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By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271601
First edition. Signed and dated (November 12th 1998) by author. A very nice copy. We have more books available by this author!. 232 pp. A new volume of stories from A.S. Byatt is always a joy, and this one is rich and rare indeed. The collected stories deal with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion -- the mysterious absences at the heart of the fullest lives, in settings ranging from the heat of Provence in summer to the cold forests of Scand... View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271603
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 279 pp. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women walk into a forest, as they did when they were girls, confronting their childhood fears and memories and the strange thing they saw -- or thought they saw -- so long ago. A distinguished male obstetrician and a young woman artist meet in a hospital. But both of them have... View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271604
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Small sticker on jacket rear. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 135 pp. In a trio of stories--all inspired by a particular Matisse painting--the ordinary events of everyday life are stripped away to reveal the extraordinary pain, desire, joy, and creativity of human existence. By the author of Possession. View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271606
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine head very lightly bumped. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 265 pp. In this witty, Borges-like fiction, A.S. Byatt weaves a dazzling fiction out of one man's search for fact. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas G. decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. Doing nothing by halves he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to fi... View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271607
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages moderately toned due to the type of paper used by publisher. 1985 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 358 pp. From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family-and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of B... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: G. Cadigan: 1987
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1528194
Inscribed & signed by author. Spine faded. 1987 Trade Paperback. 255 pp. A history of the Cadigan family, from early times in Ireland to today, featuring various notes, documents, etc. View more info
By: Calasso, Roberto
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270213
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Slightly smoky, top page edge faintly foxed. 2005 Hard Cover. 327, [1] pp. 8vo. From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony and Ka: an utterly original, fascinating interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka that is simultaneously an unprecedented exploration into the mystery of Kafka himself. What are Kafka’s stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270467
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Bottom edge of front board lightly bumped, otherwise a very nice copy. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 319 pp. In this novel of family and redemption, a mother struggles to save her eighteen-year-old daughter from the devastating consequences of mental illness by forcing her to deal with her bipolar disorder. New York Times best-selling author Bebe Moore Campbell draws on her own powerful... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270468
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Light smudge on top edge, gilt of jacket titles slightly rubbed away. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 372 pp. Called one of the leading black novelists of the twentieth century by The Washington Post, the author of Brothers and Sisters follows a successful producer who tries to revitalize the ghetto of her youth. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270469
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Faint smudge on top page ridge. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 533 pp. Los Angeles, 1945: When Hosanna Clark, newly arrived from the farm fields of Texas, befriends Holocaust survivor Gilda Rosenstein, she opens the door to a new life for them both. Using Gilda's knowledge of cosmetics and Hosanna's energy and determination, they begin producing a line of lipsticks and lotions for black ... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270470
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Very faint smudge on top page ridge, pages very faintly toned. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 476 pp. Struggling with her own personal issues after the Los Angeles riots, Esther Jackson, a black employee at a downtown bank, is heartened when a black man is hired as senior vice-president, until he sexually harasses her white friend and coworker. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270471
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket very faintly toned. Pages faintly toned. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 272 pp. The author recounts her relationship with her father, one that took place largely during the summer when they vacationed together, discussing how this shaped her as an adult and a woman. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270472
First edition. Signed by author with date: 12/2/92, Santa Monica. Faint smudge on top page ridge, pages very faintly toned. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 332 pp. The author of Sweet Summer turns her talents to fiction with a novel that records how a racist beating in a small Mississippi town rippled through generations, changing forever the lives of everyone involved in the incident. View more info
By: Canfield, Cass
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Harper's Magazine Press / Harper & Row: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276395
First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on front endpaper, with recipient's name erased ('with my warm regards, Cass Canfield, Oct 1971'). Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from spine head and foot. xiii, [3], 272 pp. 8vo. A biography of the president and chairman of Harper & Brothers / Harper & Row, who was responsible for launching the careers of James Thurber, E.B. White, and John Updike. Canfield also advocated for the right to birth control, and ch... View more info
By: Capote, Truman
Price: $2,250.00
Publisher: Random House: 1965
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2263973
Limited edition, #285 of 500, signed & numbered by Capote on colophon, which states 'Of the first edition of In Cold Blood five hundred copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound.' Lacks slipcase issued with this edition, but is only the more attractive for it (the slipcase was a rather plain red paper over cardboard). 1965 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 343 pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full brown mor... View more info
By: Carlson, Ron
Price: $15.00
Publisher: HarperTempest: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2199491
