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Brick Lane

By: Ali, Monica

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Doubleday: 2003

Seller ID: 2270791

ISBN: 038560484X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. 413 pp. Author's first book. Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Bangladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu. Her life in London's Tower Hamlets is, on the surface, calm. For years, keeping house and rearing children, she does what is expected of her. Yet Nazneen walks a tightrope stretched between her daughters' embarrassment and her husband's resentments. Chanu calls ...
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Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World: A Novel

By: Antrim, Donald

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1993

Seller ID: 2199924

ISBN: 0670851396

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Top page edge smudged, spine slightly cocked. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 185 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. In his first novel,Elect Mr. Robinson For a Better World, Donald Antrim demonstrates all of the skill that critics have hailed in his subsequent work: the pitch-perfect ear, the cunning imagination, and the uncanny control of a narrative at once familiar and incandescently strange. In Pete Robinsons seaside suburban town, things have, well, fallen into disrepair. The voters have de-funded schools, the mayor has been drawn and quartered b...
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Stamp Help Out! and Other Short Stories

By: Bruce, Lenny

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York, [Self-Published]: 1962

Seller ID: 2307517

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, second state, with overstruck obscenities. Whited out price on front corner, small sticker ghost inside rear wrapper. 1962 Soft Cover. The first book by the irreverent comedian whose off-color brand of humor led to criminal charges of obscenity. In anticipation of the resulting trial, Bruce asked Lawrence Ferlinghetti (who had taken most of the first print run to sell at City Lights) to destroy the remaining copies of the first run, and for the second printing overstruck the curse words with x's so it could not be used as evidence against him. Illustrated with black-and-white ph...
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Reiffen's Choice (The Stoneways Trilogy Book One [1])

By: Butler, S.C.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Tor / Tom Doherty Associates: 2006

Seller ID: 2264580

ISBN: 0765314770

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2006 Hard Cover. 463, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Reiffen, only twelve years old, is the true heir to the thrones of both Wayland and Banking. He and his friends Avender and Ferris live in a magical world of talking animals, dwarves, and shape-shifting bears buthe lives with the shame of knowing that no one will ever let him rule these kingdoms, that their crowns will bring him nothing but betrayal and sorrowand that he is powerless. Reiffen will have only a short life of child's innocence, a brief respite from the trial of impossible adult responsibi...
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Dynasty of Death: First Edition

By: Caldwell, Taylor

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1938

Seller ID: 2202719

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Jacket rubbed & chipped, tape along jacket spine, pages toned, stamping on endpapers. 1938 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 797 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900August 30, 1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback. In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include Dynasty of Death (1938), an...
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The Virgin Blue

By: Chevalier, Tracy

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Penguin Books: 1997

Seller ID: 2270646

ISBN: 0140265023

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

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 life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to ...
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

By: Clarke, Susanna

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Bloomsbury: 2004

Seller ID: 2200379

ISBN: 1582344167

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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 perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at ...
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Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper -- A Memoir

By: Cody, Diablo

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Gotham Books: 2006

Seller ID: 2260592

ISBN: 1592401821

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Spine ends lightly pushed. 2006 Hard Cover. 212 pp. 8vo. First book by the writer of the screenplay for the Academy-Award-winning film Juno starring Ellen Page & Michael Cera. Diablo Cody was twenty-four years old when she decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. On a whim, she performed at amateur night at Minneapolis's seedy Skyway Lounge. She didn't win a prize that night, but she discovered that stripping delivered a rush she had never experienced before, and too many experiences to not write about it. While she didn't fit the ordinary profile o...
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Under the Weat

By: DeMarinis, Rick

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Pittsburg, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2305559

ISBN: 0822935449

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket near fine. Top page ridge very faintly foxed. 1986 Hard Cover. 157 pp. Author's first novel. This anthology includes the title story about a dissolving marriage and an obsessive love affair that symbolizes the uneasiness and fear resulting from missile installations in North Dakota farmland.
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The Last Samurai

By: DeWitt, Helen

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Talk Miramax Books / Hyperion: 2000

