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New York: Doubleday, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($12.95), rubbed at the edges. Quarter black cloth with dark grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of prize-winning short stories, including work from Cynthia Ozick, John Irving, Kay Boyle, Alice Adams, Tobias Wolf, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Theroux, and others.
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Prize Stories 1981: The O. Henry Awards
by Abrahams, William
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New York: Doubleday, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($18.95), faded at the spine, bumped at the head of the spine. Quarter teal cloth with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of prize-winning short stories, including work from Raymond Carver, Alice Adams, Andre Dubus, Shirley Hazzard, Joyce Carol Oates, Bobbie Ann Mason, John Sayles, John Updike, and others.
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The Post-American Culture Congress
by Abrams, Sam
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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($6.95), lightly toned at the edges. Red buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of poetry from the Fulbright professor that "profits from his classical studies.
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Things Fall Apart
by Achebe, Chinua
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New York: Penguin, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Achebe's classic novel of colonization in 19th century Nigeria. Named to Time's list of 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
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The Education of a British-Protected Child; Essays
by Achebe, Chinua
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.95). Yellow boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of autobiographical essays from the author of Things Fall Apart, with his thoughts on growing up in colonial Nigeria, the African diaspora, Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, among others.
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Home and Exile
by Achebe, Chinua
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New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($18.95), bumped and faded at the edges. Quarter red cloth with teal paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Achebe's work exploring the European impact on African culture as experienced throughout his own life.
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African Short Stories; Twenty Short Stories from Across the Continent
by Achebe, Chinua; Inne, C.L.
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London: Heinemann, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Inscribed by Achebe on the title page. About Fine. Faintly rubbed and faded at the spine and edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of stories written since 1942 and gathered from all across Africa, including works from Achebe, Owoyele, Gurnah, Ngugi, Essop, Gordimer, among others.
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The Education of Henry Adams
by Adams, Henry
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Boston: Limited Editions Club, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated by Samuel Chamberlain and with an Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. Limited to 1500 copies signed by Chamberlain. Fine in a Poor slipcase, split at the back joints. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with an orange top stain, clean internally.
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A Nature Diary
by Adams, Richard
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New York: Viking Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrated by John Lawrence. Inscribed by Adams and Lawrence on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($15.95). Black buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. As the title suggests, this is an account of Adams's nature observations during a calendar year, with accounts of Isle of Man, Denmark, Australia, London, and others.
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Artie; A Story of the Streets and Town
by Ade, George
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Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Pictures by John T. McCutcheon. Good. Blue cloth, generally faded and stained, rubbed and bumped at the corners, fraying at the edges. Square, bound with some reading wear, gilt top edge, clean internally. An early work of Ade's slang-filled accounts of life in turn-of-the-century Chicago.
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Americanah
by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
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New York: Anchor Books, 2014. Paperback. Fine. Later Printing. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, this is the story of "love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home." A television adaptation featuring Lupita Nyong'o and Danai Gurira is in productation as of this writing.
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The Thing Around Your Neck
by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, bumped at the top-right corner, faded at the spine. Quarter brown paper with tan paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of twelve stories "that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.
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The White Tiger
by Adiga, Aravind
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New York: Free Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.00). Quarter magenta cloth with yellow paper on the board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Adiga's debut novel and the winner of the Booker Prize, adapted into the Academy Award-nominated film of the same title.
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Pitch Dark
by Adler, Renata
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($12.95), generally toned, some foxing, a short closed tear at the top of the front flap fold. Quarter black cloth with dark grey paper on the boards, faded at the top edge. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise.
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Speedboat
by Adler, Renata
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New York: Random House, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Inscribed by Adler on the front endpaper. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($7.95), bumped at the edges. Quarter black cloth with grey paper on the boards, toned and bumped at the edges and corners. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. Adler's debut novel about a young journalist living in New York, the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for best debut novel and a finalist for the National Book Crticis Circle Award.
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The Fables of Aesop (2 Vols); as First Printed by William Caxton in 1484 with Those of Avian, Alonso and Faggio, Now Again Edited an Induced by Joseph Jacobs
by Aesop; Jacobs, Joseph
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London: David Nutt, 1889. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Limited to 550 copies. Complete in two volumes, housed in a custom clamshell box. Presentation copy stamped "With the Author's and Publisher's Compliments" on the front endpaper of each volume. Very Good. Wraps toned, bumped at the corners and edges. Square and firmly bound, one of the front flyleaves loose in Volume I, some foxing to the preliminaries, clean otherwise. A literary rather than typographical reprint of Caxton's first English edition of Aesop's classic fables.
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The Morning Watch
by Agee, James
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New York: Ballantine Books, 1966. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Introduction by Alan Pryce-Jones. Good. Wraps generally toned and rubbed, a few stains, a small tear at the bottom-left corner of the back wrap. Square and firmly bound, bumped at the top-right corners.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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New York: Ballantine Books, 1976. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Eighth Printing. About Very Good. Wraps toned, rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name on the first page, clean otherwise. The classic work of journalism and photography coming as the result of a summer assignment to "discover and disclose the actual daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the South" in 1936.
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Permit Me Voyage
by Agee, James
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Foreword by Archibald MacLeish. Second Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned, chipped and rubbed throughout, some loss at the head of the spine. Green buckram, toned at the edges, with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The thirty-third volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the first book of Agee's work, highly praised by MacLeish, Stephen Vincent Benet, among others.
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Four Early Stories
by Agee, James
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West Branch: The Cummington Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Collected by Elena Harap. Illustrated by Keith Achepohl. Limited to 285 copies. Near Fine, lacking the plain dust jacket. Quarter black buckram with patterned paper on the boards, lightly rubbed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of four stories all originally published in The Harvard Advocate between 1930 and 1931.
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