RENARD, JULES

Carrots

London, U.K. Grey Walls Press Ltd. 1946, 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition (FP) with "All Rights Reserved" statement inked out. Translated by G.W. Stonier and with illustrations in color and B&W by Fred Uhlman. Classic French novel referenced in the film Poil de Carotte, a story of a bedeviled child. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Book very good plus with little wear. DJ also very. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 16525

Catalogue: Fiction

RENAULT, MARY

Fire From Heaven

Pantheon Books. 1969, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing. Blue cloth, gilt titles, rust topstain, map endsheets. A novel about the young years of Alexander the Great. Book unread, near fine. DJ, designed by Karl Keabo, likewise near fine with price clipped but without book club slug - a first-state copy. 375 pp. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 16611

Catalogue: Fiction

RENAULT, MARY

The Friendly Young Ladies

New York, New York, U.S.A. Vintage Books. 2003, 1st Thus. (ISBN: 0375714219). Soft Cover. Book, First printing of this edition. With an Afterword by Lillian Faderman. Unread, as new. 293 pp. As New.

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Book number: 3150

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0375714219

REYHER, REBECA HOURWICH

Zulu Woman

New American Library. 1970, 1st Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Book, Signet Q4126, first Signet printing. Originally published in 1949 by Columbia Univ Press. With a Preface by Ruth Benedict. Very good, unread copy with aging to paper and some minor soil and shelfwear to cover. 240 pp. Very Good.

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Book number: 4012

Catalogue: Collectible Paperbacks

Keywords: African American Literature

RICHTER, CONRAD

The Grandfathers: A Novel

Alfred A. Knopf. 1964, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Turquoise cloth, gilt titles, salmon topstain. By the author of Light in the Forest, Sea of Grass, The Town and other well-known novels. Book very good plus with little wear. DJ also very good plus with price clipped. 179 pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 16604

Catalogue: Fiction

ROSES, LORRAINE ELENA; RANDOLPH, RUTH ELIZABETH

Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-1945

Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A. Harvard Univ Pr. 1997, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0674372557). Soft Cover. Book, First softcover printing. Contains biographical/literary portraits of such notables as Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, Angelina Weld Grimke, Mary Eliza Church, Terrell and Ida Bell Wells-Barnett. Photos included where available. Bibliographies follow sections. Unread, as new. 413 pp. Fine.

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Book number: 4023

Catalogue: African American Literature

Keywords: Harlem Renaissance Afro American Women 0674372557

RYAN, ALAN, ED.

Night Visions 1

Dark Harvest. 1984, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0913165050). Hardcover. First trade edition, stated. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Contains stories by Charles L. Grant, Steve Rasnic Tem and Tnaith Lee. With B&W illustrations by Gregory Manchess. Book very good with edge spotting, sunning to endsheets from USA Today clipping on supernatural phenomena. DJ also very good with edgewear, one short tear. 296 pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 16620

Catalogue: Speculative Fiction

Keywords: 0913165050

SAGAN, FRANCOISE

Aimez-vous Brahms.

Bantam Books. 1961, 1st Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Book, Bantam J2234, first printing. Near fine unread copy with price inked out, edgewear to head, heel of spine. Rare. 122 pp. Very Good.

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Book number: 8238

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Collectible Paperbacks

SHARP, MARGERY

The Lost Chapel Picnic & Other Stories

London, U.K. Heinemann. 1971, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0316782939). Hardcover. First UK edition (FP). Pale green binding, gilt titles. Contains 12 stories Book very good plus with light aging to paper, minor soil at top edge. DJ also very good plus. 201 pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 16608

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0316782939

SIMON, KATE

A Wider World: Portraits in an Adolescence

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. HarperCollins. 1986, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0060155264). Hardcover. Book, Second printing. Blue cloth binding, gilt titles. NYC in the 1930s by the author of Bronx Primitive, of which is it somewhat a continuation. Book near fine with fading to cloth at bottom edge. DJ near fine with light aging. 186 pp. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 3920

Catalogue: Biography/Memoir

Keywords: Adolescence Family Relationships 0060155264

SMILEY, JANE, ED.

Writers on Writing: Volume II More Collected Essays from the New York Times

New York, New York, U.S.A. Times Books. 2004, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0805075887). Soft Cover. Book, First softcover printing. Contains dozens of essays by such as Alan Cheuse, Margaret Atwood, Arthur Miller, Marcia Muller, P.J. O'Rourke, Amy Tan, Donald E. Westlake, Jay Parini, Honor Moore, Vivian Gornick, William Kennedy, Elmore Leonard and others. Unread, as new with remainder dot to top edge. 265 pp. As New.

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Book number: 3991

Catalogue: Litcrit/Essay

Keywords: Authorship Handbooks Manuals Etc Criticism 0805075887

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION STAFF

Harlem: The '30s - A Book of Postcards

Petaluma, California, U.S.A. Pomegranate Communications, Inc. 1992, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0876547110). Soft Cover. Book, First softcover printing. Thirty B&W photos by Aaron Siskind. In perfect binding with detachable cards. As new with slight shelfwear to cover. As New.

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Book number: 3996

Catalogue: African American Arts

Keywords: Postcards Antiques Collectibles 0876547110

SOUHAMI, DIANA

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall

New York, New York, U.S.A. Doubleday & Co. 1999, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0385489412). Hardcover. Book, First printing. A definitive biography with Chapter Notes, Index. Center photo supplement on coated paper. Book unread, as new. DJ near new with pinhole at spine. 458 pp. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 3225

Catalogue: Biography/Memoir

Keywords: 0385489412

SULARI, SARA

Meatless Days

Univ. Chicago. 1989, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0226779807). Hardcover. First printing. Red cloth, gilt titles. A memoir of growing up in post-Colonial Pakistan as the child of a Welch mother and a Pakistani father. Book unread, near new. DJ likewise near new. 186 pp. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 16593

Catalogue: Biography/Memoir

Keywords: 0226779807

SULERI, SARA

Meatless Days

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Univ of Chicago Pr. 1989, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0226779807). Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt titles. First printing of the first US edition. In this memoir, the author recounts growing up during Pakistan's struggle for independence and its impact on her Welsh mother and political journalist Pakistani father. Book unread, as new. DJ also as new with some rubbing. 186 pp. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 12791

Catalogue: Biography/Memoir

Keywords: 0226779807