Search Results: Titles starting with R from BIAbooks

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990. First Trade Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A superb book. FIRST TRADE EDITION. A square, solid, tight, clean book. The book has the name of the previous owner written neatly on the FFEP. Some light foxing on fore edge. Otherwise a great fresh, clean book. The fourth in Updike's "Rabbit Series" about the former basketball player facing the myriad challenges of middle age.

New York: Random House, 1975. First Trade . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Minor edgewear that includes a few tiny cuts and a slight curl to bottom front of dj. The book is in excellent shape with only flaw an owners name and date written on free endpaper at top corner. Dustjacket in protective mylar cover.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's third book. The story continues of lethal assassin John Rain who is half Japenses and half American."Its's [Eisler's] impressive literary skills that make his John Rain such a fascinating touching and wholly believable character. Captivating. Painted in beautifully dark tones."--Publishers Weekly

New York: Bantam Books, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. DJ is in new Brodart jacket that obscures a closed tear at one corner of the dj. The book is unmarked, bright, clean and tight. Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft called Rama sailed through our solar system as mind-boggling proof that life existed -- or had existed -- elsewhere in the universe. Now, at the dawn of the twenty-third century, another ship is discovered hurtling toward us. "A masterpiece . one of the year's best hard SF epics." -- The Houston Post

New York: Viking, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The story of the Black Beauty Ranch, a unique sanctuary for all kinds of animals and the author's involvement with the Animal Rights movement.

Boston: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2002. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Graphic, erotic, provocative, Rapture is a meditation on romantic love, sex, and their reflections in the life of the mind. "Rapture is a provacative and sensuous novella, a 114-page literary flourish.[Minot's] language has a muscular swagger uncommon in fiction by women, and her characters have peculiar opacities more typical of novels of another era. " Vogue

Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This book revels in the beauty of ordinary human interaction. At the same time, strikes at the hard truth of the way we live our lives. A very attractive book.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book."The book is fantastic, one of the best books about Alaska I have ever read. It calls to mind Cormac McCarthy and Stephen King, but at the same time it is all its own. The Raven's Gift is the story of a couple teaching in a remote Alaskan village when a epidemic sweeps through. People are dying in isolation, and others descending into savage violence. It is a survival story and an edge-of-the-seat thriller." 2013 Pulitzer Finalist, Eoywyn Ivy, author of The Snow Child

New York: Canongate, 2007. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hall's debut, the darling of last year's London Book Fair, is a cerebral page-turner that pits corporeal man against metaphysical sharks that devour memory and essence, not flesh and blood. When Eric Sanderson wakes from a lengthy unconsciousness, he has no memory."--Publishers Weekly "If Paul Auster and Haruki Murakami collaborated on Moby-Dick crossed with The Wizard of Oz, they might produce something like Hall's deliriously ambitious debut, which mixes profound themes with playful plot twists." Kirkus Reviews

New York: Free Press, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited with an introduction and commentary by K. Skinner, A.Anderson, M. Anderson; with a foreword by George P. Shultz. President Reagan was a dazzling communicator in letters as he was in person. His letters reveal his character and thinking like no other source.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A rich portrait of contemporary London.As always, Lessing expertly deciphers the complex relationships that characterize modern life." -- -- New York Times Book Review. "The most accessible and lyrical of [Doris Lessing's] books, it registers the pulse of a modern metropolis." -- Robert Taylor, Boston Globe

New York: Warner Books, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book is bright, clean and tight. DJ has some minor edgewear and a slight crease at spine. Richard Nixon on world politics and foreign policy and his strategy of what the U. S. must do if we are to remain a world power.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Slight wear around edges and corners of dj. This book is an extraordinary drama that portrays the suble and terrible psychological effects of war on a single family. "Bausch's triumph is how he makes us believe every step of the journey."---Miami Herald

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New/New. A pristine book. Goth's memoir makes readers feel like she had ¿the best seat in the house at the New Yorker as she talks about her role as a greeter to such literary luminaries as J.D. Salinger, Calvin Trillin and E.B. White. If you love The New Yorker or want to look behind the pages you will enjoy this book." Bookreporter.com. "Revelatory . . . deeply reflective . . . Groth chronicles the many dazzling personalities whose lives touched, and moved, hers."?Publishers Weekly

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collectible, bright, fresh booK. Very minor cut to DJ top edge and nearly invisible Ex-Librus stamp on title page."It's double the pleasure and double the fun as Woods brings series character Holly Barker, chief of the Orchid Beach, Fla., police department, onstage to co-star with PI Stone Barrington."-*Publishers Weekly. "Fast action, catchy plot and spicy dialogue."-The Calgary Sun

New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. A NEW, PRISTINE book, SIGNED by the author. The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler) "Every word, every phrase, every anecdote in this beautiful compilation of V's life's work illuminates. Reckoning sheds the searing light of truth on the on the indignities, falsities, injustices, and cruelties of our world and yet is also a note of love to suffering humanity, revealing and celebrating the fathomless courage and infinite compassion our kind is capable of. A book of true inspiration from beginning to end, emanating from a great spirit and a talent of extraordinary vision." ?Gabor Maté MD

New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. A NEW, PRISTINE book, SIGNED by the author. The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler) "Every word, every phrase, every anecdote in this beautiful compilation of V's life's work illuminates. Reckoning sheds the searing light of truth on the on the indignities, falsities, injustices, and cruelties of our world and yet is also a note of love to suffering humanity, revealing and celebrating the fathomless courage and infinite compassion our kind is capable of. A book of true inspiration from beginning to end, emanating from a great spirit and a talent of extraordinary vision." ?Gabor Maté MD

New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A handsome collectible book. Cohen's highly sought after DEBUT novel, an Edgar Award finalist. SIGNED by the author. "As the mystery of the stabbing death of a small-time drug dealer takes him into Red Hook, the working-class Brooklyn community where he was raised, Jack must solve the mystery of how he ended up divorced, estranged from his son, depressed, and alone."--Booklist. "Gabriel Cohen is a writer to watch out for and this is one of the most exciting urban crime novels to come along in years." -- Peter Blauner

New York: Viking Press, 2002. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book that FIRST introduces Luther Ewing, a half Vietnamese, half African American, complex,maverick cop." "When the Russian mob brings its drug trade to his city-digging up a past he'd rather forget, Ewing decides to take on the mob - alone." Michael Crow is a pseudonym of a literary author, maybe Douglas Winter or William Vollman?

New York: Dutton, 1996. First Trade Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Stephen King writes as Richard Bachman, a harrowing story of a suburban neighborhood in the grip of surreal terror. Only flaw is a one inch closed cut to front of DJ that is barely noticable with a protective cover. The outstanding quality of this book is not diminished by his flaw. (Keywords: KING BACHMAN SUBURBIA OHIO TERROR).