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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

By: Walker, Alice

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1981

Seller ID: 2196021

ISBN: 0151997543

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Spine foot faintly pushed. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 167 pp. 8vo. A collection of fourteen short stories by the author who later became a household name with the publication of The Color Purple. Keywords: ALICE WALKER YOU CANT KEEP GOOD WOMAN DOWN SHORT STORIES SIGNED FIRST EDITION LITERATURE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
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By the Light of My Father's Smile: A Novel

By: Walker, Alice

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1998

Seller ID: 2197287

ISBN: 0375501525

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 222 pp. 8vo.A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico--the writer-to-be, Susannah; her sister, Magdalena; her father and mother.And there, amid an endangered band of mixed-race Blacks and Indians called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change them more than they could ever dream.Moving back and forth in time, and among unforgettable characters and their stories, Walker crosses conventional borders of all kinds as she explores i...
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Now is the Time to Open Your Heart

By: Walker, Alice

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2004

Seller ID: 2197288

ISBN: 1400061733

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 213 pp. 8vo.The Pulitzer Prizewinning author ofThe Color Purple,Possessing the Secret of Joy,andThe Temple of My Familiarnow gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey. InNow Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her ?nest achievements: the story of a womans spiritual adventure that becomes a passage through time, a quest for self, and a collision with love. Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published ...
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The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart

By: Walker, Alice

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2000

Seller ID: 2197290

ISBN: 0679455876

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 200 pp. 8vo.These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated, ungrounded in a way that challenged everything I'd ever thought about human relationships. Situated squarely in that terrifying paradise called freedom, precipitously out on so many emotional limbs, it was as if I had been born; and in fact I was being reborn as th...
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Banned

By: Walker, Alice

Price: $10.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Aunt Lute Books: 1996

Seller ID: 2197306

ISBN: 1879960478

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Near fine. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 105 pp. Throughout her distinguished career, Alice Walker's work has been at the center of controversies around language, censorship, truth and art. Alice Walker Banned explores just what it is that various groups have found so threatening in Walker's work, bringing together the short stories Roselily and Am I Blue?, an excerpt from the novel The Color Purple, as well as testimonies, letters, and essays about attempts to censor Walker's work by the California State Board of Education. The introduction by S...
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The Temple of My Familiar

By: Walker, Alice

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1989

Seller ID: 2273036

ISBN: 0151885338

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Top edge lightly foxed. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 416 pp. 8vo. Described by the author as 'a romance of the last 500,000 years,' The Temple of My Familiar follows a cast of interrelated characters, most of African descent, and each representing a different ethnic strainranging from diverse African tribes to the mixed bloods of Latin Americathat contribute to the black experience in America.
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Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women

By: Walker, Alice; Parmar, Pratibha

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace & Company: 1993

Seller ID: 2197291

ISBN: 0151000611

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by Alice Walker without inscription on title page. 1993 Hard Cover. 373 pp. 8vo.The author ofThe Color Purpletravels to Gambia, Senegal, and Burkina to interview a group of women trying to eliminate the traditional practice of female clitoral circumcision, a practice forced on women by the men of those societies.
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Chard Walker's Cajon: Rail Passage to the Pacific

By: Walker, Chard

Price: $35.00

Publisher: California, Trans-Anglo Books: 1985

Seller ID: 2308616

ISBN: 0870460722

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Two small tears along top edge of front jacket panel. Pencil place and date on front free endpaper. 1985 Large Hardcover. 254 pp. Fascinating book, written by the former Santa Fe operator at Summit, telling the complete story of the Cajon Pass and the railroad men from SF, UP and SP who worked night and day to move the trains over the mountain. Covers every aspect from the geology of the area, the construction of the first line, the stations, weather, runaways, passenger trains, the Descanso ex-funeral streetcar where railfans gathered at Summit, the end of the steam era, life a...
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By: Wallace, Edgar

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.: 1928

Seller ID: 2307396

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Minor general wear. 1928 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 309 pp. One of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular author, who created exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives. The Double is a story about a man who encounters his unknown double and the trouble that arises. When Dick Staines joined the police force the big case of the day had been the Staines murder. The only clue was an unknown thumb-print, the case was never solved. Ten years later a...
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The Navy, the Company, and Richard King: British Exploration in the Canadian Arctic, 1829-1860

