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ROUGH TRANSLATIONS.
Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (1985). Author's first book, a collection of short stories. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Assoc award and the 1986 Boston Globe Fiction award. ISBN: 0-8203-23705.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65746More details Price: $12.00 -
LIFE TIMES: Stories, 1952 - 2007.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A significant collection of the short fiction of this South African Nobel Prize winning author, containing 35 stories from 10 collections, spanning her career from 1952 to 2007, and including two new post 2007 stories. 549 pp. ISBN: 9780374270537.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56067More details Price: $20.00 -
THE MYSTERY OF THE HASTY ARROW.
Edition: First Canadian edition.
Toronto: William Briggs, 1917. Hardcover first edition - Classic mystery novel by the first American woman to write detective fiction, set in New York City and featuring detectives Ebenezer Gryce and Caleb Sweetwater. Illustrated by H. R. Ballinger with a frontispiece and seven inserted glossy plates. Printed from the US sheets. 412 pp.
Condition: Very good in olive green cloth with darker green lettering and orange arrow on front cover (two small bumps to side of spine)
Book ID: 61602More details Price: $60.00 -
SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1990.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes selections from five books, including her first book, Presentation Piece (1974), a National Book Award Winner; Separations (1976); Taking Notice (1980), which an important part of the feminist and lesbian canon; Assumptions (1985), which explored the conundrums of gender, race, and identity in contemporary life; and Going Back to the River (1990), which received a Lambda Literary Award. SIGNED on the title page. Index. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-393036758.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63277More details Price: $31.50 -
SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1990.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Norton, (1994). First edition - Includes selections from five books, including her first book, Presentation Piece (1974), a National Book Award Winner; Separations (1976); Taking Notice (1980), which an important part of the feminist and lesbian canon; Assumptions (1985), which explored the conundrums of gender, race, and identity in contemporary life; and Going Back to the River (1990), which received a Lambda Literary Award. Index. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-393313492.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86896More details Price: $16.50 -
THE WRITING ON MY FOREHEAD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young American Muslim woman, of Indo-Pakistani descent, who rebels against tradition and becomes a journalist traveling the world, until tragedy strikes and she finds solace and understanding in the stories of her family, SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy.)
Book ID: 51893More details Price: $30.00 -
ITALIAN DAYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Although Harrison was traveling to Italy to find her roots, in the Abruzzi village where her mother was born, this is an insightful, detailed and eloquently written look at the country as a whole, at its rich history and as it is now. Photographs. Bibliography. 479 pp. ISBN: 1555843115.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to front cover of dj, possibly a publication flaw.)
Book ID: 45297More details Price: $18.00 -
REQUIEM FOR THE SUN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2002.) dj. Hardcover - Seguel to the Rhapsody Trilogy. 462 pp. Map endpapers. Dust jacket design by Carol Russo, art by Royo. ISBN: 0-312-878842.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53090More details Price: $18.00 -
REASONS TO LIVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first book, a highly praised collection of 15 short stories, most set in California. 129 pp. ISBN: 0-394-539931.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a hint of sunning to the spine of the dj, toning to the dj flaps)
Book ID: 65863More details Price: $50.00 -
TIME TO BE IN EARNEST: A Fragment of Autobiography.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First edition - Taking Johnson's advice to heart that it is 'time to be in earnest' when one reaches 77, this is the first autobiographical work by this noted mystery writer, a memoir in the form of a diary of one year. 259 pp.
Condition: Very good in printed cream wrappers (prev owner's name, corners bumped.)
Book ID: 55307More details Price: $14.50 -
TIME TO BE IN EARNEST: A Fragment of Autobiography.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - Taking Johnson's advice to heart that it is 'time to be in earnest' when one reaches 77, this is the first autobiographical work by this noted mystery writer, a memoir in the form of a diary of one year. Photographs, index. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-375-41066x.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (blank bookplate on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 46302More details Price: $18.00 -
PHYSICAL CULTURE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Poseidon Press, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's uncommon first novel, one which explores "the stark, metaphorical world of a middle-aged man's hidden sexual obsessions." Harry Crews called this "the single most shattering novel I had read since Kosinski's The Painted Bird." SIGNED on the title page and dated in Eugene (Oregon) in the year of publication. 140 pp. ISBN: 0-671678183.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64945More details Price: $25.00 -
THE LACUNA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An epic journey from the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR and J. Edgar Hoover. . . A poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities." Awarded the 2010 Women's Prize for Fiction. 507 pp. ISBN: 9780060852573.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68418More details Price: $21.50 -
THE LACUNA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An epic journey from the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR and J. Edgar Hoover. . . A poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities." Awarded the 2010 Women's Prize for Fiction. 507 pp. ISBN: 9780060852573.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, but with a remainder line)
Book ID: 55259More details Price: $18.50 -
EXIT: The Endings That Set Us Free.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The tenth book by this MacArthur prize-winning sociologist, who is the first African-American woman in Harvard's history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor. A book which explores the ways in which we leave one thing and move on to another, from long farewells to quick goodbyes and sudden endings, both ordinary and extraordinary. Notes, selected sources. 259 pp. ISBN: 978-0374151195.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (bit of rubbing to dj)
Book ID: 76758More details Price: $18.50 -
MEETING ROZZY HALFWAY
Edition: First printing.
