STONE, ROBERT

Death of the Black-Haired Girl

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Robert Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist. He was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and once for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Stone was five times a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, which he did receive in 1975 for his novel Dog Soldiers. Time magazine included this novel in its list TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Dog Soldiers was adapted into the film Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) starring Nick Nolte, from a script that Stone co-wrote. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 40807

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STYRON, WILLIAM

Lie Down in Darkness

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1951. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0965335852. Illustrated by George Salter. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine of the book cover has some toning / darkening and there is fading to the gilt lettering. There is some light bumping and edgewear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some beginning toning to the endpapers and the bottom edges of a section of the text pages have light bumping as if from a fall. The dust jacket is clean and bright, but does have two tears (one to the bottom rear spine end, and the bottom rear flap joint. There is also rubbing and color loss to the spine and flap joints. The rear cover and spine have toning /darkening. "This is the story of the irreconcilably divided Loftis family of Port Warwick, Virginia. It is the story of Peyton Loftis, whose tragic beauty, it seemed, inevitably sowed devotion and destruction wherever she went." This is the author's first novel. "After graduation, Styron took an editing position with McGraw-Hill in New York City. Styron later recalled the misery of this work in an autobiographical passage of Sophie’s Choice. After provoking his employers into firing him, he set about writing his first novel in earnest. Three years later, he published the novel, Lie Down in Darkness (1951) , the story of a dysfunctional Virginia family. The novel received overwhelming critical acclaim. For this novel, Styron received the prestigious Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy of Arts and Letters." (from Wikipedia). Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 45686

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SWARTHOUT, GLENDON

Skeletons

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1979. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 038512824X. Remainder. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. This copy has remainder speckling on the bottom edge of the text block. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, with some very beginning fading to the spine. "With the conspicuous exception of A Christmas Gift, all of Swarthout's novels are infused with a sardonic spirit, usually in respect to examples of the cruelty and viciousness of which man is capable. His greatest bestseller, Bless the Beasts and Children, is a good example of this distinguishing literary trait. Another common theme of his writings is his study of courage, the extraordinary heroism of which otherwise common, ordinary men are sometimes capable, given the right circumstances. In setting free a doomed herd of buffalo, the group of mentally disturbed teenagers in Beasts demonstrates valor during harrowing conditions. The style of Swarthout's writing is fundamentally dispassionate, however, and written in a clear, linear, pictorial style, which is why so many of his stories were adapted easily to film. Swarthout was a great admirer of Somerset Maugham (with whom he studied, along with Ernest Hemingway and Joyce Cary as part of his doctoral thesis in literature) and humorist Charles Portis, who influenced his writing. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 40476

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TAN, AMY

The Kitchen God's Wife

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1991. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002237083. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with an inscription, on the title page by author Tan. This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. ; Signed by Author. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 37555

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TREVANIAN (PSEUDONYM FOR DR. RODNEY WILLIAM WHITAKER)

The Summer of Katya

New York: Crown Publishers, 1983. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0246120916. This book is in Very Good+condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book and one spot of discoloration to the top front panel. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some fading / lightening of the spine and spine joints. "The time is that golden summer of 1914, a summer remembered for its glorious sunny days that seemed to roll endlessly forward until the guns of August changed the world forever. The place is the small French Basque village of Salies." "Rodney William Whitaker (June 12, 1931 – Dec 14, 2005) was an American film scholar and writer who wrote several successful novels under the pen name Trevanian. Whitaker wrote in a wide variety of genres, achieved best-seller status, and published under several other names as well, including Nicholas Seare, Beñat Le Cagot and Edoard Moran. He published the non-fiction The Language of Film under his own name. Between 1972 and 1983, five of his novels sold more than a million copies each. He was described as "the only writer of airport paperbacks to be compared to Zola, Ian Fleming, Poe and Chaucer." Whitaker adamantly avoided publicity for most of his life. His real name was a closely held secret until 1998, when a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman published it.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 34533

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Mots-clés: 0246120916 Modern Fiction First Editions Trevanian Dr. Rodney William Whitaker France Basque France Medicine World War I Romance Modern Fiction Firsts

TREVANIAN (PSEUDONYM FOR DR. RODNEY WILLIAM WHITAKER)

The Summer of Katya

New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1983. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0246120916. Illustrated by Paul Bacon. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book and one spot of discoloration to the top front panel. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some fading / lightening of the spine and spine joints. "The time is that golden summer of 1914, a summer remembered for its glorious sunny days that seemed to roll endlessly forward until the guns of August changed the world forever. The place is the small French Basque village of Salies." "Rodney William Whitaker (June 12, 1931 – Dec 14, 2005) was an American film scholar and writer who wrote several successful novels under the pen name Trevanian. Whitaker wrote in a wide variety of genres, achieved best-seller status, and published under several other names as well, including Nicholas Seare, Beñat Le Cagot and Edoard Moran. He published the non-fiction The Language of Film under his own name. Between 1972 and 1983, five of his novels sold more than a million copies each. He was described as "the only writer of airport paperbacks to be compared to Zola, Ian Fleming, Poe and Chaucer." Whitaker adamantly avoided publicity for most of his life. His real name was a closely held secret until 1998, when a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman published it." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 46540

