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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 -
BIG MOUTH & UGLY GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperTempest / Harper Collins, (2002). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Oates' first novel for young adults. SIGNED on the title page. 266 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82818More details Price: $35.00 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
READING THE FIGHTS: The Best Writing About the Most Controversial of Sports.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Prentice-Hall, (1990). Collects 23 essays on the sport of boxing by Michael Stephens, Norman Mailer, Elliot Gorn, George Plimpton, Pete Hamill, A. J. Liebling, Gay Talese, Edward Hoagland, Gerald Early, George Garrett, and the editors Oates and Halpern and others. Introduction by Halpern. Illustrated with photographs. xii, 305 pp. ISBN: 0-137611498.
Condition: Very good (remainder line)
Book ID: 83848More details Price: $14.50 -
BANQUET: Five Short Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, 1978. SIGNED first edition - Illustrated with wood engravings by Gillian Tyler. SIGNED by Joyce Carol Oates on the title page. Oates's contribution is "North Wind." Other stories include Kumin's "The Banquet", Brown's "How Mrs Fox Married Again", McGarry's "The Rainy Season", and Schwartz's "Mrs Saunders Writes to the World." 101 pp. ISBN: 0-915778-254.
Condition: Near fine in stiff wrappers (outer edge of text block slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 15659More details Price: $30.00 -
BANQUET: Five Short Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, 1978. SIGNED first edition - Illustrated with wood engravings by Gillian Tyler. SIGNED by Joyce Carol Oates at her story "North Wind." Other stories include Kumin's "The Banquet", Brown's "How Mrs Fox Married Again", McGarry's "The Rainy Season", and Schwartz's "Mrs Saunders Writes to the World." 101 pp. ISBN: 0-915778-254.
Condition: Near fine in stiff beige wrappers with green and dark brown decorations and lettering (toning to the covers, especially at the spine),
Book ID: 49634More details Price: $32.50 -
THE POISONED KISS and Other Stories from the Portuguese.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Vanguard, (1975.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - According to the introductory notes by Oates, "the tales in this collection are translated from an imaginary work, Azulejos, by an imaginary author, Fernandes de Briao' although in her afterword she talks about the strong sense that she had that these were really Fernandes' stories. SIGNED by Oates on the title page. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-8149-0761x.
Condition: Just about fine in a very good dustjacket (usual fading to purple endpapers near the gutter, closed tear to front cover of dj, along side of spine, dj is now in an archival protector.).
Book ID: 65870More details Price: $45.00 -
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INVISIBLE WRITER: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first full-length authorized biography of Oates, one which examines the relationship between Oates's life and work - Johnson was granted access to her letters and journals, as well as extensive interviews with family, friends, colleagues, and Oates herself. Notes, selected bibliography of books by and about Oates, index. xx, 492 pp. ISBN: 0-525941630.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 77007More details Price: $25.00 -
STARR BRIGHT WILL BE WITH YOU SOON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition - "'Starr Bright' is the tormented, murderous side of Sharon Donner, a model and exotic dancer turned avenging angel. A drifter who has staked out the Nevada desert as her own personal hell, she lives in a desolate landscape of endless highways and seedy motel rooms." SIGNED on the title by Joyce Carol Oates with "RS" in quotes. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-525944524.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 70450More details Price: $35.00 -
LIVES OF THE TWINS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover - First suspense novel written by Oates under this pseudonym - a "quirkly little psychological thriller." SIGNED on the title page. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-671-644688.
Condition: Very good in good dust jacket (remainder line, some inconspicuous dampstaining to inside of dj.)
Book ID: 20880More details Price: $18.00 -
LIVES OF THE TWINS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover - First suspense novel written under this pseudonym. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-671-644688.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark.)
Book ID: 22577More details Price: $25.00 -
LIVES OF THE TWINS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - First suspense novel written under this pseudonym. ISBN: 0-671-644688.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (remainder mark, small chip to dj.)
Book ID: 34033More details Price: $16.00 -
NEMESIS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel written under this pseudonym. Blurb from Elmore Leonard: "Smith could become the world's #1 mystery writer easily." 276 pp. ISBN: 0-525-248811.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 39932More details Price: $16.50 -
SNAKE EYES
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dutton, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel written by Oates under this name. A novel of suspense: a paroled murderer comes to stay with the lawyer who got his death sentence overturned - and in doing so overturns the apparently idyllic life the lawyer and his family are leading. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-525-934049.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77227More details Price: $15.00 -
SNAKE EYES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel written by Oates under this name. A novel of suspense: a paroled murderer comes to stay with the lawyer who got his death sentence overturned - and in doing so overturns the apparently idyllic life the lawyer and his family are leading. SIGNED on the title page by Oates with R S / J C Oates. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-525-934049.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81156More details Price: $35.00 -
PRIZE STORIES 1986: The O. Henry Awards.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Doubleday / Anchor, 1986. In addition to the prizewinners and contributors shown above, this also includes stories by Bobbie Ann Mason, Ward Just, Elizabeth Spencer, Stephanie Vaughn and more. Introduction by Abrahams. Walker won first prize for 'Kindred Spirits' and Oates received a special award for continuing achievement for 'Master Race." 274 pp. ISBN: 0-385-231563.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 55948More details Price: $11.50
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