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THE LIFE OF LORENA HICKOK, E.R.'S FRIEND
New York: Morrow, 1980. . First printing. . Fine in near fine dust jacket (spine of dj faded). . Biography of a the woman who first met Eleanor Roosevelt as a reporter, and who became a close friend, even living in the White House for 4 years - based on 18 boxes of letters from E.R. and left unopened until after her death. 384pgs, index, photographs. ... (more information)
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies; Offered by bookfever.com (California, United States) |
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THE LIFE OF LORENA HICKOK, E.R.'S FRIEND
New York: Morrow, 1980. . First printing. . Very good in a very good dustjacket (spine slightly slanted.) . Biography of a the woman who first met Eleanor Roosevelt as a reporter, and who became a close friend, even living in the White House for 4 years - based on 18 boxes of letters from E.R. and left unopened until after her death. 384pgs, index, photographs. ... (more information)
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies; Offered by bookfever.com (California, United States) |
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UNRAVELING AT THE NAME
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (2002.) . First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. . Fine in illustrated wrappers. . A collection of inter-related poems - "Optimistic, searching, and unforgiving, 'Unraveling' is arranged around a central narrative of shifting identities, as the book's speaker leaves a heterosexual marriage and sets off on an exploration of her own sexuality and difficulties and joys of single working motherhood. " Hayden Carruth Award Wi... (more information)
Subjects: POETRY / General; Offered by bookfever.com (California, United States) |
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SPEAKING FOR OURSELVES: American Ethnic Writing
Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1969. . 1st trade paperback printing. . Good in illustrated wrappers - a few pencil notations, some wear to covers, prev owner's name. . An interesting anthology intended as a college level textbook. Includes brief introductions to each author. 615 pgs. ... (more information)
Subjects: FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors); Offered by bookfever.com (California, United States) |
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THE BIGGER THEY COME
New York: Pocket Books, (1952.) . 3rd paperback printing. . Good only - binding cocked, but cover is bright and attractive. . #228. A Bertha Cool and Donald Lam mystery. Good girl cover art by Maurice Thomas. Original 25c cover price. ... (more information)
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WE CAN'T BREATHE
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. . 4th printing. . Very good in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, wear at top of spine dj.) . Autobiographical novel by this highly praised African American writer (Back in the early 70's, Shane Stevens called him one of the two best black writers in the country. ) This is the story of Ernie, who sees his friends and their parents cut down by wine, drugs, street violence and war, but who still struggles to keep his humanity and his belief in both his own talent ... (more information)
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African-American Studies; Offered by bookfever.com (California, United States) |
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WE CAN'T BREATHE
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. . First printing. . Good in a very good dustjacket (name on top edge blacked out, closed tear, other light edgewear to dj.) . Autobiographical novel by this highly praised African American writer (Back in the early 70's, Shane Stevens called him one of the two best black writers in the country. ) This is the story of Ernie, who sees his friends and their parents cut down by wine, drugs, street violence and war, but who still struggles to keep his humanity and his be... (more information)
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African-American Studies; Offered by bookfever.com (California, United States) |
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THAT MAN CARTWRIGHT
New York: Crown, (1970.) . First printing. . Ex-library with markings and significant reading wear, but in a very good, unmarked dj (tape reinforcement to the inside of ends of the spine.) Hard to find in hardcover. . Uncommon later novel by the author of the still popular 'Five Smooth Stones' (with some minor characters from that book making an appearance here also.) Just as that novel dealt with the civil rights movement in 1960's America, this deals with the agricultural exploitation... (more information)
Subjects: FICTION / General; Offered by bookfever.com (California, United States) |
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FIVE SMOOTH STONES
New York: Crown, (1966.) . Book club edition. . Near fine in black boards, in a very good dustjacket (chip at top of dj spine.) . The classic - and massive - novel about the Civil Rights movement and an interracial relationship by this feminist writer. 853 pp. ... (more information)
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STAND WE AT LAST
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. . First printing. . Very good+ in a near fine dustjacket. . A feminist saga spanning 120 years from the late nineteenth century thru the 20th century. 609 pages. ... (more information)
Subjects: FICTION / Historical; Offered by bookfever.com (California, United States) |
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'The Body Hunters' in FANTASTIC, February 1959, Volume 8, Number 2
New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing, 1959. . First appearance in print of these works. . Near fine condition (usual toning to pages.) . Digest sized magazine publishing 'unique and dramatic tales of the weird, the supernatural, and the macabre. Also includes Wyndham's 'The Troons of Space: Venus AD 2144' and the 'Creeper in the Dream' by Rog Phillip and other stories. Cover by Gabe Keith, interior illustration by Virgil Finlay. 130 pp. ... (more information)
Subjects: FICTION / Science Fiction / General; Offered by bookfever.com (California, United States) |
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FINAL JEOPARDY
Alexandra Cooper is the assistant district attorney in charge of Manhattan's sex crime prosecution. Alex is shocked one morning to read her own obituary in the headlines, when it is really movie star Isabella Lascar who has been killed--in Alex's summer home on Martha's Vineyard. As a prosecutor who has tried many high-profile cases, Alex has made a lot of enemies. The search for Isabella's killer goes on while Alex continues with witness and victim interviews, serial rape investigations, and late night meetings with cops and detectives that are as much a part of her life as uptown social rounds.
