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Racine, WI:: Whitman Publishing Co.,, (1965). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in glossy illustrated boards (usual toning to the pages). Probable first edition (last of the Real-Life stories listed on the back cover). Stories of World War I written for older children. Includes The Sea Devil about Count Felix von Luckner, Boy Wonder about Douglas MacArthur, Dogfight, Verdun and more. Illustrated with green line drawings by Arnie Kohn. 210 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

Brookline, MA:: Kanthaka Press,, 1977.. First edition -. Near fine in printed pink wrappers.. First printing in wrappers. Described as an epic poem of Vietnam and America, set in the traditional capital of Hue in 1968, this is an uncommon title by this journalist and peace activist.

New York:: Granta USA,, 1997.. First edition -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing. "The Magazine Of New Writing" This issue "presents fresh voices from a country searching for a new idea of itself." Includes contributions by Luc Sante, Michel Houellebecq, Ivan Klima, Harold Pinter, a selection of photographs by Raymond De pardon and more. 256 pp.

New York:: Granta USA,, 1996.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing. "The Magazine Of New Writing" This issue is focused on "Britain's valedictory realism." Includes contributions from Hilary Mantel, John Banville, Simon Winchester, Harif Kurieshi, Tim Binding, Norman McLean and others. Section of photographs by Donovan Wylie, other illustrations. 254 pp. plus notes on contributors.

New York:: Granta,, 1999.. SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing. A paperback magazine of new writing. This issue is about "people in extremis over the past hundred years - coping stoically, madly, badly with private and public disaster from the Antarctic to the bombing of Belgrade. SIGNED by Joy Williams at her story "Hawk." Other contributors include Edward Said, Edmund White, Zadie Smith and more. Features a section of photographs on Mennonite colonies in Mexico and Canada by Larry Towell. Notes on the contributors. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York:: Granta,, 2003.. First edition -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing. A paperback magazine of new writing. Contributors include Edmund White, James Kelman, Paul Theroux, A. M. Homes, Judith Hermann, Julian Barnes, Adam Hochschild and more. Features a full color section of photographs on the "home front" and a section of new maps of America by Martin Rowson.. Notes on the contributors. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York:: Granta USA,, (1996.). First edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. . First printing. A paperback magazine of new writing. This is the famous "Granta 20" issue, featuring new work by twenty American writers, all under the age of 40, chosen by a panel of established writers - including Robert Stone, Anne Tyler, and Tobias Wolff - as the best young American novelists. The writers selected were Sherman Alexie, Madison Smartt Bell, Ethan Canin, Edwidge Danticat, Tom Drury, Tony Earley, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, David Guterson, David Haynes, Allen Kurzweil, Elizabeth McCracken, Lorrie Moore, Fae Myenne Ng, Robert O'Connor, Chris Offutt, Stewart O'Nan, Mona Simpson, Melanie Rae Thon and Kate Wheeler. Introduction by editor (and judge) Ian Jack. Each story is preceded by brief comments on the writer and a small photograph and inserted into the center of the issue is a section of glossy plates - Portraits of the writers by Marion Ettlinger.… Read More

New York:: Granta USA,, 1997.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing. "The Magazine Of New Writing" This issue features stories on India as she celebrates 50 years as a nation. Reports, memories, poems and stories by writers James Buchan, Anita Desai, R. K. Narayan, Mark Tully, Jan Morris, Vikram Seth, Michael Ondaatje, Arundhati Roy, and V. S. Naipaul and more. Section of photographs by Dayanita Singh. 288 pp.

New York:: Granta,, 2004.. First edition -. Near fine (a bit of rubbing to the covers) . First printing, a trade paperback. A Paperback Magazine of New Writing. "Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations are offered in Granta 85 - an issue that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war." Includes essays by Diana Athill on the baby she never had, Jennie Erdahl on being a literary ghostwriter, plus new fiction by T. C. Boyle (a short story about a sexually naive undergraduate attending a series of lectures by Kinsey) and Anne Enright, Orhan Pamuk, and others. Also includes a portfolio of color photographs on the private life of an Episcopalian priest. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York:: Granta USA,, 1997.. SIGNED first edition -. Fair condition only (some wear to the covers, creasing to first page) . First printing. A paperback magazine of new writing. SIGNED by Aimee Bender at her story 'Loser." Also includes contributions from Ariel Dorfman, Clive Sinclair, a photographic essay on the Nuba people of Sudan and more. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes on contributors. 256 pp.

