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

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Random House, 2010. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. s new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A88

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Henry Holt and Co., 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in her unique calligraphic hand. In her latest case, Kinsey Millhone finds herself in danger - on the trail of someone who may, or may not, be dead. It is five years since crooked tycoon Wendell Jaffe disappeared while sailing his boat off the California coast. Now Kinsey is investigating a sighting of the dead man.New, pristine, unread, first edition, first printing (opened only for signing) in new, flawless, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M114

New York, NY, U.S.A.: William Morrow/Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 2004. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author of SOAR, BLOOD CRIES, WATCHDOGS, EVIDENCE and, {with Richard Marcinko}, the 'Rogue Warrior' series, among others. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M17/A45

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. Explorer. Social activist. Romantic. Self-educated genius. White Fang. CALL OF THE WILD, MARTIN EDEN, THE SEA-WOLF. Generations worldwide have been thrilled by his tales, probably never realizing how true to life they really were. He did not imagine the hardships and brutality of life in the Yukon, on the high seas, or in the back alleys of Oakland. He lived them. Few men were his equal and only one woman ever fully captivated his heart. By the time he was forty, no American was more famous. And in the winter of 1915, the great writer set sail on one last adventure.But in this story of that adventure, he is being hunted. Hobart Bosworth -- an aging matinee idol and filmmaker -- is desperate for one more Jack London picture to save his career. Hollywood machinations have driven a wedge between him and his old friend. He has tracked… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A: Random House Inc, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. JACK LONDON, HEMINGWAY, and THE CONSTITUTION is doctorow's first collection of essays, a richly textured and detailed combination of literary criticism, political invective, and historical meditation. Author is the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award (his second; also won in 1990 for BILLY BATHGATE), the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (also won for BILLY BATHGATE, 1989) for THE MARCH, which was also a nominated finalist for both the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, RAGTIME, and most recently, HOMER AND LANGLEY. As new, unread, first edition, first printing,, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF44

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush town-house in Great Queen Street? JACK MAGGS was nominated for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction as Best Book. Peter Carey is a two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize: in 1988 for OSCAR AND LUCINDA, and in 2001 for TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG. He has also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize twice, in 1998 for JACK MAGGS, and in 2001 for KELLY GANG. His most recent novels include MY LIFE AS A FAKE, and THEFT: A Love Story. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L105

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Warner Books Inc, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Arcade Publishing, 1998. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. From his birth in Venezuela to his capture two years ago in the Sudan, the life of Carlos 'the Jackal' has been an extraordinary one. Raised in a radical family, he was sent to London as a teenager in an attempt by his father to remove him from his early radical activities and friends who were seen as a bad influence. He subsequently studied in Moscow, before going to Beirut in 1969, with the avowed intention of becoming a terrorist. His subsequent career involved murders in Britain, France and Germany, culminating in the kidnapping of 11 OPEC ministers in Vienna in 1975. Carlos' career as a terrorist ranged across the whole range of the terrorist decades of the '70's and '80's and made him the world's most wanted, famous, recognizable, and yet seemingly elusive killer As new, unread, first edition, first… Read More

London, UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Limited, 1998. First British Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. From his birth in Venezuela to his capture two years ago in the Sudan, the life of Carlos 'the Jackal' has been an extraordinary one. Raised in a radical family, he was sent to London as a teenager in an attempt by his father to remove him from his early radical activities and friends who were seen as a bad influence. He subsequently studied in Moscow, before going to Beirut in 1969, with the avowed intention of becoming a terrorist. His subsequent career involved murders in Britain, France and Germany, culminating in the kidnapping of 11 OPEC ministers in Vienna in 1975. Carlos' career as a terrorist ranged across the whole range of the terrorist decades of the '70's and '80's and made him the world's most wanted, famous, recognizable, and yet seemingly elusive killer Fine, first British edition, first… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Winner of the St. Martin's Press/Malice Domestic Award for 1999. Cassandra Ringwald, who like Wooley herself is a clinical psychologist, finds it very difficult to pin down her thoughts about the young man for whose defense she has been retained to do her first forensic evaluation. Things don't fit: he is three-quarters Indian and raised as a Native American, but he travels with bigoted skinheads and, like them wears swastikas on his shoes. Obviously more intelligent than his companions, he joins them, it seems, in the mayhem they perpetrate in the small Northern California town.But other motives may be responsible for the danger Cassie is in; greed -- self interest, private agendas -- all twist the events to add to the suspense in this mystery with a different and delightful woman at its helm. As new, first… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Company, Inc., 1994. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In the post-Brando era, no American film actor has had an impact comparable to that of Jack Nicholson. One of our finest film historians presents a richly detailed and exhaustively researched biography of this most public and private of stars--with details that Nicholson himself will find revelatory. Photos. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped}A54

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking , 1996. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Murdoch's 26th novel is a Murdochian Much Ado About Nothing of sorts--a fast-moving human drama overflowing with laserlike psychological insight and intricate plotting. When a small group of friends gathers on the eve of their wedding, the bridal couple encounters a sudden and extraordinary event that changes everything. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L24

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Soho Press, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Korean police should have been responsible for investigating the bizarre killing of Miss Pak. But, her amorous associations with American servicemen in Seoul also made her death US army business, and sergeants Ernie Bascom and George Sueno are on the case. fIRST in the mystery series featuring Limon's incorrigible pair of G.I. cops, Sergeants Sueno & Bascom, whose beat is Seoul and the sin cities surrounding the Korean capital in the 1970s, which also includes SLICKY BOYS, BUDDHA'S MONEY and THE DOOR TO BITTERNEWSS.Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M95

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dutton, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed on title page in black fountain ink. As new, unread copy, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. . M67

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Warner Books Inc, 1996. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author of BLESS ME, ULTIMA and ZIA SUMMER, among others. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A21

Titan Books, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. 949 pp. A69

New York, NY: St Martins Press, 1984. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Fine, in red cloth boards, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. For years Hollywood has buzzed with rumors of a curse on the actors who worked on the '50s classic film 'Rebel Without a Cause,' a curse that caused them to die tragically and young. It started with James Dean crashing his Porsche, and then there was Nick Adam's overdose, Sal Mineo's murder, and Natalie Wood's drowning. But what if it wasn't a curse? Los Angeles newspaper columnist Neil Gulliver and his ex-wife, Stevie Marriner--the "sex queen of the soaps"--are on the job and come up with an interesting hypothesis: What if James Dean didn't really die in that crash, as millions of his fans believe? What if James Dean is still alive today--and looking for revenge? Neil and Stevie dodge threats on their own while tracking those answers and searching for a solution to a… Read More

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Gateway Books, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A77