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

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in her uniquely beautiful calligraphic hand. "M" is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands. "M" is for the Malek family: four sons now nearing middle age who stand to inherit a fortune--four men with very different outlooks, temperaments, and needs, linked only by blood and money. Eighteeen years ago, one of them--angry, troubled, and in trouble--went missing."M" is for Millhone, hired to trace that black sheep brother. "M" is for memories, none of them happy. The bitter memories of an embattled family. This prodigal son will find no welcome at his family's table. "M" is for malice. And in… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Henry Holt and Co., 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in her uniquely beautiful calligraphic hand. "M" is for money - lots of it. Malek Construction remains in family hands, with four sons set to inherit a fortune. One of them went missing 18 years ago. "M" is also for Millhone, hired to trace that brother. "M" is for memories - and finally - "M" is for malice, and malice kills. New, unread, first edition, first printing, in flawless, new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M114

U.S.A.: Alfred A Knopf, Inc., 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author in black fountain ink directly on title page. M TRAIN begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to the fertile moon terrain of Iceland; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; to the West 4th Street subway station, filled with the sounds of the Velvet Underground after the death of Lou Reed; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Pantheon, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Jolene and Verna share complicated ties that have crystallized over time. Beginning when they were girls discovering their needs and desires, their ongoing stories have been inextricably linked. But when Verna marries Vincent, Jolene's ex-husband, their paths may have finally, permanently diverged. A successful and provocative feminist artist, Jolene travels the world, attracting attention wherever she goes. Verna, a writer, works from her home near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, where she and Vincent plan to spend the rest of their lives in a contemplative, intimate routine. Then Jolene asks one more favor of Verna-to take a road trip with her to their small hometown in Utah. It's a journey that will force them to confront both the truths and falsehoods of their memories of each other and of the very beginnings of their friendship, and to reckon with the… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1991. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award for Fiction. Fine, in fine (1/4" bottom edge tear repaired inside jacket), mylar-protected dust jacket. D

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Nan A. Talese, 2019. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. MACHINES LIKE ME takes place in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first synthetic humans and-with Miranda's help-he designs Adam's personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and clever. It isn't long before a love triangle soon forms, and these three beings confront a profound moral dilemma. In his subversive new novel, Ian McEwan asks whether a machine can understand the human heart-or whether we are the ones who lack understanding. New, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust cover. {Not remainder-mared or price-clipped} OFC 2F

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Ecco, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author has been a technology and science rporter for the New York Times since 1988, and was part of the team that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. He is also the author of WHAT THE DORMOUSE SAID; How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer. New, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped}NF64

New York, New York, U.S.A. : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. They thought they were Bonnie and Clyde. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a woman during a robbery. The second was incidental. Simply in the way. Then? Hell, why not keep on going? It's not until Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers steps into the Shinder murder scene that the clues begin to come together. As the crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, a growing army of cops join Virgil in trying to track the teenagers down. But even Virgil doesn't realize what's about to happen. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M131

New York, NY 10010, U.S.A.: The New Press, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A helicopter ride to visit troops in the Afghanistan war zone, a tense meeting with the newly elected Prime Minister, and.a wild boar hunt! Eleni Kounalakis was forty-three and a land developer in Sacramento, California, when she was tapped by President Barack Obama to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Hungary under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. During her tenure, from 2010 to 2013, Hungary was a key ally in the U.S. military surge, held elections in which a center-right candidate gained a two-thirds supermajority and rewrote the country's constitution, and grappled with the rise of Hungarian nationalism and anti-semitism. The first Greek-American woman ever to serve as a U.S. ambassador, Kounalakis recounts her training at the State Department's "charm school" and her three years of diplomatic life in Budapest-from protocols about… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Scribner, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Two respected Washington pundits offer a forward-looking history of women in politics -- from envelope-stuffing in the 1960s to the prospect of a woman president in the next decade. A striking aspect of our new century's first election season has been the vitality American women are injecting into the proceedings -- as candidates, strategists, and voters. In the 1990s, their influence redefined the nature of politics. Bill Clinton won his elections largely on the strength of women's votes, and Senator Bob Packwood was compelled to resign in the face of women's outrage over his sexual misconduct. So how did we get here?. From journalists Eleanor Clift and Tom Brazaitis comes a story of passion, determination, and triumph. They chronicle women's remarkable progress -- from their coffee-fetching days to their ability to make or break candidates in the… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Hyperion, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The autobiography of the first American woman to serve, and serve ably, as Secretary of State. The highest-ranging woman in the history of U.S. government chronicles the story of her life, from her childhood as a Czechoslovakian refugee through her rise to power in the world of international diplomacy and policy-making, detailing her two terms as Secretary of State, her personal life, and the colorful personalities she met along the way. 562 pp. As new, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BIOS1

