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Faderman, Lillian (editor) (Michel de Montaigne; Jean Jacques Rousseau; William Cullen Bryant; William Rounseville Alger; Katherine Fowler Philips; Aphra Behn; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz; Lady Eleanor Butler; Sarah Ponsonby; Anna Seward; Emily Dickinson): CHLOE PLUS OLIVIA - An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present: Friendship; La Nouvell Heloise; The Friendships of Women; My Divine Lysi; Happy Easter Dear Lady; Her Breast is Fit for Pearls; Goblin Market; Two Friends, New York Viking 1994
ISBN: 0670846384 Very Good

(xxvii) 812 pp. Quarter-bound with black and gray boards; lettered with copper on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a short tear on the lower right of the front panel; price intact. This collection contains: MEN'S WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP: On Friendship (excerpt) by Michel de Montaigne; La Nouvell Heloise (excerpt) by Jean Jacques Rousseau; To the Evening Post by William Cullen Bryant; The Friendships of Women (excerpt) by William Rounseville Alger; WOMEN'S WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP: To Mrs Mary Awbrey; To Mrs M. A. at Parting; Friendships Mystery to my Dearest Lucasia; and To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship by Katherine Fowler Philips; To My Lady Morland at Tunbridge; A Song; and To the Fair Clarinda Who Made Love to Me Imagin'd More than Woman by Aphra Behn; My Divine Lysi; and Happy Easter Dear Lady by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz; The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen (excerpt) by Lady Eleanor Butler and The Honourable Sarah Ponsonby; Elegy; Sonnet xii; xiii; xix; xxxi; xxxii; To the Right Honourable Lady Eleanor Butler; and To Miss Ponsonby by Anna Seward; The Letters of Emily Dickinson (excerpt;) and from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Her Breast is Fit for Pearls; The Lady Feeds Her Little Bird; I Showed Her Hights She Never Saw; You Love Me - You Are Sure; Like Eyes that Looked on Wastes; Ourselves Were Wed One Summer - Dear; Be Mine the Doom; Now I Knew I Lost Her; Her Sweet Weight on My Heart; Frigid and Sweet Her Parting Face; That She Forgot Me was the Least; and To See Her is a Picture by Emily Dickinson; Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti; Two Friends by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; Prologue; Constancy; A Gray Mob Cap; A Girl; Unbosoming; My Lady Has a Lovely Rite; My Darling; Methinks My Love to Thee Doth Grow; Beloved Now I Love God First; Lovers; Beloved My Glory in Thee is not Ceased; She is Singing to Thee Domine; and Caput Tuum Ut Carmelus by Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper;) Together; and Martha's Lady by Sarah Orne Jewett; If You Could Come; Yellow Clover; and To One Who Waits by Katharine Lee Bates; The Fire by Helen Rose Hull; MEN'S WRITING ON A MAN TRAPPED IN A WOMAN'S BODY: The Female Husband by Henry Fielding; Psychopathia Sexualis (excerpt) by Richard von Krafft-Ebing; The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman (excerpt) by Sigmund Freud; WOMEN'S WRITING ON A MAN TRAPPED IN A WOMAN'S BODY: A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke (excerpt) by Charlotte Cibber Charke; Right of Women (excerpt from Belinda) by Maria Edgeworth; The Journal of Anne Lister (excerpt) by Anne Lister; Felipa by Constance Fenimore Woolson; The Pure and the Impure (excerpt) by Colette; Two Hanged Women by Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lendesay Richardson;) Letters - Radclyffe Hall; Vita Sackville-West's Journals (excerpt) by Vita Sackville-West; MEN'S WRITING ON THE CARNIVOROUS FLOWER: