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Abbey, Edward [Ann Ronald]. The New West of Edward Abbey.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico [1982]. First Edition/First Printing Near Fine Near Fine
The first book to examine the achievement of this "Western" writer. A must for any serious collector of the works of Ed Abbey. Sticker mark on front boards accounts for the less than Fine grading.
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Abbey, Edward. Cactus Country.
NY: Time-Life [1973]. First Edition/First Printing Fine No Jacket (As Issued)
Part of the Ameican Wilderness Series. Text by Ed Abbey and extensively illustrated with color photographs throughout. First edition as indicated by having the hourglas figure on the last page.
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Abbott, Lee K. Love is the Crooked Thing
Chapel Hill Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1986 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine
Lee K. Abbott presents, in this book, eleven examples of The Love Story, eleven examples that lay out the limitless variations inherent therein, eleven examples that glint and dazzle with his beady-eyed insights into the aged subjects. Read here eleven extraordinary stories written in the grip of love.
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Abraham, Pearl The Romance Reader
NY Riverhead 1995 1573220159 First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Uncorrected Proof (Glossy) Signed by Author
This copy of the Uncorrected Proof has been SIGNED by Pearl Abraham! The Jerusalem-born author's debut novel. "The Romance Reader" invites you to enter the Hasidic world as few have ever seen it - through the eyes of a young woman on the brink of womanhood. The New York Times Book Review called it "An assured, smoothly written book, narrated in a muted voice that seems to whisper secrets into the reader's ear...deftly lifts the opaque curtain from the closed Hasidic world."
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Abraham, Pearl Giving Up America
NY Riverhead 1998 157322121X First Edition/First Printing Fine Uncorrected Proof Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by Author
This copy of the Uncorrected Proof has been SIGNED by Pearl Abraham! As she did in "The Romance Reader", the author gives an insider's glimpse into Hasidic life, this time through the lens of the secular world. It charts the conflict between the religious and the secular, between Hasidic and Orthodox practices, between being single and being married.
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Abraham, Pearl The Romance Reader
NY Riverhead 1995 1573220159 First Edition/First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Pearl Abraham! The Jerusalem-born author's debut novel. "The Romance Reader" invites you to enter the Hasidic world as few have ever seen it - through the eyes of a young woman on the brink of womanhood. The New York Times Book Review called it "An assured, smoothly written book, narrated in a muted voice that seems to whisper secrets into the reader's ear...deftly lifts the opaque curtain from the closed Hasidic world."
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Abraham, Pearl Giving Up America
New York, NY Riverhead 1998 157322121X First Edition/First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine
As she did in "The Romance Reader", Pearl Abraham gives an insider's glimpse into Hasidic life, this time through the lens of the secular world. It charts the conflict between the religious and the secular, between Hasidic and Orthodox practices, between being single and being married.
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Achebe, Chinua Home And Exile
NY Oxford University Press 2000 First Edition/First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Signed by Author
Boldly SIGNED by Chinua Achebe on the title page. One of Africa’s most prominent writers, this is the story of a life that evolved out of three lectures Achebe delivered at Harvard University in December 1998. Henry Louis Gates has called Home and Exile "A moving account of an exceptional life....bound to be a classic of its kind."
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Achebe, Chinua No Longer at Ease
London, UK Contemporary Fiction 1962 Book Club (Contemporay Fiction- UK Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been boldly SIGNED by Chinua Achebe on the title page. First published in the UK by Heinemann in 1960 - this is a UK book club edition with Newsletter enclosed which features this title as their Number 1 choice in August 1962.
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Achebe, Chinua [David Carroll] Chinua Achebe
New York, NY St. Martin's Press 1980 0312133863 Second Edition (Printed in UK) Fine Fine Signed by Author
This is a Second Edition of the critical study of Chinua Achebe (SIGNED by him) the most widely known African writer. An earlier version of this study first appeared in 1970 - this second edition represents an updating and reflects significant new writings by Achebe since that time. The introduction to this critical study by David Carroll presents the context in which Achebe writes - the traditional ways of his own Igbo society, and the European contact with Africa. It is the complex interaction of these cultures that forms the central theme of most of his writing.
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Adachi, Jiro The Island of Bicycle Dancers
NY St. Martin's Press 2004 First Edition/First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine SIGNED By Author on Title Page
This copy has been SIGNED by Jiro Adachi on the title page. This debut is the coming-of-age story of twenty-year-old Yurika Song, a Korean-Japanese woman who comes from Japan to New York City for the summer to work with her Korean relatives and improve her English. Yurika's freinds back home have always joked that she is half-sushi and half-kimchi. But cross-Asian ethnicities turn out to be far less jarring than her introduction to New York City life, especially the world of bicycle messengers and the street culture in which they thrive.
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Adams, Richard Traveller
NY Knopf 1988 First Edition/First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine
A novel of imagination and storytelling-a novel in which the Civil War is seen through the eyes of General Robert E. Lee's closest companion, his intreped and devoted horse, Traveller.