New York:: Granta,, 2003.. First edition -. Near fine.. First printing. A paperback magazine of new writing. Contributors include Simon Gray, Lynn Barber, Paul Murray, Jayne Anne Phillips and more. Features a full color section of photographs on the old steam machines of the Industrial Revolution and the people who love them. Notes on the contributors. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York:: Granta USA,, 1998.. SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower fore-edge slightly bumped.). First printing. A paperback magazine of new writing. SIGNED by Dani Shapiro at her story 'The Mistress." The title story: What Young Men Do . Richard Lloyd Parry Discovers Modern Indonesia"s War on Severed Heads Other contributors include Richard Lloyd Parry, Richard Ford, Simon Arimitage, Todd McEwen, Sebastiao Salgado, Nicholas Shakespeare, Tim Lott, Tim Parks.. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes on contributors. 256 pp.

New York:: Atheneum,, 1980.. Hardcover first edition -. NF/NF.. First US printing. Suspense novel set in the heart of the Saudi Arabian desert in 1944.

New York:: George H. Doran,, (1923). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in rust colored cloth - binding somewhat cracked before half title page, a few scattered lines with pencil underlining. . First US printing. The author's foreword notes that "The substance of this little book was delivered in the form of two lectures given at the invitation of the Hibbert Trustees in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham during March and April, 1922." Jacks was an English educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister. Among his early associates were associates included George Bernard Shaw, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and Oscar Wilde, and in 1922 he hosted the Austrian philosopher and educator, Dr Rudolf Steiner, at Manchester. A small slim volume. 92 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, 1997.. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) African American writer's second novel, the story of a hurt little girl inside a woman's body, who deals with the hurt by making 'rules' for dealing with men.

Tucson:: Dennis McMillan Publications, , (1998). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. An historical novel, set in Butte Montana where a young Pinkerton detective was sent to assist in busting the union, when the miners spontaneously walked out after a deadly accident, activities which result in the murder of union activist Frank Little. One review comments that Jackson, "best known for his Fang Mulheisen detective series, has taken a little-known historical incident and woven it into a fascinating tapestry of time, place, atmosphere, and character." SIGNED on the half title page. 278 pp. Photographic endpapers.

New York:: William H. Morrow,, (2017). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's eighth novel - "a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality." One night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman - and now, shes having a baby boy - an unexpected but not unhappy development in the 38 year-olds life. Before Leia can break the news (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional, Southern family, her step-sister Rachels marriage implodes and she learns her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother, Birchie, has been hiding her increasing dementia. Leia returns to Alabama to put her grandmothers affairs in order, but in cleaning out the big Victorian that has been in the Birch family for generations, she finds,… Read More

New York:: Atlantic Monthly Press,, (1996). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some light toning to the pages).. First printing. The sixth hard-boiled crime novel featuring Detroit police detective Fang Mulheisen, but set in Salt Lake City. SIGNED on the title page. 264 pp.

New York & Boston:: Books, Inc., (1944.). Hardcover -. Near fine in black cloth with gilt lettering (prev owner's name whited over) no dust jacket. Reprint. Classic novel of a half-Indian girl in southern California, a story of injustice and sorrow - and a book with enduring appeal. In the 50 years after it was writen, it had gone through 141 printings and was the basis of three movies, one play, etc. A "World's Popular Classics" edition. 368 pp.

New York:: Grove Press,, (1998.). Near fine ( unread, but remainder mark on bottom of book). First thus- a trade paperback. Another mystery featuring Detroit Detective Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen, this one involving a manuscript from a long dead cult catoonist, and bizare emails. 234 pp.