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

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Fine, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped}L148

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1984. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine (with previous owner's small blind stamp on ffep), in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. Z

Niwol, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. A murder mystery set on an Indian reservation in Wyoming. When the tribal chairman is found murdered before an important powwow, alcoholic Father John O'Malley and an Indian attorney looking for her roots search for the killer and uncover the fraud-infested world of Indian oil and land deals. Author's debut novel and the first in the Wind River Reservation mystery series. As new, pristine, unread, first edition, first printing in green cloth boards, in flawless new mylar-protedted dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M110

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1981. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. She stood in Spenser's office, asking him to spring her 15-year-old son from the hoods her ex-husband had hired. So Spenser spirits the boy to the backwoods of Maine to teach him the art of survival, as learned in Boston's backstreets and Korea. EARLY AUTUMN is the seventh novel in the Parker'sr series featuring the wise-cracking, street-smart Boston private-eye Spenser. Fine, first edition, first printing (stated), in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M102

New York, NY 10010, U.S.A.: Dutton , 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author of SHAKEDOWN and TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A., which was the basis for the William Friedkin film of the same name. James Ellroy said of EARTH ANGELS: "Simply put, Gerald Petievich's finest novel, and perhaps the great novel of street crime in L.A. It's dark, brutal, emotionally complex, and finally very moving." Joseph Wambaugh said: "EARTH ANGELS is the most exciting book yet written about the violent world of L.A. gangs and the cops who police the turf." Fine, unread first edition, first printing copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M72

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Uninvited guests at the world's picnics, ants are among the most facinating creatures on Earth. They plant underground gardens, raise other insects as livestock, and communicate via a complex system of chemical and tactile messages. THE EARTH DWELLERS covers the work of world-renowned entomologists E.O. Wilson and William Brown, Jr., as they explore these amazing creatures in a nature reserve in Costa Rica. Illustrations. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF52

London, U.K.: Millenium, 1998. First British Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. At the furthest reaches of the galaxy exist the Thousand Cultures, societies scattered across 31 inhabited worlds in 25 star systems. The Inner Complex - which includes Earth - has been able to exert control over the Thousand Cultures because it contains 90% of all human population and because all traffic must pass through it. But humanity is expanding and the complexes are beginning to fight over access to the frontier worlds. Giraut and Margaret are posted to the frontline - Quidde, base of Chaka Home: a culture based on a Millennialist black American sect claiming spiritual descent from Chaka Zulu's army. But they aren't the only culture on Quidde and history looks very much like repeating itself as three factions engage in a struggle that echoes the bloody twentieth century wars in Rwanda and Bosnia. Giraut and Margaret must hunt out the last vestiges of… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 2004. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hollywood. The land of dreams and schemes. Mark Hayes has a dream. To make movies. But that's easier wished for than done. Years of frustrating career moves have yielded little progress and Mark now finds himself in a dead end job as a "creative executive" for the loathsome producer, Dexter Morton at Prescient Pictures, the hottest new production company in town. A job like that could lead to big things-but Dexter Morton has no interest in promoting Mark's ambitions. Then a major earthquake rocks Los Angeles and all deals are off. And when Mark finds a body floating in Dexter's pool he goes from D-Boy to murder suspect before he can say "three picture deal". In the interest of self-preservation Mark must find out who the true killer is before he is jailed or becomes the next victim. The list of suspects is long: The hot… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking, 1990. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. What happens when a young Japanese seaman, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the way of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia? What if he washes ashore on a barrier island inhabited by rednecks, descendants of black slaves, genteel retired people living in beachfront houses--and a colony of artists on the grounds of an old estate? In the hands of T. Coraghessan Boyle, the result is a sort of 'Madama Butterfly' in reverse: a sexy, savagely hilarious cross-cultural tragicomedy of thwarted expectations, mistaken identity, love, jealousy, and betrayal. When two Immigration and Naturalization Service agents begin scouring the Tupelo Island swamps on Hiro's trail, matters become irretrievably complicated, and only a tale-teller of T. Coraghessan Boyle's prodigious… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace & Company, Inc., 1999. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. It is mid-October, 1997, harvest time in the Columbia Basin of central Washington state, a rich apple-and-pear growing region. Ben Givens, recently widowed, is a retired heart surgeon, once admired for his steadiness of hand, his precision, his endurance. He has terminal colon cancer. A man who does not readily accept defeat, Ben is determined to avoid suffering rather than engage it. And so, accompanied by his two hunting dogs, he sets out through the mythic American West--sage deserts, yawning canyons, dusty ranches, vast orchards--on his last hunt. But Ben hadn't considered the persuasiveness of memory--the promise he made to his wife Rachel, the love of his life, during World War II. Or life's mystery. On his journey he meets a young couple who are "forever," a drifter offering left-hand advice that… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Keough has been at his job in the Mayor's office for a year and he's not happy. He's been involved in more political functions and fund raisers than investigations. But when bodies of pregnant women begin to pile up on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, the Mayor of East St. Louis asks for help. Now out on loan, Keough heads up the search for a serial killer with only a Mark Twain quoting sidekick and young female clerk as his "task force." At the worst possible time his ex-girlfriend, Valerie, comes back into his life with a problem--the little boy, Brady, who tracked bloody footprints into Keough's life in In the SHADOW OF THE ARCH , is in trouble. And as if all this weren't enough, Keough is still trying to adjust to the fact that he has diabetes. When an offer to leave St. Louis to join… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author's debut, an urban thriller set in NYC's hot-wired East Village. and a reinvention of the private eye novel that garnered EAST OF A a Shamus Award nomination. The "A" of the title refers to the Village's Alphabet City, from Avenue A to Avenue D in which the action takes place among the area's all-night revelers, actors, musicians and srtists who populate its trendy after-hours dives, barrio tenements, and vacant lots where the homeless camp. As new, unread copy, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. M62

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Second novel by the author of SLOW FIRE. As new, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. M63

New York, New York, U.S.A.: The Dial Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author's fiction debut. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L12

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 1999. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The debut mystery by the author of ICED. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M4

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want-a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world-all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1976. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Michael Crichton's scarce fifth novel, a.k.a. THE 13TH WARRIOR: It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to the north. Fadlan belatedly discovers that his job is to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings--but just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea....Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine (minor chipping at spine top and sm divot missing from upper rear edge, else very fine) mylar-protected dust jacket. Very scarce, especially in this condition. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Scribner, 1998. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, in near-fine (price-clipped), mylar-protected dust jacket. L68

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 1998. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L34

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Abbeville Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Very fine, in near-fine/very good (cover intact and very presentable in mylar, but tape-repaired edges in two places and sm repaired tear at spine head) mylar-protected dust jacket. {BUND}