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Price: $250.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1966
Edition: First American Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2263983
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by both authors without attribution on half-title page ('Sincerely, George Beadle, Muriel Beadle'). Faint abrasion on front board. 1966 Full-Leather. x, [4], 242, [4] pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full beige morocco with gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound included his/her monogram on the corner of the front board: O.C.S. A description of the science of genetics by George Beadle and his wife Muriel. George Beadle won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Edw... View more info
By: Beckett, Samuel
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Calder and Boyars: 1971
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2263333
Condition: Very Good
3rd printing. Tiny ink number on spine base. 1971 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 14 pp. A short work by the Nobel Prize winning Irish author. View more info
By: Beckett, Samuel
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Calder and Boyars: 1971
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2263337
ISBN: 0714506834
Condition: Near Fine
First paperback printing. Tiny ink number on spine, faint 1 inch crease on front edge. 1971 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 21, [3] pp. A short work by the Nobel Prize winning Irish author, originally published as Sans, here translated into English from the original French. View more info
By: Bellow, Saul
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 2001
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2201761
ISBN: 0141001763
Condition: Good
Half-inch surface tear to bottom of spine slightly obscuring publisher's logo, wrappers rubbed, pages toned, pencil note to dedication page verso. 2001 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 233 pp. Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously--and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelste... View more info
By: Bellow, Saul
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Library of America: 2003
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2203803
ISBN: 1931082383
Condition: Near Fine
First thus. Includes publisher's slipcase and insert. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1029 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of three novels by the Canadian-American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Book Award (three times), with chronology and notes following text. Includes: Dangling Man; The Victim; The Adventures of Augie March. This edition is part of the Library of America series, published by a non-profit organization whose goal is to keep classic works ... View more info
By: Bellow, Saul
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Harper & Row: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274130
ISBN: 0060148497
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Top edge lightly foxed, jacket lightly toned, faint crease on front jacket flap corner. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 346 pp. Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to have won the National Book Award three times, and the only writer to have been nominated for it six times. View more info
By: Camus, Albert; Gilbert, Stuart
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1961
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2204644
Condition: Very Good
First thus (stated, $1.95 jacket price, 405 titles on verso). Copyright states 1948, but this edition was first released in 1961. Jacket edges rubbed, ink owner stamp on page base. 278, [2] pp. 8vo. The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it. View more info
By: Camus, Albert; Gilbert, Stuart
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1961
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2172732
Condition: Very Good
First thus (stated, $1.95 jacket price, 405 titles on verso). Copyright states 1948, but this edition was first released in 1961. Jacket edges heavily rubbed, jacket toned, titles crossed out with pencil on verso.Good. 278, [2] pp. 8vo. The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the p... View more info
By: Coetzee, J.M.
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200388
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: Coetzee, J.M.
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200997
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket flaps and top page ridge faintly foxed. 1986 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 157 pp. 8vo. Coetzee received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is also a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize. When Susan Barton is marooned on an island in the middle of the Atlantic she enters the world of two men. One is a mute negro called Friday; the other is Robinson Cruso. The Island is a society already at work. Its rules are simple: survival, industry and order. Cruso is master and Friday is the slave. Susan watches the creation of a barren world - an a... View more info
By: Eliot, T.S. [Thomas Sterns]
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1976
Seller ID: 2286254
Condition: Near Fine
1976 Full-Leather. 212 pp. 8vo. Light brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of poems by the Nobel Prize winning author known for The Waste Land. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Random House: 1954
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2265378
Condition: Very Good
Book club edition. Lightly rubbed. 1954 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [1], 682, [2] pp. 8vo. A selection of works by William Faulkner collected in one volume. CONTENTS: Nobel Prize Address, The Sound and the Fury, The Bear (Go Down, Moses), Old Man (The Wild Palms), Spotted Horses (The Hamlet), A Rose for Emily, Barn Burning, Dry September, That Evening Sun, Turnabout, Shingles for the Lord, A Justice, Wash, An Odor of Verbena (The Unvanquished), Percy Grimm (Light in August), The Courthouse (Requiem for a Nun). View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Vintage Books / Random House: 1977
Edition: 7th Printing
Seller ID: 2271322
ISBN: 0394722574
Condition: Very Good
7th printing. Pages lightly toned. 1977 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 900, [20] pp. Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing an epic expanse of vision into hard and wounding narratives, Faulkner’s stories evoke the intimate textures of place, the deep strata of history and legend, and all the fear, brutality, and tenderness of the human condition. These tales are set not only in Yoknapatawpha County, but in Beverly Hills and in France during World War I. They are pop... View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1932
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2278775
Condition: Very Good
First Modern Library edition, and the first appearance in print of Faulkner's new introduction (Toledano 061.2). Includes original jacket and onion skin jacket. Onion skin jacket toned with 1 inch internal chip on front panel and a few other smaller chips, hinges just beginning to weaken. 1932 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 380, [6] pp. Jacket designed by Burch. A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Random House: 1962
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2280907
Condition: Near Fine
First trade edition (following the limited edition released the same year), with 'first printing' state on copyright page, no book club indicators, and red top stain indicating a trade edition. Lacks jacket. Endpapers very faintly foxed, minimal scuff to bottom corner, otherwise an excellent copy. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305, [7] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles. One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, ... View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Random House: 1962
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2283617
Condition: Near Fine
