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By: Cisneros, Sandra
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200995
ISBN: 0679416447
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket faintly toned. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 115 pp. Poetry from the author of The House on Mango Street. A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic. Poignant, sexy. . . lyrical, passionate. . . cool and delicate. . . hot as a chili pepper.--Boston Globe. With her novel The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros introduced one of the most lyrically inventive voices ever to emerge from the barr... View more info
By: Cisneros, Sandra
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270192
ISBN: 0679435549
Condition: Fine
First edition, review copy with slip laid in. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Spine head and foot faintly pushed. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 443, [7] pp. 8vo. The celebrated author of The House on Mango Street gives us an extraordinary new novel, told in language of blazing originality: a multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy—the very stuff of life. Lala Reyes’ grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl, makers. The striped ca... View more info
By: Cisneros, Sandra; Valenzuela, Liliana
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Apple Soup / Alfred A. Knopf: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2198570
ISBN: 0679861718
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1994 Large Hardcover. This jewel-like vignette from Sandra Cisneros's best-selling The House on Mango Street shows, through simple, intimate portraits, the diversity among us. A Dragonfly Book in English and Spanish. A Parenting Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year. View more info
By: Clancy, Paul; Elder, Shirley
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Macmillan: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2205111
ISBN: 0025257005
Condition: Very Good
SIGNED by Tip O'Neill. First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed. 1980 Hard Cover. A biography of Thomas P. O'Neill, Speaker of the House. View more info
By: Clark, Martin
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2274257
ISBN: 0375407251
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Top page ridge very faintly foxed. 2000 Hard Cover. 345 pp. Author's first novel. Meet Evers Wheeling of Norton, North Carolina. A semi-dissolute judge, undistracted by children, hobbies, or a fulfilling marriage, he's moving down the road to nowhere at a furious clip -- until the morning he's confronted by Ruth Esther English, an attractive young woman whose dim-witted brother happens to be up on drug charges. Within days, Evers is the Englishes' reluctant co-conspirator, abetted by his pothead brother Pascal (he of the double-wide trailer)... View more info
By: Clark, Mindy Starns; Gould, Leslie
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers: 2011
Edition: 1st Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2296454
ISBN: 0736938613
Condition: Near Fine
First printing. Signed by Leslie Gould without inscription. Several cards from author laid in. 2011 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 344 pp. Bestselling author Mindy Starns Clark and coauthor Leslie Gould offer readers The Amish Nanny, Book 2 in the Women of Lancaster County series, which tells the stories of young Plain women as they explore their roots, connect with family, and discover true love. Amish-raised Ada Rupp knows it’s time to make a commitment to the faith and join the church, especially if she wants a future with the handsome Amish widower Will Gu... View more info
By: Clark, Mindy Starns; Gould, Leslie
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers: 2011
Edition: 1st Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2296457
ISBN: 0736937986
Condition: Fine
First printing. Signed card from author laid in. A fine copy. 2011 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 324 pp. A dusty carved box containing two locks of hair and a century-old letter regarding property in Switzerland, and a burning desire to learn about her biological family lead nurse-midwife Lexie Jaeger from her home in Oregon to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country. There she meets Marta Bayer, a mysterious lay-midwife who desperately needs help after an Amish client and her baby die. Lexie steps in to assume Marta’s patient load even as she continues the s... View more info
By: Clarke, Gerald
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Golden Quill Press: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2297516
ISBN: 0823302563
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Smudge on rear jacket panel, jacket spine faintly toned. 1977 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 80 pp. Airling is a new word in our language, coined to suggest the writer's disenchantment with the clumsy and mechanistic realities of aircraft, for anyone who seeks to fly. Gulls and hawks move through their native element with grace but man's attempt to emulate them is awkward, at best. From primitive times, Clarke suggests, man has watched the flight of birds with a certain envy, but even today, for all his inventivene... View more info
By: Clarke, Susanna
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200379
ISBN: 1582344167
Condition: Near Fine
First American edition, second state jacket (black with white lettering). Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Spine head and foot faintly pushed. 2004 Hard Cover. 782 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, which inspired the BBC television series. English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at ... View more info
By: Clarke, Susanna
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200961
ISBN: 1582344167
Condition: Near Fine
First American edition, first state jacket (white with black lettering) Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Spine head and foot faintly pushed. 2004 Hard Cover. 782 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, which inspired the BBC television series. English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hu... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Bay View Books: 1994
Edition: Signed Copy
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2278781
ISBN: 1870979486
Condition: Near Fine
Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine head and jacket spine base lightly rubbed. Ink name on front endpaper. 1994 Large Hardcover. 152 pp. Drawing from factory records, parts lists and catalogues, as well as the accumulated knowledge of respected restorers, dedicated enthusiasts and a meticulous author, this book provides the most comprehensive survey of the MGB ever published. Accompanying the authoritative text are 265 specially commissioned colour photographs showing every permutation of MGB specification in remarkable detail. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing: 1985
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276314
ISBN: 0919433030
Condition: Very Good
Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('Cathie - Thank you for being such a good friend to Veronica (Ginny) and making her stay in Philly so pleasant, Sincerely, Wilma Clevette (Veronica's mom)'). Faint crease on front corner. 1985 Trade Paperback. 249, [7] pp. A collection of writings by wives of Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen, which inspired the CBC television miniseries of the same name. View more info
By: Clevinger, Brian; Wegener, Scott
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Red 5 Comics: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200511
ISBN: 0980930286
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by both authors without inscription. 2010 Large Softcover. Unpaginated. Atomic Robo faces an invasion from the Vampire Dimension, finds a giant kaiju monster attack in the heart of Tokyo, detours to the South Pacific to battle wits with Dr. Dinosaur, then comes face-to-face with his newest enemy: his oldest enemy! Keywords: BRIAN CLEVINGER SCOTT WEGENER ATOMIC ROBO GRAPHIC NOVELS SIGNED FIRST EDITION View more info
By: Clune, Henry W.
