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THE WORK OF HANDS.
Edition: First printing.
Shutesbury, Massachusetts: Perugia Press, 2000. SIGNED first edition - Award -winning author's second collection of poetry containing poems which celebrate community from a woodcarver working hundreds of years ago at Anghor Wat to midwifery to one on helping a Haitian refugee obtain asylum. INSCRIBED on the title page. Notes. 67 pp. ISBN: 0-966045939.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 90938More details Price: $24.50 -
SECRETS AND SURPRISES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One of her best collections of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-394-503117.
Condition: Near fine in a very good+ dustjacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 65329More details Price: $30.00 -
CHERI and THE LAST OF CHERI.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, (1953.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First thus - the second volume in a series planned to present all of Colette's work in new translations and in a uniform binding. Originally published in 1920 and 1926, these two novels about the love affair between a young man and a charming older woman, were translated for this edition by Roger Senhouse from the 1949 complete works of Colette. 296 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in very good- dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, sunning to spine of dj, toning and minor edgewear. Original price of 3.50 still present.) Rather uncommon.
Book ID: 34443More details Price: $25.00 -
THE COLORS OF SNOW.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of Frankie Cleverdon, a successful painter, who decides to leave London and rent a Yorkshire cottage, hoping to find solitude and inspiration amid the harsh beauty of the English moors. One review called this a "complex, potent brew of love, religion, insanity, incest, suicide and murder." 233 pp. ISBN: 0-385417020.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84380More details Price: $17.50 -
CONVERSATIONS WITH LILLIAN HELLMAN.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, (1986.). Twenty-seven conversations with Lillian Hellman, arranged chronologically and ranging from early newspaper interviews on the occasions of the Broadway openings of her plays through longer talks with her which originally appeared in various journals, including the Paris Review, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. Among the interviewers were Rex Reed, Nora Ephron, Lucius Beebe, Dan Rather, Bill Moyer and many others. Topics ranged from playwriting to women's liberation, porno writer and her appearance before the House UnAmerican Committee. List of her books, chronology, index. xxvi, 298 pp. ISBN: 0-87805-2941.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 42932More details Price: $12.00 -
APRIL GOLD.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1945, c 1936) dj. Hardcover - After the death of their father, a brother and sister discover that all of his savings have been swept away also, but undaunted they move to a tiny house in an obscure section of the city. 308 pp.
Condition: Near fine in blue cloth in a near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 83337More details Price: $20.00 -
EVA'S MAN
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant, offsetting on endpapers, toning to cream background of dj)
Book ID: 88727More details Price: $150.00 -
GINGERBREAD.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2019. dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth novel by this award-winning writer, who, in 2013, was named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists. The story of a family - and especially of Harriet Lee and her teen-age daughter Perdita - whose legacy was a recipe for gingerbread. Described by the New York Times "a wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." 258 pp. ISBN: 978-1594634659.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the edges of the textblock)
Book ID: 84417More details Price: $20.00 -
THE FORTUNE CATCHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - told in multiple voices, this is the story of an Iranian-American woman, raised in the United States, who returns to her father's homeland in 1981, 3 years after the Revolution, to marry the man she loves. 436 pp. ISBN: 0-446520713.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81014More details Price: $18.50 -
THE SKY IS YOURS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hogarth, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised second novel, a "genre-defying epic set in a dystopian metropolis plagued by flying dragons." Named to many "best books of the year" lists, including The Wall Street Journal and NPR which stated that "Smiths gifts of imagination are staggering. . . . it filters youth through a warped yet poignantly canny speculative fiction lens. At the same time, its funny as hell, full of madcap detail, firecracker dialogue, and a healthy dose of absurdism in the face of darkness." Dust jacket praise from Paul Tremblay and Victor LaValle, among others. 457 pp. ISBN: 978-0451496263.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (a couple of dog-eared corners, minor edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 90560More details Price: $19.50 -
COUNTRY DAYS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of reminsences of mid-20th century Ireland, one which "takes her readers along the byways of Ireland and into the heart of the country. In stories by turn comic and poignant, she explores the character of family and friends, testing the bonds of concern and kindness which hold people together." 156 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88123More details Price: $16.50 -
THE DEEP BLUE MEMORY.
Edition: First printing.
Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The authors first novel is a story of "second-generation Basque-American who struggles to reconcile her memories of the simplicity of the past with the reality of change in the present." A title in the Basque Series, William A Douglas, editor. 157 pp. ISBN: 0-87417-2128.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59894More details Price: $17.50