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Adrian, Chris Gob's Grief
NY Broadway Books 2000 0767902815 First Edition/First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Signed by Author on Title Page
This copy has been SIGNED by Chris Adrian on the title page. Convincing in its portrayal of the collective madness America went through after the carnage of the Civil War, and other-worldly in its contemplation of obsessive grief and longing. Kirkus Reviews said of it "Filled with delicious surprises [and] brilliantly realized characters....A magnificent debut."
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Ai Greed
NY Norton 1993 First Edition/First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Ai on the title page. Greed for money, power, sex, and loveisthe theme at the heartof this new volume of dramatic monologues by Ai, her fifth book to date. Margaret Atwood has said of Ai's work "Ai is a strong, powerful poet who writes about real things. These are daring, disturbing, ambitious poems that go for the heart of America.
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Akst, Daniel St. Burl's Obituary
Denver MacMurray & Beck 1996 First Edition/First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine
The debut novel from this author. Bob Shacochis dustjacket praise calling it "A comedy as dark and dense and rich as a Viennese torte...a narrative - and gastronomic - juggernaut, and Daniel Akst should be crowned our new poet laureate of poet of all the delicious and soul-fattening sins of exces and desire."
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Albarelli, Dean Cheaters and Other Stories
NY St. Martin's Press 1996 0312142943 First Edition/First Printing Printer Wrapper Fine Wraps
This is an uncorrected proof copy in plain gray wraps of the author's debut collection. "Honeymoon" appeared in 20 Under 30: Best Stories by America's Young New Writers.
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Albarelli, Dean Cheaters and Other Stories
NY St. Martin's Press 1996 0312142943 First Edition/First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Dean Albarelli on the title page. The author's debut collection. "Honeymoon" appeared in 20 Under 30: Best Stories by America’s Young New Writers.
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Albarelli, Dean. Cheaters and Other Stories.
NY St. Martin's Press 1996 0312142943 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
SIGNED by Author on Title Page. Author’s debut collection. “Honeymoon” appeared in 20 Under 30: Best Stories by America’s Young New Writers.
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Albo, Mike Hornito
New York, NY Harper Collins 2000 0688174361 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy of the author's well-received debut has been SIGNED by Mike Albo on the title page! Hornito is brutally, searingly honest, but it is also the work of a unihibited comic. The author offers a stripped portrait of the young gay man in all his interior complexity, a tale at once wholly compelling and utterly naked. It's desperate. But there's hope. And it's also violently funny.
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Albo, Mike Hornito
New York, NY Harper Collins 2000 0688174361 First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Signed by Author
This copy of the Uncorrected Proof in plain wraps of the author's well-received debut has been SIGNED by Mike Albo on the title page! "Hornito" is brutally, searingly honest, but it is also the work of a unihibited comic. The author offers a stripped portrait of the young gay man in all his interior complexity, a tale at once wholly compelling and utterly naked. It's desperate. But there's hope. And it's also violently funny.
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Alexie, Sherman First Indian On The Moon
Brooklyn, NY Hanging Loose Press 1993 1882413024 First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Signed by Author
This is the simultaneous issue in wraps. This copy has been SIGNED by Sherman Alexie on the title page. A collection of poems and stories by this Granta 20 author. As Joy Harjo has said "Watch this guy. He's making myth."
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Alexie, Sherman Indian Killer
New York, NY Atlantic Monthly Press 1996 087113652X First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This is copy #70 of 100 Limited Copies featuring a tipped-in page SIGNED by Sherman Alexie. This Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Granta 20 author's most recent book. A murderer is stalking and scalping white men in Seattle. Alexie has been called an Indian with an attitude.
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Alexie, Sherman First Indian On The Moon
Brooklyn, NY Hanging Loose Press 1993 1882413032 First Edition/First Printing Fine No Jacket (As Issued) Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Sherman Alexie on the title page. One of 500 copies in the hardback edition (no dustjacket - as issued) of the author's fourth book - a collection of poems and stories by this Granta 20 author. Joseph Bruchac has said of this work "There is enough love, heartbreak, and ironic intelligence in this small book to fill an encyclopedia....Strong medicine - but a medicine needed by us all."
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Alexie, Sherman The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
NY: Atlantic [1993]. First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Signed by Author
This is a copy of the Special Reader's Edition/Uncorrected Proof in glossy wraps with final artwork. This copy has been SIGNED by Sherman Alexie on th e title page. The collection of stories that formed the basis for the author's highly successful film "Smoke Signals". The Chicago Tribune called it "Poetic and unremittingly honest...'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven' is for the American Indian what Richard Wright's 'Native Son' was for the black American in 1940."
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Alexie, Sherman Reservation Blues
NY Atlantic Monthly Press 1995 0871135949 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Sherman Alexie on the title page. The talented young author's first novel. His collection "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" has evolved into the highly successful film "Smoke Signals".
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Alexie, Sherman The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
NY: Atlantic [1993] First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Sherman Alexie on the title page. The first collection of stories that formed the basis for the author's now highly successful film Smoke Signals. The Chicago Tribune said "poetic and unremittingly honest...'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven' is for the American Indian what Richard Wright's 'Native Son' was for the black American in 1940."
