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A REGULAR GUY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third book by this writer who was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the title page. This portrait of a legendary American entrepreneur was supposedly inspired in part by her half brother Steve Jobs. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450912.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 52134More details Price: $28.50 -
A REGULAR GUY.
Edition: Full size book club edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover - The third book by this writer who was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the title page. This portrait of a legendary American entrepreneur was supposedly inspired in part by her half brother Steve Jobs. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450912.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52136More details Price: $18.50 -
THE LOST FATHER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the title page. 506 pp. ISBN: 0-394-589165.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (a few light foxing specks to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 56675More details Price: $27.50 -
MY HOLLYWOOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at "two contemporary marriages - one in America and one in the Philippines - and witness their endangerment, despite the best of intentions." SIGNED on the title page. 369 pp. ISBN: 9780307273529.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 57272More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LOST FATHER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel - the story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the title page. 506 pp. ISBN: 0-394-589165.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (corners slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 60623More details Price: $28.50 -
THE LOST FATHER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel - the story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. 506 pp. ISBN: 0-394-589165.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64375More details Price: $18.50 -
THE LOST FATHER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. SIGNED first edition - The story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the first blank page. (in gold ink which matches the color of the slipcase)
Condition: Fine in white wrappers with gold lettering in a very near fine cardstock slipcase.
Book ID: 67167More details Price: $40.00 -
THE LOST FATHER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. SIGNED first edition - The story of a young woman's search - both emotional and literal - for a father who disappeared. Simpson was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the first blank page. (in gold ink) 506 pp.
Condition: Near fine in white wrappers with gold lettering, no slipcase.
Book ID: 67978More details Price: $20.00 -
A REGULAR GUY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third book by this writer who was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the title page. This portrait of a legendary American entrepreneur was supposedly inspired in part by her half brother Steve Jobs. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450912.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (rem dot, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 38930More details Price: $26.50 -
THE CHANGELINGS.
Edition: 1st thus, a trade paperback.
Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, (1985.). Reprint of this novel of a Jewish girl and and African American girl who forge a friendship in an atmosphere of anger and rage, originally published in 1955. This edition includes an afterword by Nellie McKay, an essay 'On Racism and Ethnocentrism' by Johnetta B. Cole and Elizabeth A. Oakes, and a brief biographical sketch of the author. 352 pp plus 2 pages of advertisements. ISBN: 0-935312-404.
Condition: Good condition. (slightly marked from handling, water spot of first few pages, name written on top corner inside.)
Book ID: 27784More details Price: $10.00 -
MARY OLIVIER: A LIFE.
Edition: First American edition.
Condition: Very good minus in dark red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine - some rubbing and wear to edges of boards and corners, previous owner's name dated 1920..
Book ID: 55470More details Price: $28.50 -
FA TH ER MO TH ER: An American Story.
Edition: Limited, signed edition.
Berkeley, CA: Nocturnes Editions, (1999) dj. SIGNED first edition - A slim chapbook with a single visual poem by this African American writer, one of 100 copies in wrappers (out of a total edition of 126), SIGNED and individually numbered on the colophon page. Unpaginated [24 pp]
Condition: Fine in plain white stapled wrappers with a sage green printed outer wrapper..
Book ID: 71721More details Price: $20.00 -
OLD JIM CANAAN.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Young Southern author's first novel, set in Memphis, Tennessee in the years between 1890 and 1922, the story of an Irish family's struggle to make its way. Old Jim, the uncle of the family, is a tavern keeper, a prize fight promoter, a gambling and sporting house owner and political boss - and in the sights of the reform mayor, E. H. Crump. . ISBN: 0-945575378.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82895More details Price: $21.50 -
MARGRET POW.
Edition: Later printing.
Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1946. dj. Letters, in Scots dialect, recounting Margret's trip abroad. Color frontispiece. Bound in green cloth with black lettering.
Condition: Very good, no dj.
