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Boston: Beacon Press, 2008. Hard Cover. As New/in dustjacket - as new. Ms. Oliver SIGNED above her name on title page in the presence of this bookseller. Multiple award-winning author Mary Oliver brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of her beloved classics, and two essays about creatures of all sorts and, of course, her beloved and disobedient little… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1967. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated second printing February 1967 (1 of 3000 copies) and is considered one of her finest works. This is personalized by two things: an inscription and a correction. She wrote "To my Dragoman from Sonoma / Affectionately Marianne. / December 26, 1967" and also drew a line through… Read more about this item

[Poetry] [Inscribed] Moore, Marianne. 1967. Stated second printing February 1967 (1 of 3000 copies) and is considered one of her finest works. This is personalized by two things: an inscription and a correction. She wrote "To my Dragoman from Sonoma / Affectionately Marianne. / December 26, 1967" and also drew a line through "To" on pg. 54 so… Read more about this item

Signed on title page by the Ms. Ferré. Finalist, National Book Awards. Rosario Ferré (1938-2016) became one of the most prolific female writers to represent Puerto Rico and one of the strongest feminist voices of the 21st century. "What a delight to discover that Ferré is as a good a storyteller in English as in her native Spanish!"—Julia Alverez. "A… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. First Edition. Signed on title page by the Ms. Ferré. Finalist, National Book Awards. Rosario Ferré (1938-2016 became one of the most prolific female writers to represent Puerto Rico and one of the strongest feminist voices of the 21st century. "What a delight to discover that Ferré is as a good a… Read more about this item

London: Allison & Busby Ltd, 1984. SIGNED as Donald E. Westlake under "Richard Stark" on title page. Original black cloth boards with title in gold letters on spine. Purple Dust Jacket, gold and white letters. The second Parker novel: Parker goes under the knife, changing his face to escape the mob and a contract on his life. Along the… Read more about this item

New York: Ballantine Books, 1989. Softcover. Ferre's first novel is SIGNED by Ms. Ferré on half-title page. First American Edition, translated from the original Spanish Maldito Amor by Ferré. Recipient of the "Liberatur Prix" award for its German translation. Rosario Ferre (1938-2016) was a Puerto Rican writer, poet, and essayist who was one of the most prolific female writers… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. SIGNED First US Edition by author on title page. This is the author's first book; a collection of interwoven short stories, compassionate and funny in turns, these short stories illuminate the very meaning of change through this pungent and exuberantly textured mosaic of lives. 0395498627. Dark blue over royal blue boards, red lettering to spine.… Read more about this item

New York: Borzoi/Knopf, 1991. SIGNED FIRST US EDITION. Author's second book and first novel won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Governor General's Award, and the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Trillium Award. Basis for 1998 movie of the same name, which was also nominated for several awards. 9780679402589. 339 pp. Black… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First US Edition. Translated from the original Italian title Un Uomo by William Weaver, about a Greek revolutionary hero who fights alone and to the death for freedom and truth. Fallaci (1929-2006) was an Italian journalist and author and became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution and her "long, aggressive… Read more about this item

Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1991. First American Edition, SIGNED on the title page by Ms. Ferré (1938-2016). Translated from original Spanish "Papeles de Pandora" by author. Ferré's fiction focuses on the inferior status of women in Puerto Rico and their dual role as nurturer (wife and mother) and temptress (like Pandora, the dangerous female from mythical Greece who tempted… Read more about this item

Boston: Beacon Press, 2006. SIGNED by Oliver on the title page in the presence of this bookseller after a reading. Pictorial cover of Van Gogh's Blue Iris, courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art. First softcover printing. In Blue Iris, Mary Oliver collects ten new poems, two dozen of her poems written over the last two decades, and two previously… Read more about this item

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1951. First American printing. This was awarded the Bollingen, Pulitzer and National Book Award. SIGNED and inscribed on front free endpaper to "David Bouverie / who lends its value by caring to have it. / from Marianne Moore / December 6, 1952", as well as correcting by hand "The Jerboa" on p. 20 to… Read more about this item

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001. SIGNED on dedication page: "Thank you! / Brian Broome". This debut memoir is a NYT Editor's Pick and the winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. "In his thoroughly electric debut...Brian Broome will shatter your heart. Then make you laugh, sweat and cringe. And-all while eviscerating stereotypes and expanding notions of Black… Read more about this item

Boston: Beacon Press, 2007. SIGNED by Mary Oliver on title page in the presence of this bookseller. Oliver's poetry has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and a Lannan Literary Award for lifetime achievement. New and Selected Poems, Volume Two, an anthology of forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-and sixty-nine poems hand-picked by… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. Hard Cover. Fine. American Buffalo won or was nominated for several awards and is considered one of the finest American plays written. It's returning to Broadway this April, 2022, starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, and Darren Criss. David Mamet wrote a new foreword for this edition, which divulges his inspiration for the play… Read more about this item

New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1995. Fine/In dustjacket - as new. Divakaruni's first collection of stories, was published to great critical acclaim. It won an American Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles award, and a Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and went on to become a bestseller. Adopted as a text in many college classes, the collection focuses… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing, SIGNED by Basbanes on half-title page. 636 pp. Index, bibliography, notes, illustrations. Author's second compilation (after A Gentle Madness) of lovingly researched profiles of bookish people and places, including Abel Berland, Nicholson Baker, Umberto Eco, Peter B. Howard of Serendipity, Barry Moser, Maurice Sendak and… Read more about this item