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By: Bloom, Amy
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Random House: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271002
ISBN: 0375502688
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 163 pp. A great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and breadth of a novel. Amy Bloom writes great short stories. Her first collection, Come to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and here she deepens and extends her mastery of the form. Real people inhabit these pages, the people we know and are, the people we long to be and are afraid to be: a mother and her brave, smart little girl, each coming to terms wi... View more info
By: Bloom, Amy
Price: $12.00
Publisher: HarperCollins: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271003
ISBN: 0060182369
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 177 pp. A first collection of short stories features tales of psychiatrists crossing professional boundaries, a small girl in need of love, a frightened father in need of redemption, and wives who become mistresses. View more info
By: Bloom, Amy
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Random House: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271004
ISBN: 0679441093
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!. 205 pp. This stunning novel by National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom, author of Come to Me, follows the passions of Elizabeth Taube from childhood to middle age, as she finds herself through love--good, bad, and dangerous. View more info
By: Bolano, Roberto
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2290046
ISBN: 0374100144
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Remainder mark. 2008 Hard Cover. 898 pp. Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa - a fictional Juárez - on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers,... View more info
By: Bone, James
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Regan Arts: 2016
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2290050
ISBN: 1942872038
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. An excellent copy. 2016 Hard Cover. ix, 325 pp. The tumultuous and heartbreaking life of a world-famous model whose riveting story of beauty, fame, passion, murder, and madness in the Gilded Age captivated a nation. As America was stepping into the modern era, one great beauty became the artist’s model of choice. Her perfect form became the emblem of the Gilded Age and appears on the greatest monuments of New York and the nation. Supermodel, actress, icon—her beauty paved the way for a life of glamour, passion, and ultimately tragedy. She dated the millionaires of the fashio... View more info
By: Bowen, Elizabeth
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York: Lincoln MacVeagh / The Dial Press: 1928
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2043190
Condition: Very Good
First American edition. Ink name & date on front endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with 1 inch chip from spine head, minor loss from corners and rear joint, two tears, jacket spine faded.Good. 1928 Hard Cover. 294 pp. 8vo. Black cloth, paper spine label, silk decorative endpapers. Author's first novel, which followed on the success of two short story collections (Encounters; Ann Lee's and Other Stories). Bowen was a well-known author and member of literary society, befriending a number of the Bloomsbury Group, and also carrying on affairs with several other authors, including May Sarton. From the ... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271005
ISBN: 0679400907
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... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271006
ISBN: 0025142704
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. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271007
ISBN: 039451050X
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... View more info
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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271009
ISBN: 0679430083
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... View more info
By: Boyd, James
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2122838
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Lacks jacket. Cigar smoke odor, ink gift note on front endpaper. 1927 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 426 pp. 8vo. The second novel by the American author whose works were influential in the genre of historical fiction. Boyd also organized a group of writers called the Free Company of Players who performed political radio plays during World War II. View more info
By: Boyer, Glenn G.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Talei Publishers, Inc.: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2288992
ISBN: 0963177222
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 1993 Large Hardcover. xxviii, 325 pp. The work of a lifetime reveals what really happened and why. The reason that Wyatt Earp came to Tombstone, why Josie Earp whitewashed the truth, the identities of the hired assassins who tried to wipe out the Earps in Tombstone and much more. View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Viking: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274266
ISBN: 0670849634
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 238 pp. Fifteen darkly satirical stories by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of If the River Was Whiskey feature a couple in search of the last toads on earth, and a real-estate wonder boy on safari. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: An Atlantic Monthly Press Book/Little, Brown and Company: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2281544
ISBN: 0316104671
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... View more info
By: Boyle, T.C.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Viking: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2281614
ISBN: 0670031720
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Minor crease to top corner of front jacket flap. Faint smudge on page ridge. 2003 Hard Cover. 443 pp. The members of the Drop City commune clash with Alaskan homesteaders who live near where the commune has recently moved, as both groups struggle to for love, nourishment, and shelter. By the author of A Friend of the Earth. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1933
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1842729
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Includes original jacket. Page ridges faintly foxed, front jacket flap corners clipped (price still present), jacket lightly toned with minor wear to corners. 1933 Hard Cover. 343 pp. A 1933 comparative study of world religions and how the modern world affects them. Includes chapters on Hinduism, Japanese & Chinese religions, Islam, Russian religions, and Judaism. Also includes an appendix and suggestions for further reading. View more info
By: Bradley, Bill
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Vanguard Press: 2012
