New York: Grove Press, 1989. First American edition. Near Fine in Wraps. An advanced excerpt in printed wrappers of this speculative novel a love story about two whales after a nuclear winter. The novelist is a Canadian-based poet. Head and tail of spine bumped. ... (more information)

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New York: Random House, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. The controversial bestseller, a memoir of his time spent incarcerated (beginning at age nine), much of it in solitary confinement. With an introduction by Norman Mailer who helped to secure his release. Abbott began a correspondence with Mailer who was writing The Executioner's Song. Mailer got some of Abbott's letters published in the prestigious New York Review of Books leading to publication of Abbott'... (more information)

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New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991. First edition. Softcover. 38 pp. Advance excerpt in stapled pictorial wrappers. Fine. ... (more information)

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New York: Crown, 1991. First edition. Near Fine in Wraps. An uncorrected proof copy in yellow wraps of his first novel. Any flaws seem to have been in production, as the top has been cut slightly higher on one side. ... (more information)

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Toronto: Basilike, 1974. First edition. Paperback. [6 pp.] Prints a five-line poem by the mostly forgotten Gloucestershire poet Abercrombie as an introduction to his essay in which he looks back on his writerly career. 125 copies printed Very good or better in marbled wrappers. ... (more information)

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New York: Atheneum, 1984. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof in green printed wrappers. Author's second novel. ... (more information)

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Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. A Review copy, a slip from US distributor Dufour laid in. A volume of poems, includes a selected bibliography for this popular Welsh poet. ... (more information)

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New York: St Martin's Press, 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. Review copy with slip laid in of this annual of British poetry. A fine selection with poems from books and magazines by Adcock, Betjeman, Davie, Grigson, Larkin, Sillitoe, Sisson, Skelton, Enright, Ewart, Fuller, Hughes, Mahon, Scannell, Thwaite, et al. And basil Bunting on Yeats, Carlos Baker on Pound and Irving Howe on Plath. Near fine in a near fine (spine-faded) dust jacket. Uncommon. ... (more information)

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New York: Pantheon, 1993. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof in blue printed wrappers. The usual edgy fiction from Acker. About fine. ... (more information)

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New York: Random House, 1998. First edition. Fine in Wraps. An uncorrected proof in blue and white wrappers. ... (more information)

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New York: Random House, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ. Divided into chapters dealing with the five senses; never straying far from the science or literature of the senses Ackerman as in her poetry explores how exciting life can be. ... (more information)

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New York: Random House, 1991. First edition. Fine in Wraps. An uncorrected proof in glossy blue, pink and black wrappers. ... (more information)

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New York: Random House, 1998. First edition. Fine in Fine DJ. ... (more information)

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New York: Random House, 1999. First edition. Fine in Wraps. An uncorrected proof copy in blue and white glossy wrappers. Prose on wide-rangeing subjects, but as always with this poet never veering far from science or literature. ... (more information)

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New York: RH, 1998. First edition. Fine . An Advanced Uncorrected Proof in blue and white wraps. ... (more information)

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New York: Random House, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ ... (more information)

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New York: RH, 1998. First edition. Fine . An Advanced Uncorrected Proof in plain blue and white wraps. Very near fine. ... (more information)

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New York: Harper Collins, 2002. First edition. Uncorrected proof copy in yellow wrappers. Pub materials laid in. Fine. ... (more information)

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Ithaca: Stone-Marrow Press, 1973. 1/500 wraps. Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps. Precedes her first regularly published book by three years. Published by poet James Bertolino in an edition of 500; all three poets were Cornell graduates. Inscribed to Burt (Britten), with two spelling corrections to one poem. Burt Britten was a well-known NYC bookseller. ... (more information)

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New York: Knopf, 1992. First American edition. The signed advanced review copy in purple wrappers in the matching slipcase. Distributed primarily to booksellers for promotional purposes. Ackroyd has won the Whitbread Prize for both fiction and biography. A fine copy in a rubbed (unlike many of these Knopf ARE's these were not shrink-wrapped, some rubbing is all but inevitable), but otherwise fine case. ... (more information)

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