Titles beginning with M from BIAbooks (206 items)

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2015. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. A pristine NEW book that has been SIGNED by Patti Smith on the title page (not on a Publisher's tipped-in page)! A quality production with beautiful boards. This is an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. ¿Exquisite . . . a magical, mystical tour de force."-Washington Post. ¿Achingly beautiful . . . An eloquent¿and a deeply moving¿elegy for what she has ¿lost and cannot find¿ but can remember in words.¿ ¿Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

New York: Summit Books, 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine collectible book that appears UNREAD. Bentsen's six-year-long relationship with a group of Maasai prompted this respectful account of villagers who regard cows as currency and resist new ways of life. According to PW , this is a "warmhearted portrayal of a proud, tenacious people--one of the most compassionate books ever written about Africans." 286 pp, B & W photo illus.

New York: Dutton/Lawrence, 1984. First Edition, Second Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. A very attractive book with a slight fray to bottom of DJ spine, else fine.The book is about how large, impersonal actions permanently alter ordinary lives. The most interesting of Phillips's devices is the pattern of images affiliated with her title--which refers to the way men and boys love cars, dump trucks and bulldozers, airplanes and spacecraft. Images of flight keep recurring; eventually they're displaced by.

New York: Dutton/Lawrence, 1984. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Pristine book. This book is about how large, impersonal actions permanently alter ordinary lives. The most interesting of Phillips's devices is the pattern of images affiliated with her title--which refers to the way men and boys love cars, dump trucks and bulldozers, airplanes and spacecraft. Images of flight keep recurring; eventually they're displaced by.

Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Inc., 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Author FIRST NOVEL. A finalist in the National Book Award competition for 2004. When a girl falls into a deep and impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm of her dreams begin to disappear. "A luminous debut novel.powerful and hauntingly elusive.Bynum's lush, poetic imagery is full of vivid, sensuous details one can almost smell, taste, and feel . . . Achingly human and poignantly telling."--The Boston Globe. "Extravagantly imagined.a fantasy influenced by writers from Ludwig Bemelmans to Angela Carter"--New York Times

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. This is a pristine NEW copy of the author's FIRST novel, which deals with traditional and modern values in America and India. "Samina Ali has created a compelling story filled with psychological insight and a deep understanding of the conflicts that plague all of us who inhabit two worlds." Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

London, U.K: Andre Deutsch, 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A COLLECTIBLE rare book. This is the first UK edition of Maggie Cassidy. It is in fine condition. The novel was first published in 1959 in the USA. From the bard of the Beat Generation comes a profoundly moving, autobiographical novel of childhood and first love. Bright pink original boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. The contents and end papers are very clean. The bindings of the book are tight. The unclipped dust jacket is in a bright and fine condition and preserved in an archival cover. "A surprisingly simple and appealing tale of a young student's fumbling search for love among the high school set . . . at his best, [Kerouac] can give you poetic visions of the commonplace."-The New York Times Book Review. "A bittersweet evocation of love, lust, and loss in small-town thirties America." -Ann Charters.

New York: Warner Books, 2000. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, Collectible, SIGNED, First Printing. "A delicious, witty FIRST NOVEL, writes with such insight about romantic and literary yearnings that many readers will surely suspect her eavesdropping on their own lives."---Margot Livesey

New York: Penguin Books, 2005. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day."--J.Yardley, Washington Post

New York, NY: The American Pass/Book of the Month Club Inc., 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. This is a pristine, unread, NEW book. Book comes in a Navy Blue Slipcase. No flaws except there is a discrete "Not for Resale" light blue stamp on the bottom edge of the book. Book was a groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign and the election of John F. Kennedy. The Making of the President: 1960 revolutionized the way modern presidential campaigns are reported. Reporting from within the campaign for the first time on record, White's extensive research and access to all parties involved set the bar for campaign coverage and remains unparalleled. "A masterpiece . . . full of deep insights into political power in America and how our democracy works in choosing the President. It gripped me from beginning to end as very few books have." -- William L. Shirer

New York, NY: Atheneum Publishers, 1968. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, Collectible book. This the compelling account of the turbulent 1968 presidential campaign, the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., and election of Richard Nixon. "White unites a novelist's knack of dramatization and a historian's sense of significance with a synthesizing skill that grasps the reader by the lapels." -Newsweek

New York, NY: Viking, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, Collectible book. The definitive treatment of the greatest black radical voice and figure of the mid-twentieth century. Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. Charcoal grey hardboards with black spine; gold printing. Text block clean, tight, square, unmarked, appears to be unread or lightly browsed. One section of black and white photos. "Manning Marable's Malcolm X is his magnum opus, a work of extraordinary rigor and intellectual beauty . This majestic and eloquent tour de force will stand for some time as the definitive work on as enigmatic and electrifying a leader as has ever sprung from American soil." --Michael Eric Dyson

New York: Dutton, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A story that gives voice to the secret testimonies of the heart and explores our eternal craving for love and the devastating effect of its loss. This book takes us to a new level of understanding of the desires that propel our lives. It is filled with luminous, haunting imagery and rich emotional intensity. It is a profoundly affecting tale of love, reconciliation, and hope. a PRESTINE BOOK. Keywords: OATES FATHER DAUGHTER ABANDOMENT MURDER SATANIC CULT SALVATION

New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1962. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake. --GPP. This book is tight, clean and unmarked. This collectible is priced clipped and has minor rubbing at corners of DJand a closed tear at top edge of front panel. The DJ overall has maintained it's vibrant color. Looks great in a protective cover. D45 printed on the bottom-left of page 239, which is the novel's final page.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collectible book. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist's DEBUT novel. Winner of the Book-of-the-Month Club's Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction.

New York: Random House, 2006. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. Only a minor crease at spine edge of DJ detracts from this pristine book. Sittenfeld's prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman's fantasies of family and love with the challenges and realities of adult life.Full of honesty and humor, The Man of My Dreams is an unnervingly insightful and beautifully written examination of the outside forces and personal choices that make us who we are.--RH

New York: Random House, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book, like new. Sittenfeld's prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman¿s fantasies of family and love with the challenges and realities of adult life. Full of honesty and humor, The Man of My Dreams is an unnervingly insightful and beautifully written examination of the outside forces and personal choices that make us who we are.--RH

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is a collection of Patricia Zelver's highly praise stories. This volume contains the short novel A MAN OF MIDDLE AGE, plus a dozen of her stories that have appeared during the Seventies. . . five of them became O. Henry prize-winners. Inscribed warmly, commemorating a 'pleasant visit' with friends. Keywords: ZELVER FICTION SHORT STORIES LITERATURE -- A very attractive book.