Search Results: Authors starting with E from Joe Staats, Bookseller

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Picador, 2014. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. NFBS2

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Earle's stories reflect the many facets of the man and the hard-fought struggles, the defeats, and the eventual triumphs he has experienced during a career spanning three decades. In the title story he offers us a gut-wrenchingly honest portrait of a nearly famous singer whose life and soul have been all but devoured by drugs. "Billy the Kid" is a fable about everything that will never happen in Nashville, and "Wheeler County" tells a romantic, sweet-tempered tale about a hitchhiker stranded for years in a small Texas town. A story about the husband of a murder victim witnessing an execution addresses a subject Earle has passionately taken on as a social activist, and a cycle of stories features "the American," a shady international wanderer, Vietnam vet, and sometime drug smuggler - a character who can be seen as… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, the Cold War ended, and a new world order began. We thought everything had changed. But one thing never changed: the spies. From 1997 to 2000, a man known as "Comrade J" was the highest-ranking operative in the SVR-the successor agency to the KGB-in the United States. He directed all Russian spy action in New York City, and personally oversaw every covert operation against the United States and its allies in the United Nations. He recruited spies, planted agents, penetrated security, manipulated intelligence, and influenced American policy, all under the direct leadership of Boris Yeltsin and then Vladimir Putin. He was a legend in the SVR, the man who kept the secrets. Then in 2000, he defected-and it turned out he had one more secret. For the previous two years, he had also been a… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A: CommerceNet Prtess/McGraw Hill, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. As new, unread in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.

New York, New York, U.S.A. : W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. At the close of the Victorian era, as now, privacy was power. The extraordinarily wealthy 5th Duke of Portland had a mania for it, hiding in his carriage and building tunnels between buildings to avoid being seen. In 1897, an elderly widow asked the court to exhume the grave of her late father-in-law, T. C. Druce, under the suspicion that he'd led a double life as the 5th Duke. The eccentric duke, Anna Maria contended, had faked his death as Druce, and her son should inherit the Portland millions. Revealing a dark underbelly of Victorian society, Piu Marie Eatwell evokes an era when the rise of sensationalist media blurred every fact into fiction and when family secrets and fluid identities pushed class anxieties to new heights. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not… Read More

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. N6

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Viking, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Story collection by the author of THE DANISH GIRL. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L144

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 2011. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Wessel is the author of STORE UP THE ANGER, DIVIDE THE NIGHT, and A LONELY PLACE TO DIE, among others. THE OCTOBER KILLINGS , the first in a new series, marks his stunning return to crime fiction. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M43

New York, New York, U.S.A. : W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Mint/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Thumbs up for the most lavish and entertaining anthology of writing on film ever, assembled by America's best known and most trusted movie critic. If going to the movies has been the twentieth century's most popular source of artistic pleasure, reading about the movies may not be far behind. For this delicious, instructive, and vastly enjoyable anthology, Roger Ebert has selected and introduced an international treasury of more than 100 selections that touch on every aspect of filmmaking and filmgoing. Here are the stars (Truman Capote on Marilyn Monroe, Joan Didion on John Wayne, Tom Wolfe on Cary Grant, Lauren Bacall on herself), the directors (John Houseman on Orson Welles, Kenneth Tynan on Mel Brooks, John Huston on himself), the makers and shakers (producer Julia Phillips,… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Broadway, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offers a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies collects one hundred of these essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to that film with a fresh set of eyes and renewed enthusiasm-or perhaps to an avid first-time viewing. Ebert's selections range widely across genres, periods, and nationalities, and from the highest achievements in film art to justly beloved and wildly successful popular entertainments. Roger Ebert manages in these essays to combine a truly populist appreciation for our most important form of popular art with a scholar's erudition and depth of knowledge and a… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Grand Central Publishing, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Mint/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mint, unread copy, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. 435 pp, with Index. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} A100

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Milkweed Editions, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author's debut novel, the Milkweed National Fiction prize winner. When a small group of soldiers is separated from their command and left to fend for themselves in a hostile city, their only option is to keep moving, to evade the marauding gangs and tribesmen who rule the streets. As they wander, encountering a series of surreal episodes and haunting characters, the line between friend and foe is blurred beyond recognition, along with the sanity of those who survive. New, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainer-marked or price-clipped} L167

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, Inc., 2005. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock. Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin.There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2011. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon. 19th-century Europe-from Turin to Prague to Paris-abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies both real and imagined, lay one lone man? What if that evil genius created its most infamous document??Eco takes his readers here on an unforgettable journey through the underbelly of world-shattering… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1995. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A romance of navigation and science in the mid-seventeenth century by the author of IN THE NAME OF THE ROSE. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. 515pp.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Press, Inc., 2004. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. NF20

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1988. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very fine, in grey cloth, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A1

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Mint/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Burns, Charles (jacket art); Kidd, Chip (jacket design). Introductions by Harry Morgan, Exalted Ruler of Elks Lodge No.3, and Dave Eggers.Mint, unread copy, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. L129/A3

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 1998. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.

London, UK: Frontline, 2009. First British Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. For this new collection, David Twiston-Davies has selected the most fascinating Imperial and Commonwealth obituaries published in The Daily Telegraph over the last twenty years. Many senior representatives of the imperial high noon had passed on by the mid-1980s but there were still some remarkable figures who would have been recognizable to Queen Victoria, such as Sir Rex Niven of Nigeria. There are a host of colorful diplomats such as Sir Michael Weir, the British ambassador in Egypt, who started out as a resident in Arab states and was responsible for escorting a sheik to the Queen s Coronation in 1953.Other figures featured are Michael Thwaites, the Australian poet, naval officer and Communist spycatcher; Terry Peck, the local policeman who spied for the Paras in the Falklands and then fought with them at Mount Longdon; and the Earl of Egmont, an Alberta farm boy… Read More