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OPAL ON DRY GROUND.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87471More details Price: $25.00 -
THE MANIKIN.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1998. SIGNED - Part coming of age story, part gothic mystery, this is set on an estate (the 'Manikin' of the title) in upstate New York in 1917. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. ISBN: 0-8050-55916.
Condition: SIGNED on title page. Very good+.
Book ID: 25459More details Price: $17.50 -
MAKE BELIEVE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th novel by this highly praised writer, the story of a 4 year old boy of mixed race parentage, who becomes the center of a custody battle between his grandparents, when his mother is killed in an automobile accident. Dustjacket praise from Michael Cunningham, David Foster Wallace and others. Hard cover review copy with publisher's material laid in. SIGNED on the title page. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-316-776165.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 25523More details Price: $30.00 -
FADING, MY PARMACHEENE BELLE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - lately Scott has begun to get the attention she deserves, and this wonderful novel is a pleasurable discovery. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-89919-4516.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket. (even sunning to spine - a little rubbing to side of spine).
Book ID: 25646More details Price: $60.00 -
FADING, MY PARMACHEENE BELLE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - lately Scott has begun to get the attention she deserves, and this wonderful novel is a pleasurable discovery. ISBN: 0-89919-4516.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dustjacket (edgewear to dj, several closed tears, including a long one at the fold of the rear flap, rubbing)
Book ID: 33735More details Price: $16.00 -
THE MANIKIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1996.) dj. SIGNED - Part coming of age story, part gothic mystery, this is set on an estate (the 'Manikin' of the title) in upstate New York in 1917. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her fourth novel, fifth book. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-55916.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 35834More details Price: $20.00 -
MAKE BELIEVE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th novel by this highly praised writer, the story of a 4 year old boy of mixed race parentage, who becomes the center of a custody battle between his grandparents, when his mother is killed in an automobile accident. Dustjacket praise from Michael Cunningham, David Foster Wallace and others. SIGNED on the title page. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-316-776165.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80565More details Price: $28.50 -
ARROGANCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel, based on the life of the Austrian expressionist painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) and on the women - sister, lovers, wife - who influenced him. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the Pen Faulkner award. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-671-695479.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80713More details Price: $35.00 -
VARIOUS ANTIDOTES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised young author's first collection of short stories, fourth book. Finalist for the 1995 Pen/Faulkner award. Scott was a regional finalist in the Granta selection of the best young American writers. ISBN: 0-8050-2647-9.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (rem line.)
Book ID: 16836More details Price: $16.00 -
THE LUCKY GOURD SHOP.
Edition: First printing.
Denver: MacMurray & Beck, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel. The mother of three adopted Korean children, now teenagers, tries to help them find their birth parents in Korea. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 1-878448-013.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 21359More details Price: $30.00 -
SHADOW MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this award-winning writer which, more than her other science fiction books, focuses explicitly on issues of sexuality and gender. Glossary. winner of the Lambda award for best SF. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-312858000.
Condition: Very near fine in a near dustjacket.
Book ID: 73173More details Price: $18.50 -
POINT OF DREAMS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third collaboration between these two authors, a fantasy novel set in the city-state Astreiant, a "late-Renaissance world where magic works, where astrologers and necromancers are the pundits and powerbrokers" and where murder and magic threaten the royal city. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-312867824.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's material laid in.
Book ID: 74006More details Price: $25.00 -
POINT OF HOPES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second collaboration between these two authors, and the first in a series of fantasy novels set in the city-state Astreiant, a "late-Renaissance world where magic works, where astrologers and necromancers are the pundits and powerbrokers" and which is bracing itself for trouble that usually accompanies the Midsummer Fair. 384 pp. Dust jacket art by Kevin Eugene Johnson. ISBN: 0-312858442.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's material laid in.
Book ID: 74007More details Price: $25.00 -
THE STORY OF MRS MURPHY.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Dutton, 1947. dj. Hardcover - The story of Jimmy Murphy, son of a large family, loved by many women and of his inexorable decline due to alcoholism - the real Mrs Murphy is the bottle. Book of the Month Club brochure with a review by Clifton Fadiman laid in. 445 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket.(prev owner's name mostly hidden by dj flap, overall edgewear to the dj, loss of about 1/2 inch at top of dj spine, but still an attractive vintage volume.)
