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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: $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
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
By: Smiley, Jane
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196814
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 371 pp. 8vo. 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. T... View more info
By: Smiley, Jane
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196815
Condition: Very Good
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 Greenlanders is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas. Set in the fourteenth century in Europe’s most farflung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains, The Greenlanders is the story of one family–proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter ... View more info
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By: Smiley, Jane
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1991
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196818
Condition: Near Fine
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 info
By: Smiley, Jane
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc.: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196830
Condition: Near Fine
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 info
By: Smiley, Jane
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2269284
ISBN: 0671425986
Condition: Very Good
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 info
By: Smiley, Jane
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Lipper / Penguin: 2011
Seller ID: 2273750
ISBN: 0143119923
Condition: Near Fine
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 Smiley naturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such as Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. As his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels, Smiley's Charles Dickens is at once a sensitive profile of the great master and a fascinating meditation on the writing life. Smiley evokes Dickens ... View more info
By: Smiley, Jane
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274195
ISBN: 0394577736
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Top edge lightly foxed. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 371, [3] pp. 8vo. 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 accl... View more info
By: Smith, Rosamond [Oates, Joyce Carol]
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Dutton: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196935
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Signed by author (as Joyce Carol Oates, not pseudonymously) without inscription on title page. Publisher's review slip laid in. Spine base faintly discolored. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 276 pp. 8vo. A novel by National Book Award winning author Joyce Carol Oates, who has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize multiple times. Published under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. Maggie teaches piano at the Conservatory. Beneath the surface of the academic community, sinister passions are stirring. Suddenly, with a savage act of rape, Maggie's civilized ... View more info
By: Spiegelman, Art
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Pantheon Books: 1991
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2288014
ISBN: 0679729771
Condition: Very Good
First printing. Pulitzer Prize sticker on front wrapper worn, sticker on rear wrapper, wrappers rubbed, ink name on front wrapper flap. 1991 Trade Paperback. 135, [3] pp. The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as 'the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' (Wall Street Journal) and 'the first masterpiece in comic book history' (The New Yorker). A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with J... View more info
By: Stafford, Jean
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269280
Condition: Very Good
First edition. A bit smoky, jacket faintly toned, a couple tiny spots on top page ridge. 1969 Hard Cover. 463, [3] pp. 8vo. These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom and the desire to belong, that not only illuminate whole lives but also convey with an elegant economy of words the sense of the place and time in which her protagonists find themselves. CONTENTS: Author's Note; THE INNOCENTS ABROAD: M... View more info
By: Steinbeck, John
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1852586
Condition: Very Good
First edition, first state. 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 info
