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RONNIE AND DON.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (previous owner's name, several chips to the dj, tear along the fold of the front flap, original price of 2.50 still present.) .
Book ID: 85306More details Price: $75.00 -
ALBERTA AND FREEDOM.
Edition: First printing.
London: Peter Owen, (1963.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first appearance in English of the second volume in this Norwegian writer's autobiographical "Alberta" trilogy, originally published in Norway in 1931. This volume is set in Paris, where Sandel lived in the early 20th century. Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan. 241 pp. Uncommon in the hardcover first edition.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name; a laminate has been added to the dj, which protected the dj, but which has also yellowed a bit with age.)
Book ID: 46318More details Price: $25.00 -
TYPING IN THE DARK.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Harlem River Press, (1991.). SIGNED first edition - Collection of poetry illustrated with photographs by Nathaniel Bellamy, Gerald Cyrus, Calvin Hicks and Adele Hodge. SIGNED on the title page. 77 pp plus list of photo credits. ISBN: 0-86316-305x.
Condition: Good overall - crease to corners of covers.
Book ID: 45933More details Price: $16.50 -
THE ORANGE FISH.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: Random House, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve short stories, SIGNED on the title page. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-394221001.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66102More details Price: $65.00 -
JACK OF DIAMONDS and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A richly nuanced collection of five long short stories by one of the best contemporary Southern writers. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0122524.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (remainder line)
Book ID: 63899More details Price: $16.50 -
JACK OF DIAMONDS and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A richly nuanced collection of five long short stories by one of the best contemporary Southern writers. SIGNED on the title page. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0122524.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (remainder line)
Book ID: 52541More details Price: $35.00 -
THE WEATHERCOCK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth collection of poems by this California poet - cover praise from Kenneth Rexroth who comments on the 'illuminating clarity' of her work. 60 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (ownership of poet Elizabeth LaPlace [Harrod], light foxing to endpapers, toning to the dust jacket, especially on the spine, and light edgewear.)
Book ID: 62463More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LORD'S MOTEL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Persea Books, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a story of the single life as lived by a woman originally from Boston but now a librarian in Texas. Comments by Frederick Barthelme, Beverly Lowry and Rosellen Brown on back cover: (who mentioned "her dazzled, vulnerable, and knowing voice.") SIGNED on the title page and dated in 1993. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-89255-178x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47714More details Price: $30.00 -
OLDTOWN FOLKS.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Good overall in embossed terra cotta cloth - some general wear and fraying to the edges, hinges starting, previous owner's name, but still a sturdy and very readable copy.
Book ID: 43704More details Price: $45.00 -
CHILDREN AND OTHER PEOPLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this often overlooked writer. Although referred to as a regionalist, she said she wrote about "people, situations, and their meaning." Her fiction was often set in Iowa, but she had traveled widely herself and she was not parochial in outlook. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1933. 277 pp.
Condition: Very good in salmon cloth with dark blue panels, no dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 64724More details Price: $40.00 -
THE COLOUR.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning author set during the mid-nineteenth century gold rush in New Zealand. In 1983, Tremain was one of 20 writers chosen as the "Best of Young British Novelists." 382 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-374126054.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 68111More details Price: $17.50 -
NATIVE GUARD: Poems
Edition: First thus.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An attractive new edition of the author's Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. SIGNED on the title page. This edition includes a cd of the poems read by the author. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-547-05548X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) CD pocket is still unopened.
Book ID: 86389More details Price: $65.00 -
NATIVE GUARD: Poems
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The very uncommon true hardcover first edition of this Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-618-604634.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86390More details Price: $175.00 -
KULASYON: Uninterrupted Vigils.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Quezon City, Philippines: Giraffe Books, 1995. SIGNED first edition - Introduction by Leonard Casper. A collection of excerpts from her nine published historical novels and one novel still in progress - 'The Stranded Whale.' INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1996. 155 pp. ISBN: 971896722.
Condition: Very good in stiff pink glossy wrappers.
Book ID: 53801More details Price: $25.00 -
NOAH'S COMPASS.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. First edition - A novel by this author whom John Updike called "wickedly good" - the story of a schoolteacher, forced to retire at 61, coming to terms with the rest of his life. With an announced first printing of 300,000 copies, this advance issue is much less common than the trade edition. 276 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed blue wrappers with the art from the dust jacket cover bound in.
Book ID: 66982More details Price: $30.00 -
TO BE SOMEONE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Crown, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, the story of a woman rock musician, and popular disk jockey, who finds her life in a shambles after a night of partying ends in a horrible accident. The author worked for years in the music industry, which gives this novel an authentic feel. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-609-608924.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 45231More details Price: $16.00 -
THE MAN WHO SHOOK HANDS.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of poems, "poignant, provocative and personal," by this award winning California writer. SIGNED on the front endpaper with a tiny doodle. 118 pp. ISBN: 0-38513407X.
Condition: Very near fine in a fair only dustjacket.(tear to back cover of dj, chipping along the top edge and other wear)
Book ID: 65860More details Price: $25.00 -
LAPSE OF TIME.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
San Francisco: China Books, (1988.). First edition - A collection of one novella and six short stories by the "most popular woman writer of Shanghai," stories which depict the humanism underneath the Cultural Revolution and in the movement away from it. Introduction by Jeffrey Kinkley. Translated by Howard Goldblat, Gladys Yang and others. A title in the New Chinese Fiction series, with cover praise from Tillie Olsen and Maxine Hong Kingston. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-8351-20325.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66762More details Price: $13.50 -
FIFTY-ONE POEMS: Hitherto Unpublished in Book Form.
Edition: First American edition (from the British sheets)
New York: Dutton, n.d. (ca 1946) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems found among the papers of Webb's husband after his death, and arranged by him for publication. Illustrated with wood engravings by Joan Hassell. 65 pp.
Condition: Very good in a fair only dust jacket with several chips, edgewear, price-clipped.
Book ID: 58897More details Price: $18.00 -
THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Random House, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A seemingly slight story of a young woman who returns from Chicago to her childhood home in Mississippi after the death of her father, and in doing so, she confronts parts of her past and comes to a better understanding of herself - but a story imbued with Welty's artistry. A Pulitzer prize winning novel. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-394-480171.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (lower edge of front board slightly bumped, some staining to the dj).
Book ID: 57245More details Price: $25.00 -
IN HIS COUNTRY.
Edition: First printing.
Ann Arbor, MI: Generation, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of poems. Introduction by Willford Squires. A title in the Generation New Poets series.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (tear along fold of rear flap, some creasing at bottom of back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 20195More details Price: $45.00 -
IN HIS COUNTRY.
Edition: First printing.
Ann Arbor, MI: Generation, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of poems. Introduction by Willford Squires. A title in the Generation New Poets series.
Condition: Near fine in a somewhat edgeworn and soiled dustjacket (toning to the spine of the mostly white dj, stamp from a "memorial lending library specializing in women's studies" on the front endpaper. No other markings.
Book ID: 11539More details Price: $35.00
