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  • PHOTOGRAPHS. by Abbott, Berenice; Introduction by David Vestal and a foreword by Muriel Reykeser.
    Abbott, Berenice; Introduction by David Vestal and a foreword by Muriel Reykeser.
    PHOTOGRAPHS.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Washington and London / New York: Smithsonian Institution Press / Tenth Avenue Editions, (1990). First edition - A large trade paperback illustrated throughout with black and white photographs by Berenice Abbott, including many portraits and images of New York City, most full page. Introduction by David Vestal and a foreword by Muriel Reykeser. Includes a chronology and a list of articles and reviews of Abbott's work. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-874742110.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with self flaps.

    Book ID: 91061
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  • GRIEF STREET: A Neil Hockaday Mystery. by Adcock, Thomas.
    Adcock, Thomas.
    GRIEF STREET: A Neil Hockaday Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pocket Books, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh novel in the Edgar award series featuring NYC police detective Neil Hockaday set in Hell's Kitchen. SIGNED on title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-671519867.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88098
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  • DROWN ALL THE DOGS: A Neil Hockaday Mystery. by Adcock, Thomas.
    Adcock, Thomas.
    DROWN ALL THE DOGS: A Neil Hockaday Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pocket Books, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel in the Edgar award series featuring NYC police detective Neil Hockaday who journeys to Ireland twith Ruby Flagg to try and get more information about his father who disappeared in World War II. He visits "his last remaining relative, terminally ill Uncle Liam. But as Neil and Ruby fly into Dublin airport, back home in Hell's Kitchen, explosive events occur. A retired priest, a family friend from Neil's youth, shoots himself; a young Irish copper plunges naked to his death from an apartment; and Neil's cop pal Davy Mogaill, being interrogated about the bombing death of his Irish wife, answers by placing his own handgun…

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    New York: Pocket Books, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel in the Edgar award series featuring NYC police detective Neil Hockaday who journeys to Ireland twith Ruby Flagg to try and get more information about his father who disappeared in World War II. He visits "his last remaining relative, terminally ill Uncle Liam. But as Neil and Ruby fly into Dublin airport, back home in Hell's Kitchen, explosive events occur. A retired priest, a family friend from Neil's youth, shoots himself; a young Irish copper plunges naked to his death from an apartment; and Neil's cop pal Davy Mogaill, being interrogated about the bombing death of his Irish wife, answers by placing his own handgun to his ear. While Hockaday dreams about a heroic father he never met (he died in WW II), his flesh-and-blood da's past is gradually revealed, disclosing how the Irish hatred for England allowed a group of wartime academics to embrace fascist principles." (PW) SIGNED on title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-671770411.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 84170
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  • THROWN AWAY CHILD: A Neil Hockaday Mystery. by Adcock, Thomas.
    Adcock, Thomas.
    THROWN AWAY CHILD: A Neil Hockaday Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pocket Books, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in the Edgar award series featuring NYC police detective Neil Hockaday who has traveled to New Orleans, the hometown of his new wife, black actress Ruby Flagg. SIGNED on title page 340 pp. ISBN: 0-671519859.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 81201
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  • DEVIL'S HEAVEN. by Adcock, Thomas Larry.
    Adcock, Thomas Larry.
    DEVIL'S HEAVEN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pocket Books, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A gritty novel in the Edgar award series featuring NYC police detective Neil Hockaday who is now, he hopes, a recovering alcoholic. Still on furlough, he investigates a series of grisly murders in the gay community. SIGNED on title page 322 pp. ISBN: 0-671897780.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 81084
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  • ALOUD: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe. by Algarin, Miguel and Bob Holman, editors.
    Algarin, Miguel and Bob Holman, editors.
    ALOUD: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe.

    Edition: Later printing, a large trade paperback.