New York: Scribner, (1996.) . Book club edition. . Near fine in near fine dust jacket (notation "read 11/203" on front endpaper.) . Author's first novel - introduces Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper. Praise on dj from Patricia Cornwell and John Sandford, among others. 279 pp. ... (more information)
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COLD HIT
When the body of a sophisticated Manhattan gallery owner is discovered tied to a ladder on the northern tip of the island, Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is called in to crack the case.
New York: Scribner, (1999.) . First printing. . Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (old inked price on front endpaper.) . Author's third novel, featuring Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper, who specializes in prosecuting sex crimes, and NYPD dectectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace. Fairstein is an attorney herself, and ran the Sex Crimes Unit of the District Attorney's office in Manhattan. 413 pp. ... (more information)
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THE DEADHOUSE
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) . Fine (as new.) . The 4th mystery featuring assisant DA Alexandria Cooper. ... (more information)
Subjects: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General; Offered by bookfever.com (California, United States) |
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THE KILLS
New York Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper has a lot on her plate. She's prosecuting a date rape trial and probing the mysterious death of an elderly Harlem woman who once was a WWII spy and the mistress of Egypt's King Farouk. Naturally, these two seemingly disparate cases are linked, and it will take all of Alex's skill in the courtroom and as a sleuth to ensure that justice is done.
New York: Scribner, (2004.). . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket. . The 6th mystery featuring New York assisant DA Alexandria Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor. ... (more information)
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ENTOMBED
The discovery of a bricked-up skeleton in a partially demolished brownstone is a scenario straight out of Edgar Allan Poe. What makes the find more amazing is the fact that the building is actually one of Poe's former residences. Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper pursues the connections from the skeleton to the 19th-century writer, and to the resurgence of a long-dormant perpetrator, the Silk Stocking Rapist, who has now begun murdering his victims. This is the seventh novel in a series.
New York: Scribner, (2005.). . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket. . The 7th mystery featuring New York assisant DA Alexandria Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor - this involves the discovery of a body bricked up in a wall, in a house where Edgar Allan Poe had once lived. 400 pp. ... (more information)
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ENTOMBED
New York: Scribner, (2006.). . First printing. . Very near fine in a like dustjacket (initials on front endpaper). . Mystery featuring New York assisant DA Alexandria Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor. 402 pp. ... (more information)
Subjects: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General; Offered by bookfever.com (California, United States) |
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THE BONE VAULT
The appearance of a corpse in a sarcophagus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art would normally be a surprise, but in this case, since the body is that of a museum employee, things are a little different. A district attorney must penetrate the close-knit world of the Met to find the killer.
New York: Scribner, (2003.) . Book club edition. . Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name.) . Mystery featuring New York assisant DA Alexandria Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor, set partially at the American Musuem of Natural History. 386 pp. ... (more information)
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THE BONE VAULT
The appearance of a corpse in a sarcophagus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art would normally be a surprise, but in this case, since the body is that of a museum employee, things are a little different. A district attorney must penetrate the close-knit world of the Met to find the killer.
New York: Scribner, (2003.) . Book club edition. . Very good in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.) . Mystery featuring New York assisant DA Alexandria Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor, set partially at the American Musuem of Natural History. 386 pp. ... (more information)
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FINAL JEOPARDY
Alexandra Cooper is the assistant district attorney in charge of Manhattan's sex crime prosecution. Alex is shocked one morning to read her own obituary in the headlines, when it is really movie star Isabella Lascar who has been killed--in Alex's summer home on Martha's Vineyard. As a prosecutor who has tried many high-profile cases, Alex has made a lot of enemies. The search for Isabella's killer goes on while Alex continues with witness and victim interviews, serial rape investigations, and late night meetings with cops and detectives that are as much a part of her life as uptown social rounds.
New York: Scribner, (1996.) . First printing. . Very near fine in a like dustjacket. . Author's first novel - introduces Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper. Praise on dj from Patricia Cornwell and John Sandford, among others. ... (more information)
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