Alan Dubois (10 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Light wear. Cover art by Tim Gabor for "All or Nothing". Novelets: "New World Symphony" by Elizabeth Moon and "Healer" by Alan Brennert. Short Stories: "All or Nothing" by Dean Whitloc, "Etoundi's Monkey" by Judith Dubois, "Eternal Ties" by Chet Williamson, and "The Demonstration" by Marc Laidlaw. Departments: Books by Algis Budrys, Books to Look For by Orson Scott Card, and Science: "The Cosmic Lens" by Isaac Asimov. Cartoons: John Jonik, Marc Bilgrey, Frank Hauser.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of two novelets and four short stories. Featured are New World Symphony by Elizabeth Moon (novelet), Healer by Alan Brennert (novelet), All or Nothing by Dean Whitlock (short story), Etoundi's Monkey by Judith Dubois (short story) Eternal Ties by Chet Williamson (short story) and The Demonstration by Marc Laidlaw (short story) Slight edgewear. Light age toning to cover and pages. In Near Fine Condition.…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Vol. 76, No. 2. Edited by Edward L. Ferman. Cover art by Tim Gabor for "All or Nothing" by Dean Whitlock. Includes "New World Symphony" (novet) by Elizabeth Moon; "Healer" (novelet) by Alan Brennert; "Etoundi's Monkey" by Judith Dubois; "Eternal Ties" by Chet Williamson; "The Demonstration" by Marc Laidlaw. Departments: "Books" by Algis Budrys; "Books to Look For" by Orson Scott Card; "Science: The Cosmic lens" by Isaac Asimov. Tanning; slight wear. No label, never was. Book. …

paperback. Condition: Good. Soft cover. Normal cover and page wear.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Signed & inscribed by Jane Sauer on first page, else text clean & bright; binding tight; minor wear to covers. 47 pages. Illustrated in color. Catalogue for the exhibition, held April 16 - May 21, 2000. Size: 9" x 9".

Hardcover. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. NF/NF. Author Signed. First Edition; First Printing. 1997. University of Chicago Press. Unmarked. Hardcover. NF two-tone cloth, mustard-yellow spine over orange-tan boards with gilt spine lettering. Signed twice on title page w/ short inscription 'to Scott with all best wishes'. Solid & square. NF Dust Jacket. No rips, tears or stains. Unclipped. 136 pp. 5.5x8.25. Cover image may differ from stock market images (please refer to attached photos). Elegiac memoir by Alan Shapiro chronicling the final weeks of his sister Beth's life in a Houston hospice, a companion piece to his National Book Critics Circle Award finalist The Last Happy Occasion. Inscription dated March 1999, placing it during Shapiro's active teaching tenure at UNC Chapel Hill and within the book's primary promotional period. Ships in box from the USA, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Vigil is an elegiac memoir by award-winning American poet Alan Shapiro, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1997. The work chronicles the final four weeks of his sister Beth's life in a Houston hospice as she succumbed to breast cancer in 1995, exploring the raw limits of poetry and language when confronting the terminal illness of a loved one. Written as a companion piece to his 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist The Last Happy Occasion, the narrative weaves together a complex family history Beth was a radical student activist who helped co-found Students for a Democratic Society at Michigan State University, and had been temporarily disowned by her family for marrying her African-American husband before a reconciliation that gathered relatives at her bedside. This true first printing is bound in the publisher's original two-tone cloth, with a mustard-yellow spine over orange-tan boards and bright gilt spine lettering. The dust jacket features the cover illustration by Gerard Dubois and jacket design by Julia Robling Griest, Signed twice by Alan Shapiro on the title page and carries a handwritten inscription dated March 20, 1999, placing the signature during Shapiro's active teaching tenure at UNC Chapel Hill and within the book's primary promotional period. Gerard Dubois (illustrator). Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Presumed first edition. No additional date, edition or printing indicated. Fair plus, if not good hardback. No dust jacket. Age-toning to leaves and book plate (3.75 inch by 2.75 inch) of previous owner on front free endpaper. A 1/2 inch tear to cloth of rear spine-fold at head; general moderate wear to spine; to head and heel of spine; and a slight, if not very slight 'lean' to spine. Minor, if not trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use.…

Wraps. Condition: VG+. "National Objects Invitational" by Alan DuBois covers Clay, Fiber, Glass, Metal and Wood. The artists featured are: Marek Cecula; Carol Eckert; Michelle Holzapfel; Karen Koblitz; Mark Linquist; Thomas Loeser; James Makins; Alphonse Mattia; Richard Mawdsley; Norman Minkowitz; Richard Notkin; Claire Sanford; Jane Sauer; Michael Scheiner; June Schwarcz; Patti Warashina and Katherine Westphal; 17 b&w; 1 color; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 49 pp. …

Condition: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated stiff card wrap covers [soft back]. 4to. 11½'' x 8¼''. Contains 96 printed pages of text with 90 colour plates throughout. Light rubbing to the edges of the covers and in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0901721212 ART [French].…