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Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Books,, 1992.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's first novel, the story of a young black man in a high-profile job: he has the CEO's patronage, a beautiful wife, a house in a fine old neighborhood - and then everything begins to fall apart. Described as 'among the first contemporary African American novels to go inside the offices on executive row.' 219 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Books,, 1992.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (as new, but with a remainder line) . First printing. The author's first novel, the story of a young black man in a high-profile job: he has the CEO's patronage, a beautiful wife, a house in a fine old neighborhood - and then everything begins to fall apart. Described as 'among the first contemporary African American novels to go inside the offices on executive row.' 219 pp.

Boston:: L. C. Page, (1908). Hardcover -. Very good in cream illustrated boards with red lettering on the front cover, black on the spine, no dust jacket (inscription on front endpaper - an award for Sunday school attendance). Later printing. A title in the "Our Little Cousins" series. Includes the story of the Rough Riders and the Cuban fight for freedom. Also included is a visit to the quarters on the plantation, and although the black workers are shown as happy, as they celebrate with music and food, there is, at least, an account of the slave ships and the death toll of those ships. Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman with a glossy frontispiece and 5 internal glossy plates. vii, 106 pp plus 18 pp publisher's ads.

Athens, GA:: University of Georgia Press,, (1991). First edition -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name). First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A collection of poems which stand "at the interval between the real and the surreal, between the earthly and the eternal." A title in The Contemporary Poetry Series edited by Bin Ramke. 72 pp. Cover illustration by Debora Greger.

Redlands, CA: : Esri Press,, (2006). Fine in illustrated wrappers (as new). Second edition. A useful resource with "more than 1,800 terms, nearly 400 full-color illustrations, and seven encyclopedia-style appendix articles about annotation and labels, features, geometry, layers in ArcGIS, map projections and coordinate systems, remote sensing, and topology." 268 pp.

Boston:: Beacon Press,, (1993). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Foreword by Johnnetta B. Cole. Autobiography of this writer who grew up in segregated Memphis, through her activism and arrest in the civil rights movement, to her position as professor at Spelman College. One photograph at beginning of book. xi, 276 pp.

New York:: Arcadia House,, 1967.. Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with markings and shelfwear in very good dj. Spine slant, previous owners name, some edgewear to dj.. First printing.

New York:: St Martin's Minotaur, , (2001). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine plastic dust jacket.. First printing. Tale of a American women who travels to Orkney Islands, Scotland and finds herself in the midst of an adventure that involves witchcraft ,murder and danger. 200 pp.

New York:: The Viking Press,, (1954). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in very good dust jacket (a lovely copy - the rather striking green and red dust jacket has a short closed tear at the bottom edge with associated creasing but is now in a protective cover and is quite attractive.) . First printing. The author's first book, a hard-boiled novel about the manager of a Mexico City gambling casino - Waer's own occupation in Las Vegas: "Jim Foster, manager of gambling casinos and an honest man in a dubious profession, transfers his curious talents to Mexico City . . . The irregularities happen to include two murders, an international crime ring, various beautiful women, none of whom could ever be accused of innocence, a bewitched roulette wheel, and any number of operatives from the police and underworld." While all 3 of Waer's novels were set in the world of gambling, this was the only one to be published in hardcover. 241 pp. Dust jacket design by Bill English.

Norman, OK:: University of Oklahoma Press,, 1968.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a good dustjacket (bookplate and embossed seal of previous owner, waterstaining to backcover of dj, not affecting the book itself.) . First printing. Warm and intimate reminiscences by this prolific author, focusing not only on his childhood in Illinois, but also on the "world within." Included are selections on the Oz books, on Howard Pyle and Maxfield Parrish, on Gamaliel Bradford and Marjorie Bowen.

New York:: Walker,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's first novel, introducing "Fowler McFarland, former FBI agent and best-selling true crime author, who returns to his hometown of Nacogdochees, Texas hoping to find a little peace and tranquility teaching constititional law at the local college." Instead he finds murder. 196 pp.

New York:: Carroll & Graf,, (2003.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. SIGNED on the title page and dated 2003."The story of a trio of motorists and one policeman linked together by a tangled, life-altering web of coincidence in the immediate aftermath of a three-car pile-up in Los Angeles." 327 pp.

New York:: Henry Holt,, (1997). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line). First printing. The author's fourth novel, an apparently simple story novel which follows a woman from the day when she met her future mother-in-law to the present, as she prepares to meet her future daughter-in-law. 117 pp.

New York:: Arno Press,, 1974.. Hardcover -. Ex-library with the usual markings and overall tight and clean in gold cloth with burgundy lettering. . Facsimile Reprint. Originally published in 1906. Translated From The French by Mary Louise Hendee. A title in the Foreign Travelers in America, 1810-1935 series. 301 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster/ Kenan Press,, (1980). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line, upper corner clipped from front endpaper, some short tears to lower edge of dj) . First printing. A novel of the lives of several generations of "American Jews as they broke out of the teeming slums in the lower East Side" to prosper in the US in the years between World War I and the Korean War. 512 pp.

New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (2001). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. In 1998, twenty-five years after Plath's suicide, Ted Hughes published "Birthday Letters," a cycle of poems addressed to his Plath, his first wife. Without casting blame, this book explores the destructive relationship between these two poets through their lives and their writings - she shows the events that shaped the "Birthday Letters" and also how they drew upon Plath's own work. Includes references, bibliography, a general index and an index to the works of Hughes and Plath cited in the book. Illustrated by photographs. 312 pp.

New York:: DAW Books,, (1981). First edition -. Near fine - usual toning to the pages,and some minor wear to front cover, but a straight, tight and clean copy, no spine creases. . Paperback original - first printing. Includes an introduction by the editor and ten stories by Stephen KIng, Dennis Etchison, Harlan Ellison, T.E.D.Klein, Ramsey Campbell and more. Daw Books, #445. 223 pp. Cover art by Michael Whelan, Note: vintage paperbacks are very fragile and need to be handled with care.

Bloomington, IN:: Indiana University Press, , 1953.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in black cloth, no dj. . First printing. His first collection of poetry. The third title in the Indiana University Poetry series.

Urbana, IL:: University of Chicago Press,, (2008). Good overall - marginal notations, some underlining and check marks. . 1st trade paperback printing. A title in the Illinois Poetry Series. 143 pp.

New York:: Moffat, Yard and Company,, 1921.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in pale grey boards in a good example of the rather scarce dust jacket (toning to spine of dj, chip to lower edge of back cover). First printing. A rather uncommon collection of poems, including a group of sonnets, by this prolific American poet. Introduction by Edwin Markham and dust jacket praise by Arthur Symons and George Moore. 122 pp.