Carlene Hatcher Polite, an experimental novelist of the 1960s and ’70s whose work focused on the uneasy confluence of racism and sexism in the lives of black people, died on Dec. 7 in Cheektowaga, N.Y. She was 77 and lived in Amherst, N.Y.

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	1 HESSE, Hermann and MANN, Thomas. Hesse / Mann Letters: The Correspondence of Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann, 1910-1955. NY: Harper & Row, 1975 0060106425 / 9780060106423 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Edited by Anni Carlsson and Volker Michels. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. First printing. Very good in a very good (edge worn and age toned) dust jacket. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 HESSE, Hermann. Autobiographical Writings. NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1973 0374107335 / 9780374107338 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Edited, and with an introduction, by Theodore Ziolkowski. Translated from the German by Denver Lindley. Second printing thus. Near fine in a near fine (trace age toning to edges, corner crease to rear flap) dust jacket. Price: 18.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3 HESSE, Hermann. Autobiographical Writings. NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1972 0374107335 / 9780374107338 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Edited, and with an introduction, by Theodore Ziolkowski. Translated from the German by Denver Lindley. First printing thus. Near fine in a near fine (tiny chip in upper corner of rear panel, light vertical crease to front flap) dust jacket. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4 HESSE, Hermann. Autobiographical Writings. NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1972 037410733 5 / 9780374107338 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Edited, and with an introduction, by Theodore Ziolkowski. Translated from the German by Denver Lindley. First printing thus. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else near fine in a near fine, price clipped dust jacket. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5 HESSE, Hermann. Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth. NY: Harper & Row, 1965 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Introduction by Thomas Mann. Translated from the German by Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck. First edition thus. Very good in a very good (age toning along the spine and edges) dust jacket. ; 174 pages Price: 95.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6 HESSE, Hermann. Der Steppenwolf. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1961 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Text is in German. A later printing. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear) dust jacket. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	7 HESSE, Hermann. Gertrude. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Translated from the German by Hilda Rosner. First printing. Offsetting to paste-downs, else very good in a very good (one short closed edge tear) dust jacket. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	8 HESSE, Hermann. Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi). NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969 0030818516 / 9780030818516 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. First edition thus. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (minor shelf wear, one small chip) dust jacket. Price: 40.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	9 HESSE, Hermann. Knulp: Three Tales from the Life of Knulp. NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1971 0374182167 / 9780374182168 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. First edition thus. Upper corner of front board slightly bumped, else fine in a near fine (light vertical crease to front flap) dust jacket. A clean, attractive copy. Price: 150.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	10 HESSE, Hermann. Reflections. NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1974 0374248591 / 9780374248598 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Selected from his books and letters by Volker Michels. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. First edition. Hint of foxing to fore edge, else near fine in a near fine (one light corner crease to each flap) dust jacket. Price: 50.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	11 HESSE, Hermann. Reflections. NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1974 0374248591 / 9780374248598 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Selected from his books and letters by Volker Michels. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. First edition. About fine in a near fine, price clipped dust jacket. Price: 45.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	12 HESSE, Hermann. Rosshalde. NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1970 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. First printing thus. Very good in a very good (considerable amount of rubbing on both panels) dust jacket. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	13 HESSE, Hermann. Rosshalde. NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1970 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. First printing thus. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	14 HESSE, Hermann. Siddhartha. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1964 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Text is in German. A later printing. Previous owner’s name on front paste-down, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	15 HESSE, Hermann. Siddhartha. NY: New Directions, 1951 Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket Part of The New Classics Series. Translated from the German by Hilda Rosner. First American edition. Very good in a good second issue (surface and edge worn with a few small chips, large chip at the crown of the spine extending to the upper corner of the rear panel, lower corner of front flap is clipped – upper corner retains the $1.75 price) dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Price: 200.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	16 HESSE, Hermann. Siddhartha. NY: New Directions, 1951 Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket Number 34 in The New Classics Series. Translated from the German by Hilda Rosner. First American edition. Very good in a very good second issue (minor edge wear, a bit faded along the spine) dust jacket with the $1.75 price in the lower corner of the front flap. Dust jacket design by Alvin Lustig. ; 153 pages Price: 200.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

Author Name: CARPER, Jean and DICKERSON, Grace L. Title: Little Turtle: Miami Chief. Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Publisher: Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1959 Illustrator: Illustrated by Grace Leslie Dickerson First edition. SIGNED by Grace Leslie Dickerson. Very good in a very good (light edge wear) dust jacket. ; 175 pages Price = 100.00 USD

