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THE HIDE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Norton, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early work by this Booker prize winning novelist, originally published in the UK in 1970 and for the first time appearing in the US in this edition. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-393-039552.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy.)
Book ID: 59429More details Price: $18.50 -
SNAPS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Twin Palms, (1995) dj. Hardcover - Introduction by Ingrid Sischy and 120 very striking black and white photographs - mostly of women, some erotic. Limited to 6,000 copies - the photographic plates are sheet-fed gravures on uncoated paper stock. Large tall format. ISBN: 0-944092-292.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60843More details Price: $100.00 -
THE GURU OF LOVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of love and loss, set in Kathmundu in contemporary Nepal. His first book, a collection of short stories, won the 2001 Whiting Award. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-618-247270.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59489More details Price: $18.00 -
THE GURU OF LOVE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of love and loss, set in Kathmundu in contemporary Nepal. His first book, a collection of short stories, won the Whiting Award. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-618247270.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84127More details Price: $30.00 -
THE ROYAL GHOSTS: Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First edition - A collection of stories set against the backdrop of the violent Maoist insurgencies which have claimed thousands of lives - they show Nepal's citizens strugglng with their duties to their aging parents, an oppressive caste system, and the frustrations of arranged marriage. 207 p. ISBN: 0-618-517499.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean.
Book ID: 47023More details Price: $10.00 -
THE GURU OF LOVE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of love and loss, set in Kathmundu in contemporary Nepal. His first book, a collection of short stories, won the Whiting Award. INSCRIBED on the title page "For... Thanks for showing me San Francisco." 290 pp. ISBN: 0-618247270.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34183More details Price: $30.00 -
PASSIVE INTRUDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which explores the ideas of haunting and being haunted, of absence being as much of a shape as presence is. "A young woman sees the same mysterious face at each stop of a cross-country train trip. A gay psychiatrist is haunted by the ever-encroaching specter of AIDS. These are the intertwining threads of this gothic-tinged literary ghost tale set in Seattle." 369 pp. ISBN: 0-393038653.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88117More details Price: $18.50 -
OUT ON THE MARSH.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - First collection of short stories by this author, the son of writer John Updike. The settings of these fifteen stories range from New England to New York and Italy; many focus on the passage from youth to adulthood. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-879237287.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76011More details Price: $16.50 -
VERSE: The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures / Telephone Poles and Other Poems,
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Fawcett Crest, (1965). First edition - The first combined appearance of these two early books of poetry - The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures and Telephone Poles and Other poems - in one volume with a new "foreword" (an 8 line poem) by Updike. 175 pp.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 81410More details Price: $10.00 -
RABBIT IS RICH.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel in Updike's award-winning series about Rabbit Angstrom. 467 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dust jacket (light foxing to the fore-edge of the text block and the upper corner of the front endpaper)
Book ID: 80932More details Price: $28.50 -
MEMORIES OF THE FORD ADMINISTRATION.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Updike's fifteenth novel, one which alternates between two men - Presidents James Buchanan and Gerald Ford - "two lives, two American centuries - one Victorian, the other modern - shining an irreverent, witty, and sometimes caustic light on the contrasting views of social fictions and sexual politics." Brief bibliography. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-679416811.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68958More details Price: $16.50 -
RABBIT AT REST.
Edition: Large print (type) edition.
New York: Random House, 1990. dj. Hardcover - Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, who has now "acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo and a second grandchild - an exploration of the bleak terrain of late middle age." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 794 pp. ISBN: 0-394-58936X.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (soiling to edge of textblock, prev owner's embossed seal.)
Book ID: 56124More details Price: $16.50 -
A MONTH OF SUNDAYS.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. dj. Hardcover - A novel in which an errant minister is sent west to a forced desert retreat. ISBN: 0-394-495519.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (rubbing and edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 26982More details Price: $12.50 -
MARRY ME: A Romance.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - His eighth novel. ISBN: 0-394-40856-x.
