even after being shot. A Newbery Honor book, and an ALA Notable Book.SIGNED on the title page. 151 pp. ISBN: 9780399246548.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. First issue dust jacket without the Newbery medallion.

    Book ID: 60043
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