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INTERSTATE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A series of eight interrelated narratives that take on "two of the most compelling truths about life in America today: the dreadful toll of random violence, and the brain-wrenching anxieties all parents feel with regard to the physical and emotional well-being of their children." SIGNED on the title page. A finalist for National Book
Award. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-805026541.Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82713More details Price: $50.00 -
LOOK AT ME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her highly praised second novel (third book), SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the National Book Award. In 2011, Egan was not just a finalist - she won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for her novel 'A Visit from the Goon Squad.' 415 pp. ISBN: 0-385-502761.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 24261More details Price: $45.00 -
A GIRL NAMED DISASTER.
Edition: Reprint.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50729More details Price: $25.00 -
A GIRL NAMED DISASTER.
Edition: First UK paperback printing.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 47411More details Price: $12.00 -
VITA NOVA.
Edition: First printing.
Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems that together form a powerful book length sequence on love, time, death, and hope - the eternal human paradox. This book was a finalist for the National Book Award. During her career Gluck has received many awards - National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize - and in 2020, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 51 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-6348.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81407More details Price: $125.00 -
VITA NOVA.
Edition: First printing.
Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems that together form a powerful book length sequence on love, time, death, and hope - the eternal human paradox. This book was a finalist for the National Book Award. During her career Gluck has received many awards - National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize - and in 2020, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 51 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-6348.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (a few very light foxing spots on front cover of dj, scratch on back cover)
Book ID: 81300More details Price: $95.00 -
THE NEVER-ENDING: New Poems
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - His third collection of poems, described as his 'darkest and deepest': a finalist for the National Book Award (His first book won the New Poets competition, was nominated for the Pulitzer, his second won the Poets' Prize for 1988.) The hardcover edition is rather uncommon. ISBN: 0-395-585708.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to corner of front dj flap.)
Book ID: 27163More details Price: $20.00 -
SOLD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion, (2006.). First edition - Although her family thinks that she is being sent to India to work, a young girl from Nepal finds herself 'sold' - forced into prostitution. Finalist for the National Book Award for Young Adult literature. A spare and powerful story of survival against almost unimaginable odds. The author's note at the end comments that every year 12,000 Nepali girls are sold unwittingly by their families into prostitution in India. 263 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 42675More details Price: $30.00 -
IN OTHER ROOMS, OTHER WONDERS: Connected Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first book, set on a family farm outside Lahore, Pakistan. Finalist for the National Book Award. SIGNED on the half title page. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-393-06800-5.
Condition: Fine in black wrappers.
Book ID: 45857More details Price: $50.00 -
IN OTHER ROOMS, OTHER WONDERS: Connected Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first book, a collection of interlinked stories set on a family farm outside Lahore, Pakistan. Finalist for the National Book Award. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-393-06800-5.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47423More details Price: $40.00 -
THE BIRD ARTIST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's very highly praised third book, which begins in a remote Newfoundland coastal village in 1911. Finalist for the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-374-113300.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 1994More details Price: $40.00 -
THE BIRD ARTIST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's very highly praised third book, which begins in a remote Newfoundland coastal village in 1911. Finalist for the National Book Award. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-374-113300.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44128More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BIRD ARTIST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus, (1994.). First edition - Author's very highly praised third book, which begins in a remote Newfoundland coastal village in 1911. Finalist for the National Book Award. 289 pp. Publisher's letter (from editor Jonathan Galassi) bound in.
Condition: Fine in still illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 49780More details Price: $20.00 -
THE BIRD ARTIST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's very highly praised third book, which begins in a remote Newfoundland coastal village in 1911. Finalist for the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-374-113300.
Condition: Very good in a fine dust jacket. (discoloration from glue on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 34482More details Price: $21.50 -
THE BIRD ARTIST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's very highly praised third book, which begins in a remote Newfoundland coastal village in 1911. Finalist for the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-374-113300.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 34219More details Price: $35.00 -
THE RIVER BEYOND THE WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Picador, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, first novel - a National Book award nominee. Set in the Texas/Mexico border country. 286 pp.
Condition: Fine in a a very near fine dustjacket (slight creasing to edge of dj.)
Book ID: 4361More details Price: $25.00 -
HOME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008.). First edition - The third novel by this award winning writer, finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Orange Prize, the 2009 Women's Prize for Fiction and the Los Angeles Fiction Award. A completely independent novel but set in the same town of Gilead as her Pulitzer prize winning second novel. 325 pp. Includes a promotional cd.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. CD is still sealed in pocket inside back cover.
Book ID: 59348More details Price: $27.50 -
HOMEPLACE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. SIGNED - Waniek's third collection of poems. INSCRIBED on the title page "with brightest best wishes" and signed as Marilyn Nelson. National Book Award finalist. 54 pp. ISBN: 0-0871-1641-6.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (extensive pencilled annotations, some pencil underlining - erasable, but rather interesting.)
Book ID: 17021More details Price: $15.00
