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$35.00NY: Doubleday (1994). Uncorrected proof. 383 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Anthology includes prize-winning stories 'Better Be Ready ‘Bout Half Past Eight’ by Alison Baker, ‘The Voyage Out’ by John Rolfe Gardiner, and ‘Terrific Mother’ by Lorrie Moore, as well as notable stories ‘We Didn’t’ by Stuart Dybek, ‘Not the Phil Donahue Show’ by Kelly Cherry, ‘Semper Fidelis’ by Amy Bloom, and other work by Judith Ortiz Cofer and Elizabeth Oness.$17.50Fredonia: White Pine Press (1992). First edition. 339 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited by Agosin, with her introduction. Allende, Bombal, Ocampo, Valenzuela, and many others.$10.00Trumansburg: Crossing Press (1982). First trade paperback printing. 162 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Short novels by Alfonso Gonzalez Dagnino, Juan Armando Epple, Anibal Quijada, Fernando alegria, Poli Delano, Claudio Giacomi, Leandro Urbina, and Ariel Dorfman.$15.00NY: Lancer Books (1962). First edition. 192 pp. Slight lean to spine, owner label inside front cover. In all, near fine in illustrated wrappers. A mass market paperback original. Prints Pynchon’s short story, “Entropy,” along with work by Bellow, Heller, Brossard, and several others.$35.00NY & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. First edition. xxiii + 533 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket.$17.50NY: Harper & Row (1983). First edition. xi + 289 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Review slip laid in.$22.50NY: St. Martin’s Press (1994). First edition. xix + 410 pp w/bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Contributions by White, Holleran, Picano, Grumley, Ferro, Cox, and Whitmore.$10.00NY: Harcourt/Harvest (2000). First edition. 257 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Collaborative novel by Maeve Binchy, Clare Boylan, Emma Donoghue, Anne Haverty, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Kate O'Riordan, and Deirdre Purcell.$12.50London: Hutchinson (1989). First edition. 208 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.$30.00Oxford & NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. First edition. xxxiii + 476 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Promotional flyer laid in.$17.50Tucson & London: University of Arizona Press, 1994. First trade paperback printing. xxix + 369 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.$20.00London: Heinemann (1993). First edition. 211 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original.$55.00Oxford & NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. Uncorrected proof. xxvi + 439 pp. Spine lightly sunned, else near fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Byatt on the title page. Promotional flyer laid in.$55.00NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. First US edition. 439 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Byatt. Promotional flyer laid in.$75.00NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1971. First edition. xii + 63 pp. Fine in full cloth with pasted-on cover and spine labels. Near fine unprinted white dust jacket. A wide range of writers comment on their early reading experiences.$20.00NY: Vintage Books (1992). Uncorrected proof. x + 335 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. “A Vintage Original” sticker on front cover.
$45.00NY: Pantheon (1990). First US edition. xxii + 242 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Corinna Sargood. Stories from around the world, all featuring a female protagonist, assembled by Carter with her introduction. Review slip laid in.$25.00Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1994. First edition. Fine in wraps. A sampler for schools; “not intended for sale.”$125.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1999-2000. First editions, lettered & signed issue. 417 + 483 pp. Two volumes, both fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spines and paper labels. Fine acetate dust jackets. One of 20 and one of 22 lettered copies SIGNED by Codrescu and Rosenthal. Poetry and essays in volume one. Fiction, travels, and translations in volume two. For the pair:$100.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1999 & 2000. First editions, numbered & signed issue. 417 + 483 pp. Two volumes, both fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spines and printed labels. Fine acetate dust jackets. Volume One collects poetry and essays, Volume Two collects fictions, travels and translations. One of 100 and 125 numbered copies respectively SIGNED by Codrescu and Rosenthal. For the pair:$75.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1999 & 2000. First edition. 417 + 483 pp. Two volumes, both fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spines and printed labels. Very near fine acetate dust jackets. Volume One collects poetry and essays, Volume Two collects fictions, travels and translations. Each volume is one of 300 trade hardcover copies. For the pair:$12.50Oakland & Berkeley: PEN Oakland Publications/Heyday (2014). First edition. xii + 200 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Ishmael Reed. Work by Alarcón, Cherkovski, Doubiago, Herrera, Hirschman, and many others.$20.00Toronto: Coach House Press, 1973. First edition. 128 pp. Very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Contributions by Atwood, nichol, others.$10.00Key West: Key West Authors’ Coop, 1999. First edition. Fine in wraps. Also includes Bob Mayo, J. T. Eggers, William Williamson, etc.$20.00Riverdale: Seven Buffaloes Press (1975). First edition. 64 pp. Some sunning to spine, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Issued as 'Black Jack #4/A Collection of Western Writing.' Contains work by Cuelho, Patricia Elliott, John Moore, and Jack Steels, among others. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author who supplied the back cover blurb, David Kherdian: '2 _____/another book for/the file./David J. Kherdian/Near Concord-23 May 76.'$20.00Chicago: LPC Group (1997). Spring. 135 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. “Excerpts from the Best in Independent Publishing.”$12.50SF: Chronicle Books (1990). First edition. 239 pp. Creases to spine near crown, else near fine in glossy printed wrappers. Stories by Welty, Capote, Steinbeck, Wolff, Carver, Baxter, others.$15.00NY: Norton (1997). First edition. 268 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Promotional flyer laid in.$40.00London: Spring Books (nd). First printing of this later edition. 372 + 35 plates. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a scuff along one flap fold and chips to base of each flap fold. Work by Henry James, Arthur Symons, Max Beerbohm, Kenneth Grahame, W.B. Yeats, Baron Corvo, John Buchan, and many others.$45.00Oxford & NY: Oxford University Press, 1995. First edition. xxix + 476 pp w/glossary. Fine in fine dust jacket.$40.00Harrison, NY & Encino, CA:Delphinium Books, 1990. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. The first (and last?) book from Delphinium Books; published by authors associated with Smith College, and others: contriburors include Brice Austin, Eve Babitz, Russell Banks, E. L. Doctorow, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Grace Paley, Paul Rudoph, etc. INSCRIBED by Brice Austin to a major African American novelist and poet. Unusual.$45.00Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Uncorrected proof. 395 pp. Fine in glossy printed wrappers. Stories by Updike, Gaitskill, Harlan Ellison, Munro, Wendell Berry, and many others.