Search Results: Titles starting with P from acornbooks

New York, New York: Viking Penguin, 1994 Slight fading at tail of brown cloth of spine. No prev. owner name. DJ with light spotty stains on reverse at top mid-section which do not show through to front. DJ with price corner intact. First-state DJ with 'Paddy Clark' misspelling on spine and protected in plastic cover. Winner of the 1993 Booker Prize for Fiction.

New York, New York: The Tamarack Press, 1976 Slight rub to corners of covers and spine ends, spine slightly darkened, and covers with smudges and some soiling. No prev. owner name, interior clean. Signed by Ursula K. Le Guin on p. 42 at her article, "Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction".

New York, New York: Viking / Penguin Group (USA), 2003 Very slight crimp to spine ends of book, otherwise Fine. No prev. owner name. DJ with slight rubs at extremities; price corner intact. Signed by Adam Johnson with signature only on the title page. Author's first novel. Illus. with B&W drawings.

New York, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002 Very slight rub to ends of spine, otherwise Fine. DJ in plastic cover. Boldly signed on title page. Sarah Vowell is a contributing editor for public radio's "The American Life" series and in this book of personal stories she travels through the American past and in doing so investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co., 1985 Slight rub at spine ends, and a 1/2 inch tear at tail of spine. No prev. owner name. Signed by Berke Breathed with signature only on the title page. Most cartoons in B&W, some in color. 120 pp.

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1987 DJ with a tiny crease at upper corner of front endflap (not price-clipped). DJ in plastic cover. Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

New York, New York: Lucas Books / A Del Rey Book / The Ballantine Publishing Group, 1999 Darth Maul on DJ front cover. Light rubs to lower edges of boards and spine ends. Possible dampstain or area of fading to black paper-covering of rear board, but no evidence of same on inside of rear cover. No prev. owner name. DJ with hint of rubs to corners. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. The beginning of the Star Wars legend. Based on the screenplay by George Lucas, master storyteller Brooks sheds new light on Lucas' brilliant creation. Inscribed, "May The Force Be With You" (without personalization) and signed by Terry Brooks on the title page with date "5/99" in month and year of publication. Incl. 12 inch square 'Star Wars' poster on stiff cardboard of Darth Maul (unsigned).

New York, New York: Random House, 2006 Very Fine. Signed by Annie Leibovitz and dated "10.24.06" (month and year of publication) on half-title page. A retrospective of Leibovitz' exquisitely sensitive and personal photographs side by side with her professional celebrity photography. Large, heavy book.

New York, New York: Viking, 2009 Light bump to upper corner of rear board and hint of rubs at lower corners and tail of spine. DJ with rub and very slight wrinkle to upper corner of rear panel. Author's first book.

New York, New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988 Hint of fade at ends of cloth spine, and hint of rub at corners of book. No prev. owner name. DJ with hint of rub at corners, otherwise Fine, and in plastic cover with price corner intact. Originally published in 1983 in German as "Die Klavierspielerin". Translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel. Author Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature for her published works of which "The Piano Teacher" was her first work translated into English.

San Francisco, California: North Point Press, 1989 DJ with hint of rub at corners, otherwise Fine. Illus. in B&W.

Portland, Oregon: Self-Published, 1995 Assumed First Edition. Fine, no stains, no markings, except signed by Roy Pingo with personalized inscription and dated "9 Nov. '96" on the first page. Indexed. (vii) 247 pp.

New York, New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 1997 Fine. DJ in plastic cover. Author's first novel.

New York, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1989 Hint of rub on lower corners of boards, slight softening of spine ends and light scuff on front board. No prev. owner name or markings. DJ in plastic cover. Biography of David Hockney illus. in B&W and color with photos, drawings and paintings. Incl. List of Illustrations, Notes, Critical Biblio and Index. (xii) 289 pp.

Seattle, Washington: Sasquatch Books, 1993 Slight bump to corners of boards. No prev. owner name. Bound-in blue satin tie ribbons intact at fore-edges of boards. Illustrator's first book. Illus. in color. A children's story of the changing seasons based on a Japanese folktale.

Hillsboro, Oregon: Blue Heron Publishing, Inc., 1995 No prev. owner name. Signed by Chuck Palahniuk on p. 131 at his contribution of "Fight Club", first appearance of "Fight Club" as a short story prior to the novel's publication in 1996. "Pursuit of Happiness" is the 8th title in the Left Bank Book series of thematic collections. Thirteen other contributors to this edition include writers, Marvin Bell, John Nichols, Craig Lesley and Garrett Hongo, Heather Doran Barbieri, and a drawing by George Booth.