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Columbia & London:: University of Missouri Press,, (1976). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in green cloth with silver lettering on the spine and a pasted on silver and green illustration on the front cover in a fine dust jacket.. First printing. California author's first book, winner of the 1976 Devins Award for Poetry. A University of Missouri Press Breakthrough Book. 63 pp.

Boston:: Godine,, 1991.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fine dustjacket (gift inscription,). First US printing. A weaving of "historical fact into a poetic evocation of the vast northern Canadian wilderness", beautifully illustrated with paintings by Barry Moser.

Windsor, ONT:: Black Moss Press,, 1983.. First edition -. Just about fine in stiff wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. A weaving of "historical fact into a poetic evocation of the vast northern Canadian wilderness", with double page illustrations by Phil McLeod. The true first edition of this work.

Boston:: Godine,, 1991.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (tear to dj along front fold, with associated creasing - dj now in an archival protector.). First US printing. A weaving of "historical fact into a poetic evocation of the vast northern Canadian wilderness", beautifully illustrated with paintings by Barry Moser.

New York:: Viking Press,, (2011). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. As the sequel to 'Wish You Were Here,' the novel follows the main character Emily Maxwell, a widow in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose grown children have all moved away. A quiet and detailed portrait of old age, of mourning loss and change, but also the courage involved in moving on in life. 255 pp.

St. Lucia:: University of Queensland Press,, 1977.. Hardcover first edition -. NF/NF (bit of shelfwear.). First printing. Collection of short stories by this Australian writer.

New York:: Vanguard,, 1978.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very good in a near fine dust jacket (spine slant, pinkish lines on top edge of text block). First printing. A rather uncommon novel by Oates, the story of a man who believed even as a young boy that he was touched by God and must heed the call to an evangelical ministry. SIGNED on the title page. 382 pp.

New York:: Ecco,, (1992.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Collection of short stories by this National Book Award winning author - stories which examine a world in which ordinary life is suddenly electrified by the potential for violent change. SIGNED on the title page. 193 pp,

New York:: Ecco Press,, 1988.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of short stories - racy, sexy, intriguing, and slightly off-center.

New York:: Ecco,, (1992.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. Collection of short stories by this National Book Award winning author - stories which examine a world in which ordinary life is suddenly electrified by the potential for violent change. SIGNED on the title page. 193 pp,

New York:: Vanguard,, (1973.). Hardcover -. Very good in a good dust jacket (edgewear to dj.). Book club edition. Author's sixth novel, 563 pp.

Lincoln, MA:: Penmaen Press,, 1978.. SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in stiff beige wrappers with green and dark brown decorations and lettering (toning to the covers, especially at the spine),. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Illustrated with wood engravings by Gillian Tyler. SIGNED by Joyce Carol Oates at her story "North Wind." Other stories include Kumin's "The Banquet", Brown's "How Mrs Fox Married Again", McGarry's "The Rainy Season", and Schwartz's "Mrs Saunders Writes to the World." 101 pp.

New York:: Dutton,, (1984.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. The third novel in her series of Gothic mysteries, set in late 19th century, early 20th century America. Map endpapers. 482 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Kathy Jacobi.

New York:: New Directions,, (1991.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket. . First printing. A rather uncommon short novel by Oates, one set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the 1960s and 1970s, and which draws us into the secret life of a nurse's aide, overworked, underpaid and quietly overzealous. 135 pp.

New York:: Vanguard,, 1976.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. A lovely tight and clean copy with a few very light spots of foxing on top edge, one short closed tear to back cover of dj). . First printing. An exceptionally attractive copy of this early collection of short stories, many set in Canada, where Oates lived for many years. The border in the title refers not only to the physical border between Canada and the US, but to the other more intangible borders that separate men from women, one way of life from another. 256 pp.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 2010.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. A collection of ten "razor-sharp" stories. SIGNED on the title page. 260 pp.

New York:: Dutton,, 1980.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped.). First printing. Collection of short stories and a novella. SIGNED on the title page. 196 pp.

New York:: Prentice-Hall,, (1990). Very good (remainder line). 1st trade paperback printing. Collects 23 essays on the sport of boxing by Michael Stephens, Norman Mailer, Elliot Gorn, George Plimpton, Pete Hamill, A. J. Liebling, Gay Talese, Edward Hoagland, Gerald Early, George Garrett, and the editors Oates and Halpern and others. Introduction by Halpern. Illustrated with photographs. xii, 305 pp.

Baton Rouge:: Louisiana State University Press,, 1977.. SIGNED -. Near fine (some rubbing to the covers.). Trade paperback. SIGNED on the title page. A collection of 52 poems, illustrated by A. G. Smith, Jr. 86 pp

New York:: Dutton,, (1993.). Hardcover first edition -. Good in good dust jacket (shelfwear to edges, signs of having been read.). First printing. Novel set in a blue-collar town in upstate New York in the 1950s. 328 pp.