Book ID: 14285More details Price: $10.00 -
THE BANQUET.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth novel by this award-winning writer - the story of a love affair which "spirals inexorably from its delicious initial caution to a climax that is as horrifying as it is inevitable." 191 pp. ISBN: 0-899192742.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to front flap of dj)
Book ID: 83907More details Price: $18.50 -
RED DUST.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Norton, (2002). Hardcover first edition - Novel set in modern South Africa - "successful prosecutor Sarah Barcant returns home to a rural town in South Africa, former deputy Dirk Hendricks is on the way to meet Alex Mpondo, a prisoner he tortured, and soon, the lives of these three people will be connected by the Truth Commission." 340 pp. ISBN: 0-393041484.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket ("copy" stamped on bottom edge of textblock, remainder dot, some sunning to the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 77714More details Price: $15.00 -
ORDINARY LOVE AND GOOD WILL: Two Novellas.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. SIGNED first edition - A rather uncommon advance issue of this early work by Smiley. SIGNED on the title page. 197 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in peach printed wrappers (very slight sunning to the spine)
Book ID: 80788More details Price: $85.00 -
ORDINARY LOVE & GOOD WILL: Two Novellas.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Smiley's sixth work of fiction, Two novellas about the difficult choices that reshape the dynamics of two very different families - in the first a woman looks back on the choices that resulted in the loss of her children. In the 'Good Will" a man creates an idyllic life on a small farm in Pennsylvania but is unaware of the effect this isolation will have on his family. SIGNED on the title page. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-394-577728.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80789More details Price: $50.00 -
THE AGE OF GRIEF
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. SIGNED first edition - A novella and five stories - her first collection of shorter works. The title novella, "The Age of Grief", was made into the movie "The Secret Lives of Dentists." SIGNED on the title page. Publisher's material stapled inside front cover. 213 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed ivory wrappers.
Book ID: 80790More details Price: $45.00 -
THE AGE OF GRIEF
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novella and five stories - her first collection of shorter works. The title novella, "The Age of Grief", was made into the movie "The Secret Lives of Dentists." SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-394-558480.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dust jacket (faint remainder mark on bottom edge, name lightly written.)
Book ID: 7628More details Price: $45.00 -
GOOD FAITH.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
London: Faber & Faber, (2003.). SIGNED - Novel set in the1980's, in the "seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens when the American Dream morphs into a seven-figure American Fantasy." SIGNED on the title page. 417 pp. ISBN: 0-571218431.
Condition: Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87196More details Price: $21.00 -
A THOUSAND ACRES.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Ballantine (Fawcett Columbine), 1992. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 371 pp,. ISBN: 0-449-907481.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 47438More details Price: $11.50 -
MOO: A Novel.
Edition: Later printing (the 9th printing, just one month after the first.)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover - A comic novel set in the world of a midwestern agricultural university. SIGNED on the title page. 414 pp. ISBN: 0-679-420231.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist sticker on front cover.)
Book ID: 47817More details Price: $20.00 -
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 -
THE AGE OF GRIEF
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novella and five stories - her first collection of shorter works. The title novella, "The Age of Grief", was made into the movie, "The Secret Lives of Dentists." SIGNED on title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-394-558480.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (crease on spine of dj.)
Book ID: 55831More details Price: $55.00 -
MOO: A Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A comic novel set in the world of a midwestern agricultural university. INSCRIBED on the title page. ISBN: 0-679-420231.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (upper corners slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 25495More details Price: $25.00 -
THE ALL-TRUE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF LIDIE NEWTON
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A novel set in the 1850's, the story of Lidie, tall, plain and outspoken, who marries an abolitionist from Massachusetts, dedicated to settling Kansas to ensure its entering the Union as a Free State. 452 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450742.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 25496More details Price: $30.00 -
THE ALL-TRUE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF LIDIE NEWTON
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel set in the 1850's, the story of Lidie, tall, plain and outspoken, who marries an abolitionist from Massachusetts, dedicated to settling Kansas to ensure its entering the Union as a Free State. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-679-450742.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 25497More details Price: $27.50 -
ORDINARY LOVE & GOOD WILL: Two Novellas.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-394-577728.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, in a near fine unmarked dustjacket.
Book ID: 25498More details Price: $17.50 -
GOOD FAITH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the1980's, in the "seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens when the American Dream morphs into a seven-figure American Fantasy." SIGNED on the title page. 417 pp. ISBN: 0-375412174.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to corner of dj flap.)
Book ID: 37544More details Price: $30.00
