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By: Abani, Chris
Price: $65.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2004
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8953
ISBN: 0374165890
Condition: Fine
This copy of "GraceLand" has been SIGNED by Chris Abani on the title page! A dazzling debut - this gorgeously written, haunting novel is set in Maroka, a sprawling, swampy, crazy and colorful ghetto of Lagos, Nigeria, and unfolds against a backdrop of lush reggae and highlife music, American movies, and a harsh urban existence. Named as Winner of the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Award. This copy signed by the author from his appearance at the University of Pennsylvania. View more info
By: Abbey, Edward [Ann Ronald].
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico [1982].: 1982
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Seller ID: 849
Condition: Near Fine
The first book to examine the achievement of this "Western" writer. A must for any serious collector of the works of Ed Abbey. Sticker mark on front boards accounts for the less than Fine grading. View more info
By: Abbey, Edward.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: NY: Time-Life [1973].: 1973
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Seller ID: 848
Condition: Fine
Part of the Ameican Wilderness Series. Text by Ed Abbey and extensively illustrated with color photographs throughout. First edition as indicated by having the hourglas figure on the last page. View more info
By: Abbott, Lee K.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1986
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Seller ID: 5175
Condition: Fine
Lee K. Abbott presents, in this book, eleven examples of The Love Story, eleven examples that lay out the limitless variations inherent therein, eleven examples that glint and dazzle with his beady-eyed insights into the aged subjects. Read here eleven extraordinary stories written in the grip of love. View more info
By: Abraham, Pearl
Price: $30.00
Publisher: NY, Riverhead: 1995
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 1585
ISBN: 1573220159
Condition: Fine
This copy of the Uncorrected Proof has been SIGNED by Pearl Abraham! The Jerusalem-born author's debut novel. "The Romance Reader" invites you to enter the Hasidic world as few have ever seen it - through the eyes of a young woman on the brink of womanhood. The New York Times Book Review called it "An assured, smoothly written book, narrated in a muted voice that seems to whisper secrets into the reader's ear.deftly lifts the opaque curtain from the closed Hasidic world." View more info
By: Abraham, Pearl
Price: $25.00
Publisher: NY, Riverhead: 1998
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 1587
ISBN: 157322121X
Condition: Fine
This copy of the Uncorrected Proof has been SIGNED by Pearl Abraham! As she did in "The Romance Reader", the author gives an insider's glimpse into Hasidic life, this time through the lens of the secular world. It charts the conflict between the religious and the secular, between Hasidic and Orthodox practices, between being single and being married. View more info
By: Abraham, Pearl
Price: $30.00
Publisher: NY, Riverhead: 1995
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 1738
ISBN: 1573220159
Condition: Fine
This copy has been SIGNED by Pearl Abraham! The Jerusalem-born author's debut novel. "The Romance Reader" invites you to enter the Hasidic world as few have ever seen it - through the eyes of a young woman on the brink of womanhood. The New York Times Book Review called it "An assured, smoothly written book, narrated in a muted voice that seems to whisper secrets into the reader's ear.deftly lifts the opaque curtain from the closed Hasidic world." View more info
By: Abraham, Pearl
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, NY, Riverhead: 1998
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Seller ID: 6508
ISBN: 157322121X
Condition: Fine
As she did in "The Romance Reader", Pearl Abraham gives an insider's glimpse into Hasidic life, this time through the lens of the secular world. It charts the conflict between the religious and the secular, between Hasidic and Orthodox practices, between being single and being married. View more info
By: Abulhawa, Susan
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Bloomsbury USA: 2015
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 9012
ISBN: 1632862212
Condition: Fine
This copy of "The Blue Between Sky and Water" has been SIGNED by Susan Abulhawa on the title page! This novel explores the legacy of dispossession across continents and generations. With devastatingly clear-eyed vision of political and personal trauma, "The Blue Between Sky and Water" is the story of flawed yet profoundly courageous women, of separation and heartache, endurance and renewal. View more info
By: Achebe, Chinua
Price: $175.00
Publisher: London, UK, Contemporary Fiction: 1962
Edition: Book Club (Contemporay Fiction- UK
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 6600
Condition: Fine
This copy has been boldly SIGNED by Chinua Achebe on the title page. First published in the UK by Heinemann in 1960 - this is a UK book club edition with Newsletter enclosed which features this title as their Number 1 choice in August 1962. In this, his second novel, he tells the story of Okonkwo’s grandson, Obi, who learns to fit into British colonial society. Raised as a Christian and educated in England, Obi abandons the countryside for a job as a civil servant in Lagos, which was the capital at the time. Cut off from traditional values, he succumbs to greed and in the end is prosecuted f... View more info
By: Achebe, Chinua [David Carroll]
Price: $185.00
Publisher: New York, NY, St. Martin's Press: 1980
Edition: Second Edition (Printed in UK)
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 6601
ISBN: 0312133863
Condition: Fine
This is a Second Edition of the critical study of Chinua Achebe (SIGNED by Achebe) the most widely known African writer. An earlier version of this study first appeared in 1970 - this second edition represents an updating and reflects significant new writings by Achebe since that time. The introduction to this critical study by David Carroll presents the context in which Achebe writes - the traditional ways of his own Igbo society, and the European contact with Africa. It is the complex interaction of these cultures that forms the central theme of most of his writing. View more info
By: Achebe, Chinua [David Carroll]
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Twayne Publishers, Inc: 1970
