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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
THE BONE IS POINTED.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Scribner, (1998.). SIGNED - Attractive re-issue of a mystery featuring Dectective Inspector Napolean Bonaparte, originally published in 1938. The setting in the Australian outback evokes the vastness of the area, and the rabbit migration, and the bone-pointing traditionsof an aborigine tribe are well-described. SIGNED by Edward Marston (Keith Miles) at his introduction for this edition. Map. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-684-850575.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 48144More details Price: $21.50 -
THE BACHELORS OF BROKEN HILL.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Scribner, (1998). SIGNED - A mystery set in the outback of Australia, featuring Upfield's unusual detective: a half aborigine police inspector named Napoleon Bonaparte, originally published in 1950. This edition has a new introduction by Edward Marston, SIGNED by Edward Marston on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-684-850583.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 58454More details Price: $21.50 -
AN EXPERT IN MURDER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, featuring the golden age mystery writer Josephine Tey Detective Inspector Archie Penrose. Set in the theatre world in London, where Tey's play "Richard of Bordeaux" is ending its long and sucessful run. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0061451539.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder mark, toning to pages, corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 77778More details Price: $16.50 -
NO MERCY: Poems
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. Hardcover first edition - Her second collection, a title in the National Poetry series, selected by James Tate in 1988.
Condition: F/F.
Book ID: 9106More details Price: $15.00 -
ONE YEAR LATER: An Assessment of the Nation's Response to the Crisis Described by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969. The conclusion reached by this book: 'A year later, we are a year closer to being two societies, black and white, increasingly separate and scarcely less unequal.' References. 122 pp
Condition: Very good condition (light stamp on first page.)
Book ID: 30678More details Price: $9.00 -
THE MAN WHO BROKE NAPOLEON'S CODES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the early days of cryptography - this book uses the original sources, including many ciphers and code-tables and shows that Lieutenant Colonel George Scovell was a true forerunner to the great code-breakers of the twentieth century. Photographs, maps, notes on sources, index. xix, 346pp. ISBN: 0-06-018891X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 62835More details Price: $18.50 -
ALTERNATIVE LIVES
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1990). First edition - Her fifth collection of poems, which celebrate the immense variety of individual lives around the world by focusing on a moment, a scene, a possiblity. Notes, 61 pp. ISBN: 0-8229-5439-7.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 62671More details Price: $11.50 -
ALTERNATIVE LIVES
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1990). SIGNED first edition - Her fifth collection of poems, which celebrate the immense variety of individual lives around the world by focusing on a moment, a scene, a possiblity. INSCRIBED by the author on the first page. Notes, 61 pp. ISBN: 0-8229-5439-7.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 17144More details Price: $18.00 -
THE WOMAN WHO READ NOVELS and PEACETIME: Two Novellas
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1990. First edition -
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. (upper corner slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 10936More details Price: $13.50 -
AWAY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this Canadian writer, a multi-generational story of a family who fled the famine in Ireland to come to Canada. Co-winner of the Trillium Award. 356 pp. ISBN: 0-670-855049.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62043More details Price: $21.50 -
A MAP OF GLASS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
San Francisco: McAdam / Cage, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which interweaves two stories - one set in contemporary Toronto and the other the story of a family in the nineteenth century on the shores of Lake Ontario. 371 pp. ISBN: 1596921706.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55656More details Price: $22.50 -
A MAP OF GLASS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
San Francisco: McAdam / Cage, (2006.) dj. Hardcover - A novel which interweaves two stories - one set in contemporary Toronto and the other the story of a family in the nineteenth century on the shores of Lake Ontario. 371 pp. ISBN: 1596921706.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52817More details Price: $15.00 -
AWAY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this Canadian writer, a multi-generational story of a family who fled the famine in Ireland to come to Canada. Co-winner of the Trillium Award. 356 pp. ISBN: 0-670-855049.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (crease on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 50955More details Price: $18.00 -
CHANGING HEAVEN.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Godine, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The true first edition of this highly praised Canadian writer's second novel - a story that moves from the English moors of Emily Bronte to Venice and modern day Toronto. ISBN: 0-87923-895X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 30154More details Price: $18.00
