Fiction, Literature

New York: Grove Press, 1963. A Black Cat Book. 135 pp. A novel. Light wear to wrappers, previous owner's blind stamp, pages tanned.. First Separate Publication. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). more information

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Boston: Benj. H. Sanborn, 1902. Brown pebbled cloth over boards. 256 pp. Covers handled and rubbed at extremities with small chip at head of spine; pages tanned.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. more information

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Santiago, Chile: Nascimento, 1958. 8vo. Later printing. 220 pp. Illustrated wrappers handled, lightly dustsoiled, with significantly chipping to edges; pages uniformly browned, light scattered underlining and a few notes in text, nearly all in pencil.. Self-Wraps. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). more information

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Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1991. First printing, wraps issue. 191 pp. Three novellas (The Talisman, Family Album, Village of God and the Devil).. Inscribed and signed by author. First U.S. Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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New York: William Morrow, 1987. 237 pp. Head of spine lightly bumped, foxing to top edge, scuff to front free endpaper. Very light handling and edgewear to jacket.. First Printing. Boards. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. more information

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Livraria Popular de Francisco Franco, Lisboa (1977), 1977. 218 pp., illustrated. In Portuguese. Wrappers rubbed and lightly edgeworn, interior Fine.. Inscribed by author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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New York: Signet, 1966. 121 pp. Spine cocked with small tear at heel; wrappers a bit darkened, rubbed and edgeworn; pages browned throughout.. First Paperback Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). more information

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Berkeley: Tonatiuh Quinto Sol, 1982. 173 pp. Wrappers a bit handled and creased, previous owner name, otherwise unmarked.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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Berkeley: Editorial Justa, 1979. 197 pp. Author's third novel. Wrappers and page edges sunned, top edge lightly bumped.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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Halcyon House, New York, n.d. [ca. 1950]. Reprint. 190 pp. Translated by Herman Bernstein. Spine just a bit sunned, pages browned as usual. Jacket rubbed, edgeworn, with a few tiny chips and tears.. Decorative Paper Over Boards. Very Good/Good. 8vo. more information

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S. Chand, New Delhi, n.d. [ca. 1970s]. 124 pp., line illustrations. Questions and Language Practice. A school reader. Wrappers handled and edgeworn, corners lightly bumped.. Color Illustrated Wrappers. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 12mo. more information

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Chicago: Cuneo Press, 1942. Gilt-stamped red labels, top edge gilt. 121 pp., text illustrations in b/w, titles printed in red. Covers foxed, browning to endpapers.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. more information

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New York: Taplinger, 1966. 358 pp. Work from Australia, Burma, Ceylon, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam. Covers a bit dull, page edges slightly dusty, otherwise Fine, in somewhat handled and edgeworn jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. more information

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Albuquerque, NM: Red Earth Press, 1977. 418 pp. Poetry and fiction by Paula Gunn Allen, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Haldeen Braddy, John Brandi, Laverne Harrell Clark, Denise Chavez, Gene Frumkin, Drummond Hadley, Joy Harjo, Gerald Haslam, Gerald Hausman, Will Inman, David Kherdian, Ronald Koertge, Gerald Locklin, William Matthews, Howard McCord, Barbara Mor, Harvey Mudd, Stanley Noyes, William Oandasan, Simon J. Ortiz, William Pitt Root, Naomi Shihab, Leslie Marmon Silko, Joseph Somoza, Arthur Sze, Keith Wilson and many others. Spine lightly creased, light edge and corner wear to wrappers, one wrapper corner creased.. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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San Francisco: North Point, 1984. 139 pp. Very light exterior handling and dustsoiling only.. Wrappers in jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 78, Issue 463 (December 1888), pp. [39]-52. Stereotype-laden Negro dialect tale. Disbound and stapled into plain card wrappers, in marbled paper dustjacket. Pages tanned.. Stapled Wraps. About Fine/Fine. Illus. by A. B. Frost. 8vo. more information

