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A Fine copy of the First American edition (a few tiny spots of foxing to top of page block), in a Fine dust jacket (very mild age toning to white edges of rear panel and flaps), a collection of nonfiction pieces by the author of "Lord of the Flies". A Fine copy.
A Moving Target
Golding, William
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982.
Price: $30.00
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One corner bumped, otherwise Fine, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY JAMAICA KINCAID. Jamaica Kincaid's third book, wherein she reveals the reality behind the geographic beauty of her native Antigua. Signed copies in this condition are not common. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY JAMAICA KINCAID.
A Small Place
Kincaid, Jamaica
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.
Price: $45.00
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A Fine copy of the First American trade edition, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY V. S. NAIPAUL. In the book, Naipaul recounts his trip through the American South. Signed copies of the first American trade edition, especially in a condition this nice, are uncommon. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY V. S. NAIPAUL.
A Turn in the South
Naipaul, V. S.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
Price: $85.00
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A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY SUSAN SONTAG on the title page. Susan Sontag's essay, a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, largely devoted to AIDS, but containing ideas on Cancer, Mental Illness, and other maladies. Signed copies, especially ones in a condition this nice, are uncommon. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY SUSAN SONTAG.
Aids and its Metaphors
Sontag, Susan
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.
Price: $165.00
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A Fine copy (spine ends gently bumped), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY WENDELL BERRY. A collection of six essays on matters Berry finds to have been obscured by poor politics or otherwise little noticed by the politicians. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY WENDELL BERRY.
Another Turn of the Crank
Berry, Wendell
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1995.
Price: $65.00
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A Very Near Fine copy (mild splaying to boards, spine ends very gently pushed), in an about Fine dust jacket (the barest of edge wear). INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY CHARLES JOHNSON. Charles Johnson's analysis of major black writers who have been publishing since about 1970. The inscription reads: "For ________, / With my thanks! / Charles / Johnson / 4/22/98". INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY CHARLES JOHNSON, and uncommon thus.
Being & Race: Black Writing since 1970.
Johnson, Charles
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988.
Price: $125.00
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A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY JANE SMILEY on the title page. Jane Smiley's comments on Charles Dickens and his works. The book is a part of the Penguin Lives Series. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY JANE SMILEY.
Charles Dickens
Smiley, Jane
New York: Viking, 2002.
Price: $35.00
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A Fine copy (one corner gently tapped) in a Fine dust jacket (tiny push to spine tail).
Conjunctions and Disjunctions
Paz, Octavio
New York: The Viking Press, 1974.
Price: $30.00
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A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY ALICE WALKER. One of 6 volumes of literary criticism launching the Amistad Literary Series, a Series devoted to literary fiction and criticism by and about African Americans, the book contains a selection of reviews and scholarly responses to the work of this great "womanist" author. An uncommon book which is especially uncommon when both signed and in Fine condition. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY ALICE WALKER.
Critical Perspectives Past and Present
Walker, Alice [Gates, Henry Lewis / K. A. Appiah Editors]
New York: Amistad Press, Inc., 1993.
Price: $125.00
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Book Description: Faber & Faber, London, 1929, 1929. First Edition, First Impression, Trade Issue. The book is in Very Near Fine condition (a production-flaw small raised area at the top of the front board and partial browning to the endpapers) and wears a Near Fine dust jacket (with minor wear to the head of the spine and the usual spine toning). One of his seminal critical works wherein Eliot gives a personal account of how he, over many years, arrived at his appreciation and understanding of Dante, hopefully serving as a guide for readers who desire to do the same. (Eliot was much influenced by Dante.) Quite a nice copy.
Dante [The Poets on the Poets No. II]
Eliot, T. S.
London: Faber & Faber, 1929.
Price: $550.00
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A Fine copy of the Limited Edition in the Publisher's rich, blue leather binding, housed in a Fine red cloth slipcase, and SIGNED BY J. M. COETZEE. Only 100 copies were printed, making this a quite limited edition of this work. This first UK edition was released a mere three days after the Australian first edition. The book contains a series of essays by a fictional South African writer (Coetzee himself emigrated from South Africa) on a broad array of current topics, among them essays on George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Guantanamo Bay, and terrorism. The essays occupy most of each page, with the diary diary entries appearing beneath them and describing the developing relationship between, and the subtle evolution in the respective world views of, the book's two characters. Coetzee has a reclusive nature and signed copies of his works are highly sought after. (For example, he did not appear in person to receive either of his Booker Awards.) A wonderful, and permanently scarce (there having been only 100 copies) copy of this novel by the first author ever to receive two Booker Awards, and a true opportunity for the Coetzee collector. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY J. M. COETZEE.
Diary of a Bad Year
Coetzee, J. M.
London: Harvill Secker Press, 2007.