    New York: Henry Holt, (1994.). Anthology containing the works of over 100 modern American poets, including Martin Espada, Paul Beatty, Sapphire, Ntozake Shange, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Luis Rodriguez, Eileen Myles, Wanda Coleman, Thulani Davis, Victor Hernadez Cruz, Patricia Spears Jones, David Henderson, Sandra Maria Esteves, Patricia Smith, Luis J. Rodriguez and many others. The selected works were all first performed at New York City's Nuyorkian Poets' Cafe --- founded by poets Miguel Algarin, Miguel Pinero, and others. 1994 American Book Award Winner. Notes on the poets, 514 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-32576.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 87155
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  • SINGING IN THE SPIRIT: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City. by Allen, Ray.
    Allen, Ray.
    SINGING IN THE SPIRIT: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1991). First edition - An ethnomusicological study of the black 'spiritual entertainment' tradition in music, this is based on field recordings and interviews with dozens of local New York singers to tell the story of sacred quartet singing in New York City's African-American church community, as it evolved from 'a cappela' jubilee quartets in the 1920s to the exuberant gospel quartets of the 1950s and the smooth contemporary groups of the 1980s. It formed a symbolic bridge between the rural south and the realities of the urban north. A publication of the American Folklore Society. Photographs, notes at the end of each chapter, bibliography, index. xx, 268 pp. ISBN: 0-812213319.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new).

    Book ID: 84824
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  • IN THE MIDST OF WINTER. by Allende, Isabel.
    Allende, Isabel.
    IN THE MIDST OF WINTER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2017). First edition - A book which uses a madcap adventure involving three unlikely co-conspirators with illuminated the plight of undocumented immigrants and a transformation of three people who thought they were in the winter of their lives. It "opens with endearingly oblivious academic Richard Bowmaster, who is rattled after taking his cat to the vet, and rear-ends a car driven by Evelyn Ortega. Ortega is not in the country legally, its her bosss vehicle, and he's not the sort of person you want to cross (ask the dead body in the trunk)." Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson. 340 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to edge of textblock)

    Book ID: 82764
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  • IN THE MIDST OF WINTER. by Allende, Isabel.
    Allende, Isabel.
    IN THE MIDST OF WINTER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which uses a madcap adventure involving three unlikely co-conspirators with illuminated the plight of undocumented immigrants and a transformation of three people who thought they were in the winter of their lives. It "opens with endearingly oblivious academic Richard Bowmaster, who is rattled after taking his cat to the vet, and rear-ends a car driven by Evelyn Ortega. Ortega is not in the country legally, its her bosss vehicle, and he's not the sort of person you want to cross (ask the dead body in the trunk)." Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson. 340 pp. ISBN: 978-1501178139.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 82726
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  • CHAINS: Seeds of America. by Anderson, Laurie Halse.
    Anderson, Laurie Halse.
    CHAINS: Seeds of America.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young slave, sold to a Loyalist in New York City, spies for the revolutionaries in 1776, but does not get the freedom she is promised. A moving story of courage and determination. Finalist for the National Book Award for children's literature. 316 pp. ISBN: 9781416961444.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 61689
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  • HARLEM ON THE VERGE. by Attie, Alice; Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley.
    Attie, Alice; Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley.
    HARLEM ON THE VERGE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: The Quantuck Lane Press, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - A photographic look at Harlem's disappearing landscape, as it becomes more gentrified and more "sanitized." Illustrated with almost 100 full color, full page and very evocative photographs. Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley Large square format. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-971454876.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 75290
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  • THE DARK LADY. by Auchincloss, Louis.
    Auchincloss, Louis.
    THE DARK LADY.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel spanning three decades, from the 1930s to the McCarthy era of the 1950s, set in a New York where "birth and style count nearly as much as wealth" - the world that Auchincloss grew up in. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-395254027.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (small erasure spot on the front endpaper)

    Book ID: 76191
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  • Auchincloss, Louis.
    A WORLD OF PROFIT.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. Hardcover first edition - Novel about an old New York family - leaders of society and wealth for 300 years. 265 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in blue cloth, no dust jacket.

