Search Results: Authors starting with U from Gilt Edge Books

New York: Simon and Schuster This new novel begins with a savage, inexplicable crime: a young woman is murdered on a quiet, residential , respectable Queens. New York, street while her neighbors hear her screams and do nothing to help her. Navy boards, black cloth spine with gilt print. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Illustrated price-intact jacket by Paul Bacon. A very nice copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Hurtwood Press, 1985. 287pp. Ultramar was formed in London in 1935. This book is the story of the Company - its Golden Adventure. From a small exploration company in Venezuela, it has grown into an intergated oil company operating on five continents. The story of Ultramar is largely that of the men and women whose initiative, ambition and determination have made the Company a success. Very well illustrated with b/w and colour photos. The complete book is printed on semi-gloss stock. Map endpapers. Wrap-around photo dust jacket. Jacket photo of a drilling rig in Southern England. An impressive history.. ISBN: 0-903696-35-5. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Business + Industry + Business History + Refineries + Oil Companies + Oil + Gas + Exploration + Petroleum Industry. Catalogs: Business/Industry.

Kingston, Ont.: Queens University, 1988. 810 pp. Attractive blue boards with university crest and title in gilt to front, gilt lettering to spine.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1989. John Updike's memoirs consist of six chapters in which he write of his home town, his psoriasis, his stuttering, his discomfort during the Vietnam War, his Updike ancestors, and his religion and sense of self. He has been hair-raisingly honest and beautifully eloquent. The reader is taken beyond self-consciousness and into sheer wonder at the world and its fabric. These essays together give the inner shape of life, up to the age of fifty-five, of a relatively fortunate American male. Attractive light lilac boards with silver title print on spine. B/w family picture spread on endpapers. Photographed portrait on front panel of dust jacket. Wonderfully clean and bright book! No detracting markings of any kind.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1970. Henry Bech, a middle-aged American Jewish writer, goes through the motions of success. John Updike makes exuberant comedy of Bech's public life - his journey abroad to Russia and Bulgaria, his sortie into swing London, his response to a lecture-audience of nubile southern belles and finally his crowing with official laurels - while at the same time Bech's rising panic at the dislocation between what he appears to be and what he knows himself to be. An immaculate book in a price-intact illustrated dust jacket.. ISBN: 0-233-96270-0. First Edition, Second Impression. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Henry Bech Fictional Character. Catalogs: Literature.

New York: Doubleday, 1988. Leon Uris gives us 'Mitla Pass', the impassioned story of Gideon Zadok, a modern man trapped by his own contradictions: ambition and fear; desire and obligation; the past and his future. Woven into a tapestry of voices... Gideon's, his family's, his wife's, and friends.... Uris takes us from the pogrom-cursed Russian shtetls to the American dream; from Hollywood in its heyday to the new state of Israel in 1956.... Breathtaking in scope, painfully human and alive with earthy humor.... written by this internationally acclaimed novelist. A bright tight book in a price-intact bright dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Doubleday Canada Limited, 1989. Peter Ustinov, an actor, playwright and director of films and plays and gifted story-teller now gives us this novella. The two long stories that make up this volume are " The Disinformer" - a darkly humerous tale of international intrigue, and "A Nose By Any Other Name," - a story of a girl whose parents are simply too wonderful, kind, clever, gentle, from them she received everything, including an enormous nose. When she rebels against her heritage she finds that no surgeon's knife can cut deep enough to remove her parents influence... No owner markings or inscription. Brown cloth boards with gilt to spine. Jacket illustration by the author. Price still intact, photo of Peter Ustinov on back panel of jacket. A nice copy by a very talented personality.. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.