Price: $550.00
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A Fine copy (barest trace of shelf wear to tips of board bottoms), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY BHARATI MUKHERJEE on the half-title, and SIGNED BY ISHMAEL REED on the title page. A large anthology of essays and commentary on ethnic issues and perspectives from a substantial number of persons of differing ethnicities. Signed copies are quite difficult to find. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY BHARATI MUKHERJEE and SIGNED BY ISHMAEL REED.
Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace
Reed, Ishmael [Editor]; Algarin, Miguel; Baraka, Amiri; Castillo, Ana; Chin, Frank; Fanning, Charles; Foley, Jack; Fox, Robert Elliot; Gioseffi, Daniela; Hare, Nathan; Merrera, Juan Filipe; Ignatiev, Noel; Karenga, Maulana; Kim, Elaine H.; Mukherjee, Bhar
New York: Viking, 1996.
Price: $95.00
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A Fine copy, in a Fine slipcase, with the Publisher's special celebration card loosely inserted. The book was published in celebration of Eudora Welty's 90th birthday and has been SIGNED BY THE EDITOR AND BY ALL 22 CONTRIBUTORS. A Limited Edition of which there were issued 26 lettered copies and only 200 numbered copies. This is copy 41. A beautiful copy with the Publisher's original celebration card (containing a timeline of Miss Welty's works) loosely laid in. A beautiful, SIGNED copy of a quite uncommon book.
Eudora Welty: Writers' Reflections Upon First Reading Welty
Welty, Eudora [McHaney, Pearl Amelia: Editor]; Bausch, Richard; Betts,Doris; Chappell, Fred; Douglas, Ellen; Early, Tony; Edgerton, Clyde; Garrett, George; Gilchrist, Ellen; Grooms, Anthony; Hannah, Barry; Hood, Mary; Johnson, Greg; Maxwell, William; Morr
Athens, GA: Hill Street Press, 1999.
Price: $325.00
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A Near Fine copy (small are of excess glue to topstain, small indentation near spine tail), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY REYNOLDS PRICE. The book contains 52 commentaries written by Price for, and delivered by him on, NPR's "All Things Considered". A Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY REYNOLDS PRICE.
Feasting the Heart: Fifty-Two Commentaries for the Air
Price, Reynolds
New York: Scribners, 2000.
Price: $30.00
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A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY MARY GORDON on the title page. A collection of Essays. Gordon's sixth book, and her debut collection of Essays. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY MARY GORDON.
Good Boys and Dead Girls
Gordon, Mary
New York: Viking, 1991.
Price: $25.00
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A Fine copy (no dust jacket, as issued), SIGNED BY JOYCE CAROL OATES. The book contains reflections by these four prominent authors on the color photographs of the artist Gregory Crewdson, with a SHORT PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION BY JOYCE CAROL OATES at her initial contribution. Copies signed by any of the authors are quite uncommon. A Fine copy.
Hover
Moody, Rick; Steinke, Darcey; Oates, Joyce Carol; Morrow, Bradford [Crewdson, Gregory: Photographs]
San Francisco: Artspace Books, 1998.
Price: $90.00
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A Fine copy of the American edition, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY JOHN ASHBERY. The book itself is relatively uncommon. Copies signed by John Ashbery, one of Americas preeminent poets, and perhaps the most influential poet writing in English, are rare indeed. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY JOHN ASHBERY.
John Ashbery and American Poetry
Herd, David [Ashbery, John]
New York: Palgrave, 2000.
Price: $185.00
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A Very Near Fine copy (a bit of flaking to spine lettering, a touch of rubbing), in a Very Near Fine slipcase (no dust jacket, as issued) of the deluxe edition, being one of 225 copies printed (the trade edition consisted of 3,000 copies), SIGNED BY WILLIAM H. GASS. The slipcase is a touch askew and the boards are slightly uneven when compared to each other -- a production matter.
On Being Blue [The deluxe edition]
Gass, William H.
Boston: David R. Godine,
Price: $135.00
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A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY JOHN ASHBERY on the title page. John Ashbery's comments on six Poets he finds himself reading for a "poetic jump-start". Signed copies are quite scarce. A Fine, beautiful copy, SIGNED BY JOHN ASHBERY
Other Traditions
Ashbery, John [Clare, John; Beddoes, Thomas Lovell; Roussel, Raymond; Wheelwright, John; Riding, Laura; Schubert, David]
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Price: $165.00
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A Fine copy (the mildest push to spine ends, light rub to front edge of page block bottom of this heavy book), in a Fine dust jacket (wrapped slightly to the right), SIGNED BY JOHN ASHBERY on the title page, with the Publisher's information card loosely laid in--thus, apparently, a REVIEW COPY. The book is rather uncommon signed and in a condition this nice. John Ashbery's essays of Art Criticism spanning 30 years. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY JOHN ASHBERY.
Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles 1957-1987
Ashbery, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
Price: $135.00
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