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By: Adams, Alice
Price: $75.00
Publisher: William B. Ewert: 1983
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201045
Signed by author without inscription. Numbered 49 of 64. Near fine. 1983 Soft Cover. 22 pp. A short story about Molly and a dog.Alice Adams (August 14, 1926 – May 27, 1999) was an American novelist, short story writer, and university professor.Keywords: ALICE ADAMS AMERICAN LITERATURE MOLLY'S DOG SHORT STORIES CONTEMPORARY FICTION View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $125.00
Publisher: William B. Ewert: 1983
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201046
Limited edition - copy H of 26 lettered copies. Signed by author without inscription. 1983 Hard Cover. 22 pp. A short story about Molly and a dog.Alice Adams (August 14, 1926 – May 27, 1999) was an American novelist, short story writer, and university professor.Keywords: ALICE ADAMS AMERICAN LITERATURE MOLLY'S DOG SHORT STORIES CONTEMPORARY FICTION View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270611
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Few signed copies exist, because the author died two months after this book's publication. Jacket very faintly toned. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 191 pp. The Last Lovely City begins with nine stories whose settings range from San Francisco to a North Carolina college town to a run-down Mexican resort. In His Women, a college professor and his ex-wife play an extended game of let's-kis... View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270612
First edition. Signed and dated May 10, 1997, by author. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. We have more books available by this author!. 239 pp. The tenth novel by the widely praised author of A Southern Exposure and Almost Perfect concerns the complicated relationship between patient and doctor. When a woman learns that her headaches are caused by a rare malignancy, her only guide through a frightening new world of oncologists, radiologists, specialists, and clinics, is ... View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270613
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps lightly toned. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 257 pp. A group of friends who have known one another for decades grapples with the realization that they are growing old, attempts to come to terms with the past, and searches for new possibilities in their lives. View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270614
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps faintly toned. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 243 pp. Richard and Stella balance each other almost perfectly. Sometimes he drinks too much, gets too loud, or is too quick to anger. Stella also knows how generous he can be, too, but she begins to wonder if their violent fights and passionate reconciliations point to a deeper problem that Richard doesn't even suspect. There is... View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270615
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine head very lightly bumped, jacket lightly toned. 1984 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 367 pp. Five young women meet at Radcliffe in the late 1930s and grow to maturity-through intrigues, ambitions, affairs, and marriages--in the fifties, sixties, and seventies. View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270616
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine head very lightly bumped, jacket flaps lightly toned. Boards very faintly toned along top edge. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 307 pp. Caroline has been married three times and has five daughters--all very different from her. Now that they are grown, she feels distant from them and the woman she once thought herself to be. Caroline's daughters love their mother but live as i... View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270617
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps faintly toned. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 229 pp. A new selection of short stories explores the impact and adjustment of individuals dealing with separation and the loss of lovers, spouses, parents, and friends. View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270618
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 304 pp. Tells the stories of a woman distraught over the loss of her husband's diaries, a teachers's unexpected attraction towards a student, and an artist's reevaluation of her life and accomplishments. View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270619
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1979 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 242 pp. Author's third novel. “Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams. . . . How can one person know so much?” --The New York Times Book Review. With appearances in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Redbook, as well as in the O. Henry Award collections for eight consecutive years, Alice Adams had establish... View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270620
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Top edge and endpapers faintly foxed, jacket lightly toned with faint crease on front flap corner, spine cloth a bit discolored along edges. 1985 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 195 pp. The author writes in these stories of people in motion, traveling in search of friends, culture, renewed engagement with life--people seeking the magic of a new place or traveling to places of childhood to put ... View more info
By: Adams, Alice
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270621
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps faintly toned. 1974 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 211 pp. Author's second novel. Alice Adams’ second novel is the portrait of a Southern-born woman as she reviews her life. From Louisa Calloway’s Southern girlhood to her debut to her first marriage, all the time surrounded by a certain tradition and all the time resisting. In lieu of her conservative, bigoted father, she cho... View more info
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Price: $40.00
Publisher: John Wilson and Son, University Press: 1883
Seller ID: 2007291
1883 printing. Rebound in red cloth, retaining original coral printed wrappers. Signed by author on front wrapper. Front wrapper loosening, boards lightly rubbed, bookplate of Charles Edwin Stratton on front endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. 36 pp. 8vo. A monograph originally published in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, detailing the story of Christopher Gardiner and his flight from the consequences of a rather duplicitous r... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2265815
First edition. Bookplate signed by Albright without inscription affixed to front endpaper. 2006 Hard Cover. xii, 339, [1] pp. 8vo. Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and bestselling author of Madam Secretary, offers a thoughtful and often surprising look at the role of religion in shaping America’s approach to the world. Drawing upon her experiences while in office and her own deepest beliefs about morality, the United States, and the present state of wo... View more info
