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  • THE SAFETY NET. by Boll, Heinrich.
    Boll, Heinrich.
    THE SAFETY NET.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fritz Tolm, publisher of a once liberal newspaper but now part of a gigantic consortium, has already seen his life and that of his wife become a slow suffocation - caught between the threatening violence of terrorists and the oppressive police apparatus and surveillance - the "safety net" - designed to protect them. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. 313 pp. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-394514041.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (neat previous owner's name, minor edgewear to dj)

    Book ID: 83517
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  • [Bordsky, Joseph] Volkov, Soloman, Translated by Marian Schwartz.
    CONVERSATIONS WITH JOSEPH BRODSKY: A Poet's Journey Through the Twentieth Century.

    Edition: First printing.

    NY & London: The Free Press. (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nobel prize winning poet Joseph Brodsky was also a great talker as well as a writer. These interviews, recorded over a period of more than 15 years, starting in 1978, in Brodsky's Greenwich Village apartment, recount his childhood in war-torn Leningrad, his life as an underground poet, standing trial in Kruschev's Russia, imprisonment in the icy north his expulsion from the Soviet Union and more. Photography by Mariana Volkov. Translated by Marian Schwartz. Photographs. 306 pp with notes and index. ISBN: 02982450.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 27378
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  • HOMAGE TO ROBERT FROST. by Brodsky, Joseph; Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott.
    Brodsky, Joseph; Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott.
    HOMAGE TO ROBERT FROST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Three essays in which these poets - all Nobel laureates - explore the misconceptions and mythologies that surround Robert Frost. 117 pp. ISBN: 0-374172463.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 76812
    Keywords: essays, nobel prize, Poetry
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  • Clifford, Eth.
    THE WILD ONE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fictionalized biography written for older children about the rebellious youth of Santiago Ramon y Cajal, a Spanish boy in a small town in 1886, who resisted his strict doctor father and wanted to become an artist, but grew up to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the nervous system. Illustrated by Arvis Stewart. ISBN: 0-395-194911.

    Condition: Very good+ in a very good dust jacket (short edge tears to dj.)

    Book ID: 23853
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  • "WHAT DO YOU CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character. by Feynman, Richard P.
    Feynman, Richard P.
    "WHAT DO YOU CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York Norton, (1988.) dj. Hardcover - As told to Ralph Leighton, the last literary legacy of this Nobel Prize winner for Physics. A book which reflects his unquenchable thirst for adventure and which pays tribute to two people in his life - his father and his wife. The second section gives a behind the scenes look into the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger's explosion in 1986. Index. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-393-019217.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 88529
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  • Gide, Andre.
    THE JOURNALS OF ANDRE GIDE: Volume 3, 1928 - 1939.

    Edition: First American edition.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. dj. Hardcover first edition - Called the most important work of this great modern writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947, this volume covers the years from his 59th to his 70th, the years leading up to World War II. Translated and with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Includes a glossary of persons mentioned in the journal, a bibliography of works by Gide, index, frontispiece. 450, xx pages.

    Condition: Very good in good dust jacket (pencilled marginal notations, edgewear and some chipping to the dj.)

    Book ID: 20218
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  • Golding, William
    THE SPIRE

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - An early, and very powerful work, by the Nobel Prize winning novelist. The story of building a cathedral in the Middle Ages.

    Condition: VG+/NF (some shelfwear to edges of boards, very bright dj has a bit of unnecessary tape reinforcement to interior, no tears -)

    Book ID: 10075
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  • Golding, William
    THE SPIRE

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Harcourt Brace & World, c 1964. An early, and very powerful work, by the Nobel Prize winning novelist. The story of building a cathedral in the Middle Ages.

    Condition: Good only (prev owner's name, some underlining, rubbing to covers.)

    Book ID: 27543
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  • Golding, William
    THE SPIRE

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ca 1984. An early, and very powerful work, by the Nobel Prize winning novelist. The story of building a cathedral in the Middle Ages.

    Condition: Covers lightly soiled, contents fine.

    Book ID: 10076
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  • JUMP AND OTHER STORIES. by Gordimer, Nadine.
    Gordimer, Nadine.
    JUMP AND OTHER STORIES.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. dj. Hardcover - The eighth collection of short fiction by this Nobel Prize winning writer. ISBN: 0-374-180555.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 18260
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  • Gordimer, Nadine.
    SOMETHING OUT THERE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Viking, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A long novella and a collection of short stories by this South African Nobel Prize lauriate. ISBN: 0-670-656607.

    Condition: Near fine in a very good+ dustjacket (one short closed tear, crease to dj flap.)

