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THE MORAL FRAMEWORKS OF PUBLIC LIFE: Gender, Politics, and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a detailed look at a specific group of people - farmers in rural New York - starting at a time when feminist activity was at its height. Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5064526.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26031More details Price: $14.50 -
THIS SIDE OF INNOCENCE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Scribner's, 1946. dj. Hardcover - Novel set in upstate New York in the years after the Civil War.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (front hinge cracked, some edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 20318More details Price: $12.50 -
THIS SIDE OF INNOCENCE.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Scribner's, 1947. Hardcover - Novel set in upstate New York in the years after the Civil War. 499 pp.
Condition: Good only in tan cloth (prev owner's name and address, some overall wear, lacking the dj.)
Book ID: 35642More details Price: $12.50 -
THIS SIDE OF INNOCENCE.
Edition: Early reprint.
New York: Sun Dial Press, (1947.) dj. Hardcover - Novel set in upstate New York in the years after the Civil War. 499 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a just about fine and very attractive vintage dustjacket. While not an uncommon title, it is uncommon in this condition,
Book ID: 39703More details Price: $20.00 -
THE WIDE HOUSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the 1850's in a small town of the shores of Lake Erie in northwestern New York State - the story of a matriach, Janie Cauder, a widow who immigrated to the US from England with her four children, but also a story of the waves of intolerance - anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism - that swept over parts of America in the 1850's. 533 pages.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (some general edgewear to the dj, loss of about 1/8 inch at the top of the spine, but overall quite bright and reasonably attractive. Relatively uncommon in the first edition in dust jacket.
Book ID: 38942More details Price: $45.00 -
IN THE HANDS OF THE SENECAS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1947. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which follows the women and children taken captive in a raid by the Senecas on the frontier outpost of Dygartsbush in upstate New York in 1778, as they followed the long trail back to the native villages. Duotone frontispiece and illustrated title page and dust jacket art by Alan Tompkins. 213 pp. Illustrated map endpapers.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacke (foxing to edges of textblock, some edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 78552More details Price: $18.00 -
AGAINST GRAVITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set mostly in a small town in upstate New York, a book which "paints the numbing routine of lives which appear stagnant but are fraught with violent change." Warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page "For --- whose poetry defies gravity" and dated in the year of publication. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-684-800918.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (lower corner of a some pages bumped).
Book ID: 64944More details Price: $30.00 -
CARPENTER'S GOTHIC.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38647More details Price: $25.00 -
CARPENTER'S GOTHIC.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket. (remainder mark, edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 38649More details Price: $12.50 -
ARCADIA FALLS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 77605More details Price: $27.50 -
MISSING MOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An unusual novel - with a memorable central character - by one of America's most prolific writers. Set in upstate New York. SIGNED on the title page. 434 pp. ISBN: 0-06-081621x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81155More details Price: $30.00 -
CARTHAGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the Adirondacks where a young girl has disappeared, and all of the evidence points to a troubled young Iraq war veteran. SIGNED on the title page. 482 pp. ISBN: 978-0062208125.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82819More details Price: $45.00 -
MOHAWK.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (1994). SIGNED - Novel set in a small town in upstate New York which lies "almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks." SIGNED on the title page. 418 pp. ISBN: 0-679-753826.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63229More details Price: $21.50 -
MOHAWK.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Vintage Books, (1989). Novel set in a small town in upstate New York which lies "almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks." A title in the Vintage Contemporary series. 418 pp. ISBN: 0-679-725776.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (toning to the pages).
Book ID: 85458More details Price: $12.50 -
SMOKING TECHNOLOGY OF THE ABORIGINES OF THE IROQUOIS AREA OF NEW YORK STATE.
Edition: First printing.
Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed examination of the tobacco pipes and related objects used by the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy - Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, Onondaga - in the New York state region. Illustrated throughout with 191 figures including drawings, black and white photographs, maps and charts. Bibliography, index. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-8386-75689.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, some edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 58834More details Price: $50.00