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Price: $250.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1966
Edition: First American Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2263983
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 gen... View more info
By: Beckett, Samuel
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Calder and Boyars: 1971
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2263333
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
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
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 su... View more info
By: Bellow, Saul
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Library of America: 2003
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2203803
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 ... View more info
By: Camus, Albert; Gilbert, Stuart
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1961
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2204644
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 deadl... View more info
By: Camus, Albert; Gilbert, Stuart
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1961
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2172732
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 ... View more info
By: Coetzee, J.M.
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200388
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 silen... View more info
By: Coetzee, J.M.
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200997
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 simpl... View more info
By: Coetzee, J.M.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Penguin: 1982
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2264374
Light foxing to inner front wrapper and endpaper. 1982 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction, and inspiration for the opera by American composer Philip Glass. Coetzee received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is also a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize. Set in an isolated outpost on the edge of a great Empire, Waiting for the Barbarians is a s... View more info
By: Dylan, Bob
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Harper: 2005
Seller ID: 2269130
An exceptional copy. 2005 Trade Paperback. xiv, 137 pp. Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction—a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time. Written in 1966, Tarantula is a collection of poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times in which it was written, and gives a unique insight into Dylan's creative evolution. It captures Bob Dylan's pr... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Random House: 1948
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2199019
First edition. Very good in good jacket. Ink name on front endpaper, titles on boards lightly rubbed, top jacket edge rubbed with minor chip from spine head, rear jacket panel toned. 1948 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 247 pp. 8vo. At once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching portrait of racial injustice in the Reconstruction South, Intruder in the Dust stands out as a true classic of Southern literature. View more info
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Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Library of America: 1990
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2203772
Reprint. Includes publisher's slipcase. Front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1117 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of five works by the American novelist best known for Light in August and The Sound and the Fury, with chronology and notes following text. Includes: Absalom, Absalom!; The Unvanquished; If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem; [The Wild Palms]; The H... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Random House: 1954
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2265378
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 Unvanqu... View more info
By: France, Anatole; Allinson, Alfred; Maurois, Andre
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1942
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2261286
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: France, Anatole; Evans, A.W.; Van Doren, Carl
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1947
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2261289
Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass insert. Book and slipcase lightly rubbed, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1947 Hard Cover. xvi, 324 pp. 8vo. A satirical novel by the Nobel Prize winning French author. This edition translated from the French by A.W. Evans, with an introduction by Carl Van Doren, preface by the author, and drawings by Malcolm Cameron. 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
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 infect... View more info
By: Galsworthy, John
Price: $35.00
Publisher: William Heinemann, Ltd.: 1927
Seller ID: 2204828
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 p... View more info
By: Hamsun, Knut; Bothmer, Gerry (Translator); Singer, Isaac Bashevis (Afterword)
Price: $5.00
Publisher: The Noonday Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1998
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2197346
Revised edition. Edges rubbed. 1998 Trade Paperback. 348 pp. A translation of the Nobel Prize winning novel by the 19th century Norwegian author, with a new introduction by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Mysteries portrays an enigmatic man suffering from schizophrenia. In a small Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an unsparing and often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draw... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2180722
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 nove... View more info
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1953
Seller ID: 2197403
1953 printing. Lightly toned. We have more books available by this author!. 212 pp. When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway clas... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1945
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2206634
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 grea... View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1929
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2195715
1940 reissue (based on titles on rear jacket panel), with cover design emulating the 1929 Scribner edition.3 inch tear to jacket spine head, 2 inch closed tear to front jacket edge, jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners. We have more books available by this author!. 355 pp. 8vo. Black cloth, red 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 th... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Bantam Books: 1949
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2200041
1st printing. 1949 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 277 pp. 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.A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of ... View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2260241
First edition in supplied later jacket (photographer credit on rear panel). Very good book, fair jacket. No price on jacket. Jacket trimmed short, jacket edges rubbed with tears and minor loss to corners. 1940 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 com... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2264516
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 Br... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: First Editions Library: 1987
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2267855
Modern facsimile of the first edition. Includes publisher's slipcase and jacket. Minor wear to jacket spine. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471 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... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: The Blakiston Company: 1940
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2270201
Reissue. Lacks jacket. Owner bookplate and ink name on front endpaper, edges rubbed. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 410 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 un... View more info
By: Hemingway, Ernest; Baker, Carlos
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1981
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2202531
Book club edition. Jacket edges faded and lightly rubbed with a couple tiny tears. 1981 Hard Cover. 948 pp. The death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 ended one of the most original and influential careers in American literature. His works have been translated into every major language, and the Nobel Prize awarded to him in 1954 recognized his impact on contemporary writing. While many people are familiar with the public image of Hemingway and the legendary accounts of his li... View more info
By: Hemingway, Ernest; Hemingway, Patrick
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Scribner: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2270185
First edition. Top edge lightly stained. 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... View more info
