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Caramelo or Puro Cuento

By: Cisneros, Sandra

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2002

Seller ID: 2270192

ISBN: 0679435549

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

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 poignancythe very stuff of life. Lala Reyes grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl, makers. The striped caramelo...
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The Dangerous Edge

By: Daley, Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1983

Seller ID: 2305562

ISBN: 0671470574

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip and author photo laid in. Jacket rear lighlty toned. Top edge lightly foxed with a faint stain. 1983 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 411 pp. The French Riviera 1954. In an imperfect world the perfect crime. And for the man wh o mastermlinded the breakin of the Banque de Nice, robbing it of its gold and precious stones--and its even more valuable secrets--it seemed the pefect crime. Then a dogged French detective was handed the case, and finally he had something to live for. Suddenly the act of violent bravado has drawn ...
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Peeper

By: Estleman, Loren D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1989

Seller ID: 2305560

ISBN: 0553053639

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Review copy with publisher letter and author photo laid in. Jacket near fine. Top edge foxed. 1989 Hard Cover. 215 pp. A priest's death leads a Detroit gumshoe into a case of church corruption in this mordantly funny hard-boiled crime novel. Ralph Poteet is forty pounds overweight, out of gin, and he hasnt seen his gun in weeks. As far as private detectives go, hes not much to look at. But hes the only one in the building, and that's enough for Lyla Dane. A call girl who's far better at her job than Ralph is at his, she calls him in the middle of the night because she has a dea...
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Lost Trails, Lost Cities: From His Manuscripts, Letters, and Other Records

By: Fawcett, Colonel P. H.; Fawcett, Brian

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls: 1953

Seller ID: 2305791

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips. 1953 Hard Cover. xvi, 332 pp. A chronicle of adventure and discovery in the green, deadly world of the jungle. This extraordinary first-hand account of seven explorations into the heart of the lost world of the Amazon Basin and its mountain ramparts has been made available for publication after more than a quarter of a centurys silence. On his eighth and final expedition, Colonel P. H. Fawcett vanished into the jungle wilderness; to this day his fate is unknown. Before he began his last trip he...
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The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home (A Welcome to Night Vale Novel)

By: Fink, Joseph; Cranor, Jeffrey

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Perennial: 2020

Seller ID: 2306722

ISBN: 0062889001

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Review copy. No jacket. A fine copy. 2020 Hard Cover. 365 pp. In the town of Night Vale, theres a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyones home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from...until now. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks, the story of The Faceless Old Woman goes back centuries to reveal an initially blissful and then tragic childhood on a Mediterranean Estate in the early nineteenth century, her rise in the criminal underworld of Europe, a nautical adventure with a mysterious organization of smugglers, her plot for revenge on the ones wh...
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Hero Strong and Other Stories: Tales of Girlhood Ambition, Female Masculinity, and Women's Worldly Achievement in Antebellum America

By: Gibson, Mary F. W.; Cohen, Daniel A.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Knoxville, The University of Tennesee Press: 2014

Seller ID: 2307012

ISBN: 1621900517

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. A fine copy in a fine jacket. 2014 Hard Cover. xviii, 172 pp. A teenage orphan from Vermont, Mary Gibson burst onto the literary scene during the early 1850s as a star writer, under the pseudonym Winnie Woodfern, for more than half a dozen Boston story papers, mass-circulation weekly periodicals that specialized in popular fiction. Although she would soon join such famous woman authors as Fanny Fern and E. D. E. N. Southworth as featured contributors to the New York Ledger, Americas greatest story paper, Gibsons subsequent output rarely...
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A Simple Habana Melody (From When the World Was Good) [Havana]

By: Hijuelos, Oscar

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins: 2002

Seller ID: 2199820

ISBN: 0060175699

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition, advance promotional copy. Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 342 pp. 8vo.It is 1947 and Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life had once been a dream of music, love and sadness, is returning to Habana, Cuba, from Spain, where he has just recovered from the physical and spiritual malaise resulting from his experiences in Paris, then Buchenwald, during the Nazi occupation of France. (A devout Catholic, Levis had been mistakenly identified as a Jew because of his nam...
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The Little Knight of the X Bar B

By: Maule, Mary K.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.: 1910

Seller ID: 2305861

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Review copy with slip tipped in front endpaper and review name and address in ink on paste-down. Boards lightly rubbed. 1910 Hard Cover. viii, 461 pp. A novel for young readers focused on Western ranch life. Black-and-white frontispiece and plates by Maynard Dixon.
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Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy, 1800-1900

By: Mohr, James C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1978

Seller ID: 2304105

ISBN: 0195022491

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Review copy. Jacket edges rubbed. 1978 Hard Cover. xii, 331 pp. The history of how abortion came to be banned and how women lost--for the century between approximately 1870 and 1970--rights previously thought to be natural and inherent over their own bodies is a fascinating and infuriating one.
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Thirteen [13] Ways of Looking at the Novel

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2005

Seller ID: 2196936

ISBN: 1400040590

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Publisher's review slip and signed promotional photo of author laid in. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 591 pp. 8vo.Over an extraordinary twenty-year career, Jane Smiley has written all kinds of novels: mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. Is there anything Jane Smiley cannot do? ravesTimemagazine. But in the wake of 9/11, Smiley faltered in her hitherto unflagging impulse to write and decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read one hundred of them, from classics such as t...
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Good Faith: A Novel

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2003

Seller ID: 2196939

ISBN: 0375412174

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Publisher's review slip and promotional photo of author laid in. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 417 pp. 8vo.Jane Smiley brings her extraordinary giftscomic timing, empathy, emotional wisdom, an ability to deliver slyly on big themes and capture the American spiritto the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens when the American Dream morphs into a seven-figure American Fantasy. Joe Stratfo...
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At Paradise Gate

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1981

Seller ID: 2269284

ISBN: 0671425986

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. Signed without inscription by author on title page. A bit smoky, top page ridge a bit foxed, light crease on front jacket flap corner. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 224 pp. 8vo. The second novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley is known for her exceptionally wide-ranging talent and keen takes on everyday life. Her novel A Thousand Acres was made into a critically acclaimed motion picture starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange, and her new novel, The All-True T...
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf: The Book That Breaks Masonic Silence

By: Thorn, Richard P.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, M. Evans & Company, Inc.: 1994

Seller ID: 2200389

ISBN: 0871317605

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('For Bob Zabel with best wishes, Richard P. Thorn, M.D.'). Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 1994 Hard Cover. 243 pp. 8vo. As the religious right spreads its influence throughout the U.S., it is inevitable that some of its more provocative speakers should tread on the toes of other groups, both religious and nonreligious. In Thorn's case, the fundamentalists have met their match. Thorn attacks the critics of Masonry, showing where they err in their assumptions and providing some good insights into the nature of the Mason...
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