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By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271023
ISBN: 1400061601
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 206 pp. In this rich and deeply satisfying novel by the beloved author of The Art of Mending, and Open House, a resilient woman embarks upon an unforgettable journey of adventure, self-discovery, and renewal. Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew. Pursuing a dream of a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simply daily routines. Among those who help her in both expected and unexpected wa... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Pocket Books: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271025
ISBN: 0743411323
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 214 pp. Resigned to her life alone, fifty-one-year-old spinster Myra Lipinsky endures her isolation by immersing herself in her career as a visiting nurse, in which role she is reunited with Chip Reardon, the onetime golden boy she adored from afar in high school, who has returned to his New England hometown to live while he deals with an incurable illness. View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271026
ISBN: 0679457224
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 241 pp. What do you do when your life isn't living up to your dreams? When the man you love is unavailable, and yet you long for a family, a home? What is the cost of compromising until the real thing comes along? Reading Elizabeth Berg is like having a friend sit down and talk with you about the deepest truths and most perplexing issues in life, and in this exquisite new novel the bestselling author of Talk Before Sleep and The Pull of the Moon once again gives... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Atria Books: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271027
ISBN: 074341134X
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 214 pp. Living with her stern, unapproachable father and his new wife after the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Katie finds herself lonely and forges an alliance with Cynthia, a fellow misfit, but when she tries to become part of the in-crowd, she loses her best friend and learns some valuable lessons about herself, her dreams, and her past. View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271028
ISBN: 0375501002
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 241 pp. In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along, a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart. Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more p... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Otto A. Berliner: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2202747
ISBN: 1419668404
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author: To Preston Faulkner with the very best wishes. Otto A. Berliner. Edges rubbed. 2007 Trade Paperback. 594 pp. Passionate, immense and deeply moving, The Cobbler of Normandy by Otto A. Berliner is set in the midst of forecasting Overlord, code-word for the invasion of Normandy, the largest sea born invasion in history. With so much at risk, five must prove their true patriotism and valor as they maneuver enemy lines in the name of sacrifice, duty, and survival. Historical Fiction Winner of NBR.org's Best Book of 2007 Award.Keywords: OTTO BERLINER CO... View more info
By: Bernard, Jessie
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Free Press: 1981
Edition: 2nd Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2202132
ISBN: 0029030005
Condition: Very Good
2nd printing. Signed by author and inscribed: For Elizabeth O'Hera with best regards, Jessie Bernard 10/19/81. Edges very lightly rubbed.Crease to front and rear wrapper of jacket and jacket spine. 1981 Hard Cover. x, 614 pp. A sociological look at the sphere of women examines its patterns and trends, compares it with the world of men, and relates both concepts to politics and economics.Keywords: JESSIE BERNARD FEMALE WORLD BRILLIANT EXPLORATION PREVIOUSLY UNCHARTED REGION SPECIAL WORLD OF WOMEN WOMENS STUDIES SOCIOLOGY HISTORY PSYCHOLOGY View more info
By: Berry, Romeyn
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Century House: 1950
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2062121
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed without attribution and signed by author ('with every good wish, Romeyn Berry') on title page. Corners a bit rubbed, faint stain to spine base. 1950 Hard Cover. 96 pp. 8vo. A collection of short pieces written by an American sports administrator and author who attended Cornell University to study law, practiced in New York City, fought in World War I, and returned to Cornell to become involved in their sports program. He was also the head of several national sports committees. The title refers to his 65 acre farm in Jacksonville, New York, which was the subject of one ... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Brethren Publishing House: 1941
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1536014
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Signed & dated by author on title page. Two light creases to edge of title page. 1941 Hard Cover. xvi, 343 pp. 9 1/4 x 6 3/8. 8vo. An autobiographical account of missionary work in Sudan by a member of the Church of the Brethren. Acquired as part of a large collection on the Brethren, from the working library of a divinity school professor. View more info
By: Blanchard, Ken; Shula, Don
Price: $30.00
Publisher: HarperBusiness: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2287862
ISBN: 0066621038
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author (Don Shula). Sticker adhesive on rear jacket panel. 2001 Small Hard Cover. 117 pp. Are the people who report to you giving you their best? Is each individual on your team performing to his or her fullest potential? For more than thirty years, renowned business consultant and bestselling author Ken Blanchard and legendary NFL coach Don Shula have motivated teams to peak performances. In their classic, authoritative work on coaching, Everyone's a Coach, they distilled their rich collective experience down to its key elements and shared their secrets for inspiring ... View more info
