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The Revolution of Little Girls

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1991

Seller ID: 2271005

ISBN: 0679400907

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed and dated (June 3, 1991) by author without inscription. A nice copy. We have more books available by this author!. 205 pp. No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with her Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young woman in the 1960s and '70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard, finds herself as a lesbian, then very nearly loses herself to booze and shamans. And though the w...
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Mourning the Death of Magic: A Novel

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.: 1977

Seller ID: 2271006

ISBN: 0025142704

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1977 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 214 pp. An intensely powerful, understated novel about contemporary Southern life, the struggle of the new generation with themselves, their past, and their region.
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The Redneck Way of Knowledge: Down-Home Tales

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1982

Seller ID: 2271007

ISBN: 039451050X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 159 pp. This intoxicating book by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An underground classic since its initial publication, it is the wildly funny personal testament of Blanche McCrary Boyd, sixties radical and born-again Southerner, a lesbian with an un-P.C. passion for skydiving and stock-car racing, a graduate of Esalen and kundalini yoga who now takes her alte...
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Terminal Velocity

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1997

Seller ID: 2271009

ISBN: 0679430083

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 255 pp. In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint, or slept with anyone besides my husband. A year later I had left Nicky, changed my name from Ellen to Rain, and moved to a radical lesbian commune in California named Red Moon Rising, where I was playing the Ten of Hearts in an outdoor production of Alice in Wonderland when two FBI agents arrived to arrest the Red Queen . . . So begins Blanche McCrary ...
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Water Music: A Novel

By: Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: An Atlantic Monthly Press Book/Little, Brown and Company: 1981

Seller ID: 2281544

ISBN: 0316104671

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket spine lightly toned. Page ridge very faintly foxed. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 437 pp. Author's first novel. Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Music—a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle’s tremendous gifts as a storyteller. Set in the late eighteenth century, Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, through London’s seamy gutters and Scotland’s scenic...
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After the Plague, and Other Stories

By: Boyle, T.C. [Coraghessan]

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Viking: 2001

Seller ID: 2199485

ISBN: 0670030058

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Signed by author without inscription. First edition. Faint smell of smoke, top page edges lightly foxed. 2001 Hard Cover. 303 pp. Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T. C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, his sixth collection of stories, Boyle exhibits his maturing themes, speaking to contemporary social issues in a range of emotional keys. The sixteen stories gathered here, nine of which have appeared in The New Yorker and three i...
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Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir

By: Bradley, Bill

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1996

Seller ID: 2291129

ISBN: 0679444882

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Fifth printing. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine head and spine base lightly bumped. Owner's (James C. Molesworth) library stamp on front free endpaper. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 442 pp. A superb memoir that concludes with an exciting vision of what this country can be, Time Present, Time Past recounts a classic American journey. Former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley speaks with affection about his small-town upbringing, traces the road he took through professional sports to public service, and...
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The Long Dirt Road: A Short Story with a Long Reach

By: Braman, Clifford L.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Clifford L. Braman: 2014

Seller ID: 2265326

ISBN: 149748247X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by author with inscription, To Laurie, from Clifford L. Braman. Top corner lightly bumped. 2014 Trade Paperback. iii, 134 pp. Over fifty years ago, Clifford L. Braman was a student at a private Christian high school in central Florida—a place that should have nurtured, strengthened, and prepared him for the world. It did, but not in a positive way; sadly, its administrators and teachers introduced him to the hardships of life through their own harshness and deceit. Students were subjected to a multitude of rules, some strict, others utterly ridiculous: no movies, no dating the same gi...
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Small Craft Warnings: Stories

By: Braverman, Kate

Price: $30.00

Publisher: University of Nevada Press: 1998

Seller ID: 2201015

ISBN: 0874173213

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. 1998 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 180 pp. The indigo skies and lush vegetation of the contemporary West Coast belie the damaged souls and desperate alienation that lurk behind fading stucco walls and off the endless highways. The lives of women on the edge and beyond the margins have seldom been explored with as much power or insight as in these brilliant stories by award-winning novelist and poet Kate Braverman. In a world without succor, Braverman’s characters grope for meaning and...
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Postcard from August

By: Braverman, Kate

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Illuminati: 1990

Seller ID: 2201044

ISBN: 089807262X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author without inscription. Spine lightly bumped, lightly toned. 1990 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 75 pp. A lyrical diary in chapters by turns meditative and explosive, it spells a woman's intuitive journey from Southern California to wisdom--by way of motherhood, Hawaii and surrender. From the controversial author of Palm Latitudes.
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Wonders of the West: A Novel

By: Braverman, Kate

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Fawcett Columbine: 1993

Seller ID: 2270801

ISBN: 0449906566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. Newly arrived at her brother's home in 1960s Los Angeles, teenager Jordan Lerner struggles to deal with her brother's terminal illness, her mother's dalliances with a string of men, and a school where she is considered an outcast.
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The Incantation of Frida K.