New York: Seaview Books, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - based on the short story which won first prize in the Redbook Young Writers Contest - the story of two sisters, very different from each other, but also incomplete without the other. SIGNED on the title page with a small doodle. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-87223-684X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.(price-clipped, a bit of wear at ends of spine of dj.) Uncommon, especially signed.
Book ID: 56557More details Price: $40.00 -
SEARCHING FOR TINA TURNER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2010.). SIGNED first edition - Author's first novel, a story about a woman in crisis who looks to the life story of singer Tina Turner for strength. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Promotional bookmark laid in.
Book ID: 53276More details Price: $25.00 -
THE YEAR SHE LEFT US.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The first novel by this writer who has won awards for her short stories, a tale of "three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family who must confront their past and carve out a future".. . A book which illuminates "the bonds of family and blood, explores the promise and pain of adoption, the price of assimilation and achievement, the debt we owe to others, and what we owe ourselves." SIGNED and dated on the title page. Author's note. 323 pp. Promotional postcard laid in.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78770More details Price: $30.00 -
SIGHT LINES: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Midmarch Arts Press, (1998). SIGNED first edition - A collection of poetry, INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2006. Illustrated with black and white photographs by Judy Seigel. Cover praise from Cynthia Ozick, Maxine Kumin and F.D. Reeve. 97 pp. ISBN: 187767527X.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67036More details Price: $20.00 -
THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. First edition - A novel by the author of 'The Emperor's Children.' The story of a 40 year old woman, a good girl and dutiful daughter, a teacher, who longs for something more than the ordinary in life, but finds herself betrayed by her passion. SIGNED on the title page. 253 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 57488More details Price: $35.00 -
PAPERBACK THRILLER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel under this pseudonym, a bibliomystery featuring psychiatrist Sarah Chayse - resourceful, determined, analytical, a tough vegitarian and a liberated woman - who is drawn into a problem involving medical ethics and murder. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-895943875.
Condition: Good only in a good dust jacket (slight spine slant, remainder mark, short closed tear and edgewear to dj).
Book ID: 84266More details Price: $16.50 -
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 -
WRAITHS AND CHANGELINGS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Michael Joseph, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of Mitchell's later books, featuring, of course, Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley - 191 pp. Striking dust jacket by Mynheer. ISBN: 0-7181-1984..
Condition: Ex-library with the usual and spine slant, in in a near fine unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 72134More details Price: $60.00 -
NEAR PERFECT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American writer's third novel, a story of friendship, of a 'perfect life' in upheaval, and about confronting sometimes painful truths. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-525-946217.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56223More details Price: $16.50 -
LIKE LIFE: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth book, 2nd collection of short stories. Moore was selected as one of the 20 best young American writers by Granta magazine. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-394-58101-6.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 65872More details Price: $45.00 -
SLIPPY McGEE, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: The Century Company, 1920. Hardcover - Southern author's first novel, the story of a priest in a small and poor South Carolina town, who takes in the notorious safe-cracker Slippy McGee after he barely survives the loss of his leg from a train accident. Basis for two films, in 1923 and again in 1948. 405 pp.
Condition: Good condition in dark green cloth with black lettering.
Book ID: 72730More details Price: $18.00 -
WEST WIND: Poems and Prose Poems.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 40 new poems and a few prose poems by this award-winning writer, including 19 which had not previously been published. One review described her as a 'poet of wisdom and generosity' and these poems fit that definition, deceptively simple and lovely and very human, many inspired by Cape Cod, where she lived and wrote. Oliver was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. 63 pp. ISBN: 0-395850827.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82634More details Price: $45.00 -
THE BUBBLE REPUTATION
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by an author who has been highly praised, by writers as diverse as Stephen King and Florence King, and who was the winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction, but who is not as widely read as she should be. SIGNED on the title page. This is a wonderful story of an oddball family in rural Maine. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-517-59311-4.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 61141More details Price: $28.50 -
THE MINIATURE .
Edition: First printing.
London: Watts & Co., (1926). Hardcover first edition - Uncommon first edition of this fantasy about Zeus creating Earth and our solar system to prove to the other gods that he can design in miniature; the gods observe human evolution ending with the splitting of the atom. 125 pp.
Condition: Near fine in the original blue cloth with front and spine stamped in gold, top edge gilt (bookplate, slightly overopened at p 10, but the covers are as bright and beautiful as when the book was first published, binding is sturdy.)
Book ID: 58307More details Price: $50.00 -
BREAKING CAMP: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. (1968.). First edition - The first book length collection of her poetry.74 pp.
Condition: Very good in gray illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name, some rubbing and wear to the covers).
Book ID: 63106More details Price: $15.00