New York: BALLANTINE BOOKS, 1968. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 1919 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Eighteen space explorers had died or disappeared on Nacre, a planet dominated by mushrooms, spore-clouds, a dim sun, and strange one-eyed creatures called mantas. Next, a trio of scientists make their way to this strange..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 367 pages. 21 x 15.5 cm. Based in Berkeley, early 1960's, this is a story of three women and the different paths they took. Board and interior clean. Dust wrapper toned, chipped, with closed tears. More
New York: THE VIKING PRESS, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. 21 x 14 cm. The second (and last) novel from the first lady of food writing (the first was written under the pseudonym Victoria Berne and co-written with her husband at the time Dillwyn Parrish). Dedicated to her third..... More
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New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. 210 pages. 20 x 13.5 cm. A food-themed travel novel featuring a chef, and his friends as they journey through the Loire Valley of France. Jones highlights his sensory-rich prose while capturing the romance and artistry of French gastronomy as..... More
![Item #4584 [CULINARY] [NOVEL] High Bonnet. Idwal Jones](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4584.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1746033198)
New York: PRENTICE-HALL, 1945. Hardcover. 184 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Signed by the author on a tipped in piece of paper on the front free end paper. A satirical and affectionate look at the world of haute cuisine, focusing on the ambitions, artistry, and the behind-the-scenes politics of professional..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 336 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. The iconic, passionate novel that explored some totally new territory - a highly sexual intellectual woman, a writer, and the craziness and misery of the war between the mind and the body. Interior..... More
Chicago: ARMOUR & COMPANY, 1905. Staplebound. Unpaginated [31pp.] 21.5 x 12 cm. A "Tale" in the manner of Alice in Wonderland - Little Suey Day, a young girl, falls asleep under a big oak tree and is visited in her dreams by talking pigs and "colored gentlemen, dressed up like..... More
![Item #3968 [LGBTQIA+] The Light from the Second Story Window. David L. Allen](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3968.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699997564)
New York: Exposition Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 89 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Scarce novel that touches on the Los Angeles Police brutality against homosexuals in the 1970's. The author, David L. Allen, is listed (on the title page) as the President of the Institute of Psychological Research &..... More
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New York: The Colonial Company, Limited, 1903. Four (20 x 13 cm.) plates mounted on (35 x 27.5) gray boards, along with a portrait of the artist and heavily chipped portfolio cover. This set, from a portfolio published by The Colonial Company after the illustrations commissioned by Herbert S. Stone..... More
![Item #3700 [RACIST CONTENT] JOHNNY KILROY; The Autobiography of a "White Nigger" As Told to and...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3700.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687982287)
New York: Carlton Press, Inc., 1969. Hardcover. 203 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Bizarre novel featuring a twisted protagonist, Johnny Kilroy; a homosexual Mulatto, who also happens to be a schizophrenic murderer. Interior and boards crisp and clean, dust wrapper toned and lightly soiled. More
New York: DOUBLEDAY, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 246 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 Originally published in Spanish as "Como Aqua Para Chocolate", the novel combines elements of magical realism with a rich portrayal of Mexican culture and traditions. The story is set in early 20th-century Mexico and follows the life of..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. Hardcover. 231 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Owner's inscription on front free end paper. Interior clean, boards heavily rubbed at corner with fraying at head and tail of spine. Hinges cracked but holding. More
Madras: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 215 pages. Presentation copy - Signed by the author on the half title page. Black and white photo of the author pasted in on the rear of the frontispiece - also, a New York Times article from May 21, 1944, taped to..... More
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 166 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Peter McGehee (1955-1991) was a gay Arkansas born novelist who was praised for his sly humor that explored the hypocritical society that rationalizes its own moral lapses while enforcing a narrow minded morality upon others..... More
New York: E. P DUTTON & CO. INC., 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 168 pages. 21 x 15 cm. The Passionate Epicure, a novel by Marcel Rouff, first published in 1925 and Translated here by "Claude", is set in France and follows the life of the main character, an epicurean who..... More
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Boston: The Good Gay Poets, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. 202 pages. 22 x 13.5 cm. John Wieners (1934-2002) - born in Boston, Wieners was a Beat poet and member of the San Francisco Renaissance, Wieners was also an antiwar and gay rights activist. His poetry combines candid accounts of sexual..... More