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(Normal), Dalkey Archive Press, (1993). Maso's third book, a novel constructed of memories in the mind of a dying woman. Inscribed by the author: "For John Updike, with great admiration - Carole Maso 1993." In the title essay of her collection Break Every Rule, Maso, in commenting on gay and lesbian portrayals of desire in literature, asks, "why when we write...does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing? Oh not in the specifics -- but in the formal assumptions...does form imply a value system?" A nice inscription to a writer who was at the cultural and publishing center from a writer at the edge. Fine in a fine dust jacket.   [#027131] $125

NY, Dutton, 1998. Her sixth book, a novel, and a departure in its near-conformance to conventional narrative: it is in part a journal written from death row by a female professor who has murdered two of her students during sex. An unrelenting portrayal of the darkness of the cycle of human harm, told in incongruously luminous prose. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.   [#012358] $45

San Francisco, CA, North Point Press, 1986. Very Good in Very Good DJ.   [#706268] $45

San Francisco, North Point Press, 1990. Her second book, a novel transformed by the author's best friend dying from AIDS during the writing. North Point dissolved shortly after the book was published, and the title never got the attention it deserved. Fine in a fine, mildly spine-faded dust jacket, as is typical with this title.   [#913292] $45

San Francisco, North Point, 1986. The first book by this author whose genius seems to be in portraying not only the external forces that dissolve bonds between people but the internal forces, the acts of will and love and creativity, that can hold them together. Fine in fine dust jacket and signed by the author.   [#006487] $40

(Normal), Dalkey Archive Press, (1993). The uncorrected proof copy of her third published book, the first in a projected trilogy. Textual differences from the first edition, including a change in the last page. Fine in wrappers.   [#005297] $25

(NY), HarperCollins, (1992). Uncorrected proof copy of this anthology, which includes an excerpt from Maso's fourth book The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, a novel in which the forces of language and sex are summoned to compensate for the main character's "catastrophic loss of feeling." Fine in wrappers.   [#005298] $25

(Normal), Dalkey Archive, (1994). The uncorrected proof copy of her third book, published fourth. A novel in which the forces of language and sex are summoned to compensate for the main character's "catastrophic loss of feeling." Fine in wrappers, with a dedication that differs from that of the published version.   [#007516] $25

San Francisco, North Point, 1986. The first book by this author whose genius seems to be in portraying not only the external forces that dissolve bonds between people but the internal forces, the acts of will and love and creativity, that can hold them together. Fine in a fine dust jacket.   [#913291] $20

(Normal), Dalkey Archive, (1994). Her third book, published fourth. A novel in which the forces of language and sex are summoned to compensate for the main character's "catastrophic loss of feeling." Fine in a fine dust jacket.   [#913293] $20