Oracle Night

By: Auster, Paul

Price: $55.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Henry Holt and Company: 2003

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 8529

ISBN: 0805073205

Condition: Fine

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This copy of "Oracle Night" has been SIGNED by Paul Auster on the title page! Paul Auster's mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book - only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. At once a meditation on the nature of time and a journey through the labyrinth of one man's imagination, "Oracle Night" is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today. View more info

In Search of the Striped Bass. [Waldman, John - Editor. Stripers, An Angler's Anthology]

By: Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Camden, ME, Ragged Mountain Press: 1998

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 5000

Condition: Fine

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This copy has been SIGNED by John Waldman, Editor on the title page and by T. Coraghessan Boyle at his story entry. The first appearance in book form of a piece by the author which first appeared in Life Magazine in September, 1992. Boyle reflects on a season spent catching stripers in nets for a hatchery operation on the Hudson River - what he calls ".the best job I ever had." Included in the text is a photograph taken in the spring of 1973! View more info

Bernard and the Cloth Monkey

By: Bryan, Judith

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, UK, Flamingo: 1998

Edition: First U.K. Edition/First Printing

Seller ID: 5432

ISBN: 0002257351

Condition: Fine

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Winner of the 1997 Saga Prize, an award for unpublished Black novelists born in Britain or the Republic of Ireland. In this stirring and unsettling book, Judith Bryan has created an unforgettable heroine in ANita - unflinchingly she takes her readers to the center of ANita's trauma and leaves them with the journey marked indelibly on their heart. View more info

Pray for Yourself

By: Calcagno, Anne

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press: 1993

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Seller ID: 5168

Condition: Fine

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Anne Calcagno's exhilaratingly original first collection of her short stories vividly captures the textures of women's lives. For the stories in "Pray for Yourself" the author received the James D. Phelan Award and was awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. View more info

The Hours

By: Cunningham, Michael

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1998

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 8350

ISBN: 0374172897

Condition: Fine

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This copy of "The Hours" has been SIGNED by Michael Cunningham on the title page! Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and also the PEN/Faulkner Award. $22.00 first state dust jacket price. The author's reputation has continued to grow with each succeeding work. The novel opens with an evocation of Woolf’s last days before her suicide in 1941, and moves to the stories of two modern American women who are trying to make rewarding lives for themselves in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. The movie version of "The Hours" starring Meryl Streep, Nicole ... View more info

The Hours

By: Cunningham, Michael

Price: $55.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1998

Edition: First Edition/Later Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 8716

ISBN: 0374172897

Condition: Fine

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This copy of "The Hours" has been SIGNED by Michael Cunningham on the title page! Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and also the PEN/Faulkner Award. While not a first printing (it is a ninth printing) it is a beautiful copy. The author's reputation has continued to grow with each succeeding work. The novel opens with an evocation of Woolf’s last days before her suicide in 1941, and moves to the stories of two modern American women who are trying to make rewarding lives for themselves in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. The movie version of "The Hours" starrin... View more info

Everything Is Illuminated

By: Foer, Jonathan Safran

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 2002

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 9159

ISBN: 0618173870

Condition: Fine

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This copy of "Everything Is Illuminated" has been SIGNED by Jonathan Safran Foer (his full signature) on the title page! An extraordinary debut, Winner of the first biennenial William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Nathan Englander dustjacket praise stating "Intricate in structure, fantastical in its story, and irreverent in 100 different ways...told with unwavering charm and wit." Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review, says "Comedy and pathos are braided together with extraordinary skill in a haunting debut...." View more info

The Agüero Sisters

By: Garcia, Cristina

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NY, Knopf: 1997

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 175

ISBN: 0679450904

Condition: Fine

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This copy has been SIGNED by Cristina Garcia on the title page! Recipient of the 1998 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. The story of Reina and Constancia Agüero, Cuban sisters who have been estranged for thirty years. Reina, forty-eight years old, living in Cuba in the early 1990s, was once a devoted daughter of la revolucion; Constancia, an eager to assimilate naturalized American, smuggled herself off the island in 1962. View more info

The Agüero Sisters

By: Garcia, Cristina

Price: $35.00

Publisher: NY, Knopf: 1997

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 176

ISBN: 0679450904

Condition: Fine

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This copy of the Uncorrected Proof (in glossy wraps) is SIGNED by Cristina Garcia on the title page! Recipient of the 1998 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. The story of Reina and Constancia Agüero, Cuban sisters who have been estranged for thirty years. Reina, forty-eight years old, living in Cuba in the early 1990s, was once a devoted daughter of la revolución; Constancia, an eager to assimilate naturalized American, smuggled herself off the island in 1962. View more info