Femmes Damnees by Charles Beaudelaire; Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu; WOMEN'S WRITING ON THE CARNIVOROUS FLOWER: Words of Old Age; Crucifixa; Sappho; and Vagabonds by Marie Madeleine Baroness von Puttkamer; Chanson; Undine; Your Strange Hair; Sad Words; and Roses Rising by Renee Vivien (Pauline Tarn;) The Long Arm by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The Master Mistress; Lee; A Dream of Sappho; and The Sister by Rose O'Neill; Regiment of Women (excerpt) by Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton;) Nightwood (excerpt) by Djuna Barnes; House of Incest (excerpt) by Anais Nin; The Gilda Stories: Louisiana 1850 by Jewelle Gomez; IN THE CLOSET: THE LITERATURE OF LESBIAN ENCODING: Monsieur Qui Passe; My Heart is Lame; Absence; and On the Road to the Sea by Charlotte Mew; Miss Furr and Miss Skeene by Gertrude Stein; The Letter; Venus Transiens; Madonna of the Evening Flowers; The Weather Cock Points South; The Artist; The Garden by Moonlight; Bullion; A Shower; Summer Rain; April; Left Behind; A Sprig of Rosemary; Preparation; A Decade; and Frimaire by Amy Lowell; Bliss by Katherine Mansfield; When the Green Lies Over the Earth; A Triolet; Brown Girl; You; Your Eyes; and Naughty Nan by Angelina Weld Grimke; Moments of Being: Slater's Pins Have No Points by Virginia Woolf; Fragment Thirty-Six; The Gift; and At Baia by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle;) Like That by Carson McCullers; Selected Letters; and Everything is Nice by Jane (Auer) Bowles; Despisals; Looking at Each Other; and Cries from Chiapas by Muriel Rukeyser; Poet to Tiger; A Trellis for R; and You Are by May Swenson; AMAZONS: THE LITERATURE OF LESBIAN-FEMINISM: Rubyfruit Jungle (excerpt) by Rita May Brown; Zami (excerpt;) Meet; Love Poem; and On a Night of the Full Moon by Audre Lorde; Twenty-One Love Poems (excerpt) by Adrienne Rich; A Woman is Talking to Death by Judy Grahm; When It Changed by Joanna Russ; Last Summer at Bluefish Cove by Jane Chambers; In the Attic of the House by Jane Rule; The Lesbian Body (excerpt) by Monique Wittig; Amazon Twins; Sleeping Beauty; Rapunzel; and Snow White by Olga Broumas; They Did Not Build Wings for Them; Dinosaurs and Larger Issues; and Etlekhe Verter Oyf Mame-Loshin/A Few Words in the Mother Tongue by Irena Klepfisz; For Willyce; My Lady Ain't No Lady; Have You Ever Tried to Hide; and Bother by Pat Parker; FLOWERINGS: POST-LESBIAN-FEMINIST LITERATURE: For Sharol Graves; Dream Lesbian Lover; Getting Down; Your Tongue Sparkles; and Night Visits by Chrystos; Her Name Is Helen by Beth Brant (Degonwadonti;) A Chinese Banquet; How Can I Show This Poem to Geraldine; and It's in the Name by Kitty Tsui; Was It Quite Like That; In That Particular Temple; Because of India; and We Can Compose Ourselves by Suniti Namjoshi and Gillian Hanscombe; Later She Met Joyce; La Dulce Culpa; and Loving in the War Years by Charrie (Lawrence) Moraga; Gulf Dreams by Emma Perez; The Passion: The Queen of Spades (excerpt) by Jeanette Winterson; The Penis Story by Sarah Schulman; Runaways Cafe I; February 25; Future Conditional; Saturday Morning; and Bloomingdale's I by Marilyn Hacker; The Finishing School by Pat Califia; Kittatinny; What Goes Around Comes Around or The Proof if in the Pudding; and San Juan 1979 by Cheryl Clarke; A Crystal Diary by Frankie Hucklenbroich; The Woman Who Hate Me by Dorothy Allison; All the Women Caught in Flaring Light; A Waving Hand; The Place Lost and Gone the Place Found; and The Laughing Place by Minnie Bruce Pratt; Photo in the Locket; He Told Us He Wanted a Black Coffin; Mummy and Donor and Deirdre; and Dressing Up by Jackie Kay. Scans are available for all books. First Edition Very Good Hard Cover 8vo