    Book ID: 39231
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  • STRIVERS ROW. by Baker, Kevin.
    Baker, Kevin.
    STRIVERS ROW.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: HarperCollins, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - The final novel in his 'City of Fire' trilogy begun with 'Dreamland.' This is set in 1943 Harlem and features a young Malcolm Little, the street hustler who would become the Civil Rights leader, Malcolm X. Glossary of names, words and expressions and notes on sources. 547 pp. ISBN: 9780060195830.

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

    Book ID: 58121
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  • SOMETHING LIKE BEAUTIFUL: One Single Mother's Story. by Bandele, Asha.
    Bandele, Asha.
    SOMETHING LIKE BEAUTIFUL: One Single Mother's Story.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - A frank and "powerful memoir about the hard realities of single motherhood. When Asha Bandele, a young poet, fell in love with a prisoner serving a twenty-to-life sentence and became pregnant with his daughter, she had reason to hope they would live together as a family. Soon after Nisa was born, Asha's dreams were shattered. Rashid was denied parole, and told he'd be deported to his native Guyana once released. Asha became a statistic: a single, black mother in New York City. On the outside, Asha kept it together. She had a great job at a high-profile magazine and a beautiful daughter whom she adored. But inside, she was…

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    New York: Harper Collins, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - A frank and "powerful memoir about the hard realities of single motherhood. When Asha Bandele, a young poet, fell in love with a prisoner serving a twenty-to-life sentence and became pregnant with his daughter, she had reason to hope they would live together as a family. Soon after Nisa was born, Asha's dreams were shattered. Rashid was denied parole, and told he'd be deported to his native Guyana once released. Asha became a statistic: a single, black mother in New York City. On the outside, Asha kept it together. She had a great job at a high-profile magazine and a beautiful daughter whom she adored. But inside, she was falling apart. This honest memoir tells of her descent into depression when her life should have been filled with love and joy. This is not only Asha's story, but the story of thousands of women who struggle daily with little help and much against them, and who believe they have no right to acknowledge their pain." Surprisingly uncommon in the first edition. 197 pp. ISBN: 978-0061710377.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 89390
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  • THE DAKOTA WINTERS. by Barbash, Tom.
    Barbash, Tom.
    THE DAKOTA WINTERS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2018). SIGNED first edition - Novel by this award-winning author set in 1979, the story of a family living in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination- a family saga and a history of a critical time in New York city and the country at large. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 76103
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  • THE DAKOTA WINTERS. by Barbash, Tom.
    Barbash, Tom.
    THE DAKOTA WINTERS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2018). First edition - Novel by this award-winning author set in 1979, the story of a family living in New York CityÕs famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John LennonÕs assassination- a family saga and a history of a critical time in New York city and the country at large. 324 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 77010
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  • Benioff, David..
    THE 25TH HOUR.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Benioff's first book, the story of the last night of freedom for Monty Brogan before he begins serving a seven-year jail term for drug dealing. Basis for the Spike Lee film starring Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox, and Anna Paquin. SIGNED on the title page. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-340822287.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. (usual light toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 61717
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  • RABBI ON FORTY-SEVENTH STREET: The Story of Her Father. by Birstein, Ann.
    Birstein, Ann.
    RABBI ON FORTY-SEVENTH STREET: The Story of Her Father.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dial Press, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of Bernard Birstein (1892-1959) by his youngest daughter - an account of his emigrant travels, his struggles and his growing family, and finally his years as a rabbi whose synagogue, close to Broadway in New York City, attracted many actors and performers from the nearby theaters xv, 202 pp. ISBN: 0-385274297.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (light remainder speckle to bottom edge, short tear to dj)

