Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 179 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. The third book, a collection of eight short stories, by this Australian-American writer, one which is "a masterpiece of observation which clearly demonstrates the authors perceptive wit. Set in the 1950s, amidst the corridors and offices of the newly created monolithic and meandering bureaucracy of 'the Organization' (read the United Nations, where Hazzard worked for 10 years) an American-based concern intent on inflicting improvement the world over, readers are introduced to an immalleable world hemmed in by regulations, memoranda and mediocrity. A place where once vibrant personalities are smothered and strangulated by red tape, and the general life-sapping realities of paper-pushing and the exacting demands of pointless tasks reign paramount.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 278 pages, very clean and tight copy.The Great Fire was the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the words of Ann Patchett "is brilliant and dazzling..." The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself.
Hardcover. Northridge CA, Lord John Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Very clean and tight copy. This book is actually 3 stories linked together by a common theme compiled into a novel that beautifully illustrates how our decisions might really be what determines our destiny.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. Hanover, NH, Wesleyan University Press, 2nd, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Light wear and rubbing to edges and spine, shelf-rubbing to covers, else a nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages, b&w illustrations by Jean George. Rich and memorable tales of a lifetime with the animals of the hills and farms of Kentucky. Light wear to dust jacket, else a very neat copy in clear brodart sleeve.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This black, bleak comedy tells of parallel lives in Providence, R.I. The Dwyers are middle-class, settled, safe in their lives until the day that Adam, a lawyer, finds out he's going to die of leukemia. Skippy, Babe, and Lisa are young sociopaths on the lookout for fun and fortune. When the lives of these two "families" cross, no one survives without trauma. The result is a diverting gallery of grotesques and grotesqueries, a litany of sex, perversion, violence, crime, and corruption. Providence is a fairy tale with no Good Fairy. Virtue ensures no reward; neither merit nor normal precaution provides sufficient protection to the unfortunate Dwyers. This novel is breezy and entertaining, enjoyable even though it depicts a world that is chilling in the indifference it shows toward ordinary people's cares and concerns.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages, hardcover. Gilt labeling intact on green cloth boards. Mild rubbing to boards, slight cocking to spine. Bumping to corners. Previous owners name stamped on front endpaper. Black-and-white frontispiece intact. A bright and clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking , 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Translated from the Italian by Stuart Hood. 257 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, embossed design, bumped corners and edges of spine. Dust jacket has some wear. Inside is very clean and bright. A nice copy.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, August 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 224 pages. Newspaper clippings laid in. Light edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 5th pr, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Arcade, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 248 pages. A very clean, tight copy. Christopher Burton, the protagonist of this masterful novel, is one of Britain's foremost foreign correspondents, the acknowledged world expert on Italian affairs. Three months after returning to London with his Italian wife for an extended stay, Burton receives a phone call at the reception desk of his hotel informing him that his teenage son has committed suicide. Why, upon receiving this terrible news, does he immediately conclude that his marriage of almost thirty years is over? And why is grief so slow in coming?
Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 442 pages. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy. Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. SIGNED BY ANTONYA NELSON ON TITLE PAGE. Beautiful copy. Minor wear to brodart protected dust jacket, else like new. Two men meet briefly in a hospital, where both are visiting their dying fathers. They speak again just a few months later, when one of them impulsively calls the other, a psychologist, and a friendship of sorts starts to form. After the psychologist leaves his wife a few weeks later, she begins to fall in love with his friend, creating a triangle that threatens to destroy all three and their families. The wife must decide between two very different men, whom she loves in very different ways. As the focus of the novel turns toward the woman in the middle, it becomes increasingly clear that whomever she chooses, the effect on the lives of everyone involved will be immeasurable.
Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated green cloth covers, 370 pages. Front and rear hinges cracked. Black & white illustrations. Text clean and unmarked. Cover shows light wear.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Front flap creased. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A mesmerizing novel of deception and betrayal from the acclaimed author of Wartime Lies and About Schmidt. John North, a prize-winning American writer, is suddenly beset by dark suspicions about the real value of his work. Over endless hours and bottles of whiskey consumed in a mysterious cafe called L'Entre Deux Mondes, he recounts, in counterpoint to his doubts, the one story he has never told before, perhaps the only important one he will ever tell. North's chosen interlocutor-who could be his doppelganger-is transfixed by the revelations and becomes the narrator of North's tale.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 246 pages, b&w plates by Karl Anderson. Rough-cut pages. Light edge wear to covers, small stain on rear. Front hinge starting to crack. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 306 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 135 pages. Authors 1st book. Small stain to rear dust jacket flap. Light shelf-wear, else a clean, tight copy. The seemingly mundane events that occur to a young man on his lunch hour are magnified in his mind into complex statements on the modern condition.
Hardcover. NY, J. F. Taylor & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 259 pages plus publisher's ads. Drawings by Florence Scovel Shinn. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Clean.
Hardcover. London, Henry, Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages, embossed design on green cloth covers with frontispiece illustration and gilt title on spine. No date printed on copyright page, previous owner's inscription on fly leaf dated 1915. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very bright, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, A. S. Barnes and Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 341 pages, with illustrations by H. Burgess, gilt titles and illustrated cover. Minor corner and edge wear, light foxing on edges, and previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean, bright and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Werner Ernst, a second-year medical resident, encounters the stark realities of the modern intensive care unit, the fears and illusions of the loved ones of the terminally ill, and the exhaustion and irony of doctors, nurses, and technicians. A first novel.
Hardcover. Dallas, TX, Baskerville, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light stain to top edge, not affecting pages. Dust jacket corner chips, edgewear, otherwise VG/VG. When Vanessa Clayton realizes she is being stalked, she and three college friends, Kate, Annie, and Oola, are determined to turn the tables on the stalker
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row Publishers, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 113 pages. It is December 1681, and the words of Mr. Baggot, the tithingman, terrify young William. William is living a strange double life. By day he is a printer's apprentice living in a white man's house. By night, he is Weetasket of the Narraganset tribe who must risk Baggot's wrath to search for his lost brother. Then comes the winter celebration of the Saturnalia -- the ancient Roman holiday on which masters and slaves trade roles. Will William's secret be revealed? And what dark deed of others will be brought to light on this fateful night? Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 435 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Short closed tear to dust jacket bottom edge, dust jacket top edge has light bumping and minor fading. Unmarked, a clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grossman, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. Light wear to brodart protected dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy of author's first book.
Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Poseidon, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 309 pages. Clear brodart cover on dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge, minor wear to jacket, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 1st published in the UK in 1969.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Set in the seamy world of the Russian sex slave trade, The Age of Terror is the harrowing story of Joe, a disillusioned young American expatriate and lapsed Catholic who searches for life's meaning in the Soviet Union on the eve of its disintegration.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Penguin, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Hartford CT, American Publishing Co., 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages, terra-cotta cloth stamped in black and gilt, light gray end papers. Marginal illustrations throughout. 1894 on title page and copyright page, title page in red and black. Front hinge cracked, tape shadow on inside front cover, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth boards with color illustration pasted on front board. Title in red on front board and spine. Short chapters which originally ran in serial form in The Chicago Tribune, now published here as a series of connected vignettes in book form. Each section with a b&w cartoon by McCutcheon over a color block. Light wear, corner bump. small bookseller's stamp inside front cover. Otherwise clean.
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