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New York:: Norton,, 1995.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.. First printing. A tribute to her aunt, wealthy, a leading figure in society, a wit and a beauty, who financed Millett's education at Oxford - and also about the strains of growing up gay and lesbian in the 1950's.

New York:: Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster,, (2019). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Thriller set in Sedona, Arizona and featuring ex-television journalist Ali Reynolds, who now has a thriving cybersecurity business - but a doctor, whom she exposed as a journalist, is being released from prison determined to get revenge on all those who helped put him there. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 355 pp.

New York:: Ultimate Publishing Co.,, 1981.. SIGNED first edition -. Very near fine - some light rubbing to cover, usual toning of pages,but no subscription label. . First appearance in print of these works. SIGNED by Orson Scott Card at his short story, A Plague of Butterflies. Digest magazine. Also includes an interview with Algis Budrys, book reviews and more . Cover by Rowena Morrill. 130 pp.

New York:: Doubleday / Anchor, , (1995.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. In 1974, the author was a Peace Corps worker in Nepal and he was befriended by an elderly widow, Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny village, befriended the author when he was a Peace Corps worker in 1974. In 1988, she came to visit him in the United States, and together they traveled coast-to-coast, a voyage of rediscovery and an exploration of the beliefs and values that lie beneath the surface of America. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs. xii, 299 pp plus a final photograph and a note on the author's previous book.

New York:: Doubleday / Anchor, , (1995.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. In 1974, the author was a Peace Corps worker in Nepal and he was befriended by an elderly widow, Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny village, befriended the author when he was a Peace Corps worker in 1974. In 1988, she came to visit him in the United States, and together they traveled coast-to-coast, a voyage of rediscovery and an exploration of the beliefs and values that lie beneath the surface of America. Photographs. xii, 299 pp plus a final photograph and a note on the author's previous book.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2003.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Dust jacket praise from Annie Dillard who says "Abandon . . . is everything that I love: a scholarly Englishman whose subject is Sufism, a vagabond California woman. . . and Pico Iyer's knockout prose." SIGNED on the title page. 354 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2003.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Dust jacket praise from Annie Dillard who says "Abandon . . . is everything that I love: a scholarly Englishman whose subject is Sufism, a vagabond California woman. . . and Pico Iyer's knockout prose." SIGNED on the title page. 354 pp.

San Francisco:: Red Hill Press,, (1983). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Poetry by three poets living in Los Angeles - Robert Crosson, John Thomas and Paul Vangelisti - with an introduction by Giulia Niccolai and photographs by Jeffrey Scales. Includes a series of Vangelisti's visual poems composed of word strips across famous paintings. Invisible City 3. 96 pp.

London:: Hutchinson,, (1977). SIGNED first edition -. Good overall in printed orange wrappers (some wear to covers, lower corner slightly bumped). Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) Historical novel by this author probably best known for 'The Manchurian Candidate' based on the marriage of Caroline of Brunswick, who married - in 1794 - her cousin, George, Prince of Wales, future King of England - and who, after many tumultous years, became the only Queen of England ever tried for adultery. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. 237 pp.

Toronto:: McClelland & Stewart,, (2014). Hardcover -. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (scratch on back cover).. 2nd printing. A novel in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Chief Inspector Alan Banks series, set in Yorkshire, where the author grew up. This starts with the seemingly simple case of a stolen tractor, but becomes more complex as Banks and his team - including Annie Cabbot - investigate. 367 pp. plus 5 pp publisher's ads.

New York:: Barnes & Noble,, (2009.). Hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Reprint. Originally published in 1977, this work consists of a novella recreating poet John Keat's last days in Rome, followed by a short nonfiction section on Keat's friend Joseph Severn, his doctor James Clark and the Italian poet Giuseppe Belli, and the final section is a translation of Belli's sonnets on Biblical subjects. Foreword by Michael Dirda. A title in the Barnes & Noble Rediscovers Series. vi, 152 pp.

Unbridled Books,, (2009). New. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. 1st trade paperback printing. Novel by this Pulitzer prize winning writer.When the internet bubble burst, George Baileys wealth vanished, threatening his familys security. Trying to make sense of his life, he returned to the little Central Illinois farm town of Abbeville, where his grandfather had prospered and then fallen into ruin, during the Depression. 257 pp.

New York:: Dutton,, (1979.). Good overall (some discoloration to lower edge of back cover and last few pages, but otherwise tight and clean.). Trade paperback. Explorations in the West and elsewhere, from the Rio Grande in Texas to Canyonlands and Lake Powell in Utah - and to Mexico and Scotland and Australia. Illustrated with his drawings. 198 pp.

New York:: Pantheon,, (2007.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. When a freak accident takes the life of his 6 year old son, a man becomes obsessed with the origins of Indo-European alphabets, and buries his grief in a fanatical pursuit for the meaning of the alphabet - a search which takes him to the desert in Syria. 247 pp.

New York:: Peter Pauper Press,, 1957.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. ( dj- slight edge wear, pc.). First edition. A collection of many recipes that can be cooked with wine, with decorations by Ruth McCrea. A small volume bound in red, white and blue illustrated boards with a matching dustjacket.

New York:: Walker,, 1969.. Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with the usual markings, and some wear to the illustrated covers, but with clean and good contents, no dj.. First edition. An alphabet book for slightly older children with letter represented by two words with definitions from the specialized vocabulary of space exploration. Illustrated in duo-tone photographs and drawings (black, white and orange) Large format. 48 pp.

New York:: Random House,, 1980.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good+ in very good+ dust jacket. (remainder mark.). First edition. Novel set in a boardinghouse in rural New Jersey in the summer of 1939 -one which revolves around four people and one day of their vacation from Brooklyn and the Depression. 211 pp.

Madras, INDIA:: Natana Niketan Publications,, 1946.. First edition -. Very good in plain white wrappers in an illustrated outer wrapper (tidemarks affecting the fore-edge of the pages) Very uncommon. . First printing. A small booklet written as a guide for students of dancing, written in both Sanskrit and English, the first book published by Gopinath (1908-1987), a much honored teacher of dance as well as a composer of over 30 ballets. The same year that this was published he was given the honorific of 'Natanakalanidhi' at a Malayali conference held in Madras. Measures just 7 1/2 bu 5 inches. 54 pp.

New York:: Doubleday,, (1999). First edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Fifth novel by this black - and gay - author. An exploration of the bonds of friendship and love, and learning to explore your own dreams. 353 pp. .

New York:: Warner Faith,, (2006, 2007). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket. Sold as a set only.. First edition. A set of the first two books in this series about the battle between the forces of good and evil - the first is set in Mississippi in 1945, and the second novel is 15 years later. Deals with the relationship between the races, and the strength found in long abiding friendships. Book Two is a first printing, Book One is a first thus, since it was originally published as "Black or White." Map endpapers. Reader's guide at the end of eavh book. 339. 372 pp.