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In a Country of Mothers

By: A.M. Homes

Price: $4.99

Publisher: New York, Vintage Books: 1919

Seller ID: SCW00750

ISBN: 0679742433

Condition: Very Good

CH4 - A first printing trade paperback book SIGNED by author in very good condition that has some note written on the first page, some bumped corners, wrinkling and crease, tanning and light shelf wear. No relationship is more charged than that between a psychotherapist and her patient -- unless it is the relationship between a mother and her daughter. This book is a thriller that explores what happens when the line between those relationships blurs. The main character's therapist keeps changing the focus of their sessions to the author's parentage. As the therapy continues the two women becom...
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Harum Scarum

By: Abbott, Keith

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, Coffee House Press: 1984

Seller ID: SCW11159

ISBN: 0918273005

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

CG5 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition with a dust jacket in very good condition. No additional printings are indicated on the copyright page. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in blue wraps with only very minor overall shelf wear. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with some very light overall rubbing plus there is some very light creasing on the front. A collection of six short stories, by a noted writer of the form, set in the Pacific Northwest. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Gaylord Schanilec. 89p.
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Women Like Us

By: Abeel, Erica

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Ticknor and Fields: 1994

Seller ID: SCW11840

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BI5 - A first edition advance reading copy (ARC)/uncorrected proof book in very good+ condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with some very, very light scattered rubbing. This novel is a chronicle of a generation of American women, from the late 1950s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four friends who met at Sara Lawrence College. By the author of "The Last Romance," "I'll Call You Tomorrow and Other Lies Between Men and Women," and "Only When I Laugh....
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Ghost Traps

By: Abel, Robert

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Athens, Georgia, USA, University of Georgia Press: 1991

Seller ID: SCW12102

ISBN: 0820312525

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

CG2 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with the usual library stamps and label on the top, right, and bottom outside paper edges and the front free endpaper plus there is a large patch of glue staining on the front free endpaper from a pocket. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A collection of twelve short stories by a noted writer of the form. They are about individuals backed against a wall as they try to free themselves from their own limitations, habits, and destructive desires. This collec...
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Prize Stories 1984: The O. Henry Awards

By: Abrahams, William (editor)

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Doubleday: 1984

Seller ID: SCW02972

ISBN: 0385188552

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BD6 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor overall shelf wear. A collection of outstanding short stories by American authors. The stories chosen for this volume were published in the period from the summer of 1982 to the summer of 1983. 296p.
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Prize Stories 1995: The O. Henry Awards

By: Abrahams, William (editor)

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Doubleday: 1995

Seller ID: SCW03966

ISBN: 038547671X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

BD6 - A tight, clean, sound copy in red paper covered boards quarter bound in dark red cloth with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library stamp and label on the top outside paper edges and front endpaper plus a section (about 2"x4.5") cut out of the front endpaper as part of the library's withdrawal process plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the the original library mylar sleeve plus there is the usual l...
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Prize Stories 1992: The O. Henry Awards

By: Abrahams, William (editor)

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Doubleday: 1996

Seller ID: SCW11685

ISBN: 0385421923

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BD6 - A first edition trade paperback book in very good condition that has tanning and light shelf wear. Signed by Ann Packer and Antonya Nelson on their respective story page. Edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. The winner and finalist short stories for the O. Henry Award for 1992. The authors include Cynthia Ozick, Lucy Honig, Tom McNeal, Amy Herrick, Murray Pomerance, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Michael Wagner, Yolanda Barnes, David Long, Harriet Doerr, Perri Klass, Daniel Meltzer, Les Myers, Ken Chowder, Alice Adams, Frances Sherwood, Antonya Nelson, Millicent Dillon, Kent Nel...
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Lazarus

By: Absire, Alain

Price: $2.00

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers: 1988

Seller ID: SCW07623

ISBN: 0151492506

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

BW3 - A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in good+ condition. Stated first American edition with no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in charcoal gray paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with metallic copper lettering on the spine with minor overall shelf wear plus there is some very light edge wear along the board's bottom edges with a tiny (much less than 0.25") patch of board showing at about the middle of the front board bottom edge plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued to the inside surfaces of the boards plus there is...
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Milton in America

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $1.75

Publisher: London, East Sussex, United Kingdom, Mandarin: 1997

Seller ID: SCW03821

ISBN: 0749386258

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BX3 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in monochrome illustrated dark brown wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus some creasing of the front cover plus some light yellowing of the outside paper edges. A speculative fictional story in which John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the King's return to London decides to flee England to join a Puritan settlement in New England. 277p.
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Esther

By: Adams, Henry

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Amherst, New York, USA, Prometheus Books: 1997

