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Price: $35.00
Publisher: NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang: 1986
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 4894
Robert Olen Butler has SIGNED at his story entry "Another Country". A short piece in this anthology edited by Roy Finamore and illustrated by Vivienne Flesher. A Vietnam centered story. View more info
By: Edited By Joseph Barbato and Lisa Weinerman Horak of the Nature Conservancy
Price: $185.00
Publisher: New York, NY, North Point Press: 1998
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed By Contributors
Seller ID: 6543
This copy has been SIGNED by 5 (five) of the contributors at their entries. The signers include: Annie Proulx, Julia Alvarez, Jill McCorkle, Howard Norman and Barbara Kingsolver. A wonderful collection that was a follow-up to "Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places". This includes Annie Proulx's story from her "Close Range" collection of stories that also includes "Brokeback Mountain" entitled "The Half-Skinned Deer". View more info
Price: $95.00
Publisher: New York, NY, North Point Press: 1998
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed By Contributor
Seller ID: 5431
This copy has been SIGNED by Annie Proulx at her entry! A wonderful collection that was a follow-up to "Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places". This includes Annie Proulx's story from her "Close Range" collection of stories that also includes "Brokeback Mountain" entitled "The Half-Skinned Deer". View more info
By: Granta 54: Chris Offutt, Stewart O'Nan, Mona Simpson,Melanie Rae Thon and Kate Wheeler
Price: $650.00
Publisher: Granta Books: 1996
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 6695
First Edition/First Printing. Fine/Wraps (as issued). Here it is - a beautiful copy of the Granta Magazine that sparked great debate with its Summer 1996 Issue. At Granta's request, eighteen established American novelists of an older generation deliberated their choice among the new. The final judging panel-including Robert Stone, Anne Tyler and Tobias Wolff-identified twenty writers of particular achievement and promise. When this issue came out - many of these names we... View more info
Price: $650.00
Publisher: Granta Books: 1996
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 3614
First Edition/First Printing. Fine/Wraps (as issued). Here it is - a beautiful copy of the Granta Magazine that sparked great debate with its Summer 1996 Issue. At Granta's request, eighteen established American novelists of an older generation deliberated their choice among the new. The final judging panel-including Robert Stone, Anne Tyler and Tobias Wolff-identified twenty writers of particular achievement and promise. When this issue came out - many of these names we... View more info
By: Grubbs, Morris A. [Edited By]
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky, Univ Pr of Kentucky: 2001
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Seller ID: 5440
Kentucky has inspired a host of acclaimed short story writers over the last fifty years, and much of their work focuses on the tension between the comforts of home and the siren-like lure of the outside world. In subtle and profound ways the forty stories herein challenge and overturn accepted stereotypes about the land their authors called home, whether by birth or by choice. View more info
By: Kincaid, Jamaica (Edited By)
Price: $40.00
Publisher: NY, FSG: 1998
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 4341
This copy has been SIGNED by Jamaica Kincaid on the title page. Edited by, and with a seven page introduction by Jamaica Kincaid. The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of essays and poems on topics as diverse as beans and roses, by writers who garden and gardeners who write. View more info
By: Kunitz, Stanley [selected by]
Price: $35.00
Publisher: NY, MJF Books: 1987
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Seller ID: 5070
A six page introduction by Stanley Kunitz, Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize. The lyrical beauty of the works included are unsurpassed. In his introduction Mr. Kunitz helps us to see the thorns Blake hid among the roses. In doing so, Kunitz passes on the energy and genius of a man possessed by a prophetic vision of the modern world. Ignored or reviled in his own time, Blake never ceased to set his "forehead against (the) foreheads... View more info
Price: $55.00
Publisher: NY, Faber & Faber: 1992
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 4586
This copy has been SIGNED by Lorrie Moore on the title page. "When writers of fiction have made the effort to explore the mottled landscape of a child's secrets and understanding, they have often created stories of ferocious poignanc," writes Lorrie Moore in her introduction to this dazzling collection of stories about childhood. View more info
By: Norman, Howard
Price: $65.00
Publisher: San Francisco, North Point Press: 1982
Edition: Simultaneous Wraps Issue
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 3784
This copy has been SIGNED by Howard Norman on the title page. This is the simultaneous wraps issue with dustjacket of the author's translation of these tales from the Northland. Mr. Norman has lived and travelled extensively in the subartic regions of Canada west of Hudson Bay, collecting and translating from Cree these thirty-one tales of confrontation with Windigos. View more info
By: Norman, Howard
Price: $65.00
Publisher: NY, Pantheon: 1990
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 3789
This copy has been SIGNED by Howard Norman on the title page. Gathering tales from the tribal peoples of Greenland, Canada, Russia, Alaska, and the polar region, which were told and retold through months of long winter night, "Northern Tales", reflects a rich diversity of traditions and cultures, spanning the Way-Back Time through the coming of the first white explorers. A remainder mark on the top edge accounts for the NF grading. View more info
By: Svoboda, Terese
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Greenfield Center, NY, Greenfield Review Press: 1985
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 3119
This copy SIGNED by Terese Svoboda on the title page. Nuer Song - translated by Terese Svoboda. Song is the art form most suited to the Nuer's harsh climate and semi-nomadic existence. Svoboda collected and transcribed them in the Sudan. More than just a translation of these songs, its linking narratives, which chronicles the translator's experiences and places the songs in their proper contexts. View more info
By: Wideman, John Edgar [Editor]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Running Press: 2001
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Seller ID: 4661
Award-winning author and scholar John Edgar Wideman offers his collection of the finest early African-American writing. With extensive, self-contained entries, the collection is diverse enough to represent the full range of black literary output, yet focused enough for the reader to learn about the early period of this literary tradition in detail. A massive volume encompassing some 1,270 page. View more info