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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

Combining the social commentary of The Handmaid’s Tale with the white-knuckled thrills of Red Rising, this epic space opera follows a comfort woman as she claims her agency, a soldier questioning his allegiances, and a non-binary hero out to save the solar system. First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alongside the soldiers of Earth and Mars—the same ones who own the rights to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her, First Sister’s hopes for freedom are dashed when she is forced to stay on her ship with no friends, no power, and a new captain—Saito Ren—whom she knows nothing about. She is commanded to spy on Captain Ren by the Sisterhood, but soon discovers that working for the war effort is so much harder to do when you’re falling in love. Lito val Lucius climbed his way out of the slums to become an elite soldier of Venus, but was defeated in combat by none other than Saito Ren, resulting in the disappearance of his partner, Hiro. When Lito learns that Hiro is both alive and a traitor to the cause, he now has a shot at redemption: track down and kill his former partner. But when he discovers recordings that Hiro secretly made, Lito’s own allegiances are put to the test. Ultimately, he must decide between following orders and following his heart. A stunning and sweeping debut novel that explores the power of technology, colonization, race, and gender, The First Sister is perfect for fans of James S.A. Corey, Chuck Wendig, and Margaret Atwood.

The First Sister

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Clive Barker

Rare first edition in excellent condition. Collectible. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

A Fable

After a mysterious stranger promises to end his boredom with a trip to the magical Holiday House, ten-year-old Harvey learns that his fun has a high price

The Thief of Always

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Bruce Weber

Extremely rare first edition in excellent condition. Highly collectible.  

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Book of Newfoundlands

Gentle Giants

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Only read once- no annotations or folded corners. Very slight creasing on the front side.

Signed copy. Includes a bonus chapter and the novella Salt in the Wound.

This does end on a cliff hanger, but the next book is due in May/June 2024

California

Bookish Box Special Edition

Salt Kiss Bookish Box

Very rare first edition in excellent condition. Highly collectible. 

And Other Stories

An exhibition catalog of the author's photographs of families, young men, and elderly couples includes poetry, songs, and short stories

Branded Youth

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Alexander Liberman

Joseph Brodsky

Rare first edition in fine condition. Collectible. 

Michelangelo's Roman Capitol

Depicts Rome's Piazza del Campidoglio, its statue of Marcus Aurelius, and its palaces designed by Michelangelo

Campidoglio

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Frederick Hartt

David Finn

Rare like new first edition in fine condition. Collectible. 

The Original Model Discovered

David by the Hand of Michelangelo

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Extremely rare first edition in very fine condition. Collectible. 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Photographer Bruce Weber intended to create a book of fashion photographs, however, as he became more involved in the process, his intention evolved into the desire to chronicle how fashion can be seen in nature, architecture, and the human spirit.

Blood Sweat and Tears, or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Fashion

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Richard Avedon

Rare first edition in like new condition. 

The Naked and the Dressed

Twenty years of Versace by Avedon, this collection of beautifully produced photographs from the advertising campaigns of Gianni Versace features images of some of the most beautiful women in the world, including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista, plus show-business figures such as Elton John, Prince, and Bon Jovi. 118 photos, 69 in color.

Versace

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Herb Ritts

Extremely rare like new first edition in very fine condition. Highly collectible. 

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Extremely rare boxed set in like new condition. Highly collectible. 

Men - Women

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Emily Tesh

The cover has a little fold. It's a little noticable. Some of the cover is a little folded but not to noticeable in the back side. When standing up there's a little gap. Othan that it's still good to read. 

A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner and Crawford Award Finalist Emily Tesh's highly anticipated debut novel.

"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride."--Tamsyn Muir

While we live, the enemy shall fear us.

Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity.

They are what's left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands.

Alongside her brother's brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything she's known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.

Illumicrate Some Desperate Glory

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Carry On #2

Wayward Son (SIGNED/AUTOGRAPHED)

Uzodinma Iweala

Signed by the author! It has a sticker that says “Kepler’s Signed Edition”.

A Novel

Winner of the American Library Association’s Barbara Gittings Literature Award | An Indie Next Pick | A Barnes and Noble Best Book of the Month | A Library Journal Best Book of the Year "A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery. Speak No Evil explains so much about our times and yet is never anything less than a scintillating, page-turning read."—Gary Shteyngart "A wrenching, tightly woven story about many kinds of love and many kinds of violence. Speak No Evil probes deeply but also with compassion the cruelties of a loving home. Iweala’s characters confront you in close-up, as viscerally, bodily alive as any in contemporary fiction."—Larissa MacFarquhar In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences. On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he’s a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard in the fall, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer—an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except Meredith, his best friend, the daughter of prominent Washington insiders—and the one person who seems not to judge him. When his father accidentally discovers Niru is gay, the fallout is brutal and swift. Coping with troubles of her own, however, Meredith finds that she has little left emotionally to offer him. As the two friends struggle to reconcile their desires against the expectations and institutions that seek to define them, they find themselves speeding toward a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Neither will escape unscathed. In the tradition of Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Speak No Evil explores what it means to be different in a fundamentally conformist society and how that difference plays out in our inner and outer struggles. It is a novel about the power of words and self-identification, about who gets to speak and who has the power to speak for other people. As heart-wrenching and timely as his breakout debut, Beasts of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala’s second novel cuts to the core of our humanity and leaves us reeling in its wake. A 2018 Indie Next Pick | A Barnes and Noble Best Book of the Month | A Library Journal Best Book of 2018 | One of The Millions’ Most Anticipated Books of 2018 | One of Bustle’s 35 Most Anticipated Fiction Books Of 2018 | One of Paste's 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2018 | One of The Boston Globe’s 25 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018

