Search Results: Authors starting with B from BIAbooks

New York: Macmillan Company, 1970. Later printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Russell Munson. Price clipped. Previous owner's inscription.

New York: Dutton, 1996. First Trade Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Stephen King writes as Richard Bachman, a harrowing story of a suburban neighborhood in the grip of surreal terror. Only flaw is a one inch closed cut to front of DJ that is barely noticable with a protective cover. The outstanding quality of this book is not diminished by his flaw. (Keywords: KING BACHMAN SUBURBIA OHIO TERROR).

Amherst, MA: Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book protected by a mylar cover. Ms. Bacon is a former teacher at Miss Porter's School. Author's DEBUT book that won the Associated Writing Programs Award 1996 and the PEN/Hemingway Award 1998. "Bacon's 'A Private State' is an admirable DEBUT. Her stories are witty, swift, beautifully crafted, and grounded in emotional reality."--Maureen Howard

New York, NY: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, Collectible book. "Blake Bailey's comprehensive life of Philip Roth?to tell it outright?is a narrative masterwork . As in a novel, what is seen at first to be casual chance is revealed at last to be a steady and powerfully demanding drive. . under Bailey's strong light what remains on the page is one writer's life as it was lived, and?almost?as it was felt." ? Cynthia Ozick, New York Times Book Review. "A stunning feat, this is as dynamic and gripping as any of Roth's own fictions."? Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. The author examines the 20th-century sexual revolution¿ as it played out in the midwestern college town of Lawrence, Kansas¿ Bailey is especially perceptive on the ambivalent and conflicted relationship of both the feminist and gay rights movements to the sexual revolution. She also has strong sections on the birth control pill and other more mundane but long-lasting changes in American sexual culture¿ [A] fascinating and impressive book. (K. Blaser Choice)

New York: George Braziller, 1979. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An attractive, collectible book. Paranoid, wilful, lazy, the young Adolf Hitler turns up in Liverpool to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget. Surely this is a young man who will never amount to anything. 'A delightfully original conception, executed with great skill and humour' --John Fowles

New York: Carroll and Graf, 1998. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This compelling novel is a virtually flawless blend of elegant prose, ironic observation, and impeccably controlled narrative momentum" Publishers Weekly

New York: Viking, 2008. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Author's FIRST NOVEL. "The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri is a dazzling combination of love and sex and, yes, mathematics, and David Bajo uses mirrors to make his magic. If you have ever opened a novel and found yourself inside the story, you must read this book."--Keith Donohue, author of the bestselling The Stolen Child

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/Fine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book signed by the author. An assassination plot that will change the course of history is discussed, among other things, over a pleasant lunch in a Washington hotel. A very attractive book that appears UNREAD. Keywords: BAKER WASHINGTON FRIENDS ASSASSINATION PLOT.

New York: Random House, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. A pristine collectible book that appears UNREAD. Baker has written a novel that remaps the territory of sex--solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. Written in the form of a phone conversation between two strangers, Vox is an erotic classic that places the author in the first rank of America's major writers. Slight rubbing at cornners and at top edge of spine, else fine

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is a pristine book SIGNED by the author. It has a light colored owner's name stamp on the free front endpaper, else fine. Baker, our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. In this precocious child he gives us a heroine as canny and as whimsical as Lewis Carroll's Alice and evokes childhood in all its luminous weirdness. "Tender, insightful, and hilarious." --Harper's Bazaar

New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine, collectiiiible, SIGNED book. Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay" (Seattle Times). "Sparkling."--San Francisco Chronicle.

New York: Random House, 2003. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine, collectible, SIGNED book. Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks. What Emmett thinks about is the subject of this wise and closely observed novel, which covers vast distances while moving no further than Emmet's hearth and home. Nicholson Baker's extraordinary ability to describe and celebrate life in all its rich ordinariness has never been so beautifully achieved."Tender, melancholy . . . As Virginia Woolf did, Baker has genuinely transformed the way fiction can render our experience on the page. There nothing else like A Box of Matches out there."The Seattle Times

Orlando, FL: Harcourt Inc., 2005. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine DEBUT FIRST book. Barely noticeable crease on inside front flap, else fine. Author was named one of America's best new fiction writers by Virginia Quarterly. "Families, heartbreak, political and social comedy-there is little that Dean Bakopoulos doesn't grasp in an articulate, wittily perceptive, and soulful way, before he hands it back to the reader as literary art. Please Don't Come Back from the Moon is an original and brilliant first work of fiction."--Lorrie Moore

New York: Dial Press, 1964. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. An attractive book with NO DJ. Appears UNREAD. A highly acclaimed play by Mr. Baldwin. The plot line is about the murder of a young black drug addict returning home to the Deep South in order to rebuild his life. . "a play with fires of fury in its belly, tears of anguish in its eyes, a roar of protest in its throat." ---The New York Times

New York: Walker Publishing Company, 1989. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Excellent condition, no flaws. A historical novel set in the Guadalcanal campaign at the beginning of the US northward advance in the Pacific War.

New York: Viking Press, 2005. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. THE WONDER SPOT IS A GIRLS QUEST FOR HER OWN DENTIFY---WHO SHE IS, WHOM SHE LOVES IN A OFTEN DISAPPOINTING WORLD. "The tone [of The Wonder Spot] is perfect, the stories are perfect, the characters are perfect and every word, seemingly so casually chosen, is perfect . . . Bank is incredibly clever with structure . . . As a lesson in literary compression, how to condense a story without sacrificing emotion, it is breathtaking." -The Guardian

New York: Viking Books, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This excellent collection of linked short stories by Melissa Bank. The stories follow the main character Jane Rosenal, starting with her life at age 14."A sexy, pour-your-heart-out, champagne tingle of a read thoughtful, wise, and tell-all honest. Bank's is a voice that you'll remember for years to come."Cosmopolitan. "Bank writes like John Cheever, but funnier."Los Angeles Times

New York: Viking Books, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This book ".is courageous and wise, as heartbreaking and laugh-out loud funny as only the most deeply true fiction can be."---Pam Houston. This excellent collection of linked short stories by Melissa Bank. The stories follow the main character Jane Rosenal, starting with her life at age 14."A sexy, pour-your-heart-out, champagne tingle of a read thoughtful, wise, and tell-all honest. Bank's is a voice that you'll remember for years to come."Cosmopolitan. "Bank writes like John Cheever, but funnier."Los Angeles Times