Once Upon an Alphabet $26.99

by • Hardback • OZ Young Readers

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New York, NY: Philomel (2014) Jeffers, the #1 “New York Times”-bestselling illustrator of “The Day the Crayons Quit” delivers a creative tour de force from A through Z. Slyly funny and gorgeously illustrated, this series of interconnected stories and characters explores the alphabet in a way that will forever raise the bar.

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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions $24.00

by • Hardback

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New York,  NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) The creator of the popular webcomic “xkcd” presents his heavily researched answers to his fans’ oddest questions, including “What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool?” and “Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns?”

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Famous Fathers $19.50

by • 2007 • First Edition • First Editions Club • Signed

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San Francisco, CA: MacAdam Cage (2007) A gracefully disconcerting collection of stories by the winner of the 2005 Narrative Prize. Wavering between fidelity and freedom, the women in” “this sparkling debut collection deal with emotional damage and unhealed heartbreak by plunging into unusual, often bizarre, relationships. In Pia Z. Ehrhardt’s stories, adultery and impropriety become … Continue reading Famous Fathers

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Selected Stories $150.00

by • First Edition

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New York: Random House (1954) First Modern Library Edition. Very good in price clipped dust jacket with wear. Miss Welty usually read from her personal edition of selected stories at her public readings.

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After Ikkyu and Other Poems $125.00

by • First Edition • Signed

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Boston, MA: Shambhala (1996) Fine in dust jacket.

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My Teacher Is a Monster: No, I Am Not. $18.00

by • First Edition • OZ First Editions Club • OZ Young Readers • Signed

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New York, NY: Little Brown & Co. (2014) A young boy named Bobby has the worst teacher. She’s loud, she yells, and if you throw paper airplanes, she won’t allow you to enjoy recess. She is a monster! Luckily, Bobby can go to his favorite spot in the park on weekends to play. Until one … Continue reading My Teacher Is a Monster: No, I Am Not.

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Port Mortuary $50.00

by • First Edition • Signed

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New York, NY: Putnam (2010) Near fine in dust jacket.

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Dear Will $24.00

by • First Edition • Signed

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New York, NY: Scribner (2000) A delightful new twist on the comedy of manners, Dear Will is a wry look at love lost and found through the eyes of a perplexed but altogether charming man. At forty-one, Will Gerard’s life finally seems to be coming together. He has worked in publishing for years, but only … Continue reading Dear Will

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Dead I Well May Be $35.00

by • 2003 • First Edition • First Editions Club • Signed

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New York, NY: Scribner (2003) This Irish bad-boy thriller — set in the hardest streets of New York City — brims with violence, greed, and sexual betrayal. “I didn’t want to go to America, I didn’t want to work for Darkey White. I had my reasons. But I went.” So admits Michael Forsythe, an illegal … Continue reading Dead I Well May Be

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Wayfaring Stranger $27.99

by • First Edition • Signed

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New York, NY: Simon and Schuster. (2014) “From “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post): A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast. It is 1934 and the … Continue reading Wayfaring Stranger

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Neighborhood: An Early Fragment from Ray $350.00

by • Limited Edition • Signed

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Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Gorgas Oak Press (1981) One of 65 numbered copies issued unsigned, however, this copy is signed by the author. Original etchings by Jill Valentine. The oversized wrapper was drawn and screenprinted by Bruce Dupree. Fine.

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Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari $37.50

by , • First Edition

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New York, NY: Overlook (2003) Fine in dust jacket. Dramatic full-color period photographs complement a intriguing look at Hemingway’s lifelong fascination with Africa, following the trail of Hemingway’s two major African safaris and analyzing the author’s writings to explore the important influence of the continent on his life and work.

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A New History of Mississippi $40.00

by • First Edition • Past Events • Signed

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Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (2014) Creating the first comprehensive narrative of Mississippi since the bicentennial history was published in 1976, Dennis J. Mitchell recounts the vibrant and turbulent history of a Deep South state. The author has condensed the massive scholarship produced since that time into an appealing narrative, which incorporates people missing … Continue reading A New History of Mississippi

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Eudora Welty and Politics $44.95

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Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press (2001) Fine in dust jacket. This collection of complementary and interrelated essays by ten well-known Welty critics brings welcome clarification to the controversial subject of Eudora Welty and the political, a topic once presumed to be closed tight. As the essays prove, Welty has been inaccurately assessed by … Continue reading Eudora Welty and Politics

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For Whom the Bell Tolls $600.00

by • First Edition

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New York: Scribners (1940) Very good with previous owner’s sticker in edge worn, price clipped dust jacket

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A Cure for Dreams $100.00

by • Signed • Uncorrected Proof

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Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin (1991) Near fine in wrapper.

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In the Shadow of the Rose $300.00

by • Limited Edition • Signed

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Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press (1991) Very good in decorated boards with a plain turquoise wrapper. One of 750 numbered copies signed by the author. Bottom front and back corners are bumped.

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Beale Street Dynasty $26.95

by • Hardback

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New York, NY: Norton (2015) As new in dust jacket. The vivid history of Beale Street—a lost world of swaggering musicians, glamorous madams, and ruthless politicians—and the battle for the soul of Memphis. Following the Civil War, Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, violence and passion. But out … Continue reading Beale Street Dynasty

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The Lost Get-Back Boogie $500.00

by • First Edition • Signed

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Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press (1978) Recently paroled from prison, Ivy Paret settles in with fellow ex-convict Buddy Riordan and Riordan’s family on a sprawling ranch in Montana and becomes drawn into a tragic conflict involving the family and their neighbors

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You Think That’s Bad: Stories $50.00

by • 2011 • First Edition • First Editions Club • Signed

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New York, NY: Knopf (2011) Fine in dust jacket. Culling the vastness of experience like an expert curator, Shepard populates this collection with characters at once wildly diverse and wholly fascinating. These stories traverse centuries, continents, and social strata, yet what they depict with devastating sensitivity is utterly universal.

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