Grimes Tom Editor (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good -. xii, [2], 766, [4] p.; 24 cm. Black and white cover with silver spine title. Dust jacket. Stated First Edition. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: loss at lower corner of front section; ends of spine rubbed; clean and bright.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Corners rubbed, spine bumped, binding solid, clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First printing of this tall thick octavo covered in half black cloth stamped in gilt on the spine and half white paper covered boards. The book is in near fine condition with a very lightly bumped top front corner tip. Unmarked, and otherwise fine. The dust jacket is in fine condition with an intact price. "43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in Twentieth-Century American Literature". xii, 766 pp. Stories, Fiction, Essays, Iowa Writers' Workshop, Education, Writing studies, Writing workshops. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. First printing. Hardbound. 242 pp. Quarter-bound in red on gray boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Fine in a fine jacket. Price intact on flap ($24.99). No interior markings. This anthology collection contains: Introduction by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas; Sleeping with Dogs on a King-size Bed by Abigail Thomas; Let's Go My Love by Anna Keesey; Sick Dog by Rick Bass; A Good Creature by Chris Adrian; At Least You Have Your Legs by Jim Shepard; Dog Lives by Antonya Nelson; My Commodore by Denis Johnson; Mercy: A Friendship by Robin Romm; The Leach by Tom Grimes; Odin King of Hearts by Mary Otis; Nightmares by Paul Winner; The Big Kahuna by Yannick Murphy; Out Little Jack the Runner by Barry Hannah; Schnauzer, Talking by Lee Montgomery; Never Just Dogs by Jayne Anne Phillips; Damned Spot by Michelle Latiolais; A Hundred-Dog Life by Ron Carlson; Becky Hungry Coyote by J. C. Hallman; Dog on Two Legs by Lydia Millet; and Bridgette by Victoria Redel; followed by About the Authors. Size: 8vo.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. Introduction by Frank Conroy. Traces the Iowa Writers' Workshop's decade-by-decade evolution from the 1930s through the present. Includes stories from such Iowa alumni as Wallace Stegner in the 30's, Flannery O'Connor in the 40's, Raymond Carver, Bharati Mukherjee, Joy Williams and Andre Dubus in the 60's, T.C. Boyle and Jane Smiley in the 70's up to Chris Offut, Susan Power and ZZ Packer in the 90's. Brief introduction to each selection by the authors. SIGNED by T. C. Boyle at his story "The Women's Restaurant." 766 pages. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (name crossed out on front endpaper, crease to front flap of dj). A massive book.

Condition: GOOD. First printing. Introduction by Frank Conroy. Traces the Iowa Writers' Workshop's decade-by-decade evolution from the 1930s through the present. Includes stories from such Iowa alumni as Wallace Stegner in the 30's, Flannery O'Connor in the 40's, Raymond Carver, Bharati Mukherjee, Joy Williams and Andre Dubus in the 60's, T.C. Boyle and Jane Smiley in the 70's up to Chris Offut, Susan Power and ZZ Packer in the 90's. Brief introduction to each selection. SIGNED by TWO contributors: Willam Kittredge at "Thirty-four Seasons of Winter" and by ZZ Packer at her story, "Speaking in Tongues." 766 pages. Fair condition only in a near fine dust jacket (an apparently unread copy, but binding broken before title page.) A massive book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Bright, snug & unmarked first printing. Signed by Grimes at title page. A handsome copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. seven decades of the iowa writers workshop, early work by wallace stegner, flannery o'connor, bette pesetsky, raymond carver, andre dubus, gail godwin, william kittredge, denis johnson, ron hansen, t. c. boyle, jane smiley,ob shacochis, gish jen, elizabeth mc cracken, chris offutt and many more.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. (1st) 43 stories, recollections and essays of the Iowa Writers Workshop. Large, very thick, heavy book, dark black cloth spine, gray boards, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 766 pages. Contributors include Wallace Stegner, Bette Persetsky, Raymond Carver, Gail Godwin, Joy Williams and many more. DJ beneath mylar, glossy with look of typed manuscript being edited. DJ and book, both As New.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Light shelf wear, otherwise very good condition. Size: 4to.

ed. paperback good+ condition with a bit of wear and darkening.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Tom Jones (illustrator). First Edition. Minor shelfwear. Front free endpage torn out by former owner. Embossed stamp on bottom corner of first page. Roy Grimes signed this book under his name on the title page. Edgewear and small tears and chips to top edge of DJ. Spine is sunfaded. Price clipped. History of the "cradle" of Texas, Victoria and Victoria County. Removable mylar cover protecting DJ. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Jones, Tom (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition. [16], 649pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs, portraits; drawings by Tom Jones. Bibliographical notes, index. Green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover. A very fine and bright copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket artwork by Tom Jones; slight jacket wear to spine ends, less so to corners, spine slightly faded). History of the "cradle" of Texas, Victoria and Victoria County, formed by the Republic of Texas in 1836 and named after Guadalupe Victoria, the first President of Mexico. The book is divided into seven sections: 1) the Cradle of Texas History, 1685-1820, 2) the Road to Independence, 1821-1842, 3) Adversity and Prosperity, 1842- 1860, 4) Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1875, 5) Hide and Horn, 1875-1890, 6) Looking Back, 7) the Twentieth Century. Book.