Search Results: Titles starting with H from BIAbooks

New York: Viking, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author literary DEBUT. "H is a heart-wrenching novel written with great savvy, severe charm and compassion. The character of Benjamin is as memorable as any I've read in a long time. I'll want to read everything Elizabeth Shepard writes."--Howard Norman. A very attractive book. Keywords: SHEPARD MENTALLY ILL CHILDREN MOTHERS SONS SUMMER CAMP BOYS COUNSELORS PSYCHIATRIST FIRST

New York: Viking Penguin, 1995. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. An attractive book with a few tiny dings to front DJ panel, else fine. "Elizabeth Shepard makes an auspicious literary debut in H--an epistolary novel with a memorable protagonist. Benjamin is a haunting amalgam of Rainman and the catcher i the Rye."--Anne Edwards

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Sue Grafton's eighth book in her "Alphabet" mystery series.This maybe Kinsey Millhone's most complicated and risk filled case. It certainly is Sue Gragton's wittist ventuure into low-life crime. A very attractive book with no flaws. Keywords: GRAFTON KINSEY MILLHONE LOS ANGELES MURDER KIDNAPPED

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Grove Press, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fifteen gloriously imaginative and utterly hypnotizing short stories. "A wonderfully varied third collection from the Pulitzer-winning Bulter that investigates diverse lives--and deaths--early in the twentieth century.Assured, accomplished, and another intriguing change of pace from an adventurous writer who refuses to be pigeonholed."--Kirkus Reviews. Keywords: PULITZER SHORT STORIES AMERICAN POSTCARDS MEXICAN LAUNDRESS SOUTH DAKOTAN RANCHER TENNESSEE MINER. An excellent book that appears UNREAD.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is a pristine book that appears UNREAD. "The HA-HA is a merry, serious inquiry into how love is given and accepted by memorable, stirring characters for whom you will find yourself cheering. Cheer too for Dave King's accomplished debut."--Frederick Busch. The New York Times Book Review concludes, "establishes King as a writer of consequence.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. A very clean, tight unmarked book. DJ has very minimal edgewear around corners. DJ maintains it vivid color. Endpapers are maps of the Mid-East relative to the story. Stated "First edition after a privately printed signed limited edition". An attractive copy in protective sleeve. Keywords: URIS TABAH ARAB JEWS HAJ PALESTINE QUMRAN REFUGEE CAMP MIDDLE EAST ISRAELIS

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A splendid book, pages are bright, clean and fresh. DJ has some rubbing at corners and a slight cut at crown near hinge, else fine."Astonishing: a trumph of storytelling. It is a page-turner-pure genius."--A. Hemon. "Wonderful: a terrific novel".--Dorothy Allison. "Here is absolute beauty. One of the finest novels I've read in years."--Junot Diaz

New York: Bantam Books, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A very attractive book, clean, crisp and bright with slight wear on edges of DJ. "The book is a whirlwind of mad incidents, semiprofound observations, and an endless supply of great lines. The author of Skinny Legs and All (LJ 3/1/90) has come up with a very funny book that might incite a bit of thinking as well as laughter."---Library Journal. "One of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world."-- Financial Times, London

New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. A pristine book that appears UNREAD. "Magnificent." ?New York Times Book Review. "Impressive. A box full of surprises and intense delights." Billy Collins. The insomniac speakers in Halflife are coming of age in a mythical world full of threat and promise. Seeking their true selves amid the fallen cathedrals of America, they speak wryly of destructive love affairs, aesthetic obsession, and encroaching war, but refuse to abandon hope in the power of imagination. Halflife, was a finalist for Britain's Forward First Book Prize

New York, NY: Doubleday, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An excellent first edition, INSCRIBED SIGNED boldly by Bob Greeene on the front flyleaf. FINE but has some very minor, faint foxing on edges. The author spends two seasons with the star of the Chicago Bulls on and off the basketball court, revealing Jordan's personality, his relationship with family and friends, and his private life, fraught with the rewards and trials of fame."Penetrating...Evocative...A vivid, enlightening portrait of the world's ultimate sports star."-- Chicago Tribune. "Exceptional...Greene has never been better...It's hard to imagine a better book about Jordan."-- Terry Pluto, Knight-Ridder Newspapers

Conway, MI: Conway House, 1972. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by author on front free endpaper. A well maintained collectable editon with minor rubbing at the headcap of DJ, else fine. This collection of poems Reflects Ellison's keen insight into man's natural heritage and those emotions that constantly give man a haunting memory of his past. ---Conway House

New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's second book, the sequel to Eisler's stunning 2002 debut, Rain Fall. The story continues of lethal assassin John Rain who is half Japenses and half American.

New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine signed copy of the Author's second book, the sequel to Eisler's stunning 2002 debut, Rain Fall. The story continues of lethal assassin John Rain who is half Japenses and half American. Keywords: FICTIO JAPANESE AMERICANS ASSASSINS JAPAN

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Derek Strange's begins his career as a Washington D.C. Police Officer while dealing with his unlucky brother home from Vietnam, family crisis, a broken relationship, and a collision with a veteran cop against the backdrop of the tragedy of the Martin Luther King assassination and the subsequent DC riots. "Pelecanos writes with intelligence and complexity, as well as with a sober recognition of the evil at large in the world"--M. Corrigan, Washington Post. An excellent book. Keywords: DEREK STRANGE DETECTIVES MYSTERY POLICE WASHINGTON D.C.VIETNAMESE CONFLICT VETERANS BROTHERS DRUGS DEATH KING ASSASSINATION RIOTS

New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A FINE, COLLECTIBLE FIRST PRINTING. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Remarkably well-preserved for a book of such size. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($30.00), is fresh and bright with no creases, chipping or tears. With unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his society-and his own past-takes him through the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Kennedy assassination. "Immense, fascinating, and in large part brilliant."-Salman Rushdie

Santa Monica, CA: Clover Park Press, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book.The story of five teachers and their epic journey across the Sahara desert. Introduction by Sargent Shriver. "Harmattan is an utterly riveting narrative and, in the stunning, seductive world of travel literature, an instant classi, an unforgetable contribution."--Bob Shacochis. Keywords: KENNEDY TRAVEL SAHARA DESERT WEST AFRICA AUTOBIOGRAPHY LIBERIA PEACE CORPS

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's DEBUT Fred Taylor Mystery. "For anyone intrigued by the amazing ways of the art world and its stories, exploits, mysteries, and characters, Kilmer's foray into the Boston art-dealing community will tantalize and amuse.His insights into the imagination of both artist and connoisseur are keen, on target, and refreshing."---F.D. HIll.This is a very handsome book and appears UNREAD. Keywords: KILMER FRED TAYLOR MYSTERY ART ARTISTS DEALERS COLLECTORS CURATORS VERMEER PAINTING BOSTON

New York: Viking Penguin/Granta, 1990. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Birkbeck, Paul. A flawless book that appears UNREAD. Winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature, 1992. Author's fifth novel is a fascinating novelistic allegory against censorship, about a storyteller who loses his voice and a struggle against mysterious forces attempting to block the seas of inspiration from which all stories are derived.

Point Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1996. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine, collectable UNREAD book."Kizer employs everything from slanted rhymes to venerable forms like the villanelle and pantoum with a chatty grace that makes the intricacy of her structures all but invisible." --Publishers Weekly