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Double Take Out Stevie Houston Mystery #3

Double Take Out Stevie Houston Mystery #3

by Richardson, Tracey

Tallahassee: Naiad Press, 1999. Paperback. 167p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Lesbian detective in Toronto.
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£9.53
Eight Poems signed limited chapbook

Eight Poems signed limited chapbook

by Kherdian, David & Gerald Hausman, portraits by Sid Hausman

Santa Fe, NM: The Giligia Press, 1968. [12p] 5.25x8.25 inches, poetry illustrated with line drawing portraits of the two poets, very good limited edition signed chapbook one of 25 signed copies out of 1000 printed, stapled cream wraps. Published on the occasion of the two poets' first reading at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Early poetry book by the Armenian American author who first came to prominence with his bibliographies of San Francisco Renaissance poets.
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£35.73
Stevie

Stevie

by Steptoe, John

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. Hardcover. 24p., illustrated with the color paintings of the Brooklyn-born African American artist/children's author, first edition of Steptoe's first book, dj with two light red stains in the margins of the front panel.
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£11.91
Galileo's Dream

Galileo's Dream

by Robinson, Kim Stanley

London: Harper Voyager. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in fiine dust jacket, and signed by the author. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 578 pp .
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£138.97
The Perón novel

The Perón novel

by Martínez, Tomás Eloy, translated by Asa Zatz

New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. Hardcover. 357p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Argentinian American author.
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£9.53
Zoe's Book: a novel

Zoe's Book: a novel

by Pass, Gail

Tallahassee: Naiad, 1987. Paperback. 212p., stamped Review Copy on first page, author photo laid-in, very good first Naiad edition state trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Novel of Bloomsbury originally published in 1976. Grier A***.
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£9.53
The last integrationist

The last integrationist

by Lamar, Jake

New York: Crown Publishers, 1996. Hardcover. 344p., hardbound in two-color boards, first edition in glossy dust jacket. Nice copy: sound, clean and unmarked. First novel by the African American Harvard grad and journalist.
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£9.53
Baseball in April and other stories

Baseball in April and other stories

by Soto, Gary

San Diego: Odyssey Book/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1991. Paperback. 137p., personal inscription signed by the Chicano author on title page, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.
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£15.88
Who's Hu

Who's Hu

by Namioka, Lensey

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1980. Hardcover. 185p., hardcover in dust jacket, 5.75x8.5 inches, very good. First edition. Novel set in the 1950s about a Chinese American girl struggling to find her place in America. Namioka was born Lensey Chao in Beijing in 1929 and escaped Nanjing with her parents in 1937, eventually settling in America.
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£17.47
STREGA

STREGA

by Andrew Vachss

[ANDREW VACHSS]. STREGA. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987. First Edition, First printing. Condition: Fine. Appears unread, pages are clean, bright, unmarked and binding tight. This is the author's second novel. Dust jacket is unclipped with the original $18.95 on the first inner flap. Modern first pulp fiction. 293 pgs. 8vo.
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£22.20
Ascent to Omai

Ascent to Omai

by Harris, Wilson

London: Faber and Faber, 1970. 128 pages. University stamp on front pastedown and on copyright page. Inscribed by the author ("For Anne, with love, from Wilson and Margaret") on the title page. The dustwrapper is slightly chipped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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£23.48
A lantern for Jeremy: a novel

A lantern for Jeremy: a novel

by Jerome, Victor Jeremy

New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1952. Hardcover. 288p., first edition, previous owner's name penned on front pastedown endpaper, else very good condition condition in a poor dj with chips and lots of tape "repairs." *Rideout novel. Seidman J60. Novel about a Polish boy who comes to understand class struggle and exploitation while witnessing the 1905 Revolution.
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£9.53
Success Stories

Success Stories

by Russell Banks

First Edition, First Printing. In fine condition in a fine dust jacket with price intact.
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£15.88
The underground stream; an historical novel of a moment in the American winter

The underground stream; an historical novel of a moment in the American winter

by Maltz, Albert

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. Hardcover. 348p., first edition, very good condition in a shelf worn dust jacket with minor toning, a small abrasion and hole in the panel and small holes along the front flap fold, inscribed & signed "To Ted [Edward] Lamb, In gratitude for his help in the making of this book, from Albert Maltz, June 1940." Lamb in 1940 was labor lawyer, always sympathetic to the left he went on the late 1940s and 50s to become a multimillionaire. *Rideout novel. "[H]istorically... Read more about this item
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£138.97
Parched earth