By: Braverman, Kate

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Seven Stories Press: 2002

Seller ID: 2270802

ISBN: 1583224696

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 235 pp. I was born in rain and I will die in rain, begins Kate Braverman’s The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wounds o...
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The Eastman Theatre: Fulfilling George Eastman's Dream

By: Brayer, Elizabeth

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.: 2010

Seller ID: 2269234

ISBN: 061539373X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed without inscription by the author, photographer, designer, project manager, and philanthropist Betty Strasenburgh on the title page. Jacket edges a bit rubbed. 2010 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 203, [1] pp. The Eastman Theatre: Fulfilling George Eastman's Dream provides a stunning celebration of the history and renovation of the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York. The book is richly illustrated with period imagery as well as breathtaking photographs by award-winning photographer Andy Olenick. Part one of the book presents the importance of music to ...
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The Day Jesse James Was Killed

By: Breihan, Carl W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Frederick Fell, Inc., Publishers: 1961

Seller ID: 2195335

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author. Pages heavily toned Jacket heavily toned, jacket edges heavily rubbed, bottom right front corner of jacket taped. 1961 Hard Cover. xxvi, 235 pp. a wealth of material never before published, which casts new light on many aspects of the James' activities and motives, gleaned from rare newspaper accounts of the day, letters and photographs obtained from members of the James family and personal reminiscences of their friends and neighbors. Black and white photographs included.
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Annie and the Wild Animals

By: Brett, Jan

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1985

Seller ID: 2303607

ISBN: 0395510066

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author on bookplate. Spine and top corner of front wrapper creased. 1985 Large Softcover. We have more books available by this author!. Unpaginated. When Annie's cat disappears, she attempts friendship with a variety of unsuitable woodland animals. The borders of the pages foretell the emergence of spring and the birth of kittens.
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Mountain Man

By: Bright, Verne

Price: $12.00

Publisher: The Caxton Printers, Ltd.: 1949

Seller ID: 2174831

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Inscribed & signed by author on front endpaper ('For Betty Ogden, With the compliments of Edith and the author, Verne Bright, The Breakers, Tolovana Park, Oregon, July 5, 1959'). Light stain to top page ridge (exterior only). 1949 Hard Cover. 190 pp. 8vo. A collection of poetry celebrating the American West, by the poet, journalist, and English teacher in Oregon.
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Awake and Rehearse

By: Bromfield, Louis

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1928

Seller ID: 2286117

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition, #467 of 500 copies. Signed by author and hand-numbered. Lacks slipcase, but includes a second jacket that appears original and follows the same design pattern as the one beneath, with a different color scheme and thicker paper. Silver jacket beneath is affixed by the flaps to the insides of the boards, and is split down the spine with some chipping. Book and outer jacket are excellent. 1928 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 314 pp. Silver cloth spine over boards, silver jacket with red titles and rules under grey jacket with black titles and rules, elab...
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Attic Treasures: Out of the Dust Came Memories of Yesterday That Initiate Four Romances of Today

By: Brunstetter, Wanda E.; Shuttlesworth, Tammy; Spaeth, Janet; Tracy, Pamela Kaye

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Barbour: 2004

Seller ID: 2287925

ISBN: 1593102739

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Signed without inscription on bookplate by Wanda E. Brunstetter. Bookplate pictures Amish buggy and Gott segen eich! [Pennsylvania Dutch] God bless you!. Spine and corners of rear wrapper creased, envelope with handwritten letter from author laid in. 2004 Trade Paperback. 345 pp. Lydia Dunmore is preparing to move from her country house to a retirement home in the city and has invited her four granddaughters to choose something to keep from her attic of long-forgotten treasures. Sheila seeks a doll she played with as a child, Kimber is intrigued by an old fishing tackle box, Lauren cherishes a...
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Unique Place, Diverse People: The Social & Political History of Little Falls, New York

By: Buckley, Richard

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Little Falls Historical Society: 2008

Seller ID: 2298874

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed and signed by author on dedication page ('8/6/09 / Kevin, I think you will enjoy all the stories in this book. There are stories inside that I never knew about. Enjoy, Richard A. Buckley'), with photograph laid in labeled 'Little Falls New York Aprox. 1945'. Errata slip affixed to inside of front wrapper with clear tape. Edges lightly rubbed. 2008 Large Softcover. 439, [1] pp. An immense history of Little Falls, New York, including sections on the Mohawks and Palatine Germans, settlement, canal and railroad, the American Civil War, the transition from village to city, textile strikes...
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Lightfoot the Deer (Burgess Quaddies Green Forest Series Book 1)

By: Burgess, Thornton W. [Waldo]

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company: 1921

Seller ID: 2140934

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1925 printing. Near fine in fair to good jacket. Inscribed & signed by author on title page ('Your story friend, Thornton W. Burgess 1926.'). This inscription is typical of Burgess, and therefore likely this was not inscribed to a friend of his. Nonetheless, signed copies of Burgess's early works are rather uncommon, especially in original jackets. Ink name on front endpaper, jacket stained & toned with minor loss from corners. Good. 1921 Hard Cover. viii, 205, [2] pp. 8vo. The first book in Burgess's Green Forest Series. Color illustration mounted on front board (repeated on front jacket pane...
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The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

By: Burke, James Lee

Price: $75.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 2007

Seller ID: 2277197

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Signed by author without inscription. Publisher's insert and certificate of authenticity laid in. 2007 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 373, [1] pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof B...
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A Light Shines in God's Country: Humorous & Heartwarming Stories from Our Home to Yours

By: Burns, Irene

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Creation House: 2007

Seller ID: 2289173

ISBN: 1599792427

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Inscribed and signed by author. An exceptional copy. 2007 Trade Paperback. A woman who gives birth to nine children knows what she is talking about when it comes to child-rearing. In her first book, Irene Burns shares funny, sad, and motivating stories about raising children that, without a doubt, will encourage young mothers and fathers. Burns, who recently celebrated fifty years of marriage with husband, Don, chronicles the faith, financial struggles, and details of the obstacles with children she and the family endured, as well as the victory and joy that accompanied each trial and season o...
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By: Byatt, A.S.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 2003

Seller ID: 2271603

ISBN: 0701173246

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 279 pp. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women walk into a forest, as they did when they were girls, confronting their childhood fears and memories and the strange thing they saw -- or thought they saw -- so long ago. A distinguished male obstetrician and a young woman artist meet in a hospital. But both of them have very different ideas about body parts, birth and death. An innocent member of an evening class turns out to have her own dec...
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