Seller ID: SCW13114

ISBN: 1573921327

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

CE4 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in black and green wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. The second novel of a noted American historian. The maincharacters are a young New York socialite and artist who falls in love with an Episcopal clergyman. In the end she cannot embrace his Christianity and ends up rejecting him. 302p.
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Deadline for Final Art

By: Adkins, Jan

Price: $4.50

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Walker and Company: 1990

Seller ID: SCW10700

ISBN: 0802757596

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

CB6 - A tight, clean, sound copy in black paper covered boards with metallic red lettering and graphics on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear with a light mark in black ink on the top outside paper edges made by the original owner plus there is a light bump on the bottom edge of the back board. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear. By the author of "The Craft of Sail." 185p.
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Private Lies

By: Adler, Warren

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, William Morrow & Co.: 1991

Seller ID: SCW10319

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BD6 - A first edition advance reading copy/uncorrected proof book in very good+ condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in monochrome illustrated gray and white wraps with minor overall shelf wear with some very light creasing on the front cover plus there is some plus there is some light, scattered overall rubbing of the covers. A novel by the author of "The War of the Roses." 308p.
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Little Woman

By: Akins, Ellen

Price: $2.00

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, HarperColins Publishers: 1990

Seller ID: SCW04885

ISBN: 0060163623

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

BW5 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in red paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with metallic copper lettering on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus some very, very light soiling of the top outside paper edges plus some the book is very, very slightly shelf cocked plut there are the usual library stamps and pocket on the top and outside paper edges, title page, dedication page, back endpaper, and inside surface of the back board plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfa...
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The Price of Land in Shelby: A Novel

By: Alberts, Laurie

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, University Press of New England: 1997

Seller ID: SCW09892

ISBN: 087451844X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BD6 - A trade paperback withdrawn ex-library book in good+ to very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated black and white wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with heavy clear plastic lamination applied to the covers plus there are the usual library stamps and labels on the back cover, the top outside paper edges, the front endpaper, and the title page. A novel that is a thirty year saga of a family set in a small New England town as it deals with the trend of family farms being bought up and divided into lots for expensive homes. The author is a winner of the Mic...
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Allende: A Novel

By: Alegria, Fernando

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Stanford, California, USA, Stanford University Press: 1993

Seller ID: SCW11443

ISBN: 0804719985

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

BX2 - A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in good+ to very good- condition. No additional printings are indicated on the copyright page. A tight, clean, sound copy in black cloth covered boards with metallic red lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear with the dust jacket endflaps glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps, labels, and pocket on the top outside paper edges, the title page, the last page, and the back free endpaper. This edition has been revised by the author. Translated from the ...
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Carry Me Like Water

By: Alire Saenz, Benjamin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Hyperion: 1994

Seller ID: SCW00122

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BZ4 - An advance reader's edition trade paperbac book signed by the author in very good condition that has some stains and light crease on the spine, light discoloration and shelf wear. The author's first novel. A story of abandoning & then finding & embrasing Chicano roots. 503p.
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The Green Suit

By: Allen, Dwight

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 2000

Seller ID: SCW05331

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

CG4 - A trade paperback advance reading copy (ARC)/advance uncorrected proof first edition book in very good+ condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in white and black wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. The main character is a self-absorbed, would-be writer who is wandering to New York, back home to Kentucky, to Wisonsin, and to somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, where his unlucky sister waits to be saved. This is the author's first novel. 274p.
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Daughter of Fortune

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $2.25

Publisher: Toronto, ON, Canada, HarperCollins Canada, Limited: 1999

Seller ID: SCW04359

ISBN: 006019491X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

CB5 - A hard cover book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in black paper covered boards quarter bound in black paper with gold lettering on the spine and illustrated endpapers plus a graphic blind stamped on the front at the bottom right corner with minor overall wear. The dust jacket shows only minor overall shelf wear mainly in the form of some very, very light edge wear mainly on the spine bottom edge. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
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Daughter of Fortune

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., HarperTrade: 2000

Seller ID: SCW06338

ISBN: 0060932759

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

CB5 - A trade paperback book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is some very light soiling on the outside paper edges. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. A novel about a woman orphaned at birth and raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile by a well-intentioned Victorian spinster and her brother.
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The Stories of Eva Luna

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $3.25

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Atheneum Books for Young Readers: 1991

Seller ID: SCW09253

ISBN: 0689121024

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

BG2 - A tight, clean, sound copy with minor overall shelf wear with some very, very light bumping to the right board corners. The dust jacket shows minor overall shelf wear with a small section (about 0.75" long) of very, very light edge wear on the front top right edge plus there is some light yellowing along the top and bottom edges of the back. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Eva Luna is a character from one of the author's earlier novels. In that novel she had an adventurous life as a poor young Latin American woman and she found friendship, love, and some worldly...
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Category: General Fiction