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JUDITH.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian author's first novel, the story of a woman, on the brink of a precarious future, who has returned to the farmland she knew as a child. Winner of the Seal Books $50,000 First Novel Award. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-316896969.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket. (date stamped on top of textblock, short tear to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 74631More details Price: $17.50 -
AGAIN IN OCTOBER.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1944. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of love and marriage and the mores imposed by society.
Condition: A cheaply printed copy printed under war time conditions with a war bond advertisement on the back cover of the dustjacket, but still in overall near very good condition (toning to the endpapers) in a worn dustjacket, with the loss of about 1 inch at the bottom of the front cover.
Book ID: 16456More details Price: $18.00 -
BENEDICT CANYON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Crown, 1992. First edition - A story of the growing friendship between two women, set against the backdrop of the New York publishing world, and of the Los Angeles television industry.
Condition: Good only - corner of ffep clipped, spine tilted, etc. - in glossy illus wrappers.
Book ID: 2191More details Price: $8.50 -
JURY DUTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: MIRA / Crown, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel - an account of a sensational murder trial in New York. SIGNED on the half title page with the words "Thank you for all your support." 364 pp. ISBN: 155162477.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64237More details Price: $25.00 -
BENEDICT CANYON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Crown, 1992. First edition - A story of the growing friendship between two women, set against the backdrop of the New York publishing world, and of the Los Angeles television industry.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. This advance issue is much less common than the hardcover edition which had a first printing of 75,000 copies.
Book ID: 28411More details Price: $12.50 -
FAILURE TO ZIGZAG
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - California writer's highly praised first novel,set in the early 1960s in Southern California - one review called it a 'brilliant debut with this startlingly idiosyncratic, intelligent, funny and painfully moving novel.' 329 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-3560.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35862More details Price: $17.50 -
THE PHYSICS OF SUNSET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - California author's second novel, set in Berkeley against "a backdrop of California's signature disasters - earthquakes, floods, urban wildfire." Cover praise from such diverse writers as James Salter, Anne Lamott and Wendell Berry and others. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-670424830.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 77648More details Price: $17.50 -
EASTER ISLAND.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dial Press, (2003). First edition - The author's very highly praised first novel - one which brings to life the parallel quests of two intrepid young women - one in 1913 as World War I is beginning - and the other 60 years later - as they delve into the centuries-old mysteries of Easter Island. It "weaves together history, science and romance, while maintaining an undercurrent of suspense." Robert Stone called it "One of the best novels of the year." Author's note. 302 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83557More details Price: $18.50 -
BREAK THE HEART OF ME
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1994. First edition - Second novel by this highly praised young Southern writer. Lee Abbott said her "characters are so real you can still hear their lies and dreams long after you've turned her last perfect page." SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 20256More details Price: $30.00 -
PREACHER'S LAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised young writer, this one set in a small Maine coastal community. ISBN: 0-525-944362.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 21499More details Price: $20.00 -
PREACHER'S LAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised young writer, this one set in a small Maine coastal community. ISBN: 0-525-944362.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to dj flap.)
