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SCARLET SISTER MARY.
Edition: Limited, signed "airplane" edition.
Condition: Very near fine in black cloth with gold panel on front cover with embossed black lettering and a small vignette of a plane in the lower left corner with the words "Airplane Edition."
Book ID: 88632More details Price: $200.00 -
THE SHIPPING NEWS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994.). Her remarkable third book, winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and the basis for the film of the same name. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-671-510053.
Condition: Good condition (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 46147More details Price: $8.50 -
GILEAD.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004.) dj. Hardcover - Author's award-winning second novel (both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award ), a powerful, but quietly told, story of spiritual battles that rage between fathers and sons. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-374-153892.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 85277More details Price: $17.50 -
WORDS FOR THE WIND: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke.
Edition: First US printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes his1953 Pulitzer prize winning 'The Waking' , selections from 'The Lost Son.' 'Praise to the End,' and 38 poems never before published in the US - Winner of the National Book Award. Dustjacket praise from Edith Sitwell (who called his poems 'amongst the most remarkable and original poems written by any young poet, American or English, in our age.'), Louise Bogan, W. H. Auden and others.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good- dustjacket (tear on front cover of the dj, where the gutter would be, short closed tears to the upper corner of the back cover.) Still an attractive copy of an important book.
Book ID: 28668More details Price: $65.00 -
EMPIRE FALLS
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. First edition - Novel set in a small town in Maine. Winner of the Pulitzer prize, a New York Times Notable book, and the basis of the mini-series of the same name starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Ed Harris. Cover art is bound in, 483 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed blue wrappers (light crease on back cover). A very uncommon advance copy (this presumably preceded the more common advance reading copy in illustrated wrappers)
Book ID: 80056More details Price: $55.00 -
THE KILLER ANGELS.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Random House, (1993) dj. Hardcover - 'A Novel About the Four Days of Gettysburg' - that is, the day leading up to the battle and the three days of the bloody battle itself - July 1-3, 1863. Originally published in 1974, this won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize, and also became a modern classic - considered one of the best novels ever written about the Civil War. Basis for the movie 'Gettysburg.' Maps and situation plans throughout the book. Foreword and an afterword. xix, 374 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-679-425411.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 77436More details Price: $18.00 -
THE KILLER ANGELS.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Ballantine, (2001) dj. Hardcover - 'A Novel About the Four Days of Gettysburg' - that is, the day leading up to the battle and the three days of the bloody battle itself - July 1-3, 1863. Originally published in 1974, this was Shaara's second novel, one which won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize, but which also became a modern classic - considered one of the best novels ever written about the Civil War. Basis for the movie 'Gettysburg.' Several full page maps and situation plans throughout the book. Foreword and an afterword. xiv. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-345-444124.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77769More details Price: $18.50 -
THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A presentation copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning play with a signed inscription by "Robert Sherwood, '14" to another Harvard classmate of '14. This play was produced with a distinguished cast including Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Sydney Greenstreet, Montgomery Clift, Maurice Colbourne, Robert Downing, and others. This edition includes a long preface by Sherwood about his previous anti-war attitude and the apparent change represented by this play, which was inspired by the German invasion of Finland. xxx,178 pp.
Condition: Near fine in dark red cloth with gilt lettering (rubbing to lettering on spine), lacking the dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 55501More details Price: $65.00 -
THE STONE DIARIES.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Penguin, (1995.). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Photographs. 361 pp plus a reader's guide. ISBN: 0-14-023313x.
Condition: Good overall (remainder line, usual toning to pages, minor wear.).
Book ID: 47012More details Price: $10.00 -
A THOUSAND ACRES.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. SIGNED on the title page. 371 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-577736.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47818More details Price: $24.50 -
TURTLE ISLAND
Edition: Later printing.
New York: New Directions, (c. 1974.). SIGNED hardcover - Woodcut illustrations by Michael Corr. Winner of the Putitzer Prize for poetry - according to Snyder because it was "the only book that was quite that gutsy ..jumping-in-with-all-fours, taking a stand on things." Snyder explains in his introductory note that 'Turtle Island - the old/new name for the continent, based on many creation myths of the people who have been here for millenia, and reapplied by some of the them to 'North America' in recent years.' SIGNED on the title page. A copy which was printed on demand. 114 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-05460.
Condition: Fine in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78616More details Price: $135.00 -
THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Random House, 1967. dj. Hardcover - Controversial novel based on the 1831 uprising - the most sustained revolt in the history of US slavery . Styron grew up in Virginia not far from Tidewater County where the revolt took place. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (spine of dustjacket faded, as is common.)
