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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
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
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
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
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
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 Ha... 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
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
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
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: Achebe, Chinua
Price: $175.00
Publisher: London, UK, Contemporary Fiction: 1962
Edition: Book Club (Contemporay Fiction- UK
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 6600
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 L... 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
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 ... 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
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. I... 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
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... View more info
By: Ackerman, Elliot
Price: $275.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Scribner/Alfred A Knopf: 2015
Edition: First Editions/First Printings
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8959
This offer is for "Green on Blue" together with "Dark at the Crossing" and "Waiting for Eden" -- 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 litera... 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
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 wor... 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
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 gi... 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
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: Agee, Jonis
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Layton, Utah, Gibbs-Smith Publisher: 1989
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Seller ID: 7099
A beautiful copy. Jonis Agee writes with haunting insight about the unpretentious cities and rural towns of the Midwest, asking us to explore the neglected corners of peoples' lives - private and odd and quiet - through the rituals and beliefs of their not quite ordinary experiences. These stories provide glimpses into the lives behind doors about to be shut as we pass by, the small, quiet secrets, losses, and heartbreaks which force people to organize their obsessions,... View more info
By: Agueros, Jack
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Willimantic, CT, Curbstone Press: 1993
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Seller ID: 6948
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
By: Ai
Price: $50.00
Publisher: NY, Norton: 1993
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 4261
This copy has been SIGNED by Ai on the title page. Greed for money, power, sex, and loveisthe theme at the heartof this new volume of dramatic monologues by Ai, her fifth book to date. Margaret Atwood has said of Ai's work "Ai is a strong, powerful poet who writes about real things. These are daring, disturbing, ambitious poems that go for the heart of America. View more info
By: Akhtar, Ayad
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Little, Brown and Company: 2012
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8886
This copy of "American Dervish" has been SIGNED by Ayad Akhtar on the title page! A brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look at the interplay between religion and modern life. This is an intimate, personal first novel that will stay with readers long after they turn the last page. Ayad Akhtar is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter and actor of Pakistani heritage who is best known for his play, "Disgraced." The play received the 2013 Pulitze... View more info