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By: Castillo, Ana
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270636
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. No jacket. A nice copy. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 312 pp. English text. A powerful, complex novel from the author of So Far From God. In the mythological land of Sapogonia--a metaphorical country where all mestizos (those of mixed European/Native Central or South American blood) come from--Maximo Madrigal becomes obsessed with a woman he can never control. View more info
By: Castillo, Ana
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270637
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxi, 158 pp. Author's fullest collection of poetry in both English and Spanish. Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country’s most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of uncompromising commitment a... View more info
By: Castillo, Ann
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Dutton Books: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197088
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2000 Hard Cover. Both a blessing to a child and a tribute to parenthood, this superb keepsake book by renowned Chicana poet and author Ana Castillo was inspired by ancient Aztec chants. It's the ideal gift to commemorate any of various momentous events in an older child's life--such as graduation, an important birthday, a quincea-era, or a family occasion. In words and pictures, the book's two sections--o... View more info
By: Catillo, Ana
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: Arte Publico Press: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201050
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Lightly toned. 1984 Trade Paperback. 64 pp. Author's first complete book of poems. Ana Castillo is one of the most widely published and anthologized voices from the Hispanic experience in the United States. Women Are Not Roses shatters the image of women as lovely, sweet adornments, more to be admired at a distance than handled, more beautiful to behold in silence than engaged in dialog. Castillo demands to be heard on... View more info
By: Cerf, Bennett
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1945
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276383
First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on front endpaper ('For Pete Street -- with delightful memories of our book tour together -- As ever, Bennett Cerf, Dec. 11, 1945'. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., who went by 'Pete' to differentiate himself from his father, a prominent author. Lacks jacket. Edges toned, handwritten note to 'Pete' laid in, dated July 3, 1989 and signed 'Mary', who thanks him for loaning the... View more info
By: Chabon, Michael
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Villard Books: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201005
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 368 pp. 8vo. Inspiration for the film starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDorman, Katie Holmes, Rip Torn, and Robert Downey, Jr. Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys. His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hol... View more info
![Image for The Arachnid Order Chelonethida (Stanford University Publications University Series, Biological Sciences, Volume VII, Number 1 [Vol. 7, No. I])](/assets/images/product/2260279.jpg "The Arachnid Order Chelonethida (Stanford University Publications University Series, Biological Sciences, Volume VII, Number 1 [Vol. 7, No. I])")
Price: $100.00 $80.00
Publisher: Stanford University Press: 1931
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2260279
Inscribed to fellow arachnologist Robert L. Gering (from whose library this volume was acquired) and signed by author on dedication page, signed by author again without inscription on title page. Possible custom rebinding (we have another copy from the same collection in red cloth with gilt titles on the spine - this is plain brown cloth with no title on the exterior). Rear hinge a bit shaken. 1931 Hard Cover. 284 pp. 8vo. A study of pseudoscorpions by an arachnologist w... View more info
By: Chaon, Dan
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: Ballantine Books: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2199479
Signed by author without inscription. First edition. Faint smell of smoke, top page edges lightly foxed.Very Good. 2001 Hard Cover. xi, 258 pp. In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon imagines today's family instinctively trying to stay together, only to find itself lost in the thro... View more info
By: Chappell, Eleanor; O'Connor, Basil; Hayes, Helen
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Chilton Company - Book Division: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1905645
First edition. Extensively inscribed, signed, and dated Nov. 8, 1961 by Bea Wright on front endpaper, to Mrs. Howard Wood, a worker in the Mothers' March. She mentions the March of Dimes, the charity founded by FDR, who also suffered from the disease. Lacks jacket. Spine lightly faded. 1960 Hard Cover. ix, 105 pp. A biography of the dedicated activist who fought to raise awareness of, and support research towards a cure for, polio - the disease that confined her to a whe... View more info
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: LSU Press: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2117909
First edition. Inscribed & signed by one contributor (Kelly Cherry) on title page ('To Abe, I thought this might interest you. Hope so! Love and admiration forever. Kelly, 11/98'). Rear jacket flap lightly creased.Very Good. 1998 Hard Cover. A New Pleiade is a celebration of close literary friendships among seven eminent American poets -- Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, R. H. W. Dillard, Brendan Galvin, George Garrett, David R. Slavitt, and Henry Taylor. The affection, fun,... View more info
By: Chavez, Denise
Price: $12.00 $9.60
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2281673
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 467 pp. Winner of the American Book Award. Last in a long line of suffering Mexican women, Soveida Dosamantes is a survivor. Writing a handbook for waitresses called The Book of Service, Soveida reflects on her own service in life, the interconnected lives of work and family, and the role of women in a machismo society. An extraordinary no... View more info
By: Chavez, Denise
Price: $12.00 $9.60
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2281674
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 325 pp. Winner of the American Book Award. An exuberant novel about a lovelorn woman obsessed with the Mexican film star Pedro Infante. Teresina (Tere) vila is a divorced, thirty-something Chicana working in the hinterlands of life in Cabritoville, New Mexico, a small dusty town near El Paso, Texas. The love of her life is Lucio, a smooth-... View more info
By: Chevalier, Tracy
Price: $175.00 $140.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196017
First edition in second state jacket (correction to 'Earring' on rear jacket panel). Signed by author without inscription on title page. Pages toned, otherwise an exceptional copy. 1999 Hard Cover. 248 pp. Inspiration for the motion picture starring Scarlet Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, and Cillian Murphy. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-... View more info
By: Chevalier, Tracy
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: HarperCollins: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270473
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages lightly to moderately toned. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 278 pp. The new novel from the author of the much-loved Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning. Tapestries give an appearance of order and continuity,... View more info
By: Chevalier, Tracy
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: HarperCollins: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270474
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages lightly to moderately toned. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 403 pp. A fashionable London cemetery, January 1901: Two graves stand side by side, one decorated with an oversize classical urn, the other with a sentimental marble angel. Two families, visiting their respective graves on the day after Queen Victoria's death, teeter on the brink of a new era. The Colemans and the Waterhou... View more info
By: Chevalier, Tracy
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270646
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1997 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 255, [7] pp. Author's first novel. Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin--two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village li... View more info
By: Christman, W.W.
