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The other shore
by Mays, Lucinda
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- Used
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- 1979
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- Hardcover
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- 9780689307171
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New York: Atheneum, 1979. Hardcover. 223p., stated first edition, very good condition in like dust jacket with flap price intact. Novel about a young Italian-American girl in high school. Involves the Triangle Shirt Waist fire. Item Price
$20.00
The Hand That Cradles the Rock
by Brown, Rita Mae, illustrations by Ginger Legato [Randy Alfred association]
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- 1974
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- Paperback
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- 9780884470052
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$35.00
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Baltimore: Diana Press, 1974. Paperback. 78p., 4.75x7 inches, mild sunning to spine, previous owner's name penned on title page, else good first illustrated paperback edition in wraps and dust jacket. Originally published in hardcover in 1971 by NY University Press. This copy is Randy Alfred's copy with his name in ink. Randy Alfred is a freelance journalist who co-founded… Read more about this item Item Price
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Early Writings: Volume One
by Reich, Wilhelm; translated by Philip Schmitz
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- 1975
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- Hardcover
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$15.00
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. Hardcover. xvii, 332p., very good first edition in an unclipped and lightly yellowed dust jacket. Item Price
$15.00
Elkan Lubliner, American
by Glass, Montague
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- 1912
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- Hardcover
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Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. Hardcover. 323p., first edition, very good condition. "The rise of a Russian-Jewish immigrant in the New York garment trade." - no. 1431 in Archibald Hanna's "A mirror for the nation, an annotated bibliography of American social fiction, 1901-1950. Item Price
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Plenitud
by Nervo, Amado
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- 1919
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$180.00
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Mexico: Escuela Tip. Salesiana / Editorial Mexico Moderno, 1919. Paperback. 134, [2]p. + 1 plate leaf (frontispiece portrait), wraps. 7.25 x 4 in. Lengthy gift inscription, dated 1969-1970. In the original printed wrappers. Most pages never opened and still bolted. Ads on inside of rear cover. Old receipt for a floral shop laid in. Very Good. First edition of… Read more about this item Item Price
$180.00
Strike!
by Vorse, Mary Heaton
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- 1930
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. Hardcover. 376p., first edition, head of spine frayed, edges of cover worn, a bit dusty else good condition. *Rideout novel. "An early fictional version of the Gastonia strike, this novel describes in excruciating detail the efforts to organize a Southern textile mill. Under the leadership of Ferdinand Deane the workers strike, learn to cooperate,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Going to Meet the Man
by Baldwin, James
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- 1965
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$18.00
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London: Michael Joseph, 1965. Hardcover. 252p., first British edition, very good condition lacking the jacket. The story "The Outing" is Young 159. Item Price
$18.00
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The bull-jean stories
by Bridgforth, Sharon
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- Used
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- 1998
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- Paperback
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- 9780965665919
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$25.00
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Austin: RedbonePress, 1998. Paperback. Unpaginated preliminary pages (Bridgforth's introduction),111p., softbound first edition (no casebound issue) in 8.5x5 inch decorated blue wraps with an author photoportrait, inscribed on front free endpaper (as "Sharon") by the African American poet and AIDS activist (datelining 2002 in L.A.). Condition near-new: has a droplet stain to fore-edge and the faintest of faint edgewear to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Giant talk: an anthology of third world writings
by Troupe, Quincy and Ranier Schulte, comps
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- 1975
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- Paperback
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New York: Random House, 1975. Paperback. xliv, 546p., wraps edge worn, half title page partly removed, paper bronwed, previous owner's name else good condition. Troupe and Schulte print Achebe, Baldwin, Baraka, Brooks, Cesaire, Ellison, Neruda, Marquez, Senghor and many others, no text obscured by the water damage. Item Price
$20.00
The Crossing. Volume Two The Border Trilogy
by McCarthy, Cormac
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- 1994
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- Hardcover
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- 9780394574752
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$17.00
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Hardcover. 426p., rubricated titlepage, casebinding provided with headbands and a top-edge tinted pink, a nicely-designed and produced book, dark grey boards with black cloth backstrip gilt, enclosed in the dust jacket. An as-new copy, perfectly intact (dust jacket unclipped), sound, clean and unmarked. Quite a book. Item Price
$17.00
Pigs in Heaven a novel
by Kingsolver, Barbara
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- 1993
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- Hardcover
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- 9780060168018
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New York: HarperCollins, 1993. Hardcover. 343p., very good first edition in boards and price-clipped dust jacket with some fading to spine lettering. Sequel to "The Bean Trees" featuring an adopted Cherokee Nation daughter and the customs, history, and present living situation of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. Item Price
$15.00
My Mentor, My Guide: A Handbook for Daddies and Boys for the New Generation
by Bannon, Blade T.