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Mots-clés: 0246120916 Modern Fiction First Editions Trevanian Dr. Rodney William Whitaker France Basque France Medicine World War I Romance

TULLY, JIM

Emmett Lawler

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1922. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and is lacking the scarce dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is one small spot of rubbing to the middle of the spine. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed, with an inscription, by the author, on the front endpaper. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front pastedown as well (dated April 12,1922). This is the author's first novel. "Born near St. Marys, Ohio to James Dennis and Bridget Marie Lawler Tully, an Irish immigrant ditch-digger and his wife, Tully enjoyed a relatively happy but impoverished childhood until the death of his mother in 1892. Unable to care for him, his father sent him to an orphanage in Cincinnati. He remained there for six years. What further education he acquired came in the hobo camps, boxcars, railroad yards, and public libraries scattered across the country. Finally, weary of the road, he arrived in Kent, Ohio, where he worked as a chain maker, professional boxer, and tree surgeon. He also began to write, mostly poetry published in the local newspapers. He moved to Hollywood in 1912, when he began writing in earnest." (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ .

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N° du livre: 43845

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UPDIKE, JOHN

Bech Is Back

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394528069. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 39541

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Mots-clés: 0394528069 Modern Fiction First Edition John Updike Bech Relationships Modern Fiction

UPDIKE, JOHN

A Month of Sundays

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0233966625. Illustrated by Neil Fujita. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is one small bump to the top spine end of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "John Updike's seventh novel concerns a month of seventh days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 46538

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VIDAL, GORE

Two Sisters a Novel in the Form of a Memoir

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0434829587. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light nicking, edge wear and a couple small of semi-closed edge tears. "Gore Vidal's singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature, politics - as penetrating and controversial as ever, in a book which will stand as a landmark in the author's versatile and distinguished career." "As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's principal subject was the history of the United States and its society, especially how the militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. And Norman Mailer. As such, and because he thought that men and women potentially are bisexual, Vidal rejected the adjectives "homosexual" and "heterosexual" when used as nouns, as inherently false terms used to classify and control people in society." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 46362

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Mots-clés: 0434829587 Modern Fiction First Edition Gore Vidal Social Issues Biography Memoirs

VIDAL, GORE

Visit to a Small Planet a Comedy Akin to a Vaudeville

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing, edge wear and toning to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears and nicks along with generalized rubbing and several smallish chips and creases / wrinkles. "Visit to a Small Planet is the rare article, a television play which has gained immeasurably in its transference to the stage. It's not only longer and louder, it's a great deal funnier." "As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's principal subject was the history of the United States and its society, especially how the militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. And Norman Mailer. As such, and because he thought that men and women potentially are bisexual, Vidal rejected the adjectives "homosexual" and "heterosexual" when used as nouns, as inherently false terms used to classify and control people in society." (from the book). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 46364

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Mots-clés: Modern Fiction First Edition Gore Vidal Drama Plays Television Humor Fantasy

WALLACE, IRVING

The Sunday Gentleman a Portfolio of Unusual People. . .

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some beginning toning to the endpapers. The dust jacket has a couple of tiny edge nicks and beginning tears along with some ground-in dirt and beginning toning. "The Sunday Gentleman is a remarkable series of personal adventures, a lively and uninhibited account of the strange people, places and things that have fascinated the author over the past twenty years.". Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 30396

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WARREN, ROBERT PENN

Flood a Romance of Our Time

New York, NY: Random House, 1964. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394425197. Illustrated by Lawrence Ratzkin. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a slight ripple on the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright with the exception of some beginning edge nicks and rubbed spots along with some toning to the rear panel.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 46291

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Mots-clés: 0394425197 Modern Fiction First Editions Robert Penn Warren Lawrence Ratzkin Tennessee Movies Historical Fiction

WIESEL, ELIE (TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY MARION WIESEL)

The Oath

New York, NY: Random House, 1973. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394487796. Illustrated by Paul Bacon. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some beginning rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 46374

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Mots-clés: 0394487796 Modern Fiction Elie Wiesel Modern Fiction First Editions bigotry Pogroms Jews and Christians Religious History intolerance

WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS

Rose O' the River

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1905. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by George Wright. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some fading / sunning to the spine of the book cover along with some beginning bumping and wear to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed by the author, with an inscription, on the front endpaper. Illustrated throughout with ten full page illustrations by George Wright. "Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 – August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labor." ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ .

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N° du livre: 34491

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Mots-clés: Modern Fiction First Editions Kate Douglas Wiggin Signed Editions George Wright Americana Modern Fiction Firsts