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Alexie, Sherman Smoke Signals
New York, NY Hyperion 1998 0786883928 First Edition/First Printing Fine Trade Paperback Original Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Sherman Alexie on the title page. This is the screenplay by Alexie which won the Audience Award and the Filmaker's Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Based on stories from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
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Alexie, Sherman One Stick Song
Brooklyn, NY Hanging Loose Press 2000 1882413768 First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Signed by Author
This is a copy of the simultaneous wrappers edition that has been SIGNED by Sherman Alexie on the title page. The talented author's collection of poetry and short pieces - his love of poetry is evident in this collection.
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Alexie, Sherman The Summer of Black Widows
Brooklyn Hanging Loose Press [1985]. 1996 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
A reported small print run. This is a copy of the trade edition which has been SIGNED by Alexie. Another collection of poems and short pieces by this Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian and Granta 20 author.
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Alexie, Sherman The Toughest Indian In The World
NY Atlantic Monthly Press 2000 0871138018 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Sherman Alexie on the title page. The author's first new collection of stories since "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven". Named by The New Yorker as one of the best American fiction writers under 40. In this collection, we meet the kinds of American Indians we rarely see in literature, the upper and middle class, the professionals and white-collar workers, the bureaucrats and poets, falling in and out of love and wondering if they will make their way home.
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Alexie, Sherman One Stick Song
Brooklyn, NY Hanging Loose Press 2000 1882413776 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This is a copy of the scarce hardcover edition that has been SIGNED by Sherman Alexie on the title page. The talented author's collection of poetry and short pieces - his love of poetry is evident in this collection.
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Alexie, Sherman The Man Who Loves Salmon
Boise, ID Limberlost Press 1998 093165940X Limited/Numbered Very Good+ No Jacket (As Issued) Teters, Charlene Signed by Author
Letterpressed in an edition of 750 copies of which 100 have been numbered and SIGNED by the author (Sherman Alexie) and artist (Charlene Teters) and bound in cloth and boards. From the Colophon: "The Man Who Loves Salmon" has been letterpressed in an edition of 750 copies during the winter of 1998. The type is Palatino. The paper is Mohawk Superfine, sewn by hand into Magnani Pescia covers and Thai Chiri endsheets. 100 copiwa have been numbered and signed by author and artist and bound in cloth and boards. This copy is number 17." A slight bit of damage to the right, top corner of the front board (see photo), otherwise a beautiful copy of a scarce Alexie item.
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Alexie, Sherman The Business of Fancydancing
Brooklyn, NY Hanging Loose Press 1992 0914610244 First Edition/Later Printing Fine No Jacket (As Issued) Signed by Author
This copy, in dark olive boards with silver lettering, has been SIGNED by Sherman Alexie on the title page. The celebrated author's debut, a collection of stories and poems - this is a later (10th) printing of the harcover edition. The original hardcover first edition was limited to only 100 copies.
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Alexie, Sherman Water Flowing Home
Boise, ID Limberlost Press 1996 0931659264 First Edition/First Printing Very Good+ No Jacket (As Issued)
Letterpressed in a Bound Edition of only 100 copies that were numbered and SIGNED by Sherman Alexie. From the Colophon: "Water Flowing Home" has been letterpressed in an edition of 500 copies in January of 1996. The type is Bembo. The paper is Domestic Etching, sewn by hand into Thai Chiri Kozo endsheets and Stonehenge wrappers. One hundred copies have been numbered and signed by the poet. This being Copy No. 68. There is damage to the bottom, right hand corner of the front board (see photo), otherwise a beautiful copy of this scarce Alexie item.
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Alexie, Sherman I Would Steal Horses
Niagara Falls, NY Slipstream Publications 1992 First Edition/First Printing Fine Chapbook
One of the scarcest titles of this award-winning author's work. His second book, "I Would Steal Horses" is Slipstream's Fifth Annual Chapbook Contest Winner. A collection of poetry, this is an absolutely stunning copy that has been SIGNED by Sherman Alexie on the title page. Only 500 copies of this title were issued with only 100 copies being distributed to the public overall. Alexie recently added a PEN/Faulkner Award to his list of accomplishments.
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Alexis, André Despair
Toronto Coach House Press 1994 First Canadian Edition (True 1st) Fine Wraps
Emerging from the landscapes and folklore of Trinidad and Canada, Despair reveals a world both recognizable and shockingly strange. In "French" flaps this trade paperback original had its title story nominated for the Journey Prize for short fiction.
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Ali, Monica Brick Lane
NY Scribner 2003 First American Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Monica Ali on the title page. One of the most-talked about books of 2003 - made the shortlist for the Booker Prize. This gorgeous first novel is the deeply moving story of one woman, Nazneen, born in a Bangladeshi village and transported to London at age eighteen to enter into an arranged marriage. Named as Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Fiction Prize for 2003.
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Ali, Samina Madras on Rainy Days
NY FSG 2004 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Samina Ali on the title page. In this finely observed debut novel, Samina Ali intimately explores a girl's journey to self-possession. Ali's haunting prose and richly drawn characters lay bare the complex and hidden world behind the veil. "Madras on Rainy Days" is a dazzling performance by an arresting new voice.