Speak No Evil

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Elliot Page

Elliot Page tells his story of growing up transgender in a small Canadian town.

A Memoir

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page. A generation-defining actor and one of the most famous trans advocates of our time, Elliot will now be known as an uncommon literary talent, as he shares never-before-heard details and intimate interrogations on gender, love, mental health, relationships, and Hollywood.

Pageboy

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Annabeth Albert

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

Off Base #6

Petty Officer Bacon, a navy SEAL and ace sharpshooter, has been on the front lines of more than his fair share of dangerous ops. Yet when a minor injury relegates him to the beta team, hes tasked with what may be his riskiest assignment yet: the silver fox journalist hes babysitting is the hottest, most charismatic man hes ever encountered.

Tight Quarters (OOP)

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

North Carolina

Park Avenue Purgatory 

‘Second Chance in New Port Stephen’ included in Afterlight’s November 2023 box. Never have been read. There is a small dent on the cover; however, other than completely brand new. 

If bought, I will include the author letter and fan art!

Second Chances in New Port Stephen (Afterlight exclusive) 

Gore Vidal

Rare signed first edition in excellent condition. 

Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him. During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation. Isolated in a ramshackle White House in the center of a proslavery city, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting government as Lee's armies beat at the gates. In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals. The cast of characters is almost Dickensian: politicians, generals, White House aides, newspapermen, Northern and Southern conspirators, amiably evil bankers, and a wife slowly going mad. Vidal's portrait of the president is at once intimate and monumental, stark and complex, drawn with the wit, grace, and authority of one of the great historical novelists. With a new Introduction by the author.

Lincoln-Signed 

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Edmund White

Rare signed first edition in like new condition. 

The adventures continue for the hero of White's highly acclaimed A Boy's Own Story. Readers follow this hero from boarding school to college as he struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality.

The Beautiful Room Is Empty—Signed

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Stories

The eight stories in this erotic and heartbreaking collection are barometers of difference. They measure the distance between an American expatriate and the Frenchman who tutors him in table manners and rough sex; the gulf between a man dying of AIDS and his uncomprehending relatives. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Skinned Alive—Signed 

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Aldo Fallai

Rare first edition in excellent condition. 

Almost One Year

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Douglas Cloutier

Four incomparble men. Four exotic locations. A visual fantasy in a deluxe, limited edition volume. From the sensuousness of Morocco to the island paradise of the tropics, four top models take the reader on a magical journey.

The Douglas Cloutier Photography Book

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Patrick Roegiers

Herb Ritts is one of the most notorious and successful photographers working today. The Los Angeles-based imagemaker has created portfolios for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and other magazines, done movie ads and music videos, and worked with fashion-world clients such as Calvin Klein and Giorgio Armani. This sumptuous catalogue, published to accompany an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour I'art contemporain in Paris, includes an interview with Herb Ritts. One hundred photographs, some previously unpublished, exemplify the rigorous, disconcerting work of one of the most remarkable photographers of the contemporary art, fashion, and entertainment worlds.

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The First Sister

Clive Barker

The Thief of Always

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Gentle Giants

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Salt Kiss Bookish Box

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Branded Youth

Alexander Liberman; Joseph Brodsky

Campidoglio

Frederick Hartt; David Finn

David by the Hand of Michelangelo

Bruce Weber

Blood Sweat and Tears, or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Fashion

Richard Avedon

Versace

Herb Ritts

Duo

Herb Ritts

Men - Women

Emily Tesh

Illumicrate Some Desperate Glory

Rainbow Rowell

Wayward Son (SIGNED/AUTOGRAPHED)

Uzodinma Iweala

Speak No Evil

Elliot Page

Pageboy

Annabeth Albert

Tight Quarters (OOP)

Micah Enloe

Park Avenue Purgatory

Tj Alexander

Second Chances in New Port Stephen (Afterlight exclusive)

Gore Vidal

Lincoln-Signed

Edmund White

The Beautiful Room Is Empty—Signed

Edmund White

Skinned Alive—Signed

Aldo Fallai

Almost One Year

Douglas Cloutier

The Douglas Cloutier Photography Book

Patrick Roegiers; Herb Ritts

Herb Ritts