Book ID: 70467More details Price: $12.50 -
PEELING: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Baltimore: Chestnut Hills Press/New Poets Series, 1989. First edition - A collection of poems which "strip away our comfortable assumptions about life in the fast lane. .. Sex, blues, booze, failed love, an auto crash, victimized women and fragmented lives syncopate up and down the pages." (Collette Inez.) Illustrated with several full page black and white photographs. 61 pp. ISBN: 0-932616275.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to front cover)
Book ID: 68412More details Price: $10.00 -
DIRT CREEK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Flatiron Books, (2022). First edition - Australian author's first novel, introducing Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels, still reeling from a break-up with her girlfriend, who is sent to a small town where a twelve year old girl disappeared on her way home from school. Told in numerous voices, which bring this dying town to life. 328 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (some curling to the covers)
Book ID: 87052More details Price: $19.50 -
THE BLACK DIAMOND RING.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Stratford, ONT: The Mercury Press, 1994. First edition - Her second book, a collection of short stories. ISBN: 1-55128-013-2.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 17076More details Price: $15.00 -
EXPIRATION DATES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89216More details Price: $17.50 -
THE ALMOST MOON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Little Brown, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - A searing novel of twenty-four hours in the life of a woman who has stepped over the line into the unthinkable. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp.
Condition: Fine in red illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 46399More details Price: $25.00 -
THE LOVELY BONES.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - the story of a family's struggle after the disappearance and murder of their fourteen year old daughter, as told by that daughter. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-316-666343.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 60829More details Price: $15.00 -
TANTE .
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Century, 1912 (c 1911). Hardcover - Novel by this writer who was born in the US, but moved to England as a child and spent the remainder of her life there. The story of a young girl, the ward of a great pianist and a jealous woman, whom she called "Tante, " this was a best-selling novel at the time - number 9 in 1912 according to the NY Times. Basis for the 1919 film "The Impossible Woman." Vintage novel attractively bound in red cloth with a black embossed flower design and gold stamping on the front cover and spine. 437 pp plus 1 pp list of other books by Sedgwick.
Condition: Very good condition (prev owner's name and "Chico,1912.")
Book ID: 75246More details Price: $20.00 -
TANTE .
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Century, 1911. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this writer who was born in the US, but moved to England as a child and spent the remainder of her life there. The story of a young girl, the ward of a great pianist and a jealous woman, whom she called "Tante, " this was a best-selling novel at the time - number 9 in 1912 according to the NY Times. Basis for the 1919 film "The Impossible Woman." Vintage novel attractively bound in red cloth with a black embossed flower design and gold stamping on the front cover and spine. 437 pp plus 1 pp list of other books by Sedgwick.
Condition: Very good condition (some spine slant) While not a scarce book, it is relatively uncommon in the first edition.
Book ID: 75248More details Price: $27.50 -
THE HANDYMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of humor and wisdom, set in a California that doesn't quite live up to anyone's dreams. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material and a photograph laid in. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-375-50155x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82354More details Price: $35.00 -
THE HANDYMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of humor and wisdom, set in a California that doesn't quite live up to anyone's dreams. SIGNED on the title page. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-375-50155x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 25456More details Price: $28.50 -
THE HANDYMAN.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Random House, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover - A novel of humor and wisdom, set in a California that doesn't quite live up to anyone's dreams. SIGNED on the title page. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-375-50155x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 25457More details Price: $20.00 -
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the very near future - in a world where the boundaries between real danger and imaginary threats becomes blurred. Cover praise from such diverse writers as Ursula Le Guin, Pete Dexter, Kevin Starr and others. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-679-463178.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 44547More details Price: $32.50 -
GOLDEN DAYS.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Century Hutchinson, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A wild and witty combination of feminist fiction and post-nuclear apocalyptic fantasy set on the California coast, where nuclear war has melted the sandy beaches into multi-colored glass and a bunch of crazies are about to rescue the human race with a new beginning of "golden days." SIGNED on the title page. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-07-0561206.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86491More details Price: $27.50 -
GOLDEN DAYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A wild and witty combination of feminist fiction and post-nuclear apocalyptic fantasy set on the California coast, where nuclear war has melted the sandy beaches into multi-colored glass and a bunch of crazies are about to rescue the human race with a new beginning of "golden days." INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- Don't believe those other guys. Believe me." 196 pp. Dust jacket by Fred Marcellino. ISBN: 0-07-0561206.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (phone number and name on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 49914More details Price: $28.50 -
MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward-McCann, (1977) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book, second novel - a "witty, sometimes withering, novel of marriage and divorce and the way we live today" - about middle-aged women and men and the baggage in their lives, of splintered families and fragile relationships. However, the title reminds us that later on See herself had a daughter to be proud of - the novelist Lisa See. Warmly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "very intelligent, liberated, and so cute - your own mothers says so!" 288 pp. ISBN: 0-69810837X.
Condition: Very near fine (some light foxing to the top edge of the textblock) in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 85203More details Price: $30.00 -
PEONY IN LOVE.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Random House, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Novel set in seventeenth century China, and based on actual historical events. SIGNED on the title page. 284 pp. ISBN: 978-1400064663.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78501More details Price: $24.50