By: Wallace, Hugh N.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2208314

ISBN: 0773503382

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, boards very lightly rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, pages faintly toned. 1980 Hard Cover. xxix, 232 pp. This book presents a fresh perspective on the epic drama of arctic exploration in the early and mid-nineteenth century, the period that witnessed the search first for a Northwest Passage to the Orient and then for the expedition led by Sir John Franklin which had been lost in that search. Drawing upon a wide range of scientific, technical, social, psychological, and medical data, Hugh N. Wallace surveys and evaluates the activities of the various exp...
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Beyond the Khyber Pass: The Road to British Disaster in the First Afghan War

By: Waller, John H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1990

Seller ID: 2304670

ISBN: 0394569342

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Page ridges foxed. 1990 Hard Cover. xxxiii, 329 pp. An analysis of the struggle for nineteenth-century Afghanistan profiles the military leaders, rebels, politicians, and others whose decisions culminated in the tragic massacre of sixteen thousand British soldiers and their families at Kabul.
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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

By: Walls, Jeannette

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner: 2009

Seller ID: 2098150

ISBN: 1416586288

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition. An exceptional copy. 2009 Hard Cover. 272 pp. Author of The Glass Castle. 'Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did.' So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Wallss no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier townriding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane. And, with her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannettes m...
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Jeremy and Hamlet

By: Walpole, Hugh

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: 1923

Seller ID: 2169670

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Minor biopredation to base of rear joint, jacket corners rubbed with minor loss. Very Good. 1923 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305 pp. 8vo. A collection of short stories in a fictional English town called Polchester. Walpole's second Jeremy book. CONTENTS: Come Out of the Kitchen; Conscience-Money; The Dance; Saladin and the Black Bishop; Poodle; The Night Raiders; Young Baltimore; The Ruffians; The Picture-Book; Uncle Percy; The Runaways; A Fine Day. Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (March 13, 1884 - June 1, 1941) was an English novelist. He was bor...
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Hop Jump

By: Walsh, Ellen Stoll

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace & Company: 1993

Seller ID: 2303611

ISBN: 0152928715

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed and dated by author without inscription. 1993 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. Tired of hopping and jumping, Betsy the frog sees the leaves float down from the trees and is inspired to leap and twirl--she calls it dancing. At first the other frogs tell her there is no room for dancing. But she eventually teaches everyone that there is room for hopping, jumping, and dancing.
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The Hidden Life of Emily Dickinson: A Biography

By: Walsh, John Evangelist

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1971

Seller ID: 2289192

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Quarter inch tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel and spine base, jacket spine lightly toned, small stain on jacket spine. Spine slightly cocked. 1971 Hard Cover. 286 pp. In this remarkable book, startling new evidence about Emily Dickinson's life is presented, all from primary sources and thoroughly documented, which at last fits the whole tantalizing puzzle together. Within a lucid, marvelously sustained narrative, John Evangelist Walsh offers revelations concerning Emily's art and personality which clarify much of the mystery and which will have a profound effect on c...
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New York: Club Kids

By: Waltpaper [Cassidy, Walt]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: ., Damiani: 2019

Seller ID: 2309032

ISBN: 8862086571

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First edition. No jacket. A fine copy. 2019 Large Hardcover. 375 pp. The embodiment of Generation X, the Club Kids were the last subculture of the analog world. New York: Club Kids is a high-impact visual diary of New York City in the 1990s, seen through the eyes of Walt Cassidy, known as Waltpaper, a central figure within the Club Kids. The Club Kids?named thus by New York Magazine in 1988?were an artistic, fashion-conscious youth movement that crossed over into the public consciousness through appearances on daytime talk shows, magazine editorials, fashion campaigns and music videos, plantin...
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Auntie Tigress and Other Favorite Chinese Folktales

By: Wang, Gia-Zhen; Kung, Annie

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Purple Bear Books: 2006

Seller ID: 2297707

ISBN: 1933327286

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Minor sticker adhesive on rear jacket panel. 2006 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. Auntie Tigress, a fearsome child-eating monster who decorates her immense cape with trophies collected from her victims, finally meets her match in the unlikely form of a kindhearted little girl. How the girl triumphs makes for a story full of sly wit and intrigue, with echoes of Little Red Riding Hood. In the second tale, a hardworking, generous fisherman outwits his greedy landlord. The final tale, a Cinderella story, finds a foolish father discovering that the most valuable gifts arent the most co...
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Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront

