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  • Shreve, Susan Richards
    DREAMING OF HEROES

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crown, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the growth and maturing of a girl into a woman set against the background of the events from the 50's thru the 70's - including the 1960 Olympic Games and the assassination of King.

    Condition: NF/VG (light edgewear to dj.)

    Book ID: 8844
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • Shreve, Susan Richards
    THE TRAIN HOME

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Doubleday, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's ninth novel, the story of an aspiring opera singer who becomes obsessed with a priest she sees on a train. This priest is actually an Irish actor in disguise who is out to find and punish the man responsible for his young brotherÕs death. As their paths cross, we begin to realize that their futures lie in each other. Small format. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-385423578.

    Condition: Near fine in very good+ dust jacket.

    Book ID: 13447
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • Shreve, Susan Richards.
    PLUM AND JAGGERS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of a young boy, survivor of a terrorist explosion that killed his parents, who is obsessed with protecting his younger siblings. ISBN: 0-374-234620.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 17357
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • BURNING QUESTIONS. by Shulman, Alix Kates.
    Shulman, Alix Kates.
    BURNING QUESTIONS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a feminist coming of age story - it follows the experiences of a young woman over two decades - in the 50s, she escapes her midwestern suburban town to live among the Beats in New York's Greenwich Village in the 1950s, but it is only in the 60s, with the beginnings of the feminist movement, that she finds herself fully committed and engaged. Bibliography. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-394-400216.

    Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (faint remainder mark, crinkling to the spine of the dj.)

    Book ID: 63773
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  • UP ISLAND. by Siddons, Anne Rivers.
    Siddons, Anne Rivers.
    UP ISLAND.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: HarperCollins, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Left adrift and angry by the death of her domineering mother, and a husband who leaves her after 20 years of marriage for a younger woman, Molly takes refuge by visiting some friends of Martha's Vineyard - and decides to stay there in a small cottage up island. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0176156.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (a tight and clean copy but with the usual toning to the pages.)

    Book ID: 56343
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  • Siddons, Anne Rivers.
    OUTER BANKS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: HarperCollins, 1991. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by author.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 24790
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • FAULT LINES. by Siddons, Anne Rivers.
    Siddons, Anne Rivers.
    FAULT LINES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: HarperCollins, 195. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel beginning in Los Angeles, and moving to earthquake country of Santa Cruz. 327 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0176148.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 36097
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  • JAMESIE. by Sidgwick, Ethel (1877-1970)
    Sidgwick, Ethel (1877-1970)
    JAMESIE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, (1918). Hardcover first edition - A novel told in letters by this author who was - at the time this was published - compared favorably to Henry James, but who has since mostly been forgotten. Set against the backdrop of the first World War, this is the story of a lively young boy, whose life ends with a tragic accident in the English Channel. A NY Times reviewer in 1918 commented "Through the greater part of his first perusal the reader has the sensation of being lost in a maze, or endeavoring to fit together the jumbled parts of a picture puzzle. . But those who stuck with the novel, even giving it a…

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    Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, (1918). Hardcover first edition - A novel told in letters by this author who was - at the time this was published - compared favorably to Henry James, but who has since mostly been forgotten. Set against the backdrop of the first World War, this is the story of a lively young boy, whose life ends with a tragic accident in the English Channel. A NY Times reviewer in 1918 commented "Through the greater part of his first perusal the reader has the sensation of being lost in a maze, or endeavoring to fit together the jumbled parts of a picture puzzle. . But those who stuck with the novel, even giving it a second reading, would be rewarded with its 'fine literary quality' and 'piquant character drawing'." xii, 358 pp.

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    Condition: Good overall in lavender cloth with paper label on spine - bookplate and synopsis pasted on front endpapers.

    Book ID: 86395
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  • BEGINNING THE WORLD AGAIN: A Novel of Los Alamos. by Silman, Roberta.
    Silman, Roberta.
    BEGINNING THE WORLD AGAIN: A Novel of Los Alamos.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Viking, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which looks back forty years to Los Alamos during World War II, in 1942-1943, as told by one of the 'women on the Hill' - the wives of the scientists working on creating the atom bomb. 414 pp. ISBN: 0-670-830623.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (appears unread but with a remainder line and short tear to lower corner of dj fold).

