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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harper & Row, 1984. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Fully bound in blue cloth. The spine is gilt-stamped. 311pps. There is a bit of very faint dustspotting atop the textblock as well as a nearly imperceptible splay to the boards, otherwise clean, tight, and bright. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a 3/8" closed tear at the top of the rear panel as well as a scratch and edge-crinkling at the bottom of that panel; the original price is intact. A nice, clean copy, all in all. "...Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog, Big Mama's Funeral, and The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the…
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Collected Stories
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Matchstick Men: A Novel
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New York: Villard Books, 2002. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Black boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 228pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. The textblock is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a small crinkle on the front panel; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. ".Roy and Frankie are matchstick men -- con artists. Partners in elegant crimes for years, they know each other like brothers and have perfected the rules of the game. Roy is the careful one. Saves every penny. Takes his medication regularly. Without the pills, his obsessive-compulsive disorder kicks in and he is too nauseated to do anything but stare at the dirt on the carpet. Frankie is the adventurous one, hungry for a big score. He wants Roy to join him in running a tricky game, but Roy is distracted -- for good reason. Roy has just…
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Innocent Erendira and Other Stories
by Garcia Marquez, Gabriel; Rabassa, Gregory (translator)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harper & Row, 1978. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Fully-bound in blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Deep orange topstain. Untrimmed fore-edge. 183pp. A corner of the front pastedown, behind the jacket flap, has been folded under (a production error). Also, there is a pen-point of ink on the ffep. Otherwise excellent: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price is intact. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. "...This new collection of short fiction should enhance his ever-growing reputation for extraordinarily fine writing. . . . Deceptively simple, brooding, evocative fiction, beautifully written...' (Publishers Weekly) Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks…
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Unknown Soldiers
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New York: Dutton, 1977. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Red boards quarterbound in blue cloth. The spine is stamped in silver. This volume has a touch of soiling (as of ink that offset) to the inner rear board; otherwise it is clean, tight, and bright. The dustjacket, glossy in mylar, is flawless. The original price (8.95) is intact. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.. ISBN: 0-525-22675-3. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. War Battle Vietnam Literature JOHN ROLFE GARDINER UNKNOWN SOLDIERS FIRST EDITIONS. Catalogs: War, Literature & Fiction, U.S.A..
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On Becoming a Novelist (Becoming a ... Ser.)
by Gardner, John
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harper & Row, 1983. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Fully-bound in brown cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. Tan endpapers. [xxv] + 150pps. There is mild rubbing to the spine-ends and the upper corner of page 113 is creased. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has a small tear and abrasion at the top of the back panel and modest rubbing wear to the extremities. The original price is intact. Includes a Foreword by Raymond Carver. "...'On Becoming A Novelist' was completed only a few weeks before John Gardner's death. Into it he poured his personal experience as an accomplished novelist and a committed teacher of fiction writing. In his foreword, Raymond Carver, a former student of Gardner's, tells us that he gave to the teaching of fiction writing the same devotion to its craft and moral values that he gave to his own work. He also gave to it the rare…
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The Art of Living and Other Stories
by Gardner, John
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1981. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Bound in full beige linen. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Decorative beige endpapers and topstain. 310pps. Stated First Edition. There is a slight pull to the head of the spine, otherwise clean, tight, square and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dust jacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has modest rubbing wear at the extremities and the edges of either flap are faintly sunned. The original price (12.95) is intact.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "The first collection in seven years from one of America's most celebrated and admired writers -- ten wonderful short (and long) stories that allow us to explore and enjoy once again the many facets of John Gardner's unique fictional world. Here are enchanting tales about kings and queens and princesses in magical, timeless…
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Jason & Medeia
