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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.420. with 165 photographs The subject tells her story. clean tight unread copy slight crinkles to middle back cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American Edition. First American Edition. Green hardcover with gilt and silver titling to spine in Good condition. Bumps to spine ends. Blue-toned top page edges. 308 pages. Clean and tight. Price-clipped DJ Good-Minus with small chips to spine ends and edges and some darkening. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. First Edition - stated, with no other printings listed (indicates 1st Printing.) Complete, no writing, no marks, no tears, not a remainder. Presents as being carefully read. Mylar sleeve protected DJ. Bookseller Invt. # C00110512D.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Second printing. Inscribed to previous owner by the author on FEP. Black hardcover with gilt titling to spine in Very Good condition. Tight and clean. Clipped DJ Good-Plus in Brodart. Some chips to corners and edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s).

Pictorial Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jerry Pinkney (illustrator). Caldecott Honor Book, dj g, laminated, red fep, int vg, unpaginated, full color illust. To win first prize in the junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner. First introduced in America by slaves, the cakewalk is a dance rooted in Afro-American Culture. It was performed by couples who strutted and pranced around a large square, keeping time with a fiddle and banjo music.int. vg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has a little wear. There is a small felt-tip pen remainder mark on the bottom. 345 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has a bit of wear, with a few small tears on the edges and light foxing on the inside flaps. The page edges are a bit foxed. 206 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Blake, Quentin (illustrator). First Thus ( Revised Edition 0. Fine, unread copy, in a fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L10.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine, unread copy, in a fine jacket. As new.

Wraps. Uncorrected Proof. FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Barry Moser (illustrator). First Edition. First edition hardcover. Illustrated by award winner Barry Moser. Pages not numbered. 8 3/4 in. X 11 1/4 in. No names, writing, or other marks. Hardcover. Light wear to edges of dust jacket. Dust jacket and book are in Near Fine condition. ; 8 3/4 in. x 11 1/4 in.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Author of MYSTERY RIDE, AMERICAN OWNED LOVE and others. Fine,first edition first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L96.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L75.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M54.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Trade Edition. Author of the Bascombe novels, which include THE SPORTWRITER and its sequels, INDEPENDENCE DAY--the first novel to win the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award--and THE LAY OF THE LAND, as well as the short story collections ROCK SPRINGS and A MULTITUDE OF SINS, which contain many widely-anthologized stories. Ford is the winner of the American Library Association's 2013 Carnegie Medal for Excellence, receiving their fiction citation for his novel, CANADA. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L97.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Jessel, Camilla (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated in B&W Photos (illustrator). 1st. Hc, dj vg. The true story of the 4 month trial over the fight of the $500 million estate of L. Seward Johnson left to his 2nd wife, his junior by some 40 years, by his children and their mother. How the attorneys ran up fees in excess of $24 million. The author was in court every day of the trial.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First North American Edition. A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of the most momentous event of our time. Author also of THE INFORMATION, NIGHT TRAIN, VISITING MRS. NABOKOV AND OTHER EXCURSIONS, YELLOW DOG, EXPERIENCE: A Memoir, and HOUSE OF MEETINGS, among others. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. OFC 1F.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG, Prior Owner's Name Inside. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Illus dj. gloss. Prev. owner's inscription on endpaper. Otherwise pages & book appear never read. Clean, white, tight pgs. DJ has tiny amt of rub wear edges. Adam Dalgliesh and his two young assistants search for connections and clues to solve a murder mystery. Size: 6 1/2 X 9 1/2.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very fine, in white cloth boards, in near-fine (price-clipped, else as new) mylar-protected dust jacket. NF48.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. "Bill Morrissey is a true naturalist storyteller," Rolling Stone has written, "the troubadour as truth-teller, conveying wisdom with absolute authority and focused fire." Those same qualities resonate in EDSON--an incisively humane, lyrically spare, and emotionally rich evocation of tight-lipped crisis and modest triumphs in this weathered working-class landscape. Fine, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Purchase includes laid in EDSON pictorial bookmark. L90.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Moving to Persimmon, New Mexico, with her unconventional mother, a teenage Rita finds her life taking unexpected turns when she enters the local high school, acquires a boyfriend, and becomes involved in the revenge scheme of Rudy Salazar, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Author of CROOKED HEARTS and MYSTERY RIDE, among others. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L105.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M35.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Author of THE SWEET SHOP OWNER, WATERLAND (shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize), OUT OF THIS WORLD, and THE LIGHT OF DAY. Swift has also published a collection of short stories, LEARNING TO SWIM. LAST ORDERS is the 1996 Winner of the Man Booker Prize, and the basis of the popular movie featuring Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, and Bob Hoskins. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L25.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. John Updike's short story collections are occasions for celebration -- the pleasures to be found in them are great indeed. This marvelous volume contains one gem after another, stories to be savored one at a time and returned to again and again. Here is trust betrayed -- and fulfilled. Here are parents struggling to maintain that fragile claim on their offspring's childish awe.Here are husbands and wives as only Updike knows them, leaving each other, loving each other, often at the same time. Here are passion ignited and quenched, absurd hope, regret at the last minute. Here is life as we live in it, in twenty-two stories of uncommon beauty and pathos from a master storyteller at the peak of his brilliant career. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} MLBS1.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is the remarkable story of Hannah Easton, a unique woman born in the American colonies in 1670, "a person undreamed of in Puritan society." Inquisitive, vital and awake to her own possibilities, Hannah travels to Mughal, India, with her husband, and English trader. There, she sets her own course, "translating" herself into the Salem Bibi, the white lover of a Hindu raja. It is also the story of Beigh Masters, born in New England in the mid-twentieth century, an "asset hunter" who stumbles on the scattered record of her distant relative's life while tracking a legendary diamond. As Beigh pieces together details of Hannah's journeys, she finds herself drawn into the most intimate and spellbinding fabric of that remote life, confirming her belief that with "sufficient passion and intelligence, we can decontrsuct the barriers of time and geography." "An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee prove she is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the future and the past into a tale that is singularly intelligent and provocative." -AMY TAN Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L24.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated (illustrator). First. HC/DJ has rips and worn. Book pgs. tight, clean, slight soiled outside boards and pg ends. The history & purpose of archaeology, its discoveries about stone ages, fertile crescent from Babylon to Egypt in the words of the orig. discoverers, observers and interpreters.