Seller ID: 2297070

ISBN: 0786866683

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Ink name on front endpaper, corners lightly pushed. 2000 Hard Cover. viii, 530 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, a single mother of precocious and rigorous intelligence, and her son, who, owing to his mother's singular attitude to education, develops into a prodigy of learning. Ludo reads Homer in the original Greek at 4 before moving on to Hebrew, Japanese, Old Norse, and Inuit; studying advanced mathematical techniques (Fourier analysis and Laplace transformations); and, as the titl...
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Deliverance

By: Dickey, James

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1970

Seller ID: 2303543

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition (stated, 6-84530 jacket code). Jacket edges rubbed. 1970 Hard Cover. 278 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, adapted to the film starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, which was nominated for numerous awards, and imprinted an unsettling new context for the song Dueling Banjos on the collective consciousness. The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a mo...
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Giant Otto

By: Du Bois, William Pene

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1936

Seller ID: 2285925

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Binding a bit shaken but holding, edges rubbed. 1936 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. [40 pp.] Pictorial paper over boards. Author's first book. A children's story written and illustrated by William Pene du Bois, best known for The Twenty-One Balloons (1947), which won the Newbery Medal. He also worked as the art editor for The Paris Review, and was nominated for two Caldecott Medals.
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Geode / Rock Body

By: Ehrlich, Gretel

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara, Capricorn Press: 1970

Seller ID: 2196147

ISBN: 0912264152

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition, #39 of 50. Signed by author without inscription and hand-numbered on limitation page. Tiny sticker remnant on corner of front endpaper, otherwise an exceptional copy. 1970 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 34 pp. 8vo. The first published work by the poet, travel and nature writer, and essayist, who won the Henry David Thoreau Award. A collection of poems, it was published when the author was just 24 years old. This edition was limited to 600 copies, only 50 of which were bound in cloth. Designed and printed by Noel Young in Santa Barbara, cover drawing ...
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The Land Surveyor's Daughter: Poems (Lost Roads Number 14, 1979)

By: Gilchrist, Ellen

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Fayetteville, Arkansas, Lost Roads Publishing Company / White River Printers: 1979

Seller ID: 2196149

ISBN: 0918786150

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. An exceptional copy. 1979 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 46 pp. Author's first book. A collection of poetry by the author who won the National Book Award for her 1984 short story collection Victory Over Japan. Gilchrist also studied under the well-known writer Eudora Welty at Millsaps College. Keywords: ELLEN GILCHRIST LAND SURVEYOR DAUGHTER POEMS POETRY SIGNED FIRST EDITION
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Black Sunday

By: Harris, Thomas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1975

Seller ID: 2202745

ISBN: 0399114432

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lightly rubbed, jacket price clipped. 1975 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 318 pp. 8 1/2 x 6. Author's first book. Harris later wrote The Silence Of The Lambs, which inspired the film starring Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, and Ted Levine. Black Sunday is a 1975 novel by Thomas Harris. It was the first novel by Harris, and achieved only moderate success, until it was sold to Hollywood, for the production of a film based on the novel. The novel is a thriller about a plot by terrorists to commit mass murder during the Super Bowl in New Orlean...
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Getting Our Breath Back

By: Johnson, Shawne

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Dutton: 2002

Seller ID: 2200760

ISBN: 0525946543

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2002 Hard Cover. viii, [2], 261 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Violet, Lilly, and Rose know how it feels to be black women trying to find their place in a changing white world. Violet, the eldest, grows up believing in the myth of the southern belle-only to discover that good manners and genteel charm aren't going to bring her acceptance from a closed-minded society... or a philandering husband. Lilly is an ex-Black Panther and writer caught up in the stormy aftermath of the sixties; she shuts out this new world of confusion and pain with the heroin that can never give her peace...
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The Jewel of Medina: A Novel

By: Jones, Sherry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Beaufort Books, Inc: 2008