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Seller ID: 7652
Condition: Fine
Chinua Achebe is one of the most impressive of the African novelists writing at the present time. His novels describe with wit and dignity the traditional way of life of a West African people before the coming of the white man.This study, the first extensive discussion of Achebe's novels, examines the various aspects of this confrontation, and also the techniques by which it is articulated. Europe and Africa meet and interact not only in the drama of events, but also in the manner in which Achebe adapts and modifies the English novel for his own, African purposes. View more info
By: Aciman, Andre
Price: $175.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux: 1994
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 9052
ISBN: 0374228337
Condition: Fine
This copy of "Out of Egypt" has been SIGNED by Andre Aciman on the half-title page! Set in luxuriant cosmopolitan Alexandria, this richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family from its bold arrival in Egypt at the turn of the century to its defeated exodus three generations later. Aciman describes a spirited clan as they stride across continents, plotting, peddling, marrying, hatching harebrained schemes, amassing and losing fortunes, only to find their Alexandrian dream crumbling in the face of anti-Semitic and anti-Western nationalism. And he shows us a boy wh... View more info
By: Ackerman, Elliot
Price: $85.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2017
Edition: First Edition/Second Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8417
ISBN: 97811101947371
Condition: Near Fine +
This copy of "Dark at the Crossing" has been SIGNED by Elliot Ackerman on the title page (he has also crossed-out his printed name)! This is a Second Printing Before Publication copy. A Finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. A timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a love story set on the Turkish border with Syria. Elliot Ackerman, author of the critically acclaimed novel "Green on Blue," is based out of Istanbul, where he has covered the Syrian Civil War since 2013. Told with compassion and a deft hand, "Dark at the Crossing" is an explorat... View more info
By: Ackerman, Elliot
Price: $335.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Scribner/Alfred A Knopf: 2015
Edition: First Editions/First Printings
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8959
ISBN: 1476778558
Condition: Fine
This offer is for "Green on Blue" together with "Dark at the Crossing," "Waiting for Eden" and "Places and Names" -- all have been SIGNED by Elliot Ackerman on their respective title pages (he has also crossed-out his printed name as well on each)! 1) "Green on Blue" (2015 - Scribner) - a gripping, morally complex debut novel about boys caught in an elliptical war, and the sacrifices we make for love. Writing from the Afghan perspective, Elliott Ackerman has broken new ground in the literature of our most recent wars, accomplishing an astounding feat of... View more info
By: Ackerman, Elliot
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Penguin Press: 2019
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 9026
ISBN: 0525559965
Condition: Fine
This copy of "Places and Names" has been SIGNED by Elliot Ackerman on the title page! At once an intensely personal story about the terrible lure of combat and a brilliant meditation on the deeper meaning of the past two decades of strife for America, the region, and the world, "Places and Names" bids fair to take its place among our greatest books about modern war. His earlier novel "Dark at the Crossing" was a Finalist for the National Book Award. He is both a former White House Fellow and Marine and served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he receive... View more info
By: Adachi, Jiro
Price: $30.00
Publisher: NY, St. Martin's Press: 2004
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 4860
ISBN: 0312312458
Condition: Fine
This copy has been SIGNED by Jiro Adachi on the title page! This debut is the coming-of-age story of twenty-year-old Yurika Song, a Korean-Japanese woman who comes from Japan to New York City for the summer to work with her Korean relatives and improve her English. Yurika's freinds back home have always joked that she is half-sushi and half-kimchi. But cross-Asian ethnicities turn out to be far less jarring than her introduction to New York City life, especially the world of bicycle messengers and the street culture in which they thrive. View more info
By: Adams, Richard; Hooper, Max
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hamondsworth, Middlesex, England, Kestrel Books: 1978
Edition: First U.K. Edition/First Printing
Seller ID: 7900
ISBN: 072265359X
Condition: Fine
This is a beautiful copy (in illustrated boards with matching dustjacket) of an extraordinary book that brings together a novelist, painter, and scientist. Collaborating with Richard Adams are science writer Max Hooper and artist David A. Goddard. In this book they look at a number of familiar country scenes - including a woodland, a meadow, a mountain stream and a reservoir - and record the changes that occur there through twenty-four hours. David Goddard's paintings give the book a special distinction that will be appreciated by all readers, young and old. View more info
By: Adrian, Chris
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, NY, Broadway Books: 2000
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 2779
ISBN: 0767902815
Condition: Fine
This copy of "Gob's Grief" has been SIGNED by Chris Adrian on the title page! Convincing in its portrayal of the collective madness America went through after the carnage of the Civil War, and other-worldly in its contemplation of obsessive grief and longing. Kirkus Reviews said of it "Filled with delicious surprises [and] brilliantly realized characters.A magnificent debut." View more info
By: Agueros, Jack
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Willimantic, CT, Curbstone Press: 1993
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Seller ID: 6948
ISBN: 188068411X
Condition: Fine
The long-awaited debut collection of the fiction of playright and poet Jack Agueros, is a unique window on the untold stories of the lives of Puerto Rican-Americans. These stories coney hard, sometimes brutal, often bittersweet experiences, but throughout, Jack Agueros writes with artistry and unyielding compassion that gloriously affirm quiet moments of grace and triumph in common and ordinary struggles - the real stuff of literature. View more info