Category: Signed

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2270825

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages moderately toned due to the type of paper used by the publisher. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 248 pp. A.S. Byatt's short fictions explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and returns us to our own with new knowledge, compassion, and a sens... View more info

Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice

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

Little Black Book of Stories

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

The Matisse Stories

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

The Biographer's Tale

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

Still Life

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

The Dragons and George

By: Cadigan, George L.

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

K.

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

72 Hour Hold: A Novel

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

Singing in the Comeback Choir

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

What You Owe Me: A Novel

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

Brothers and Sisters

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

Sweet Summer: Growing Up with and Without My Dad

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

Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

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

Up and Down and Around: A Publisher Recollects the Time of His Life

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

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

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

The Speed of Light

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

Plan B for the Middle Class: Stories

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

The Hotel Eden: Stories

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

How to Win Friends and Influence People

By: Carnegie, Dale

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1936

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2276372

1937 18th printing. Lacks jacket. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('To Joseph Frantz, Dale Carnegie'), underneath which, in a different hand and different ink (black instead of green), is written 'Lecture at Chamber of Commerce, Friday March 11/1938, Rochester N.Y.' A few light spots on boards, spine repaired, spine cloth faded, corners rubbed, a few pencil marks in text. 1936 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 340, [2] pp. 8vo.... View more info

Ruffles and Flourishes

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

Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (The Library of the Presidents)

By: Carter, Jimmy

Price: $50.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1982

Edition: Reissue

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2274884

Signed without inscription by Carter on front flyleaf. Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. 1982 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, [2], 622 pp. 8vo. Original grey full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. Keeping Faith is Jimmy Carter's account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Offce. Mr. Carter writes candidly about the crises that confronted h... View more info

Do Not Disturb

By: Case, Frank

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1940

Edition: 2nd Printing

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2274580

Second printing. Signed and inscribed by author: For Charles H. Burkman by way of John Martin with all good wishes from Frank Case. No jacket, stain along top edge of both boards, spine lightly toned, address label on front paste-down endpaper. 1940 Hard Cover. 326 pp. Illustrated by O. Soglow. A memoir by Frank Case. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frank Case was an American hotelier and author. He owned and managed the Algonquin Hotel during the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table a... View more info

Man in Black

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

Rainforests: An Activity Guide for Ages 6-9

By: Castaldo, Nancy F.

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

The Year of the Beasts

By: Castellucci, Cecil

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

My Father Was a Toltec: Poems

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

So Far from God: A Novel

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

Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel

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

Sapogonia: An Anti-Romance in 3/8 Meter