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New York: Knopf, 1973. Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full ivory cloth. Both the spine and the decorative front panel are stamped in tan and gilt. Octavo. Tan endpapers. Green topstain, faded. 354pps. First Printing. There is very mild bumping to the spine-ends, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The price-clipped dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is lightly rubbed and has the typical fading to the spine; also, there is a small crease in the upper corner of the rear flap. A nice copy.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "Here, in all its original barbaric majesty (before the sophisticated Greeks neatened it up), is the supremely dramatic story of Jason and Medeia. He is a hero in a panther skin, a chilly intellectual, a grandchild of death, a politician, a Westerner. She is passionate, intuitive, an Easterner, a grandchild of the Sun -- and she…
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The Book of the American Indian
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Brown boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt; the decorative front panel, black-printed, has a paste-on label of an Indian brave. Quarto. Yellow topstain. 274pps., with numerous illustrations by the artist with three of the plates being in full-color. Early printing: 1923 (the same year of the first edition ) on the title-page, L-X on the copyright page). There is superficial insect damage near the top of the front joint and bumping to the upper tips which has caused the top corner of the textblock to be slightly crimped. Also, a previous owner's name has been neatly penned on the ffep. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The price-clipped dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has modest chipping at the extremities and light wear along the top-edge; the Remington paste-on illustration is in fine, colorful condition. A very nice copy -- uncommon in jacket and in so nice a jacket --…
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Harvest
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1996. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Bright red boards quarterbound in gray cloth. The spine is stamped in metallic red. 344pp. There is very mild bumping to the heel of the spine and a couple of tips, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a touch of crinkling at the heel of the spine; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price is intact. The author's first novel, SIGNED -- without further inscription -- on the title-page.<br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.. SIGNED by the Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover.
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Ellen Foster
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Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987. As New in an As New dustjacket. Bound in full gray cloth. The spine is stamped in white. Duodecimo. Textured tan endpapers. 146pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Absolutely no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. "...'When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.'With that opening sentance we are introduced to the eleven-year-old heroine of 'Ellen Foster.'Ellen tells her own story, with an honesty, a perceptivity, and a quite un-selfconscious heroism. Her mother dies. She stays with her father until it becomes too dangerous. She lives with a teacher, a grandmother who blames her for her father's marriage, then with an aunt. At the close she discovers a home where at last she is wanted and…
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Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987. Uncorrected Proofs. In Near Fine condition. Tan wraps, interestingly produced of stitched signatures. A label bearing the publisher's information about the forthcoming novel is affixed to the front wrap. 146pps. There are a couple of slight ripples in the front wrap, otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. The text is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. A very nice, collector's-quality copy of an uncommon item. ".'When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.' With that opening sentance we are introduced to the eleven-year-old heroine of 'Ellen Foster.' Ellen tells her own story, with an honesty, a perceptivity, and a quite un-selfconscious heroism. Her mother dies. She stays with her father until it becomes too dangerous. She lives with a teacher, a grandmother who blames her for her…
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Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987. Uncorrected Proofs. In Near Fine condition. Tan wraps, interestingly produced of stitched signatures. A label bearing the publisher's information about the forthcoming novel is affixed to the front wrap. 146pps. There are two faint and unobtrusive specks to the fore-edge, otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. The text is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. ".'When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.' With that opening sentance we are introduced to the eleven-year-old heroine of 'Ellen Foster.' Ellen tells her own story, with an honesty, a perceptivity, and a quite un-selfconscious heroism. Her mother dies. She stays with her father until it becomes too dangerous. She lives with a teacher, a grandmother who blames her for her father's marriage, then with an aunt. At the close she…
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The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster
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Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, 2006. [2006]. As New in an As New dustjacket. Mustard-yellow boards with a purple, gilt-stamped backstrip. Octavo. 218pps. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. "...This sequel to Gibbons's beloved classic 'Ellen Foster' stands on its own as an unforgettable portrait of a redoubtable adolescent making herself up out of whole cloth. Now fifteen, Ellen is settled into a permanent home with a new mother. Strengthened by adversity and blessed with enough intelligence to design a salvation for herself, she still feels ill at ease in the world. Her sole surviving ritual -- a visit to the county fair-takes on totemic importance. While she holds fast to the shreds of her childhood -- humoring her best friend, Stuart, who is determined…
