MASEFIELD, JOHN

The Taking of Helen

New York: Macmillan Company, 1923. Limited Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. Limited to 750 copies, this copy is number 647 and is signed by the author on the limitation page. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The edges of the book covers have some light toning. There is some beginning ground-in dirt to the covers as well. The text pages are clean and bright. Both endpapers have heavy patches of toning where newspaper articles have been laid-in. "In 1921 Masefield received an honorary doctorate of literature from the University of Oxford. In 1923 he organised Oxford Recitations, an annual contest whose purpose was "to discover good speakers of verse and to encourage 'the beautiful speaking of poetry'." Given the numbers of contest applicants, the event's promotion of natural speech in poetical recitations, and the number of people learning how to listen to poetry, Oxford Recitations was generally deemed a success. Masefield was similarly a founding member, in 1924, of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse. He later came to question whether the Oxford events should continue as a contest, considering that they might better be run as a festival. However, in 1929, after he broke with the competitive element, Oxford Recitations came to an end. The Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse, on the other hand, continued to develop through the influence of associated figures such as Marion Angus and Hugh MacDiarmid and exists today as the Poetry Association of Scotland. " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ .

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MAUPIN, ARMISTEAD

The Night Listener a Novel

New York: Harper Collins, 2000. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 006017143X. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket (wrap-around band) is crisp and clean. "No one is in the midst of a painful separation from his longtime lover when a publisher sends him proofs of a remarkable book: the memoir of an ailing thirteen-year-old boy who suffered horrific abuse at the hands of his parents. Now living with his adoptive mother, Pete Lomax is not only a brave and gifted diarist but also a devoted listener to Noone's show." "Maupin worked at WRAL-TV (Channel 5) in Raleigh, a station then managed by future U. S. Senator Jesse Helms. Helms nominated Maupin for a patriotic award, which he won. Maupin says he was a typical conservative and even a segregationist at this time and admired Helms, a family friend, as a "hero figure." He later changed his opinions dramatically — "I've changed and he hasn't" — and condemned Helms at a gay pride parade on the steps of the North Carolina State Capitol. Maupin is a veteran of the United States Navy; he served several tours of duty including one in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Maupin's work on a Charleston newspaper was followed with an offer of a position at the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. He says he had known he was gay since childhood, but didn't have sex until he was 26 and only decided to come out in 1974 when he was about 30. The same year, he began what would become the Tales of the City series as a serial in a Marin County-based newspaper, the Pacific Sun, moving to the San Francisco Chronicle after the Sun's San Francisco edition folded." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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MAUPIN, ARMISTEAD

Sure of You

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1989. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060161647. Illustrated by Honi Werner. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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MAYLE, PETER

Anything Considered

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0241134692. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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MCCUTCHAN, PHILIP

Cameron's Troop Lift

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0297790404. Thkis book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. The spine ends and corners of the book corners have some light edge wear and nicking. "Philip Donald McCutchan (1920-1996) , who also wrote under the pseudonyms Robert Conington Galway and Duncan MacNeil, grew up in the naval atmosphere of Portsmouth Dockyard and developed a lifetime's interest in the sea. Military history was an early interest resulting in several fiction books, from amongst his large output, about the British Army and its campaigns, especially in the last 150 years. He served throughout WW II in a variety of ships, including the cruiser Vindictive, the ocean boarding vessel Largs, and the escort carrier Ravager, ending the war as a lieutenant, RNVR." (from Historical Naval Fiction). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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MCDERMOTT, ALICE

Child of My Heart

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374121230. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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MCMILLAN, TERRY

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

New York, NY: Viking, 1996. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0140865063. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy - and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon." "McMillan's first book, Mama, was published in 1987. Unsatisfied with her publisher's limited promotion of Mama, McMillian promoted her own debut novel by writing thousands of booksellers, particularly African-American bookstores, and the book soon sold out of its initial first hardcover printing of 5,000 copies. She achieved national attention in 1992 with her third novel, Waiting to Exhale. The book remained on The New York Times bestseller list for many months and by 1995 it had sold over three million copies. The novel contributed to a shift in Black popular cultural consciousness and the visibility of a female Black middle-class identity in popular culture. McMillan was credited with having introduced the interior world of Black women professionals in their thirties who are successful, alone, available, and unhappy. In 1995, the novel was adapted into a film directed by Forest Whitaker and starring Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, and Lela Rochon." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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MELVILLE, JENNIE (PSEUDONYM OF GWENDOLINE BUTLER)