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Allen, Ed Ate it Anyway
Athens University of Georgia Press 2003 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award. In the limbo bounded by rebellion and resignation, belonging and solitude, Ed Allen's middle-Americans see, to be either freely adrift or uncomfortably vested in an exit strategy wholly inadequate for their circumstances. These sixteen darkly humorous stories guage the tension between what we realy feel and what we outwardly express, what we should do and what we manage to get done.
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Allen, Jeffery Renard Rails Under My Back
NY FSG 2000 0374246262 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Jeffrey Renard Allen on the title page. Winner of a 2002 Whiting Writers' Award.Kirkus Reviews called it “...a very impressive creation: the work of an unusually gifted, disciplined, and more than promising writer.” This novel has at its center two young men at the heart of America, and at the heart of a mysteriously complex family.
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Allen, Jeffery Renard Rails Under My Back
NY FSG 2000 0374246262 First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Advance Reader's Edition Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Jeffrey Renard Allen on the title page. This is a copy of the Advance Reader's Edition. Winner of a 2002 Whiting Writer's Award.Kirkus Reviews called it “...a very impressive creation: the work of an unusually gifted, disciplined, and more than promising writer.” This novel has at its center two young men at the heart of America, and at the heart of a mysteriously complex family.
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Allen, Jeffery Renard Rails Under My Back
NY FSG 2000 0374246262 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This is a REVIEW COPY with Publishers' materials and author photo laid-in that has been SIGNED by Jeffrey Renard Allen on the title page. Kirkus Reviews called it “...a very impressive creation: the work of an unusually gifted, disciplined, and more than promising writer.” This novel has at its center two young men at the heart of America, and at the heart of a mysteriously complex family. Winner of a 2002 Whiting Writers' Award.
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Allende, Isabel The Stories of Eva Luna
NY Athenium 1991 0689121024 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Isabel Allende! Ms. Allende has added her simple flower drawing to her signature. Her earlier novel "Eva Luna" was described by the Washington POst as a "cascade of stories [that] tumbles out before the reader, stories vivid, passionate and human." Now in "The Stories of Eva Luna," she again presents us with a treasure trove of such stories.
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Allende, Isabel Eva Luna
NY Knopf 1988 0394572734 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Isabel Allende! Ms. Allende has also drawn a small flower by her signature. "My name is Eva, which mean 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of these things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory..." This is the voice that carries us through "Eva Luna."
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Allison, Dorothy Two or Three Things I Know For Sure
NY Dutton 1995 First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by Author
This is the Uncorrected Proof. A small but powerful book, this memoir takes a probing look at the author's family history. This Proof Copy has been SIGNED by Ms. Allison.
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Allison, Dorothy Two or Three Thing's I Know for Sure
NY Dutton 1995 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Dorothy Allison on the title page. A small but powerful book, "Two or Three Thing's I Know for Sure" takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next.
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Allison, Dorothy Cavedweller
NY Dutton 1998 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Dorothy Allison on the title page. Critically acclaimed author's most recent effort - the story of Delia Byrd's return to Cayro, Georgia, where, for the first time in years, she knows what she wants—the two daughters she left behind a lifetime ago. Told in the incantatory and unforgettable voice of one of America's most eloquent storytellers—"Cavedweller" is a sweeping novel of the human spirit; the lost and hidden recesses of the heart; and the place where violence and what redeems it intersects.
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Allison, Dorothy Cavedweller
NY Dutton 1998 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This Advance Reading Copy has been SIGNED by Dorothy Allison on the title page. Critically acclaimed author's most recent effort - the story of Delia Byrd's return to Cayro, Georgia, where, for the first time in years, she knows what she wants—the two daughters she left behind a lifetime ago. Told in the incantatory and unforgettable voice of one of America's most eloquent storytellers—"Cavedweller" is a sweeping novel of the human spirit; the lost and hidden recesses of the heart; and the place where violence and what redeems it intersects.
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Alvarez, Aldo Interesting Monsters
Saint Paul Graywolf 2001 1555973566 First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Signed by Author
This copy of the trade paperback original has been SIGNED by Aldo Alvarez on the title page. The Washington Post Book World featured "Interesting Monsters" as one of the best short story collections of the Fall 2001 book season. The author was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Library Journal (August 2001) said of it "Set mostly in gay experience, these fresh, artfully crafted tales touch on recognizable themes - allure, anxiety, redemption, prejudice, and loss - that shiver to life under the author's masterly touch".
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Alvarez, Julia In The Time of Butterflies
Chapel Hill Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1994 First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Signed by Author
Fine/Uncorrected Proof in Wrappers that has been SIGNED by Julia Alvarez on the title page! This presentation set of folded and gathered sheets of Julia Alvarez's "In The Time of Butterflies" has been prepared for the friends of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Here the author takes a daring imaginative leap forward tell a Latin American story based on actual events that led to the deaths of three courageous sisters from Trujillo's Dominican Republic.
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Alvarez, Julia The Other Side. El Otro Lado
NY Dutton 1995 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Julia Alvarez on the title page. Long before Alvarez discovered her novelist's voice, she was producing inspired and engaging poetry that helped launch one of the most vital movements in contemporary American letters: Latina Literature. These poems, col lected here for the first time, reveal her mature voice and the full range of her poetic gift.