Seller ID: 2207865

ISBN: 0825305187

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2008 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 358 pp. Author's first novel. Born Aisha bint Abi Bakr in seventh century Arabia, she would become the favorite wife of the Prophet Muhammad, and one of the most revered women in the Muslim faith. Married at the age of nine, The Jewel of Medina illuminates the difficult path Aisha confronted, from her youthful dreams of becoming a Bedouin warrior, to her life as the beloved wife and confident of the founder of Islam.Extensively researched and elegantly crafted, The Jewel of Medina presents the beauty and harsh re...
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White Sky, Black Ice

By: Jones, Stan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Soho Press: 1999

Seller ID: 2300412

ISBN: 1569471525

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Author's first novel. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('Ruth - Hope you enjoy the story. Stan Jones 6-28-99, P.S. Ronnie's not a bad kid!'). 1999 Hard Cover. viii, 264 pp. 8vo. An Alaskan State trooper must satisfy both Eskimo and white man's justice. Trooper Nathan Active, child of a fifteen-year-old unmarried Inupiat Eskimo girl, was given up for adoption and raised in Anchorage, where he graduated from the university. Now that he has been posted to his remote birth village, Chukchi, he longs to return to civilization. Before that happens, he is confronted with at...
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Abacus (Wesleyan New Poets Series)

By: Karr, Mary

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Middletown, Wesleyan University Press: 1987

Seller ID: 2196007

ISBN: 0819521345

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 52, [2] pp. 8vo. First novel by the authorof 'three award-winning, bestselling memoirs: The Liars Club, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Cherry, which was selected as a notable book by book reviews nationwide; and Lit, which was one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year (and made virtually every other Best of the Year list) and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, Karr ...
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Prodigal Summer

By: Kingsolver, Barbara

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins: 2000

Seller ID: 2196868

ISBN: 0060199652

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. An exceptional copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [5], 444 pp. 8vo. Barbara Kingsolver, a writer praised for her extravagantly gifted narrative voice (New York Times Book Review), has created with this novel a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. At the heart o...
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The Historian

By: Kostova, Elizabeth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York / Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 2005

Seller ID: 2284551

ISBN: 0316011770

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Spine ends lightly pushed. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 642 pp. Author's first novel. Blends history & fantasy in evoking the enigmatic figure of Vlad the Impaler. To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to My dear and unfortunate successor, and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to ...
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The Johnstown Flood [The Incredible Story Behind One of the Most Devastating 'Natural' Disasters American Has Ever Known]

By: McCullough, David

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster, Inc.: 1968

Seller ID: 2283498

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Remainder mark on page base, jacket flap price crossed out (but still visible), jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1968 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 302 pp. 8vo. Includes section of black & white photographs, maps on endpapers. The first book the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. David McCullough is known to millions as the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling books The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas, and Mornings on Horseback, and as host of the popular PBS television series 'Smithsonian World?' The Johnstown Flood, David McCullough's fi...
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A Bigamist's Daughter: A Novel

By: McDermott, Alice

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1982

Seller ID: 2196025

ISBN: 0394522028

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Board edges very slightly faded. Jacket mildly toned. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 282 pp. 8vo. First book by the author of Charming Billy, which won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication (admittedly, to writers of questionable talent). Stories of true emotional depth rarely cross her desk. But when a young writer named Tupper Daniels walks in, bearing an unfinished novel, Elizab...
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The Winter Should Pass: A Novel

By: Patten, Nigel

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1967

Seller ID: 2200438

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('With the respects of the author, Nigel Patten, Villar [?] Juillet '67.'). 1967 Hard Cover. 255 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Issak flees his native Antwerp after committing a terrible crime. Settling in Snowdonia, he builds a home in the hills and founds a family with Rachel, a vagrant gypsy woman. But he remains haunted by his past with Julie, his one true love, and the conviction that his eldest son will in some way pay for his father's past sins. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born near London in 1940, Nigel Patten has lived permanently ...
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Recital of the Dog: A Novel