Signed by author without inscription. First edition. Very good.Very Good. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. Summer. Baseball. Car Baseball. Sock Ball. Wall Ball. The Time Tower: can you get older faster? The speed of light: can it be measured? A carp, washed up in the riberbank: what's inside?Larry, Witt, and Rafferty have a whole summer to play all the different kinds of baseball, to build structures in the backyard, to find o... View more info
By: Carlson, Ron
Price: $25.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2269565
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. A bit smoky. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 223, [1] pp. 8vo. A collection of stories about midlife includes tales of a single mother who keeps house on an aircraft carrier and a new father who is seduced by a motorcycle. By the author of Truants. View more info
By: Carlson, Ron
Price: $25.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2281549
First edition. Signed by author with inscription, For Esta and Bob from their friend, Ron Carlson. Front jacket panel clipped with price intact. Very faint odor of smoke. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 255 pp. Collin Elder and Louisa Berg, having trouble with their fathers, quit their home situations for life on the road and meet eighty-four-year-old Will Clare while searching for a future in the streets of Utah and Nevada. View more info
By: Carlson, Ron
Price: $40.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2269564
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('For Steve, who has been true! Your friend, Ron Carlson'). A bit smoky, page ridges faintly foxed. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 224 pp. 8vo. A dozen stories feature a young man who discovers that Eden is not a permanent residence, a baseball player who accidentally becomes a killer, and a teenager from Phoenix who experiences an unsettling sexual awakening. View more info
By: Carpenter, Liz
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1538223
First edition. Inscribed & signed by author on front endpaper. Includes original jacket. Jacket toned, 1 inch tear on front jacket panel.Good. 1970 Hard Cover. xv, 341 pp. 9 3/8 x 6 1/2. A memoir of her service as a vice presidential aide and her White House years as Mrs. Johnson's staff director and press secretary. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mary Elizabeth Liz Sutherland Carpenter (September 1, 1920 – March 20, 2010) was a writer, feminist, former reporter, media advisor, spe... View more info
By: Cash, Johnny
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House: 1975
Edition: 2nd Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276244
2nd printing. Signed without inscription by Johnny Cash on front endpaper. Light stain on top corner, jacket edges a bit rubbed, spine leans forward. 1975 Hard Cover. 244 pp. 8vo. The popular country-and-western singer chronicles the ups and downs of his life and career, profiling the people involved and describing his hard-found Christian faith. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Chicago Review Press: 2003
Edition: 3rd Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2272723
3rd printing. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('For Lance! Get wild about rainforests! Nancy F. Castaldo'). 2003 Large Softcover. x, 133, [1] pp. Provides facts and activities that explore tropical and temperate ancient forests, discusses how individuals can help preserve them, and describes well-known and unfamiliar creatures of the rain forest. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Roaring Brook: 2012
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203247
SIGNED by author. First edition. An exceptional copy. 2012 Hard Cover. Every summer the trucks roll in, bringing the carnival and its infinite possibilities to town. This year Tessa and her younger sister Lulu are un-chaperoned and want to be first in line to experience the rides, the food . . . and the boys. Except this summer, jealousy will invade their relationship for the first time, setting in motion a course of events that can only end in tragedy, putting everyone'... View more info
By: Castillo, Ana
Price: $25.00
Publisher: West End Press: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201000
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Author's fullest collection of poetry in both English and Spanish. Lightly toned. 1988 Trade Paperback. 75 pp. Author's fullest collection of poetry in both English and Spanish. Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country’s most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of uncompromising commitment... View more info
By: Castillo, Ana
Price: $15.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270634
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very minimally toned. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 251 pp. Sofia and her daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love in the sleepy New Mexico hamlet of Tome, where the comic and the horrific, the real and the supernatural, reside. View more info
By: Castillo, Ana
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270635
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xix, 213 pp. Peel My Love Like an Onion is the breakthrough novel from Ana Castillo, author of the wildly praised So Far from God--a lyrical, steamy, and moving story of a love triangle set in the colorful world of flamenco dancing. Carmen La Coja (the cripple) Santos is a flamenco dancer of local renown in Chicago, despite the obstacle of... View more info
By: Castillo, Ana
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270636
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. No jacket. A nice copy. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 312 pp. English text. A powerful, complex novel from the author of So Far From God. In the mythological land of Sapogonia--a metaphorical country where all mestizos (those of mixed European/Native Central or South American blood) come from--Maximo Madrigal becomes obsessed with a woman he can never control. View more info
By: Castillo, Ana
Price: $25.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270637
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxi, 158 pp. Author's fullest collection of poetry in both English and Spanish. Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country’s most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of uncompromising commitment a... View more info
By: Castillo, Ann
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Dutton Books: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197088
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2000 Hard Cover. Both a blessing to a child and a tribute to parenthood, this superb keepsake book by renowned Chicana poet and author Ana Castillo was inspired by ancient Aztec chants. It's the ideal gift to commemorate any of various momentous events in an older child's life--such as graduation, an important birthday, a quincea-era, or a family occasion. In words and pictures, the book's two sections--o... View more info
By: Catillo, Ana
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Arte Publico Press: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201050
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Lightly toned. 1984 Trade Paperback. 64 pp. Author's first complete book of poems. Ana Castillo is one of the most widely published and anthologized voices from the Hispanic experience in the United States. Women Are Not Roses shatters the image of women as lovely, sweet adornments, more to be admired at a distance than handled, more beautiful to behold in silence than engaged in dialog. Castillo demands to be heard on... View more info
