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By: Burns, Sarah
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Indiana University: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2204237
ISBN: 0966032004
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. An exceptional copy. 1997 Soft Cover. This catalog was produced to accompany the exhibition The Art of Desire: Erotic Treasures from The Kinsey Institute, which was presented at the School of Fine Arts Gallery at Indiana University in celebration of The Kinsey Institute's 50th anniversary. Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey (1894-1956) was a pioneer in the scientific study of human sexual behavior. Early on, Kinsey was encouraged to collect visual material which might provide insight into attitudes governing sexual practices.The parameters guiding the selection for inclusion in the exhibit we... View more info
Price: $500.00
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262019
Condition: Near Fine
First edition (Heins FC-1). Fine in near fine jacket. 1938 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 315, [1] pp. 8vo. Color frontispiece and four black & white plates by John Coleman Burroughs. The twenty-fourth in the Tarzan series. 'The search for a man and a huge diamond brings Tarzan to two cities hidden in an extinct volcano... FC-1 has the unique distinction of being the one and only Burroughs book to have a frontispiece in full color. This was the first of the Tarzan titles to be illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs, the author's younger son. By contrast, the 1948 repr... View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262022
Condition: Near Fine
First edition (Heins FL-1). Fine in very good jacket. 1/4 inch jacket tear, top edge of front jacket panel a bit foxed. 1947 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 314 pp. 8vo. Frontispiece and four black & white plates by John Coleman Burroughs. The twenty-ninth in the Tarzan series. 'Tarzan and his friends join the Dutch guerrillas in Japanese-held Sumatra during World War II.' View more info
Price: $425.00
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.: 1940
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262045
Condition: Near Fine
First edition (Heins SMM-1). Fine in very good jacket. Two 1 jacket tears, jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 315 pp. 8vo. Jacket illustration, frontispiece, and four plates by John Coleman Burroughs. The sixth book in the Mars series. 'The Warlord and Vor Daj struggle against an ancient doctor's indestructible synthetic human life.' View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262162
Condition: Near Fine
First edition (Heins EV-1). Near fine in good jacket. 1 inch open tear on jacket spine base, a few other smaller closed tears, 1/8 inch chip across jacket spine head. 1946 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 347 pp. 8vo. Frontispiece and four plates by J. Allen St. John, front endpaper map by author. 'Ever fighting to escape imprisonment, Carson and Duare finally find their home and peace.' View more info
Price: $275.00
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.: 1940
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2276961
Condition: Very Good
First edition, first state with laminated jacket (Heins DS-1). Jacket edges rubbed, faint stain to front board and and jacket flap. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 312, [4] pp. 8vo. Black-and-white frontispiece and 22 chapter heading illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs. A western by the author of the Tarzan and John Carter series. The murder of an old enemy forces ranchman Buck Mason to try to prove his innocence himself. View more info
By: Busch, Noel F.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Liveright: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2048810
ISBN: 0871405873
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Jacket spine faded, top page ridge foxed. 1974 Hard Cover. xiv, 206 pp. 8vo. A history of the winter at Valley Forge and its role in the American Revolution. Bibliography and index follow text. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2276831
ISBN: 0805019863
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Includes publisher's promotional insert. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 1992 Trade Paperback. 249 pp. A collection of stories by the author of The Deuce, Wabash, The Alleys of Eden, and On Distant Ground features tales of the residents of Saigon as they face love, loss, despair, and more. View more info
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By: Butler, S.C.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Tor / Tom Doherty Associates: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2264580
ISBN: 0765314770
Condition: Fine
First edition. An exceptional copy. 2006 Hard Cover. 463, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Reiffen, only twelve years old, is the true heir to the thrones of both Wayland and Banking. He and his friends Avender and Ferris live in a magical world of talking animals, dwarves, and shape-shifting bears but…he lives with the shame of knowing that no one will ever let him rule these kingdoms, that their crowns will bring him nothing but betrayal and sorrow…and that he is powerless. Reiffen will have only a short life of child's innocence, a brief respite from the trial of impossible adult resp... View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270820
ISBN: 0701137185
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages moderately toned due to the type of paper used by the publisher. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 618 pp. In Babel Tower a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early 1960s. Frederica (the heroine of Virgin in the Garden and Still Life) now teaching English at an art college, is hiding herself and her son Leo from a violent husband; her urge towards freedom later leads to an angry, humiliating divorce case. Her... View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270821
ISBN: 0701137177
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages moderately toned due to the type of paper used by the publisher. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 292 pp. In two breathtakingly accomplished novellas, A. S. Byatt explores the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270822
ISBN: 0701138475
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine head and spine base lightly bumped. Pages moderately toned due to the type of paper used by the publisher. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 346 pp. Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow; politics behind the popularity of Barbara Pym or the ambitions that underlie her own fiction, Byatt manages to be challenging, entertaining, and unflinchingly committed to the alliance o... View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270824
ISBN: 0701173807
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages moderately toned due to the type of paper used by the publisher. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 422 pp. This electrifying new novel forms the triumphant conclusion to the great “Frederica quartet” depicting the forces in English life from the early 50s to 1970. While Frederica -- the spirited heroine of Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower -- falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life and t... View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270825
ISBN: 0701131691
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages moderately toned due to the type of paper used by the publisher. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 248 pp. A.S. Byatt's short fictions explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and returns us to our own with new knowledge, compassion, and a sense of wonder. View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2271309
ISBN: 0701160888
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Top edge faintly foxed, a bit smoky, jacket price clipped. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 135, [1] pp. 8vo. These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. Beautifully written, intensely observed, The Matisse Stories is fict... View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271601
ISBN: 0701168234
