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Price: $35.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2282248
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Lacks jacket. Spine lightly toned, boards lightly soiled, front hinge just beginning to loosen. 1938 Hard Cover. 428 pp. 8vo. Inspiration for the MGM film starring Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, and Claude Jarman, Jr. A Pulitzer Prize-winning classic originally published in 1938, Rawling's timeless story of backwoods Florida and the tender relationship of a young boy and his tame fawn continues to delight and enthrall readers. Woodcut illustrations by Edward Shenton head each chapter. View more info
By: Royko, Mike
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Jove Book: 1985
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2269105
ISBN: 0515084166
Condition: Very Good
First printing. Spine creased, wrappers lightly rubbed, pages faintly toned. 1985 Mass Market Paperback. 324 pp. A selection of one hundred of Royko's columns, from the last twenty years, includes lampoons of newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch and Ronald Reagan and portraits and anecdotes about Chicago and its inhabitants. View more info
By: Russo, Richard
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries: 2002
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2208189
Condition: Very Good
Spine faintly creased, pages faintly toned. 2002 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 483 pp. With Empire Falls Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America’s most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it’s Janine, Miles’ soon-to-be ex-wife, who’s taken up with a noxiousl... View more info
By: Russo, Richard
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries: 2002
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2294445
ISBN: 0375726403
Condition: Fine
Reprint. 2002 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 483, [1] pp. With Empire Falls Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America’s most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it’s Janine, Miles’ soon-to-be ex-wife, who’s taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor.... View more info
By: Russo, Richard
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2016
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2297765
ISBN: 0307270645
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Jacket edges bumped. Bottom corner of front board bumped. 2016 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 477 pp. Everybody’s Fool picks up roughly a decade since we were last with Miss Beryl and Sully on New Year's Eve 1984. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it’s hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years . . . the ultra-hapl... View more info
By: Russo, Richard
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2019
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2298286
ISBN: 1101947748
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. A nice copy. 2019 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 301 pp. One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin' age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971: the disa... View more info
By: Russo, Richard
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries: 2007
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2298715
ISBN: 1400030900
Condition: Near Fine
2007 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 641 pp. Lucy is sixty years old and has spent his entire life in Thomaston, New York. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty of reasons not to be—chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and created an “empire” of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a... View more info
By: Russo, Richard
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries: 1994
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2298716
ISBN: 0679753338
Condition: Near Fine
Third printing. Wrapper edges very lightly rubbed. 1994 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 549 pp. This slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of foll... View more info
By: Russo, Richard
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries: 1994
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 2298717
ISBN: 0679753826
Condition: Fine
Fifth printing. A fine copy. 1994 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 418 pp. Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money, and, inevitably, another set of false teeth. His ex-wife, Anne, is stuck in a losing battle with her mother over the care of her sick father. And their son, Randall, is deliberately neglecting his school work--because in a place like Mohawk it do... View more info
By: Saroyan, William
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2286232
Condition: Near Fine
First edition, preceding the McGraw-Hill trade edition. 1976 Full-Leather. 230 pp. Light brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Cartoon-style illustrations by Al Hirschfeld. A novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Human Comedy, which was adapted to an Academy Award winning film starring Mickey Rooney. View more info
By: Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press: 1965
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2291055
Condition: Very Good
Book club edition. Lacks jacket. Smudge on top edge, ink gift note on front endpaper. 1965 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 1087, [1] pp. 8vo. As special assistant to the president, Arthur Schlesinger witnessed firsthand the politics and personalities that influenced the now legendary Kennedy administration. Schlesinger's close relationship with JFK, as a politician and as a friend, has resulted in this authoritative yet intimate account in which the president 'walks through the pages, from first to last, alert, alive, amused and amusing' (John Kenneth Galbraith).... View more info
By: Schlesinger, Arthur M.; Salinger, Pierre
Price: $60.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1992
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274887
Condition: Near Fine
Publisher's insert and blank bookplates laid in. 1992 Full-Leather. Complete in two volumes. xv, [5], 1087, [11] pp. 8vo. Original dark green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece of Kennedy, new foreword by Pierre Salinger. As special assistant to the president, Arthur Schlesinger witnessed firsthand the politics and personalities that influenced the now legendary Kennedy administration. Schlesinger’s close relationship with JFK, as a politician and as a friend, has resulted in this authoritative yet intim... View more info
By: Shaara, Michael
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Random House: 1993
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2286990
ISBN: 0679425411
Condition: Near Fine
2nd printing of 1993 reissue. Remainder mark on top page edge. xix, [1], 374 pp. 8vo. A superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant.--James M. McPherson, Author of Battle Cry of Freedom. In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fi... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Stoddart: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196943
ISBN: 0773720928
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 313 pp. 8vo. A mystery by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Viking: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196944
ISBN: 0670873926
Condition: Near Fine
First U.S. edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 339 pp. 8vo. A novel by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. A detailed look at the ordinary life of Larry Weller between 1977 and 1997 follows the floral designer as he deals with the rapidly changing world and two marriages and two divorces along the way. View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $175.00