Iron Woman

By: Glancy, Diane

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A., New Rivers Press: 1991

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 6466

ISBN: 0898231280

Condition: Fine

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This copy has been SIGNED by Diame Glancy on the title page! "Iron Woman" was chosen for the Writer's Voice as the 1988 Capricorn Poetry Prize winner by Nicholas Christopher who comments: "In these fine poems, Diane Glancy's voice is strong and her images are sharp and true. But it's the myriad stories within these poems that carry us so far, to all the places - spiritual and otherwise - that the poet has recreated for us from her hard-won experience." Issue in a first edition of only 1200 copies. View more info

The Great Fire

By: Hazzard, Shirley

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York, NY, FSG: 2003

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 5711

ISBN: 0374166447

Condition: Fine

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This copy has been SIGNED and DATED 18/XI/03 (Day before Winning the NBA) by Shirley Hazzard on the title page! WINNER OF THE 2003 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION - The year is 1947. The great fire of the Second World War has convulsed Europe and Asia. A deeply observed story of love and separation, of disillusion and recovered humanity, "The Great Fire" marks the much-awaited return to fiction of this author. Dustjacket praise by Michael Cunningham saying "Shirley Hazzard is, purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today. Which makes me more than grateful... View more info

The Great Fire

By: Hazzard, Shirley

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, NY, FSG: 2003

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 6154

ISBN: 0374166447

Condition: Fine

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This copy has been SIGNED by Shirley Hazzard on the title page! WINNER OF THE 2003 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION - The year is 1947. The great fire of the Second World War has convulsed Europe and Asia. A deeply observed story of love and separation, of disillusion and recovered humanity, "The Great Fire" marks the much-awaited return to fiction of this author. Dustjacket praise by Michael Cunningham saying "Shirley Hazzard is, purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today. Which makes me more than grateful to have this long-hoped-for new novel." Th... View more info

At The Bottom of the River

By: Kincaid, Jamaica

Price: $55.00

Publisher: NY, FSG: 1983

Edition: First Edition/Later Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 246

ISBN: 374106606

Condition: Fine

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Second Printing, as an alternative to the first edition. This copy has been SIGNED by Jamaica Kincaid on the title page. A beautiful copy of the author's first book - a magical collection of ten pieces. Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua, in the West Indies. Dustjacket praise by Derek Walcott. Winner of the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Starts with her first published New Yorker fiction piece, "Girl," the story with which she felt she found her voice as a writer. An intense one-sentence, three-page story. "Girl"... View more info

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

By: McBride, Eimear

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, MN, Coffee House Press: 2014

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 7911

ISBN: 1566893682

Condition: Fine

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This copy of "A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing" has been SIGNED by Eimear McBride on the title page! This debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor. Touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma, McBride writes with singular intensity, acute sensitivity, and mordant wit "A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing" is moving, funny - and alarming. Publishers Weekly, starred review, sa... View more info

Going After Cacciato

By: O'Brien, Tim

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1978

Edition: First U.K. Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 4129

ISBN: 0224016261

Condition: Fine

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First Edition/First Printing. SIGNED by the Author on the Title Page. Winner of the National Book Award in 1979 - it was the unanimous choice of the judges: "His landscapes have the breadh and scope of Tolstoy's, and the essential American wonder and innocence of his vision derserves to stand beside that of Stephen Crane." No other novelist has captured the experience of the Vietnam War in a narrative as compelling or as boldly strange as in this work. In Publisher's Price-Clipped jacket with J. Cape £7.50 net price sticker affixed. View more info

Galaxy Girls: Wonder Women

By: Pierce, Anne Whitney

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Kansas City, MO, Helicon Nine Editions: 1994

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Seller ID: 4824

Condition: Fine

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"Galaxy Girls: Wonder Women" is a splendid collection of stories about women who have lifted at least a portion of their lives from the ordinary to the extraordinary. They are unsung geniuses—women who have used their imaginations and cultivated eccentricities to an art form. There's tremendous variety in this work. One can read this book straight through and never feel the sameness that plagues so many collections. We can learn a lot from Anne Whitney Pierce about how to embellish our lives, and how to rise above the daily routine by exercising our own creativity with the materials ... View more info

