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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Printing - First Thus. 220 pp. Trade paperback format. Light rubbing on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover by Hayley Warnham. This story collection contains: Preface by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama; Introduction by Don George; The Matter of Kindness by Jan Morris; Meeting Maung-Maung by Pico Iyer; Everything Come Round by James D. Houston; One Night in the Sahara by Amanda Jones; Tea and Cheese in Turkey by Alice Waters; A Bowl of Soup in a Basket by Beth Kephart; Highland Remedy by Fran Palumbo; Looking for Abdelati by Tanya Shaffer; Special Delivery by Lindsy van Gelder; Brief Encounter by Carolyn Swindell; Damascus by Teatime by Don Meredith; My Beirut Hostage Crisis by Rolf Potts; We Can't Fix Anything, Even the Smallest Things, in Cuba by Dave Eggers; Losing It in London by Douglas Cruickshank; Andean High by Ginger Adams Otis; Egg Child by Sarah Levin; Serendipity by Laura Fraser; Arab Music by Jennie Rothenberg; The Way I Look by Anthony Sattin; Finding Shelter by Nicholas Crane; On the Trail of the Caspian Tiger by Tim Cahill; The Road to Kampala by Stanley Stewart; At a Crossroads by Laurie McAndish King; Adnan's Secret by Maxine Rose Schur; Might Be Your Lucky Day by Jeff Greenwald; and Ascension in the Moonlight by Simon Winchester. Size: 8vo. Hayley Warnham; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (xiv) 153 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; dark blue endpapers; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; small ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings; price intact. Authors relive their most embarrassing moments. This anthology contains: Foreword by Jack McClelland; My New Yorker Stories by Ted Allan; A Bedtime Story by Charlotte Vale Allen; A Flying Start by Margaret Atwood; Woman Talk by Jo Anne Williams Bennett; A Delicate Transaction by D. M. Clark; Where Is My Book by Matt Cohen; And That's the Way it Was by Peter Desbarats; Sometimes One Cook Is Too Many by Howard Engel; A Light Breakfast by Helen English; A Star is Born by Joy Fielding; Return of the Native by Sylvia Fraser; Only on Sunday by James Houston; A Total Misfit by Robert Hunter; No Exit by Martin Knelman; A Welcome Home Party by R. D. Lawrence; Distinguished Professor Meets Careerist Slimeball by Elliott Leyton; The Fish Had a Field Day by Roy MacGregor; The Girl with the Caribbean Curls by Garry Marchant; Interlude at La Guardia by W. O. Mitchell; They'll Die Laughing by Farley Mowat; Breaking Ice by Alice Munro; Waltzing Matilda by Knowlton Nash; The Burning Lighter by Alan Pearson; Just Another Pretty Face by Edward O. Phillips; Oh I Know That One by Garfield Reeves-Stevens; An Afternoon's Diversion by Nancy-Gay Rotstein; Barking Up the Wrong Canoe by Walter Stewart; The Midnight Prowler by Stuart Trueman; Common Ground by Eric Wright; Mortification on the Promo Trail by Tim Wynne-Jones; Fothing at the Mouth by Larry Zolf; Afterword by Margaret Visser. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Slight shelfwear; b/w photos; 140 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. First book club edition. Blue boards lettered in black on the spine; red upper edge; headband. Some wear at the corners of the dustjacket; small tick marks on the contents page. Dj art by G. Ziel. This anthology contains: The Terminal Beach by J. G. Ballard; Automatic Tiger by Kit Reed; The Legend of Joe Lee by John D. MacDonald; Descending by Thomas M. Disch; Decadence by Romain Gary; Be of Good Cheer by Fritz Leiber; A Benefactor of Humanity by James T. Farrell; The Carson Effect by Richard Wilson; The Shining Ones by Arthur C. Clarke; Pacifist by Mack Reynolds; The New Encyclopaedist by Stephen Becker; Gas Mask by James D. Houston; A Sinister Metamorphosis by Russell Baker; Sonny by Rick Raphael; The Last Secret Weapon of the Third Reich by Josef Nesvadba; It Could Be You by Frank Roberts; Synchromocracy by Hap Cawood; The Search by Bruce Simonds; The Pirokin Effect by Larry Eisenberg; The Twerlik by Jack Sharkey; A Rose for Ecclesiates by Roger Zelanzy; Problem Child by Arthur Porges; The Wonderful Dog Suit by Donald Hall; The Mathenauts by Norman Kagan; Family Portrait by Morgan Kent; The Red Egg by Jose Maria Gironella; The Power of Positive Thinking by M. E. White; A Living Doll by Robert Wallace; Training Talk by David R. Bunch; A Miracle Too Many by Philip H. Smith and Alan E. Nourse; The Last Lonely Man by John Brunner; The Man Who Found Proteus by Robert Rohrer; and Yachid and Yechida by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Size: 8vo. G. Ziel; (illustrator). Book.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine red paperback. 151 pages, unmarked; R6R; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 151 pages.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. The second anniversary issue of this interesting magazine - SIGNED by TWO authors: by Chin at her poem "Art Wong is Alive and Ill and Struggling in Oakland, California,"and James D. Houston at his story "The Lost Brother." Also included are works by Marilyn Chin, Fred Schowalter, Steve Benson, Gary Soto, Stan Rice, Ursule K. Le Guin, Guy Davenport and more. Art by Ben Blackwell, Viola Frey, Ed Ruscha, Peter Stackpole, Robert Therrien and others. Cover by Susan Hauptman. 152 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. Near fine in stiff wrappers (sunning to spine.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover bound in half leather with marbled paper boards. 416 pages with a few illustrations. Initial and final pages are heavily tanned, contents have light, scattered foxing. Binding worn with chipping to marbled paper on covers, wear to corners, top 3/4 inch of spine missing, outer hinges cracked but holding, inner hinges OK. A 3 by 2 inch area on back cover abraded to the cardboard. I have made a mylar jacket for this book. Interesting insights on history of medicine and of medical practice in New York c1850.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 870 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.75 inches. In Stock.

NY, Bantam Books, 1979, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Includes John Steinbeck's Flight, pages 302-320, text from The Long Valley, not recorded by Morrow, also includes Wallace Stegner who has Signed his New Almaden contribution, text from Angle of Repose, also includes Richard Brautigan, Raymond Chandler, Tillie Olsen, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Tom Robbins, Thomas Sanchez, and others. Some spine creases, near fine. …