- Keyword = manhattan
-
TURN OF THE CENTURY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000, which focuses on a "power couple" in Manhattan, with three kids in a private school, he is a TV producer and she owns a software start-up. . A New York Times Notable Book of the year, 659 pp. ISBN: 0-375-500081.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) BEA sticker on front cover.
Book ID: 37513More details Price: $20.00 -
TURN OF THE CENTURY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000, which focuses on a "power couple" in Manhattan, with three kids in a private school, he is a TV producer and she owns a software start-up. . A New York Times Notable Book of the year, 659 pp. ISBN: 0-375-500081.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37617More details Price: $18.00 -
TURN OF THE CENTURY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000, which focuses on a "power couple" in Manhattan, with three kids in a private school, he is a TV producer and she owns a software start-up. . A New York Times Notable Book of the year, SIGNED on the half title page. 659 pp. ISBN: 0-375-500081.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80759More details Price: $30.00 -
72ND (SEVENTY-SECOND) AND RODEO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - the story of a bicoastal (Manhattan and Hollywood) marriage. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-87795-5352.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 58274More details Price: $15.00 -
THE ROSE GARDEN: Short Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous collection of 20 short stories by this Irish-born author, 19 originally published in The New Yorker in the 1950s and 1960s, and set in both her native Dublin and her adopted home of Manhattan. Includes 6 stories which had not previously been collected. vii, 307 pp. plus final note. ISBN: 1-582430500.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 86957More details Price: $18.50 -
FAIR WARNING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Expanded from an award-winning short story, this novel is a glimpse into the world of Manhattan art auction houses. SIGNED on the title page. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-8336.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 61041More details Price: $30.00 -
SILENT NIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first of her suspense novels to be set at Christmas time, books which combine warmth and hope against a background of suspense and danger. SIGNED on the title page. 154 pp. ISBN: 0-684815451.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83046More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BLACK MADONNA: A Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. A look at Italian-American life which introduces readers to an extraordinary trio of mothers and sons in New York's Little Italy.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 18943More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BOY WITH THE THORN IN HIS SIDE: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The often-moving memoir by a young man who grew up in the 1970's Midwest, attended a Free School there (based on Summerhill), was institutionalized by his father, and saved by being 'adopted' as a teenager by his uncle, the writer Edmund White, who was very involved in the gay world of New York City. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-060959304.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38293More details Price: $16.00 -
CHRONIC CITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires and lies." Chosen as one of the top five fiction books of 2009 by the New York Times Book Review. SIGNED on the title page. 467 pp. ISBN: 978-0385518635.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63042More details Price: $35.00 -
CELESTE'S HARLEM RENAISSANCE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Coming of age novel for older children set in New York City in 1921. 279 pp. plus author's note. Wraparound dust jacket art by Suling Wang. ISBN: 0-316-523941.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 54549More details Price: $15.00 -
THE SCENT OF DEATH.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2014). First edition - Mystery set in British Manhattan in 1778, a city surrounded by its enemies, and crowded with soldiers, profiteers, double agents and a swelling tide of refugees seeking justice from the Crown. Edward Savill, a London clerk, has been sent to New York to investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists caught on the wrong side of the American War of Independence, but the discovery of a body in the slums of Canvas Town thrusts Savill into a murder inquiry. Afterword. 473 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83807More details Price: $21.50 -
THE ORPHANMASTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel preceded by several non-fiction books on the history of New York going back to the New Amsterdam days of Dutch settlers - the setting for this historical mystery. "Its 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Orphan children are going missing, and among those looking into the mysterious state of affairs are a quick-witted twenty-two-year-old trader, Blandine von Couvering, herself an orphan, and a dashing British spy named Edward Drummond." Maps. Author's historical note. 418 pp. ISBN: 978-0670023646.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84663More details Price: $17.50
