First edition. A very nice copy. 1999 Hard Cover. 319, [1] pp. 8vo. True at First Light is a work by American novelist Ernest Hemingway released posthumously in 1999 during the author's centennial year. The work was left unfinished at the time of Hemingway's suicide in July 1961. True at First Light is about Hemingway's 1953 safari to East Africa with his fourth wife Mary. In the work, he explores conflict within a marriage, the conflict of cultures, and the fear a writer faces when writing appears to become impossible, all the while describing on the surface, a hunting trip in Kenya. The book... View More...
Publisher:
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: 1957
Seller ID: 2188018
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Book club edition. Jacket edges rubbed and creased with a few small chips, brief ink note on front jacket flap. Good. 1957 Hard Cover. 355 pp. 8vo. Original black cloth, yellowish-brown paper labels on spine & front board, black stamped titles & borders. The story of a troubled romance, set against the Italian campaign of World War I. Hemingway's third novel, and his first bestseller, which confirmed his status as one of the great's of American literature. He went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. View More...
2008 Trade Paperback. 129 pp. From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history... The acclaimed Hungarian Holocaust survivor Imre Kertész continues his investigation of the malignant methodologies of totalitarianism in a major work of fiction. In a mysterious middle–European country, a man identified only as “the commissioner” undertakes what seems to be a banal trip to a nondescript town with his wife—a brief detour on the way to a holiday at the seaside—that turns ... View More...
Publisher:
New York, Doubleday and McClure Company: 1899
Seller ID: 2199334
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
First American edition. Ink name on half-title page, binding just beginning to weaken, spine slightly faded. 1899 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author! 119 pp. 7 3/4 x 5 1/4. Original blue-green cloth, gilt titles, black design with silver moon on front cover, gilt top page ridge, decorative endpapers. Black & white illustrations by Orson Lowell throughout. The first separate publication of this title, following its appearance in Century Magazine (1895) and the collection of stories entitled The Day's Work (1898). A separate British edition followed in 1907, the year Kipling... View More...
First edition of the English translation. Includes original jacket. Endpapers faintly foxed, jacket toned with minimal biopredation along edges. Very Good. 1961 Hard Cover. vi, 201, [1] pp. 8vo. A novel by the winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize for Literature, and a landmark in Icelandic fiction, being the first novel published in Iceland to sell its entire initial print run on the day of publication. The story is set amidst the British occupation of Iceland during World War II, and depicts urban life in Iceland. It was adapted to film in 1984 by Borsteinn Jonsson, and also influenced the world of... View More...
Photoplay edition, featuring black-and-white stills from the film. 1 inch tear to spine base, ink name and address on front endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss. 1922 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 401 pp. 8vo. 8-page publisher ad follows text. A novel by the author who won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature, which inspired the film starring Willard Louis and Carmel Myers. Lewis is most well-known for Main Street, though recently his cautionary tale It Can't Happen Here has seen increased popularity based on similarity to current political events. View More...
Includes publisher's slipcase and jacket. Minimal cosmetic wear to top jacket corner and jacket spine. We have more books available by this author!. 401 pp. 8vo. High quality facsimile reprint of original first edition. A novel by the author who won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature, which inspired the film starring Willard Louis and Carmel Myers. Lewis is most well-known for Main Street, though recently his cautionary tale It Can't Happen Here has seen increased popularity based on similarity to current political events. Keywords: CLASSICS AMERICAN LITERATURE FICTION SINCLAIR LEWIS NOBEL PRI... View More...
Publisher:
Harcourt, Brace and Company / The Quinn and Boden Co., Inc.: 1927
Seller ID: 2291380
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
First edition, second state (G in Gantry corrected from looking like a C, as in first state). Lacks scarce jacket. Boards lightly soiled, page edges faintly foxed. 1927 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 432 pp. 8vo. Sinclair Lewis went on to become the first American author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1930), following the success of his 1925 novel Arrowsmith, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Lewis declined the award). Elmer Gantry is a satiric indictment of fundamentalist religion that caused an uproar upon its publication in 1927. The title character... View More...