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Alvarez, Julia Something To Declare
Chapel Hill Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1998 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Julia Alvarez on the title page. Her first book of non-fiction. This offers two dozen personal essays about the two major (and interlocking) issues of her life - growing up with one foot in each of two cultures, and writing. She is a popular speaker and t his book captures the unique rapport between a writer and her readers.
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Alvarez, Julia A Cafecito Story
White River Junction, Vt Chelsea Green Publishing Company 2001 First Edition/First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Julia ALvarez on the title page. Throughout the Dominican Republic and Central America it is a household ritual to offer a "cafecito" (a small cup of dark, rich, potent coffee) to any visitor, especially a stranger. Now, in a story spanning Latin America and Nebraska, Julia Alvarez offers us "A Cafecito Story." Includes an afterword by Bill Eichner, the author's husband. This small volume also features woodcuts by the noted Dominican artist, Belkis Ramirez.
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Alvarez, Julia The Woman I Kept to Myself
Chapel Hill Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2004 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Julia Alvarez on the title page. In "The Woman I Kept To Myself," seventy-five poems that weave together the narrative of a woman's inner life, it is ALvarez's own clear voice that sings out in every line. These are not poems of a woman discovering herself - Alvarez might say that's what her twenties were for - but of a woman returning to herself.
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Alvarez, Julia The Secret Footprints
New York Knopf 2000 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Fabian Negrin Signed by Author
This copy has been boldly SIGNED by Julia Alvarez on the title page. The talented author's first illustrated book for children. In this lyrically written leegend, Julia Alvarez introduces us to the magical ciguapas, and a brave and bold young one named Guapa, the only one who isn't afraid of humans. How Guapa's curiosity nearly costs the tribe their freedom makes for a captivating and entertaining tale. Together with Fabian Negrin's radiant paintings, this story of the ciguapas as reinvented by an acclaimed storyteller will linger long in readers' imaginations.
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Alvarez, Julia A Cafecito Story
White River Junction, Vt Chelsea Green Publishing Company 2001 First Edition/First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine
Throughout the Dominican Republic and Central America it is a household ritual to offer a "cafecito" (a small cup of dark, rich, potent coffee) to any visitor, especially a stranger. Now, in a story spanning Latin America and Nebraska, Julia Alvarez offers us "A Cafecito Story." Includes an afterword by Bill Eichner, the author's husband. This small volume also features woodcuts by the noted Dominican artist, Belkis Ramirez.
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Alvarez, Julia In The Time of Butterflies
Chapel Hill, NC Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1994 1565120388 First Edition/First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Julia Alvarez on the title page! Her second novel - the story of Las Mariposas - "the Butteflies". Dustjacker praise by Sandra Cisneros who says "I was moved to tears of joy. The sisters Mirabel have not died after all, have they? They continue to live as l ong as writers like Julia Alvarez are brave enough to tell their story. All Latinas are indebted to her for resisting the amnesia that has been out history."
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Alvarez, Julia [silvia sirias] Julia Alvarez: A Critical Companion
Westport, CT, U.S.A. Greenwood Press 2001 First Edition/First Printing Fine Illustrated Boards Signed by Author
This special volume has been SIGNED by Julia Alvarez on the title page. One of a series of extraordinary critical companions by this publishing house. This Critical Companion introduces readers to the life and works of the Dominican-American writer and examines the thematic and cultural concerns that run through her novels. Full literary analysis is provided for each, including historical context for the factually based works, "In the Time of Butterflies" (1994) and "In the Name of Salome" (2000). Students will discover the personal and literary influences in Alvarez's writing with the help of a brief biography and a chapter on the Latino novel. Illustrated boards.
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Alvarez, Julia. Liberty - from The Writer's Harvest 2 [Edited by Ethan Canin].
NY: Harcourt [1996]. First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps (As Issued) Trade Paperback Original Signed by Author
Julia Alvarez has SIGNED her story at its entry. First Edition. Fine/PBO. An original story contribution to this second annual collection of new fiction wherein some of the most talented writers in the country took up their pens to help "Share Our Strength" in its crusade against hunger.
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Ames, Jonathan I Pass Like Night
NY William Morrow 1989 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been inscribed by Jonathan Ames on the title page "To ........, Thank you for your appreciation and enthusiasm for 'The Extra Man.' Jonathan. p.s. I hope this makes for good reading as well." The author's first book. Dustjacket praise by Philip Roth stating "An authentic voice of youthful suffering. Mr. Ames's antisocial young hero comes through as a cross between Jean Genet and Holden Caulfield in the age of AIDS. The style is the real achievement: strong, clean, and poker-faced."
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Ames, Jonathan I Pass Like Night
NY William Morrow 1989 0688078044 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Jonathan Ames on the title page. The author's first book. Dustjacket praise by Philip Roth stating "An authentic voice of youthful suffering. Mr. Ames's antisocial young hero comes through as a cross between Jean Genet and Holden Caulfield in the age of AIDS. The style is the real achievement: strong, clean, and poker-faced."
