(Brownsville): Story Line Press, 1994. First edition. A paperback original issued simultaneously with the hardcover signed, lmiited edition. INSCRIBED on title page, "For - - / Only good things / Rita Dove / 5 May 94." Fine in pictorial paperwraps with publisher's postcard laid in. Item #48437 More
New York: Lion Book, (1954). First edition, a paperback original. "Lion Book Original #224." Goodis's prolific output of short stories and novels epitomizing the noir fiction genre maintain a deep identification with the city of his birth, Philadelphia, where he used what he observed in the skid row neighborhoods of..... Item #53186 More
New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, 1945. First edition. Paperback original, "Bestseller Mystery, No. B62." Collects "Fly Paper," "Death on Pine Street," Zigzags of Treachery," and "The Farewell Murder," all of which first appeared in "Black Mask" magazine (two are previously uncollected). Pages a little darkened, light edge wear, otherwise fine..... Item #52277 More
New York: (Mercury Mystery), (1962). First edition. Mercury Mystery No. 233. A paperback original featuring the first book appearance of each of the 8 stories. Edited and with introduction by Ellery Queen. Perfect bound multi-colored paperwraps; 128 pages. Covers show light soiling, edge rubbing and shallow chip from top rear..... Item #53941 More
New York: Random House, (2003). First edition. A paperback original. SIGNED by the author. 260+ pages of poems and drawings with a preface by Mailer. Fine in pictorial paperwraps. Item #49382 More
Old Westbury: The Feminist Press, (1983). First edition, a paperback original. Sshort stories preceded by introductory headnotes written by Marshall expressly for this collection. Also includes an autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen," and "Merle," a novella reshaped from her 1969 novel "The Chosen Place, The Timeless People."..... Item #42060 More
[Silver Spring, MD]: (Sage Femme Press, 2022). First edition, a paperback original. Masson's fourth book of poems inspired by her work as a registered nurse and family caregiver and, in the opening section -- "Letters from My Grandmother" -- memories of her grandmother "written in a white heat when I...... Item #71854 More
New York: Harmony Books & Warner Books, (1990 & 2000). First edition of each volume with the first one being a simultaneous paperback issue and the second a paperback original. Short stories and poems from the pages of Yellow Silk: Journal of Erotic Arts (1981-1996), whose guiding editorial policy was..... Item #55477 More
San Diego: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1996). First edition. A Harvest paperback original. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht and wife, "For Tony & Helen: with best wishes, Charlie / Nov 14, 1996 / Strafford, N.H." Fine in pictorial white paperwraps printed in black and red..... Item #53744 More
(New York): Dell, (1974). First edition of each of these three volumes, paperback originals. ALL THREE SIGNED BY SMITH ON TITLE PAGE, uncommon thus. Volumes 1, 3, and 4, respectively in Smith's 6-volume series featuring Francis Xavier Killy, lay brother of the Militia Christi working for the Holy Office of..... Item #56069 More
Evanston: Regency Books, (1963). First edition. A paperback original. "The short con men . . . the artists who take your cash and paint you foolish . . . are crooked as corkscrews" (from the cover). Made into the 1990 movie with Angelica Huston, John Cusack and Annette Bening, with..... Item #53229 More
![Item #55457 VATOS: ["Street slang for dude, guy, pal, brother"]. Luis Alberto Urrea, Jose Galvez](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55457.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1561338960)
El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, (2000). First edition, a paperback original. SIGNED BY URREA, the Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Black-and-white photographs by Galvez illustrate the lines of Urrea's poem. "A tribute to Chicano men, to Latino men, to all men everywhere" -- Edward James Olmos, front cover blurb. Fine..... Item #55457 More
New York: Anchor Books, (1993). First edition, a paperback original. Illustrated with photographs by John Lueders-Booth. SIGNED BY URREA, the Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. His first book, a non-fiction narrative in which "after a brief look at the plight of 'undocumented workers'' crossing into the U.S., Urrea focuses on..... Item #55449 More
El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, (2002). First edition, a paperback original. Six stories and an afterword, SIGNED BY URREA, the Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Sherman Alexie blurb on rear cover ("...this book proves that [Urrea] speaks with a multitiude of passionate, powerful and hilarious voices. This book is a...... Item #55456 More