Book ID: 27141More details Price: $14.00 -
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, the story of two women brought together by the death of the man to whom one was married, the other had a long love affair. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-374-177023.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55138More details Price: $15.00 -
PHOENIX IN THE ASHES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bluejay Books, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects six short stories, of many possible futures, each focusing on men and women in transition. Includes "Psiren", a continuation of her novel "Psion". Illustrated with 12 full page pencil drawings by Susan Collins, who also provided the dust jacket art. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-312943644.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84658More details Price: $17.50 -
THE TOSS OF A LEMON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, inspired by her grandmother's stories, "Spanning the lifetime of one woman (18961962), [this] brings us intimately into a Brahmin household . . . Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, Sivakami must wear widows whites, shave her head, and touch no one from dawn to dusk. She is not allowed to remarry, and in the next sixty years sheventures outside her family compound only three times. She is extremely orthodox in her behavior except for one defiant act: She moves back to her dead husbands house and village to raise her children." Frontispiece and illustrated half title page. 619 pp. ISBN: 978-0151015337.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73298More details Price: $18.50 -
BLUEPRINTS
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Bantam, 1990. First edition - Her fourth novel - about a family in crisis and a woman on the brink of discovery who, when tragedy strikes in the form of a fire which destroys her parents' home, begins questioning her role as a daughter and as a lover. ISBN: 0-553-349597.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 7926More details Price: $9.00 -
BLUEPRINTS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel - about a family in crisis and a woman on the brink of discovery who, when tragedy strikes in the form of a fire which destroys her parents' home, begins questioning her role as a daughter and as a lover. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-553-070320.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 9477More details Price: $18.00 -
BLUEPRINTS
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Bantam, 1990. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by the author on the title page with "1990" and signed again on the dedication page with a personal inscription. Her fourth novel - about a family in crisis and a woman on the brink of discovery who, when tragedy strikes in the form of a fire which destroys her parents' home, begins questioning her role as a daughter and as a lover. ISBN: 0-553-349597.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 9818More details Price: $20.00 -
LOSS OF FLIGHT.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
New York: Bantam, 1989. First edition - A title in the Bantam New Fiction series. ISBN: 0-553-34580x.
Condition: Very good (small blacked out spot on first page.)
Book ID: 21713More details Price: $10.00 -
ALL IT TAKES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second collection of short stories. Dust jacket praise from such writers as Richard Yates, Gordon Lish and Terry McMillan. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-689-120613.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 62061More details Price: $16.50 -
MAYBE IN MISSOULA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised Montana writer. 280 pp. ISBN: 1-56947-0073.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 12870More details Price: $18.00 -
MAYBE IN MISSOULA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised Montana writer. ISBN: 1-56947-0073.
Condition: Near fine in a like dustjacket (rem dot bottom edge.)
Book ID: 15564More details Price: $14.00 -
MONTANA WOMEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Montana-born author. Follows the stories of two sisters' lives during and after World War II in which one lost a husband, the other a fiance - feminists before the word was created, because they had to be to survive. Cover praise from William Kittredge who called this novel "as beautiful and stark as the high, short grass plains where it all happens." 305 pp. ISBN: 0-939149605.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. (light crease to flap of dj.)
Book ID: 35904More details Price: $18.00 -
THE UNFASTENED HEART.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second book, an 'extravagantly sensual novel' about discovering and rediscovering love and friendship, set in a small California town. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-525-938907.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 68385More details Price: $17.50 -
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ELDERLY WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in olive green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover.
Book ID: 85411More details Price: $50.00 -
LIFE STUDIES: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories, many set in the art worlds of the 19th and 20th centuries. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-670-031771.
Condition: Good in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark, creasing to the outer edges of several pages in the middle of the book.)
Book ID: 42336More details Price: $12.50 -
GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE.
Edition: First printing.
Denver: MacMurray and Beck. 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her highly acclaimed and prize-winning novel, a surprise best-seller which went quickly into later printings. ISBN: 0-878448-900.
Condition: SIGNED on the half title page with the words 'Real living had begun.' Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20616More details Price: $75.00 -
TWO TALES OF THE EAST INDIES. The Last House in the World - Beb Vuyk / The Counselor - H.J. Friedericy.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (a bit of fading and edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 86500More details Price: $40.00 -
EMPTY SLEEVES.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (1991). First edition - A collection of poems which stand "at the interval between the real and the surreal, between the earthly and the eternal." A title in The Contemporary Poetry Series edited by Bin Ramke. 72 pp. Cover illustration by Debora Greger. ISBN: 0-820312797.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 87992More details Price: $18.50 -
BUMP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page and dated 2003."The story of a trio of motorists and one policeman linked together by a tangled, life-altering web of coincidence in the immediate aftermath of a three-car pile-up in Los Angeles." 327 pp. ISBN: 0-78671106X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 36330More details Price: $30.00 -
MRS. HORNSTIEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1997). Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, an apparently simple story novel which follows a woman from the day when she met her future mother-in-law to the present, as she prepares to meet her future daughter-in-law. 117 pp. ISBN: 0-805049568.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 69932More details Price: $12.50