    Book ID: 83318
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  • Blauner, Peter.
    SLOW MOTION RIOT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, an Edgar winning mystery - the story of an 18 year old determined to be the head of his own crack cocaine kingdom in Harlem. The only thing standing between him and his dream is his probation officer. Cover praise from such diverse writers as Katherine Dunn, Andrew Vachss and Oliver Stone, among others. 431 pp. ISBN: 0-688-100686.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 4215
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  • Blauner, Peter.
    SLOW MOTION RIOT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, an Edgar winning mystery - the story of an 18 year old determined to be the head of his own crack cocaine kingdom in Harlem with the only thing standing between him and his dream is his probation officer. Cover praise from such diverse writers as Katherine Dunn, Andrew Vachss and Oliver Stone, among others. 431 pp. ISBN: 0-688-100686.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 37795
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  • SLOW MOTION RIOT. by Blauner, Peter.
    Blauner, Peter.
    SLOW MOTION RIOT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, winner of the Edgar award for best first novel. The story of an 18 year old determined to be the head of his own crack cocaine kingdom in Harlem - the only thing standing between him and his dream is his probation officer. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from such diverse writers as Katherine Dunn, Andrew Vachss and Oliver Stone, among others. 431 pp. ISBN: 0-688-100686.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 64622
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  • EVEN THE WICKED. by Block, Lawrence.
    Block, Lawrence.
    EVEN THE WICKED.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Matthew Scudder novel, set in New York City. SIGNED on the title page. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-688-141811.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 48940
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  • EVEN THE WICKED. by Block, Lawrence.
    Block, Lawrence.
    EVEN THE WICKED.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Orion, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - True first edition (preceding the US edition) of this Matthew Scudder novel, set in New York City. SIGNED on the title page. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-752804375.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 74689
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  • PLAY IT AGAIN. by Bogart, Stephen Humphrey.
    Bogart, Stephen Humphrey.
    PLAY IT AGAIN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by the son of Bogart and Bacall, which introduces "tough-talking, down-on-his-luck gumshoe R. J. Hooker. After a lonely childhood spent in the shadow of his famous movie-star parents, Hooker abandons the glamour of Hollywood for the chill of New York. Reduced to working as a 'matrimonial detective,' R. J. hasn't seen his glam-queen mother for months, but when she's murdered in cold blood, he uses street smarts, intuition, and his often nefarious contacts - in both Tinseltown and the Big Apple - -to track down the killer." [Booklist] 239 pp. ISBN: 0-312856652.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86277
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  • BADGER GAME. by Bowen, Michael.
    Bowen, Michael.
    BADGER GAME.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel, first mystery, set in New York City in 1962. The title refers to an avant-garde work of art - one which is found slashed to pieces, and the artist dead. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 298 pp. ISBN: 0-312028644.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some light toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 73936
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  • BADGER GAME. by Bowen, Michael.
    Bowen, Michael.
    BADGER GAME.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel, first mystery, set in New York City in 1962. The title refers to an avant-garde work of art - one which is found slashed to pieces, and the artist dead. 298 pp. ISBN: 0-312028644.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some light toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 82466
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  • THE LAST ILLUSION. by Bowen, Rhys.
    Bowen, Rhys.
    THE LAST ILLUSION.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in her award winning series set in early 20th century New York and featuring the spunky recent Irish immigrant Molly Murphy - in this book she is hired by Harry Houdini partly as an investigator, partly as a bodyguard. SIGNED on the title page. Historical note. 279 pp. ISBN: 978-0312628109.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 59987
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  • BLESS THE BRIDE. by Bowen, Rhys.
    Bowen, Rhys.
    BLESS THE BRIDE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (2011.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in her award winning series set in early 20th century New York and featuring the spunky recent Irish immigrant Molly Murphy. SIGNED on the title page. Historical note. 261 pp. ISBN: 978-0312628109.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 75008
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  • Brown, Claude.
    MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND.

    Edition: 4th printing.

    New York: Macmillan, (1965.) dj. Hardcover - Although this autobiography of growing up poor and Black in Harlem is now a classic at the time it was written, when Brown was still a young writer, just barely out of Harlem, it was a revolutionary and enlightening book. His goal was to "talk about the first Northern urban generation of Negroes... to talk about the experience of a misplaced generation, of a misplaced people in an extremely complex, confused society." . 415 pp.

    Condition: Ex-library with markings and reading wear, but in a dustjacket with tape repairs to the end of the spine of the dj, price-clipped, etc. Despite the flaws, a sturdy and good reading copy.

    Book ID: 37354
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