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	1 CARPER, Jean and DICKERSON, Grace L. Little Turtle: Miami Chief. Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1959 B000WMQDDO Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Illustrated by Grace Leslie Dickerson First edition. SIGNED by Grace Leslie Dickerson. Very good in a very good (light edge wear) dust jacket. ; 175 pages Price: 100.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 FRITZ, Jean. Double Life of Pocahontas. NY Putnam 1983 0399210164 / 9780399210167 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Ed Young. Second impression. INSCRIBED by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3 HIGHWATER, Jamake. Moonsong Lullaby. NY Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1981 068800427X / 9780688004279 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Photographs by Marcia Keegan. First printing. INSCRIBED by the author. Near fine in a near fine (trace edge wear at the spine ends and corners) dust jacket. Price: 45.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4 HOUSTON, James. Eagle Mask: A West Coast Indian Tale. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Illustrated by the author. First edition. SIGNED by the author. Very good in a very good (foxing to fore edges, lower corner of front flap is clipped) dust jacket. Price: 35.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5 LEMIEUX, Margo. Full Worm Moon. NY: Tambourine Books, 1994 0688121063 / 9780688121068 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker First printing (library binding – NOT ex-library). INSCRIBED by the illustrator in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Price: 18.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6 WOOD, Nancy. Spirit Walker. NY Doubleday 1993 0385309279 / 9780385309271 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Frank Howell. Ninth printing. SIGNED by the author. About fine in like dust jacket. Price: 65.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

Author Name: BULGAKOV, Mikhail. Title: Master and Margarita. Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Publisher: NY: Harper & Row, 1967 Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny. First edition thus. Small rectangle cut out of front free endpaper, where the previous owner’s name had been, else very good in a very good or better dust jacket. Price = 200.00 USD

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Author Name: JAMES, H. E. M. Title: Long White Mountain or A Journey in Manchuria: With Some Account of the History, People, Administration and Religion of That Country. Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888 With illustrations and a fold-out map. First edition. Thick octavo, bound in original yellow cloth with gilt lettering and borders along the spine, black decorations on front board. Dust soiling and rubbing to covers, occasional foxing throughout text block, else very good. Binding is solid, some pages still uncut. ; 502 pages Price = 300.00 USD

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	1 BORDEWICH, Fergus M. Cathay: A Journey in Search of Old China. NY Prentice Hall Press 1991 0132021366 / 9780132021364 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket Introduction by Jan Morris. First printing. Price: 10.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 CAMERON, Nigel. Barbarians and Mandarins: Thirteen Centuries of Western Travelers in China. NY Weatherhill 1970 0802724035 / 9780802724038 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Illustrated. First edition. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper, else near fine in a near fine (lower corner of front flap is clipped) dust jacket. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3 EHRLICH, Gretel. Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist. Boston Beacon Press 1997 0807073105 / 9780807073100 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4 JAMES, H. E. M. Long White Mountain or A Journey in Manchuria: With Some Account of the History, People, Administration and Religion of That Country. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888 Hardcover Very Good With illustrations and a fold-out map. First edition. Thick octavo, bound in original yellow cloth with gilt lettering and borders along the spine, black decorations on front board. Dust soiling and rubbing to covers, occasional foxing throughout text block, else very good. Binding is solid, some pages still uncut. ; 502 pages Price: 300.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5 KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos. Japan – China. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1963 Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket A journal of two voyages to the Far East: 1935 and 1957. Translated from the Greek by George C. Pappageotes. With an epilogue by Helen Kazantzakis. First American printing. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper, else very good in a good (damp mark on verso of front panel, rubbing) dust jacket. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6 KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos. Travels: Japan-China. Athens n.p. Hardcover As New A recent reprint edition in the original Greek – NOT A TRANSLATION. Octavo, brown leather with gilt lettering, 413 pages. As new. No dust jacket, as issued. Price: 65.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	7 MINGTAO, Zhang, et al. Roof of the World: Exploring the Mysteries of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. NY: Abrams, 1982 0810915588 / 9780810915589 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket 232 illustrations, including 138 color plates. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	8 UCHIDA, Ryohei. Trekking Mount Everest. San Francisco Chronicle Books 1991 0877018847 / 9780877018841 Paperback Fine Color photographs throughout. Translated from the Japanese. First printing thus (paperback). Fine in pictorial wraps. Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

An award-winning poet has won the prestigious BBC National Short Story Award with her second attempt at a short story.

Kate Clanchy, who has worked primarily as a teacher and as Poet in Residence for the Red Cross, beat an exceptional shortlist which included past Orange Prize winners Lionel Shriver and Naomi Alderman, and BAFTA-nominated author Jane Rogers.

The story, entitled The Not-Dead and The Saved is a haunting story of parental love and sacrifice set in a hospital ward. The story of a mother and child, whose relationship is conducted against a background of hospital visits, transplants and tumours, was praised by the judges for its rich lyricism and deeply affecting style.

Sara Maitland, who was shortlisted for her story Moss Witch, was awarded as runner-up. Sara is a distinguished short-story author who has had six collections published.

More than 600 entries were received for this year’s award which is open to authors who have had some history of publication and who are UK residents.

Evie Wyld, a bookseller from south London, has won the 2009 John Llewellyn Rhys prize with a debut novel set in Vietnam and Australia, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice. Read more here.

WHAT IS THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS PRIZE?

The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize rewards the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by a UK or Commonwealth writer aged 35 or under.

Past winners include Margaret Drabble (1966), William Boyd (1982), Jeanette Winterson (1987), Ray Monk (1990), Matthew Kneale (1992), David Mitchell (1999) and Sarah Hall (2006/07). Last year’s winner was Henry Hitchings for The Secret Life of Words.

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