BOYLE, T. CORAGHESSAN

Tooth and Claw

New York, Viking / Penguin Group. (ISBN: 0-670-03435-5). 2005, 1st American edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 284pp. 8vo. Signed. First American edition. 14 short stories that have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper's, McSweeney's, and Playboy, as well as The Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Prize Stories collections. The jacket is in loose, protective mylar. A fine / fine copy.

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Book number: 130267

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: American Literature, Collectible Books, Literature - American, Short Stories, Signed Editions 0670034355

BOYLE, T. CORAGHESSAN

The Tortilla Curtain

New York, Viking / Penguin Group. (ISBN: 0-670-85604-5). 1995, uncorrected advance proof. (hardcover) Fine, no dust jacket. 355pp. 8vo. Signed. Uncorrected advance proof. The novel speaks to middle class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction. Awarded the French Prix Médicis étranger for best foreign novel in 1997. Mustard-yellow card wrappers. Fine copy.

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Book number: 130262

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: American Literature, Collectible Books, Literature - American, Signed Editions 0670856045

BOYLE, T. CORAGHESSAN

The Tortilla Curtain

London, Bloomsbury. (ISBN: 0-7475-2352 5). 1995, 1st UK edition. (hardcover) Near fine in fine dust jacket. 355pp. 8vo. Signed. First UK edition. The novel speaks to middle class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction. Awarded the French Prix Médicis étranger for best foreign novel in 1997. The jacket is in loose, protective mylar. There is a remainder mark to the lower fore edge; else is fine.

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Book number: 130263

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: American Literature, Collectible Books, Literature - American, Signed Editions 0747523525

BOYLE, T. CORAGHESSAN

The Tortilla Curtain

New York, Viking / Penguin Group. (ISBN: 0-670-85604-5). 1995. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 355pp. 8vo. Signed. First US edition. The novel speaks to middle class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction. Awarded the French Prix Médicis étranger for best foreign novel in 1997. The jacket is in loose, protective mylar. A fine / fine copy.

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Book number: 130264

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: American Literature, Collectible Books, Literature - American, Signed Editions 0670856045

BOYLE, T. CORAGHESSAN

Water Music

Boston Toronto, Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company. (ISBN: 0-316-10467-1). 1981, 1st US edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 437pp. 8vo. Signed. First US edition. T. C. Boyle's first novel, semi-fictional historical adventure novel set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Fine / fine copy.

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Book number: 130242

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: American Literature, Collectible Books, Historical Fiction, Literature - American, Signed Editions 0316104671

BOYLE, T. CORAGHESSAN

When the Killing's Done

New York, Viking / Penguin Group 978-0-670-02232-8. (ISBN: 978-0-670-02232-8). 2011, 1st US edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 369pp. 8vo. Signed. First US edition. An environmental and family drama that revolves around the Channel Islands of California (Specifically Anacapa and Santa Cruz) and the controversy and efforts of the National Park Service and its partners to eradicate invasive species and revitalize the islands' natural communities. The jacket is in loose, protective mylar. A fine / fine copy.

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Book number: 130270

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: American Literature, Collectible Books, Literature - American, Short Stories, Signed Editions 9780670022328

BOYLE, T. CORAGHESSAN

Wild Child (And Other Stories)

New York, Viking / Penguin Group 978-0-670-02142-0. (ISBN: 978-0-670-02142-0). 2010, 1st US edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 304pp. 8vo. Signed. First US edition. 14 short stories. The title story is a retelling of Victor, the feral boy, about 9 years old, who was captured running naked in the forests of France at the time of Napolean. The jacket is in loose, protective mylar. A fine / fine copy.

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Book number: 130265

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: American Literature, Collectible Books, Literature - American, Short Stories, Signed Editions 9780670021420

BOYLE, T. CORAGHESSAN

The Women

New York, Viking / Penguin Group 978-0-670-02041-6. (ISBN: 978-0-670-02041-6). 2009, 1st American edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 451pp. 8vo. Signed. First US edition. A fictional account of the life of esteemed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, as told through his relationships with 4 women: Olgivanna, a dancer; Miriam, a morphine dependent obsessive; Mamah, whose life ended in the massacre at Talliesin, the home Wright had built for his wives and lovers; and Kitty, the mother of his 6 children. The jacket is in loose, protective mylar. A fine / fine copy.

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Book number: 130266

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: American Literature, Collectible Books, Frank Lloyd Wright, Literature - American, Signed Editions 9780670020416

BOYLE, T. CORAGHESSAN

World's End

New York, Viking. (ISBN: 0-670-81489-X). 1987, 1st American Edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. xvii, 456pp. 8vo. Historical fiction, a narrative that takes plavce in Hudson river Valley from the late 17th century to the late 1960s. Signed. First American edition. Fine / fine copy.

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Book number: 129637

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, American Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature - American 067081489X

VARIOUS; BRADBURY, SUE (INTRODUCTION); SLATER, PAUL (ILLUSTRATIONS)

A Traveller's Christmas

London, The Folio Society NONE. 2006. (hardcover) Fine in near fine dust jacket. xvi, 287pp. 8vo. In slip case, as issued. Illustrated paper boards quarter bound to red cloth spine. Silver title to front and spine. The book is fine, illustrated with full colour plates. The slip case show faint rubbing. Overall, a lovely copy.

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Book number: 128902

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Folio Society, Christmas Literature, Specialty Literature

BRADBY, VIOLET

Matthew & the Miller

London, Blackie and Son. [circa 1910]. (12mo) Very good. 200pp. Frontispiece, illus. - 6 colour plates. Colour illustrated and gilt-printed boards quite bright. Former owner's gift inscription to prelim. Internally a little soiling here and there, nothing alarming. Illustrations by H.R. Millar.

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Book number: 203896

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile

BRADSHAW, DAVID (EDITOR)

The Hidden Huxley

London Boston, Faber and Faber. (ISBN: 0-571-17260-1). 1995. (Mass market paperback) Very good. xxvi, 255pp. 8vo. A collection of essays, gathered from broadcasts and magazine articles, that tell how Huxley's great disdain for mass society and his personal belief in a cultural elite morphed into a sense of humanitarianism and a sincere concern for the welfare of ordinary people. Clean, tight, bright.

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Book number: 127376

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Aldous Huxley, Aldous Huxley, English Literature, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature 0571172601

BRAINERD, ELEANOR HOYT

For Love of Mary Ellen; a Romance of Childhood

New York, Harper & Brothers. 1912, 1st Edition. (12mo, cloth) Near fine. 43pp. Frontispiece, illus. A near fine copy in every respect but for 1 1 / 2" black mark on endpaper obscuring former owner's name(?. Rose O'Neill originator of Kewpie. Illustrations by Rose Cecil O'Neill.

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Book number: 203226

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile, Kewpie

BRAITHWAITE, MAX

All the Way Home

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart. 1986. (Cloth) Fine in fine dust jacket. 220pp. SIGNED by author and previous owner on title page.

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Book number: 103430

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Literature, Canadian Literature, Prairie Authors, Saskatchewan Writers

BRAITHWAITE, MAX

Mcgruber's Folly

Toronto, Mccleland and Stewart Limited. (ISBN: 0-7710-1613-1). 1981, 1st edition. (hardcover) Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. 220pp. 8vo. Quarter bound in orange-cloth over slate-blue paper boards; lettering in gold to spine. Dust jacket with light edgewear, shelfwear; not price clipped. Tight, bright, and clean.

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Book number: 116567

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Canadian Literature, Canadian Prairies, Prairie Literature 0771016131