By: Bloom, Amy
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Random House: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271002
ISBN: 0375502688
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 163 pp. A great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and breadth of a novel. Amy Bloom writes great short stories. Her first collection, Come to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and here she deepens and extends her mastery of the form. Real people inhabit these pages, the people we know and are, the people we long to be and are afraid to be: a mother and her brave, smart little girl, each coming to terms wi... View more info
By: Bloom, Amy
Price: $12.00
Publisher: HarperCollins: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271003
ISBN: 0060182369
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 177 pp. A first collection of short stories features tales of psychiatrists crossing professional boundaries, a small girl in need of love, a frightened father in need of redemption, and wives who become mistresses. View more info
By: Bloom, Amy
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Random House: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271004
ISBN: 0679441093
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 205 pp. This stunning novel by National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom, author of Come to Me, follows the passions of Elizabeth Taube from childhood to middle age, as she finds herself through love--good, bad, and dangerous. View more info
By: Blough, Roger M.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University / Columbia University Press: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2275901
ISBN: 0915604035
Condition: Very Good
Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on front endpaper ('To Julian Street, With warm regards, Roger Blough, 12/23/75'). This would be Julian Street, Jr., as his father passed away in 1947. This volume was acquired along with a collection of other books from Street's personal library. Jacket toned. 1975 Hard Cover. 161, [3] pp. 8vo. An analysis of government regulation of businesses by the former Chairman of U.S. Steel, assessing specific historical examples and advocating for shared responsibility between corporations and government in guiding regulation. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Barracuda Books Limited: 1975
Edition: Signed Copy
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2265073
ISBN: 0860230074
Condition: Near Fine
Signed by author with inscription, With best wishes. Front jacket flap clipped, jacket faintly toned. 1975 Large Hardcover. 147 pp. A history of Banbury, illustrated with black-and-white maps and illustrations. View more info
By: Blue, Ally; Buchanan, Jade; Mitchell, K.A.; Young, Amanda
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2263420
ISBN: 1599987767
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Inscribed and signed by author on title page (using her real name, Colleen). 2008 Trade Paperback. 260, [8] pp. Guilty pleasures - we all have them. And four of Samhains top m/m erotica writers are serving them up. Taboo Desires by Amanda Young has a man facing a choice - give in to his desire for a man, or go back to his safe, straight life. In Custom Ride by K.A. Mitchell, a summer storm brings more than one man out of the closet. Ally Blues Catching a Buzz gives a whole new meaning to personal electronics. And two werewolves mark each other as mates wit... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Charter Publisher, Rochester: 1915
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2164351
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed without attribution & signed in pencil by author on front flyleaf ('With the good will and regard of J A Bluntach'). Owner sticker on title page, some loss of gilt from titles on front board, minimal pencil marginalia. 1915 Hard Cover. 216, [1] pp. 8vo. A celebration of the power of the human mind, with some philosophical and religious underpinnings, written in the form of a novel. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury: 2005
Edition: Signed Copy
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2287725
ISBN: 1582346453
Condition: Near Fine
SIGNED by author with inscription. First edition. Rear jacket faintly rubbed. 2005 Hard Cover. He's a spit-and-polish Marine, a competitive boxer, a classics scholar, and an assistant DA in Manhattan. New York tabloids call him pit bull for his relentless prosecution of high-profile defendants like Sean Puff Daddy Combs and the baby-faced butchers of Central Park. When Baghdad fell, Colonel Matthew Bogdanos was in southern Iraq, tracking down terrorist networks through their financing and weapons smuggling?until he heard about the looting of the museum. Immediately setting out across the deser... View more info
By: Bok, Edward
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1920
Edition: Reprint
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2180821
Condition: Good
1921 14th printing. Inscribed & signed by author on front endpaper ('An obstacle is simply a difficulty to overcome - Edward W. Bok December 1921 -'). Edges lightly stained, front hinge just starting, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1920 Hard Cover. 462 pp. A Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography by the long-time editor of Ladies Home Journal who coined the term 'living room'. View more info
By: Boland, Terry; Beeche, Arturo E.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Eurohistory.com: 2018
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2289592
ISBN: 0994583001
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed without inscription by Arturo Beeche on half-title page. Bottom corner very lightly bumped. 2018 Large Hardcover. v, [1], 230 pp. Genealogical tables on endpapers. Death of a Romanov Prince follows the brief life-journey of Prince Oleg Konstantinovich, one of the lesser-known members of the powerful and privileged Russian Imperial family. He was a talented young man of intellectual and artistic genius. Oleg was the gifted son of the talented Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, who wrote under the pseudonym of KR. The Grand Duke was a friend of Tchaikovsky, who set his ... View more info
