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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 -
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. SIGNED on the title page. 414 pp. ISBN: 0-679-420231.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 40212More details Price: $30.00 -
DUPLICATE KEYS.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Ballantine (Fawcett Columbine), 1993. SIGNED - Suspenseful novel about the emotional aftermath of the grisly murders of two members of a close-knit group of friends. SIGNED on title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-449-908798.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 41544More details Price: $15.00 -
AT PARADISE GATE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1981.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon first edition of this award winning author's second book. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-671-425986.
Condition: SIGNED on the total page. Good in good dust jacket (glue remnants and discoloration on endpapers and under dj flaps, but otherwise a clean and tight copy.)
Book ID: 42552More details Price: $75.00 -
BARN BLIND.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1993.). SIGNED - Her first novel, originally published in 1980. SIGNED on the title page. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-449-908747.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 42717More details Price: $15.00 -
TEN DAYS IN THE HILLS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Using the Decameron as her model, this is the story of ten days spent in the Hollywood Hills - "a big, smart, bawdy tale of love and war, sex and politics, friendship and betrayal" - by this Pulitzer Prize winning author. SIGNED on the title page. 449 pp. ISBN: 1400040612.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 44198More details Price: $30.00 -
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: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44200More details Price: $35.00 -
TEN DAYS IN THE HILLS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Using the Decameron as her model, this is the story of ten days spent in the Hollywood Hills - "a big, smart, bawdy tale of love and war, sex and politics, friendship and betrayal" - by this Pulitzer Prize winning author. SIGNED on the title page. 449 pp. ISBN: 1400040612.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44258More details Price: $25.00 -
THERE BUT FOR THE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning writer, her 9th work of fiction. "At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house, and Miless story is told from the points of view of four of them." 236 pp. ISBN: 978-0375424090.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75361More details Price: $18.50 -
MISOGYNIES: Reflections on Myths and Malice.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A biting and witty collection of essays on the subject of women-hating, by the author of the Loretta Lawsen academic mysteries.
Condition: Fine in a fine dj. (a new, unread copy.)
Book ID: 11654More details Price: $15.00 -
LIVES OF THE TWINS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover - First suspense novel written by Oates under this pseudonym - a "quirkly little psychological thriller." SIGNED on the title page. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-671-644688.
Condition: Very good in good dust jacket (remainder line, some inconspicuous dampstaining to inside of dj.)
Book ID: 20880More details Price: $18.00 -
LIVES OF THE TWINS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover - First suspense novel written under this pseudonym. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-671-644688.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark.)
Book ID: 22577More details Price: $25.00 -
SNAKE EYES
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dutton, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel written by Oates under this name. A novel of suspense: a paroled murderer comes to stay with the lawyer who got his death sentence overturned - and in doing so overturns the apparently idyllic life the lawyer and his family are leading. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-525-934049.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77227More details Price: $15.00 -
SNAKE EYES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel written by Oates under this name. A novel of suspense: a paroled murderer comes to stay with the lawyer who got his death sentence overturned - and in doing so overturns the apparently idyllic life the lawyer and his family are leading. SIGNED on the title page by Oates with R S / J C Oates. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-525-934049.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81156More details Price: $35.00 -
LIVES OF THE TWINS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - First suspense novel written under this pseudonym. ISBN: 0-671-644688.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (remainder mark, small chip to dj.)
Book ID: 34033More details Price: $16.00 -
NEMESIS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel written under this pseudonym. Blurb from Elmore Leonard: "Smith could become the world's #1 mystery writer easily." 276 pp. ISBN: 0-525-248811.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 39932More details Price: $16.50 -
SWING TIME.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Penguin, 2016. First edition - A novel which moves from Northwest London to Africa, the story of two brown girls who dream of being dancers, although only one has talent. By the author of the award winning "White Teeth." A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. 453 pp.
Condition: Fine in gold wrappers. An uncommon ARC.
Book ID: 84587More details Price: $21.50 -
THE AUTOGRAPH MAN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Random House, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by the author of the award-winning 'White Teeth.' The story of an autograph dealer who becomes obsessed with finding one rare autograph, that of a 1940's movie star. SIGNED on the title page. 347 pp. ISBN: 0-375-50188x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88743More details Price: $40.00 -
PRESTO!
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a "gently hilarious and deeply cativating story about a clumsy apprentice magician with the unnerving ability to actually make things disappear into thin air." 269 pp. ISBN: 0-689112734.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 88704More details Price: $16.50 -
SISTERS OF THE DREAM.
Edition: First printing.
Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Publishing, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a novel of the intertwining of four women's lives: Liz, a contemporary uprooted American who dreams of Talasi a young 12th century Hopi woman; Hatt, the widow of a trading post owner; Deena, a divorced mother struggling for custody, and Rose, a 20th century Hopi woman. Dustjacket praise from John Nichols who says that 'Sojourner writes with beauty and gusto...her women are wonderful. bedeviled, passionate human beings.'. ISBN: 0-87358-4861.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (some toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 31309More details Price: $19.00 -
BONELIGHT: Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72460More details Price: $15.00 -
THE REMOVES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of the Indian Wars on the Western frontier, told from the viewpoint of three very different characters: the driven George A. Custer; his wife, Libbie; and a young woman captured by the Cheyennes. An engrossing book. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2019. Illustrated with photographs, author's note, bibliography. 370 pp. plus photo credits. ISBN: 978-0374249311.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74991More details Price: $40.00 -
RECOLLECTIONS OF MY NONEXISTENCE: A Memoir.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (crease on front cover)
Book ID: 80645More details Price: $50.00 -
RIVER OF SHADOWS: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Penguin, (2004). SIGNED - Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, Solnit explores what how California in the late 19th-century was already changing in a a way that led to the technological and cultural innovations of the 20th century. This book "weaves together biography, history, and insights into art and technology to create a portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. The story of Muybridge - who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically - becomes a lens for a larger story about the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life."SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the Mark Lynton History Prize. Illustrated with photographs. Chronology, notes, index. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-142004103.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to pages) .
Book ID: 84510More details Price: $28.50 -
SHORT FLIGHTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, described as a novel, but far more than that. She was "scarcely eighteen years old when she and another young Spaniard pulled off a daring rescue of political prisoners from one of Franco's concentration camps in the late 1940s. Spain thus became a part of her. This book, a personally political chronicle of the years from 1974 through Franco's seemingly endless dying and the inevitable manoeuvres that have issued, is what Virginia Woolf once called, 'an amalgam of autobiography and fiction, memoir and imaginative improvisation'." 313 pp. ISBN: 0-670330531.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light toning)
Book ID: 77488More details Price: $21.50 -
SHORT FLIGHTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, described as a novel, but far more than that. She was "scarcely eighteen years old when she and another young Spaniard pulled off a daring rescue of political prisoners from one of Franco's concentration camps in the late 1940s. Spain thus became a part of her. This book, a personally political chronicle of the years from 1974 through Franco's seemingly endless dying and the inevitable manoeuvres that have issued, is what Virginia Woolf once called, 'an amalgam of autobiography and fiction, memoir and imaginative improvisation'." 313 pp. ISBN: 0-670330531.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (remainder mark, crease on front flap of dj)
Book ID: 83772More details Price: $15.00