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Ames, Jonathan The Extra Man
New York, NY Scribners 1998 0684845040 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED on the title page by Jonathan Ames. The author has also added his "self-portrait" as well beneath his signature. A Review Copy with Publisher's materials laid-in. A hilarious yet moving story about friendship and longing. Dustjacket praise by Rick Moody, Martha McPhee, Jeffrey Eugenides and others.
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Amirrezvani, Anita The Blood of Flowers : A Novel
New York, NY Little, Brown and Company 2007 0316065765 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Anita Amirrezvani on the title page. The world of medievil Persia comes alive in this luminous novel, from its dazzling architecture to its bustling markets with their baskets of spices and breathtaking turquoise-and-gold rugs. With spellbinding Persian tales and prose as radiant as the city of Isfahan, "The Blood of Flowers" is the remarkable adventure of one woman choosing a life - against all odds - on the strength of her own hands, mind, and will.
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Anania, Michael The Red Menace
NY Thunder's Mouth Press 1984 First Edition/First Printing Fine Near Fine
A novel about American culture and values in the fifties during the McCarhty era, and in the wake of the first atomic blasts in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It's about growing up ina culture permeated with the fear of Communism, a culture where automobiles emerged as a symbol of masculinity and affluence, where the bomb entered our collective consciousness and we became at once a nation of greta strength and dark fears.
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Anderson, Jessica Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories
NY Viking 1987 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine
This is a Review Copy with the Publishers' slip laid-in. Born in Queensland, Australia - this collection of stories is told from the point of view of a young girl growing up in Brisbane. Anderson re-creates the "warm zone" of family life—sibling rivalries and oddly formed alliances, the subtle interplay among mother, father, sisters, and brother as they establish separate identities withinh the family, in school, and in society. "Sydney Stories" delves into the "adult" concerns.
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Anderson, Robert Ice Age
Athens University of Georgia Press 2000 0820322431 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy of the author's debut has been SIGNED by Robert Anderson on the title page. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. The ten stories in this collection lead us across a wide range of settings, from rural Texas to 1930s Spain to a Gulf War hospital. Praise by Library Journal "Dreams, fantasies, eccentric characters, and bizarre situations figure large....Publishers Weekly "This challenging, eclectic debut collection of 10 stories turns the world as we know it inside out." Kirkus Reviews "Brilliantly imaginative debut collection of ten stories....Anderson imagines a multitude of worlds and an unforgettable assortment of people...."
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Anderson, Robert Ice Age
Athens University of Georgia Press 2000 0820322431 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine
Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. The ten stories in this collection lead us across a wide range of settings, from rural Texas to 1930s Spain to a Gulf War hospital. Praise by Library Journal "Dreams, fantasies, eccentric characters, and bizarre situations figure large....Publishers Weekly "This challenging, eclectic debut collection of 10 stories turns the world as we know it inside out." Kirkus Reviews "Brilliantly imaginative debut collection of ten stories....Anderson imagines a multitude of worlds and an unforgettable assortment of people...."
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Anderson, Scott Triage
NY Scribner 1998 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
SIGNED by Scott Anderson. Dustjacket praise by Sebastian Junger who says “Anderson’s account of a war photographer going to the brink of insanity stayed with me for weeks....Only an experienced war reporter would have this story inside him, and only a first-rate writer would know how to tell it.”
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Anne Finger Bone Truth
Minneapolis Coffee House Press 1994 First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Trade Paperback Original Signed by Author
SIGNED by the Author on Title Page. The author's debut novel. Kirkus Reviews said of it "Finger's debut novel is marked by lyrical, searing prose that evokes the strength, influence, and fragilityof memory. Funny, stirring, tender, true."
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Ansay, A. Manette Sister
New York, NY Morrow 1996 0688144497 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by A. Manette Ansay on the title page. The author's second novel. The poignant story of a woman's search for memory and meaning, the reconcilation of present and past within the complicated fabric of family. With grace and compassion, A. Manette Ansay spins hard-won triumph out of tragedy, testifying to the indelibility of the human spirit.
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Ansay, A. Manette Vinegar Hill
New York, NY Viking 1994 0670852538 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by A. Manette Ansay on the title page. In her remarkable debut novel Manette Ansay writes with startling authority and quiet elegance of one woman’s gradual realization that in order to reinvision her life she must break all the rules. Amy Tan called the author "...a powerful storyteller with lyrical gifts and a wry, observant eye." Winner of a Friends of American Writers Prize and cited as one of the best books of 1994 by the Chicago Tribune, Ms. Ansay has been featured as an Oprah author as well!
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Ansay, A. Manette Midnight Champagne
New York, NY Morrow 1999 0688152449 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by A. Manette Ansay on the title page. A wedding ceremony sets the stage for this deeply moving novel of love in all its complexities. Peter Landesman dustjacket praise "A portrait of the human heart that is ultimately a snapshot of us all."
