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By: Beattie, Ann
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1976
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2200708
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages toned.Jacket toned. 1976 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 283 pp. A collection of 19 short stories, many of which previously appeared in print, mostly in The New Yorker. The author's list of characters is diverse: a lifeguard who wants to introspect, a suburban couple and a spaceman, a wife who stops talking to her husband but gets up in the middle of the night to mail letters to him.The... View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Harbourfront Reading Series: 1997
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Seller ID: 2200923
Signed by author without inscription. #48 of 150 signed, numbered copies, from a total edition of 550. Faint smudge to rear wrapper. 1997 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 25 pp. Ann Beattie discusses what it is to be a writer, analyzing her own writings and the writings of others.Keywords: ANN BEATTIE DECEIVING TO CONVEY TRUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE ESSAYS LITERARY CRITICSIM BIOGRAPHY View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Metacom Press: 1981
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Seller ID: 2200924
Signed by author without inscription. #34 of 250. Prospectus laid in. Near fine. 1981 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 20 pp. Nicholas has died sometime during the past year from injuries incurred while he was taking a midnight ride on his Harley and a drunk, driving a van, hit him head-on. Last year, on his birthday, he was alive but in the hospital, brain-damaged from the accident. This year, on his birthday, he is dead, and the narrator and he... View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Scribner: 2001
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2271515
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 347 pp. Presents a new collection of short stories involving characters who are coming to terms with the legacies of long-believed family myths, describing how they confront new circumstances such as weakness or sudden success. View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 1982
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2271516
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket faintly toned, front jacket flap creased. Jacket ghosting on front board. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 256 pp. A collection of the author's most recent stories features their unnervingly sophisticated young people and older folks striving for wisdom and grace, all of whom are rendered by an acclaimed stylist. View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
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Publisher: Random House: 1978
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2271517
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Minor pencil marginalia. 1978 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 307 pp. These fifteen stories by Ann Beattie garnered universal critical acclaim on their first publication, earning Beattie the reputation as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction. View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Linden Press: 1986
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2271518
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1986 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 191 pp. A collection of short fiction reflects on coping with life's inevitable sadness. View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
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Publisher: Scribner: 2002
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2271519
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 279 pp. A powerful and unsettling novel follows three unforgettable characters--Nina, a reclusive copyeditor, who, since her husband's death, has been obsessed with her brother Andrew's sexual exploits and indiscretions; Beattie, their mother, who spins her own tale of her children; and Andrew, who shares his own perspective on life--as they at... View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
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Publisher: Random House: 1991
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2271577
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 237 pp. A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies--a remarkable and moving collage of contemporary lives. View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 1989
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2271578
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps and edges of boards very faintly toned. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 230 pp. Picturing Will, the widely acclaimed new novel by Ann Beattie, unravels the complexities of a postmodern family. There's Will, a curious five-year-old who listens to the heartbeat of a plant through his toy stethoscope; Jody, his mother, a photographer poised on the threshold of celebrity; Mel, Jo... View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1997
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2271579
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 307 pp. Dara Falcon is brilliant, manipulative, a pathological liar. The novel's narrator, Jean Warner, is perfect prey for her. Suddenly Jean's life, her marriage--her idea of herself--are dramatically wrenched out of their seemingly comfortable, if unexamined, balance. And in the process, one of Ann Beattie's urgent themes--the sometimes... View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
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Publisher: Random House: 1980
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2271580
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very lightly toned. 1980 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 342 pp. High-school student John Joel and a group of sophisticated friends learn about love, friendship, and life as they grow up in the 70's. View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1995
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2271581
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps faintly toned. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 323 pp. To her latest novel, Beattie brings the same documentary accuracy and Chekhovian wit and tenderness that have made her one of the most acclaimed portraitists of contemporary American life. Marshall Lockard, a professor at the local college, is contemplating adultery, unaware that his wife is already committing it. View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
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Publisher: Random House: 1985
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2271582
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps lightly toned. 1985 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 247 pp. Lucy Spenser, the Miss Lonelyhearts of a chic counter-cultural magazine, finds her unflappable Vermont life completely upended by her teenaged soap-opera-star niece, Nicole, and her hangers-on. View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Scribner: 2005
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2271583
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305 pp. Ann Beattie's Follies is a superb novella and collection of stories about adult children, aging parents, and the chance encounters that irrevocably alter lives. Beattie, winner of four O. Henry prizes, has been called one of our era's most vital masters of the short form (The Washington Post Book World). She is a masterful observer... View more info
By: Beattie, Ann
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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1998
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2271584
