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The eagle, my mentor: achieving your potential through divine mentorship
Accra, Ghana: Eagles Nest Production, 2011. xiii, 72p., very good in 7x4.5 inch laminated purple wraps. The author's card, describing him as "Prophet," laid in. Inscribed by the author, currently living in Accra. More
Cat.No: 194616
In the Box Called Pleasure
Tallahassee: Fiction Collective Two, 1999. Paperback. 150p., paperback, 5.5x8.5 inches. Lightly shelfworn, else very good.First edition, first printing. Signed by Addonizio on the title page. Collection of short stories by the San Francisco-based poet and novelist. More
Cat.No: 287417
Eros or Else: poems [inscribed & signed]
no place: Self-published by the author, May 29, 2006. Pamphlet. [23p] 5.75x8.5 inches, personal inscription signed by the poet as Marvin dated 2008 on inner cover, very good booklet in spiral bound covers. More
Cat.No: 291972
The isolationist impulse, its twentieth-century reaction
London: Abelard and Schuman Limited, 1957. Hardcover. 538p., hardcover, inscribed & signed "For Lenore and Israel, With every good wish, Selig, Feb. 15, 1958," very good condition in a stained and chipped dj. More
Cat.No: 266306
Tokidoki okite utatane shi ときどき起きてうたた寝し
Tokyo: Bungei shunju 文藝春秋, 1991. 292p., very good hardcover in dj, spine sunned. Text in Japanese. Signed by author. Essays by the television personality. More
Cat.No: 141501
Conchali [signed]
New York: Senda Nueva de Ediciones, 1980. Paperback. 54p., text in Spanish, signed by the poet on title page, very good first edition trade paperback in decorative white wraps. Senda Poética series. Early book by the Chilean American author and educator whose first book was on growing up Jewish in..... More
Cat.No: 194291
Encanto: New Poems
Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1994. Paperback. xv, 98p., paperback, 5.25x8.25 inches. Price sticker on rear, ownership sticker inside cover, else very good. Signed and inscribed on the title page. Aguilar-Carino, now known as Luisa A. Igloria, was born in the Philippines and moved to the U.S. In 2020, she was named..... More
Cat.No: 282378
The People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement
Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2015. Paperback. 268p., wraps slightly shelf worn else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 304278
Father Agustín de Mortí's account of disorders in New Mexico, 1778
N. pl. The Historical Society of New Mexico, 1977. 43p., 6x9.25 inches, introduction, notes, illustrated with drawings, #250/500 copies, signed by Simmons, previous owner's signature, rear wrap lightly discolored, stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 117769
To Say What Is Ours: The best of 13 years of Letting Go, the monthly publication of the National Stuttering Project
San Francisco: National Stuttering Project, 1994. Paperback. 243p., wraps, 5.25x8.25 inches, wraps lightly worn else very good condition; inscribed and signed by Ahlbach on the title page. More
Cat.No: 284737
My sister's keeper. Collected poems
San Francisco: the author, 1999. Spiral_bound. [25p.], spiralbound in 11x8.5 inch wraps, very good, barely legible inscription inside the cover by the Black Muslim author. Poems dedicated to her sister, who died in 1996. More
Cat.No: 190795
From South Asia to North America: An Autobiography 1915-2000 [inscribed & signed]
Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2001. Hardcover. xv, 402p., introduction, index, illustrated with b&w photos, personal inscription signed with initials by the author, very good first edition stated in boards and unclipped dj. By the Pakistani immigrant to Canada. More
Cat.No: 158555
Adam was an ape
Lawrence, KS: AMS Publishing, 1986. Paperback. 113p., mildly worn wraps, inscribed by the Nigerian American poet. More
Cat.No: 192278
South Central Stories: Double or Nothin'; The Ride; Happy Anniversary, Punk!
Los Angeles: Pipedream Press, 2001. Paperback. 105p. paperback, 5.5x8 inches.Wraps lightly shelfworn, else very good. Signed and dated on title page. Three plays, including one about O.J. Simpson's car chase. First edition. Ajakwe. was born in Los Angeles in 1965 and attended the University of Redlands where he studied English..... More
Cat.No: 279286
Come Back to Afghanistan: a California teenager's story [signed]
New York: Bloomsbury, 2005. Hardcover. xi+339p., j, signed by author Akbar on title page, map, characters, prologue, epilogue, near-fine first US edition, first printing stated in boards and unclipped dj. The author's father sold his Hip-Hop clothing store in Oakland after 9/11 and returned to Afghanistan to become President Hamid..... More
Cat.No: 111678
KoolAIDS; the art of war [signed]
New York: Picador USA, 1998. Hardcover. viii, 245p., briefly inscribed and dated by the Lebanese author, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. This first novel by the well-known painter uses the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war as its motifs. More
Cat.No: 91460
Laughing Tomatoes/Jitomates risueños' and other spring poems/y otros poemas de primavera [signed]
San Francisco: Children's Book Press, 1997. Hardcover. 32p., 8.5x11 inches, bilingual texts in Spanish & English, profusely illustrated with Gonzalez' drawings, lengthy personal inscription in Spanish signed by the poet, very good first edition in pictorial boards. Alarcon has dated his inscription 1992 but it is clear he meant 1997..... More
Cat.No: 143293
Chicana Critical Issues
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
Los estudios cervantinos de Enrique Jose Verona (senda de estudios y ensayos) [signed]
New York: Senda Nueva de Ediciones, 1979. Paperback. 109p., text in Spanish, inscribed and signed by the Cuban-American classicist, ownership name, lightly-worn first edition trade paperback in light blue wraps. Verona's studies of Cervantes' works in Cuba. More
Cat.No: 42716
Empire Life
Los Angeles: Littoral Books, 1998. Paperback. 72p., softbound in 8.5x6 inch glossy decorated wraps; "The first, full-length edition of Albon's work," per back-cover text; covers yawn a bit and bear a couple of very faint small smudges, a very good copy. Titlepage is inscribed and signed (as "George") with the..... More
Cat.No: 229703
Possible Floor
San Francisco: e.g., 1990. [26]., string-bound wraps, 5.75x9 inches, wraps lightly toned along edges, small crayon or colored pencil mark on rear wrap else very good condition. Inscribed and signed by Albon on the title page. One of 350 copies. More
Cat.No: 256735
Spirits of the Ordinary: a tale of Casas Grandes
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
Keys to the Garden: new Israeli writing
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1996. Paperback. xii, 369p., foreword, illustrations, personal inscription to Piri Thomas signed by the editor, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 206642
Poems
Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Richard J. Hoffman, January 1948. Hardcover. 52p., very good first edition limited to 200 copies in decorative green boards and black cloth backing with gilt titles, personal inscription signed by Barbara Alden dated April 1948. Posthumous collection (Alden died in 1924) by wife or daughter..... More
Cat.No: 213528