    Book ID: 15164
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  • JUMP AND OTHER STORIES. by Gordimer, Nadine.
    Gordimer, Nadine.
    JUMP AND OTHER STORIES.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth collection of short fiction by this Nobel Prize winning writer. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-374-180555.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)

    Book ID: 35555
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  • A WORLD OF STRANGERS. by Gordimer, Nadine.
    Gordimer, Nadine.
    A WORLD OF STRANGERS.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel, fourth book, by this Nobel prize winning writer, set in her native South Africa. Shows the divided world of apartheit through the eyes of a young Englishman. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 312 pp.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some shelfwear to the lower edges of the boards, toning and some discoloration to the dust jacket.

    Book ID: 37707
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  • BURGER'S DAUGHTER. by Gordimer, Nadine.
    Gordimer, Nadine.
    BURGER'S DAUGHTER.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York & London: Penguin, (1980.). Novel set in South Africa; the story of a young woman trying to carry on the work of her parents, who, although Afrikaaner, were killed for their opposition to apartheid. Powerful novel by this Nobel prize winning author. 361 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0055932.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 46624
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  • SOMETHING OUT THERE. by Gordimer, Nadine.
    Gordimer, Nadine.
    SOMETHING OUT THERE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Viking, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long novella and a collection of short stories by this South African Nobel Prize lauriate. ISBN: 0-670-656607.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 12859
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  • Grass, Gunter.
    THE CALL OF THE TOAD.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992.) dj. Hardcover - A funny, but tender, novel by this Nobel Prize winning author. Translated from the German by Ralph Mannheim. ISBN: 0-15-1257434.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (bookplate.)

    Book ID: 30931
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  • ERNEST HEMINGWAY: SELECTED LETTERS: 1917-1961 by (Hemingway, Ernest) Baker, Carlos, editor.
    (Hemingway, Ernest) Baker, Carlos, editor.
    ERNEST HEMINGWAY: SELECTED LETTERS: 1917-1961

    Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).

    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1981.) dj. Hardcover - From the dustjacket "While many people are familiar with the public image of Hemingway and the legendary accounts of his life, few knew him as an intimate. Now, with this collection of letters-the first to be published-a new Hemingway emerges. Ranging from 1917 to 1961, this generous selection of nearly 600 letters is, in effect, both a self-portrait and an autobiography." Edited and with an introduction by Baker, Hemingway's biographer, these present his views on writing and reading, his enthusiasm for hunting, fishing, eating, living; they discuss women, politicians, prize-fighters and more. xxvii, 948 pp. ISBN: 0-684-167654.

    Condition: Very good in very good- dust jacket (prev owner's name, edgewear to dj.)

    Book ID: 39797
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  • THE GOOD TERRORIST. by Lessing, Doris.
    Lessing, Doris.
    THE GOOD TERRORIST.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - A vivid picture of communal life and of a woman, Alice, the 'good terrorist', who knows how to cope with everything except the vacuum of her own life. 375 pp. ISBN: 0-394-543394.

    Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 63849
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  • THE BEGINNING AND THE END. by Mahfouz, Naguib (1911-2006)
    Mahfouz, Naguib (1911-2006)
    THE BEGINNING AND THE END.

    Edition: First thus.

    New York: Doubleday, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - First Doubleday edition of this early novel by the 1988 Nobel laureate, the first Arab to win this award. Originally published in 1949 in Arabic and translated in 1985 by Ramses Awad for the American University Press in Cairo. In telling the story of one proud - and eventually shattered - Egyptian family, Mahfouz exposes the inequities of the country's society. Introduction by the translator; edited by Mason Rossiter Smith. 412 pp. ISBN: 0-385264577.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fair only dustjacket. with a large chip on back cover, other edgewear.

    Book ID: 88501
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  • THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN. by Mann, Thomas.
    Mann, Thomas.
    THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN.

    Edition: Limited leather bound edition.

    Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, (1981.). Hardcover - Novel by this Nobel Prize winning writer. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter and illustrated for this edition by Gonzalo Fonseca. Originally published in 1924. 724 pp.