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 477 pp. Thirty-six stories--eight appearing in a book for the first time and a generous selection from her earlier collections--give us Ann Beattie at stunning mid-career. Emotionally complex, edgy, and funny, the stories encompass a huge range of tone and feeling. The wife of a couple who have lost a child comforts her husband with an ama... View more info
By: Beck, Glenn
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Threshold Editions: 2007
Seller ID: 2200168
Signed by author without inscription on title page, certificate of authenticity bound in. 5th printing. 2007 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 295 pp. The world is a mess. It seems that every time you turn around, there's another problem: Iran is developing nuclear capabilities. Public schools actually seem to be making our kids dumber. Charlie Sheen has a hit sitcom. Obesity is a national epidemic. The divorce rates is rising faster than gas... View more info
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Publisher: Purple Mountain Press: 2001
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Seller ID: 2204389
Signed by author without inscription. Faint stain, spine very faintly creased, sticker to front and rear wrapper, ink name. 2001 Soft Cover. 394 pp. When it was published in 1992, it was the first new comprehensive history of Lake George and Lake Champlain in thirty years. The first printing received enthusiastic reviews, quickly sold out and the book was subsequently reprinted three times. Virtually the whole book has been rewritten for this revised edition, integrating... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Manzler Publishing Company: 1926
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Seller ID: 2197278
Presentation copy. Signed by Lester W. Bellows (Compiler) to Dr. H.J. Knickerbocker, inscribed: May the possession of this volume be a constant reminder of my friendship, dated Feb. 21, 1927. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, pages toned. 1926 Hard Cover. vii, 429 pp. At the annual meeting of the Seneca County Medical Society held at Waterloo, N.Y., July 23, 1885, a resolution was introduced by the late Dr. Samuel R. Welles, and adopted by the society, that a commi... View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1938
Edition: 3rd Printing
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Seller ID: 2260769
3rd printing in supplied jacket. Inscribed and possibly signed by author on title page, though it is unusual for Bemelmans to sign with initials ('To Harriet, LB'). Boards lightly rubbed with some light stains to spine and rear board, minor loss from jacket spine ends. 1938 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 260 pp. By the author of the famous Madeline series. An autobiographical sketch of Ludwig Bemelmans's life. Illustrated by the author. View more info
By: Bender, Aimee
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Publisher: Doubleday: 2005
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2270999
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 208 pp. Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt... View more info
By: Bennett, Paul L.
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Publisher: Abelard-Schuman: 1961
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2195673
First edition. Pages toned, pages foxed, signed by author with inscription.Jacket toned, quarter-inch tear to jacket along top edge. 1961 Hard Cover. 191 pp. Two boys resolve to set aside their differences after a tragedy and play an important role in solving a mystery. A story of suspense, danger, fun, and hard work. View more info
By: Benoit, Charles
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press: 2006
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2197675
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2006 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 234 pp. 8vo. At 27, Jason Talley of Corning, New York, leads an orderly life, precisely processing loans for a mortgage company. Its warmest spot is his friendship with Sriram Sundaram and his lively wife Vidya. One night Sriram secretly confides he's planning a trip home to India to visit his mother and asks Jason to hold her gift, a gorgeous... View more info
By: Benoit, Charles
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press: 2004
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2197692
First edition. Signed by author. Near Fine.Very Good. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 340 pp. Picture a hotel room in 1948 Singapore. Picture a dispute between black marketer and thief Russell Pearce and an associate-an associate who opens fire and murders Russell Pearce. Fast forward to present-day Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Young Doug Pearce, just fired from his steady job in the brewery, has never strayed far from home. But he's always fo... View more info
By: Benton, Allen H.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Marginal Media: 1988
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Seller ID: 1535170
Signed & inscribed by author. Address label on front flyleaf. 1988 Spiral-Bound Softcover. 222 pp. CONTENTS: Part I. The World of Mammals; Part II. The World of Birds; Part III. The World of Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles; Part IV. The World of Insects and Spiders; Part V. The World of Plants; Part VI. Man and Wild Worlds. View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Random House: 1993
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2270888
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 192 pp. Author's first novel. On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for her breasts to blossom; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, Diane, have struggled ... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
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Publisher: Random House: 1995
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2270889
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 217 pp. After a freak accident--ice fell on him as he walked in the street--a man lies in a coma in a hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. Lainey, his wife, is the only one who believes he will recover. She visits him every day, bringing family objects and talking of home, becoming ever more aware of the wonder and richness of daily life. View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Atria Books: 2003
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2270890
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 262 pp. A searing, evocative novel of a family in turmoil focuses on a family whose ordinary life has been shattered by unexpected revelations, in a story told from the perspective of a husband who must work through denial and anguish to redemption and personal responsibility after he overnight goes from lover to roommate. View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 2004
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2270891
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 237 pp. It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets—secrets that have shaped the personalities and fates of three siblings, and now threaten to tear them apart. In renowned author Elizabeth Berg’s moving new novel, unearthed truths force one seemingly ordinary family to reexamine their disparate lives and to ask themselves: ... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
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Publisher: Random House: 1998
Edition: First Edition
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Seller ID: 2270892
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 272 pp. Do you ever really know your mother, your daughter, the people in your family? In this rich and rewarding new novel by the beloved bestselling author of Talk Before Sleep and The Pull of the Moon, a reunion between two sisters and their mother reveals how the secrets and complexities of the past have shaped the lives of the women i... View more info
