Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's third novel, seven days in the life of a Manhattan door-to-door salesman who "embarks on a frantic odyssey through the peep shows, singles bars and porno shops of nighttime New York in seach of relief from his maddeining loneliness." Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Vintage, Unc. Proof, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, uncorrected proof. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. The debut novel by the author of CHANGO'S FIRE, the story of the "king" of Spanish Harlem and the smart, promising young man to whom he turns for a favor.
Hardcover. Gretna LA, Pelican Publishing Co., 2nd.pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Set in South Carolina, this novel explores class distinctions in a black community.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price clipped dust jacket.545 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy. While visiting her brother, who is researching the biochemical properties of snake venom, mute Zoe Carver attempts to discover the truth about the tragedy that claimed her voice.
Hardcover. NY, One World/Ballantine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A fictional narrative base on the life of America's first black female millionaire. Born to former slaves on a Louisiana plantation in 1867, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty and indignity to become America's first black female millionaire, the head of a hugely successful company, and a leading philanthropist in African American causes. Renowned author Alex Haley became fascinated by the story of this extraordinary heroine, and before his death in 1992 he embarked on the research and outline of a major novel based on her life. Now with The Black Rose, critically acclaimed writer Tananarive Due brings the work to inspiring completion. "I got my start by giving myself a start," Madam C.J. was fond of saying as she recounted her transformation from the uneducated laundress Sarah Breedlove to a woman of wealth, culture, and celebrity. Madam C.J. was nearing forty and married to a maverick Denver newspaperman when the wonder-working hair care method she discovered changed her life. Seemingly overnight, she built a marketing empire that enlisted more than twenty thousand bright young African American women to demonstrate and sell her products door-to-door. By the time she died in 1919, Madam C.J. Walker had constructed her own factory from the ground up, established a training school, and built a twenty-room mansion at Irvington on the Hudson, New York, called Villa Lawaro.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. After eight years in professional exile, thirty-year-old Cooper Barrow returns to the orchestral world, bringing his untested talents to a German on the verge of unification. He is to study with master teacher Karlheinz Ziegler, a conductor haunted by his days at a Nazi concentration camp, his prewar brilliance long since recast as cruelty. When Peter falls for the beautiful and seductive Petra Vogel and his lessons with Ziegler take one jarring turn after another, and as the mysteries of the past inevitably catch up with the present, Barrow must wrestle with shame and redemption in a country marked for all time. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY LETHEM on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 356 pages. Dark blue boards, black cloth spine with orange metallic titles, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering, endpapers decorated with red map of Southern Blue Ridge mountains. Circular sticker to front panel of dust jacket with praise from John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. No wear to dust jacket or covers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; an excelptionally clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 628 pages. Light orange boards, brown cloth spine with stamped gilt titles, dust jacket completely illustrated in color, with mylar protective covering, brown endpapers. Clean boards and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, very stiff binding; an exceptionally clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Softcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages. A 1913 novel about a black homesteader in South Dakota based on the author's experiences in the midwest as a young man. He later went on to fame as a celebrated early filmmaker. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 194 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 277 pages. "An intimate, vivid, emotionally truthful, and often funny portrait of an educated and sexually voracious male in the second half of the twentieth century...Wonderfully engrossing." -- The New York Times Book Review. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, bright copy with only minor wear to dust jacekt and covers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1835, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, two volume set. Maroon cloth covers faded, gilt titles on spine bright. Vol. I - engraved frontis portrait with tissue guard, illustrated title page, 563 pages, Vol. II- 587 pages. Text mostly double column. Previous owner's inscription in Vol I otherwise clean. Tanning to prelim pages but text fairly free of foxing. The covers along the spine edge have loss of cloth, but binding is firm and tight. More was an English religious writer and philanthropist, remembered as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist.. She became involved with the London literary elite and a leading Bluestocking member. Her later plays and poetry became more evangelical; she joined a group campaigning against the slave trade. In the 1790s she wrote several Cheap Repository Tracts on moral, religious, and political topics for distribution to the literate poor (as a riposte to Thomas Paine's Rights of Man).. More has received both praise and criticism for her political conservatism and been variously described as an anti-feminist, a 'counter-revolutionary' feminist, or a conservative feminist.
Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury Publishing , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 244 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st US, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in dark green. In a worn, chipped dust jacket. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st , 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 363 pages, very good in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY DOCTOROW on tipped-in page in front. A handsome First Edition of Doctorow"s masterpiece, shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize, and winner of the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with gilt, red and green decoration. Frontis. with tissue overlay plus 10 plates illustration by Bernard Partridge. The sequel to Sentimental Tommy, continuing the adventures of a young man in London as he attempts to find his way as a writer.
Softcover. New York, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Uncorr. Proof, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 325 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Uncorrected Proof. Tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Harmony Books, proof, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. Uncorrected Proof. SIGNED on the title page by author.
Softcover. New York, Delta Fiction, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. SIGNED BY BARRETT on title page. Advance Reading copy. Tight copy. Light wear to spine.
Hardcover. New York, Persea Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 291 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE by author. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Vanise Dorsinville is fleeing Haiti while Robert Dubois abandons his life in New Hampshire; a novel of how their lives collide. Continental Drift is the story of a young blue-collar worker and family man who abandons his broken dreams in New Hampshire and the story of a young Haitian woman who, with her nephew and baby, flees the brutal injustice and poverty of her homeland. A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers.
Hardcover. NY, Soho Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. In a 1930s Dominican Republic village, the scream of a woman in labor rings out like the shot heard around Hispaniola. Every detail of the birth scene--the balance of power between the middle-aged Senora and her Haitian maid, the babies' skin color, not to mention which child is to survive--reverberates throughout Edwidge Danticat's Farming of Bones. In fact, rather than a celebration of fecundity, the unexpected double delivery gels into a metaphor for the military-sponsored mass murder of Haitian emigrants. As the Senora's doctor explains: "Many of us start out as twins in the belly and do away with the other." But Danticat's powerful second novel is far from a currently modish victimization saga, and can hold its own with such modern classics as One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Color Purple. Danticat writes one of the most lovely portrayals of the dynamics between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share an island and have engaged in conflict since before the independence of Haiti. The author is able to paint a picture that does not seem to me to take sides, but simply states the reality of what happened through the fictional lives of the characters. I am interested in the way that the relationships between the Haitians and Dominicans are not always strained, and sometimes are extremely close, but those relationships are challenged in the middle of the political strains.
Softcover. New York, William Morrow , uncor. proof, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CHOI on the title page. On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, 25-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former radical life has spirited out of California. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity for embracing her captors' ideology and joining their revolutionary cell. American Woman draws its plot from the Patty Hearst Kidnapping in 1974. It is more than a simple retelling of known facts. The author opens up her characters - their psychology, their background. She gives a sense of the times and of real people in those times. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black. In a dust jacket with light edgewear and chipping. A crime novel set in the Kentucky mountains involving lawless gangs and horse racing. A Hubin listed Mystery. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 373 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Picador, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 211 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury , 1st US, 2002-07-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 278 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st US, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages, green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket with edgewear, darkening to endpapers.
