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JO GAR'S CASEBOOK.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
Norfolk, VA & Woodbridge, NJ: Crippen & Landru in association with Black Mask Press, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - #118 of 225 clothbound copies, individually numbered and SIGNED by both the editor, Keith Alan Deutsch, and the designer, Tom Roberts on the limitation page opposite the title page. Collects 18 stories featuring Jo Gar, the 'island detective' - that is, the Philippine Islands. Includes two introductions by E. R. Hagemann, "Black Mask's greatest outlaw scholar" and a remembrance of Hagemann by W. H. Miller, a publication history and an annotated bibliography of Whitfield works appearing in Black Mask. A title in the Tales from the Black Mask Morgue Series. 282 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads and the colophon. Laid in is a separate 14 pp pamphlet, fine in stapled illustrated wrappers, with the story "Scotty Scouts Around.". ISBN: 1-885941765.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 89936More details Price: $65.00 -
WHEN THE ELEPHANTS DANCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first novel, the story of a family trying to survive the Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands during World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-609609521.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80772More details Price: $30.00 -
WHEN THE ELEPHANTS DANCE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Crown, (2002.). SIGNED first edition - Her first novel, the story of a family trying to survive the Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands during World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80771More details Price: $28.50 -
FELISA AND THE MAGIC TIKLING BIRD
Edition: First printing.
Honolulu, Island Heritage Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a young Filipino girl who learns how to dance the Tinikling at her village's festival despite a crippled leg. Includes the musical notation for the Tinikling Dance with the lyrics in Tagalog. Colorfully illustrated by Martin Charlot. Square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-834830159.
Condition: Fair condition only in a good dust jacket (front hinge cracked, overall edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 71846More details Price: $13.50 -
KNEELING CARABAO AND DANCING GIANTS: Celebrating Filipino Festivals.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: Pacific View Press, (1997). Hardcover - Large format book full of information on the Philippine Islands, their festivals, legends and history. Colorfully illustrated by Ileana C. Lee. 48 pp. ISBN: 1881896153.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall very good in glossy illustrated boards..
Book ID: 62525More details Price: $15.00 -
PERIPHERAL VISIONS: Learning Along the Way.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. Sources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168595.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy, but with a remainder line).
Book ID: 43049More details Price: $15.00 -
PERIPHERAL VISIONS: Learning Along the Way.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Sources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168595.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43046More details Price: $30.00 -
STATE OF WAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (1988.). First edition - A novel of life in the Philippines, by this controversial and respected writer who became a political exile in New York in the 1970's, set during the reign of Marcos, "a time of enormous wealth and crushing poverty.. . With a spellbinding mixture of the fabulous and the terrifying, Rosca illuminates the culture, and the soul, of a nation in turmoil." 384 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 37902More details Price: $20.00