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Racine, WI:: Whitman Publishing Co.,, (1965). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in glossy illustrated boards (usual toning to the pages). Probable first edition (last of the Real-Life stories listed on the back cover). Stories of World War I written for older children. Includes The Sea Devil about Count Felix von Luckner, Boy Wonder about Douglas MacArthur, Dogfight, Verdun and more. Illustrated with green line drawings by Arnie Kohn. 210 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

Brookline, MA:: Kanthaka Press,, 1977.. First edition -. Near fine in printed pink wrappers.. First printing in wrappers. Described as an epic poem of Vietnam and America, set in the traditional capital of Hue in 1968, this is an uncommon title by this journalist and peace activist.

New York:: Granta,, 1999.. SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing. A paperback magazine of new writing. This issue is about "people in extremis over the past hundred years - coping stoically, madly, badly with private and public disaster from the Antarctic to the bombing of Belgrade. SIGNED by Joy Williams at her story "Hawk." Other contributors include Edward Said, Edmund White, Zadie Smith and more. Features a section of photographs on Mennonite colonies in Mexico and Canada by Larry Towell. Notes on the contributors. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York:: Granta USA,, 1997.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing. "The Magazine Of New Writing" This issue features stories on India as she celebrates 50 years as a nation. Reports, memories, poems and stories by writers James Buchan, Anita Desai, R. K. Narayan, Mark Tully, Jan Morris, Vikram Seth, Michael Ondaatje, Arundhati Roy, and V. S. Naipaul and more. Section of photographs by Dayanita Singh. 288 pp.

New York:: Granta USA,, (1996.). First edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. . First printing. A paperback magazine of new writing. This is the famous "Granta 20" issue, featuring new work by twenty American writers, all under the age of 40, chosen by a panel of established writers - including Robert Stone, Anne Tyler, and Tobias Wolff - as the best young American novelists. The writers selected were Sherman Alexie, Madison Smartt Bell, Ethan Canin, Edwidge Danticat, Tom Drury, Tony Earley, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, David Guterson, David Haynes, Allen Kurzweil, Elizabeth McCracken, Lorrie Moore, Fae Myenne Ng, Robert O'Connor, Chris Offutt, Stewart O'Nan, Mona Simpson, Melanie Rae Thon and Kate Wheeler. Introduction by editor (and judge) Ian Jack. Each story is preceded by brief comments on the writer and a small photograph and inserted into the center of the issue is a section of glossy plates - Portraits of the writers by Marion Ettlinger.… Read More

New York:: Granta,, 2003.. First edition -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing. A paperback magazine of new writing. Contributors include Edmund White, James Kelman, Paul Theroux, A. M. Homes, Judith Hermann, Julian Barnes, Adam Hochschild and more. Features a full color section of photographs on the "home front" and a section of new maps of America by Martin Rowson.. Notes on the contributors. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York:: Granta USA,, 1997.. First edition -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing. "The Magazine Of New Writing" This issue "presents fresh voices from a country searching for a new idea of itself." Includes contributions by Luc Sante, Michel Houellebecq, Ivan Klima, Harold Pinter, a selection of photographs by Raymond De pardon and more. 256 pp.

New York:: Granta USA,, 1996.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing. "The Magazine Of New Writing" This issue is focused on "Britain's valedictory realism." Includes contributions from Hilary Mantel, John Banville, Simon Winchester, Harif Kurieshi, Tim Binding, Norman McLean and others. Section of photographs by Donovan Wylie, other illustrations. 254 pp. plus notes on contributors.

New York:: Granta,, 2003.. First edition -. Near fine.. First printing. A paperback magazine of new writing. Contributors include Simon Gray, Lynn Barber, Paul Murray, Jayne Anne Phillips and more. Features a full color section of photographs on the old steam machines of the Industrial Revolution and the people who love them. Notes on the contributors. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York:: Granta USA,, 1998.. SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower fore-edge slightly bumped.). First printing. A paperback magazine of new writing. SIGNED by Dani Shapiro at her story 'The Mistress." The title story: What Young Men Do . Richard Lloyd Parry Discovers Modern Indonesia"s War on Severed Heads Other contributors include Richard Lloyd Parry, Richard Ford, Simon Arimitage, Todd McEwen, Sebastiao Salgado, Nicholas Shakespeare, Tim Lott, Tim Parks.. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes on contributors. 256 pp.