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed and dated (November 12th 1998) by author. A very nice copy. We have more books available by this author!. 232 pp. A new volume of stories from A.S. Byatt is always a joy, and this one is rich and rare indeed. The collected stories deal with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion -- the mysterious absences at the heart of the fullest lives, in settings ranging from the heat of Provence in summer to the cold forests of Scandinavia, from chalk-strewn classrooms to herb-scented hillsides, from suburban streets to rocky wilds. View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271602
ISBN: 0701162783
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. A. S. Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in POSSESSION - 'The Glass Coffin' and 'Gode's Tale' of the Breton Naie des Trepasses - to be published separately. Here they take their place with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings. The title story, 'The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye', a long story about an Englishwoman in Turkey... View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271603
ISBN: 0701173246
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 279 pp. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women walk into a forest, as they did when they were girls, confronting their childhood fears and memories and the strange thing they saw -- or thought they saw -- so long ago. A distinguished male obstetrician and a young woman artist meet in a hospital. But both of them have very different ideas about body parts, birth and death. An innocent member of an evening class turns out to have her own dec... View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271605
ISBN: 0701173106
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 101 pp. A remarkable, sumptuously illustrated exploration of the links between fiction, writers of fiction and portraits -- by the acclaimed Booker Prize winner. Portraits seem the opposite of fiction, fixed in time and space, not running with the curve of a story or a life. Yet since the birth of the novel, writers have been fascinated by portraits as icons, as motifs, as images of character and evocations of past time. A.S. Byatt delves into the co... View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271606
ISBN: 0701169451
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine head very lightly bumped. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 265 pp. In this witty, Borges-like fiction, A.S. Byatt weaves a dazzling fiction out of one man's search for fact. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas G. decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. Doing nothing by halves he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks he finds fragments and gaps: bones and husks, boxes of m... View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271607
ISBN: 0701126671
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages moderately toned due to the type of paper used by publisher. 1985 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 358 pp. From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family-and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, writes of Byatt: When it comes to probing characters her scalpel is sure but gentle. She is a loving surgeon. View more info
By: Byrne, David
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Chronicle Books: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2286740
ISBN: 0811826236
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. An excellent copy. 1999 Large Softcover. In his latest book, writer, photographer, musician, and former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne has created an extraordinary document and critique of the times we live in. Your Action World parodies the inspirational promotional materialsincluding books, tapes, and corporate advertising - with which we are inundated daily. Byrne's impulse is to fight back, to stem the tide of images and bullying texts that assault all of us, by building dikes and dams of my own images and texts. To understand the enemy I must become one with the enemy, ... View more info
By: Byrne, Donn
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Century Company: 1925
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1851507
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed. 1925 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 207 pp. First edition. Orange cloth boards with black titles. White jacket with illustration on front. Donn Byrne (born Brian Oswald Patrick Donn-Byrne) (20 November, 1889 – 18 June 1928) was an Irish novelist. He was born in New York City where, he claimed, his Irish parents were on a business trip at the time, and soon after returned with them to Ireland. He grew up being equally fluent in Irish and English, growing up in an area where some Irish Irish was still spoken. Recent research (201... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York: Robert M. McBride & Company: 1929
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2130195
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Lacks slipcase. Board fore-edge rubbed. 1929 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 209 pp. 8vo. Decorations by Frank C. Pape. 'Today, some recognize Cabell as one of the first contemporary writers from the South. He is also noted for his unique blending of classic myths and legends with his own imagination and is considered a pioneer of fantasy writing. The Way of Ecben is derived from the Norrovian legend upon which is based Felix Kennaston's The King's Quest, but Cabell claims that his tale clings rigorously to the queer legend's restrained, and quite... View more info
By: Caldwell, Taylor
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202719
Condition: Good
First edition. Jacket rubbed & chipped, tape along jacket spine, pages toned, stamping on endpapers. 1938 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 797 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900–August 30, 1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback. In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include Dynasty of Death (1938),... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270467
ISBN: 1400040744
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Bottom edge of front board lightly bumped, otherwise a very nice copy. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 319 pp. In this novel of family and redemption, a mother struggles to save her eighteen-year-old daughter from the devastating consequences of mental illness by forcing her to deal with her bipolar disorder. New York Times best-selling author Bebe Moore Campbell draws on her own powerful emotions and African-American roots, showcasing her best writing yet. Trina suffers from bipolar disorder, making her parano... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270468
ISBN: 0399142983
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Light smudge on top edge, gilt of jacket titles slightly rubbed away. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 372 pp. Called one of the leading black novelists of the twentieth century by The Washington Post, the author of Brothers and Sisters follows a successful producer who tries to revitalize the ghetto of her youth. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270469
ISBN: 0399147845
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Faint smudge on top page ridge. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 533 pp. Los Angeles, 1945: When Hosanna Clark, newly arrived from the farm fields of Texas, befriends Holocaust survivor Gilda Rosenstein, she opens the door to a new life for them both. Using Gilda's knowledge of cosmetics and Hosanna's energy and determination, they begin producing a line of lipsticks and lotions for black women. The two are more than partners: They are dear friends. Then Gilda suddenly disappears, taking all the assets. Hosanna ... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270470
ISBN: 039913929X
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Very faint smudge on top page ridge, pages very faintly toned. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 476 pp. Struggling with her own personal issues after the Los Angeles riots, Esther Jackson, a black employee at a downtown bank, is heartened when a black man is hired as senior vice-president, until he sexually harasses her white friend and coworker. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270471
ISBN: 0399134158
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket very faintly toned. Pages faintly toned. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 272 pp. The author recounts her relationship with her father, one that took place largely during the summer when they vacationed together, discussing how this shaped her as an adult and a woman. View more info