By: Rabe, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press: 1993

Seller ID: 2207569

ISBN: 0802114881

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Very faint spots to top page ridge, ink stamp to title page, sticker remnants on jacket, jacket edges lightly bumped. 1993 Hard Cover. 308 pp. First novel by the Tony-winning playwright. In classic works such as Hurlyburly and Streamers, David Rabe's depictions of violence and the dark side of the human psyche have won him widespread acclaim. In Recital of the Dog, a painter who has left urban chaos for the country soon finds his hopes of tranquilityshattered by a marauding intruder-a dog that torments his small herd of cows. Desperate to restore order to his world, the man shoo...
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Image for Are the Dead Alive? The Problem of Psychical Research that the World's Leading Scientists Are Trying to Solve, and the Progress They Have Made, with Statements of Their Personal Belief by Sir Oliver Lodge, Count Leo Tolstoi, Dr. Cesare Lombroso, Dr. V. Maxwell, Professor William Barrett, William T. Stead, Andrew Lang, Sir William Crookes, Dr. Charles Richet, Dr. Filippo Bottazzi, Camille Flammarion, Professor William James, and Others

Are the Dead Alive? The Problem of Psychical Research that the World's Leading Scientists Are Trying to Solve, and the Progress They Have Made, with Statements of Their Personal Belief by Sir Oliver Lodge, Count Leo Tolstoi, Dr. Cesare Lombroso, Dr. V. Maxwell, Professor William Barrett, William T. Stead, Andrew Lang, Sir William Crookes, Dr. Charles Richet, Dr. Filippo Bottazzi, Camille Flammarion, Professor William James, and Others

By: Rider, Fremont

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York, B.W. Dodge & Company: 1909

Seller ID: 2307231

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1 inch closed tear to top margin of one page, jacket lightly rubbed and toned. 1909 Hard Cover. xvi, 372 pp. Author's first book. Includes black-and-white photographic frontispiece and 33 other photos, including spirit photographs, examples of levitation, spirit writing, etc. An analysis of spiritualism from a scientific standpoint, by a an innovator of library science who studied under Melvil Dewey (about whom he wrote a biography). The ALA named him one of the 100 Most Important Leaders of Library Science and the Library Profession. Chapters in this work include: Introduction;...
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Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One) (Daw Book Collectors No. 1396)

By: Rothfuss, Patrick

Price: $600.00

Publisher: New York, Daw Books, Inc.: 2007

Seller ID: 2294212

ISBN: 075640407X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition, first printing, in 'red haired man' jacket (one of two original jacket states). An exceptional copy. 2007 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 661, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, for which Rothfuss won the Quill Award. The second book in The Kingkiller Chronicles, The Wise Man's Fear, made it to the top of the bestsellers list, and inspired a tabletop game called Tak. Rothfuss is known in the tabletop gaming community for his appearances on Penny Arcade, Critical Role, and Tabletop. Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted you...
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Twilight of the Fifth Sun

By: Sakmyster, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Calgary, Dragon Moon: 1997

Seller ID: 2265816

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed and dated (12/97) by author without inscription. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1997 Hard Cover. 517, [3] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Amid the ruins of Ancient Mexico, a prophecy predicts the end of the Fifth Sun, the universal destruction of our own time. Ahuitzotl is determined to fulfill the prophecy, to conquer both the living and the dead, while a ghostly pirate, a journalist and a young boy battle to stop him. Will they be able to stop the Aztec King before he destroys them all?
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Drowning Ruth: A Novel

By: Schwarz, Christina

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2000

Seller ID: 2270771

ISBN: 038549971X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 338 pp. Author's first novel. Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed.
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Others

By: Shields, Carol

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Ottawa, The Borealis Press: 1972

Seller ID: 2196153

ISBN: 0919594085

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Handwritten postcard written to previous owner (in different ink than the title page signature) signed by Shields and dated 29/5/02 laid in. An interesting combination of early and late signatures - the author passed away in 2003. 1972 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 60 pp. Author's first book. A collection of poetry by the American-born Canadian author most well-know for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Stone Diaries. This work was never published in the United States.
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