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$75.00NY: Scribner (1999). First edition. 254 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Sebold on the title page. Her first book.
$15.00NY: Viking (1997). First US edition. 310 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Linda Cloverdale.$20.00London: Octagon Press (1988). First edition. 224 pp. Two corners lightly bumped, else very near fine in like dust jacket.$125.00NY: HarperCollins (1995). First edition. 274 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (July 10th. 1995) and SIGNED by Sillitoe on the title page.$20.00London: Faber & Faber (1982). First UK edition. 272 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.$350.00London: Macmillan, 1945-1950. First editions. The five volumes of Sitwell’s autobiography. 1. Left Hand Right Hand! 271 pp. Page edges foxed, else near fine in very good dust jacket with shallow chipping and short tears to extrems. INSCRIBED by Sitwell on the half-title page (dated March 25, 1945). 2. The Scarlet Tree. 318 pp. Near fine very good plus dust jacket with a sunned spine and light foxing. 3. Great Morning. 323 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with small chips and tears to flap folds. 4. Laughter in the Next Room. 380 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear along the top edge. 5. Noble Essences. 323 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with one short tear, tanning to spine. For the set:$20.00East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (2003). First edition. 250 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.$12.50Houston: Arte Público, 1997. First edition. 159 pp w/glossary. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Promotional flyer and review slip laid in.$75.00Santa Fe: Diary by Susan (1970). First trade paperback printing. 150 pp. Bump and crack to crown of spine, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Journal of a young woman’s tenure in a Mexican brothel in the late 1960s.$20.00Brooklyn: Litmus Press (2017). First edition. 102 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated by Olivia C. Harrison and Teresa Villa-Ignacio.$25.00Boston: Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown (1957). First US edition. 262 pp. Very near fine in very good plus dust jacket with sunned spine and light overall edgewear.
$35.00London: Granta (2010). First edition. 263 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Thomson on the title page. His first work of non-fiction, occasioned by the death of his father and subsequent convergence of three brothers, dad’s old pills, and an eventual falling-out.$15.00Berkeley: University of California (1981). First US edition. 134 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.$20.00NY: Knopf, 1994. First US edition. 200 pp. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. Cover art and internal illustrations by Lucy Willis. Review slip laid in.$200.00London: Hutchinson (1993). First trade edition. xv + 200 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Autobiographical essays by Trevor, illustrated with drawings by Lucy Willis. Dated (2.ix.93) and SIGNED by Trevor on the title page.$25.00London: Hutchinson (1993). First trade edition. xv + 200 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Autobiographical essays by Trevor, illustrated with drawings by Lucy Willis.$10.00NY: Scholastic Press (2000). Uncorrected proof. 113 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.$20.00London: Andre Deutsch (1989). First UK edition. x + 245 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.$20.00NY: Doubleday (2004). First US edition. 472 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.$15.00NY: Grove (2000). Uncorrected Proof. 205 pp. Faint fade to spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. The poet’s recollections of being in Viet Nam and his return to adopt a Vietnamese daughter.
$650.00Boston: Harvard University Press (1984). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 104 pp. Fine in full cloth and fine publisher’s decorated slipcase (light bubbling to one seam at the lower edge). No dust jacket, as issued. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Welty. Her famous memoir in three parts: Listening, Learning to See, Finding a Voice. Illustrated.$10.00NY: Viking (1988). First US edition. 255 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket.$50.00NY: McDowell, Obolensky (1959). First edition. 143 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with just a bit of edgewear. Wallace A45.
$85.00(np): (np) (1976). First edition. xii + 155 pp. Near fine in full decorated cloth with light foxing to top edge, and a small smudge to fore-edge. No dust jacket, as issued. Foreword by Rowland Evans Jr. Illustrated, one fold-out map. SIGNED by Winton on the first leaf. Memoir by this winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, who shipped off to France in June 1917.$100.00NY: St. Martin’s (1984). First edition. 250 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.$150.00London: Macmillan, 1926. First edition. vii + 477 pp w/notes. Foxing to endpapers, else very good plus in full green cloth that has sunned to tan on the spine. Inked ownership name, “Emma Bodkin” on the first leaf.$15.00NY: Macmillan (1977). Fourth printing. 318 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with rubbing to rear panel and at flap folds.$12.50Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (1992). First edition. 261 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Foreword by Albert E. Stone. The fourth book in Singular Lives: The Iowa Series in North American Autobiography. From the jacket: 'A classic of Native American literature, Black Eagle Child uses a rich mix of verse, prose narrative, and letters to tell Edgar Bearchild's journey to adulthood. Although the backdrop of much of Young Bear's novel may be familiar-the conflicts over race, drugs, Vietnam and others that gripped America in the fifties, sixties, and seventies--Bearchild's recounts his coming-of-age story from a distinct vantage point, as a member of the Mesquakie nation.'$25.00[Emeryville]: Shoemaker & Hoard (2005). First US edition. 129 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Features nine portraits of Beckett by Avigdor Arikha.
$200.00San Francisco: [privately printed] 1973. First edition. xv + 125 pp w/addenda. Fine in full brick red cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. One of 100 copies on hand made Tovil paper printed by Clifford Burke. Eight tipped-in photographs.$25.00Upton: Aylesford Press (1989). First trade edition. 56 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine. Illustrated.