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...
Publisher:
New York, Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books: 1960
Seller ID: 2295375
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
First editions. Rabbit, Run includes first state jacket with 16-line blurb on front flap. First volume: jacket lightly rubbed with minimal loss from corners, ink initials on front endpaper. Second volume: front free endpaper removed. Third volume: publisher stamp on page base, faint crease on front jacket flap. 1960 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Four hardcover volumes. 307, [3]; 406, [2]; 467, [5]; 512, [6] pp. 8vo. The saga of Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom. Books three and four in the series both won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1982 and 1990). Because the publication... View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1977
Seller ID: 2304824
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Fine
Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. Publisher's book support laid in. An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 342 pp. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Book one (of four) in the Rabbit series. Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of hisor any othergeneration. Its hero is Harry Rabbit Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and s... View More...
Book club edition. Edges lightly foxed. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 512 pp. Updike's fourth and final Rabbit novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 - the second in the series to do so. In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry Rabbit Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring, and s... View More...
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxv, 225 pp. 8vo.America's beloved author of The Color Purple writes here about her life as an activist, in a book rich in belief in the world as savable, if only we will act on our beliefs. Here are a superb writer's thoughts on politics, culture, feminism, race, religion, raising a daughter, writing and living. View More...
Publisher:
New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.: 1973
Seller ID: 2196020
ISBN: 0151444056
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. White portions of jacket very faintly toned. 1973 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 138 pp. 8vo. A collection of thirteen short stories exploring the hardships of life as an African American woman in the South. Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict black women-women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. View More...
Publisher:
New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1981
Seller ID: 2196021
ISBN: 0151997543
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Spine foot faintly pushed. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 167 pp. 8vo. A collection of fourteen short stories by the author who later became a household name with the publication of The Color Purple. Keywords: ALICE WALKER YOU CANT KEEP GOOD WOMAN DOWN SHORT STORIES SIGNED FIRST EDITION LITERATURE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER View More...
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 222 pp. 8vo.A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico--the writer-to-be, Susannah; her sister, Magdalena; her father and mother.And there, amid an endangered band of mixed-race Blacks and Indians called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change them more than they could ever dream.Moving back and forth in time, and among unforgettable characters and their stories, Walker crosses conventional borders of all kinds as she explores i... View More...
First edition. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 213 pp. 8vo.The Pulitzer Prizewinning author ofThe Color Purple,Possessing the Secret of Joy,andThe Temple of My Familiarnow gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey. InNow Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her ?nest achievements: the story of a womans spiritual adventure that becomes a passage through time, a quest for self, and a collision with love. Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published ... View More...
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 200 pp. 8vo.These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated, ungrounded in a way that challenged everything I'd ever thought about human relationships. Situated squarely in that terrifying paradise called freedom, precipitously out on so many emotional limbs, it was as if I had been born; and in fact I was being reborn as th... View More...
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 463 pp. 8vo.An anthology of poetry shares a keen historical perspective on the spiritual, social, and political issues of the last three decades, in works including Once and Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems. Keywords:PULITZER PRIZE WINNER LITERATURE POEMS POETRY ALICE WALKER HER BLUE BODY EVERYTHING WE KNOW SIGNED FIRST EDITION View More...
2nd printing. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxi, 229 pp. 8vo.The Pulitzer Prizewinning author ofThe Color Purplegives us her first new collection of poetry in more than a decade, poems that reaffirm her as one of the best American writers of today (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems inAbsolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Alice Walker opens us up to feeling and understanding with poems that cover a broad spectrum of emotions. With profound a... View More...
First edition. Near fine. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 105 pp. Throughout her distinguished career, Alice Walker's work has been at the center of controversies around language, censorship, truth and art. Alice Walker Banned explores just what it is that various groups have found so threatening in Walker's work, bringing together the short stories Roselily and Am I Blue?, an excerpt from the novel The Color Purple, as well as testimonies, letters, and essays about attempts to censor Walker's work by the California State Board of Education. The introduction by S... View More...
First edition. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 222 pp. 8vo.A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico--the writer-to-be, Susannah; her sister, Magdalena; her father and mother.And there, amid an endangered band of mixed-race Blacks and Indians called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change them more than they could ever dream.Moving back and forth in time, and among unforgettable characters and their stories, Walker crosses conventional borders of all kinds as she explores in this magical novel the ways in which a woman's den... View More...