Price: $95.00 $76.00
Publisher: Harold Vinal: 1926
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1864014
First edition. Inscribed without attribution and signed by author on front endpaper ('With good wishes W.W. Christman Delanson, N.Y., May 28 1932.'). Includes original jacket. Includes tipped-in cut of envelope used to originally ship the book and an invoice for its purchase in 1977.Jacket toned and lightly rubbed. 1926 Hard Cover. Author's first book. A collection of poetry by the noteworthy Catskills poet and transcendentalist, W.W. Christman.Keywords: POETRY CHRISTIAN... View more info
By: Chute, Carolyn
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271031
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket very faintly toned. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 244 pp. In this 'assured, complex and memorable tale' (Publishers Weekly), Chute once again makes a tiny corner of the world her own, a kind of Oz turned upside down with a wizard named Big Lucien, head of the Letourneau clan, another ragtag family that inhabits Egypt, Maine, and the nearby Miracle City. View more info
By: Chute, Carolyn
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271032
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 695 pp. The Barringtons' clan wins a reputation for eccentricity with the behavior of Unk Walty, who constructs life-like and life-size sculptures of Egypt, Maine, residents. By the author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine. View more info
By: Cisneros, Sandra
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Random House: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200710
First edition. Signed and dated (27.4.91 LA) by author without inscription. Near fine.Jacket toned. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 165 pp. From the author of The House on Mango Street. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories is a book of short stories published in 1991 by San Antonio-based Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros. The collection reflects Cisneros's experience of being surrounded by American influences while still being fami... View more info
By: Cisneros, Sandra
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Third Woman Press: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200993
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. Wrappers and pages toned. 1987 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 93 pp. Poetry from the author of The House on Mango Street. Hailed as not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one (The New York Times Book Review), Sandra Cisneros has firmly established herself as an author of electrifying talent. Here are verses, comic and sad, radiantly pure and pl... View more info
By: Cisneros, Sandra
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200995
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket faintly toned. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 115 pp. Poetry from the author of The House on Mango Street. A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic. Poignant, sexy. . . lyrical, passionate. . . cool and delicate. . . hot as a chili pepper.--Boston Globe.With her novel T... View more info
By: Cisneros, Sandra
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270192
First edition, review copy with slip laid in. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Spine head and foot faintly pushed. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 443, [7] pp. 8vo. The celebrated author of The House on Mango Street gives us an extraordinary new novel, told in language of blazing originality: a multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy—the ... View more info
By: Cisneros, Sandra; Valenzuela, Liliana
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Apple Soup / Alfred A. Knopf: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2198570
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1994 Large Hardcover. This jewel-like vignette from Sandra Cisneros's best-selling The House on Mango Street shows, through simple, intimate portraits, the diversity among us. A Dragonfly Book in English and Spanish.A Parenting Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year. View more info
By: Clark, Martin
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2274257
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Top page ridge very faintly foxed. 2000 Hard Cover. 345 pp. Author's first novel. Meet Evers Wheeling of Norton, North Carolina. A semi-dissolute judge, undistracted by children, hobbies, or a fulfilling marriage, he's moving down the road to nowhere at a furious clip -- until the morning he's confronted by Ruth Esther English, an attractive young woman whose dim-witted brother happens to be up on drug charges. Within ... View more info
By: Clarke, Gerald
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: The Golden Quill Press: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1522573
First edition with promotional laid in. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('For Al - who embodies much of the spirit of this book. Gerry Clarke'). Jacket lightly toned. 1980 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 80 pp. In this book, Gerald Clarke achieves a fusion of his careers as a poet and a teacher. The school portrayed on these pages becomes almost magically a symbol for the larger world we all live in, and many readers will be rem... View more info
By: Clarke, Gerald
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: The Golden Quill Press: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1522577
First edition. Signed and dated by author without inscription on front endpaper ('-- Gerry Clarke March, 1980'). Jacket toned. 1977 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 80 pp. Airling is a new word in our language, coined to suggest the writer's disenchantment with the clumsy and mechanistic realities of aircraft, for anyone who seeks to fly. Gulls and hawks move through their native element with grace but man's attempt to emulate them is awkward, at... View more info
By: Clarke, Susanna
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200379
First American edition, second state jacket (black with white lettering). Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Spine head and foot faintly pushed. 2004 Hard Cover. 782 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, which inspired the BBC television series. English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to... View more info
By: Clarke, Susanna
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200961
First American edition, first state jacket (white with black lettering) Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Spine head and foot faintly pushed. 2004 Hard Cover. 782 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, which inspired the BBC television series. English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to p... View more info
By: Clarke, Susanna
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270191
First American edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. An exceptional copy. 2004 Hard Cover. 782 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, which inspired the BBC television series. English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while ... View more info
