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New York:: Morrow,, 1980.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a very good dustjacket (spine slightly slanted.). First printing. Biography of a the woman who first met Eleanor Roosevelt as a reporter, and who became a close friend, even living in the White House for 4 years - based on 18 boxes of letters from E.R. and left unopened until after her death. 384pgs, index, photographs.

New York:: Morrow,, 1980.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (spine of dj faded).. First printing. Biography of a the woman who first met Eleanor Roosevelt as a reporter, and who became a close friend, even living in the White House for 4 years - based on 18 boxes of letters from E.R. and left unopened until after her death. 384pgs, index, photographs.

Edinburgh:: Canongate Books Ltd,, (2006). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new) in a fine black slipcase. . First printing. A collection of seven short stories set in the same world - that is, 1870s London - and featuring some of the characters from "The Crimson Petal and the White," his epic (and bestselling) masterpiece. SIGNED on the title page. Includes a foreword in which he explains how these stories came to be published. Ribbon marker bound in. xix, 190 pp.

New York:: British Book Centre,, (1954). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (bookplate, overall light edgewear and rubbing to the dj). First US printing. "An intimate record of night life in London, and a selection of crime stories from the case book of Ex-Superintendent Robert Fabian." An interesting book, although when he talks about the horrors of young girls become addicted to marijuana after smoking one cigarette, he loses a bit of credibility... Illustrated with photographs. 237 pp.

New York:: Dodd, Mead,, 1914.. Hardcover first edition -. Good overall in burnt sienna cloth with gilt lettering, gilt top edge - bookplate, wear to corners and edges of boards, but tight and sturdy.. First US printing. Eleven essays most on mason-bees, including results of his experiments, exchanging the nests, and the tribulation of mason-bees, but also on his cats, red ants, insect psychology and parasites. Fabre, a French naturalist, entomologist, was known for the lively style of his popular books on the lives of insects and is considered by many to be the father of modern entomology. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. Translator's note. Index. vii, 315 pages, gilt top edge and titles.

New York:: Dodd, Mead,, (1984). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.. First printing. The author's first novel. When a gun tied to an unsolved twenty-year old murder is found in the lake, a young reporter sees breaking this story as his ticket out of being a small town reporter to the big time.188 pp.

Port Townsend, WA:: Copper Canyon Press,, (2002.). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. . First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. A collection of inter-related poems - "Optimistic, searching, and unforgiving, 'Unraveling' is arranged around a central narrative of shifting identities, as the book's speaker leaves a heterosexual marriage and sets off on an exploration of her own sexuality and difficulties and joys of single working motherhood. " Hayden Carruth Award Winner 2001 (selected by Marilyn Hacker, as the judge.) 81 pp.

New York:: Macmillan,, (1971). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (tear on back cover of dj, other minor edgewear). First printing. An account of a year the author spent with five 8th & 9th grade students at a mostly Black junior high school in Washington, D.C. - he calls these students "the single most powerful force I have ever known for good change in bad education." 254 pp.

New York & Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, (2003). First edition -. Near fine in wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes contributions from Cheryl Strayed, Ian Frazier, Michael Pollan, Adam Gopnik, Edward Hoagland, Atul Gawande, Katha Pollitt, Susan Sontag, John Edgar Wideman and more Introduction by Fadiman and brief biographies of the contributors. Robert Atwan, series editor. Index. 339 pp.

London, Ibadan, Nairobi:: Oxford University Press,, (1971). Very good in glossy black illustrated wrappers (bump to top of spine, prev owner's name). Trade paperback. A collection of 12 essays - based on a series of broadcasts given in the B.B.C. African Service in 1967 - which "looks at current methods of research and shows how archaeology, anthropology and linguistics can be combined with written and oral records to reconstruct African history." Among the contributors are Ivor Wilks, Alan Ryder, Anthony Atmore, Shula Marks and others. Index. viii, 96 p

New York:: St Martin's,, (1997.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The sixth Owen Keane mystery, set in Indiana, where the members of an Adventist sect, the Ordained, are disappearing one by one. 264 pp.

New York:: St Martin's,, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. The seventh Owen Keane mystery by this award winning author - "In the spring of 1969, a young nurse is raped and brutally beaten in a quiet suburb of Boston called Cleveland Circle. Twenty-six years later, a ne'er-do-well Boston accountant, James Courtney Murray, is murdered and a yellowed newspaper clipping describing the old rape is left on his body. The latest DNA-testing techniques confirm his killer's charge: Murray was the Cleveland Circle rapist. Enter Owen Keane, failed seminarian and compulsive solver of mysteries. Keane was a college classmate of Murray's and a fellow suspect in the Cleveland Circle attack. He sets out to clear his friend and find his murderer, driven by his own guilty knowledge of the 1969 crime." SIGNED on the title page. 250 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1997). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. The author's seventh mystery and the second in the Scott Elliott series, set in 1955 as television is beginning to take a toll on the film industry - "Hollywood detective Scott Elliott returns to thwart a film sabateur." INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens. Winner of the Shamus award for best Private Eye Novel. 332 pp.

New York:: St Martin's,, (1997.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The sixth Owen Keane mystery, set in Indiana, where the members of an Adventist sect, the Ordained, are disappearing one by one. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted Oklahoma collector, Larry Owens. 264 pp.

New York:: St Martin's,, (1994.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The fourth mystery featuring Owen Keane, ex-seminarian turned detective ." At his ten-year high school reunion, Owen learns that the group of friends he'd most admired all share a dark secret. But not until the next reunion, ten years later, does he uncover the sad and ugly truth about his friends, who succumbed to the temptations and expectations of their Vietnam era age, and have been paying the price ever since.". INSCRIBED on the title page to the noted Oklahoma collector, Larry Owens. 282 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1996). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. The author's fifth mystery,and the first in the Scott Elliott series - "Scott Elliott, a former actor and decorated World War II veteran, takes a job as studio security for the filming of a colossal screen epic, but the filming is interrupted by the government's Communist witch hunts and the murder of a writer and supposed Red sympathizer. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens. 300 pp.

New York:: St Martin's,, (1992.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The second mystery in the award winning series featuring Owen Keane, ex-seminarian turned investigator, set in a beach town in New Jersey. 213 pp.

New Bedford, MA: : New Bedford Times, , (1930). Hardcover first edition -. Fair condition only (binding is cracking after copyright page and several places in middle with some signatures loose, but holding - foxing mostly to margins - soiling and wear to covers). First edition. 'Over One Thousand Prize Recipes Selected from the innumerable Contributions of the Women of New Bedford and Cape Cod." The name of each contributor and their address is shown after each recipe. 369 pp plus index and ads. Some handwritten recipes in the blank pages at the end.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1983.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good+ in a near fine dustjacket.. First printing. A feminist saga spanning 120 years from the late nineteenth century thru the 20th century. 609 pages.

New York:: Penguin,, (2002). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's first novel - a "magical story of belief, supersitition and innocence" -In a outlying village in a faraway valley a rumor spreads of a mysterious firgue who can help the town in their time of need. Nathaniel Cadwallader brings a new age of hope to the village,yet there are those who resent the ease with which he holds with the village in the palm of his hand, and when a outsider attempts to claim the carpenter as her own, the spell is broken, with tragic consequences. 217 pp.