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New York: Macmillan, 1964, 1964. 218 pp. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. Spanish author's first novel to appear in English. Top edge dusty, head of spine very lightly bumped, otherwise Fine, apparently unread. Jacket is rubbed and edgeworn with light chipping, small closed tear at head of spine.. First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 8vo. more information

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London: Pall Mall Press, 1969, 1969. 163 pp. A novel (autobiographical? ) by an Israeli Ambassador to Senegal and Ethiopia. Spine slightly rubbed, otherwise a Fine copy.. First British Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. more information

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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. 255 pp. The author's only novel. Warmly inscribed by Barker to Santa Fe rancher Alva Simpson, with a few lines of verse, and signed "S. Omar Barker / SOB." Head and heel of spine bumped, otherwise Fine.. Inscribed and signed by author. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. more information

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London: Zed Books, 1990. 202 pp. Includes essays on Victoria Ocampo, Maria Luisa Bombal, Rosario Castellanos, Clarice Lispector, Elena Poniatowska, Giaconda Belli and others. Wrappers lightly handled, pages tanned.. First printing, wraps issue. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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Kirksville, MO: Charitan Review, 1984. 109 pp. Author's first book. Publisher's slip laid in. Very light handling and edgewear to wrappers, previous owner name.. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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New York: Orion Press, 1969, 1969. 161 pp. A novel. "This English translation is the first publication of the work in any language." Light handling and edgewear to boards, top edge a bit dusty, otherwise Fine, in jacket with numerous scuffs, chips and tears, sticker scar to rear panel.. First Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo. more information

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Albuquerque, NM, 1976. 130 pp. A western. Wrappers faded.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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San Angelo, TX: Custom Book Co., 1975. 100 pp. A western. Wrappers lightly handled and dustsoiled, small nick to front wrapper edge.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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New York: Doubleday, Page, 1909. Green cloth stamped with yellow lettering and yellow and black floral decoration. 291 pp. + [4] pp. publisher's catalog (Benson titles published by Heinemann). Appears to be bound from Heinemann's sheets. Spine slightly cocked, covers a bit rubbed, edges moderately worn and lightly bumped, head of spine slightly pulled. Page edges darkened. Front free endpaper has been neatly removed. Tight and unmarked.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. more information

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New York: Window Editions, 1981. 43 pp. Wrappers lightly edgeworn, head and heel of spine bumped, several small chips and tears at spine, a couple of tiny spots to front. Binding tight and interior clean and unmarked.. Inscribed by author. First Edition (of 1000 copies). Wrappers. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Narrow 4to (approx. 6x10"). more information

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Union City, CA: Fault Publications, 1977. Pages unnumbered, b/w illustrations. Stories. Minor wear to wrappers at upper corners and fore-edges.. Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). Wide 8vo. more information

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Union City, CA: Fault Publications, 1977. Pages unnumbered. Stories. Wrappers lightly dustsoiled, one rear corner lightly creased, otherwise Fine.. Inscribed by author. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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Toronto: Macmillan, 1962. 98 pp. Minor fore-edge nick, otherwise Fine, tight and apparently unread. Jacket lightly rubbed, handled and dustsoiled, with a few small chips and tears.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 8vo. more information

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New York: Bantam, 1950. Bantam 750. 244 pp. A novel, basis for the film "Thieves' Highway." Spine cocked and appears to have been reglued, wrappers rubbed and edgeworn, pages tanned throughout.. First Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). more information

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Pittsburgh, PA: Latin American Literary Review, 1983. Discoveries. 88 pp. Remainder strip on bottom edge.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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New York: E. P. Dutton, 1917. 228 pp. A reading or binding copy with covers worn and stained, fraying at head and heel of spine and corners, spine pulled, faded, rubbed and scuffed with some insect damage at heel; page edges dusty, date in ink on front free endpaper; page margins browned throughout. Binding tight and interior otherwise unmarked.. First U.S. Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. more information

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Claremont, CA: Blumar Press, Hunter House, 1986. 87 pp. B/w photos throughout of places mentioned in the fiction of James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, Gavin Lambert, and many others, with brief exerpts and commentary. Very light handling to wrappers, page edges slightly tanned.. Inscribed and signed by the author. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). Oblong 12mo. more information