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New York: Crowell, 1959. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Fully-bound in green cloth. The spine is stamped in white. 214pp. Fourth printing. Mild bumping to the spine-ends. Also, there is a very slight, nearly indiscernible lean to the spine. Otherwise clean, tight, and bright. All tips are sharp. The pages are immaculate; no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has wear at the tips and the spine-ends including a 1" closed tear at the base of the rear gutter and two chips, 1/4" and 1/8" at the head of the spine. The jacket is colorful and quite nice, overall; the original price is intact. "...If you think Southern aristocrats are effete, gracious peace! You are in for a happy jollification when you meet Duchess, Monette and her brother, Mr. Eleck Henri. During the Depression of the 1930s, two Northern-reared children, twelve-year-old Izard and beautiful fifteen-year-old Julien, are orphaned in New York, forced to head South and move in with their…
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The Annunciation
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Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1983. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Green and brown boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 353pps. An excellent copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has a small closed tear at the bottom of the front panel; the original price (14.95) is intact. The author's first novel, following her short story collection, 'In the Land of Dreamy Dreams.'<br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.. First Edition. Hard Cover.
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Grant Comes East: A Novel of the Civil War
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press, 2004. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Black boards. The spine is stamped in copper. Large octavo. x + 404pps. There is a slight bump to the head of the spine, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has a touch of crinkling at the head of the spine -- otherwise flawless. The original price (24.95) is intact. SIGNED by Forstchen, without further inscription, on the title-page.<br><br><font color=#003366><b> "The second book in the bestselling series by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, continues the story of a Confederate victory at Gettysburg. The first book examined the great 'what if' of American history: Could Lee have won the Battle of Gettysburg? A Confederate victory, however, would not necessarily mean that the Southern cause has gained…
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Glass People
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New York: Knopf, 1972. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Gray boards backed in lavender cloth. The spine is stamped in silver. Lavender topstain. Fore-edge untrimmed. 208pps. There is bumping to the spine-ends as well as faint sunning to the extreme edges of the boards. Also, there is a touch of wear to the lower front tip. Otherwise, clean, tight, square and bright; no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has light edgewear and is a touch sundarkened; the original price (5.95) is intact on the front flap.<br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
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Going Native
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New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full blue buckram. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Octavo. 294pps. Second printing. An excellent copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. The colorful, price-clipped dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has light wear at the extremities and a 2" scratch on the rear panel. ".Ouseley, the hero of this tale of an Irishman going native amongst the queer English, was advised by William Butler Yeats to leave Ireland and try the taste of civilization on that other island. Ouseley therefore sets forth and bravely makes the round of England -- house parties, vicars, peers, pubs, and poetry. He discovers many things -- for example, that in Belgrave Square you don't pour by the glass, you take your bottle by the neck and retire to a table; and that Scotland Yard is largely the invention of Edgar Wallace, who turned it into a kind of clubhouse…
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Selected Poems
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New York: Macmillan, 1933. In Very Good+ condition. Bound in full brown cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Octavo. [xxxvi] + 177pps. No dustjacket. There is light wear to the spine-ends and a tidy gift-inscription is penned on the ffep. Otherwise clean, tight, and bright. With Forewords by A. E. (George Russell) and Horace Reynolds.<br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.. First Edition. Hardcover.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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New York: Knopf, 1997. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Patterned ivory boards with a gilt-stamped burgundy backstrip. Quarto. 434pps. Stated First Edition. The spine-ends are mildly bumped and a previous owner's bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no reading wear. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a small crease in a corner of the rear flap; the original price is intact. A very nice copy of the author's first novel. ".An alluring tour de force: a brilliant debut novel told with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. In 'Memoirs of A Geisha,' we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest…
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