    Condition: Very good in full brown leather with gilt decorations and lettering, all edges gilt (appears fine, but there is a small indentation affecting several pages at the beginning of the book)

    Book ID: 59043
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  • A FEELING FOR THE ORGANISM: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. by [McClintock, Barbara, 1902-1992] Keller, Evelyn Fox.
    [McClintock, Barbara, 1902-1992] Keller, Evelyn Fox.
    A FEELING FOR THE ORGANISM: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: W. H. Freeman, (1983). A biography of this Nobel prize winning scientist. "Barbara McClintock was one of the premier investigators in cytology and classical genetics, but her work was pushed out of the mainstream by the revolution in molecular biology in the middle of this century. Thirty years later, the simple truths sought by research scientists whose training was closer to physics than biology continued to prove elusive, and the discovery of transposons in bacteria marked the beginning of a revival of interest in her work. Keller's analysis of McClintock's difficulty in finding a place to work and her relations with other investigators is insightful and thought-provoking, not only about women in science, but about the role…

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    New York: W. H. Freeman, (1983). A biography of this Nobel prize winning scientist. "Barbara McClintock was one of the premier investigators in cytology and classical genetics, but her work was pushed out of the mainstream by the revolution in molecular biology in the middle of this century. Thirty years later, the simple truths sought by research scientists whose training was closer to physics than biology continued to prove elusive, and the discovery of transposons in bacteria marked the beginning of a revival of interest in her work. Keller's analysis of McClintock's difficulty in finding a place to work and her relations with other investigators is insightful and thought-provoking, not only about women in science, but about the role of dissent in the scientific community." Illustrated with photographs, notes, glossary, index. xix, 235 pp. ISBN: 0-71671504X.

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    Condition: Near fine (previous owner's name)

    Book ID: 82323
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  • THE ISSA VALLEY. by Milosz, Czeslaw
    Milosz, Czeslaw
    THE ISSA VALLEY.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Sidgwick & Jackson, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in Polish in 1955, this translation by Louis Iribarne is the first English language appearance (shortly after he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980.). " 'The valley of the Issa has the distinction of being inhabited by an unusually large number of devils.' So begins the author's description of his child protagonist's Lithuanian countryside." 288 pp. ISBN: 0-283-987626.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 53708
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  • THE DANCING MIND. by Morrison, Toni.
    Morrison, Toni.
    THE DANCING MIND.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Subtitled "Speech upon acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, on the 6th of November, 1996. Despite the fact that this little book was published so recently, it does not seem to be very readily available. ISBN: 0-375-40032-x.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (as new, but remainder line)

    Book ID: 88561
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  • A TURN IN THE SOUTH. by Naipaul, V. S.
    Naipaul, V. S.
    A TURN IN THE SOUTH.

    Edition: First trade edition.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the US South - from Atlanta to Jackson, Tuskegee to Charleston, tobacco farms and the birthplace of Elvis, with visits to an old white Charleston family, a black woman minister, and Eudora Welty, by this Trinidadian born author, and Nobel prize winning writer. ISBN: 0-394-564774.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (some foxing to edges of textblock).

    Book ID: 56579
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  • AMONG THE BELIEVERS: An Islamic Journey. by Naipaul, V. S.
    Naipaul, V. S.
    AMONG THE BELIEVERS: An Islamic Journey.

    Edition: First trade edition.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a visit to 4 countries in the throes of 'Islamization' - Pakistan, Iran, Malaysia and Indonesia - a subject more important now than ever. Naipaul's accounts of the Islamic world were specifically cited in the announcement that he had won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001. 430 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-394-509692.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (closed tear to upper edge of front cover of dj, original price of 15.00 on dj flap)

    Book ID: 86789
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  • THE CAPTAIN'S VERSES / LOS VERSOS DEL CAPITAN:The Love Poems . by Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973)
    Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973)
    THE CAPTAIN'S VERSES / LOS VERSOS DEL CAPITAN:The Love Poems .

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: New Directions, (2004). A bilingual edition of these poems by the Chilean Nobel Laureate, originally written in 1953 while he was in exile on the isle of Capri, translated by Donald D. Walsh, with his 1972 introduction. NDP991. 151 pp. ISBN: 0-811215806.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 86652
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  • SEEING. by Saramago, Jose.
    Saramago, Jose.
    SEEING.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to his powerful novel 'Blindness.' A satire on government by this Nobel Prize winning author. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jill Costa. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1012385.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 54754
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  • THE STONE RAFT. by Saramago, Jose.
    Saramago, Jose.
    THE STONE RAFT.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Both an epic adventure in which the Iberian Peninsula breaks off from the continent and floats out to sea and a political fable about the European community by this winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1851980.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (bookplate, corners slightly bumped,)

    Book ID: 52629
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  • Saramago, Jose.
    THE CAVE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A simple story of a potter who finds his craft obsolete, of the struggle against a faceless bureaucracy and most of all, a powerful allegory of modern life by this winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1004145.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 43188
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  • PASSIONS. by Singer, Isaac Bashevis.
    Singer, Isaac Bashevis.
    PASSIONS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1975.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories by the Nobel laureate. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-374-229937.

    Condition: Good in good dust jacket (some soiling to edges of textblock, edgewear to dj.)

    Book ID: 53709
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