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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: Shaara, Michael
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Random House: 1993
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2288487
ISBN: 0679425411
Condition: Near Fine
4th printing of 2001 reissue. 1993 Hard Cover. 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 fields. Shattered ... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Stoddart: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196943
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
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
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
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
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
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.K... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $250.00
Publisher: The Borealis Press: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196154
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
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 discovers... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Random House: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2196946
Condition: Fine
First edition (Canadian). An exceptional copy. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 366 pp. 8vo. All three short story collections by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries, issued together in one volume, along with a previously unpublished story entitled 'Segue'. Includes: Segue; Various Miracles; The Orange Fish; Dressing Up for the Carnival.KEYWORDS: FICTION CANADIAN LITERATURE CANADA SHORT STORIES STORY View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Random House: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197970
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 ri... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Random House Canada: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197975
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 happines... 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 reception... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Blizzard Publishing: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197980
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 kitchen... 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
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
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
By: Shields, Carol; Williamson, Dave
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Blizzard Publishing: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197978
Condition: Near Fine
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.Keywords: CANADIAN LITERATURE CANADA THEATRE THEATER PLAYS DRAMA CAROL SHIELDS PULITZER PRIZE COMEDY SIGNED FIRST EDITION ENTERTAINMENT View more info
By: Sinclair, Upton
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1945
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 2268261
Condition: Very Good
5th printing. Lacks jacket. Spine toned with light nickel-sized spot. Interior excellent. 1945 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 631, [1] pp. 8vo. Original beige cloth, maroon stamped titles, red top page ridge. List of Sinclair's books follows text. A novel by author of The Jungle, the third in the Lanny Budd series, Dragon's Teeth won Sinclair the Pulitzer Prize upon its publication in 1943. The series follows socialiate Lanny Budd through various political events of the United States and Europe - this volume covers the period from the 1929 crash on Wall Street ... View more info
By: Sinclair, Upton
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Viking Press: 1943
Edition: 6th Printing
Seller ID: 2269263
Condition: Very Good
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 Prize–winning 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 mother’s glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boardin... View more info
By: Sinclair, Upton
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Viking Press: 1946
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2269265
Condition: Very Good
Book club edition. Lacks jacket. Top corners a bit rubbed. 1946 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 627, [5] pp. 8vo. A World to Win is the seventh novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series. First published in 1946, the story covers the period from 1940 to 1942. At the opening of this story--in Vinchy in 1940--Lanny Budd has been the intimate of the world's great--famous and notorious--for more than twenty years. Outwardly the friend and confidant of the Nazi and fascist gangsters, this secret agent of Franklin D. Roosevelt is one of the most amazing figures in mo... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York: 1957
Edition: Reprint
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2173041
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 S... View more info
By: Smiley, Jane
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster: 1981
Edition: 1st Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1888148
Condition: Very Good
First paperback printing. Signed by author and inscribed 'To Kathy' on title page. Pages lightly toned. 1981 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 224 pp. 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 Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, is set to be published in April by Knopf. Elegantly repackaged and reissued to coincide with the release of Smiley's latest off... View more info
By: Smiley, Jane
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine: 1992
Edition: 2nd Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1888151
Condition: Near Fine
2nd paperback printing. Signed by author and inscribed 'To Kathy' on title page. Pages faintly toned, sticker on back cover. 1992 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 213 pp. A novella and five short stories by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Thousand Acres. Here is a stunning collection of five stories and a novella, written in Jane Smiley's clear and elegant prose, and filled with the unmistakable sound of real people going about the business--and pleasure--of real life. In the title novella, The Age of Grief, a man meditates on the vagaries of love and famil... View more info
By: Smiley, Jane
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine: 1993
Edition: 1st Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1888153
Condition: Near Fine
First paperback printing. Signed by author and inscribed 'To Kathy' on title page. Pages faintly toned. 1993 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 306 pp. A novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Thousand Acres. They were six friends from the Midwest who moved to New York City with high hopes of making it big in the music industry. Although the dream had faded, they had all remained friends--or so it seemed. One brilliant day, two of the group were shot in an apartment for which they all had duplicate keys. A riveting suspense story about the emotional afterma... View more info
