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

New York, NY, U.S.A.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said she'd run off with a lover. Some said she was murdered by her husband. But for the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter Daisy she left behind, Violet's absence has never been explained or forgotten. ow, thirty-four years later, she wants the solace of closure. In S IS FOR SILENCE, Kinsey Millhone's nineteenth excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, S is for surprises as Sue Grafton takes a whole new approach to telling the tale. And S is for superb: Kinsey and Grafton at their best. Fine,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. MBS/A32

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Marian Wood Books/Putnam, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author in her uniquely beautiful calligraphic hand. Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said she'd run off with a lover. Some said she was murdered by her husband. But for the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter Daisy she left behind, Violet's absence has never been explained or forgotten. ow, thirty-four years later, she wants the solace of closure. In S IS FOR SILENCE, Kinsey Millhone's nineteenth excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, S is for surprises as Sue Grafton takes a whole new approach to telling the tale. And S is for superb: Kinsey and Grafton at their best. New, pristine, unread, first edition, first printing (opened only… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Winner of the1995 National Book Award for Fiction, and a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book He is relentlessly defiant. He is exceedingly libidinous. His appetite for the outrageous is insatiable. He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose savage effrontery and mocking audacity are at the heart of Philip Roth's astonishing new novel. Sabbath's Theater tells Mickey's story in the wake of the death of his mistress, an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Mickey is now in his mid-sixties and besieged by ghosts - of his mother, his beloved brother, his vanished first wife, his mistress of thirteen years. Bereft and grieving, he embarks on a turbulent journey back into his past, one that brings him to the brink of madness and extinction. But… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. L70

New York, New York, U.S.A: William Morrow & Co., 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Third novel featuring Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angelo Gennaro by the author of A DRINK BEFORE THE WAR; DARKNESS, TAKE MY HAND; GONE, BABY, GONE; MYSTIC RIVER, THE GIVEN DAY and others. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M66

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Touchstone, 2003. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. By the author of STONES FROM THE RIVER. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L21

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Free Press, The, 1991. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Saddam Husssein's armies have been routed, but the world will continue to wonder just who Saddam is and how he came to exercise power. In the heat of the Gulf war, journalists and others rushed to depict him as an implacable tyrant who could not be understood by reasonable Westerners. Now, however, two specialists on Middle East history and politics have combined their expertise to write the first in-depth political biography of the man who put Iraq on a collision course with the world. Drawing on a wealth of Iraqi, Arab, Soviet, Western, and Israeli sources, including interviews with people who have had close contact with Saddam Hussein throughout his career, the book traces the meteroic transformation of an ardent nationalist and obscure Ba'th party member into an absolute dictator. Placing Hussein in the larger context of the ancient and modern… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ecco/Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A70

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 2003. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fourth in the author's "The Hinges of History" series, which also includes HOW THE IRISH SAVED CIVILIZATION, THE GIFTS OF THE JEWS, and DESIRE OF THE EVERLASTING HILLS: The World Before and After Jesus. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, and with pictorial endpapers in color. Fine (shows small price erasure on ffep), in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. NF2

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1991. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fair/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-covered dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L45

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Pulitzer Prize-winning author on first blank page following ffep in black fountain ink. In 1967 the Bedlow family lives quietly in Baltimore - an ideal, apple-pie household. The youngest, 17-year-old Ian, seems just an ordinary boy - until suddenly he feels compelled to tell his older brother that his wife's been unfaithful. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in flawless, new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} A105

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author in black fountain ink on publisher's tipped-in page following ffep. Kroch's and Brentano's "First Edition Circle" bookmark laid in. Pulitzer Prize-winning author of BREATHNG LESSONS, DINNER AT THE HOMESICK CAFE, THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, and many others.The story of a young man haunted by guilt over his brother's fate--and his struggle to atone for the wrong he feels he has done. Mint, new, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. This is the collector's copy you want. *Packed carefully and shipped in a box to insure arrival in pristine condition. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND

Woodstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author of eleven novels, including A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS and GHOSTHEART. As new, unread, first edition, first printing. in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author's first novel. As new, unread, first edition, first printing in purple cloth boards map endpapers and with debossed cherry blossom design on front, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L149

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, Inc., 2007. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author's first novel, an extraordinary and enchanting tale of unexpected heroism and late-blooming love; fly-fishing and the triumph of hope in a cynical world. Basis of the new movie by Lasse Hallstrom and starring Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, and Amr Waked. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L67

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Crown, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Including short stories and a lengthy unpublished Dirk Gently extract, THE SALMON OF DOUBT is for fans and new readers alike. These hilarious collected writings reveal the warmth, enthusiasm and ferocious intelligence behind this most English of comic writers; a man who was virtually an unofficial member of the Monty Python team. Douglas Adams on his passion for P. G. Wodehouse, The Beatles and the perfect cup of tea alone make this a must-have collection and a remarkable sign-off from one of the best loved writers of all time.As new, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust cover. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L154

Norwalk, CT : The Heritage , 1973. First Thus Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Mint/Slipcase. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas with a New Introduction by Holbrook Jackson and Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. Mint, as new, first thus edition (originally published 1945) in rich textured black boards with gold-stamped spine title and figure on front board, in pristine slipcase, as issued without dust jacket The Heritage Club "Sandglass" newletter laid-in. Gift quality. OFC 3F

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L44

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker & Company, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink, John Turner-ex-policeman, ex-con, war veteran and former therapist-has come to a small town somewhere near Memphis escape his past. But the past proved inescapable; thrust into the role of Deputy Sheriff, Turner finds himself at the center of his new community, one that, like so many others, is drying up, disappearing before his eyes. As SALT RIVER begins, two years have passed since Turner's amour, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin. Sometimes you just have to see how much music you can make with what you have left, Val had told him, a mantra for picking up the pieces around her death, not sure how much he or the town has left. Then the sheriff's long-lost son comes plowing down Main Street into City Hall in what appears to be a stolen car. And waiting at… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1997. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brazilian author's debut has Sherlock Holmes in pursuit of a stolen Stradivarius and a serial killer (a term here coined by the famous sleuth) in 1886 Rio de Janeiro. A SAMBA FOR SHERLOCKK. is the work of a mind of encyclopedic knowledge, caustic wit, brilliant style, and, above all, a formidable ability to entertain.As new, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} MBS1