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Ansay, A. Manette River Angel
New York, NY Morrow 1998 0688152430 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by A. Manette Ansay on the title page. The story of a midwestern town haunted by an angel. Lewis Nordan states "Manette Ansay can write like an angel. River Angel is the best novel I've read this year, and I would say for several years. The prose is beautiful, among the best being written, and the story is compelling and funny and sad and every other word you can think of to describe the work of a major literary talent."
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Ansay, A. Manette Read This And Tell Me What It Says
Amherst, MA University Press of Massachusetts 1995 0870239880 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by A. Manette Ansay on the title page. Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award For Short Fiction. The title story was the 1992 Winner of the Nelson Algren Prize. She is also the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. These stories reveal the extraordinary interior lives of ordinary people.
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Ansay, A. Manette Limbo: A Memoir
NY William Morrow 2001 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by A. Manette Ansay on the title page. Thirteen years and five books later, still without a firm diagnosis or prognosis, Ansay reflects in the ways in which the unraveling of one life can plant the seeds of another, and considers how her own physical limbo has challenged - in ways not necessarily bad - her most fundamental asumptions about life and faith. Kirkus Reviews calls it "A graceful, wonderfully written memoir."
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Anshaw, Carol Aquamarine
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1992 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Carol Anshaw on the title page. The debut from this award-winning author. With dazzling ingenuity and a bittersweet sense of regret, "Aquamarine" explores the intricate ways early choices - made impulsively or agonizingly - reverberate throughout a life. The Voice Literary Supplement said "Anshaw's vision is generous and all-encompassing...A delight to read." Shirley Hazzard dustjacket praise "This is a swift, tender, highly intelligent book - an original theme, a strong voice...vigorous and humane."
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Anshaw, Carol Seven Moves
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1996 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Carol Anshaw on the title page. In this, her second novel, Anshaw tests the waters of identity once again in a haunting story of psychological suspense. Following a trail that leads to Morocco and back home again, "Seven Moves" tracks the protagonist's gradual recognition that no one can ever really know another's soul.
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Anshaw, Carol Lucky in the Corner
Boston Houghton Mifflin 2002 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Carol Anshaw on the title page. Kirkus Reviews (starred) says of "Lucky in the Corner" that "Not a false note anywhere in a story that's just as entertaining as it is wise. Anshaw just keeps getting better."
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Anshaw, Carol Aquamarine
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1992 First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Uncorrected Proof (Glossy) Signed by Author
This is a copy of the Uncorrected Proof (in glossy wraps) that has been SIGNED by Carol Anshaw on the title page. The debut from this award-winning author. With dazzling ingenuity and a bittersweet sense of regret, "Aquamarine explores the intricate ways early choices - made impulsively or agonizingly - reverberate throughout a life. The Voice Literary Supplement said "Anshaw's vision is generous and all-encompassing...A delight to read."
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Anshaw, Carol Seven Moves
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1996 First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Uncorrected Proof (Glossy) Signed by Author
This copy of the Uncorrected Proof has been SIGNED by Carol Anshaw on the title page. In this, her second novel, Anshaw tests the waters of identity once again in a haunting story of psychological suspense. Following a trail that leads to Morocco and back home again, "Seven Moves" tracks the protagonist's gradual recognition that no one can ever really know another's soul.
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Anshaw, Carol Lucky in the Corner
Boston Houghton Mifflin 2002 First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Advanced Reading Copy (ARC) Signed by Author
This is an Advance Reading Copy that has been SIGNED by Carol Anshaw on the title page. Kirkus Reviews (starred) says of "Lucky in the Corner" that "Not a false note anywhere in a story that's just as entertaining as it is wise. Anshaw just keeps getting better."
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Antoni, Robert Divina Trace
Woodstock, NY Overlook Press 1992 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Robert Antoni on the title page. Author's 1st book. Dustjacket praise by George Plimpton who calls "Divina Trace" "An astonishing tour de force! Trinidad, indeed the whole of the Caribbean has its James Joyce." Winner of Commonwealth Writer's Prize and gaining recognition as a landmark in Caribbean literature.
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Antoni, Robert Blessed Is The Fruit
NY Henry Holt 1997 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Robert Antoni on the title page. This lyrical novel is told in the haunting voices of two West Indian women, both thirty-three years of age: Lilla, the white mistress of a once grand but now rotting Colonial mansion and Vel, her black servant, who has come to the house seeking refuge from the hardships of her poor village. Christina Garcia dustjacket praise says of it "...with an unfailing eye, exquisite humor, and astonishing insight, Antoni tells us an unforgettable tale of the Caribbean."
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Antoni, Robert My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales
NY Grove Press 2000 First American Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Robert Antoni on the title page. The author has been the Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Caribbean literature for his first novel Divina Trace, a landmark in Caribbean literature. These stories range from absurd, side-splitting asides to timeless traditional Caribbean folktales - each with a unique twist.
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Antrim, Donald The Verificationist
NY Knopf 2000 0375408223 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy SIGNED by Donald Antrim on the title page. Set in a pancake house, The Verificationist is a deadly serious, desperately playful, off-the-wall, and perfectly on-target book permeated by the unlikely smell of maple syrup in the evening and the sharpened conciousness of a group of psychoanalysts. Annie Proulx dustjacket praise stating that “...Antrim has a sharper razor, a diamond eye drilling our culture and time.” Also, rare Thomas Pynchon dustjacket praise saying that “Donald Antrim is in top form with this high-spirited hallucination...”.