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: James Brunner: 1990
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2205698
Condition: Very Good
Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper - inscribed Clune books are somewhat unusual, as his usual habit was to visit bookstores, sign copies of his books that were on the shelf, and leave without announcing he had done so. Inscription appears to read 'For Eta ts alga, with all good wishes, Henry W Clune', but perhaps this was meant to be a fraternity [Eta psi alpha?]). 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 218 pp. 8vo. The hallmark of these stories is precision of observation. For three quarters of a century, Henry W. Clune has reported with wry sympathy on o... View more info
By: Clune, Henry W.
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: James Brunner: 1990
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2164089
Condition: Very Good
Limited edition, #239 of 1000. Signed and hand-numbered by author on colophon. Jacket toned, jacket price clipped, owner sticker on front endpaper. Very Good. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 218 pp. 8vo. The hallmark of these stories is precision of observation. For three quarters of a century, Henry W. Clune has reported with wry sympathy on our hopes and fears, loves and loathings. As newspaper reporter, columnist and, above all, cunning storyteller, he has conveyed the essence of a full spectrum of sometimes surprising, sometimes familiar American lives. That ... View more info
By: Clune, Henry W.
Price: $8.00 $6.40
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.: 1937
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2206753
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. No jacket, light stain to bottom edge of front board, sticker to front paste-down endpaper, ink note to front endpaper. 1937 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 294 pp. Clune's novel about the career of a newspaperman during the Great Depression. His first novel. He was a writer and columnist who appeared several times a week in The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, from 1914 to 1969. He wrote 14 books, including novels and a history of his native Rochester, New York. KEYWORDS: HENRY CLUNE GOOD DIE POOR LOCAL ROCHESTER ... View more info
By: Clune, Henry W.
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Macmillan Company: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2266152
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket edges rubbed, minor tear along bottom edge of jacket front. Address label on front endpaper. 1969 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 473 pp. A con woman and her unlikely corporation take over the town in the wildest, most hilarious package of rollicking Americana to come along in decades! View more info
By: Clune, Henry W.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1983
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2281335
ISBN: 0961082402
Condition: Near Fine
Limited edition, #53 of 250 copies. Hand numbered and signed by author on limitation page. Includes publisher's slipcase. 1983 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 377 pp. 8vo. Black & white photographs. At 92, Henry W. Clune could be forgiven for setting aside the rigorous labors of the literary life and sitting instead on one of his lawn chairs and spending long hours contemplating the beautiful vista which stretches behind his home in Scottsville, New York. The author of six fine novels, a volume in the Rivers of America Series (The Genesee, 1963) and his history ... View more info
By: Clune, Henry W.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1983
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2300595
ISBN: 0961082402
Condition: Very Good
Limited edition, #118 of 250 copies, signed by author on limitation page. Ink gift note on front endpaper. 1983 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 377 pp. 8vo. Black & white photographs. At 92, Henry W. Clune could be forgiven for setting aside the rigorous labors of the literary life and sitting instead on one of his lawn chairs and spending long hours contemplating the beautiful vista which stretches behind his home in Scottsville, New York. The author of six fine novels, a volume in the Rivers of America Series (The Genesee, 1963) and his history of his home cit... View more info
By: Clune, Henry W.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1983
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2301332
ISBN: 0961082402
Condition: Very Good
Limited edition, # 178 of 250. Signed by author and numbered on limitation page. Ink gift note on front endpaper, spine faintly soiled. 1983 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 377 pp. 8vo. Black & white photographs. At 92, Henry W. Clune could be forgiven for setting aside the rigorous labors of the literary life and sitting instead on one of his lawn chairs and spending long hours contemplating the beautiful vista which stretches behind his home in Scottsville, New York. The author of six fine novels, a volume in the Rivers of America Series (The Genesee, 1963) an... View more info
By: Cocchi, John
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Citadel Press: 2000
Edition: Signed Copy
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2275518
ISBN: 0806511869
Condition: Very Good
SIGNED by author. Light edge wear. 2000 Soft Cover. A pictorial history of B movies profiles stars and featured players, and includes a list of films in such categories as comedies, dramas, horror, musicals, and westerns. View more info
By: Coetzee, J.M.