Book ID: 31514More details Price: $12.50 -
THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Controversial novel based on the 1831 uprising - the most sustained revolt in the history of US slavery . Styron grew up in Virginia not far from Tidewater County where the revolt took place. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 428 pp.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, discoloration to interior of dj) Original price of 6.95 present on the dust jacket. An attractive copy of a first edition of a book which appears more common than it actually is, since false firsts abound (the Book of the Month Club edition is ubiquitious and some copies also state first printing). Bright dust jacket with none of the usual fading on the spine.
Book ID: 59093More details Price: $35.00 -
THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Random House, 1967. dj. Hardcover - Controversial novel based on the 1831 uprising - the most sustained revolt in the history of US slavery . Styron grew up in Virginia not far from Tidewater County where the revolt took place. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (a spot of blue dye bled onto the bottom of the textblock, price-clipped, short closed tear to dj.)
Book ID: 27281More details Price: $15.00 -
THE GOLDFINCH.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 2014 and the basis for the film of the same name. Full number line beginning with a '1", no award sticker on dust jacket. 771 pp. ISBN: 978-0316055437.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (peeled spot on front cover of dj from sticker removal). Original price of 30.00 on dj flap.
Book ID: 85267More details Price: $28.50 -
NATIVE GUARD: Poems
Edition: First thus.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An attractive new edition of the author's Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. SIGNED on the title page. This edition includes a cd of the poems read by the author. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-547-05548X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) CD pocket is still unopened.
Book ID: 86389More details Price: $65.00 -
NATIVE GUARD: Poems
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The very uncommon true hardcover first edition of this Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-618-604634.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86390More details Price: $175.00 -
BREATHING LESSONS.
Edition: 1st trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Tyler's 11th novel, and one of her best - Pulitzer Prize winner. ISBN: 0-394-572343.
Condition: Just about fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 7783More details Price: $20.00 -
BREATHING LESSONS.
Edition: 1st trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Tyler's 11th novel, and one of her best - Pulitzer Prize winner. ISBN: 0-394-572343.
Condition: Very near fine in like dustjacket.
Book ID: 10652More details Price: $18.00 -
BREATHING LESSONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Tyler's 11th novel, and one of her best - Pulitzer Prize winner. ISBN: 0-394-572343.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (crease on dj flap)
Book ID: 7785More details Price: $17.50 -
RABBIT AT REST.
Edition: Large print (type) edition.
New York: Random House, 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. 794 pp. ISBN: 0-394-58936X.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (soiling to edge of textblock, prev owner's embossed seal.)
Book ID: 56124More details Price: $16.50 -
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 -
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 -
THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Random House, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A seemingly slight story of a young woman who returns from Chicago to her childhood home in Mississippi after the death of her father, and in doing so, she confronts parts of her past and comes to a better understanding of herself - but a story imbued with Welty's artistry. A Pulitzer prize winning novel. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-394-480171.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (lower edge of front board slightly bumped, some staining to the dj).
Book ID: 57245More details Price: $25.00 -
THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (1990.). Pulitzer prize winning novel, originally published in 1972. ISBN: 0-679-72883x.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 30864More details Price: $10.00 -
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Whitehead's sixth novel and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence - a book which "seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share." Basis for the innovative and powerful Amazon series of the same name. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542364.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine first issue dust jacket.
Book ID: 84484More details Price: $65.00 -
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. Hardcover - Whitehead's sixth novel and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence - a book which "seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share." 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542364.
Condition: Very near fine in near fine dust jacket (top and bottom of spine slightly pushed in)
Book ID: 84298More details Price: $21.50 -
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Whitehead's sixth novel and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence - a book which "seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share." SIGNED by the author directly on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542364.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88069More details Price: $65.00 -
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Random House Large Print, (2016). Hardcover first edition - Whitehead's sixth novel and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence - a book which "seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share." Large print edition. 417 pp. ISBN: 978-1524736309.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88390More details Price: $16.50 -
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: A. & C. Boni, 1928. Hardcover - As a measure of the popularity of Wilder's classic novel when it was first published, this printing - the 17th - was just one year after the first. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Green and black title page, frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. 235 pp.
Condition: Very good in very pale green cloth with darker green lettering and illustration on front cover. No dust jacket.
Book ID: 73562More details Price: $25.00