New York:: Granta USA,, 1997.. SIGNED first edition -. Fair condition only (some wear to the covers, creasing to first page) . First printing. A paperback magazine of new writing. SIGNED by Aimee Bender at her story 'Loser." Also includes contributions from Ariel Dorfman, Clive Sinclair, a photographic essay on the Nuba people of Sudan and more. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes on contributors. 256 pp.

New York:: Granta,, 2004.. First edition -. Near fine (a bit of rubbing to the covers) . First printing, a trade paperback. A Paperback Magazine of New Writing. "Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations are offered in Granta 85 - an issue that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war." Includes essays by Diana Athill on the baby she never had, Jennie Erdahl on being a literary ghostwriter, plus new fiction by T. C. Boyle (a short story about a sexually naive undergraduate attending a series of lectures by Kinsey) and Anne Enright, Orhan Pamuk, and others. Also includes a portfolio of color photographs on the private life of an Episcopalian priest. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York:: Atheneum,, 1980.. Hardcover first edition -. NF/NF.. First US printing. Suspense novel set in the heart of the Saudi Arabian desert in 1944.

New York:: George H. Doran,, (1923). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in rust colored cloth - binding somewhat cracked before half title page, a few scattered lines with pencil underlining. . First US printing. The author's foreword notes that "The substance of this little book was delivered in the form of two lectures given at the invitation of the Hibbert Trustees in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham during March and April, 1922." Jacks was an English educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister. Among his early associates were associates included George Bernard Shaw, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and Oscar Wilde, and in 1922 he hosted the Austrian philosopher and educator, Dr Rudolf Steiner, at Manchester. A small slim volume. 92 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, 1996.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very good in a very good dustjacket (rem line.). First printing. African American writer's first book, a novel set against the background of the music industry. SIGNED on the title page with the word 'Peace.'

New York & Boston:: Books, Inc., (1944.). Hardcover -. Near fine in black cloth with gilt lettering (prev owner's name whited over) no dust jacket. Reprint. Classic novel of a half-Indian girl in southern California, a story of injustice and sorrow - and a book with enduring appeal. In the 50 years after it was writen, it had gone through 141 printings and was the basis of three movies, one play, etc. A "World's Popular Classics" edition. 368 pp.

Philadelphia:: John C. Winston Co.,, (c 1913). Hardcover -. Very good in beige boards with red lettering on the spine, black are red illustrations and lettering on the front cover. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1921.. Early printing. The second book in the Three Little Women series. Glossy frontispiece. 360 pp.

Chicago:: University of Illinois Press,, (1990.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a near fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with some sunning to the spine of the dj.). First printing. A beautiful large format book containing almost 100 reproductions of paintings - most in full color - by Jackson, a contemporary American realist and one of the leading landscape artists of the Midwest. Included are'the Illinois prairie landscapes, as well as the cityscapes, townscapes, interior views, works with social and political themes, and murals done by Jackson over the past forty years, all of them reflecting his fascination with the subtle yet pervasive impact of time and light on art and on life.' Extensive text by Wooden, notes, listings of the figures and of Jackson's exhibitions, index. 147 pp., oblong format, printed on heavy glossy paper throughout. A volume in the series Visions of Illinois.

New York:: Bantam,, (1997.). Hardcover first edition -. Good in very good dust jacket (bit of spine slant, fading to blue cloth spine, name on dj flap.). First printing. This is the first collection of Jackson's work in 30 years - includes both new stories, discovered in a Vermont barn years after her death, and uncollected stories, edited by her children, Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman Stewart. From the dj: "The fifty-four stories in this edition represent the great diversity of her work, from humor to shocking explorations of the human psyche. The tales range from the writings of her college days and residence in Greenwich Village in the early 1940s to the unforgettably powerful and chilling stories from the period just before her death in 1965." 388 pp.

New York:: Scholastic,, (1966.). Near fine (usual toning to pages.). First thus- a slim trade paperback. An account of the longest road race ever to be held - 17,000 miles from New York to Paris - and of the six automobiles which participated in this race. Illustrated with many black and white photographs of the race. TX-832, original cover price 35c. 64 pp.