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Antrim, Donald Elect Mr. Robinson For A Better World
NY Viking 1993 0670851396 First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Signed by Author
This copy boldly SIGNED on the title page by Donald Antrim. A beautiful copy of the "Unrevised and Unpublished Proofs" in cream colored wrappers. The talented author's debut - a novel that has led to his being named by The New Yorker as one of 20 writers for the 21st century. Patrick McGrath has called it "...a glorious piece of gallows humor. It’s a mordant, morbid suburban gothic about the primative animal seething and roaring just beneath the social skin."
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Antrim, Donald The Verificationist
NY Knopf 2000 0375408223 First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Uncorrected Proof - Plain Wrap Signed by Author
This is a copy of the Uncorrected Proof in orange wraps which has been SIGNED by Donald Antrim on the title page. Bound-in is a color copy of the proposed dustjacket artwork. The San Francisco Chronicle blurb is present calling it “...a wildly imagined, superbly written novel from a writer whose work has been hailed as “gloriously unhinged’”.
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Antrim, Donald The Hundred Brothers
NY Crown 1997 0517703106 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been boldly SIGNED by Donald Antrim on the title page. The talented author’s second novel, he was named by The New Yorker as one of 20 writers for the 21st century. This is a madcap allegory of family in all its hysteria and glory. The Hundred Brothers was also a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist.
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Antrim, Donald Elect Mr. Robinson For ...
NY Viking 1993 0670851396 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED on the title page by Donald Antrim. The talented author’s debut — a novel that has led to his being named by The New Yorker as one of 20 writers for the 21st century. Patrick McGrath has called it “...a glorious piece of gallows humor. It’s a mordant, morbid suburban gothic about the primative animal seething and roaring just beneath the social skin.”
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Antrim, Donald The Hundred Brothers
NY Crown 1997 0517703106 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
While not called for, this copy has been boldly SIGNED by Donald Antrim on the title page. This is a special Review Copy that includes a note from the Publisher together with other materials in a special box. The talented author’s second novel, he was named by The New Yorker as one of 20 writers for the 21st century. This is a madcap allegory of family in all its hysteria and glory. The Hundred Brothers was also a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist.
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Ardizzone, Tony The Evening News
Athens: University of Georgia [1986]. First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine
Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. This is a Review Copy with Slip and Publishers' Material laid-in. Tony Ardizzone writes of the moments in our lives that shine, that burn in the dim expanse of memory with the intensity and vivid light of the evening news. The men and women in these stories tend to arrange their days, order their pasts, plan their futures in the light of such moments, finding epiphanies in the glowing memory of a father's laugh or a mother's rpeated story, in a broken date or a rained-out ball game.
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Ardizzone, Tony. Larabi’s Ox, Stories of Morocco.
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions [1992]. First Edition/First Printing Fine Wraps Trade Paperback Original
Introduction by Gloria Naylor. The author’s fourth book. Winner of the prestigious Milkweed National Fiction Prize for 1992, the 1993 Chicago Foundation for Literature Award and a 1993 Pushcart Prize.
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Arnold, George Growing Up Simple--In Texas: An Irreverent Look at Kids in the 1950s
Austin, Texas, U.S.A. Eakin Pr 2002 1571686878 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been Inscribed "To Dan Rather - Fellow Texan and simple in-betweener. Let's not ever grow up!" and has been SIGNED by George Arnold and dated August '02. A fun and funny half-generation of Texans, born between 1939 and 1947, grew up in the placed, black-and-white world of the 1950s - a simple time when kids could roam about unharmed and be free from virtually any danger except the ever-present threat of polio.
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Askew, Rilla Strange Business
NY Viking 1992 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This copy has been SIGNED by Rilla Askew on the title page. The author’s debut, a work of fiction comprised of eleven dovetailed stories that chronicle twenty-five years of memory and experience in fictitious Cedar, Oklahoma. Winner of the Oklahoma Book Award. James Welch dustjacket praise saying she “knows the ways of country and small-town life as well as anyone I’ve ever read. "Strange Business" is an original book, and Rilla Askew is a fine writer who will be heard from again and again.
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Askew, Rilla The Mercy Seat
NY Viking 1997 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This first novel has been SIGNED by Rilla Askew on the title page. Nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and Winner of the Western Heritage Award. In deep winter, early February 1887, two brothers, John and Lafayette Lodi, flee Kentucky in the middle of the night, heading west toward Indian Territory. Rudolfo Anaya praise calling The Mercy Seat “...a testament to the human spirit, and it will endure.”
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Askew, Rilla Fire In Beulah
NY Viking 2001 First Edition/First Printing Fine Fine Signed by Author
This is a Review Copy that has been SIGNED by Rilla Askew on the title page. This is a chronicle of race, greed, and moral choice, set during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush. The character’s stories unfold against a volatile backdrop of oil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings that climax in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, during which whites burned the city’s prosperous black section to the ground.
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