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

Toro: HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2003. First Canadian Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As new, unread cooy, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. NF52

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1993. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The gripping real story of the diplomat spy and the Chinese opera star whose affair inspired 'M. Butterfly.' Fine review copy with publisher's letter and author photograph laid in, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. NFBS1

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in blue fountain ink.When Auntie Ned spontaneously combusts, she leaves behind a pair of smoking orthopedic shoes and a house that she wills to her best friend's daughters. Amy and Gwendolyn are sisters--closer than close--who move into Ned's bungalow and inherit her legacies: a closet full of housedresses, a freezer full of meat, and the passionate flames of unrequited desire.Amy's appetites--for meat, for sex, for getting her way--are ferocious, while Gwendolyn longs for a more normal existence but can't refuse her big sister anything at all. Not the intrusion of Dr. Minor, Professor of Pyrophenomena, who has come to investigate Auntie Ned's death. And not the presence in their bed of Roosevelt, a troubled carpenter whose steamy entanglement with the sisters will either save them all or create a… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 2003. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in blue fountain ink. BUMP is a darkly funny, cinematic page-turner that explores the line between obsession and love. BUMP is the story of a trio of motorists and one policeman linked together by a tangled, life-altering web of coincidence in the immediate aftermath of a three-car pileup in Los Angeles. Dorothy is to be married in less than 24 hours but can't shake the memory of her ex-boyfriend. Madelyn is a married mother of two who falls in love with a double-amputee she met through a suicide hotline. Leo is a golden-eyed Latino who speaks no Spanish and has come to L.A. to reclaim his girlfriend. Ray is a suicide-obsessed Beverly Hills cop whose wife has just left him. Diana Wagman's fast-paced and vividly cinematic narrative presents an engrossing tableau of synchronicity steered by… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Villard, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author "Yours, Bruce Wagner" on title page. A Victorianesque tale of Los Angeles's elite and waifish children await in Bruce Wagner's third novel, I'll Let You Go. A forlorn 12-year-old, "Tull" Trotter, distanced from his artist mother due to her drug addiction, is left to his own devices--along with his two privileged cousins, one of whom is grotesquely deformed, wearing hoods of his own design. Mainly set on the sprawling estate of Tull's grandfather (the 18th richest person in America), the children befriend an inner-city orphan (who is protected by a sharp but mentally disturbed homeless man) and embark on solving a mystery that ties these two disparate worlds together. Second the "Cellular Trilogy" that began with I'M LOSING YOU and concluded with th STILL HOLDING. Fine,first edition, first printing,… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A: Blue Rider Press, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Mint/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Composed of two companion novellas, THE EMPTY CHAIR is a profound, heart-wrenching piece of spiritual storytelling from Bruce Wagner, the internationally acclaimed author of such novels as DEAD STARS,I'M LOSING YOU and FORCE MAJEURE. In FIRST GURU, a fictional Wagner narrates the tale of a Buddhist living in Big Sur, who achieves enlightenment in the horrific aftermath of his child's suicide. InSECOND GURU, Queenie, an aging wild child, returns to India to complete the spiritual journey of her youth. Told in ravaged, sensuous detail to the author-narrator by two strangers on opposite sides of the country, years apart from each other, both stories illuminate the random, chaotic nature of human suffering and the miraculous strength of the human spirit. A deeply affecting and meditative reading experience, THE EMPTY CHAIR is an exquisitely… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Simon & Schuster, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bertie Krohn, only child of Perry Krohn -- creator of TV's longest running space opera, Starwatch: The Navigators -- recounts the story of the last months in the lives of his two friends: Thad Michelet, author, actor, and son of a literary titan; and Clea Freemantle, emotionally fragile daughter of a legendary movie star. Scions of entertainment greatness, they call themselves the Three Musketeers. As the incestuous clique attempts to scale the peaks claimed by their sacred yet monstrous parents during the filming of a Starwatch episode, Bertie scrupulously chronicles their futile struggles against the ravenous, narcissistic, and addicted Hollywood that claims them. The author's other notable works include FORCE MAJEURE, three novels in the "Cellular Trilogy" : I'M LOSING YOU, I'LL LET YOU GO, and STILL HOLDING; and, most… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Scribner, 2004. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. Third in the 'Maggie Summer' antique print mystery series, which also includes SHADOWS ON THE COAST OF MAINE and SHADOWS AT THE FAIR. SHADOWS ON THE IVY. As new, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dusst jacket. M81

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Scribner, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. As new, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dusst jacket. M81

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second in Waiwaiole's hard-boiled Wiley series. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M4

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Mint/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author's first novel, and the first in his hard-boiled series about a "man who's drifting through the remains of his torn-up life like a ghost, playing ooder to make ends meet but always on the edge of the " Then his estranged daughter turns up dead in a cheap motel room with a sharp knife in her and Wiley's life really spins out of control with a violent confrontation with the killer and his own troubled conscience in the mix. Series also includes WLEY'S SHUFFLE. Mint, unread, flawless, first edition, first printing,, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M61

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Houghton Mifflin (T), 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Includes two sections of black-and-white photographs. 355 pp, with Index. As new, first edition, first printing, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF66

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A28

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author of DAUGHTER'S KEEPER. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder- arked or price-cl.} L148

San Dieogo New York London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1989. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Slipcase. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author (THE COLOR PURPLE) Alice Walker on limitation page at rear of book in black fountain ink. Of this signed , limited, slipcased edition, this is #422/500. As new, in yellow cloth boards with gilt decoration debossed on front cover, and repeated in silver on front of pristine ivory cloth slipcase. THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR is the second book in the /Color Purple/ series, which was followed by POSSESSING THE SECRETS OF JOY. In THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR,Celie and Shug from THE COLOR PURPLE subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience in America. From recent African immigrants, to a woman who grew up in the mixed-race rainforest communities of South America, to Celie's own granddaughter living in modern-day… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Harcourt Brace & Company, 1992. First Thus Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Finem first thus edition. Alice Walker's masterpiece, a powerful novel of courage in the face of oppression. Originally published in 1982, THE COLOR PURPLE won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction. This is the Tenth Anniversary Edition. Fine, first thus printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. Celie has grown up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, she's badly treated by her family. As a teenager she begins writing letters directly to God in an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear. Her letters span twenty years and record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment through the guiding light of a few strong women and her own… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperTrade, 1984. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Fine, in black cloth, in near-fine (black jacket shows some rubbing, else fine) mylar-protected dust jacket. 9" X 11 1/4".

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L100

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel THE COLOR PURPLE. Her other bestselling novels include POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY and THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR, as well as two collections of short stories, three collections of essays, five volumes of poetry, and several children's books. Fine, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L30

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2005. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M33