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Graywolf Press, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Graywolf Press, 1995. Second Printing of First Edition. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Cream and green wrappers clean and unmarked, touch of wear to upper corner, two small, pale, tan spots on text block fore-edge. Cream pages are spotless. From a poet who… Read more about this item

Wilkes-Barre, PA: Etruscan Press, 2009. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Wilkes-Barre, PA, Etruscan Press, 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Tiny ruffle to two corners, else Fine. Glossy, bright, illustrated wrappers, designed by Nicolle DePolo with cover image by Robert Carioscia. A first collection of poems… Read more about this item

Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Stated First Edition. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Gently used book with faint wear to some edges, solid and tight binding, completely clean and unmarked.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 5x0x8. Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Stated First Edition. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Former owner name on inside of front cover, else Fine. Cover image: Mary Frank, "Elements", 1995-96. "Sharon Olds divides this new book into five sections - "Blood," "Tin," "Straw," "Fire," and "Light" - each… Read more about this item

William Morrow & Co, 1996. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. William Morrow & Co. First Quill Edition, 1996. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. An excellent first collection by this gifted poet. 8vo. 100 pages. 1996, William Morrow & Co.

Greenwillow Books, 2000. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Greenwillow Books, 2000. 6th Printing of First Edition. Former Library Hardcover Book and Jacket in Good Condition. Clean, solid book. Internals with one library stamp, otherwise in fine condition. A collection of short poems with such titles as "I Can't Move Mountains", "Junkyard", and "Greenhouse… Read more about this item

Bantam, 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Bantam Dell, 2008. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Cover illustration by Ben Perini. Gently used book with light cover edge wear, clean and unmarked. Mildred Kalish's story of growing up on her grandparent's Iowa farm during the Great Depression (1929-1941). Not a tale… Read more about this item

McGraw-Hill, 1972. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. b/w drawings and other illustrations. Pictorial green wrappers with slight rubbing of some edges, solid binding, light crease down spine. Three pages have a small yellow spot in the margins, otherwise pages clean… Read more about this item

Penguin Classics, 2017. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Penguin Classics. This 50th Anniversary Restored Edition published 2017. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. The "Mercy Sound" captures the mood of the Sixties and speaks to real lives with irreverent, freewheeling verses o0f young love, petrol-pumping attendants, CND leaflets, and bus… Read more about this item

Dover Publications, 1990. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Dover Publications, 1990. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Bright, glossy, clean and unmarked wrappers, slight crease to rear upper corner. Note and nae of former owner on title page. There is some underlined text that does not interfere with easy reading. 44 poems… Read more about this item

Picador, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good. 5x0x8. Picador, 2004. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. White wrappers with black titles clean and unmarked, slight wear to upper edge; binding solid and square. Internals as new. Burroughs chronicles his misadventures in advertising and his terrifying struggle with alcoholism, confirming his darkly comic literary talent with "laughter on the road… Read more about this item

Harper Perennial, 2002. First Paperback Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Harper Perennial, First Thus, 2002. ISBN10: 0060957611, ISBN13: 9780060957612. Trade Paperback in Very God Condition. b/w in-text photos. Clean wrappers in black and white with illustration of Jefferson on front; lower edge lightly rubbed. Solid, square binding. Pages lightly toned,… Read more about this item

Broadway Books, 1999. First Trade Paperback Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 5x0x7. Broadway Books, 1999. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Pages lightly toned else Fine. Gently used book with bright, colorful wrappers, sound binding, no marks of any kind. Funny, humorous, often self-deprecating, hysterical essays about one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country after… Read more about this item

Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Former Library Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Cream illustrated wrappers clean and unmarked with light wear to some edges; binding solid square. Minimal library marks. Pages of cream paper, completely clean and free from any markings.… Read more about this item

Vintage, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Vintage Books, 2005. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen. Gently used book in bright orange and yellow wrappers, slight rubbing to edges, beginning of a crease to lower corner. Pages lightly toned, clean and completely unmarked.… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, 1994. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Penguin Books, 1994. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Translated from the Spanish by Dolores M. Koch. Now a Major Motion Picture directed by Julian Schnabel. Gently used book, pages toned and the first few pages have a crease in the upper corner… Read more about this item

Simon & Schuster, 1987. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8x5x1. Simon & Schuster, 1987. First Thus. This is the first printing of a revised edition of a work originally published in 1967 by Simon & Schuster. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Just a touch of wear to spine head, else Fine. Featuring "The Prodigious Hickey" and "The… Read more about this item

Random House, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Random House, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Fine binding of brown half cloth with gilt titles, cream paper-wrapped boards, clean and unmarked; tight, solid & square. Internals very clean and free from… Read more about this item

Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1952. Hardback First Edition in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Illustrations from "The History of the Novel in England", by Robert Morss Lovett and Helen Sars Hughes. Handsome burgundy cloth with gilt titles to front and spine is… Read more about this item

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform 2012, 2012. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). 9781475138771 .Createspace Independent Publishing Platform June, 2012. Inscribed by Author on Title page. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. Glossy, bright, clean yellow wrappers with carnival illustration. Solid and tight binding. Internals pristine. The story of one woman's journey through the… Read more about this item