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ned Conti is a young historian struggling to piece together the miraculous past of a Brooklyn nun for a tiny stipend, while, at night, he grapples with the paranormal phenomena that have recently seized his rent-controlled apartment: furniture set askew, strange light haunting the bedroom, rocks appearing mysteriously in midair to pummel the floor. His only refuge is the F train and its connection to long Manhattan nights in East Village bars that he visits with his forlorn and eccentric friends. As the summer grows hotter and his apartment more threatening, a baffled but tolerant Ned sets out to uncover the secret behind the angry spirit and, in so doing, is drawn irretrievably into a world of desire and fate...where all around him lingers the dark dream of New Orleans, a place of magical disaster. Ten years before, he fled the Crescent… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Random House, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A superb dual biography of the third and fourth American presidents, MADISON AND JEFFERSON is a thrilling and unprecedented account of early America that shows both leaders as men of their times, ruthless and hardboiled operatives in a gritty world of primal politics where they struggled for supremacy for more than fifty years. In most histories, the elder figure, Jefferson, looms larger. Yet Madison is privileged in this book's title because, as Burstein and Isenberg reveal, he was the senior partner at key moments in the formation of the two-party system. It was Madison who did the most to initiate George Washington's presidency while Jefferson was in France in the role of diplomat. Together, this remarkable duo arguably did more than all the others in their generation to set the course of American political development. MADISON AND JEFFERSON is… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A22

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon and Schuster, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The most famous and controversial woman in the entertainment world today, MADONNA is not just the planet's top female pop star but a self-made icon who shamelessly packages and repackages herself as we wait for the next incarnation. Critically acclaimed author Christopher Andersen has here written the first comprehensive, uncompromising biography of MADONNA, a no-holds-barred book worthy of his daring subject. Andersen has gone far beyond what MADONNA herself has chosen to reveal, interviewing countless friends, family members, teachers, neighbors, coworkers, and lovers to paint a full, fascinating, and often shocking portrait of the Material Girl. As new, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BIOS1

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 'We slipped into this country like thieves, onto the land that once was ours.' With these words, spoken by an illegal Mexican day laborer,THE MADONNAS OF ECHO PARK takes us into the unseen world of Los Angeles, following the men and women who cook the meals, clean the homes, and struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream. When a dozen or so girls and mothers gather on an Echo Park street corner to act out a scene from a Madonna music video, they find themselves caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting. In the aftermath, Aurora Esperanza grows distant from her mother, Felicia, who as a housekeeper in the Hollywood Hills establishes a unique relationship with a detached housewife. The Esperanzas' shifting lives connect with those of various members of their neighborhood. A day laborer trolls the… Read More

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. N33

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. On eight Tuesdays each year, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan convenes a small committee to set the short-term interest rate that can move through the American and world economies like an electric jolt. As much as any, the committee's actions determine the economic well-being of very American. The availability of money for business or consumer loans, mortages, job creation and overall national economic growth all flows from those decisions. Perhaps the last Washington secret is how the Federal Reserve and its enigmatic chairman, Alan Greenspan, operate. Greenspan appears in MAESTRO up close as never before--alternately nervous and calm, plunging into mathematics one moment and politics the next, skeptical, dispassionate, always struggling--often alone. MAESTRO traces a fascinating intellectual journey as Greenspan, an… Read More

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Dutton, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Chief of police Arly (that's short for Ariel) Hanks makes sure there's law and order in Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755), which isn't too difficult considering the only weapon she needs to tote around is a radar gun. Aside from Raz Buchanon's moonshine still up on Cotter's Ridge, Maggody is a peaceful little Ozarks town snuggled in the heartland of America, until a group of camouflage-clad patriots march in with maneuvers - and murder. It all begins when a pretty widow named Kayleen opens a pawnshop over the hardware store and buys an old farm out on County 102. The widow is letting a group of survivalists use her back pasture for paint-ball war games during the first weekend of hunting season when bourbon-swigging good ol' boys with deer rifles shoot at anything that moves...and that might include make-believe soldiers in fatigues. Suddenly… Read More

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1981. Special Edition . Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Illustrations by Gonzalo Fonseca. This handsome volume is quarterbound in black leather with three raised bands, and gold-stamped titles to spine. A beautiful beaded chain design is stamped in gold to matching black cloth boards. It is in outstanding condition-- mint, unread--and also has a silk ribbon marker sewn-in; moire endpapers, and full gilt edges. 724 pp. Special contents copyright, and book published, in 1981 by The Franklin Library.As issued without dust jacket. *Packed carefully and shipped in a box to insure arrival in pristine condition. BUND