Jones Thom 1945 2016 (3 results)

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $9.95, attractive copy, appears little used if at all. JONES, THOM. The pugilist at rest: stories. Boston: Little, Brown / Back Bay Books, 1993, stated First Paperback edition, with 1st printing number line ending in 1, 230pp., . Cover design by Steve Snider. 14 stories grouped into four parts: the horrors of Vietnam; men at war with women; the difficulties of divorce, mental defects, and the ravages of cancer; and battling epilepsy and alcoholism. 9780316473040 ISBN 0316473049 9.00.

very good dust-jacket, cover price $19.95, very good black and blue hardcover, light foxing on top foredge. SIGNED simply in red ink on title page: Thom Jones. JONES, THOM. Cold snap: stories. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995, stated First Edition, but with 3d printing number line, 228pp., . A collection of stories, many on the experiences of white people with the heat and savagery of Africa. The title story is on a burned-out American doctor. By the author of The Puglist at Rest. - CONTENTS: Cold snap -- Superman, my son -- Way down deep in the jungle -- Quicksand -- Pickpocket -- Ooh baby baby -- Rocketfire red -- I need a man to love me -- Pot shack -- Dynamite hands. 9780316473071 ISBN 0316473073.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. These eleven stories, whether set in the combat zones of Vietnam or the brittle social and intellectual milieu of an elite New England college are fueled by an almost brutal vision of the human condition, in a world without mercy or redemption. This copy is in very good condition, a third printing signed and dated by Jones on the title page with the as new, price intact dustjacket in clear, mylar covering. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping. Signed by Author(s).