First edition - a paperback original. Publisher's errata slip laid in. 1995 Trade Paperback. 64 pp. A play co-written by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. View More...
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by both authors without inscription on title page. 1998 Trade Paperback. 60 pp. A play co-written by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. View More...
6th printing. Lacks jacket. Spine toned, corners a bit rubbed, light penny-sized spot on top edge of rear board. 1943 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 740, [2] pp. 8vo. The first novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series. From the acclaimed author of The Jungle: The first in a Pulitzer Prizewinning historical saga about the son of an American arms dealer during WWI. Lanning 'Lanny; Budd spends his first thirteen years in Europe, living at the center of his mothers glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boarding scho... View More...
Publisher:
New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1957
Seller ID: 2173041
ISBN: 0374162441
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
1979 13th printing (the year Singer won the Pulitzer Prize). Signed I B Singer without inscription on front endpaper - he sometimes signed in this manner, sometimes with his first name and middle initial, and sometimes with his full name. Crease to bottom edge of jacket, faint crease down front jacket flap, jacket lightly toned. Very good. 1957 Hard Cover. 205 pp. When Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1979, the Swedish Academy praised his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life. But ... View More...
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Small spot on top page ridge, corners slightly pushed. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 558 pp. 8vo. By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Thousand Acres.The Greenlandersis an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas.Set in the fourteenth century in Europes most farflung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains,The Greenlandersis the story of one familyproud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose w... View More...
Signed by author without inscription on title page. Minimal wear to corners. 1991 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. Unpaginated. Wrappers. An excerpt of the novel that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, printed a year before its release. A thousand acres, a piece of land of almost mythic proportions. Upon this fertile, nourishing earth, Jane Smiley has set her rich, breathtakingly dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters, of sisters, of wives and husbands, and o... View More...
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 174 pp. 8vo. By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Thousand Acres. 'In her first nonfiction work, the author of Barn Blind fashions what she calls a friendship quilt from interviews with artisans who see their choice to live in the the New York Catskill Mountains region as being significantly entwined with their decision to live by craftsmanship. Fourth-generation Catskill dwellers as well as recent escapees from Manhattan explore a diversity of craft, which ... View More...
First edition. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. Signed without inscription by author on title page. A bit smoky, top page ridge a bit foxed, light crease on front jacket flap corner. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 224 pp. 8vo. The second novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley is known for her exceptionally wide-ranging talent and keen takes on everyday life. Her novel A Thousand Acres was made into a critically acclaimed motion picture starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange, and her new novel, The All-True T... View More...
Minor sticker adhesive on rear wrapper. 2011 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 212 pp. With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status,Jane Smileynaturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such asGreat ExpectationsandA Christmas Carol. As his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels, Smiley'sCharles Dickensis at once a sensitive profile of the great master and a fascinating meditation on the writing life. Smiley evokes Dickens as he might ha... View More...
Eighth printing. Sticker on front jacket flap. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 371 pp. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A thousand acres, a piece of land of almost mythic proportions. Upon this fertile, nourishing earth, Jane Smiley has set her rich, breathtakingly dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters, of sisters, of wives and husbands, and of the human cost of a lifetime spent trying to subdue the land and the passions it stirs. The most critically acclai... View More...
First edition, second state (broken 'b' on p. 62, line 5). Boards lightly soiled, front free endpaper removed, jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from spine foot, jacket lightly toned. 1942 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 188 pp. Original blue cloth, silver titles. A military novella clearly intended to mirror World War II and the occupation by the Nazis, although in this story the occupying nation remains unnamed. It was written to encourage resistance among the oppressed. View More...
First paperback printing. Pages toned, edges lightly rubbed. 1951 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 182 pp. This novel has ben cited by some critics as the most representative of Steinbeck's versatile gifts. This simply-told story of a California community living in a long valley floored with green pasturage, has all the liteary qualities which have made its author famous-the clear-cut characterization, the carefully detailed background, the incisive incident, the purposeful but unlabored pointing up of the inherent ironies in human hope and endeavor. View More...
First edition, second state (broken 'b' on p. 62, line 5). Minor damage to bottom corner, jacket edges rubbed. 1942 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 188 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth, silver titles. A military novella clearly intended to mirror World War II and the occupation by the Nazis, although in this story the occupying nation remains unnamed. It was written to encourage resistance among the oppressed. View More...
First photoplay edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners, ink name on top of first text page. Good. 1943 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 188 pp. 8vo. Film stills on jacket, plates of scenes from motin picture throughout text. A novel focusing on the occupation of a small town during World War II, which inspired a film of the same name the following year. Written with a purpose to motivate resistance movements in occupied countries, it cleverly avoids mentioning names of countries, though it clearly depicts events mirroring the German occupation of N... View More...
1942 photoplay edition. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, jacket lightly rubbed. 1935 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 316, [1] pp. 8vo. Jacket features image of Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamar, and John Garfield, who starred in the 1942 motion picture adaptation. A novel by the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. View More...
9th printing. Lacks jacket. Spine toned, two small spots on front board. 1939 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 473, [1] pp. 8vo. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, interrupted by prose-poem interludes, chronicles the struggles of the Joad family's life on a failing Oklahoma farm, their difficult journey to California, and their disillusi... View More...
