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BEYOND THE GLASS
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Henry Regnery, 1955. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a young woman's descent into madness and of her recovery. Hard to find in the hardcover first edition.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some erasable penciled comments on front endpaper, light edgewear and rubbing to dj.)
Book ID: 18337More details Price: $50.00 -
THE GIRL ON LEGARE STREET.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: New American Library - NAL, (2009). First edition - Psychic suspense novel set in Charleston, South Carolina. Issued as a trade paperback original. 335 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58538More details Price: $18.00 -
EVELESS EDEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which is "at once a love story and a tale of intrigue set in the tumultuous world of international journalism." SIGNED on the title page. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0169516).
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 47624More details Price: $25.00 -
BET THEY'LL MISS US WHEN WE'RE GONE
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second collection of short stories. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0161396.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 49129More details Price: $13.50 -
BET THEY'LL MISS US WHEN WE'RE GONE
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 0-06-0161396.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (a tight copy, appears unread, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 21501More details Price: $32.00 -
HERSELF IN LOVE and Other Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fourth book, and first collection of short stories - Ariel Dorfman called them 'intense, enigmatic, undeceiving; these stories stalked and seduced me.'. ISBN: 0-670-815527.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 25994More details Price: $40.00 -
SEPARATE CHECKS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel, in an unusual format, with short stories written by the protagonist - Ellery McQueen who is, when the novel opens, a patient at a private psychiatric hospital - inside the overall story . 271 pp. ISBN: 0-394-532554.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page by Wiggins. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 28748More details Price: $60.00 -
BET THEY'LL MISS US WHEN WE'RE GONE
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-06-0161396.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 30800More details Price: $25.00 -
SEPARATE CHECKS.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1989.). SIGNED - Her third novel, in an unusual format, with short stories written by the protagonist - Ellery McQueen who is, when the novel opens, a patient at a private psychiatric hospital - inside the overall story . SIGNED on the title page. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0972076.
Condition: Good condition (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 32004More details Price: $12.00 -
ALMOST HEAVEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the American South by this award-winning writer. SIGNED on the title page. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-517-707624.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 32709More details Price: $27.50 -
JOHN DOLLAR
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. The powerful and dramatic story of a young English woman, widowed by World War I, who goes to Rangoon in Burma in 1918, and of the disaster which hits this small British community. Most of all this is the story of how Charlotte Lewes and 8 of her pupils survived on a small deserted island. In the tradition of 'Lord of the Flies.' 218 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0160705.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34021More details Price: $35.00 -
JUST BREATHE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (some toning to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 87061More details Price: $25.00 -
A SENSE OF SHADOW.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - "John Daniel Culbertson attempts to retain his despotic control over his family - even after death - by employing a research psychologist to choose the heir to his rich Oregon estate." 215 pp. ISBN: 0-395305454.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76785More details Price: $16.50 -
STATE OF GRACE: Author's Choice Monthly, Issue #16.
Edition: First printing, a numbered and signed limited edition.
Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, (1991). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects six short stories and an introduction by Wilhelm. One of 300 hardcover copies SIGNED by the author on the title page and individual numbered on the colophon. Frontispiece and cover art by George Barr. 98 pp plus statement of limitation.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81729More details Price: $35.00 -
A SENSE OF SHADOW.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "John Daniel Culbertson attempts to retain his despotic control over his family - even after death - by employing a research psychologist to choose the heir to his rich Oregon estate." SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-395305454.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81730More details Price: $30.00 -
CAMBIO BAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fantasy novel set on a remote bay on the coast of California. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-312038003.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81741More details Price: $30.00 -
SISTER WATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as a novel 'with gentle wit and a sure eye for the essence of life' this is the story of the Woolman family of Ann Arbor, Michigan during the last few months of Jessie Woolman's life. ISBN: 0-679-407022.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (appears unread, but rem marks bottom & top edge.)
