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GUT SYMMETRIES.
Edition: First printing.
London: Granta, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her 6th novel, a complex tale of love, physics and the modern world. SIGNED on the title page. 219 pp. ISBN: 1-862070008.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 80641More details Price: $30.00 -
GUT SYMMETRIES.
Edition: First printing.
London: Granta, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her 6th novel, a complex tale of love, physics and the modern world. 219 pp. ISBN: 1-862070008.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 16092More details Price: $25.00 -
GUT SYMMETRIES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her 6th novel, a complex tale of love, physics and the modern world. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454756.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20263More details Price: $18.00 -
ARTS & LIES: A Piece for 3 Voices and a Bawd.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26696More details Price: $20.00 -
THE HEART OF A THIRSTY WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in the 1970s - "The misadventures of a mismatched couple, a woman's quest for her missing sister, and the secrets of life revealed in Carlos Castaneda's writings mark this off-beat novel as truly special." SIGNED on the title page. 363 pp. ISBN: 0-684841525.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80908More details Price: $25.00 -
THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82285More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, Volume Three: 1923 - 1928 (original title in England: A Change of Perspective.)
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1978.) dj. This volume of Woolf's letters cover a period when her literary career and the Hogarth Press were well launched and she was in relatively good health, Includes letters to Dora Carrington, Vita Sackville-West, Vanessa Bell, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Maynard Keynes and more. Illustrated with photographs, Index. 600 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1509263.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (some darkening to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 52741More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, Volume Four: 1929 - 1931 (original title in England: A Reflection of the Other Person.)
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979.) dj. This volume of Woolf's letters cover the years when she was writing her masterpiece, "The Waves." Although this includes letters old friends - including Vita Sackville-West, Vanessa Bell, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, and more - these years (and the letters) are dominated by a new acquaintance - the composer Ethel Smythe. Illustrated with photographs, Index. xxi, 442 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1509263.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (remainder line, but otherwise a tight and clean copy.)
Book ID: 54729More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Wolitzer's first novel in more than a decade, this is a portrait of a woman coming to terms with her family history and the fallibility of memory. INSCRIBED on the half title page by Wolitzer. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-345-48584X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53651More details Price: $20.00 -
THE POSITION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2005.). First edition - A "take on sex and the suburban American family at the height of the sexual revolution" of the 1960s and "throughout the 30 year hangover that followed."307 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers. (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 88945More details Price: $18.50 -
VENDETTA! Or the Story of One Forgotten.
Edition: Later printing (with seventeenth edition on the title page.)
Condition: Near fine in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering (the colors are bright, the corners sharp, the spine straight) Bookplate of Frederick W Skiff of Portland Oregon (1867 Ð 1947), author, noted collector and bibliophile. Signed books by Corelli are quite genuinely scarce, and this has the added appeal of having been part of Skiff's collection.
Book ID: 57255More details Price: $250.00 -
THE BLESSING STONE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (2002). First edition - An ambitious novel, which follows a blue stone thru the ages, as it changes hands and affects the lives of those who touch it. 450 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to lower corner of back cover)
Book ID: 64699More details Price: $15.00 -
HARBOR ME.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 78889More details Price: $35.00 -
LUMINARIES OF THE HUMBLE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - A new of poems by this award-winning Native American poet, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon. Cover praise from Ursula Le Guin. SIGNED in full on the title page and INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 1995. Volume 30 in the Sun Tracks Literary Series. Notes, 128 pp. ISBN: 0-816514658.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 73143More details Price: $30.00 -
BETWEEN THE ACTS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich - Harvest Book, (1969.). Her last novel, written during the early years of World War II and completed shortly before her death, and published posthumously in 1941. ISBN: 0-15-611870x.
Condition: Very good+.
Book ID: 31640More details Price: $10.00 -
THE SECOND COMMON READER.
Edition: Paperback.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1965, c 1932.). A collection of short pieces on books, authors - included Mary Wollstonecraft, Christina Rosetti, Dunne and George Gissing - and on reading. The final sentence is worth quoting - "I have sometimes dreamt,at least, that when the Day of Judgment dawns, . . . the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, ' Look these need no reward. . . They have loved reading.' " 245 pp.
Condition: Very good - a tight straight copy, prev owner's name inside front cover, no creasing on spine, a bit of dampstaining at base of spine.