Mating

By: Rush, Norman

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Knopf: 1991

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 6922

ISBN: 0394544722

Condition: Fine

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This copy has been SIGNED by Norman Rush on the title page. Winner of the National Book Award. A comedy of manners on the grandest scale. It revolves around two Americans on the loose (one of them on the prowl) in developing Africa. Botswanna in the 1980s - resonating with the dreams, ambitions, noble plans, and mischievous schemes of Africans and expatriate whites of all nationalities, descriptions, and intentions. View more info

A Secret for Julia

By: Sagastizabal, Patricia

Price: $25.00

Publisher: NY, W.W. Norton and Company: 2001

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Seller ID: 5053

Condition: Fine

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Winner of Argentina's Premio La Nacion Prize 2000, Patricia Sagastizabal's "A Secret for Julia" is the dramatic, gripping story of an Argentinean refugee and her attempt to come to terms with her dark past. She must face the horror of her old life, in order to forge a new one with her daughter, Julia. Based on her own experiences in Argentina witnessing the oppressive military dictatorship of the '70's and '80's, the author has woven a haunting tale of complex emotions, harrowing memories, and the struggle for inner peace. This is a Review Copy with the Publishers' Press release laid-i... View more info

The Dark Room

By: Seiffert, Rachel

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Pantheon: 2001

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 4269

ISBN: 0375421041

Condition: Fine

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This copy has been SIGNED by Rachel Seiffert on the title page! Winner of the 2002 Betty Trask Prize and the 2002 LA Times First Fiction Award - this debut was also shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize, and longlisted for both the 2001 Guardian First Book Award and the 2002 Orange Prize. "The Dark Room" tells three stories that between them trace the legacy of the Nazi period to the German people. The US edition preceeds all other printings. View more info

The Dark Room

By: Seiffert, Rachel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Pantheon: 2001

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 6827

ISBN: 0375421041

Condition: Fine

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This Advance Reader's Edition copy has been SIGNED by Rachel Seiffert on the title page and is dated "New York 08.06.01"! Winner of the 2002 Betty Trask Prize and the 2002 LA Times First Fiction Award - this debut was also shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize, and longlisted for both the 2001 Guardian First Book Award and the 2002 Orange Prize. "The Dark Room" tells three stories that between them trace the legacy of the Nazi period to the German people. The US edition preceeds all other printings. View more info

Borrowed Voices

By: Sheffer, Roger

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, New Rivers Press: 1990

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Seller ID: 5434

ISBN: 0898231167

Condition: Fine

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1998 Minnesota Voices Project Winner. A collection of stories where the author's extensive background in music - particularly choral groups and church choirs - figures everywhere. He sees music in his stories both as an art form and as a social activity with sometimes profound, sometimes amusing ramifications. Published in a first edition of 1,200 copies. View more info

A Thousand Acres

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc: 1991

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 9031

ISBN: 0394577736

Condition: Fine

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This copy of "A Thousand Acres" has been boldly SIGNED by Jane Smiley on the title page! The acclaimed author's Pulitzer Prize Winning novel. Jane Smiley takes us into the world of a thriving Iowa farm: one thousand acres - unencumbered, unmortgaged - of the richest, flattest, most arable land on earth. The forces that bound Lear and his daughters reverberate beneath the surface of Jane Smiley's extraordinary novel. View more info

Cannibal

By: Svoboda, Terese

Price: $55.00

Publisher: NY, NYU Press: 1994

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 469

Condition: Fine

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This is a Review Copy that has the Publishers' materials laid-in which has also been SIGNED by Terese Svoboda on the title page. Winner of the 1994 Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers. Kirkus Reviews called it "Profound and lyrical.Svoboda's reflective first person narrative wades through deep currents of emotion. Sharp-boned writing that echoes for hours." A haunting story of survival. View more info

Laughing Africa

By: Svoboda, Terese

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa, University of Iowa Press: 1990

Edition: Simultaneous Wraps Issue

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 1404

ISBN: 0877452725

Condition: Fine

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This copy of the simultaneously issued wraps issue has been SIGNED by Terese Svoboda on the title page. Co-Winner of the 1989 Iowa Poetry Prize. Publisher's Weekly said of it that "Svoboda exhibits a remarkable range and command of her subject matter.This poet creates moments that are stronger than everyday experience." View more info