- Author = Joyce Carol Oates
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NIGHT-SIDE: Eighteen Tales.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Vanguard Press, (1977) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of stories which explore the dark side of the human soul - 'the other worlds of dreams and nightmares, mediums and odd-happenings.' SIGNED on title page. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-8149-07038.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some toning to the dj, and minor edgewear, folded slightly off-center) Original price of 10.00 still present.
Book ID: 81153More details Price: $75.00 -
A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories and a novella. SIGNED on the title page. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-525-199500.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 18406More details Price: $30.00 -
CARTHAGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the Adirondacks where a young girl has disappeared, and all of the evidence points to a troubled young Iraq war veteran. SIGNED on the title page. 482 pp. ISBN: 978-0062208125.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82819More details Price: $45.00 -
MARYA, A Life
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-525-243747.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (rem line bottom edge.)
Book ID: 15422More details Price: $30.00 -
MIRACLE PLAY.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback issued simultaneously with hardcover edition and limited edition.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. SIGNED first edition - Includes 12 pages of photographs from the original production of this play. SIGNED on the title page. 87 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-876852134.
Condition: Near fine condition.
Book ID: 15012More details Price: $27.50 -
BECAUSE IT IS BITTER, AND BECAUSE IT IS MY HEART
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Dutton, (1990.) dj. Hardcover - The story of two families in a small town in upstate New York - one white, one black - in the 50's and 60's - before the upsurge of the civil rights movement when racism was habitual and inflexible. 405 pp. ISBN: 0-525-248609.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dj (appears unread.)
Book ID: 11411More details Price: $12.50 -
SOLSTICE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1985. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel - set in modern times, the story of two women who meet, become friends - and gradually the friendship begins to move towards love - and eventually to a near-fatal obsession with each other. SIGNED on the title page. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-525-242937.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 3484More details Price: $35.00 -
THE PROFANE ART, Essays and Reviews
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1983. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Oate's fourth collection of critical essays - on writers ranging from Anne Sexton to Updike, from Charles Dodgson to Colette and Paul Bowles and Wuthering Heights. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-525-241663.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 3479More details Price: $52.50 -
RAVEN'S WING
Edition: First trade paperback printing.
New York: Dutton, 1987. A collection of 18 stories by one of the most prolific writers in America, and one of the best short story writers - this is described as a 'deeper, darker, richer' collection.
Condition: Good in wrappers - spine slanted.
Book ID: 3478More details Price: $10.00 -
UPON THE SWEEPING FLOOD and Other Stories.
Edition: First edition.
New York: The Vanguard Press, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second collection of short stories - includes eleven stories - "intense, ironic, sinister and violent" - many of them award-winning. 250 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings and reading wear in a very good unmarked dust jacket (chip to bottom of dj spine, some wear to top edge of spine)
Book ID: 86534More details Price: $24.50 -
MARYA, A Life
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dutton, 1986. dj. Hardcover -
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (ink price on ffep)
Book ID: 3472More details Price: $12.50 -
THE JOURNAL OF JOYCE CAROL OATES 1973 - 1982.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2007.). Hardcover first edition - Edited and with notes at the beginning of each year by Greg Johnson. Photographs. Name index, 509 pp. ISBN: 9780061227981.
Condition: Very near fine in red boards, no dust jacket as issued (a new copy, but with a remainder line).
Book ID: 51966More details Price: $16.50 -
FOXFIRE: Confessions of a Girl Gang.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in a blue-collar town in upstate New York in the 1950s. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-525-936327.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (shelfwear to edges, signs of having been read.)
Book ID: 51841More details Price: $12.50 -
MY HEART LAID BARE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic historical novel, the story of a family of confidence artists set in late 19th century America. 531 pp. ISBN: 0-525-944427.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (lower corner of textblock and rear cover of dj bumped - otherwise a tight and clean copy.)
Book ID: 51811More details Price: $13.50 -
SOLSTICE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel - set in modern times, the story of two women who meet, become friends - and gradually the friendship begins to move towards love - and eventually to a near-fatal obsession with each other. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-525-242937.