H.b. Condition: Very Good. l8l pgs. First ed., 11th Printing, which suggests the popularity of this later Hersey novel. Hersey won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1944, novel "A Bell For Adano" depicting the allied occupation of a Sicilian town during WWII. Hersey is both a respected novelist & journalist & foreign correspondent. "A Single Pebble" is set in China, where the author was born. Yellow cloth boards are clean & attractive; interior is very clean, like new. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/4".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. At the heart of this electrifying novel is a crime of unfathomable horror and its effect on several profoundly different lives, each altered by a surprising connection to the others. We hear four brilliantly realized voices: Helen, an inmate at Sloatsburg women's prison serving a life sentence for the murder of her children; trapped within the maze of her own tortured mind, she is the subject of damning national attention. Dr. Louise Forrest, the recently divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy?the new chief of psychiatry at Sloatsburg. Angie, an ambitious Hollywood starlet, intent on nothing but fame. And Ike Bradshaw, a sardonic corrections officer, formerly a New York City narcotics detective. As the alternating narratives unfold, we begin to wonder why Dr. Forrest has chosen Sloatsburg over the Park Avenue practice for which she was trained. And the origin of Helen's psychosis is revealed?both its shocking depths and its disturbingly convincing rationale?as well as why she is desperate to make herself known to the young actress Angie. THE BIG GIRLS is a powerful and audacious novel about the anarchy of families, the sometimes destructive power of the maternal instinct, the vitality and evil of communities, and the cult of celebrity?written in spare, evocative prose and with a bold unde anding of the darkest, most hidden aspects of human nature.Author of MY OLD SWEETHEART, THE WHITENESS OF BONES, SLEEPING BEAUTY, IN THE CUT, and ONE LAST LOOK. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L135/L102 L115.