By: Bolger, Stuart
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Flower City Printing: 1985
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2193521
Condition: Near Fine
Inscribed to local businesswoman/philanthropist & signed by author on title page ('to Jean Groff - with best regards, Stuart Bolger'). Groff's address sticker on title page. 1985 Large Softcover. 103 pp. Depicts the different historical buildings and events that helped shaped Genesee Country. Stuart Bolger, an architectural historian, was the long-time director of Genesee Country Village. View more info
By: Booth, Waller B.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Dorrance & Company: 1972
Edition: First American Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276901
ISBN: 0805917047
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on front endpaper ('All best wishes to my old friend, Pete Street, Wally Booth, 25 June 1976'). This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., who went by Pete to differentiate himself from his father, the prominent author. Jacket toned. 1972 Hard Cover. 168 pp. 8vo. An account of clandestine operations during World War II, by the commander of Mission Marcel-Proust. View more info
By: Bovey, Kate Koon
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Privately Printed: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2285035
Condition: Very Good
Inscribed and signed by Kate Koon Bovey on front flyleaf ('To Juliene Bryan, I am delighted to send you this book, Kate Koon Bovey'). Boards lightly stained and faded, interior excellent. 1942 Large Hardcover. 50 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A privately printed collection of letters written by Bovey to her parents from Moscow, providing a firsthand account of the coronation of Czar Nicholas II. View more info
By: Boyd, Blanche M.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Daughters, Inc.: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201035
Condition: Very Good
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. Top edge lightly foxed. 1973 Trade Paperback. 169 pp. Author's first book. Diane Hamilton comes of age in a world peopled by troubled women. Not that these are weak women, but they are women who have tried to face life down and failed. Nerves is a novel of generations of women--mother, daughter, aunt, friend of the family. Diane is the strength we all have in adolescence and the fear we felt of growing up female and defeated. It is rare to find a book that explores the tension this creates between mother and daughter.-... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271005
ISBN: 0679400907
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed and dated (June 3, 1991) by author without inscription. A nice copy. We have more books available by this author!. 205 pp. No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with her Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young woman in the 1960s and '70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard, finds herself as a lesbian, then very nearly loses herself to booze and shamans. And though the w... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271006
ISBN: 0025142704
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1977 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 214 pp. An intensely powerful, understated novel about contemporary Southern life, the struggle of the new generation with themselves, their past, and their region. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271007
ISBN: 039451050X
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 159 pp. This intoxicating book by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An underground classic since its initial publication, it is the wildly funny personal testament of Blanche McCrary Boyd, sixties radical and born-again Southerner, a lesbian with an un-P.C. passion for skydiving and stock-car racing, a graduate of Esalen and kundalini yoga who now takes her alte... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271009
ISBN: 0679430083
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 255 pp. In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint, or slept with anyone besides my husband. A year later I had left Nicky, changed my name from Ellen to Rain, and moved to a radical lesbian commune in California named Red Moon Rising, where I was playing the Ten of Hearts in an outdoor production of Alice in Wonderland when two FBI agents arrived to arrest the Red Queen . . . So begins Blanche McCrary... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: An Atlantic Monthly Press Book/Little, Brown and Company: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2281544
ISBN: 0316104671
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Jacket spine lightly toned. Page ridge very faintly foxed. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 437 pp. Author's first novel. Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Music—a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle’s tremendous gifts as a storyteller. Set in the late eighteenth century, Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, through London’s seamy gutters and Scotland’s scenic... View more info
By: Boyle, T.C.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Viking: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2199485
ISBN: 0670030058
Condition: Good
Signed by author without inscription. First edition. Faint smell of smoke, top page edges lightly foxed.Very Good. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 303 pp. Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T. C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, his sixth collection of stories, Boyle exhibits his maturing themes, speaking to contemporary social issues in a range of emotional keys. The sixteen stories gathered here, nin... View more info
