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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.

New Arrivals

Textermination by Christine Brooke-Rose
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Textermination by Christine Brooke-Rose

$80.00

$80.00

Halt During the Chase by Rosemary Tonks
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Halt During the Chase by Rosemary Tonks

$425.00

$425.00

Enchanted April by "Elizabeth" Elizabeth von Arnim
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Enchanted April by "Elizabeth" Elizabeth von Arnim

$25.00

$25.00

Virginia Woolf by David Daiches
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Virginia Woolf by David Daiches

$32.00

$32.00

Moksha by Aldous Huxley
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Moksha by Aldous Huxley

$60.00

$60.00

Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin
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Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin

$15.00

$15.00

Brother Jacob by George Eliot.
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Brother Jacob by George Eliot.

$10.00

$10.00

Lifted Veil by George Eliot
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Lifted Veil by George Eliot

$10.00

$10.00

Visitors by Anita Brookner
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Visitors by Anita Brookner

$15.00

$15.00

Beautiful Mutants by Deborah Levy
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Beautiful Mutants by Deborah Levy

$20.00

$20.00

Door by Magda Szabo
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Door by Magda Szabo

$65.00

$65.00

Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg

Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg

$15.00

$15.00

Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
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Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil

$85.00

$85.00

Destroy, She Said by Marguerite Duras

Destroy, She Said by Marguerite Duras

$12.00

$12.00

Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
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Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

$110.00

$110.00

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Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg

Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg

$15.00

$15.00

Destroy, She Said by Marguerite Duras

Destroy, She Said by Marguerite Duras

$12.00

$12.00

On the Golden Porch by Tatyana Tolstaya

On the Golden Porch by Tatyana Tolstaya

$20.00

$20.00

The Rebel by Albert Camus

The Rebel by Albert Camus

$65.00

$65.00

Lover by Marguerite Duras

Lover by Marguerite Duras

$45.00

$45.00

Emily L . by Marguerite Duras

Emily L . by Marguerite Duras

$15.00

$15.00

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Poems 1909-1925 by T. S. Eliot

Poems 1909-1925 by T. S. Eliot

$45.00

$45.00

Poetry and Consciousness by Daisy Aldan

Poetry and Consciousness by Daisy Aldan

$20.00

$20.00

My Wicked Ways by Sandra Cisneros

My Wicked Ways by Sandra Cisneros

$10.00

$10.00

Transformations by Anne Sexton

Transformations by Anne Sexton

$35.00

$35.00

Poems of Humor & Protest by Kenneth Patchen

Poems of Humor & Protest by Kenneth Patchen

$28.00

$28.00

Separations by Marilyn Hacker

Separations by Marilyn Hacker

$10.00

$10.00

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