London , Collins, reprint , 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 255 pages. Light rubbing to spine, corners. Soiling, edgewear to dust jacket. Being the life story of Ralph Rudd, his early adventures, perils and misfortunes on land and sea, including sundry close encounters with high-jacking, mutiny and violence off the African Slave Coast.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page, without dedication. . Promotional post card laid-in. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Despite the disapproval of her mother and three sisters, Katie Thorne persists in her search for a husband, approaching her goal along an open road of initially promising but ultimately unsuitable candidates
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover. Navy cloth covered boards with embossed design to cover, gilt printed & gilt titles to spine. Tape-recorded in Moghrebi and trans. by Paul Bowles. Tear to back dj cover. Light toning throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Ernest Nister, 1st, n.d. (circa 1900), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover , tan boards with beveled edges decorated in 5 ciolors + gilt. 5 brilliant chromolith plates , 12 full-page b&w Illustrations by Walter Paget, all edges gilt. With an Introduction by The Right Rev. Handley C, G. Moule. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black. Four b&w plates by J. Allen St. John. "Imaginative and exciting tale recounts the remarkable exploits of young Lord Greystoke, who is raised by a family of apes in the African jungle and becomes the worthy opponent of the jungle's most feared predators." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED "Liz" ON THE TITLE PAGE. Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is "a compelling life force" (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," and she has never done so more clearly than in these pages, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine.
Hardcover. Sauk City, WI, Mycroft & Moran, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 281 pages, one of 3000 copies. Foreword by Vincent Starrett, monograph by Michael Harrison. End paper map, dust jacket very good with light soil, minor edgewear. Two small ink notations on front flap.
Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Harcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. This is the story of what happened to Ellen DeLay in Quillifarkeag, Maine. Quilli (to the locals) has a lot in common with the small towns that Stephen King so often writes about: there are strange characters with strange names (to some of us) who have lived in the area all their lives, as did their parents before them and their grandparents before that--you get the idea. The narrator tells us that his daughter is a killer and he wants to get the whole story down. He takes his time about it, but what we know from the get-go is that Ellen DeLay was gunned down by four female officers of the law who pumped two hundred rounds into her body. Ellen had been married to Joe for 25 years, but she left him after he accidentally locked her in the part of his truck where he kept his tools--for four days. Ellen thought that Joe was trying to kill her while Joe thought that Ellen had left him. In any case, this incident prompted Ellen to head for the north woods, where, over the years, she learned to dress hunters' kills and became a respected businesswoman. There were a few, especially kids, who thought she was just a crazy woman in the woods but, for the most part, Ellen was left alone. Over the course of 250 pages, the narrator carefully pieces together the details of what happened one afternoon at St. Antoine du Plupart and, just as importantly, what happened afterwards. Being from Maine, the narrator takes his time. He has other things to do and other stories to tell, but in the end every detail about what is truly an American outrage is told. G.K. Wuori is the author of Nude in Tub and has a wonderful gift for language and a heartfelt affection for the place about which he writes.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1st US, 1880, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages. Green cloth hardcover. Spine cocked. Rear interior hinge cracked. Some stress to binding threads that hold page sections. Moderate fraying to cloth at bottom of spine. Rubbing to corners of front cover. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Introduction by Edmund Wilson, translated from French by Derek Coltman. "When A Season in the Life of Emmanuel first appeared in 1966, it was hailed as a masterpiece both in North American and in Western Europe. Marie-Claire Blais's stunning accomplishment was to evoke rural Quebec with both the knowledge and the passion of a latter-day Zola." Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in light blue, 318 pages. 1922 on title page so true first. Novel about cowboys and a copper mountain written by an actual cowboy. Spine faded, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Slight wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Softcover. Arcadia Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 290 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt & Company, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,3 46 pages. With occasional Vermont verses by Sarah N. Cleghorn. Maroon cloth with gilt title to front and spine. No dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Light sun-fade and edgewear to spine and faint foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 2nd pr., 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcpver in green boards with dark green cloth spine, titles stamped in gilt. Dust jacker shows edgewear and chipping, with $7.50 on flap. Top edge stained green. Framed gilt facsimile of Miller's signature to front of green boards. Clean, tight, bright. 348 pp. First published in 1939 in France, it took over 20 years to be cleared for publishing in the United States. Despite the ban, Miller has been one of the most influential figures in American literature. "The completion of his seven-volume autobiography, if it fulfills the promise of what he has already given us, will put his name amongst the three or four great figures of the age."
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY SHEPARD on title page.
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