Condition: Very good- in very good- dust jacket (small spot to red topstain, some edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 24251More details Price: $17.00 -
S.: A Novel.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition -. ISBN: 0-394-56835-4.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 24252More details Price: $16.00 -
A MONTH OF SUNDAYS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. dj. Hardcover - A novel in which an errant minister is sent west to a forced desert retreat. ISBN: 0-394-495519.
Condition: Fair condition only in a fair dj (water damage to front cover and interior of dj - appears tight and clean, and damage is not noticable with the protective cover on the dust jacket, but a reading copy only )
Book ID: 43150More details Price: $12.50 -
PROBLEMS and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of twenty-three short stories. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-394-507053.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine, unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 43543More details Price: $12.50 -
TRUST ME: Short Stories.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1987.) dj. Hardcover - Collection of twenty-two short stories. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-394-558332.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 43544More details Price: $12.50 -
BECH IS BACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Seven new chapters from the life of the 'peripatetic and unproductive Jewish-American writer' Henry Beck. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-394-528069.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (gift inscrip,some spine slant, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 43545More details Price: $12.50 -
RABBIT IS RICH.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Hardcover first edition - Another novel in Updike's award-winning series about Rabbit Angstrom. 467 pp.
Condition: Good overall in gold cloth with silver lettering, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 45894More details Price: $12.50 -
RABBIT AT REST.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover - Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, who has now "acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo and a second grandchild - an exploration of the bleak terrain of late middle age." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 512 pp. ISBN: 0-394-588150.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 16550More details Price: $12.50 -
MARRY ME: A Romance.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - His eighth novel. ISBN: 0-394-40856-x.
Condition: Good in a good dustjacket (edgewear to both book and dj, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 16555More details Price: $15.00 -
MIDPOINT AND OTHER POEMS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - His third collection of poetry - the 'boldly eclectic' title poem is an inventory of his life in his 35th year - midpoint in his life. 99 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46422More details Price: $35.00 -
THE COUP.
Edition: 2nd printing (before publication.)
New York: Random House, 1978. dj. Hardcover - Novel describing the violent events in an imaginary land-locked, drought-ridden sub-Saharan African country. 299 pp. ISBN: 0-394-50268x.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear to back edge, rubbing.)
Book ID: 48425More details Price: $14.50 -
THE MUSIC SCHOOL: SHORT STORIES.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. dj. Hardcover - Collection of 20 short stories which originally appeared in 'The New Yorker.' 260 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (price-clipped, some soiling to dj and wear to spine.)
Book ID: 51765More details Price: $13.50 -
RABBIT AT REST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, who has now "acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo and a second grandchild - an exploration of the bleak terrain of late middle age." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 512 pp. ISBN: 0-394-588150.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 52499More details Price: $20.00 -
MARRY ME: A Romance.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - His eighth novel. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-394-40856-x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (just a hint of fading to a spine.)
Book ID: 52500More details Price: $21.00 -
BONY AND THE KELLY GANG.
Edition: First printing.
London & Melbourne: Heinemann, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - The half-caste aborigine detective, Napoleon Bonaparte - Bony - goes undercover to investigate a murder in the isolated Cork Valley in the southern mountains of New South Wales, a valley that respects no outside laws. 208 pp. Price on dj notes "price in Australia 17/0" Dust jacket art by Christine Aldor.
Condition: Near fine in black boards a very good minus dustjacket with rubbing to the folds, light edgewear.
Book ID: 70823More details Price: $50.00 -
SINISTER STONES.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday Crime Club, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of this mystery set in the outback of Australia, featuring Upfield's unusual detective: a half aborigine police inspector named Napoleon Bonaparte. Published in the UK a year later under the title "The Cake in the Hatbox." 187 pp. Dust jacket art by Franklyn Webber.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 74022More details Price: $120.00 -
THE BACHELORS OF BROKEN HILL.
Edition: Paperback.
London: Pan, (1966.). A mystery set in the outback of Australia, featuring Upfield's unusual detective: a half aborigine police inspector named Napoleon Bonaparte.
Condition: Good+ condition (bookplate, usual toning to pages)
Book ID: 29848More details Price: $9.50
