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VINEGAR HILL.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Avon, (1998.). Set in 1972, this is the story of Ellen, who finds herself living with her in-laws, narrrow-minded, rigid, eccentric, former farmers, Catholics who live in a world 'as rigid, as precise as a church.' A quiet, intense novel, often poetic in its language - Amy Tan called the author ".a powerful storyteller with lyrical gifts and a wry, observant eye." 240 pp. ISBN: 0-670852538.
Condition: Very good condition.
Book ID: 47045More details Price: $10.00 -
MIDWIVES.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (1998.). Author's highly praised novel of a midwife in rural Vermont, who takes desperate steps to save a baby's life, and finds herself on trial for murder. Winner of the NEBA Discover Award. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-375-706771.
Condition: Very good condition (light crease on front cover.)
Book ID: 37657More details Price: $10.00 -
WHAT LOOKS LIKE CRAZY ON AN ORDINARY DAY.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Avon, 1998. African American writer's first novel, set in a "sleepy North Michigan community." 244 pp. ISBN: 0-380-79487x.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 35543More details Price: $10.00 -
BREATH, EYES, MEMORY.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (1998). SIGNED - Young Haitian's first book - in 1996, Danticat was one of 2 African American writers who were included in the Granta magazine's list of the 20 most promising young writers in the United States. This title was also an Oprah selection. SIGNED by the author, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70504x.
Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 63632More details Price: $19.50 -
BREATH, EYES, MEMORY.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (1998). SIGNED - Young Haitian's first book - in 1996, Danticat was one of 2 African American writers who were included in the Granta magazine's list of the 20 most promising young writers in the United States. This title was also an Oprah selection. SIGNED by the author, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70504x.
Condition: Very good (usual toning to the pages, crease to corner of front cover)
Book ID: 63633More details Price: $18.50 -
THE CORRECTIONS.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Franzen's massive third novel, winner of the National Book Award winner, finalist for Pulitzer Prize and a controversial Oprah pick, when he declined to appear on the Oprah show. SIGNED on the tile page. 587 pp. ISBN: 0-374-129983.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84793More details Price: $30.00 -
MOTHER OF PEARL.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Hyperion, 1999. dj. Hardcover - Author's first book, a novel set in a small Mississippi town in the 1950s - dustjacket praise from Pat Conroy, Chita Divakaruni, Shelby Hearon and David Bradley - a varied and impressive list of authors. 445 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66276.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 26048More details Price: $13.50 -
MOTHER OF PEARL.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Hyperion, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first book, a novel set in a small Mississippi town in the 1950s - dustjacket praise from Pat Conroy, Chita Divakaruni, Shelby Hearon and David Bradley - a varied and impressive list of authors. SIGNED on the title page. 448 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66276.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 47744More details Price: $25.00 -
SHE'S COME UNDONE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel (Walter Kirn called it a 'powerful, heartbreaking monster of a novel) - one which became very sought after as an early choice on Oprah. A New York Times Notable book. This is the true first edition in the dust jacket with a burgundy spine and back cover and illustrated by Greg Ragland. 405 pp. ISBN: 0-671-759205.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 56439More details Price: $45.00 -
SHE'S COME UNDONE
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pocket Books, (1992.) dj. First edition - Author's highly praised first novel (Walter Kirn called it a 'powerful, heartbreaking monster of a novel) - one which became very sought after as an early choice on Oprah. A New York Times Notable book. A surprisingly uncommon advance issue. 405 pp.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 56440More details Price: $45.00 -
SHE'S COME UNDONE
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Washington Square Press Books, (1996.). Author's highly praised first novel (Walter Kirn called it a 'powerful, heartbreaking monster of a novel) - one which became very sought after as an early choice on Oprah. A New York Times Notable book. 465 pp. Cover design by Jeanne M. Lee. ISBN: 0-671-003755.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 56441More details Price: $11.50 -
THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's very highly praised first novel, the story of the children of the Great Migration in the 1920s. 243 pp. ISBN: 9780385350280.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (first issue dj without the Oprah sticker, crease to corner of flap of dj)
Book ID: 63272More details Price: $18.50 -
GAP CREEK.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1999. dj. Hardcover - The story of a strong Southern mountain woman. An Oprah selection with the seal on the front cover. 326 pp. ISBN: 1565122968.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48970More details Price: $10.00 -
SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 50342More details Price: $9.50 -
SULA.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Penguin / Plume, (1982.). Second novel by this Nobel prize winning writer, originally published in 1974. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-452-263492.
Condition: Very good overall (corner slightly bumped, no spine creases).
Book ID: 38101More details Price: $8.50 -
SULA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this Nobel prize winning writer, the story of the friendship of two young women, who met as twelve year old girls - both smart, both poor, both black - in a small Ohio town, but whose lives took very different paths. A pre-publication copy -laid in is a short typed note from a Knopf representative to a New York based film agency dated in November 1973, two months before the book was published, saying that "Here is the copy you asked to see . . . It will be published in January" and emphasizing that this is not an official submission. 174 pp. Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-394-480449.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket - a tight copy with bright orange covers, and an attractive dustjacket with just a little toning to the white background on the flaps and back cover.
Book ID: 56514More details Price: $750.00 -
SULA.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover - Second novel by this Nobel prize winning writer, originally published in 1974, the story of the friendship of two young women, who met as twelve year old girls - both smart, both poor, both black - in a small Ohio town, but whose lives took very different paths. 174 pp. Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-394-480449.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87281More details Price: $24.50 -
STOLEN LIVES: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
Edition: Later printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38128More details Price: $10.00 -
THE READER.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (1998.). Novel set in postwar Germany, a haunting and erotic tale of love and secrets, horror and compassion. A NY Times Notable book and a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Translated by Carol Brown Janeway. Basis for the movie of the same name. ISBN: 0-375-707972.
Condition: Very good in wrappers (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 47056More details Price: $11.50 -
DROWNING RUTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel set on a remote farm in Wisconsin in the years after World War I. SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 0-385-502532.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (with the Oprah seal on front cover.)
Book ID: 15987More details Price: $28.50 -
DROWNING RUTH.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Doubleday, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's highly praised first novel set on a remote farm in Wisconsin in the years after World War I. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-385-49971X.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (neat prev owner's name, tear and bumping to side of spine on upper front cover, corners bumped.)
Book ID: 26414More details Price: $20.00 -
DROWNING RUTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel set on a remote farm in Wisconsin in the years after World War I. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-385-502532.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dustjacket (with the Oprah seal on front cover.)
Book ID: 41395More details Price: $25.00