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- 2007
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- Paperback
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- 9781934625453
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Las Vegas, NV: Nazca Plains Corporation, 2007. Paperback. 118p., photo wraps depicting nude man servicing his "daddy." Very good stated first edition. A Boner Book. Item Price
$15.00
El Discurso Utopico de la Sexualidad en Manuel Puig
by Muñoz, Elías Miguel
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- 1980
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9788486214241
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$25.00
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Madrid: Editorial Pliegos, 1980. Paperback. 151p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps (portraits; Puig front cover, the author, rear). Gay Cuban American author. Item Price
$25.00
Of whales and women, one man's view of Nantucket history
by Gilbreth Jr., Frank B., illustrated by Donald McKay
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- 1956
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- Hardcover
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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1956. Hardcover. vii, 242p., first edition, very good condition in an edge worn price clipped dust jacket with a slightly darkened spine. Item Price
$20.00
The Year Book
by Gildzen, Alex
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- 1974
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- Paperback
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- 9780913028278
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Plainfield, VT: North Atlantic Books, 1974. Paperback. [112p] Somewhat worn and soiled first edition. Gay radical 60s poetry. Item Price
$15.00
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A last lamp burning; a novel
by Griffin, Gwyn
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- 1963
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$30.00
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. Hardcover. 512p,. One of two variants we have handled. This, in orange boards with gilt lamp on front cover, black cloth covered spine, yellow endpapers, trimmed fore-edges, no topstain, Library of Congress information on copyright page. Very good in cloth boards in an unclipped (priced) dust jacket that is edgeworn and with… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
The Hilltop. A Novel. Translated from the Hebrew by Steven Cohen
by Gavron, Assaf
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- Used
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- 2013
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- Hardcover
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- 9781476760438
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$18.00
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New York: Scribner, 2013. Hardcover. 448p., illustrated with a stylized map, cast of characters, an author photoportrait, and a fine site photo reproduced in sepia, here used for the dust jacket. Hardbound in tan boards with skyblue backstrip lettered gilt, the first American edition; this is in fine condition, perfectly sound, clean and unmarked (really, as new). Item Price
$18.00
The Singing Game
by Opie, Iona & Peter
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- 1985
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- Hardcover
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- 9780192115621
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$22.00
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Hardcover. xxii, 521p., illustrated with numerous lines of music notation and scattered b&w period, museum-exhibit, and contemporary photographs. Hardbound in the classic OUP cloth boards gilt and a colorphoto dust jacket. The dust jacket is slightly loose-fitting, a trivial problem that is the sole deviation from "as-new" condition: item is sound, clean, unmarked. … Read more about this item Item Price
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Heaven Knows Where - a novel
by Enright, D.J.
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- 1957
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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London: Secker and Warburg, 1957. Hardcover. 272p., first edition hardbound in apricot-tan boards spine-titled in silverfoil and enclosed in the peculiar dust jacket. Good-only condition; textblock & casing show a tiny stain on top edge, ink-pen cancellations of an address on front free endpaper and a printed price on dust jacket, plus general light edgewear and faint ripple to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Somerset and all the Maughams
by Maugham, Robin
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- 1966
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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New York: The New American Library, 1966. Hardcover. xiv, 270p., illustrated with numerous personal and family photographs, second printing of the first American edition, hardbound in blue cloth boards lettered dark blue and silverfoil and enclosed in the dust jacket. Nice copy, except for a little edgewear to the (unclipped) dust jacket spine rims. Book itself is quite nice:… Read more about this item Item Price
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