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By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270895
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 208 pp. In this exquisite new novel by bestselling writer Elizabeth Berg, a young woman falls in love -- and learns how sorrow can lead to an understanding of joy. Katie, the narrator, has relocated to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father, and she feels very much alone: her much-loved mother is dead; her new school is unaccept... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271022
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Author trading card laid in. A very nice copy. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 192 pp. In this superb collection of short stories, the bestselling author of Open House and Talk Before Sleep takes us into the times in women’s lives when memories and events cohere to create a sense of wholeness, understanding, and change. In Ordinary Life, Mavis McPherson locks herself in the bathroom for... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271023
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,... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Pocket Books: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271025
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 ... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271026
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 i... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Atria Books: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271027
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 ... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271028
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... View more info
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Publisher: Otto A. Berliner: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2202747
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 nam... View more info
By: Bernard, Jessie
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Free Press: 1981
Edition: 2nd Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2202132
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 REG... View more info
By: Berry, Romeyn
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Century House: 1950
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2062121
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 seve... View more info
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Publisher: The Brethren Publishing House: 1941
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1536014
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: Blakemaore, Jean
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Smiling Cow Shop: 1952
Edition: Signed Copy
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2275129
Signed by author with inscription, To Mr. W. B. Thompson with best wishes, Jean Blakemore, July 1954. Quarter size surface tear on front wrapper which does not obscure text, rear wrapper creased. 1952 Spiral-Bound Softcover. 118 pp. A guide to the gems and minerals of Maine. View more info
By: Bloom, Amy
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Random House: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271001
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 140 pp. Amy Bloom has won a devoted readership and wide critical acclaim for fiction of rare humor, insight, grace, and eloquence, and the same qualities distinguish Normal, her first full-length work of nonfiction. In Normal, the National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award finalist explores sex and gender... View more info
By: Bloom, Amy
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Random House: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271002
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 kn... View more info
By: Bloom, Amy
Price: $12.00
Publisher: HarperCollins: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271003
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
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
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 advocat... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Barracuda Books Limited: 1975
Edition: Signed Copy
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2265073
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
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. ... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Charter Publisher, Rochester: 1915
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2164351
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
By: Bok, Edward
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1920
Edition: Reprint
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2180821
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: Bolger, Stuart
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Flower City Printing: 1985
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2193521
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
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
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
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 g... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271005
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 hyp... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271006
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
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 lesbi... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271009
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 o... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: An Atlantic Monthly Press Book/Little, Brown and Company: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2281544
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 N... View more info
