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New York: Viking, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Finw. A Fine copy of the UNCORRECTED PROOF for the first edition, first printing of Cecile Pineda's DEBUT BOOK in the Publisher's original yellow wrappers (light sunning to the spine). The novel won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California in 1986 for Face, and Pineda also won a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. Copies of this Uncorrected Proof for this author's DEBUT BOOK are EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. A Fine copy.

New York: The Viking Press, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/fine. A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing (spine mildly askew, some foxing to the closed page block's edges, tiny defect to the upper leading corner of the leaf hosing pages 39 and 40) in a Fine dust jacket; the author's Debut work of fiction and his second book to be published (the first being a philosophical work published 1988 under the title "Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970"). Writing of this Debut Novel in the New York Times, Anne Gotlieb stated "This is a strange and often wonderful hybrid -- an ebullient philosophical novel in the form of a folktale-cum-black girl's odyssey. It is a book bubbling like a conjure woman's kettle with African lore, preserved intact in the half-magical, half-demeaning world of Hatten County, Georgia." "Faith and the Good Thing" followed what Johnson calls his apprentice novels -- six novels that he had written by age 26 for which he could find no… Read More

San Antonio: Wings Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Fine. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original wrappers. As Bass states in his Afterword: "If the wild beauty of the made and physical natural world is lost or further compromised, then how much longer can the echoes of that beauty and innocence remain kindled in our own hearts? I suspect we won't know the answer until it's all gone...which makes the art - the voices and the minds - of the writers gathered here all the morer important...." A Fine copy.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/[Slipcase]. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's original boards and slipcase, being number 397 of 1,000 such copies issued. The slipcase is rather worn but remains largely intact with some splits to the edges. Copies of this First American edition are surpassingly uncommon and copies in the complete and intact slipcase (even when rather worn). The Frontispiece is by Thomas Hardy. SCARCE INDEED.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898. First Edition, First Printing. Very good. An about Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original blue binding with the spine and front board lettered in black and the front board also illustrated in black. The spine is toned and the boards are foxed (as is usual with this work). The front pastedown hosts the bookplate of Henry C. Taylor. The book provides Kipling's account of the Royal Navy, based in part of his experience with them during his visit with the British Channel Fleet which first appeared as a group of six articles in the Morning Post in November 1898 in which Kipling a fresh look at the newly strengthened Fleet at the turn of the century, a development brought about England's growing concern about advances and growth of the German Navy. Rudyard Kipling won the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature, making him the first author writing in English to win the Prize. At the time, he was the youngest author to win the Prize. Read More