Publisher: The Borealis Press: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196155
ISBN: 0919594271
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1977 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 81 pp. Carol Shields' critical examination of the work of Susanna Moodie is divided into three chapters: Mrs. Moodie and the Complex Personality, Mrs. Moodie and Sexual Reversal, Mrs. Moodie and the Social Structure. Following the text is a bibliography that includes many works of interest to those studying Canadian literature. View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Blizzard Publishing: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197968
ISBN: 0921368135
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1990 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 100 pp. A stage play by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $85.00
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197974
ISBN: 0070923779
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Spine head and foot lightly pushed, minor transfer on front endpaper. 1980 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 216 pp. A novel by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $500.00
Publisher: The Borealis Press: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196153
ISBN: 0919594085
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Handwritten postcard written to previous owner (in different ink than the title page signature) signed by Shields and dated 29/5/02 laid in. An interesting combination of early and late signatures - the author passed away in 2003. 1972 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 60 pp. Author's first book. A collection of poetry by the American-born Canadian author most well-know for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Stone Diaries. This work was never published in the United States. View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $250.00
Publisher: The Borealis Press: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196154
ISBN: 0919594271
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Wrappers slightly toned. 1974 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 59 pp. The second collection of poetry by the American-born Canadian author most well-know for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Stone Diaries. Keywords: CAROL SHIELDS INTERSECT POEMS POETRY PULITZER PRIZE WINNER SIGNED FIRST EDITION View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Random House: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196945
ISBN: 0394222180
Condition: Near Fine
First edition (Canadian). Signed by author without inscription on title page. Jacket lightly toned. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 366 pp. 8vo. A novel by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. 'The Republic of Love marries a wide diversity of elements, mythical and modern, ironic and moving, exhilarating and melancholy!a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive.' Times Literary Supplement 'The Republic of Love is a hymn to the pleasures and pains, the raptures even of an unspectacular life. Fay discov... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Random House: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197970
ISBN: 0394221001
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Page ridge faintly foxed. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 199 pp. A collection of twelve short stories by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. “Milk Bread Beer Ice” is a road trip shared by a husband and wife who no longer communicate through meaningful dialogue. Fifty-year-old “Hazel” is forced to enter an alien workplace after the sudden death of her husband. In “Today Is the Day,” the village women gather together for their annual r... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Random House Canada: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197975
ISBN: 0679311793
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 321 pp. 8vo. A novel by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. I'm not interested, the way some people are, in being sad. I've had a look, and there's nothing down that road. Well now! What about the ripping sound behind my eyes, the starchy tearing of fabric, end to end; what about the need I have to curl up my knees when I sleep? For all of her life, 44 year old Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happin... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Fourth Estate: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197976
ISBN: 1841151645
Condition: Near Fine
First UK edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 249 pp. 8vo. A collection of short stories by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. A bestselling collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry's Party (winner of the Orange prize). All over town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife's lace-trimmed night gown and waltzes around his bedroom; Tamara is no longer the dull clerk receptio... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Blizzard Publishing: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197980
ISBN: 0921368305
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Rear wrapper a bit toned. 1993 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 61 pp. A play by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. Keywords: CANADIAN LITERATURE CANADA THEATRE THEATER PLAYS DRAMA PULITZER PRIZE WINNER CAROL SHIELDS THIRTEEN HANDS SIGNED FIRST EDITION View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Harbourfront Reading Series: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197981
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - limited to 550 copies, including 150 signed and numbered by the author. This copy is the latter, hand-numbered 83 and signed by Shields on the limitation page. 1997 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 10 pp. A brief work by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. Keywords: CANADIAN LITERATURE CANADA PULITZER PRIZE WINNER CAROL SHIELDS FLATTIES SIGNED FIRST EDITION View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Fourth Estate: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197983
ISBN: 1857021541
Condition: Near Fine
First UK edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 361 pp. 8vo. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel by the prolific Canadian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor-General's Award, and short-listed for the Booker Prize. 'The Stone Diaries' is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth on a kitche... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $50.00
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201019
ISBN: 0070825475
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1977 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 213 pp. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries. Charleen, a divorcee eking out a living as a poet and part-time assistant for an obscure scientific journal, returns home to attend her mother's wedding, and is caught up in a series of unexpected--and terrifying--events. Keywords: CAROL SHIELDS CANADIAN LITERATURE CONTEMPORARY FICTION BOX GARDEN PULITZER PRIZE View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $25.00
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2271313
ISBN: 0070923779
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Faintly smoky, top edge lightly foxed. 1980 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 216 pp. A novel by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. View more info
By: Shields, Carol & Catherine
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Blizzard Publishing: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2197979
ISBN: 0921368593
Condition: Near Fine
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. KEYWORDS: CANADIAN LITERATURE CANADA THEATRE PLAYS DRAMA View more info
