Category: Signed

Price: $25.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: 2002

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2201640

First edition. Signed and dated (3/18/05) by author without inscription. Top page ridge very faintly foxed.Light general wear to jacket rear. 2002 Hard Cover. 170 pp. Lily Tuck understands that emotional transformations cannot-and should not -- be easily explained. In her elegant and penetrating first collection, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived, Tuck offers a portrait of the subtle shifts that can render the accommodations we make to our lives or to our partners su... View more info

Siam, or, The Woman Who Shot a Man

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sewanee Writers' Series / The Overlook Press: 2000

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2269283

First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page ('For Madeline with best wishes, Lily Tuck'). A bit smoky, top page ridge faintly foxed, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 192 pp. 8vo. Claire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes begin bombing runs on North Vietnam. At a dinner party, she meets and befriends J... View more info

Woman Who Walked on Water

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2281552

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Page ridges very faintly foxed, faint odor of smoke. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 241 pp. A champion swimmer gives up her comfortable married life in an exclusive suburb in Connecticut to follow a guru to India, where she immerses herself in the wisdom of the East and achieves a deepening spirituality--at a price. View more info

The News from Paraguay: A Novel

By: United States Corps of Cadets; Broom, Thad. A.; Heitman, Charles S.; Whipple, William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: 2004

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2281609

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Faint stain to spine and page base. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 248 pp. For him it began with a bright blue parrot feather that fell from Ella Lynch's hat when she was horseback riding in the Bois de Boulogne. The year was 1854, and Francisco Solano Lopez -- Franco, the future dictator of Paraguay -- began his courtship of the young, beautiful Irishwoman with a poncho, a Paraguayan ba... View more info

Drawn From New England: Tasha Tudor -- A Portrait in Words and Pictures

By: Tudor, Bethany

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philomel: 1979

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author. Signed by illustrator

Seller ID: 2202495

Inscribed & signed by Tasha Tudor. First edition. Tape remnants from previous mylar on boards, top page ridge foxed, jacket spine faded. 1979 Large Hardcover. 96 pp. 8 1/4 x 10 1/4. Bethany Tudor relates the story of her mother's life through a smooth-flowing narrative, old and contemporary photographs and samples of the artist's work. View more info

Image for Anne Tyler 17-Volume Collection of Signed First Editions, with Correspondence: The Clock Winder; Celestial Navigation; Searching for Caleb; Earthly Possessions; Morgan's Passing; Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant; The Accidental Tourist; Breathing Lessons; Saint Maybe; Your Place is Empty; Tumble Tower; Ladder of Years; A Patchwork Planet; Back When We Were Grownups; The Amateur Marriage; Timothy Tugbottom Says No!; Digging to America

Anne Tyler 17-Volume Collection of Signed First Editions, with Correspondence: The Clock Winder; Celestial Navigation; Searching for Caleb; Earthly Possessions; Morgan's Passing; Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant; The Accidental Tourist; Breathing Lessons; Saint Maybe; Your Place is Empty; Tumble Tower; Ladder of Years; A Patchwork Planet; Back When We Were Grownups; The Amateur Marriage; Timothy Tugbottom Says No!; Digging to America

By: Tyler, Anne

Price: $2,250.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf / G.P. Putnam's Sons / William B. Ewert / Orchard Books: 1972

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2196140

First editions. Each (except Digging to America) signed without inscription by author on title page. The Clock Winder: board edges a bit faded, two tiny spots on top page ridge. Back When We Were Grownups includes publisher's newsletter (laid in).Your Place is Empty: 2 inch tear to base of glassine jacket spine. 1972 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. An impressive collection of novels by the Pulitzer Prize winning author, comprising all published ... View more info

Breathing Lessons (The Franklin Library)

By: Tyler, Anne

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2279749

First edition. Signed by author. 1988 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 327 pp. Green leather with gilt decorations and gilt page ridges. Golden-brown bookmark bound in, marbled endpapers. The story describes the joys and pains of the ordinary marriage of Ira and Maggie Moran as they travel from Baltimore to attend a funeral and back home again in one day. It also examines Maggie's attempts to reconcile her son and daughter-in-law. During the jo... View more info

The Howitzer 1930: The Annual of the United States Corps of Cadets [West Point]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: United States Military Academy, West Point: 1930