First trade edition (following the limited edition released the same year), with 'first printing' state on copyright page, no book club indicators, and red top stain indicating a trade edition. Includes first state jacket (6/62 on flap). Jacket price clipped, 1/2 inch closed tear on jacket spine head, jacket spine a bit faded. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305, [7] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles. One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is ... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2286128
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Minor blemish on front board. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xxiii, [1], 594 pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. a collection of letters by the author of Light in August and The Sound and the Fury. William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasi... View more info
By: Faulkner, William; Rovere, Richard H.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Modern Library / Random House: 1950
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2293049
Condition: Very Good
1950 printing (yellow jacket spine, 379 titles listed on jacket reverse). Jacket rubbed and lightly foxed. xiv, 444 pp., 6-page terminal publisher ad. Introduction by Richard H. Rovere. Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man. View more info
By: Feynman, Richard P.; Leighton, Ralph; Hutchings, Edward
Price: $6.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1997
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2275914
ISBN: 0393316041
Condition: Very Good
Reprint. 1997 Trade Paperback. 397, [3] pp. The Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist talks about his adventure-filled life in a series of transcribed taped discussions. A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek; cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the... View more info
By: France, Anatole; Allinson, Alfred; Maurois, Andre
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1942
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2261286
Condition: Very Good
Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass insert. Spine and slipcase edge along opening toned, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1942 Hard Cover. xii, 205 pp. A historical novel set during the French Revolution, by the Nobel Prize winning French author. This edition is an authorised translation from the French by Alfred Allinson, with an introduction by Andre Maurois and illustrations by Jean Oberle. View more info
By: Gajdusek, D. [Daniel] Carleton
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health: 1971
Seller ID: 2072804
Condition: Very Good
Former copy of Edward Miner Library with their bookplate inside front wrapper, minimal pencil marks on text. No other marks. A couple light smudges on rear wrapper. 1971 Stapled Binding. 48 pp. Stapled printed wrappers. A collection of notes, letters, and data from a five-week expedition to the Sahara desert and the Kufra oasis in Libya, during which researchers studied patterns of disease. Gajdusek shared the Nobel Prize with B.S. Blumberg in 1976 for his work on infectious diseases. (Garrison-Morton) View more info
By: Galsworthy, John
Price: $25.00
Publisher: William Heinemann, Ltd.: 1927
Seller ID: 2204828
Condition: Near Fine
Page ridges faintly foxed. 1927 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 74 pp. The nine novels which make up The Forsyte Chronicles -- one of the most popular and enduring works of 20th century literature -- chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. The author has drawn a fascinating and accurately detailed picture of the British propertied class. Often i... View more info
By: Golding, William
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2276299
ISBN: 0374125104
Condition: Very Good
First American edition. Top edge lightly foxed, small sticker on front endpaper. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 281, [1] pp. 8vo. A novel by the Nobel Prize winning author of Lord of the Flies. The enthralling sequel to Golding's Booker Prize-winning 1980 novel, Rites of Passage, continuing the story of the 18th-century fighting ship carrying passengers and cargo from England to Australia. View more info
By: Golding, William
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2276352
ISBN: 0374135029
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Review copy, slip laid in. 1979 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 265, [3] pp. 8vo. A novel by the Nobel Prize winning author of Lord of the Flies. Hideously scarred and orphaned during the bombing of London, Matty sees himself as set apart from others, and his wanderings bring him into contact with Mr. Pedigree, a respected teacher and obsessed pederast, and Sophy and Toni, angelic-looking terrorist twins. View more info
By: Gore, Al
Price: $7.00
Publisher: The Penguin Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2272364
ISBN: 0739484613
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Light edge wear. 2007 Hard Cover. 308 pp. Nobel Peace Prize winner, bestselling author, activist, and political icon, Al Gore has become one of the most respected and influential public intellectuals in America today. The Assault on Reason takes an unprecedented look at how faith in the power of reason 'the idea that citizens can govern themselves through rational debate' is now under assault. The marketplace of ideas, once open to everyone through the printed word, has been corrupted by the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith. By leading us to an understanding ... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2180722
Condition: Very Good
Early reprint (lacks 'A' on copyright page). Boards lightly rubbed & toned, front & end matter lightly foxed, ink name & date ('A.B. Russell Christmas 1940') on front endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. 471 pp. 8vo. Beige cloth, black stamped titles, red panels on spine. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist gueri... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1945
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2206634
Condition: Very Good
Early printing in variant binding. Includes original jacket with $2.75 price on flap. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss, including a 1/2 inch internal chip from spine. 1945 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, black stamped titles, red panels on spine. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifasc... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2264516
Condition: Very Good
Lacks jacket. Red title panels lightly rubbed as usual, pencil name on front endpaper, brief ink gift note on rear endpaper. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons / Macmillan Publishing Company: 1987
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2281343
ISBN: 0684151553
Condition: Very Good
Reissue. Top edge lightly foxed, jacket lightly toned. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 499, [5] pp. 8vo. A collection of short stories by the author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, A Moveable Feast, The Old Man and the Sea, etc. Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. CONTENTS: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber; The Capital of the World; The Snows of Kilimanjaro; Old Man at the Bridge; Up in Michigan; On the Quai at Smyrna; Indian Camp; The Doctor and the Doctors Wife; The End of Something; The ... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Charles Scribners Sons: 1987
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2281597
Condition: Very Good
Book club edition. 1/4 inch tear and faint crease along jacket base, jacket spine faded. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, 650 pp. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2. Foreword by John, Patrick, & Gregory Hemingway. Photo of Hemingway by Man Ray on rear dust jacket panel. Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. This collection, The Short Stories, originally published in 1938, is definitive. Among these forty-nine short stories are Hemingway's earliest efforts, written when he was a young foreign corres... View more info