Book ID: 9717More details Price: $12.50 -
SISTER WATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as a novel 'with gentle wit and a sure eye for the essence of life' this is the story of the Woolman family of Ann Arbor, Michigan during the last few months of Jessie Woolman's life. ISBN: 0-679-407022.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 11354More details Price: $16.00 -
SISTER WATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - As a novelist Willard has been compared to Alice Hoffman and Anne Tyler for her ability to reveal the magical essence underlying reality, but in addition, Willard is a poet and a prize winning children's author. This copy is SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 0-679-407022.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20213More details Price: $35.00 -
ALONG THE INFINITE SEA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel, and the third featuring the Schuyler sisters. "In the autumn of 1966, Pepper Schuyler's problems are in a class of their own. To find a way to take care of herself and the baby she carriesthe result of an affair with a married, legendary politicianshe fixes up a beautiful and rare vintage Mercedes and sells it at auction.
But the car's new owner, the glamorous Annabelle Dommerich, has her own secrets - including a Nazi husband, a Jewish lover, a flight from Europe . . " Historical note. 456 pp. ISBN: 978-0399171314.Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86984More details Price: $20.00 -
COUNTY WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon novel by this underappreciated writer - the story of a woman in rural Mississippi in 1962, fifty, white and a housewife all her life, who is inspired by the civil rights movement to find meaning in her own life. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-316-942375.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (some edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 45664More details Price: $20.00 -
THE YUMMY MUMMY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion, (2007). First edition - The author's first novel, one which uses humor to "weigh in on nearly every maternal controversy (from extended breastfeeding to the return to paid employment). Thirty-one-year-old Amy Crane, six months postpartum, is stuck between two groups of mommy friends. On one side are the women from her childbirth class, dedicated mothers with chubby figures and comfy clothes. . On the other side is Amy's new friend Alice, a so-called 'yummy mummy,' who, with her similarly slim and elegant West London friends, takes Amy on as her newest project." (Publishers Weekly) 372 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87576More details Price: $17.50 -
CHASING MERCURY.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Mill Valley, CA: Cove International Publishers, (2018). SIGNED first edition - The first novel by this "American physician-writer, bioethicist and filmmaker whose work focuses on promoting resilience for people who are ill, aging, dying, or stressed by environmental and humanitarian violation." The first book in The Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy, this is a romantic suspense novel spanning three continents and nearly 40 years. INSCRIBED on the title page. This was written in part to honor the United Nations Minamata Convention on Mercury which went into force as international law in 2017. Praise on the back cover from Angela Y. Davis and others. 312 pp plus epilogue. ISBN: 978-0692059661.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84396More details Price: $20.00 -
DESSA ROSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Californi-born African American poet and writer - the story of a pregnant slave woman who led an uprising. Although this book is fiction, the events and characters in this story are based on historical ones. Alice Walker call this book "a deep rich compelling work." 236 pp. ISBN: 0-688-051138.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (light toning, but appears unread.)
Book ID: 88992More details Price: $27.50 -
EVERY TIME A RAINBOW DIES.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85712More details Price: $17.50 -
ANTIPODES JANE: A Novel of Jane Austen in Australia.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: The Viking Press, (1985.). First edition - Interesting premise that Jane Austen might have accompanied her aunt (who really was arrested for shoplifting some lace) when she was deported to Australia. First adult novel by this Australian author. Notes on the real-life characters. 330 pp.
Condition: Fine in pale blue printed wrappers.
Book ID: 55303More details Price: $18.00 -
HAPPINESS SOLD SEPARATELY.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Warner, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The marriage of a seemingly perfect couple begins to get complicated... California author's second novel, INSCRIBED on the title page "To --- Nice to meet you. With all best wishes" and dated in 2007. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-446-533068.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 54464More details Price: $24.50 -
HAPPINESS SOLD SEPARATELY.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Warner, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The marriage of a seemingly perfect couple begins to get complicated... California author's second novel, SIGNED on the title page. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-446-533068.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 38335More details Price: $22.00 -
HAPPINESS SOLD SEPARATELY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The marriage of a seemingly perfect couple begins to get complicated... California author's second novel, 296 pp. ISBN: 0-446-533068.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44073More details Price: $16.00 -
SEXING THE CHERRY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize winning author's fourth book, ostensibly set in 1666, during the reign of Charles II, this is a fusing of historical fiction and the fantastic. 167 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-3504.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39174More details Price: $25.00