12th printing. Lacks jacket. Front hinge just starting, ink owner stamp on front endpaper. 1939 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 619, [1] pp. 8vo. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, interrupted by prose-poem interludes, chronicles the struggles of the Joad family's life on a failing Oklahoma farm, their difficult journey to California, a... View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1983
Seller ID: 2285628
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Near Fine
Faint smudge on spine, top edge faintly foxed. 1983 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 424 pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, interrupted by prose-poem interludes, chronicles the struggles of the Joad family's life on a fa... View More...
First edition. Lacks scarce jacket. Spine slightly faded, pencil name on front endpaper. 1923 Hard Cover. 311, [3] pp. 8vo. A humorous romantic novel set in Venezuela, by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Vaiden Trilogy (volume two, entitled The Store, won him the prize). Fombombo was Stribling's third novel, published just a year after Birthright, which was originally serialized in Century magazine, and is considered his first serious effort at a long-form work (The Cruise of the Dry Dock, published in 1917, was his first attempt, but was seen as somewhat derivative). Birthright put St... View More...
Publisher:
New York, Little, Brown & Company: 2013
Seller ID: 2306633
ISBN: 0316055433
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Reprint. Light stain on rear jacket panel, edges rubbed. 2013 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 775 pp. Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the un... View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979
Seller ID: 2307085
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Near Fine
Spine slightly faded. 1979 Full-Leather. 361 pp. Full orange-brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Charles Hamrick. With more than one million copies in print since its first publication in 1959, this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic details the journey of 13-year-old Jaimie and his father from Kentucky to gold-rush California in 1849. View More...
Publisher:
New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company: 1957
Seller ID: 2303772
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Lacks jacket. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed. 1957 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 215 pp. First book by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Good War. Includes sketches by Robert Galster. Studs Terkel's first book, Giants of Jazz, is the master interviewer's unique tribute to America's jazz greats... The thirteen profiles in this 'luminous' (Jazzwise) collection weave together stories of the individual jazz musicians' lives with the history of the jazz era, and the music's evolution from the speakeasies of New York to the concert halls of the wo... View More...
Publisher:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1980
Seller ID: 2307201
ISBN: 0807106577
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
1981 6th printing in second state jacket (Chicago Sun-Times blurb on rear panel). Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket price clipped, jacket edges a bit rubbed with 1/2 inch closed internal tear on rear corner and 1/4 inch abrasion on spine. 1980 Hard Cover. vii, [5], 338 pp. 8vo. Foreword by Walker Percy. A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published by LSU Press in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide. The book was published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a revealing foreword) and Toole's mother Thelma Toole, qu... View More...
Publisher:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1980
Seller ID: 2307202
ISBN: 0807106577
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
1999 17th printing. $24.95 jacket price, Pulitzer Prize mention on front panel. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1980 Hard Cover. vii, [5], 338 pp. 8vo. Foreword by Walker Percy. A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published by LSU Press in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide. The book was published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a revealing foreword) and Toole's mother Thelma Toole, quickly becoming a cult classic, and later a mainstream success. Toole posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. It is no... View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1988
Seller ID: 2279749
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Near Fine
First edition, preceding the Alfred A. Knopf trade edition. Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. 1988 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 327, [3] pp. 8vo. Sea foam full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled Color frontispiece by Lane Smith. Franklin Library's Signed First Edition Society released signed, limited editions of new works that preceded the trade editions, with a special foreword and frontispiece that appear only in the limited edition. Unfolding over the course of a single emotionally fraught day, this stunning nove... View More...
First edition. A very nice copy. 2018 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vii, 300 pp. Willa Drake has had three opportunities to start her life over: in 1967, as a schoolgirl whose mother has suddenly disappeared; in 1977, when considering a marriage proposal; and in 1997, as a young widow trying to hold her family together. So she is surprised when in 2017 she is given one last chance to change everything, after receiving a startling phone call from a stranger. Without fully understanding why, she flies across the country to Baltimore to help a young woman she's never m... View More...
First trade edition. Faint crease along front jacket edge, otherwise an excellent copy. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 512 pp. 8vo. Updike's fourth and final Rabbit novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 - the second in the series to do so. View More...
First thus (first trade edition, following Franklin Library edition). Quarter inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, minor tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel. Remainder mark on page base, top page ridge very lightly bumped. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 512 pp. 8vo. Updike's fourth and final Rabbit novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 - the second in the series to do so. View More...
Second printing. Rear jacket panel creased, light general wear to jacket. Remainder mark, ink stamp on title page. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 512 pp. 8vo. Updike's fourth and final Rabbit novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 - the second in the series to do so. View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1990
Seller ID: 2289785
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Fine
First edition, preceding the Alfred A. Knopf trade edition. Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. 1990 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 512 pp. 8vo. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Two-page color image precedes title page. Updike's fourth and final Rabbit novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 - the second in the series to do so. Franklin Library's Signed First Edition Society released signed, limited editions of new works that preceded the trade editions, with a special f... View More...
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