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Welcome to Lightholder Books! Specializing in rare, vintage, and first editions of short-story collections, women in translation, poetry, and other fiction and nonfiction.
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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
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Queer by William S. Burroughs
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Nearer the Moon by Anais Nin
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Woolgathering by Patti Smith
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The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
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About Time by Penelope Mortimer
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Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy
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Colette: A Passion for Life by Genevieve Dormann
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Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
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Poems 1909-1925 by T. S. Eliot
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Poetry and Consciousness by Daisy Aldan
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The Last Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy
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My Wicked Ways by Sandra Cisneros
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Transformations by Anne Sexton
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The Rebel by Albert Camus
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Lover by Marguerite Duras
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Emily L . by Marguerite Duras
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Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
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Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Cosima by Grazia Deledda
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Classic Ballroom Dances by Charles Simic
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Eureka Mill by Ron Rash
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Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
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Later the Same Day by Grace Paley, signed
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Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy
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Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief by Maxine Kumin
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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
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Queer by William S. Burroughs
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Nearer the Moon by Anais Nin
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Woolgathering by Patti Smith
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The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
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Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy
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Poems 1909-1925 by T. S. Eliot
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Poetry and Consciousness by Daisy Aldan
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My Wicked Ways by Sandra Cisneros
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Transformations by Anne Sexton
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Poems of Humor & Protest by Kenneth Patchen
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Separations by Marilyn Hacker
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Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
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The Temptation of Jack Orkney & Other Stories by Doris Lessing
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Great Days by Donald Barthelme
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Amateurs by Donald Barthelme
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Overnight to Many Distant Cities by Donald Barthelme
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Burnt Water by Carlos Fuentes
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Nearer the Moon by Anais Nin
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Woolgathering by Patti Smith
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Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy
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Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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Poetry and Consciousness by Daisy Aldan
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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books by Alfred Habegger
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