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London:: Duckworth & Co.,, (1982). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed. . First printing. The third novel by this highly praised English author, this was short-listed for the Booker Prize. "Set in London in 1954, it follows the adventures of Aunt Irene and her nephew Kyril when Valentine, a postulant at the convent where IreneÕs sister is the reverend mother, comes to stay with them, ostensibly to test her vocation in the world. . . . Valentine is very much an outsider: black, Caribbean, quiet, and devoutly religious. The injection of this alien into Aunt IreneÕs Chelsea home becomes the catalyst for many comic situations. , , [but] cutting through the mirth are grotesque, even macabre elements, including accidental deaths and suicide" (Marian Crowe).SIGNED on the title page. Ellis, the wife of the publisher Colin Haycraft, and the fiction editor at Duckworth, was both a true Bohemian and a fiercely devout Catholic. 159 pp

New York:: Arbor House,, (1983). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. The author's second novel - the story of a bicoastal (Manhattan and Hollywood) marriage. 251 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2006.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. The author's fourth novel, about a murder in a small Colorado town - "Two weeks before Christmas, Diana Duprey, an outspoken abortion doctor, is found floating in her pool, a bruise the size of a golf ball visible through her dark curls. A national figure, Diana inspired passion and ignited tempers, never more so than on the day of her death." 285 pp.

London:: The Women's Press,, 1978.. First edition -. Near fine.. First UK printing. Trade paperback. Commentary on the relationships between men and women and between men and men using paintings and themes throughout the centuries. Illustrated.

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (2014). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Publisher's material laid in. Uncommon advance issue and especially so signed. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A novel described as "a parable of modern girlhood, full of longing and reckless behavior" The old Etruscan city of Grifonia is "filled with dangerous secrets of many kinds: ancient, eternal, infernal - as it swarms with year-abroad students - thousands of them from all over. Ostensibly, they've come to study. But really they are here to reinvent themselves, to shuck their identities and buck constraints far from the watchful eyes of parents and others who know them too well. There's a reason Henry James's young ladies went to Europe with chaperones. Today's young ladies don't." SIGNED on the title page. 282 pp plus author's note.

New York:: Putnam,, 2001.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's second book, set in rural East Texas, both a coming of age story and a novel of suspense and mystery. Alice, a precocious 11 year-old and her 14 year old brother become convinced that their stepfather intends to kill them. 304 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1988.. Hardcover -. Very good+ in like dust jacket.. 2nd printing. Her 'break-through' novel, and the basis for the award-winning movie of the same name.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1988.. Hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition). Her 'break-through' novel, and the basis for the award-winning movie of the same name.

London:: Little Brown,, (2001.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) Ribbon bookmark bound in, an attractively produced volume. . First printing. Witty, sometimes comical and often touching novel based on the life of Samuel Johnson - or rather on a side of Johnson not reported by Boswell, but as seen by Queeney Thrale, the oldest daughter in the family of the wealthy Southwark brewer who provided a refuge and a second home to Johnson for almost 20 years. While Bainbridge has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize an amazing 6 times, and she has been awarded other major prizes (Whitbread, Guardian Fiction) and some of her novels have been adapted for movies, she is probably still one of the most underappreciated of modern English writers, although in 2003 she received a small amount of the recognition she deserves when she was awarded the Cohen prize for lifetime achievement .

New York:: Scribner's,, 1997.. Near fine.. 1st trade paperback printing. A novel which spams a century and a continent: it opens in 1890 as a Sicilian accordion maker completes his finest instrument, but just a year later after he and his son immigrated to New Orleans, the accordion maker is lynched by anti-Italian mob, and the accordion falls into the hands of other immigrants - Germans in Iowa - and 'sees' more crimes and violence.

New York:: Scribner's,, 1996.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (remainder mark). First printing. A novel which spams a century and a continent: it opens in 1890 as a Sicilian accordion maker completes his finest instrument, but just a year later after he and his son immigrated to New Orleans, the accordion maker is lynched by anti-Italian mob, and the accordion falls into the hands of other immigrants - Germans in Iowa - and 'sees' more crimes and violence.

New York:: Scribner's,, 1996.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A novel which spams a century and a continent: it opens in 1890 as a Sicilian accordion maker completes his finest instrument, but just a year later after he and his son immigrated to New Orleans, the accordion maker is lynched by anti-Italian mob, and the accordion falls into the hands of other immigrants - Germans in Iowa - and 'sees' more crimes and violence.

New York:: Scribner,, (1996). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (small abraded spot on front endpaper). First printing. A novel which "traces the long odyssey of a button accordion, an instrument made by a Sicilian who immigrates to New Orleans in 1891. Imprisoned in a round-up of Italian suspects after the political murder of the chief of police, the accordion maker is lynched, and his accordion falls into the hands of Apollo, a black steamboat screwman. The instrument begins its long, erratic voyage through 20th-century America, passing through the hands of the descendants of slaves, immigrants and their children." INSCRIBED on the title page. 381 pp.

New York:: Ecco Press,, (2013). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Set in the early years of the twentieth century - 1905-1906 - in Princeton New Jersey, this combines historical fiction with supernatural elements. SIGNED on the title page. 667 pp. Map endpapers.

New York:: Ecco Press,, (2013). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Set in the early years of the twentieth century - - 1905-1906 - in Princeton New Jersey, this combines historical fiction with supernatural elements. 667 pp. Map endpapers.

New York:: Harper & Row, , (1984.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (small star on bottom edge, minor edgewear to dj) . First printing. Author's fourth book, first collection of short stories. 226 pp.

New York:: Harper & Row, , (1984.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (small star on bottom edge) . First printing. Author's fourth book, first collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, 1939.. Hardcover -. Very good in beige boards with red text and white envelope embossed on front cover. Black spine with white lettering (previous owner's name on front endpaper, some offsetting from newsprint, affecting the front endpapers and 2 interior pages, but otherwise clean and tight) . 5th printing of original edition. Foreword by Whit Burnett,the editor of Story Magazine, who describes this as the most popular story ever published in the then 8 year old history of that magazine. It is a story written as a series of letters, from November 1932 to March 1934, between a Jewish art dealer, living in San Francisco, and his business partner, who had returned with his family to Germany in 1932. This, the first separate edition, reportedly sold 50,000 copies, it was translated into many languages, although the edition in German was published in Moscow and banned in Germany, and the basis for a 1944 film of the same name. A 1995 re-issue was translated into… Read More

Watsonville, CA:: Papier Mache Press,, (1993). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A novel written in vignettes - "45 sporadically humorous accounts of the life of Stout Mama--an academic in her 40s and James's self-professed alter ego. A committed 60's-vintage liberal now passing her unmarried middle years in and around the small colleges of the Pacific Northwest" (Kirkus Reviews) 131 pp.

New York:: Soho,, 1991.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Review copy with publishers material laid in. A collection of stories exploring the theme of what the outsider brings to Africa, and on what it is about Africa which is so affecting, published shortly after Thomas's death in a plane crash while on a mission to the Sudanese refugee camps.