Condition: Ex-library with few markings, missing front endpaper, but otherwise tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 51807More details Price: $12.50 -
FAITHLESS: Tales of Trangression.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press - Harper Collins, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0185252.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 51806More details Price: $27.50 -
I'LL TAKE YOU THERE.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2003.). Told in the first person, in edgy and sometimes incomplete sentences, this is the story of a an intelligent and gifted college student, who is also "drastically inclined to obsession." 290 pp. ISBN: 0-06-050189.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 51634More details Price: $11.50 -
THE TATTOOED GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - When a reclusive author is forced, by his declining health, to hire an assistant and chooses a naive and sensuous young woman with tattoos over most of her body, complex emotions and, ultimately, tragedy, results. "With her masterful balance of dark suspense and surprising tenderness, Joyce Carol Oates probes the contemporary tragedy of ethnic hatred and challenges our accepted limits of desire." 307 pp. ISBN: 0-060531061.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 83169More details Price: $16.50 -
HAUNTED: Tales of the Grotesque.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of sixteen stories ranging from classic ghost stories to portrayals of chilling psychological terror. Includes an afterword by Oates. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-525936556.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 83187More details Price: $18.00 -
SOURLAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes sixteen previously uncollected short stories - "stories that reimagine the meaning of loss -through unexpected and often violent means." 373 pp. ISBN: 978-0061996528.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (partially price-clipped)
Book ID: 83495More details Price: $18.50 -
WHERE IS HERE?
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories by this National Book Award winning author - stories which examine a world in which ordinary life is suddenly electrified by the potential for violent change. SIGNED on the title page. 193 pp,. ISBN: 0-88001-2838.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 52164More details Price: $30.00 -
LITTLE BIRD OF HEAVEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco / Harper Collins, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the Great Lakes region of upstate New York, a story of murder, suspicion, guilt and misplaced love. 442 pp. ISBN: 978-0061829833.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark, some toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 87089More details Price: $18.50 -
NIGHT, SLEEP, DEATH, THE STARS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ecco Press, (2020). Hardcover first edition - A look at the darker side of our society through the prism of a family tragedy. 787 pp. ISBN: 978-0062797582.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87940More details Price: $28.50 -
FREAKY GREEN EYES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins (Harper Tempest), (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A young adult novel by this prize winning - and incredibily prolific - writer. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6237599.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 50631More details Price: $35.00 -
THE MUSEUM OF DR. MOSES: Tales of Mystery and Suspense.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Ten short stories which explore the ways in which evil enters our life. 229 pp. ISBN: 9780151015313.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50220More details Price: $35.00 -
BLACK WATER.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dutton, 1992. dj. Hardcover - A short, but intensely imagined novel, based on an incident which everyone will recognize. 154 pp. ISBN: 0-525-934553.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 49799More details Price: $12.50 -
BROKE HEART BLUES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel spanning the 1960s through the 1990s - the story of a teenage boy, a blend of James Dean, Elvis and Brando - who is transformed from being Willowsville's rebel outlaw into a living myth the night a prominent citizen is found shot dead in his mother's bedroom. SIGNED on the title page. 369 pp. ISBN: 0-525-944516.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 82816More details Price: $35.00 -
MYSTERIES OF WINTERTHURN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dutton, (1984.) dj. Hardcover - The third novel in her series of Gothic mysteries, set in late 19th century, early 20th century America. Map endpapers. 467 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Kathy Jacobi. ISBN: 0-525-242082.
Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket (edgewear to the dj).
Book ID: 47761More details Price: $12.50 -
BELLEFLEUR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1980.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An amazing tour de force - a historical novel which covers six generations of the Bellefleur family and combines actual events of the 19th century with the magical and the surreal. SIGNED on the title page. 558 pp. ISBN: 0-525-063021.
Condition: Very good in a very good minus dust jacket (some short closed edgetears.)
Book ID: 46833More details Price: $35.00 -
BROKE HEART BLUES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel spanning the 1960s through the 1990s - the story of a teenage boy, a blend of James Dean, Elvis and Brando - who is transformed from being Willowsville's rebel outlaw into a living myth the night a prominent citizen is found shot dead in his mother's bedroom. SIGNED on the title page. 369 pp. ISBN: 0-525-944516.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some crinkling to the upper corner of the first few pages, otherwise tight and clean.)
Book ID: 45585More details Price: $25.00
