Search Results: Titles starting with C from BIAbooks

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2000. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine collectible book. Author's second collection of short stories, containing the title short novel and 5 other stories. "Ellen GIlchrist should be declared a national cultural treasure."--Washington Post

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. America's favorite sportswriter, John Feinstein, tells the inspirational story of Bruce Edwards, the most famous caddy in professional golf and the unexpected star of the 2003 U.S. writer Feinstein delivers another solid look at the world of golf ., and this newest is his most intimate work so far. His subject is Bruce Edwards, who has been known within golf's tight-knit world as the caddy for over 40 years for legendary pro Tom Watson.The book, in effect, also offers a fine bio of Watson, as Feinstein recounts in energetic detail the many important tournaments that Watson won with Edwards's assistance."--Publisher's Weekly

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Author's FIRSTbook. "A riveting, assured first novel about a nature photographer who joins an all-male expedition to record polar bears on the Canadian tundra.Schulman artfully builds suspense with details of chilling authenticity, cohesively streamlining a compact, efficient narrative. Some of her scenes are truly terrifying, conjuring up the spine-tingling feel of a bear's breath on the back of the neck. People will talk about this book."--Publishers Weekly

New York: Viking Press, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. A pristine COLLECTIBLE, SIGNED, NEW book. Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2004. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. The enthralling story of a famous 18th century shipwreck and of what befell the ship's castaways on the wild coast of southern Africa. "A wonderful book, hugely satisfying on many levels.but most of all as an adventure."---Paul Theroux Illustration, index. notes & sources.

New York: Tom Doherty Associates/ATor Book, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Volume Two of the Homecoming saga, continuing the story of Nafai, his family, and the few others selected by the Oversoul to leave Basilica. Now as the Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen and taken control of a great army using forbidden technology.

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 2018. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine collectible book. Humourous stories of life in a vacation home on the coast of South Carolina. With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, very funny."SEDARIS'S DROLL ASSESSMENT OF THE MUNDANE AND THE ECCENTRICS WHO INHABIT THE WORLD'S CREVICES MAKES HIM ONE OF THE GREATEST HUMORISTS WRITING TODAY."--CHICAGO TRIBUNE

New York: Ecco/Harper Collins, 2012. First Edition . Hardcover. New/New. A pristine NEW book.¿A magnificent work of Montana gothic that confirms his position as one of the finest stylists and most humane storytellers in America¿Ford has left the suburbs of New Jersey two thousand miles away and delivered his most elegiac and profound book.¿ (Washington Post )

New York: Ecco Press, 2012. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. ¿[Canada]confirms his position as one of the finest stylists and most humane storytellers in America¿ his most elegiac and profound book¿¿ (Washington Post)

New York: Harcourt Inc., 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Author's FIRST novel."Eros, crime and the inscrutability of a secluded people combine to lend a tantalizing atmosphere of cool suspense - This is a flat-out great book." --Scott Turow. "Powerful clarity.terse prose, rich character development and strong themes."--PW Keywords: CAPE BRETON ISLAND BOSTON CANADA NOVA SCOTIA

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A discussion about history and development of the socialist economy and of capitalism, about the economic problems of the two systems, about glasnost and Reaganomics, about human rights and the danger of nuclear holocaust, about coexistence of the two superpowers. A pristine book. inscribed to John Meyer, the James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and economic Growth Emeritus at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Keywords: GALBRAITH ECONOMIC POLICY UNITED STATES SOVIET UNION CAPITALISM COMMUNISM WORLD POLITICS GLASNOST REAGANOMICS COEXISTENCE SUPERPOWERS MIKHAILOVICH

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. In this book, Tom Clancy's cutting-edge research takes readers inside Soviet and American attempts to develop a Strategic Defence Initiative The Soviets have begun successful tests of their system, located near the border of Afghanistan. Americans race to implement their own system to maintain strategic parity. Jack Ryan is on the case with John Clark, ex-Navy SEAL and current CIA agent making his first appearance in a Clancy novel. Book is bright and clean. DJ slightly rubbed with a bit of edgewear.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. A pristine, collectible book. In this book, Tom Clancy's cutting-edge research takes readers inside Soviet and American attempts to develop a Strategic Defence Initiative The Soviets have begun successful tests of their system, located near the border of Afghanistan. Americans race to implement their own system to maintain strategic parity. Jack Ryan is on the case with John Clark, ex-Navy SEAL and current CIA agent making his first appearance in a Clancy novel. Book is bright and clean. DJ slightly rubbed with a bit of edgewear.

New York: Random House, 1989. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This book presents six beautifully crafted stories about the subject the author knows best---the ordinary men and women of England, a Widow, a teenager, a salesman, a photographer, a neighbor. A pristine book. Keywords: PRITCHETT SHORT STORIES ENGLAND WIDOW TEENAGER SALESMAN PHOTOGRAPHER NEIGHBOR HIERLOOMS SEASIDE RESORTS

New York, NY: Fourth Estate, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fifty-six remarkable short stories. including the never before published "Segue". her last work. This is Ms. Shields definitive anthology. The author died in 2003. A very attractive first edition that comes with the Publisher's Release notification.

New York, NY: Doubleday, 1990. 1st Edition Later Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Jim Phiesen. A Rare, very Fine, pristine, collectible book. This is a 1990 edition that is extremely rare. Not found anywhere online. Is is 181 pages and has 0590 on the DJ's back flap. Jacket illustration by Jim Phiesen. An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge.

New York: Hyperion, 2001. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A PRISTINE, COLLECTIBLE, SIGNED, DEBUT. Now a modern classic. Novel. Historical Magic fiction based on the life of San Francisco Magician Charles Carter, known as "Carter The Great", Carter was a legend in his own time. Through his life weaved the likes of Harry Houdini, Harry Keller, and other known Magicians of his day, also, President Warren G. Harding and his mysterious death.

New York: Regan Books/HarperCollins, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book that appears UNREAD. Political strategist Susan Estrich demonstrates all the reasons that this principled leader whose election would bring such vitality and lasting change into the White House. With arguments both stirring and sensible, she reminds us that if Hillary should succeed, America and the world would be changed forever and for the better.

New York: Viking, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cleveland Amory at his witty and rueful best---a most enjoyable book."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; The author ".writes about the details of all our lives---warm, funny, delicious."--Katharine Hepburn. This book appears UNREAD. Keywords: BIOGRAPHY AMORY CAT POLAR BEAR TURF BATTLE CAT CURMUDGEON

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1985. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A Spenser mystery of extraordinary excitement and power. A handsome book. " Robert B. Parker has taken his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald."-The Boston Globe. Minute cut to DJ on one corner. Only flaws are a few very tiny cuts to dj top on spine. A handsome book.