Search Results: Authors starting with F from Joe Staats, Bookseller

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, Inc., 2004. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. By the author of THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L55/ L1

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, Inc., 2002. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L30

Brescia: Camera Di Commercio/Industria Artigianato Agricoltura, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Volume on Brescia, in Italian, illustrated with color photographs. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. 9 1/2" X 11 3/8".

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. More than two centuries of facts, curiosities, and discoveries from the most distinguished reference work of all time. Very fine, in navy blue cloth with satin ribbon bookmark bound in, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. 8 1/4" X 10 1/4". 704pp. NFBS3

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1992. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This memoir begins with the emergence of a secret. Wendy Fairey was 46 and it was five weeks after the death of her mother, Sheila Graham, the well-known Hollywood columnist and writer, that Fairey learned who her true father was--the British empiricist philosopher, A.J. Ayer. ONE OF THE FAMILY tells of her Fairey's quest to reclaim her father--still alive at the time she learned his identity--and, even more importantly, to come to terms in her mind with her mother, who had been such a mythic presence in her daughter's life, and whose enormous lie, coming posthumously to light, threatened their relationship in its now revised perspective. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. U

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Knopf Publishing Group, The, 1996. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. R

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. In STIFFED, Susan Faludi, the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and acclaimed author of BACKLASH, the convention-smashing manifesto on women's embattled status, turns her impressive powers of reporting and analysis to the problems of men and comes up with a revolutionary diagnosis. The media portrait of men today is bleak: Men are said to be out of control, overcontrolling, dangerous, violent, and even, it has been written, obsolete. Their troubles are said to be internal, the result of testosterone poisoning, Y chromosomes, attention deficit order, a warlike nature. Furthermore, it's charged, men have only themselves to blame, for aren't they the ones in control of the culture? STIFFED takes us on a journey through a contemporary masculine landscape littered with broken promises and into the lives of individual men… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 2002. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Written in taut, hypnotic prose, THE BEHOLDER is a taboo-breaking novel about the sexual obsession of an older man and a young married woman that plumbs the seductive depths of obsession and the paradoxes of the human heart. The first novel from its author in fifteen years, it delivers a rapturous evocation of erotic love. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L69

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 1996. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A satirical coming-of-age novel that is at once hilarious and devastatingly honest, MY FAVORITE WAR is a brilliantly comic diatribe on the flaws of contemporary life and American society. Born in Jamaica, and raised in upstate New York, this is the first novel by Harvard-educated Farley. New, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. FF

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1992. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A69

New York, NY, U.S.A.: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 2005. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in blue fountain ink. When Holly Nichols sets her wedding date, trendy L.A. party-planner Madeline Bean decides to throw her top assistant the hippest and most lavish bridal shower on the planet. The guests embark on a "destination" party to a fabulous and exclusive spa/resort in Hawaii. The salt-rubs! The paraffin pedicures! The dead body in the mud bath! Ew. It doesn't help matters when Holly confesses to Maddie that she can't really go through with the upcoming wedding after all. In her effort to smooth the matrimonial path for her dear friend, Madeline must track down the mystery man Holly may have married ten years earlier and never actually got around to divorcing. How hard can that be? As new, first edition, first printing in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1985. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. V

New York, New York, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reader's Edition. 'This sparkling, fresh debut follows three generations of a family caught up in the web of their own deceit. When scholarly Rashid weds beautiful Henna, he is surprised on their wedding night to learn she's not an accomplished 17-year-old but rather a lazy, illiterate 14-year-old who opted for marriage over education. He waits several years to consummate the union, then Henna gives birth to Shona, who quickly learns her parents' language of deception. Shona elopes with handsome Parvez and moves to London. At the same time, Rashid finds himself traveling to the same city on business, and when he meets Verity, a shy English woman in her late thirties, he sees a chance for the happiness that he's never found with Henna—even if it means weaving an intricate tangle of lies. Rashid,… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 1998. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. NF28

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Akashic Books, 2009. 3rd Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed "Peace! Mike Farrell" by author on half-title page. Best known for his eight years on M*A*S*H and five years on Providence, Mike Farrell is also a writer, director, and producer. Farrell has served on human rights and peace delegations to many countries around the world. His first book, JUST CALL ME MIKE, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. OF MULE AND MAN is his funny and fascinating account of his trip across the US on book tour, and the people, peace groups, organizations and characters he met along the way. Fine PBO, as issued, without dust jacket, in pictorial wraps. NF52

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday Publishing, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A68

New York, New York, U.S.A. : W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Pulitzer Prize-winning authorRonan Farrow on half-title page in fine black marker. US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are bleeding out after deep budget cuts; the diplomats who make America's deals and protect its citizens around the world are walking out in droves. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. We're becoming a nation that shoots first and asks questions later. In an astonishing journey from the corridors of power in Washington, DC, to some of the most remote and dangerous places on earth?Afghanistan, Somalia, and North Korea among them?acclaimed investigative journalist Ronan Farrow illuminates one of… Read More

Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A.: Capital Crime Press, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. New PBO, in stiff pictorial wraps, as issued, without dust jacket. M31

Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A.: Capital Crime Press, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. First in the 'Baby Shark' series. New PBO, in stiff pictorial wraps, as issued without dust jacket. M31

Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A.: Capital Crime Press, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. New PBO in stiff pictorial wraps, as issued without dust jacket. M31