    Book ID: 70716
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  • THE GOD OF WAR. by Silver, Marisa.
    Silver, Marisa.
    THE GOD OF WAR.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1978 at the edge of the Salton Sea in the California desert. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Fiction. 271 pp. ISBN: 1416563164.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (remainder line.)

    Book ID: 56744
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  • THE GOD OF WAR. by Silver, Marisa.
    Silver, Marisa.
    THE GOD OF WAR.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in 1978 at the edge of the Salton Sea in the California desert. Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Fiction. SIGNED on the title page. 271 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 56800
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  • Simpson, Mona
    THE LOST FATHER

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the title page. 506 pp. ISBN: 0-394-589165.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 47815
    Keywords: granta, Women Authors
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  • THE LOST FATHER. by Simpson, Mona.
    Simpson, Mona.
    THE LOST FATHER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. SIGNED first edition - The story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the first blank page. (in bronze ink which matches the color of the slipcase)

    Condition: Very near fine in white wrappers with gold lettering in a very good gold cardstock slipcase (a thin piece missing from the bottom edge of the front cover of the slipcase.)

    Book ID: 48032
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  • THE LOST FATHER. by Simpson, Mona.
    Simpson, Mona.
    THE LOST FATHER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. SIGNED first edition - The story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED (in ink which matches the color of the slipcase) on the first blank page and also personally INSCRIBED on the title page "For Susan, Happy Birthday and best wishes."

    Condition: Near fine in white wrappers with gold lettering in a near fine gold cardstock slipcase (edges slightly bumped,short tear to fold of slipcase.)

    Book ID: 48335
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  • Simpson, Mona
    A REGULAR GUY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third book by this writer who was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the title page. This portrait of a legendary American entrepreneur was supposedly inspired in part by her half brother Steve Jobs. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450912.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot)

    Book ID: 52134
    Keywords: granta, Women Authors
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  • A REGULAR GUY. by Simpson, Mona
    Simpson, Mona
    A REGULAR GUY.

    Edition: Full size book club edition.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover - The third book by this writer who was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the title page. This portrait of a legendary American entrepreneur was supposedly inspired in part by her half brother Steve Jobs. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450912.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 52136
    Keywords: granta, Women Authors
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  • THE LOST FATHER by Simpson, Mona
    Simpson, Mona
    THE LOST FATHER

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the title page. 506 pp. ISBN: 0-394-589165.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (a few light foxing specks to edges of textblock).

    Book ID: 56675
    Keywords: granta, Women Authors
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  • MY HOLLYWOOD. by Simpson, Mona
    Simpson, Mona
    MY HOLLYWOOD.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at "two contemporary marriages - one in America and one in the Philippines - and witness their endangerment, despite the best of intentions." SIGNED on the title page. 369 pp. ISBN: 9780307273529.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 57272
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  • THE LOST FATHER by Simpson, Mona
    Simpson, Mona
    THE LOST FATHER

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel - the story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the title page. 506 pp. ISBN: 0-394-589165.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (corners slightly bumped.)

    Book ID: 60623
    Keywords: granta, Women Authors
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  • THE LOST FATHER by Simpson, Mona
    Simpson, Mona
    THE LOST FATHER

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel - the story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. 506 pp. ISBN: 0-394-589165.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 64375
    Keywords: granta, Women Authors
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  • THE LOST FATHER. by Simpson, Mona.
    Simpson, Mona.
    THE LOST FATHER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. SIGNED first edition - The story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the first blank page. (in gold ink which matches the color of the slipcase)

    Condition: Fine in white wrappers with gold lettering in a very near fine cardstock slipcase.

    Book ID: 67167
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  • THE LOST FATHER. by Simpson, Mona.
    Simpson, Mona.
    THE LOST FATHER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. SIGNED first edition - The story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the first blank page. (in gold ink) 506 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in white wrappers with gold lettering, no slipcase.

    Book ID: 67978
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  • A REGULAR GUY. by Simpson, Mona
    Simpson, Mona
    A REGULAR GUY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third book by this writer who was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the title page. This portrait of a legendary American entrepreneur was supposedly inspired in part by her half brother Steve Jobs. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450912.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (rem dot, price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 38930
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  • Sinclair, Jo.
    THE CHANGELINGS.

    Edition: 1st thus, a trade paperback.

    Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, (1985.). Reprint of this novel of a Jewish girl and and African American girl who forge a friendship in an atmosphere of anger and rage, originally published in 1955. This edition includes an afterword by Nellie McKay, an essay 'On Racism and Ethnocentrism' by Johnetta B. Cole and Elizabeth A. Oakes, and a brief biographical sketch of the author. 352 pp plus 2 pages of advertisements. ISBN: 0-935312-404.

    Condition: Good condition. (slightly marked from handling, water spot of first few pages, name written on top corner inside.)

    Book ID: 27784
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  • MARY OLIVIER: A LIFE. by Sinclair, May.
    Sinclair, May.
    MARY OLIVIER: A LIFE.

    Edition: First American edition.

    New York: Macmillan, 1919. Hardcover first edition - Probably the most studied and commented on of Sinclair's novels, this story of a daughter brought up in a Victorian household, of her relationship with her mother, and her attempts to find herself as a writer, reflects Sinclair's willingness to learn from others. In this she uses narrative techniques first developed by Dorothy Richardson (in reviewing Richardson's work, Sinclair applied William James' term 'stream of consciousness' for the first time to a literary work), the 'new' psyschology of Freud and Jung, and the symbolism she had learned from the imagists. This novel begins 60 years in the past, is notable for the shifting voice (unusually it begins with the second person),…

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    New York: Macmillan, 1919. Hardcover first edition - Probably the most studied and commented on of Sinclair's novels, this story of a daughter brought up in a Victorian household, of her relationship with her mother, and her attempts to find herself as a writer, reflects Sinclair's willingness to learn from others. In this she uses narrative techniques first developed by Dorothy Richardson (in reviewing Richardson's work, Sinclair applied William James' term 'stream of consciousness' for the first time to a literary work), the 'new' psyschology of Freud and Jung, and the symbolism she had learned from the imagists. This novel begins 60 years in the past, is notable for the shifting voice (unusually it begins with the second person), and in its bitter backward look at the Victorian era, it reflects the difficulties she struggled with in her own life. 380 pp plus publisher's advertisements.

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    Condition: Very good minus in dark red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine - some rubbing and wear to edges of boards and corners, previous owner's name dated 1920..

    Book ID: 55470
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  • FA TH ER MO TH ER: An American Story. by Singleton, Giovanni.
    Singleton, Giovanni.
    FA TH ER MO TH ER: An American Story.

    Edition: Limited, signed edition.

    Berkeley, CA: Nocturnes Editions, (1999) dj. SIGNED first edition - A slim chapbook with a single visual poem by this African American writer, one of 100 copies in wrappers (out of a total edition of 126), SIGNED and individually numbered on the colophon page. Unpaginated [24 pp]

    Condition: Fine in plain white stapled wrappers with a sage green printed outer wrapper..

    Book ID: 71721
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  • OLD JIM CANAAN. by Skinner, Margaret
    Skinner, Margaret
    OLD JIM CANAAN.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Young Southern author's first novel, set in Memphis, Tennessee in the years between 1890 and 1922, the story of an Irish family's struggle to make its way. Old Jim, the uncle of the family, is a tavern keeper, a prize fight promoter, a gambling and sporting house owner and political boss - and in the sights of the reform mayor, E. H. Crump. . ISBN: 0-945575378.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82895
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  • Slater, Catherine P.
    MARGRET POW.

    Edition: Later printing.

    Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1946. dj. Letters, in Scots dialect, recounting Margret's trip abroad. Color frontispiece. Bound in green cloth with black lettering.

    Condition: Very good, no dj.

    Book ID: 14285
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • THE BANQUET. by Slaughter, Carolyn.
    Slaughter, Carolyn.
    THE BANQUET.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth novel by this award-winning writer - the story of a love affair which "spirals inexorably from its delicious initial caution to a climax that is as horrifying as it is inevitable." 191 pp. ISBN: 0-899192742.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to front flap of dj)

    Book ID: 83907
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • RED DUST. by Slovo, Gillian.
    Slovo, Gillian.
    RED DUST.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Norton, (2002). Hardcover first edition - Novel set in modern South Africa - "successful prosecutor Sarah Barcant returns home to a rural town in South Africa, former deputy Dirk Hendricks is on the way to meet Alex Mpondo, a prisoner he tortured, and soon, the lives of these three people will be connected by the Truth Commission." 340 pp. ISBN: 0-393041484.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket ("copy" stamped on bottom edge of textblock, remainder dot, some sunning to the spine of the dj)

    Book ID: 77714
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