Search Results: Authors starting with L from PIERIAN SPRING BOOKS

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Overlook Press, The, 2003. Exclusive Hardcover Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. In new dust jacket with archival Brodart cover. This exclusive hardcover edition was produced for the Stage & Screen bookclub and includes an attractive dust jacket its own ISBN listed on the cpyright page. Best known for his work as a movie director on such acclaimed movies as Possession and Nurse Betty, Labute was hailed for this book as the "best new playwright to emerge in the past decade" by the New Yorker Magazine's critic.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Overlook Press, The, 2000. Softcover Edition . Paper Back Original. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. NEW in wraps. The only plays by Labute with substantial Mormon content, Labute was disfellowshipped by the Mormon church as a result of these plays.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. First Edition, First Printing . Paper Back Original. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. AS NEW in wraps. This debut collection of stories was published as a paperback original (PBO) that went on to be the surprise winner of the Pulitzer Prize. It also won the PEN Hemingway Award, and the New Yorker Debut Award. The New Yorker Magazine named Lahiri one of 20 young writers to watch for the 21st century. Although it was LATER ISSUED IN HARDCOVER AFTER it won the Pulitzer Prize, this is the TRUE FIRST PRINTING of the PBO. By the time the Pulitzer Prize was announced, this pbo was already in a 6th printing. NO remainder marks, NEVER read. Carefully packaged to prevent shipping damage.

Riverhead Books, 2014. Limited Edition . Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Limited to 500 specially bound copies, signed and numbered by author on a limitation page and enclosed in a first-of-its-kind 3D printed hardcast white slip-case with stylized angled lettering that protrudes up to 3/4" from the case, made on a MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer by MakerBot in Brooklyn, New York. A remarkable book housed in a uniquely modern slip-case. With intense pre-publication demand, the publisher increased this edition from 200 to 500 copies, which sold-out prior to publication.

Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.: Deseret Book Company, 1992. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. NF/Fine. First state of 1st printing. VG/VG Shortly after publication, changes were made to at least 5 pages and the book was re-released, still identified as the 1st printing. BYU Special Collections lists the true first as a variant edition. The most substantial changes occur on pages 76, 79, 88, 97, & 102. As an example, one of the changes was to Lee's discussion of reconcilling personal views on politics with contrary views expressed by church leaders. Among other alterations, in this first state he concludes by stating, "But if I cannot reconcile their [General Authorities'] statements on government and politics with my own views, then I will adhere to my own views." This is changed in the second state to read: "Many members will then make the issues a matter of prayer and study. In short, there is a general attitude of deference toward Church leaders' views." .… Read More

Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.: Deseret Book Co, 1999. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. As New/No Jacket as Issued. 433 pages. STILL IN PUBLISHER'S SHRINK WRAP. OUT-OF-PRINT and surprisingly difficult to find Publisher's Synopsis Sheet that was placed loose on the back cover under the shrink wrap. THIS PUBLICITY SHEET is a must for any collector. All five volumes of this short-lived series quickly went out-of-print in hardcover. Carefully packed and shipped in a box.

Noble Publishing, Orem, Utah, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine without any markings or names; appears unread. Minor wear at tips and bottom of boards. Jacket complete and unclipped with some wear at edges, spine and back. xii, 99p. RARE Mormon title at highly discounted price.