Search Results: Titles starting with E from BIAbooks

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. Later printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. Second Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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.

Markham, Ontario: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Jeffery Ward. This is a pristine second printing of Mr. Gore's first book which lead to a Nobel Prize and the later the Vice-Presidency. This book copy has been SIGNED by Gore with his usual sharpy pen on the free front endpaper. Presented in a plastic cover. Illus. with B&W photos, maps, diagrams, Notes, Biblio and Index. Gore argues that the engines of human civilization have brought us to the brink of ecological catastrophe.

Boston, MA: James R. Osgood And Company, 1871. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Maroon cloth boards with bevelled edges. Condition is good plus; corners and spine ends a bit worn. Binding tight and text clean and unmarked. Bret Harte was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. East And West: Poems, has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1999. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book/ An accomplished Doctor with terminal colon cancer sets out through the mythic American West on his self determined last hunt. This book is a bold and beautiful novel of personal discovery filled with humanity, passion, and moral honesty. The author is one of Granta's top 20 young American novelists. Protected in a mylar cover. Keywords: GRANTA AUTHOR AMERICAN WEST WASHINGTON STATE CANCER LAST HUNT PERSONAL DISCOVERY

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1999. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine, collectible book, SIGNED by the author. An accomplished Doctor with terminal colon cancer sets out through the mythic American West on his self determined last hunt. This book is a bold and beautiful novel of personal discovery filled with humanity, passion, and moral honesty. The author is recognitionize as one of Granta's top 20 young American novelists. Protected in a mylar cover. Keywords: GRANTA AUTHOR AMERICAN WEST WASHINGTON STATE CANCER LAST HUNT PERSONAL DISCOVERY

New York: The Dial Press, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's FIRST novel. "A splendid debut, which captures in the intertwined stories of two women a passion for life and for science that transcends time."---Andrea Barrett. "Easter Island is fully imagined and wonderfully written. .The interwoven stories are utterly captivating.This is one of the best novels of the year and the debut of an important young talent."---Robert Stone. Keywords: VANDERBES FIRST NOVEL EASTER ISLAND ANTHROPOLOGISTS SPOUSES BOTANISTS WOMEN

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. In this brilliant novel of small-town kidnapping gone to hell, David Bottoms hits you fast and very hard. His driving, uncompromising prose thrusts a light into a nightmarish part of America lesser writers flee. First class; unforgettable."--James Dickley. This book is in pristine condition and appears UNREAD. Keywords: EASTER MACON GEORGIA KIDNAPPING RANSOM GANGSTERS

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive book. No flaws. "The Easy Way Out is an exhilarating, entertaining, smart novel. Vivid, quirky characters leap off the page. The Easy Way Out is a great story, a page-turner, very contemporary, sometimes arch, always agile.Stephen McCauley is a writer of insight, surprise, and finesse. His novel sings."---Michael Dorris

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1994. First Edition, Second Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. This book is a fascinating foray into the most influential mind of the twentieth century. With great craft and intelligence D.M. Thomas plunges into Dr. Sigmund Freud's conscious and unconscious world. A pristine book that appears UNREAD. The only flaw is a small closed tear on front bottom edge of DJ that does not diminish from the overall fine quality of this book. Keywords: THOMAS SIGMUND FREUD ANNA FICTION FATHERS DAUGHTERS CANCER PATIENTS PSYCHOANALYSTS LONDON

New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine. Pristine Collectible book. Traces the life of the twentieth-century American author and critic, from his friendship with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Vladimir Nabokov, and others, to his writing for The New Yorker, his marriage to Mary McCarthy, and his alcoholism. "A remarkable feat of biographical sleuthing... illuminates Wilson's friendships with Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Malraux, Auden et al. and his sexual affairs with Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anais Nin and Louise Bogan. This is the fullest portrait to date of a writer who, in Meyers's judgment, became increasingly alienated from the modern world." PW

New York, NY: Random House, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. A pristine book SIGNED by the author. ¿A wildly pleasurable, dazzling reading experience, big in heart and execution: crazed, ecstatic, and entertaining in the deepest sense of the word. Arthur Phillips is a terrifically talented writer, and these pages overflow with wit, mad humor, and, finally, a deep undercurrent of pathos.¿¿George Saunders

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.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., 1978. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. An anthology of work by Mr. Plomer that includes essays on writers and poets including Herman Melville, Leonard Woolf, Christina Rossette, C.P. Cavafy, John Betjemanand Benjamin Britten. Also includes several short stor ies and poems. Work selected and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis.

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A collectible book. The second Detective Sergeant Gabriel Dunn mystery. Some wear at corners of DJ.

New York: Random House, 1998. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. A pristine book that appears UNREAD. A new volume of stories from A. S. Byatt is always a joy, and this one is rich and rare indeed. This collection deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion--the mysterious absences at the heart of the fullest lives.--RH. "Fired by a fierce intelligence and related in shimmering prose. This eclectic little volume should delight A. S. Byatt's devoted readers and attract many new ones." -The New York Times

New York: Random House, 1998. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. A pristine book that appears UNREAD. A new volume of stories from A. S. Byatt is always a joy, and this one is rich and rare indeed. This collection deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion--the mysterious absences at the heart of the fullest lives.--RH. "Fired by a fierce intelligence and related in shimmering prose. This eclectic little volume should delight A. S. Byatt's devoted readers and attract many new ones." -The New York Times

New York: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Ms. Gibbon's highly acclaimed FIRST novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded a special citation by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. "Ellen Foster is a southern Holden Caulfield, tougher perhaps, as funny. . . . A breathtaking first novel." --Walker Percy

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2012. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine, collectible book by this Pulitzer Prize winning author.¿One of the most honest, moving American memoirs in years. Russo's straightforward writing style is even more effective in Elsewhere [and his] intellectual and emotional honesty are remarkable.¿ ¿Michael Schaub, NPR.org