Buenos Aires: Libreriá El Ateneo, 1932. Hardcover. Octavo in custom blond illus calfskin leather-backed boards, with original illus b&w front wrapper bound in ; 268 p. ; 21 cm. Corded bindinf with leather ties lacking but stops still in place. Fore-edges hand-tooled to create an artificial deckle. An unusual binding..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1967. 1st Thus. Hardcover. Octavo in blue DJ, 339 pages, 22 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 1984. First edition (stated). Paperback. White-color illus octavo, 369 pages, 21 cm. Out of print. || Russian fiction -- Translations into English. More
Santiago de Chile: Zig-Zag, 1957. Presumed first edition. Paperback. Octavo in black and red paper wraps ; 226 p. ; 21 cm. Inscribed by author. In Spanish. Biblioteca de novelistas; NOVELAS CHILENAS. Chilean literature. More
New York: Knopf, 1988. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in white DJ, color illus to front DJ, deckle edges, 271 pages, 24 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || An exotic dance that beguiles and entices ... The enchanted and enchanting account of a contemporary Scheherazade, a wide-eyed American..... More
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Octavo in dark purple color illus DJ, 280 pages, 24 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Confronting greedy businessmen, driven politicians, and bitter bigots, Abrán will battle for the city's future, gain insight into its vanishing past..... More
Barcelona: Montesinos, 1992. 1. reedición. Paperback. Grey full-color illustrated stiff glossy paper wrappers. 251 pages ; 20 cm. In Spanish ll El Sur series 4 ll Spanish-American literature. Cuba. Fiction. Biographical fiction. Novels. More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1928. First edition, fourth printing. Hardcover. Small gold octavo; 320 p ; 20 cm. Upper class; Mariage; England; Novel. || Uncommon. More
London: Hutchinson, 1992. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Octavo in multicolored green/blue/red DJ; vi, 326 p ; 21 cm. Basques -- Fiction. || Translated into English. More
Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1978. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. Octavo in blue DJ, xxxiv, 181 pages, b&w illustrations, 24 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Chinese fiction -- Translations into English. More
Chicago: C.H. Kerr, 1911. First ed., presumed. Hardcover. Octavo in dark green illus cloth; 202 p. incl. front., plates. 20 cm. Scarce thus. // Prostitution -- Fiction. More
New York: A.A. Knopf, 2000. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Octavo in blue DJ, black DJ spine, 259 pages ; 25 cm. African Americans, Coming of age -- Fiction. || When 19-year-old Winston "Tuffy" Foshay is offered $20,000 to run for city council, he gamely embarks on one of the most..... More
Stockholm: Norstedt, 1930. First edition (unstated). Hardcover. Large white octavo, 217 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates, b&w illustrations ; 25 cm. In Swedish. || Fiction. || Scarce. More
London: Bloomsbury, 1988. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Large octavo in orange multicolored DJ; 378 p ; 24 cm. Fiction in English; Trinidadian writers. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974, ©1974. First paperback edition (first printing (full number line). Paperback. Octavo in glossy stiff paper wraps illus in yellow and brown; 216 pages ; 21 cm. Touchstone book. [series]. The year is 1902; the setting, Eastern Oregon. A 15-year-old Indian girl wanders into a...... More
[New York]: Berkley Pub. Co., 1964. Berkley edition. Paperback. White octavo, color illus to front cover, 222 pages, 18 cm. Series: Berkeley medallion book, No X 917. Fiction, Novel. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. First edition (stated), first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Octavo in boards with brown color illus. DJ ; 306 pages ; 24 cm. Advance review copy with publisher's Advance Copy slip laid in. DJ flap price is $15.95. More
[Cherry Valley, N.Y.]: Cherry Valley Editions, 1989. 1st ed. Paperback. Octavo in b&w illus. wraps; illus.; 53 p., 22 cm. Signed by S. Clay Wilson on title page. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1966. First Ballantine edition. Paperback. Brown duodecimo, white spine, pocket book, 379 pages, 17 cm. Pocketbook original. || Scotland, 1513. Bess Andersen, a spirited country girl rejected by her seducer, turns to prostitution. Margaret Tudor, James IV's Queen, searches in vain for the love and protection..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1978. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo in black DJ, yellow lightning illus to front DJ, 151 pages, b&w illustrations, 22 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || A woman falls in love with her husband's son by another marriage. The son tries to get away from..... More
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New York: Harper, 2012. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Octavo in red color illus DJ, 468 pages, 24 cm. DJ protected in archival myar sleeve. Signed by author. || In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly..... More
Oakland, California: CPC, 2011. Revised. Paperback. Dark red octavo, 237 pages, b&w map ; 21 cm. Inscribed and signed by author. || Kabyles -- Algeria -- Fiction. || Scarce, only 2 holdings and 2 records in WorldCat. More
Oakland, California: CPC, 2011. Revised. Paperback. Dark red octavo, 237 pages, b&w map ; 21 cm. Inscribed and signed by author. || Kabyles -- Algeria -- Fiction. || Scarce, only 2 holdings and 2 records in WorldCat. More
Chraïbi, Driss, Three Continents Press, 1985. Second printing of first English edition. Paperback. White octavo or small quarto, viii, 123 pages, b&w illustrations. The dehumanization of the Arabs who emigrated to "Mother France" is the subject of Chraïbi s second novel, echoing Simple Past. This time, however, the focus is..... More