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2288335
ISBN: 1593157290
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author on bookplate pasted to half-title page without inscription. Top corners of jacket bumped. 2012 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, 191 pp. The eighteen-year New Jersey Senator, financial and investment adviser, Olympic and NBA athlete, national radio host, and bestselling author has lived in the United States as both political insider and outsider, national sports celebrity and behind-the-scenes confidante, leader and teammate. His varied experiences help to inform his unique and much-sought-after point of view on Washington and the c... View more info
By: Bradley, Bill
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2288336
ISBN: 0679444882
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine head lightly bumped. 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 vividly brings to life the world of a U.S. senator. View more info
By: Bradley, David
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274256
ISBN: 0060104910
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket edges very lightly rubbed. 1981 Hard Cover. x, 432 pp. The son of a moonshiner and the grandson of a slave, a brilliant but bitter Black historian wades through the dark secrets of his heritage to reconstruct and, finally, to accept his family's tragic history. View more info
By: Braverman, Kate
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Graywolf Press: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270797
ISBN: 1555974384
Condition: Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2006 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 217 pp. Kate Braverman grew up in Los Angeles in the late 1950s at the time when glitz was just beginning to be manufactured. Her Los Angeles was made up of stucco tenements, welfare, and the marginalized. It wasn't a destination city, it was the end of the line. Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles chronicles the trajectory of Braverman's Left Coast generation with a voice of singular power. She was an antiwar activist in Berkele... View more info
By: Braverman, Kate
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270799
ISBN: 0060104414
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket very faintly toned. 1979 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 251 pp. Author's first novel. In this startling, intense novel, Kate Braverman uses the language and sensibilities of a poet to create a portrait of a young woman on the brink of self-discovery. View more info
By: Braverman, Kate
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270800
ISBN: 0449905519
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 241 pp. Single mothers, insolent daughters, blood sisters, and desperate friends people the tales in this twelve-story cycle, as they live out urban fairy tales and nightmares in the atmospheric landscape of Los Angeles. View more info
By: Braverman, Kate
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270801
ISBN: 0449906566
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. View more info
By: Braverman, Kate
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Seven Stories Press: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270802
ISBN: 1583224696
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... View more info
By: Braverman, Kate
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Linden Press / Simon & Schuster: 1988
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2270803
ISBN: 0671645420
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine head and spine base very lightly bumped, jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 384 pp. Tells the stories of Francisca Ramos, a prostitute, Gloria Hernandez, a young housewife, and Marta Ortega, an eldery half-breed, who live in the Los Angeles barrio. View more info
By: Brinkley, Alan
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2285429
ISBN: 0679425489
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Front jacket flap price clipped. 1993 Hard Cover. xxix, 912, A-39, SR-56, IC-2, I-42 pp. Perhaps never before has the writing of American history seemed so much an arena of diverse claims and discord. Scholars explore areas of the past that once seemed hidden from view. Newly assertive groups in the American population draw attention to their own distinctive pasts. The story of America sometimes seems to be many different stories, with nothing to tie them together. In The Unfinished Nation, Alan Brinkley provides a clear and intelligent account of the American past that strikes ... View more info
By: Brogaard, Berit; Marlow, Kristian
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Hudson Street Press: 2015
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267377
ISBN: 1594633681
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket spine-head and spine-base lightly bumped. 2015 Hard Cover. xii, 273 pp. Berit Brogaard, PhD, and Kristian Marlow, MA, study people with astonishing talents—memory champions, human echolocators, musical virtuosos, math geniuses, and synesthetes who taste colors and hear faces. But as amazing as these abilities are, they are not mysterious. Our brains constantly process a huge amount of information below our awareness, and what these gifted individuals have in common is that through practice, injury, an innate brain disorder, or even more unusual circumstances, they have ... View more info
By: Bromfield, Louis
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265826
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, 1 inch chip from jacket spine base, with minor loss from other jacket corners, jacket toned. 1930 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 432 pp. A novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Green Bay Tree, Possession, and Early Autumn. Inspiration for the film starring Clive Brook and Kay Francis, directed by Marion Gering. Originally published serially as Shattered Glass; this edition released simultaneously with a signed, limited edition of 500 copies (this copy is not signed). Bromfield was also known for his scient... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Viking: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200373
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. 8vo. March is a novel by Geraldine Brooks. It is a parallel novel that retells Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women from the point of view of Alcott's protagonists' absent father. Brooks has inserted the novel into the classic tale, revealing the events surrounding March's absence during the American Civil War in 1862. The novel won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. - Wikipedia View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Viking: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274239
ISBN: 0670021040
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Bottom corner lightly bumped. 2011 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 306 pp. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curi... View more info
