Search Results: Authors starting with U from BIAbooks

New York: Random House, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's FIRST book.This collection of eleven stories, set in the rural West, explores the charged and often surprising relation between the desire for connection and the desire for liberation; in their attempt to connect, the characters face unobliging circumstances, but their eventual successes sometimes lead unexpectedly to liberation.---Booklist. Mr. Udall's stories can be as funny as they are dark. The best stories . . . are suffused, besides, with the "ache of sadness at the measures we have to take, the desperations and last resorts." -- The New York Times Book Review

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book appears to be unread. "A mesmerizing FIRST NOVEL about a demonic, elusive computer bug and the havoc it wreaks on the lives of the people around it." Keywords: FICTION PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE CALIFORNIA COMPUTER

New York: Hyperion, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Lavishly illustrated throughout with photos of the characters in action, TRACEY TAKES ON is wry entertainment from one of the best and most intelligent comedians in the business. Small crease on DJ top corner of flap where the price is printed. A very attractive and funny book.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1986. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Story of a young American who comes of age in the 1960's while studying abroad in Buenos Aires.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's first novel.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The passage from youth to the edge of adulthood and self-understanding, a journey in fifteen stories that marks the impressive DEBUT in this collection of short stories by David Updike (son of John Updike). Minor edgewear and a small scratch on cover of DJ are the only flaws of this excellent book that appears unread. Keywords: SHORT STORIES MISUNDERSTANDINGS FRUSTRATED LOVE ADULTHOOD SELF-UNDERSTANDING DISCOVERY NEW ENGLAND NEW YORK ITALY

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The passage from youth to the edge of adulthood and self-understanding, a journey in fifteen stories that marks the impressive DEBUT in this collection of short stories by David Updike (son of John Updike). Minor edgewear and a small closed tear on cover of DJ. Keywords: SHORT STORIES MISUNDERSTANDINGS FRUSTRATED LOVE ADULTHOOD SELF-UNDERSTANDING DISCOVERY NEW ENGLAND NEW YORK ITALY

New York: Saint Martin's Press, Inc., 2009. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. DR. A pristine NEW book, SIGNED by the author. "David Updike does himself and his late father, John proud with his second collection, Old Girlfriends these 10 ruminative stories set in New England sport a winning sense of whimsy, quiet surprise, and fresh, frank sensuality."--Elle Magazine. "David Updike's stories are wonderful -- small enough that you are startled by the compressed, strong emotion, expansive in what they suggest about taking a stand, taking a chance, living a meaningful life. "--Ann Beattie

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1996. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Szep, Paul. A FINE collectible book with a clipped DJ.. JOYFUL . . . THE JACK NICKLAUS OF GOLF WRITING . . . The 30 entries in this collection, drawn mainly from magazine pieces, constitute a championship round. . . . This unbridled appreciation of golf's mystical opportunities for grace and redemption will enthrall even those who have never followed an 80-yard worm-burner with an elegant chip to the pin."--People; "VINTAGE UPDIKE AND A RARE TREAT FOR GOLFERS."---San Francisco Chronicle

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1976. First Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A collectible book with some wear on edges of DJ. MInor numbers written on top corner of Front Free Endpaper. Reviews of Kierkegaard, Proust, Joyce, Dostoevsky, and Hamsun among the classics; Borges, Nabokov, Grass, Bellow, Cheever, and Jong among the contemporaries. Here too are meditations on Satan and cemeteries, travel essays on London and Anguilla, three very early "golf dreams," and one big interview. Picked-Up Pieces is a glittering treasury for every reader who likes life, books, wit-and John Updike. Updike could become one of our finest literary critics as well as novelists, an heir to that imposing predecessor in the pages of The New Yorker, Edmund Wilson."-James Atlas, The New York Times Magazine

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1968. First Trade Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. This book is a Third Printing Before Publication. A rare book that is an Updike collector must have because of the unique "misbound" first 12 pages of this edition. This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine gilt. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The DJ is whole with vivid color but has a closed teat on back panel and some edge wear.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1977. First Edition . Hardcover. New/New. A harvest of the short fiction of John Updike. One hundred three stories that show the author's wit and verbal felicity, his reverence for ordinary life, and his love of the transient world. A NEW prestine book that is UNREAD.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1976. First Trade Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The book is clean, fresh, square and tight. The DJ has very slight pencil thin stain on spine, else Fine. Pub date stated as "11/76" on back flap.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1996. First Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Text is clean, pages fresh, book is square and tight. Some corners of dj worn. One corner cut. DJ is price clipped. John Updike pulls one wandering thread from the tapestry of the American Century and writes perhaps the greatest of his later novels. The spiritual and sexual malaise of a multi generational American family is the focus of Updike's masterful novel. "Dazzling . . . a book that forces us to reassess the American Dream and the crucial role that faith (and the longing for faith) have played in shaping the national soul."The New York Times

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1989. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. INSCRIBED by Mr. Updike. One of our finest novelists gives us his most dazzling creation -- his own life. In six eloquent and compelling chapters, the author of The Witches of Eastwick and the wonderful Rabbit trilogy gives us a honest look at the makings of an American writer -- and of an American man.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1975. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. This novel concerns a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by Reverend Marshfield, sent in disgrace to a desert retreat from his mid-weatern church to find redemption. Days are spent writing, playing golf, poker and self analysis. Small tears on edges and spine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1988. Book Club Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A pristine book. Minor scratch on DJ spine, else Fine.. "A spiritual adventure story . . . Updike fully inhabits his imperfect matron. Her voice, which can sweep from the heights of religious fluff to the swamps of bathos in astonishing feats of non sequitur, is a wonderful comic invention."-Newsweek "One of Updike's lightest, funniest, and shyest fictions a comedy about the sneaky economies of the spirit."-The New Yorker

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990. First Trade Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A superb book. FIRST TRADE EDITION. A square, solid, tight, clean book. The book has the name of the previous owner written neatly on the FFEP. Some light foxing on fore edge. Otherwise a great fresh, clean book. The fourth in Updike's "Rabbit Series" about the former basketball player facing the myriad challenges of middle age.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1978. Second Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. INSCRIBED by Mr. Updike on Front Free Endpaper. SECOND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION, published December 7, 1978 per copyright page with ISBN 0-394-50268-X. Dj has "12/78" on rear flap and ISBN on back panel. Condition of book and text is NEAR FINE due only to previous owner's gift inscription, else FINE. Condition of DJ is NEAR Fine with Price intact on first flap. DJ has normal age appropriate shelf wear. "One of Updike's boldest and most imaginative performances" (Newsweek). Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Updike on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket design by S. Neil Fujita. The Coup describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The book is clean, fresh, square and tight. The DJ has a very slight wrinkle on spine near top edge, else Fine.