Publisher:
New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1989
Seller ID: 2273036
ISBN: 0151885338
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Top edge lightly foxed. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 416 pp. 8vo. Described by the author as 'a romance of the last 500,000 years,' The Temple of My Familiar follows a cast of interrelated characters, most of African descent, and each representing a different ethnic strainranging from diverse African tribes to the mixed bloods of Latin Americathat contribute to the black experience in America. View More...
Publisher:
New York, Harcourt Brace & Company: 1993
Seller ID: 2197291
ISBN: 0151000611
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by Alice Walker without inscription on title page. 1993 Hard Cover. 373 pp. 8vo.The author ofThe Color Purpletravels to Gambia, Senegal, and Burkina to interview a group of women trying to eliminate the traditional practice of female clitoral circumcision, a practice forced on women by the men of those societies. View More...
Reissue. Includes original jacket with Pulitzer Prize banner along top edge. Jacket lightly rubbed. 1946 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 464 pp. 8vo. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel of American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power. View More...
Spine faintly creased, rear wrapper creased, top page ridge very faintly foxed. 1985 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 322 pp. A selection of poems from the last six decades including fifty recent poems not previously published. View More...
First edition. 1/4 inch closed tear on rear jacket edge, jacket price clipped. 1968 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. [xii], 64, [4] pp. 8vo. A collection of poetry by Robert Penn Warren, who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1947 for All the King's Men, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, in 1958 and 1979. To date, he is the only individual to receive both awards. As a literary critic, he was one of the founders of New Criticism. He co-founded the literary journal The Southern Review, and he was associated with a group of poets known as the Fugitives, and a ... View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1976
Seller ID: 2286229
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Near Fine
First edition, preceding the Random House trade edition. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xxi, [1], 294, [4] pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of All the King's Men, who remains the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. View More...
Reissue. Includes original jacket with Pulitzer Prize banner along top edge. Endpapers lightly foxed, ink name on front endpaper, jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1946 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 464 pp. 8vo. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel of American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power. View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979
Seller ID: 2306854
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Near Fine
Spine and endpaper edges faded. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 522, [1] pp. 8vo. Original brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Richard Krepel. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel of American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power. View More...
First thus. Includes publisher's slipcase and insert. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1009 pp. 8vo.Originalcloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in.The complete novels of the American author best known for her Pulitzer Prize winning The Optimist's Daughter, with chronology and notes following text.Includes:The Robber Bridegroom; Delta Wedding; The Ponder Heart; Losing Battles; The Optimist's Daughter. This edition is part of the Library of America series, published by a non-profit organization whose goal is to keep classic works of American literature... View More...
First thus. Includes publisher's slipcase. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 976 pp. 8vo.Originalcloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in.A collection of short stories and essays by the American author best known for her Pulitzer Prize winning The Optimist's Daughter, with a memoir, and chronology and notes following text.Includes:A Curtain of Green, and Other Stories; The Wide Net, and Other Stories; The Golden Apples; The Bride of the Innisfallen, and Other Stories; Other Stories; Selected Essays; One Writer's Beginnings. This edition is part of th... View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1978
Seller ID: 2307045
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Near Fine
Spine slightly faded. 1978 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 190 pp. Full brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Mitchell Hooks. This Pulitzer Prizewinning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Along in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understan... View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1980
Seller ID: 2307067
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Fine
An exceptional copy. 1980 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 250 pp. Full dark green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color illustrations by Charles Reid. A collection of short stories by the author of The Optimist's Daughter, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973. Includes: Moon Lake; Old Mr. Marblehall; The Wide Net; A Worn Path; Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden; Petrified Man; A Still Moment; Lily Daw and the Three Ladies; The Hitchhikers; Powerhouse; Why I Live at the P.O.; Livvie; The Br... View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1976
Seller ID: 2306800
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Near Fine
Spine faded. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 408 pp. Original purple leather, gilt titles and decorations, silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Basis for the motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder. Illustrations by Barnett Plotkin. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Whartons masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people 'dreaded scandal more than disease.' This is Newland Archers w... View More...
First edition. 1993 Hard Cover. 406 pp. 8vo.Aided by the gifted Mainwaring, Wharton delivers a posthumous gift to both the high and the low of brow with this novel, which was left unfinished at her death in 1937 and published in its incomplete state a year later. While filled with glamorous, class-obsessed characters and plot lines that Krantz and Sheldon might envy, it is a work of beauty--a grandly executed, full-scale counterpart to Wharton's classic story Roman Fever. Here, a Mrs. St. George, a matron of the 1870s whose husband has means but no social standing, schemes to advance her daugh... View More...
Publisher:
Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1981
Seller ID: 2281097
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Very Good
Edges lightly foxed. 1981 Full-Leather. x, [4], 294, [2] pp. Tall 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A literary sensation when it was published by Scribners in 1905,The House of Mirthquickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century. The first American novel to provide a devastatingly accurate portrait of New York's aristocracy, it is the story of the beautiful and beguiling Lily Bart and her ill-fated attempt to rise to the heights of a heartless society... View More...
Advance uncorrected proof copy of the original British edition. 'Proof copy' written in red ink on front board and title page. Spine toned. 1930 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 104, [8] pp. 8vo. A novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist playwright best known for The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Eighth Day. View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1980
Seller ID: 2306879
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Near Fine
1980 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xxi, 456 pp. Full green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Jim Campbell. Three plays in one volume, by the three-time Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright best known for Our Town, and also for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Includes: View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1976
Seller ID: 2307937
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Fine
An exceptional copy. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 148 pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color illustrations by William Maughan, including a two-page spread frontispiece. Wilder's second novel, set in Lima, Peru, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928. It is a series of interconnected narratives of the lives of several who die in a tragic bridge collapse. View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1977
Seller ID: 2306878
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. xxvii, 170 pp. Full forest green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Daniel Maffia. Two plays in one volume, by the three-time Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright best known for Our Town, and also for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey. View More...
Reprint. Small crease to wrapper. 1986 Trade Paperback. 97, [7] publisher ad. Introduction by Lloyd Richards. The 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning play about race relations, by the famous African-American playwright. View More...
First edition. Light sticker ghosting on front wrapper, jacket edges very lightly rubbed. A near fine copy in a very good jacket. 2004 Hard Cover. xvi, 299, [1] pp. From the preeminent historian of the Revolution (Jonathan Yardley), a groundbreaking study, many years in the making, of Benjamin Franklin the man, Benjamin Franklin the myth, and the roots of American character.Central to America's idea of itself is the character of Benjamin Franklin. We all know him, or think we do: In recent works and in our inherited conventional wisdom, he remains fixed in place as a genial polymath and self-i... View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1978
Seller ID: 2307088
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Near Fine
Tiny blemish on front board. 1978 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 361 pp. Full blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Edward Vebell. The novel that inspired the now-classic film The Caine Mutiny and the hit Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American ficti... View More...
Underlining, ink name on blurb page. 1999 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 67 pp. Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry) began a poetic project of astonishing scope--a series of three trilogies. The first trilogy was collected in Country Music, the second in The World of the Ten Thousand Things, and the third began with Chickamauga and continued with Black Zodiac. Appalachia is the last book in the final trilogy of this pathbre... View More...