Parched earth

by Armstrong, Arnold B

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. Hardcover. 430p., first edition, yellow cloth boards faded with minor stains, browning on two pages else good condition. *Rideout novel. "California fruit farming and a cannery workers' strike." *Hanna 114.
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£19.85
Summer Moonshine

Summer Moonshine

by WODEHOUSE, P. G

Herbert Jenkins, 1938. First edition, first printing. 8vo. First issue red boards with black titles. A very good+/near fine copy. No nicking or tearing to very clean & bright boards. A couple of tiny light marks only. Internally complete with neat inscription to endpaper. A sprinkle of spotting to titles. An attractive bright copy with none of the usual fading to red spine. McIlvaine A59b. Former big game hunter Sir Buckstone Abbott, finding himself hard up, takes in paying guests at his pile,... Read more about this item
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£50.00
An Artist of Life; The Life and Work of Havelock Ellis

An Artist of Life; The Life and Work of Havelock Ellis

by Collis, John Stewart

London: Cassell & Company, 1959. Hardcover. vii, 245p., first edition, black cloth boards in dustjacket, 6x8.75 inches; frontis., five half-tome plates, board spine slightly rubbed, heavily soiled dustjacket with edgwear, else good.
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£9.53
Whiteout

Whiteout

by Follett, Ken

New York: Dutton, 2004. Human Betrayal, medical terror and a race against time. A missing canister of a deadly virus. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come. Filled with startling twists at every turn, 'Whiteout' rockets Follett to a class by himself. A clean, bright copy in a price-intact dust jacket illustrated by John Alvin.. ISBN: 0-525-94843-0. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover.... Read more about this item
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£14.69
"Three Against the World," in Poetry. A Magazine of Verse. Volume LXV,  Number I (October 1944)

"Three Against the World," in Poetry. A Magazine of Verse. Volume LXV, Number I (October 1944)

by Algren, Nelson

Chicago: Poetry. 1944. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Wraps, near fine with tiny corner bump to lower right corner and mild darkening to edges. Algren reviews books by John Pudney, Allen Curnow, and Julian Symons. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 59 pp .
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£15.88
Someone else's war

Someone else's war

by Burmeister, Jon

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1974. Hardcover. 252p., first American edition, very good condition in an unclipped and lightly edgeworn dust jacket. This mystery uses the reunion of members of the International Brigades 35 years after the war to unravel the question of who betrayed the group during the conflict.
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£9.53
The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair

by Greene, Graham

London: Heinemann, 1951. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. The dust jacket is slightly faded. There are four half-inch or less tears where it bends around the spine, i.e. at top and bottom. There is one other quarter inch tear and it has been bumped, particularly at the top spine end and there are a couple of other minor folds or creases. The jacket says "6th impression". It is price clipped. The book cover is in very good condition. The endpapers are browned and reflect the inside flaps of the dust... Read more about this item
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£285.42
Frontiers; a novel [signed]

Frontiers; a novel [signed]

by Jensen, Michael

New York: Pocket Books, 1999. Hardcover. 311p., signed by Jensen, very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Remainder mark to lower page edges. A homoerotic odyssey set in the American west in 1797.
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£11.91
The Uncertainty of Strangers and other stories

The Uncertainty of Strangers and other stories

by Franklin, Patrick

San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1985. Paperback. 141p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.
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£8.74
El sueño de Santa María de las Piedras

El sueño de Santa María de las Piedras

by Mendez M., Miguel

Guadalajara: EDUG, 1986. Paperback. 276p., text in Spanish, one of 2,000 copies, pocketbook paperback in pictorial wraps. Novel by the Arizona writer.
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£11.91
American Poetry 1965 Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement Number 6

American Poetry 1965 Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement Number 6

by PLATH, Sylvia; LOWELL, Robert; RICH, Adrienne (et al); LOSSY, Rella (ed.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Side-stapled pamphlet, pp. 24. Illustrated front wrapper in red, black and white, designed by T. E. Burrill. Toned and a little shelf-soiled, edgewear, nick to heel. Else, clean and tight. Very good Featuring two poems by Plath, originally published (in the same year) in Ariel: 'The Bee Meeting' and Lady Lazarus', plus Anne Sexton's 'Sylvia's Death'.
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£18.00