Ironwood

New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1972. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679503080. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is a light slant to the spine of the book and two smallish spots of discoloration to the front book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has a couple of smallish edge tears, along with some nicking, rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. "Gwendoline Butler, née Williams (19 August 1922 – 5 January 2013) was a British writer of mystery fiction and romance novels since 1956, she also used the pseudonym Jennie Melville. Credited for inventing the "woman's police procedural", is well known for her series of Inspector John Coffin novels as Gwendoline Butler, and by female detective Charmian Daniels as Jennie Melville. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 40999

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MERGENDAHL, CHARLES

The Girl Cage

New York: Popular Library, 1953. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is a paperback original (PBO). The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is some light warping to the top edge of the book cover by the spine joints. The text pages are clean and bright. "Mergendahl achieved his greatest success with his novel "Everyone pays for their debt". This was discussed very controversially when it appeared and u. A. Compared with "The People of Peyton Place" by Grace Metalious (1924-1964). This novel by Mergendahl was made into a film by Daniel Petrie in 1960 and was just as successful as the filming of Peyton Place by Mark Robson . In 1968, RG Springsteen released Mergendahl's novel “Tiger by the tail” under the same title." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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MICHENER, JAMES A.

Legacy

New York, NY: Random House, 1987. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394565266. Illustrated by Wendell Minor. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 46392

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MILLER, HENRY (HENRY VALENTINE MILLER)

Opus Pistorum

New York, NY: Grove Press, 1983. 1st Hardcover Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394533747. This is a First Hardcover Edition. The book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has one semi-closed tear to the top front panel, with ends in a tiny chip. "Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until 1961). He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolors. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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MOWRY, JESS

Six out of Seven

New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1993. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374220832. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends, a slight smear of black ink by the title on the spine of the book and some beginning rubbing on the bottom edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket is clean and bright with the exception of some light bumping and rubbing to the top spine end, and a couple of tiny nicks to the black coloring in the same spot. "Jess Mowry (born March 27, 1960 near Starkville, Mississippi) is an American author of books and stories for children and young adults. He has written eighteen books and many short stories for and about black children and teens in a variety of genres, ranging from inner-city settings to the forests of Haiti. Many of the novels are set in Oakland, California (USA) , and deal with contemporary themes such as crack cocaine, drug dealers, teenage sexuality, school dropouts, and coming-of-age." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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NIN, ANAIS (ANGELA ANAïS JUANA ANTOLINA ROSA EDELMIRA NIN Y CULMELL)

Children of the Albatross

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1947. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. All edges of the text block have some ground-in dirt, especially the top edge. The dust jacket has some generalized rubbing, edge wear, small nicks and tears and several small to medium edge chips, especially the top spine end. The top corner of the front flap has a small crease. "Nin was a friend, and in some cases lover, of many leading literary figures, including Henry Miller, John Steinbeck, Antonin Artaud, Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal, James Agee, James Leo Herlihy, and Lawrence Durrell. Her passionate love affair and friendship with Miller strongly influenced her both sexually and as an author. Nin wrote about her infatuation with the Surrealist artist Bridget Bate Tichenor in her diaries. Claims that Nin was bisexual were given added circulation by the Philip Kaufman film Henry & June about Henry Miller and his second wife June Miller. The first unexpurgated portion of Nin's journal to be published, Henry and June, makes it clear that Nin was stirred by June to the point of saying (paraphrasing) , "I have become June," though it is unclear whether she consummated her feelings for her sexually. To both Anaïs and Henry, June was a femme fatale—irresistible, cunning, erotic. Nin gave June money, jewelry, clothes, often leaving herself broke." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 46457

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OATES, JOYCE CAROL

First Love

Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1996. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0880014571. Illustrated by Barry Moser. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 46690

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PATTERSON, JAMES AND PETER DE JONGE

Miracle on the 17th Green

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316693316. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 41115

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