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Connolly, John. Every dead thing. Coronet, 1999.
18 cm 0-340-72898-1 Homicide cop Charlie "Bird" Parker was drunk when the killer known as the Travelling Man dissected his wife and his daughter. Parker's guilt and obsession with revenge have taken him well beyond the law, causing him to beat a pimp to death and accept the friendship of a notable hitman. Yet his old colleagues know that any one of them might have gone down the same path, in the same circumstances, and they and FBI man Woolrich still find him and his obsessions useful. Leaving mayhem and destruction in his wake, Parker finds every private investigation he takes leading him back to his family's killer--is this an obsession, or is he treading a maze of murder built just for him? And can the obsessed Parker accept the love of a bright woman pathologist without wrecking her life as well? Small Virginia towns with guilty secrets, the drugs deals that unite smart New York society with the madness of a decadent Mafia dynasty, the very different gang wars of New Orleans and the mysteries of the Louisiana swampland--this is an intelligent book packed with puzzles, characters and brilliantly visualised locations that most thriller-writers would have spun out for a series. --Roz Kaveney Mike Ripley, Crime Critic of the Daily Telegraph 'a genuine, gripping page-turner which shreds the nerves and is certain to be one of the thrillers of 1999.'.

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Westlake, Donald E. Tomorrow's Crimes - Anarchaos and Other Stories of Fantastic Suspense, New York The Mysterious Press 1989
ISBN: 0-89296-299-2 Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Design By Barbara Buck; Dust Jacket Illustration By Sonja Lamut and Nenad Jakesevic

viii, 264pp. Black quarter-cloth, purple paper boards, gilt spine lettering, purple endpapers. Dust jacket price 18.95. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half-title page. Prolific American writer, master of caper-comedies and hard-boiled crime stories. Westlake has also written under the pseudonyms Curt Clark, Tucker Coe, Timothy J. Culver, Samuel Holt, and Richard Stark. Westlake's career has spanned over 40 years. Chance plays a big role in Westlake's world, already in his early fiction, but more especially in his comedy crime novels. Life is unpredictable but Westlake's characters believe they can control it. They take calculated risks and are in trouble when something completely unpredictable happens. Parker, a cold-blooded, ruthless thief, is one of the author's [writing as Richard Stark] most famous characters. Parker is true only to his own code of right and wrong in the world of crime. If he is betrayed he is ready to do anything to have his money back - revenge being perhaps the only reason for his existence. In Mitch Tobin, an ex-New York City cop, Westlake [writing as Tucker Coe] created a disillusioned, guilt-ridden hero, who gradually finds his way back to normal life from his building project, a concrete wall around his backyard. The non-violent John Archibald Dortmunder and his fairy-tale world of slapstick crooks became a kind of opposite to the cold and serious Parker. Dortmunder works with a bumbling band of good-natured thieves: Andy Kelp, a car thief and an eternal optimist, Stan Murch, a getaway driver, and Tiny Bulcher. Most of these stories deal with the planning and executing of a complex feat. Although his plans are ingenious, they go wrong because of unforeseen coincidences. Dortmunder has not heard of the 'Chaos Theory' - a tiny change can have a huge effect in a chaotic system Westlake has won numerous awards, including three Edgars, and he has been made a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. In 1997 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Boucheron committee. His screenplay for The Grifters from Jim Thompson's novel received an Oscar nomination. Although Westlake's books have been popular in Hollywood and he has worked as a screenwriter, he has been faithful to his native city. New York City is his favorite base, and in his stories Westlake has depicted its people, life, streets, bars, and famous buildings and institutions with affection, expertise, and irony. "The author of original and literate suspense novels, Westlake excels also at creating mystery adventures in science-fiction settings. The selections in this volume, nine short stories and a book-length story, 'Anarchaos' , originally appeared in SF magazines. Anarchy/chaos is the condition of society on the planet where Rolf Malone arrives from Earth after serving time for murder. While he lacks most human emotions, Rolf does love his brother Gar who was killed on Anarchaos, and he is bent on vegeance. Westlake conveys unbridled horror as the lone Earthling, though cunning and violent, is outnumbered by creatures of Hell, the city where events reach a climax. Both the novella and a much shorter cautionary tale, "Hydra," carry an implied warning about future life in a polluted world. Other entries relieve the grimness, displaying the author's sense of humor, particularly in a sendup of Hammett's fat man seeking the fabled bird and Poe's detective spotting the missing paper, "The Ultimate Caper: The Purloined Letter." - Publishers Weekly. Book and dust jacket are in Fine, unblemished, unread condition. No remainder markings. Signed by Author First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Connolly, John: Every Dead Thing, New York, NY, U.S.A. Simon & Schuster 1999
ISBN: 0684857146 Very Fine

Hardcopy with black paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, silver printing on spine, is in VERY FINE condition. (UNREAD) Signed by author on title page. Brodart-wrapped DJ, NOT price-clipped, is VERY FINE. Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his former partner asks him to track down a missing girl, Parker finds himself drawn into a world beyond his imagining: a world where thirty-year-old killings remain shrouded in fear and lies, a world where the ghosts of the dead torment the living, a world haunted by the murderer responsibile for the deaths in his family -- a serial killer who uses the human body to create works of art and takes faces as his prize. But the search awakes buried instincts in Parker: instincts for survival, for compassion, for love, and, ultimately, for Killing. Aided by a beautiful young psychologist and a pair of bickering career criminals, Parker becomes the bait in a trap set in the humid bayous of Louisiana, a trap that threatens the lives of everyone in its reach. Driven by visions of the dead and the voice of an old black psychic who met a terrible end, Parker must seek a final, brutal confrontation with a murderer who has moved beyond all notions of humanity, who has set out to create a hell on earth: the serial killer known only as the Traveling Man. Signed by Author First Edition/First Printing Stated Very Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Black Paper-Covered Boards

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