Publisher:
The Johns Hopkins University Press: 2009
Seller ID: 2197159
ISBN: 0801891442
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 2009 Hard Cover. xiv, 172 pp. First edition. The highest-energy particle accelerator ever built, the Large Hadron Collider runs under the border between France and Switzerland. It leapt into action on September 10, 2008, amid unprecedented global press coverage and widespread fears that its energy would create tiny black holes that could destroy the earth. By smashing together particles smaller than atoms, the LHC recreates the conditions hypothesized to have existed just moments after the big bang. Physicists expect it to aid our understanding of how the universe came into bei... View More...
First edition. Review copy with publisher's letter and review slip laid in. A bit smoky, otherwise an excellent copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 201, [1] pp. 8vo. Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer for her novel Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida–even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey’s Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the void in, or the center of, thei... View More...
Publisher:
Douglas Gibson/McClelland and Stewart: 1998
Seller ID: 2201638
ISBN: 0771066856
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Fine. Near Fine. 1998 Hard Cover. 399 pp. A collection of stories by the Nobel Prize winning Canadian author known for her short fiction. In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed... View More...
Early reprint (1942 or 1943 - two lines of text beneath illustration on front jacket panel). Includes original jacket. Jacket spine toned, lightly rubbed with minor loss from jacket spine ends. 1940 Hard Cover. 217 pp. A collection of seven nautical works by the Nobel Prize winning playwright. Includes: The Moon of the Caribees; Bound East for Cardiff; The Long Voyage Home; In the Zone; Ile; Where the Cross is Made; The Rope. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (16 October 1888 – 27 November 1953) was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature. His plays are among the fi... View More...
First thus (stated on copyright page). Lacks jacket. Spine a bit faded. 1937 Hard Cover. xix, 260 pp., no terminal publisher ad. Three classic plays by the 1936 Nobel Prize winning dramatic realist playwright, together in one volume, with introduction by Lionel Trilling. Includes: The Emperor Jones; Anna Christie; The Hairy Ape. View More...
1949 reprint. Very good copy in worn jacket. Jacket rubbed & toned, 1 inch chip from spine base, two 1/2 inch chips on other corners, large tear along front flap fold - now protected under mylar. xix, 260 pp., 8-page terminal publisher ad. Three classic plays by the 1936 Nobel Prize winning dramatic realist playwright, together in one volume, with introduction by Lionel Trilling. Includes: The Emperor Jones; Anna Christie; The Hairy Ape. View More...
Jacket edges rubbed, two small chips to jacket spine head. 1959 Hard Cover. 472 pp. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari. First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. View More...
Reprint. Ink name on endpaper. 2001 Trade Paperback. 245 pp. The author of Blindness and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. A low-grade clerk , middle-aged bachelor has no interest in life beyond his daily routine. One day he comes across the records of a young woman which alter his approach to his life. View More...
Reprint. Wrappers rubbed. 1999 Trade Paperback. 326 pp. A novel by the Nobel Prize winning Portuguese author. A city is hit by an epidemic of white blindness which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable o... View More...
Spine creased. Pencil underlining and marginalia throughout. 1999 Trade Paperback. 327 pp. A novel by the Nobel Prize winning Portuguese author. A city is hit by an epidemic of white blindness which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are... View More...
First edition. No jacket, some faint spots on front board, black smudge on page ridge, ink note on front endpaper. 1929 Hard Cover. 353 pp. A history of the Nobel family. Alfred Bernhard Nobel (/no?'b?l/; Swedish: ['alfr?d n?'b?l] About this sound listen (help·info); 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. Known for inventing dynamite, Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Nobel held 355 diffe... View More...
First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on title page ('to Anne Roberts, 2004'). Edges lightly foxed, jacket price clipped. 1972 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 38 pp. 8vo.. Translated from the original Russian by Thomas P. Whitney. Here in permanent form is the lecture Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had hoped to deliver in person on receiving the award of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. A work of art in itself, a work of art and passion, it is truly a sacred text, surely as noble an utterance and as exalted a defense of civilization as man has anywhere give... View More...
