New York: Delta, 1989. Paperback. 274p., very good first edition, trade paper in pictorial wraps. Gay coming-of-age novel set in Terre Haute, Indiana. First novel. More

Cat.No: 56282

Berkeley: QUILT | Ishmael Reed & Al Young, 1981. Trade Paperback. 193p., inscribed by Cecil Brown and signed by Al Young and Ishmael Reed, wraps. Includes fiction by Kristin Hunter and Cecil Brown interviewing Truman Capote on black culture (!?). Covers a bit soiled and rubbed. More

Cat.No: 16087

New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Hardcover. 189p., near-fine first edition, first printing stated in boards and bright unclipped dj. This first book by the Peruvian American writer living in Oakland, received the 2004 Writing Writers' award. "In this exquisite collection, Alarcon tajes the reader from Third World urban centers to the..... More

Cat.No: 109927

Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 1993. Paperback. xii, 281p., paperback, 5.5x8.5 inches. Previous ownership signature on half-title page, else very good. Errata sheet inlaid. Signed and inscribed by Adaljiza Riddell on the full title page. First printing. Series in Chicana/Latina Studies. More

Cat.No: 280542

New York: Atheneum, 1980. Hardcover. 161p., mild foxing on edges otherwise a very good first edition stated, cloth and unclipped dj with sunned spine. More

Cat.No: 62940

Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1978. 408p., first edition thus, glossy frenchfold wraps, surface is rubbed and slightly soiled, pages evenly toned else good condition. Text in Spanish. More

Cat.No: 65685

New York: HarperCollins, 2000. Hardcover. 246p., remainder mark bottom edge, good first edition, first printing stated in boards and unclipped dj with 2 inch closed tear on cover. Humorous semi-autobiographic novel of young gay men in the East Village by the solo performer. More

Cat.No: 239948

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998. Hardcover. 180p., very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Second novel by the Mexican American writer follows the struggles of three Latinas over a century in Sonora, Tucson and Los Angeles. More

Cat.No: 45827

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1987. Hardcover. 244p., very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped d. First novel by the Chicana writer concerns a family of clandestine Jews in 1870s northern Mexico. More

Cat.No: 35303

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1987. Hardcover. 244p., signed by Alcalá, very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj, review slip laid in. First novel by the Chicana writer concerns a family of clandestine Jews in 1870s northern Mexico. More

Cat.No: 82129

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal Books, 1958. Paperback. 188p., lightly worn first printing PBO in original pictorial wraps. Lesbian pulp fiction. Grier A* Gold Medal Giant s727. More

Cat.No: 38655

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880. Hardcover. 324p., first edition, boards lightly edgeworn, pages lightly toned, previous owner's name penned on front blank, else very good first edition. *BAL 307. Wright III 54. "When the workers at Slocum's Marble Yard strike for a twenty-five cent weekly raise, the hero, Richard..... More

Cat.No: 1393

New York: David McKay Co., 1960. Hardcover. 184p., personal inscription to author Lea Orr signed by the author, very good first edition in green cloth boards and unclipped but worn dj with closed tears. Aldridge's satirical first novel though some claim his book of criticism "After the Lost Generation" is..... More

Cat.No: 278823