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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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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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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: Cahn, William L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Citizens for a Quality Philharmonic: 1989

Seller ID: 2305380

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1989 Trade Paperback. vi, 79, 33 pp. A history of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and its educational programming, 1922 to 1989, with an appendix on radio concerts by the Rochester Civic Orchestra, 1943-1944.
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Mama's Little Girl: A Brief Story [with] 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 Photograph of Author and Family

By: Caldwell, Erskine

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Mount Vernon / Portland, The Bradford Press: 1932

Seller ID: 2305597

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Limited edition, #33 of 75 copies, signed by author on limitation page, and by illustrator beneath frontispiece. Laid in is a photograph, at the center of which appears to be Erskine Caldwell, with the others in the photo ostensibly his family. On the reverse is written 'Back to nature! May 22d - '32' in handwriting that appears quite similar to known examples of Caldwell's ('Back' in particular matches nearly exactly the same word in a 1940 letter auctioned by Heritage). Minor loss from corner of front wrapper and corner of first page, fore edge corners a bit creased. 1932 Soft Cover. We have...
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Up and Down and Around: A Publisher Recollects the Time of His Life

By: Canfield, Cass

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper's Magazine Press / Harper & Row: 1971

Seller ID: 2276395

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on front endpaper, with recipient's name erased ('with my warm regards, Cass Canfield, Oct 1971'). Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from spine head and foot. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, [3], 272 pp. 8vo. A biography of the president and chairman of Harper & Brothers / Harper & Row, who was responsible for launching the careers of James Thurber, E.B. White, and John Updike. Canfield also advocated for the right to birth control, and chaired the executive committee of Planned Parenthood.
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $2,250.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1965

Seller ID: 2263973

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #285 of 500, signed & numbered by Capote on colophon, which states 'Of the first edition of In Cold Blood five hundred copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound.' Lacks slipcase issued with this edition, but is only the more attractive for it (the slipcase was a rather plain red paper over cardboard). 1965 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 343 pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full brown morocco with gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound include...
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Death in the Long Grass

By: Capstick, Peter Hathaway

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press / The Buckingham Mint: 1977

Seller ID: 2304430

ISBN: 0312186134

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #681 of 5000 copies, hand-numbered and signed by author on limitation page. An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 297 pp. Maroon full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Black-and-white photographs throughout text. Few men can say they have known Africa as Peter Hathaway Capstick has know it -- leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And...
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Death in the Dark Continent

By: Capstick, Peter Hathaway

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press / The Buckingham Mint: 1983

Seller ID: 2304431

ISBN: 0312186150

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #681 of 5000 copies, hand-numbered and signed by author on limitation page. An exceptional copy. 1983 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [3], 238 pp. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Black-and-white photographs throughout text. Critically acclaimed as a master of adventure writing for Death in the Long Grass and Death in the Silent Places, former professional hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick takes us back to Africa to encounter the world’s most dangerous big-game animals....
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The Speed of Light

By: Carlson, Ron

Price: $15.00

Publisher: HarperTempest: 2003

Seller ID: 2199491

ISBN: 0380978377

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author without inscription. First edition. Very good. Very Good. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. Summer. Baseball. Car Baseball. Sock Ball. Wall Ball. The Time Tower: can you get older faster? The speed of light: can it be measured? A carp, washed up in the riberbank: what's inside? Larry, Witt, and Rafferty have a whole summer to play all the different kinds of baseball, to build structures in the backyard, to find out what makes the world tick. We've got to keep busy, says Witt. I want to know everything. Not just part. Larry doesn't wa...
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Plan B for the Middle Class: Stories

By: Carlson, Ron

Price: $20.00

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1992

Seller ID: 2269565

ISBN: 0393033708

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. A bit smoky. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 223, [1] pp. 8vo. A collection of stories about midlife includes tales of a single mother who keeps house on an aircraft carrier and a new father who is seduced by a motorcycle. By the author of Truants.
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Truants: A Novel

By: Carlson, Ron

Price: $25.00

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1981

Seller ID: 2281549

ISBN: 0393013839

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author with inscription, For Esta and Bob from their friend, Ron Carlson. Front jacket panel clipped with price intact. Very faint odor of smoke. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 255 pp. Collin Elder and Louisa Berg, having trouble with their fathers, quit their home situations for life on the road and meet eighty-four-year-old Will Clare while searching for a future in the streets of Utah and Nevada.
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