By: Ali, Monica
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270791
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. 413 pp. Author's first book. Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Bangladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu. Her life in London's Tower Hamlets is, on the surface, calm. For years, keeping house and rearing children, she does what is expected of ... View more info
By: Alighieri, Dante; James, Clive
Price: $395.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 2015
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by illustrator
Seller ID: 2276356
Limited edition, #85 of 1200 copies, signed and numbered by illustrator Marc Burckhardt on limitation page. Includes publisher's slipcase, publisher's certificate of authenticity and blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 2015 Full-Leather. 247, [3] pp. 8vo. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color picture plate mounted on slipcase. Translated by Clive James, with tipped in color illustrations ... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197264
First edition. Signed by author. Ink name on front endpaper. 2006 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 321 pp. Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World, Inés uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse ... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Antheneum: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200690
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine.Jacket toned. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 330 pp. The Stories of Eva Luna (Spanish: Cuentos de Eva Luna, 1989) is a collection of Spanish-language short stories by the Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende. It consists of stories told by the title character of Allende's earlier novel Eva Luna. The literary critic Barbara Mujica wrote: The Chilean author presents her stories... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200656
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, [2], 399 pp. 8vo. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquin Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the h... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200658
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Board edges lightly toned. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 330 pp. 8vo. With an enchanting blend of magical realism, politics, and romance reminiscent of her classic bestseller The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende presents a soul-baring memoir that seizes the reader like a novel of suspense. Written for her daughter Paula when she became ill and slipped into a coma,... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200659
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 382 pp. 8vo. Gregory Reeves, the son of a self-styled preacher, struggles to overcome his childhood of poverty and neglect and to take control of his destiny. By the author of House of the Spirits. View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200660
First American edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 304 pp. 8vo. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende has written a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile -- a marvelous family saga that takes up and continues the story begun in her highly acclaimed Daughter of Fortune. Recounted... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: HaperCollinsPublishers: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200717
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine.Front bottom right corner of jacket lightly bumped. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 199 pp. Isabel Allende's first memory of Chile is of a house she never knew. The large old house on the Calle Cueto, where her mother was born and which her grandfather evoked so frequently that Isabel felt as if she had lived there, became the protagonist of her first novel, The House of th... View more info
By: Allison, Dorothy
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Dutton: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270795
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 94 pp. An autobiographical narrative by the author of Bastard out of Carolina explores such topics as love and loss, beauty and terror, and the intricacies of family love and hatred while illuminating the rural poverty of the South. View more info
By: Allison, Dorothy
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Dutton: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270796
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 434 pp. From the author of Bastard Out of Carolina comes another compelling novel about four women whose lives converge unexpectedly and force all of them to come to terms not only with their past, but their future. View more info
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By: Aloe, Alfred; Gordon, Clifton R. (Preface); Taft, William Howard (Foreword)
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Members of the Twelfth U.S. Infantry / The Knickerbocker Press: 1919
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201686
First edition. Signed, inscribed & dated May 1st 1919 by Clifton R. Gordon, a member of the 12th infantry, and the author of the preface. Light 1 inch smudge on front board, front & end matter lightly foxed. xvi, 425 pp. Original blue cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped borders. Black & white photographs throughout, several woodcuts. Frontispiece of 12th infantry commander Alfred Aloe. View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2198566
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2005 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. [40] pp. After their olive crop fails, Maria fears that her family will have to abandon their farm on the new island colony. Then, one night she dreams of a mysterious beautiful lady shrouded by trees with branches hung with hundreds of little suns. They are oranges like the ones Maria's parents once ate in their homeland, Valencia, Spain... View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2198567
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2000 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. [40] pp. The Dominican legend of the ciguapas, creatures who lived in underwater caves and whose feet were on backward so that humans couldn't follow their footprints, is reinvented by renowned author Julia Alvarez. Although the ciguapas fear humans, Guapa, a bold and brave ciguapa, can't help but be curious--especially about a boy she s... View more info
By: Alvarez, Julia
Price: $1,750.00
Publisher: Kat Ran Press: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author. Signed by illustrator
Seller ID: 2195946
Limited edition, hand numbered #35 on limitation page, and signed by Julia Alvarez and Sara Eichner. Faint stain on rear panel of clamshell case. Original mailing envelope from Kat Ran Press containing a duplicate prospectus laid in. 1998 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. Unpaginated. Folio in publisher's clamshell case with prospectus. One of 65 copies, only 50 of which were available for sale. Julia Alvarez and Sara Eichner have worked sepa... View more info