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2056729

Ink name (Lt. Cole, '31) on ownership page, computer print-out laid in identifies this as Loren Fletcher Cole (1909-1997), who graduated in 1931 and continued to serve until 1942. Edges lightly rubbed. 1930 Large Hardcover. 496 pp. Black & white photographs and color illustrations throughout. A student yearbook for West Point Military Academy, which includes portraits and lists of administration and students for the class of 1930, including members of sports teams and ot... View more info

The Rage of the Vulture

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Granada: 1982

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2199098

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Pages toned, jacket spine slightly faded, jacket flap edges lightly foxed. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 443 pp. 8vo. It is May 1908 and the Ottoman world is crumbling. Robert Markham, an Englishman in Constantinople, is newly posted to the British legation with his imperious wife and overly curious son. Markham's hidden life is about to make itself known as he forgets fa... View more info

After Hannibal

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2199103

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Top page ridge lightly foxed,. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 242, [1] pp. 8vo. Professor Monti is trying to interpret the history of Umbria to his students. It sometimes helps him to forget the unexpected desertion of his wife. But the themes of betrayal and gain are not consigned to history - they are there in his own life and in the mosaic of lives in his neighbourhood. View more info

The Songs of the Kings

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: 2002

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2199093

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Rear hinge slightly tender. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 244, [2] pp. 8vo. Troy meant one thing only to the men gathered here, as it did to their commanders. Troy was a dream of wealth; and if the wind continued the dream would crumble. As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis, frustration and political impotence turn into a desire for the... View more info

Losing Nelson

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: 1999

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2201639

First edition. Signed and dated (5th Aug. '99) by author without inscription. Pages toned.Fine. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 312 pp. Losing Nelson is a 1999 novel by Barry Unsworth. Its protagonist is Charles Cleasby, who is obsessed with Lord Nelson, attempts to re-enact events of Horatio's life to the point of feeling that he is the admiral, and who is writing a hagiographic biography. His typist, the down-to-earth Miss Lily, serves as... View more info

Morality Play

By: Unwin, Peter; Goncz, Arpad (Foreword)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: 1995

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2270211

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. A bit smoky, top page edge lightly foxed. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 188 pp. 8vo. The national bestseller: A medieval murder mystery full of the wonders of the time—and lessons for our own time—by a master storyteller. The time is the fourteenth century. The place is a small town in rural England, and the setting a snow-laden winter. A small troupe of actors accompa... View more info

Voice in the Wilderness: Imre Nagy and the Hungarian Revolution

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Macdonald: 1991

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 1532289

First edition. Signed by author. Includes original jacket. Lightly rubbed.Very Good. 1991 Hard Cover. 262 pp. Several pages of photographs. This biography portrays the life of Imre Nagy, who launched his revisionist New Course in 1953 to make Communism in Hungary more humane. After World War II, Nagy took his country out of the Warsaw Pact, declared neutrality and was arrested and executed, refusing to save his life by compromising. View more info

A Map of Glass: A Novel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: M&S: 2005

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2197089

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 371 pp. 8vo. Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel weaves two parallel stories, one set in contemporary Toronto and Prince Edward County, Ontario, the other in the nineteenth century on the northern shores of Lake Ontario.Sylvia Bradley was rescued from her parents’ house by a doctor attracted to and challenged by her withdrawn ways. Their su... View more info

The Stone Carvers: A Novel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: M&S (McClelland & Stewart): 2001

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2197125

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 392 pp. 8vo. In 1867 a good-natured Bavarian priest, is sent by God and mad King Ludwig to the wilds of North America. Soon the backwoods are transformed into a parish and the settlers into a congregation, and Joseph Becker, a woodcarver, meets his future wife. Several decades later, Joseph Becker teaches his astounding carving skills to his g... View more info

Away: A Novel

Price: $15.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Inc.: 1993

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2200778

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Wrappers toned, light shelf wear. 1993 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 356 pp. A stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada, Away traces a family's complex and layered past. The narrative unfolds with shimmering clarity, and takes us from the harsh northern Irish coast in the 1840s to the quarantine stations at Grosse Isle and the barely hospitable land of the Canadian Shield; ... View more info

The Underpainter

Price: $15.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Inc.: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2200779

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages toned.Near Fine. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 340 pp. A masterful novel by the highly praised author of Away, The Underpainter tells the story of a 75-year-old American minimalist painter who creates a new series of paintings as he remembers the details of his life and of the lives of those individuals who have affected him.Keywords: JANE URQUHART CANADIAN LITERATURE UNDERPAINTER... View more info

Storm Glass