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Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1985. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.This novel introduces Fante's alter ego Arturo Bandini who reappears in Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), Ask the Dust (1939), and Dreams from Bunker Hill (1982). The manuscript was discovered among John Fante's papers after his death in May, 1983 by his widow Joyce, and now may be included in that short, distinguished list of important first novels by American authors.

Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.Wryly comic, intensely evocative, often deeply moving, most of these stories explore the growing up of young Italian Americans in the state of Colorado.We meet larger-than-life adults and follow their actions through their children's uncomprehending eyes; we grapple with the Catholic view of sin, confession and absolution; we share the joys, the upsets, the embarrassments of childhood in a Midwestern immigrant community.

Vintage V-257, New York, 1977. Presumed first edition as the number line states 1357B8642. Condition: Very good, very light edge and corner wear, it looks like the plastic film normally attached to paperback covers has been removed as the cover feels lightly sticky."A Bear Hunt," "A Rose for Emily," "Two Soldiers," "Victory," "The Brooch," "Beyond"—these are among the forty-two stories that make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing an epic expanse of vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets, William Faulkner's stories evoke the intimate textures of place, the deep strata of history and legend, and all the fear, brutality, and tenderness of which human beings are capable.These tales are set not only in Yoknapatawpha County but in Beverly Hills and in France during World War I; they are populated by such characters as the Faulknerian archetypes Flem Snopes and Quentin Compson ("A Justice") as well as ordinary men… Read More

W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2001. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps, dust jacket has lights wrinkling at ends.Although Ted Hughes's genius was recognized early and he ended his days as England's Poet Laureate, his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. His marriage to the poet Sylvia Plath marked his whole life, and he never entirely recovered from her suicide in 1963. Many people have held his adultery responsible for Plath's death; in this insightful book, Elaine Feinstein explores an altogether more complex situation, and throws a sad new light on his relationship with his lover Assia Wevill, who also killed herself along with their young daughter.Drawing on extensive archival material and interviews with childhood friends, fellow undergraduates, poets, and critics, Feinstein gives a portrait of a large-spirited, magnetic personality intrigued by the forms of magical experience that preoccupied Shakespeare and Yeats, but who was nevertheless a… Read More

Hutchinson, London, 1991. First edition. Condition: Very good in very good minus dust jacket. Book has a little browning and dust jacket has some creasing along edges and at spine.A prophet of sensualism, a splendid bohemian and unashamed egoist, Henry Miller is seen as many as a remarkable and influential writer, by others still as more a great phenomenon. Award biographer Robert Ferguson has written a a sympathetic and revealing assessment.

Europa Editions, 2020. Condition: New.Soon to be a Netflix Original Series. A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.

Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear and corner bumps, price sticker on front cover, faint sun shadow near spine.Remembering Cafe NeonIncludes an interview with Olga Broumas; essays by Robin Magowan, Frank J, Frost, Fred A. Reed; fiction by Antonis Sourounis; Poetry by Olga Broumas, Kiki Dhimoula, Nikos Engonopoulos, Nicholas Samaras; photography by Hillary Liss; and more.

Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps, price sticker on front cover.Travelling WritersIncludes an interview with Vassilis Vassilakos; essays by David French, Robin Magowan; fiction by David Mason, Joseph Matthews, Thomas Parker, Ersi Sotiropolous; Poetry by Antonis Fostieris, Theresa Pappas; and more.

Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear and corner bumps, price sticker on front cover, faint sun shadow near spine.Gypsy FolktalesIncludes an interview with Yannis Tsarouchis; essays by Jacques Bouchard, Frank J, Frost, Savas Patsalidis; fiction by John Bradley, Dimitris Nollas, Lawrence P. Spingarn; Poetry by Andreas Anghelakis, Raymond Carver, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Theodora Stylianidouu; photo essay y Diane Tong; and more.

Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear and corner bumps, price sticker on front cover, 2 interior pages have slight tears at bottom edge.The Cypress IssueIncludes profiles of Kyriakos Charalambides, Panos Ioannides, Costas Montis; essays by Theoclis Kouyialis, Andriana Lozides; fiction by Chistakis Georgiou, Andriana Ierodiaconou, Niki Marangou; Poetry by Kypros Chrysanthis, Sophocles Lazarou, Popi Soteriou, Lefkios Zafiriou; photography by Andy Sotiriou; and more.

Harper Collins, Toronto, 1990. First edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Light edge wear and corner bumping, else fine.From the publisher: This entertaining memoir offers a warm invitation to enter the mind of one of Canada's best know writers, and to encounter there some of the extraordinary people, and events involved in his life and in is books.

Harper Collins, Toronto, 1993. First edition. Condition: Near Fine in very good dust jacket. A few bumps along edges.From the publisher: It all starts when Lilah Kemp, one-time librarian and sometime spiritualist, inadvertently lets Kurtz out of page 92 of Heart of Darkness and is unable to get him back in. While Kurtz is stalking the streets of Toronto, Lilah frantically begins her search for a Marlow to help her deal with this literary villain...

Penguin, Toronto, 1990. First paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, slight nicks at spine.Here is the powerful, haunting "Lemonade,"where a young boy's world is shattered by his mother's self-destruction, and eleven other stories, including "Dinner along the Amazon," an unusual journey into the complexities of contemporary relationships.

Harper Collins, Toronto, 1996. First edition, signed by the author. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Lovely novella, signed by Findley on the title page.From the publisher: It's 1942. Everything is possible, though all seems impossible. A dashing RCAF pilot has captured the hearts of a woman and her son. Meantime, her philandering husband is drinking his own career away. Here on the home front, war brings hope of reconciliation, even after loss and betrayal.

Viking, Toronto, 1986. First edition. Signed. Condition: Very good plus in a near fine dust jacket. Book has some writing at top of first interior page, previous price sticker residue, other wise a near fine copy. Signed by Findley on the title page.From the publisher: Canadian author's Edgar Award Winning Mystery; People chatting, eating, napping, children digging, swimming, yelling. And then, as the sun begins to sink, the people and activity slowly recede, leaving an empty beach, once hidden by the crowds, now revealed to have been violently murdered.

Harper Collins, Toronto, 1995. First edition, signed. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed on the title page by Findley.From the publisher: In 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, a young piano tuner, Charlie Kilworth, faces two enigmatic questions; who was his father? And, given the madness that consumed his mother, does he dare become a father himself?

St Martin's, New York, 2014. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Light edge wear and creasing on spine and along top edge, price sticker on rear cover.1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague—and the Turkish Sultan has his revenge. But the ship also holds a secret stowaway—Feyra, a young and beautiful harem doctor fleeing a future as the Sultan's concubine. Only her wits and medical knowledge keep her alive as the plague ravages Venice. In despair the Doge commissions the architect Andrea Palladio to build the greatest church of his career—an offering to God so magnificent that Venice will be saved. But Palladio's own life is in danger too, and it will require all skills of medico Annibale… Read More

Quill and Brush, Rockville, 1996. First edition. Condition: Fine in paperwraps. Limited to 500 copies.Contains essays by 30 writers in all including Alice Adams, Frederick Busch, Don DeLillo, Thomas Flanagan, Herbert Gold, A.R. Gurney, Joe Haldeman, Alfred Kazin, Arthur Miller, Reynolds Price, E. Annie Proulx, Budd Schulberg, Carolyn See, Anne Rivers Siddons, Elizabeth Spence, John Updike, Richard Wilbur, Larry Woiwode, and others; plus an introductory note by Jackson R. Bryer.

Penguin, London. 35th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, one long crease at bottom corner, spine nicks and creases, creasing and price sticker at rear cover.'Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?'Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.'

Tor, New York, 2011. First paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear.A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled!Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, "The January Dancer" tells the fateful story of an ancient pre-human artifact of great power, and the people who found it.Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized interstellar human civilization the artifact might save or destroy. Collectors want the Dancer; pirates take it, rulers crave it, and they'll all kill if necessary to get it. This is a thrilling yarn of love, revolution, music, and mystery, and it ends, as all great stories do, with shock and a beginning.