Book ID: 88665More details Price: $11.50 -
JACOB'S ROOM.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, [1923.]. Hardcover first edition - Her third novel. No publisher's ads at the back of the book, but otherwise meets all the points in Kirkpatrick, A6b. 303 pp.
Condition: Good only condition in gold cloth boards, with a printed spine label. Some soiling to covers, corners slightly bumped, a bit of fraying to ends of spine, but a tight straight copy overall.
Book ID: 55081More details Price: $175.00 -
MRS. DALLOWAY.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1997.). Tie-in edition of this classic novel for the movie starring Vanessa Redgrave with a scene from the film on the front cover. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-15-6005557.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 48423More details Price: $9.00 -
THE COMMON READER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1925.). Hardcover first edition - Her first collection of literary pieces - on authors ranging from Chaucer to Defoe to Jane Austen and the Brontes. Includes one essay - "Miss Ormerod" in Lives of the Obscure which was not in the UK edition. 332 pp.
Condition: Good condition overall in red cloth - fraying to the ends of the spine, and rubbing and darkening to the spine, some light toning to the pages - some pages still unopened.
Book ID: 55078More details Price: $75.00 -
NIGHT AND DAY: The Definitive Collected Edition.
Edition: Limited edition.
London: Hogarth Press, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A handsome new edition of Woolf's second novel, with a new introduction by Angelica Garnett, a publisher's note on the publishing history and a list of variants between the first English and the first American editions. A preliminary page notes that this was one of a limited edition of 1000 copies but this copy is not numbered. xv, 492 pp. Ribbon bookmark bound in. ISBN: 0-701208775.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (appears unread - lower corner clipped with new price on publisher's sticker)
Book ID: 69013More details Price: $95.00 -
VIRGINIA WOOLF'S LONDON.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: New York University Press, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author goes through Woolf's novels, one by one, and describes the settings, the period, and Woolf's experience, from the beginning of the 20th century to 1941 and the Blitz. Bibliography, index. 120 pp
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dj. (spine label)
Book ID: 85872More details Price: $16.50 -
BOOKS AND PORTRAITS: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32312More details Price: $30.00 -
BOOKS AND PORTRAITS: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32313More details Price: $24.00 -
BOOKS AND PORTRAITS: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.
Condition: Near fine in very good+ dust jacket (neat prev owner's name, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 32398More details Price: $18.00 -
THE LETTERS OF VITA SACKVILLE-WEST TO VIRGINIA WOOLF.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of never-before-published letters which offer a candid, record of the love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf between 1922 to Woolf's suicide in 1941. Introduction by Mitchell A. Leaska. Index. 448 pp. ISBN: 0-688039634.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (light spotting to top stain)
Book ID: 85972More details Price: $35.00 -
MELYMBROSIA.
Edition: First thus.
San Francisco: Cleis Press, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Woolf's first novel, completed in 1912 when she was 30 years old, but only published three years later, in a much tamer version, as "The Voyage Out." This novel was reconstructed from the original manuscripts held by the New York Public Library by Louise deSalvo, who also wrote the introduction to this edition. xxvii, 350 pp. ISBN: 1573441481.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 48825More details Price: $18.00 -
CARLYLE'S HOUSE AND OTHER SKETCHES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback original)
London: Hesperus Press, 2003. First edition - The first publication of 7 short pieces by Woolf recently found in an early notebook among some personal papers. Promotional band on book.
Condition: Fine in wrappers with French flaps.
Book ID: 26760More details Price: $19.50 -
CONGENIAL SPIRITS: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes the best of the letters from the six previous volumes of Woolf's letters plus others never before published. Introduction by Banks who also provides footnotes and commentary to the letters, list of Virginia Woolf's works, family tree and index. xvii, 472 pp. ISBN: 0-151221006.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87578More details Price: $25.00 -
PATHWAYS EAST AND WEST.
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles: Lorin L. Morrison Printing and Publishing, (1948.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel about the effects of World War II on five women and their families - among them nurses who volunteered to serve overseas. SIGNED on the half title page. 297 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering.
Book ID: 45106More details Price: $45.00 -
DAMAGES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, set in the 60s and 70s, featuring Joe Hank King, a domineering father and the charismatic and "undisputed leader of the counterculture revolution" and the daughter who eventually gets her revenge on him for a lifetime of inflicted damages. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-.87795805.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84065More details Price: $17.50