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

San Francisco, CA: Mercury House, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. Edited and translated from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti. With original illustrations by jim Pearson. This is the first English translation of FANTASTIC TALES, which was a nominee for theBram Stoker Best Collection, 1992. The first Gothic tales published in the Italian language, I.U. Tarchetti's (1839 - 1869) strange stories recall those of Edgar Allan Poe, T.A. Hoffmann, and Mary Shelley. Very fine, first edition, first printing in black cloth boards with sewn-in satin ribbon marker in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} OFC 3F

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1994. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A6

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Viking Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author in black ink on title page. Ulin is the editor of ANOTHER CITY: Writings from Los Angeles, and WRITING LOS ANGELES: A Literary Anthology. New, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. NF28/A28

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon. An absorbing novel of dissident life in the Soviet Union, by one of Russia's most popular writers,THE BIG GREEN TENT is the kind of book the term "Russian novel" was invented for. A sweeping saga, it tells the story of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. These three boys-an orphaned poet; a gifted, fragile pianist; and a budding photographer with a talent for collecting secrets-struggle to reach adulthood in a society where their heroes have been censored and exiled. Rich with love stories, intrigue, and a cast of dissenters and spies, THE BIG GREEN TENT offers a panoramic survey of life after Stalin and a dramatic investigation into the prospects for integrity in a… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author previously of CLOSE TO THE MACHINE, a cult-classic memoir about her experiences as a programmer during the early years of the personal computer when women were rarely found in the profession; and a novel, THE BUG, which was a N.Y. Times Notable Book of the Year and a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. New mint, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L149

New York, NY, U.S.A.: McGraw-Hill Companies, The, 1988. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. NFS2

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Who are today's immigrants? Are they a drain on the country's resources, or do they add to our wealth and well-being? Taking readers inside immigrant communities across the nation, Ungar shows how the melting pot is becoming a salad bowl, where a rich mix of ethnic groups maintains their identities and contributes to American society. Advance review copy with publisher's material laid in. As new,first edition, first printing. in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NFBS2

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Harper, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. At their peak in the early twentieth century, the Guggenheims were reckoned among America's wealthiest, and the richest Jewish family in the world after the Rothschilds. They belonged to Our Crowd, that tight social circle of New York Jewish plutocrats, but unlike the others -- primarily merchants and financiers -- they made their money by extracting and refining copper, silver, lead, tin, and gold. The secret of their success, the patriarch believed, was their unity, and in the early years Meyer's seven sons, under the leadership of Daniel, worked as one to expand their growing mining and smelting empire. Family solidarity eventually decayed (along with their Jewish faith), but even more damaging was the paucity of male heirs as Meyer and the original set of brothers passed from the scene. In the third generation, Harry Guggenheim, Daniel's son,… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Da Capo Press, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of The Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries, secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president. John Quincy Adams was all of these things and more. In this masterful biography, award winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals Quincy Adams as a towering figure in the nation's formative years and one of the most courageous figures in American history, which is why he ranked first in John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage. A magisterial biography and a sweeping panorama of American history from the Washington to Lincoln… Read More

Amelia, Ohio, U.S.A.: Double Talk, 2003. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Barry Unsworth's THE SONGS OF THE KINGS stands the world on its head as a cast of Homeric characters find their high-sounding principles clashing with private motives... The Trojan War is about to break out, and Agamemnon will do anything to enable the Greek fleet to set sail with the wind behind him. Even the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigeneia is not too much to ask. This, however, is a very modern cast of Homeric characters, and throwing off the heroic values we expect of them, they have embraced the political ethos of the twenty-first century and speak in words we recognise as our own. As new,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} MLBS1

New York, New York, U.S.A: Nan A. Talese, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A thriller set in 1914 as the Western nations are making a grab for political power and oil in the Middle East, by a writer with an 'almost magical capacity for literary time travel' (The New York Times Book Review). Somerville, a British archaeologist, is excavating a long-buried Assyrian palace. The site lies directly in the path of a new railroad to Baghdad, and he watches nervously as the construction progresses, threatening to destroy his discovery. The expedition party includes Somerville's beautiful, bored wife, Christine; Patricia, a smart young graduate student; and Jehar, an Arab man-of-all-duties whose subservient manner belies his intelligence and ambitions. Posing as an archaeologist, an American geologist from an oil company arrives one day and insinuates himself into the group. But he's not the only one working undercover to… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Mint/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ediyted and with an Introduction by John Updike. Co-edited by Katrina Kenison. 775 pp, with Biographical Notes on contributors. Mint, unread copy, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. L129

New York, New York, U.S.A: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very fine unread first edition, first printing, in black cloth boards, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L95

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1994. First Trade 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, first edition, first printing, in gold cloth, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L40

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1984. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L40

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1996. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Updike has been writing about golf since he took the game up at the age of twenty-five. In the nearly forty years of pleasurable bafflement that have followed, he has composed essays for 'Golf Digest' and short stories for 'The New Yorker' concerning the sport; he has contributed to tournament programs and walked such fictional characters as Rabbit Angstrom and Tom Marshfield through the details of a round. Few have written as sympathetically, as knowingly, about the peculiar charms of _bad_ golf, and the satisfactions of an essentially losing struggle. The camaraderie of golf, the perils of its present boom, how to relate to caddies, and how to manage short putts are among the many topics covered. These thirty pieces of pure gold have been dug up from a great variety of sources. Some have been published in one or another of Mr.… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2006. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread first edition, first printing, in blue cloth boards, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L45

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Alfred A., Knopf, Inc., 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. John Updike's twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts. In between these two settlements comes Middle Falls, Connecticut, where Owen, an early computer programmer, founds with a partner, Ed Mervine, the successful firm of E-O Data, which is housed in an old gun factory on the Chunkaunkabaug River. Owen's education (Bildung) is not merely technical but liberal, as the humanity of his three villages, especially that of their female citizens, works to disengage him from his youthful innocence. As a child he early felt an abyss of calamity beneath the sunny surface quotidian, yet also had a dreamlike sense of leading a charmed existence. The women of his life, including… Read More

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author's amusing sequel to THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK. As new, unread first edition, first printing,, in light blue cloth boards, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L46

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1998. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L40