Publisher:
New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1972
Seller ID: 2199851
ISBN: 0374106843
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Jacket price clipped, jacket lightly toned. 1972 Hard Cover. 622 pp. 8vo. Translated by Michael Glenny. Original red cloth hardcover binding with gold lettering, maps on endpapers, portrait of author by Karl W. Stuecklen on dust jacket rear. In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history. The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr Stolypin, a crucial event in the years leading up... View More...
First edition, second state (broken 'b' on p. 62, line 5). Boards lightly soiled, front free endpaper removed, jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from spine foot, jacket lightly toned. 1942 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 188 pp. Original blue cloth, silver titles. A military novella clearly intended to mirror World War II and the occupation by the Nazis, although in this story the occupying nation remains unnamed. It was written to encourage resistance among the oppressed. View More...
First paperback printing. Pages toned, edges lightly rubbed. 1951 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 182 pp. This novel has ben cited by some critics as the most representative of Steinbeck's versatile gifts. This simply-told story of a California community living in a long valley floored with green pasturage, has all the liteary qualities which have made its author famous-the clear-cut characterization, the carefully detailed background, the incisive incident, the purposeful but unlabored pointing up of the inherent ironies in human hope and endeavor. View More...
First edition, second state (broken 'b' on p. 62, line 5). Minor damage to bottom corner, jacket edges rubbed. 1942 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 188 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth, silver titles. A military novella clearly intended to mirror World War II and the occupation by the Nazis, although in this story the occupying nation remains unnamed. It was written to encourage resistance among the oppressed. View More...
First photoplay edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners, ink name on top of first text page. Good. 1943 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 188 pp. 8vo. Film stills on jacket, plates of scenes from motin picture throughout text. A novel focusing on the occupation of a small town during World War II, which inspired a film of the same name the following year. Written with a purpose to motivate resistance movements in occupied countries, it cleverly avoids mentioning names of countries, though it clearly depicts events mirroring the German occupation of N... View More...
2nd printing before publication. Jacket price clipped, 1 inch closed tear on front jacket corner, jacket toned. 1966 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 207, [1] pp. By the Nobel Prize winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. Illustrated with pictures by 55 photographers. CONTENTS: Foreword; E Pluribus Unum; Paradox and Dream; Government of the People; Created Equal; Genus Americanus; The Pursuit of Happiness; Americans and the Land; Americans and the World; Americans and the Future; Afterword; Acknowledgments. View More...
1942 photoplay edition. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, jacket lightly rubbed. 1935 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 316, [1] pp. 8vo. Jacket features image of Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamar, and John Garfield, who starred in the 1942 motion picture adaptation. A novel by the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. View More...
9th printing. Lacks jacket. Spine toned, two small spots on front board. 1939 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 473, [1] pp. 8vo. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did much to publicize the injustices of migrant labor. The narrative, interrupted by prose-poem interludes, chronicles the struggles of the Joad family's life on a failing Oklahoma farm, their difficult journey to California, and their disillusi... View More...
First edition ('First published in April 1939' stated on copyright page). Includes new facsimile of the Elmer Hader jacket. Spine toned, boards lightly soiled, edges a bit foxed, a bit musty, ink name and date on front endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. 619, [1] pp. 8vo. Battle Hymn of the Republic endpapers. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel that encapsulated the American experience during the Great Depression. It inspired the equally successful John Ford film starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell and John Carradine, which won two Academy Awards. View More...
Book club edition. Jacket lightly rubbed. 1957 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 188 pp. 8vo. John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippin?s wife, Queen Marie, who ?might have taken her place at the bar of a very good restaurant?; his uncle, a man of dubious virtue; his glamour-struck daughter and her beau, the son of the so-called 'egg king' of Petaluma, California; and a motley crew of courtiers ... View More...