Price: $350.00 $280.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200388
ISBN: 0436200120
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Bookplate signed by author without inscription affixed to half-title page. Pages toned. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 180, [1] pp. 8vo. Coetzee received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is also a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize. Dying of cancer, Elizabeth Curren writes a testament to her lost daughter, now living in America. Her account describes her relationship with the tramp, Vercueil, who becomes her silent companion and confessor as she tries to make her peace with the world. The novel is an anguished lament for a country on th... View more info
By: Cohen, Stan B.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company: 1983
Edition: 3rd Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2303281
ISBN: 0933126158
Condition: Very Good
Third printing. Signed by author without inscription. Spine creased, page ridges lightly foxed. 1983 Large Softcover. x, 182 pp. A superior historical review, in pictorial form, of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Although of a pictorial nature, the text is scholarly, extremely well-researched and concise. The maps and previously unpublished photographs place the attack in an accurate historical context. View more info
By: Collins, Jackie
Price: $120.00 $96.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196087
ISBN: 0743216342
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Signed with date by Jackie Collins (Author), small stains to page fore-edge. 2011 Hard Cover. 519 pp. Power. Sex. Fame. The new Hollywood wives have it all, and if they don't have it, they want it. Jackie Collins captures Hollywood and its inhabitants with an anthropologist's eye. Like the original Hollywood Wives, the new breed will shock and surprise, amuse and startle, taking readers on a trip they will not soon forget. First Edition. Signed with date by Jackie Collins (Author). View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276380
ISBN: 0399118233
Condition: Good
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('To Julian Street Jr., Donald S. Connery'). This volume was acquired as part of Street's personal collection. Related newspaper articles laid in. Boards and jacket lightly spotted on front and spine, small internal tear to jacket on front edge along spine. 1977 Hard Cover. 377, [5] pp. 8vo. Recounts the incredible ordeal of eighteen-year-old Peter Reilly, coerced by Connecticut state police into confessing to the murder of his mother and exonerated three years later through the efforts of outraged friends and neighbors. Includes ... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Grand Army Historic Publications: 1998
Edition: Signed Copy
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2274308
ISBN: 096591772X
Condition: Near Fine
Signed by author without inscription. 1998 Soft Cover. 59 pp. Two best friends went to war... One came home. Thomas Geer and Judson Hicks of Marion, New York, enlisted in 1862 in Company A of the 111th New York Volunteers. Not two weeks later, the boys found themselves numbered in the largest Federal surrender of the war at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. ...based on the letters of these two western New York friends and is a personal story of the tragedy and triumph that marked so much of the American Civil War. View more info
By: Cook, Bill
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Q Publishing: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2293903
ISBN: 0966522885
Condition: Fine
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front flyleaf ('To Rita, Enjoy this story of our country's glorious past. Bill Cook'). 2000 Large Hardcover. 198 pp. A history of Livingston County, located in western New York, home to SUNY Geneseo and the Genesee Valley Hunt, and notable as the birthplace of the American Red Cross (the first local chapter was established in Dansville) and of Pledge of Allegiance author Francis Bellamy. Black-and-white photographs throughout. View more info
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270880
ISBN: 0385467877
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 273 pp. Whether through her stories or her legendary readings, J. California Cooper has an uncanny ability to reach out to readers like an old and dear friend. Her characters are plain-spoken and direct: simple people for whom life, despite its ever-present struggles, is always worth the journey. In Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime, Cooper's characteristic themes of romance, heartbreak, struggle and faith resonate. We meet Darlin, a self-proclaimed femme fatale wh... View more info
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270881
ISBN: 0385411731
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 227 pp. Collects a set of tales of simple people and events that are rich, lyrical, humorous, ironic, and full of wonder at life's mysteries. View more info
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Publisher: Doubleday: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270882
ISBN: 038549680X
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 265 pp. From the highly acclaimed author of the classic A Piece of Mine comes a magnificent collection of stories about ordinary women who discover that love sometimes comes when you least expect it. Passionately re-creating the lives of just everyday people trying to live every day, J. California Cooper limns the mysterious way in which people discover what is important. Maisha, the narrator of A Shooting Star, chronicles the much-gossiped-about affairs of her ... View more info
