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MY TOWN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1995. First edition - Winner of the Western States Book Award in Poetry - the judges commented that "via low humor and tall tales, Lee searches for the soul of a small town where everybody knows if you flounder or fail." 137 pp. ISBN: 1-55659-0741.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 9779More details Price: $15.00 -
MY TOWN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1995. SIGNED first edition - Winner of the Western States Book Award in Poetry - the judges commented that "via low humor and tall tales, Lee searches for the soul of a small town where everybody knows if you flounder or fail." SIGNED on the title page. 137 pp. ISBN: 1-55659-0741.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 68313More details Price: $25.00 -
IN ALL THE ROOMS OF THE YELLOW HOUSE.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in yellow cloth (of course) in a near fine yellow dust jacket (light edgewear to the dj).
Book ID: 35749More details Price: $40.00 -
MY AMPUTATIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Fiction Collective. (1986.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Winner of the 1986 Western States Book Award for Fiction. SIGNED on half title page. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-914-590960.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 2005More details Price: $45.00 -
MY AMPUTATIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Fiction Collective. (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the 1986 Western States Book Award for Fiction. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-914-590960.
Condition: Ex-library with some markings, but overall tight and clean in a very near fine, unmarked, dust jacket.
Book ID: 47787More details Price: $17.50 -
MY AMPUTATIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Fiction Collective. (1986.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Winner of the 1986 Western States Book Award for Fiction. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-914-590960.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 87971More details Price: $35.00 -
AUGUST ZERO.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (1993). First edition - Her fourth collection of poems, winner of the Western States Book Award in poetry. 90 pp. ISBN: 1-55659061X.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67154More details Price: $15.00 -
THE IGUANA KILLER: Twelve Stories Of The Heart.
Edition: First printing.
Lewiston, Idaho: A Blue Moon and Confluence Press Book, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning Arizona born author's first collection of short fiction, winner of the 1984 Western States Book Award in Short Fiction. The twelve stories in this book are set along the Southwest border; they explore growing up Hispanic, and weave together three distinct worlds: Mexico, the United States, and childhood.SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with etchings by Antonio Pazos. The limited clothbound issue. 119 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-933188-285.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 45972More details Price: $65.00 -
MY NAME IS WILLIAM TELL: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon hardcover edition of this book, winner of the 1992 Western States Book Award Lifetime Achievement in Poetry. Index of titles. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-917652-975.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66301More details Price: $45.00 -
THE FEVER OF BEING.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Albuquerque: West End Press, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - Mexican American writer's second book and first collection of poetry - most in English, but some in Spanish. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the 1994 Western States Book Award for Poetry. 82 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in cream printed wrappers.
Book ID: 57160More details Price: $35.00 -
THE FEVER OF BEING.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Albuquerque: West End Press, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - Mexican American writer's third book and first collection of poetry - most in English, but some in Spanish. Winner of the 1994 Western States Book Award for Poetry. INSCRIBED on the title page "-- Hermano, love" and signed simply Luis. 82 pp. ISBN: 0-931122-783.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to upper corner of front cover).
Book ID: 59056More details Price: $28.50 -
IRON HOUSE: Stories from the Yard.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Ft. Bragg, CA: QED Press, 1994. First edition - Winner of the 1994 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. "His manuscripts were destroyed, his typewriter seized, his life threatened, but Jerome Washington wouldn't stop writing." Vietnam veteran (a medic from 1960-62), anti-war activist and writer, Washington was imprisoned in Attica and Green Haven for over 16 years - from 1972 to 1989. 159 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed wrappers. Publisher's material laid in. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 41801More details Price: $25.00 -
IRON HOUSE: Stories from the Yard.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Vintage Books, (1995). SIGNED - Winner of the 1994 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. "His manuscripts were destroyed, his typewriter seized, his life threatened, but Jerome Washington wouldn't stop writing." Vietnam veteran (a medic from 1960-62), anti-war activist and writer, Washington was imprisoned in Attica and Green Haven for over 16 years - from 1972 to 1989. SIGNED on the first page. Index of named places. 166 pp. ISBN: 0-679-764054.
Condition: Fine in printed wrappers.
Book ID: 74900More details Price: $15.00 -
LITTLE ALTARS EVERYWHERE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: HarperPerennial, 1996. The author's first book, winner of the Western States Book Award (the jurors cited this book as a 'hilariously sad immersion into the Walker family of Thornton, Lousiana.') Precedes her incredibly popular book - about the same Louisiana families - Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. ISBN: 0-06-0976845.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 15867More details Price: $11.50 -
LITTLE ALTARS EVERYWHERE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Seattle: Broken Moon Press, (1992). First edition - The author's first book, winner of the Western States Book Award (the jurors cited this book as a 'hilariously sad immersion into the Walker family of Thornton, Lousiana.') Precedes her incredibly popular book - about the same Louisiana families - Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. 224 pp. ISBN: 0913089257.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84342More details Price: $21.50