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All books are first printings of first editions or first American editions unless otherwise noted.
SATTERTHWAIT, Walter
NY, St. Martin's, (1991). His fourth book, a novel derived from Oscar Wilde's tour of the American West in the late 19th century. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#024188]
$60
SHIELDS, David
NY, Knopf, 1989. The uncorrected proof copy. Signed by the author. Spine sunned; else fine in wrappers.
[#914303]
$60
SMILEY, Jane
St. Paul, Graywolf Press, 1993. A separate appearance of the text of a talk given by Smiley at the Aspen Writers' Conference and collected in the anthology The True Subject: Writers on Life and Craft. Signed by the author. Fine in stapled wrappers. A little-known Smiley "A" item.
[#912777]
$60
(Surveillance)
(Melbourne), (UTS Community Law and Legal Research Centre), (2002). A critical reader on surveillance and social control in the post-9/11 age, published in Australia in conjunction with two public events, in Sydney and Melbourne, designed to provoke discussion and debate about the subject. Heavily illustrated, with drawings, photographs (including surveillance photographs), collages, cartoons, and including essays, articles, skits, dialogues and political statements. Oblong wrappers. Rubbed; near fine.
[#029179]
$60
THEROUX, Paul
Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1997. The Franklin Library edition of this novel, set in Hong Kong at the time of its reunification with China. Signed by the author, with a special introduction by him for this edition. Leatherbound, all edges gilt, with a silk ribbon marker bound in. Fine.
[#915626]
$60
(UPDIKE, John)
NY, Bradbury Press, 1985. A collection of more than 100 poems, selected by Paul B. Janeczko, and published in a pocket sized book with glossy flexible pictorial covers. Updike's contribution is "The Grief of Cafeterias" and it contains two typographical errors, which have been corrected in red copyeditor's pencil, in copyeditor's style. Slight foxing to the edges of the text block, else fine.
[#030862]
$60
VAN GIESON, Judith

(Vietnam War)
(Belmont), American Opinion, ca. 1967.. Six Vietnam pamphlets published by American Opinion and issued together in mailing envelope (included) as The Vietnam Packet. Missing: the book Background to Betrayal; also there is only one copy of the petition rather than the 6 noted on the envelope. Three of the six pamphlets are authored by Robert Welch, of the John Birch Society. Minor foxing; about near fine in stapled wrappers.
[#036017]
$60
WARNER, Alan
London, Cape, (1997). The hardcover issue. Fine in a fine dust jacket but for creases to the flaps.
[#915671]
$60
WATERS, Sarah
London, Virago, 2006. The limited edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a fine slipcase, still shrink-wrapped.
[#915677]
$60
(WELSH, Irvine)
(Orkney), Clocktower Press, (1993). The eighth issue put out by the Clocktower Press. This one includes four very short prose pieces by Welsh. 300 copies printed. Fine in stapled wrappers.
[#912156]
$60
WELSH, Irvine
(London), Vintage, (2003). Fourth printing of the paperback edition. Inscribed by Welsh to the novelist Robert Stone: "Some writing returned with thanks, borrowed from yourself many moons ago. May all good things come your way" and signed "Irvine." Food stains to the first few pages; light cover creasing; very good in wrappers.
[#027778]
$60
WOLFF, Tobias
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1985. His fourth book and second collection of short fiction. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket with trace rubbing to the flap folds.
[#915716]
$60
(Anthology)
Osnabruck, VC Verlags-Cooperative, 1992. A bilingual (English and German) edition of these poems and stories by Canadian Native authors. Small bump to crown; slight rubbing; near fine in wrappers.
[#002116]
$55
CASEY, John
NY, Atheneum, 1977. His highly praised first book, which was called by The New York Times Book Review "the best novel of the year." Signed by the author. Foxing to top edge of text block; near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
[#915979]
$55
DERSHOWITZ, Alan M.
NY, McGraw-Hill, (1976). The hardcover issue of the Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Criminal Sentencing. Inscribed by the author. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.
[#916064]
$55
DERSHOWITZ, Alan M.
(NY), Oxford University Press, 2001. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#916079]
$55
FOWLER, Karen Joy
NY, Bantam, (1986). Signed by the author in the month prior to publication. Paperback; fine.
[#917048]
$55
(Genocide)
(n.p.), (n.p.), ca. 1971. A softcover compilation of international press coverage of the Bengali genocide in Pakistan in 1971. 40 pages. Black covers dirty and lightly foxed; wear to spine; very good in stapled wrappers.
[#036016]
$55
HOUSTON, Pam
NY, Norton, (1992). Her first book, a collection of stories, one of which was selected for The Best American Short Stories 1990. The collection won the 1993 Western States Book Award. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#915156]
$55
LE CARRÉ, John
London, Hodder & Stoughton, (1991). The novel and the screenplay in one volume, with an introduction by Le Carre to each. Minor spine creasing; near fine in wrappers.
[#916397]
$55
MARCIANO, Francesca
London, Jonathan Cape, (1998). Signed by the author. Two small spots to front endpapers, else fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#916463]
$55
(McEWAN, Ian). HADDON, Mark

On Sale: $28
McMANUS, James
NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (2003). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#916510]
$55
MILLER, Andrew
(London), Sceptre/(Hodder & Stoughton), (1998). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#916539]
$55
PACKER, Ann
San Francisco, Chronicle Books, (1994). Inscribed by the author to Andre Dubus in the year of publication. Fine in wrappers.
[#916652]
$55
(Peace Corps)

RICE, Luanne
NY, Atheneum, 1985. One lower corner tap; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#916749]
$55
SHARMA, Akhil
(New Delhi), Viking, (2000). Slight bowing to top of boards, else fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#916827]
$55
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