By: Ward, Nathan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2010

Seller ID: 2200442

ISBN: 0374286221

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2010 Hard Cover. xx, 250 pp. 8vo.What if the world of the old New York waterfront was as violent and mob-controlled as it appears in Hollywood movies? Well, it really was, and the story of its downfall, told here in high style by Nathan Ward, is the original New York mob story. New York Sunreporter Malcolm Mike Johnson was sent to cover the murder of a West Side boss stevedore and discovered a waterfront jungle, set against a background of New Yorks magnificent skyscrapers and providing rich pickings for criminal gangs. Racketeers ran their territories while doubling as union of...
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In Praise of Sailors: A Nautical Anthology of Art, Poetry, and Prose

By: Warden, Herbert W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams: 1978

Seller ID: 2263686

ISBN: 0810911078

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Boards slightly bowed, pages very faintly toned. 1978 Large Hardcover. 299 pp. Provides an ongoing narrative of the sailor's life at sea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Fundamentals of Baseball

By: Wardlaw, Charles D.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribners Sons: 1924

Seller ID: 2308418

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Rear board lightly soiled, ink stamp on front free endpaper. 1924 Hard Cover. 24 black-and-white photographic plates; diagrams and graphs follow text; includes chapter on baseball mechanics by David K. Brace. CONTENTS: Foreword; Throwing; Pitching; Catching; Batting; Base-Sliding; Coaching a Team; Testing the Mechanics of Baseball, by David K. Brace.
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My Dad, My Dog

By: Warner, Rebecca

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Texas, Black Rose Writing: 2020

Seller ID: 2306720

ISBN: 1684335884

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2020 Trade Paperback. When she moves her Alzheimer's-afflicted dad into the home she shares with her husband and elderly dog, Rachel Morgan expects some complications, but she never imagines the biggest one will occur on the first day, threatening her best-intentioned caregiving plans. Her normally sweet-natured dad--a former mailman who experienced too many run-ins with biting dogs--is adamant about wanting nothing to do with her big black Labrador. But as Rachel tends to the escalating physical and emotional needs of each, she notices the striking similarities in their aging p...
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Chronicle of the Russian Tsars: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Russia

By: Warnes, David

Price: $9.00

Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson: 1999

Seller ID: 2295698

ISBN: 0500050937

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 1999 Large Hardcover. 224 pp. This new Chronicle documents the lives of tsars famous and infamous in a lively series of biographical portraits stretching from the late fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Discover the facts behind the reputations of rulers such as Ivan the Terrible, whose reign of terror was unparalleled in Russian history until Stalin; Peter the Great, dynamic reformer and dedicated Westernizer; Catherine the Great, the determined young German princess who usurped power and is remembered for her interest in the Enlightenment and for her...
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English Philosophy Since 1900 (The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge, No. 234)

By: Warnock, G.J.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1958

Seller ID: 2307872

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. One inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, jacket edges rubbed, jacket clipped. 1958 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 180 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; The Point of Departure; G. E. Moore; Bertrand Russell; Logical Positivism; First Retrospect; Wittgenstein: (1) Language, (2) Logical Atomism, (3) Philosophical Problems, (4) Philosophical Paradox; Categories and Dilemmas; A Qualification; Second Retrospect; Logic; Metaphysics; New Questions; Philosophy and Belief; Short Bibliography; Index.
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Ethics Since 1900 (The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge, No. 243)

By: Warnock, Mary

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1960

Seller ID: 2307871

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket clipped, jacket spine head rubbed, small tear along top edge of front jacket panel. 1960 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 212 pp. ...a brief account of the main ethical problems which have been discussed in the present century in England, the United States, and France.
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The New England Conscience

By: Warren, Austin

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan: 1966

Seller ID: 2260627

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed. 1966 Hard Cover. An examination of the characteristic theological, psychological, historical, and literary manifestations of conscience through four centuries of New England history.
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