Search Results: New York from Black Cat Hill Books

New York, NY HarperCollins: HarperPerennial, 1991. Paperback First Edition Thus [1991]; First Printing indicated. First Edition Thus [1991]; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; binding square and secure; text clean. Pages tanned a bit, due to aging. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 240pp. The hardcover edition of this book was published in 1990 by Harper & Row. Trade Paperback. Etchings in an Hourglass is the sequel to Bronx Primitive and A Wider World. This third volume of Kate Simon's extraordinary memoirs centers around the main people in her later life. Her first husband's illness and death were followed by two bittersweet love affairs and then by the painful death of her daughter -her only child-whose long illness the author describes with her usual blend of empathy and self-restraint. Her younger sister, whom she had helped to raise, also died at this… Read More

New York, NY Simon & Schuster, 2003. Hardcover First Edition (2003), not directly stated, but First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence, in accordance with Simon & Schuster's customary practice at the time of publication. First Edition (2003), not directly stated, but First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence, in accordance with Simon & Schuster's customary practice at the time of publication. Fine in Near Fine DJ: The Book is flawless; the binding square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, very nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a single imperfection. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Virtually "As New". The DJ shows only a tick of wear to the upper rear corner tip and faint… Read More

Athens, GA, U.S.A. University of Georgia Press, 1989. Hardcover First Edition [1989]; First Printing indicated. First Edition [1989]; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows barely discernible spine lean very faint shelfwear along bottom edge of cloth-covered boards; very faint, tiny stain at top edge. Binding secure; text clean. DJ unclipped; mylar-protected. Overall, very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library.8vo. 209pp. Hardback with DJ. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. In this collection of 11 interrelated stories, the world of Ruthie Zimmer, youngest child of Jewish deaf-mute parents, is captured wth aching authenticity. Ruthie is an exuberant, rollerskating, prepubescent girl when we first meet her, enjoying the close-knit yet multiethnic neighborhood of the Inwood section of Manhattan. The stories are redolent of a New York neighborhood that once was.