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Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1986. 144 pp. First printing of the author's first book, a collection of stories. Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction. Spine very slightly cocked at crown, just a hint of foxing to top edge, otherwise Fine. In bright, very lightly edgeworn jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. more information

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London: Peter Owen, 1985. 176 pp. Jacket just a bit faded at spine and very lightly edgeworn.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. more information

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San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1968. Writing 21. 138 pp. Wrappers rubbed and worn; slight moisture wave to front or wrap also very slightly affecting lower page corners; previous owner name and one tiny mark on first leaf. A well-used but tight and internally clean copy of the scarce first printing.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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Blauvelt, NY: Steinerbooks, 1977. Second printing thus. 410 pp. Facsimile reprint (orig. 1842), with new Preface. Wrappers lightly handled and edgeworn with one rear corner lightly creased, slight crease to spine.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1969. 267 pp. Covers a bit rubbed and handled, corners of boards lightly bumped, top edge dusty. Binding tight and interior clean and unmarked.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. more information

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London: Faber and Faber, 1984. 410 pp. Tight and clean with light handling to covers and tanning to pages, faint sticker ghost on front free endpaper, a few page corners turned. Jacket priceclipped, handled and edgeworn, particularly at folds, and including some light chipping at heel.. First British Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo. more information

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Silver City, NM: Privately Printed, Christmas, 1927, 1927. Edition of 200 copies (this is numbered 93). 39 pp. A "little book of allegorical contrasts": Joy and Grief, Falsity and Truth, etc., each with a moral. A small photograph has been tipped in at front blank (of a "needle's eye"-type rock formation, although the book's title refers to the Bible verse). Wrappers slightly dustsoiled and edgeworn, otherwise Fine.. First Edition. Stapled Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket (Paperback). 12mo. more information

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New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. 337 pp. Light wear to head and heel of spine and corners, pages tanned.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. more information

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London: Andre Deutsch, 1990. 121 pp. A novel. Light edgewear to jacket only.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. more information

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New York: E. P. Dutton, 1988. 197 pp. Very light handling and edgewear to wrappers, previous owner name and address inside front of wrapper, small area of erasure visible on first leaf, otherwise unmarked and clean. A tight, attractive copy.. First printing, wraps issue. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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Mexico: Presencia Latinoamericana, 1984. 67 pp., illus. Includes Bibliography. Prefaced with a poem by Jaime Sabines. Text in Spanish. Wrappers a bit rubbed, edgeworn, sunned; wrapper corners and corners of pages bumped; previous owner name, otherwise unmarked.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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Washington, DC: Infantry Journal, 1945. 153 pp. World War II fiction. Wrappers worn and creased, spine bumped, pages tanned.. First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). more information

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Albuquerque, NM: Living Batch, 1980. Reprint. 285 pp. A novel. Wrappers handled, rubbed, worn at edges and lightly bumped at corners; spine slightly creased; very minor soiling to page edges. Binding sound and interior clean and unmarked.. Signed by Author. Wrappers. Good/No Jacket (Paperback). 8vo. more information

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New York: Bantam, 1989, 1989. Boards. 209 pp. The third volume in the Sorcery Hall Trilogy. Very lightly bumped at head of spine, otherwise Fine, tight, clean and apparently unread. In lightly edgeworn jacket.. Inscribed and signed by the author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. more information

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London: Paul Elek, 1975. 266 pp. Spine slightly cocked, one corner of front board lightly bumped, spine and top edges of boards slightly faded, a few specks to top edge.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. more information

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Collins, Fontana, 1965, 1965. 192 pp. Novel by Nigerian author. Wrappers handled and edgeworn, small scuff to spine edge, spine creased, heel of spine bumped, page edges lightly foxed, previous owner name on front blank. Sound and otherwise unmarked, with pages uniformly tanned.. First Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). more information

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New York: Schocken, 1986, 1986. 265 pp. Fore-edge lightly bumped at head affecting a few page corners, othewise Fine, in handled and edgeworn jacket with several small closed tears.. First U.S. Edition. Boards. Very Good/Good. 8vo. more information

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