Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Joe Staats, Bookseller

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Walker & Company, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. When a Japanese crime lord begins a reign of terror in Bayport, Texas, chief of police Mark Shigata must fight to protect his own family and come to terms with a Japanese tradition he does not share. This is the fifth in the Mark Shigata mystery series by former policewoman Wingate. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M37

Reading, MA: Da Capo Press, 1986. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine, first edition, first printing, in black cloth boards, in fine (some rubbing shows to black rear jacket) mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF66

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Nan A. Talese, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy,… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Twelve, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF70

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Simon & Schuster, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. From National Book Award-finalist Jean Thompson comes a mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family-proud, flawed, hopeful-whose story simultaneously captures the turbulent history of the country at large. In The Year We Left Home, Thompson brings together all of her talents to deliver the career-defining novel her admirers have been waiting for: a sweeping and emotionally powerful story of a single American family during the tumultuous final decades of the twentieth century. It begins in 1973 when the Erickson family of Grenada, Iowa, gathers for the wedding of their eldest daughter, Anita. Even as they celebrate, the fault lines in the family emerge. The bride wants nothing more than to raise a family in her hometown, while her brother Ryan watches restlessly from the sidelines, planning his escape. He is joined by… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. First Thus Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An instant bestseller when it was released in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize winner has been read and loved by school-age children across the nation for more than fifty years. In this classic story of the Baxter family and their wild, hard, and satisfying life in remote central Florida, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has written one of the great novels of our times. A rich and varied tale -- tender in its understanding of boyhood, crowded with the excitement of the backwoods hunt, with vivid descriptions of the primitive, beautiful hammock country, written with humor and earthy philosophy -- The Yearling is a novel for readers of all ages. Its glowing picture of a life refreshingly removed from modern patterns of living is universal in its revelation of simple courageous people and the beliefs they must live by. Very good, first thus… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Walker & Company, 1994. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Includes short stories by Doug Allyn, Lawrence Block, David Ely, D.A. McGuire, Miriam Grace Monfredo, Bill Pronzini, Julian Rathbone, Bruce Holland Rogers, Peter Tremayne, Donald E. Westlake, Kate Wilhelm and Edward D. Hoch. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A36

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. AS new, unread, first edition first printing in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L110

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Walker & Company, 1992. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L64

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Miramax Books/Hyperion, 2003. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page.Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L13

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: William Morrow & Company, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M2

The Knapp Press, 1987. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Based on the acclaimed ABC television documentary, for which a team of filmmakers and photographers traced this sixth longest of the world's rivers over a two-year period. Fine (slight edgewear at spine ends), in near-fine (shows some rubbing, else fine ), mylar-protected dust jacket. 14 1/4" X 10 1/4

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Grove Press, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER, a story collection, is a series of deeply moving glimpses into the lives of ordinary men and women struggling with the bonds of love, family, and community in an increasingly disconnected and and transient world. One of the most interesting and accomplished Irish writers of her generation, Anne Enright is the author of the 2007 Man Booker prize-winning THE GATHERING, as well asTHE GREEN ROAD, THE FORGOTTEN WALTZ, and others. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket.{ Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L151

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper/Collins, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Winner of the 2007 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2007 Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the 2008 Locus Award for Science Fiction novel. THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION was also nominated for the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L113

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. As new, unread first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author's debut, a story collection that was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction National Book Award. Haslett gives us nine richly varied stories, each suffused with intense emotion and written in a lyric prose alternatively lush and spare. YOU ARE NOT A STRANGER HERE carries its readers into the hearts and minds of people facing life's most profound dilemmas. We meet an aging inventor still burning with ideas as he makes a final visit to his gay son. A psychiatrist's encounter with a reluctant patient reveals a young doctor's own needs and fears. An orphaned boy finds solace in a classmate's violence. The return of an old lover disturbs the peace between a brother and sister who have lived together for decades. In settings that range from New England to Great Britain, from Los Angeles to the American West, the… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. New, unread, first edition, first printing,, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L112

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Riverhead Books, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. By turns funny, charming, and tragic, Rosecrans Baldwin's debut novel takes us inside the heart and mind of Dr. Victor Aaron, a leading Alzheimer's researcher at the Soborg Institute on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Victor spends his days alternating between long hours in the sterile lab and running through memories of his late wife, Sara. He has preserved their marriage as a sort of perfect, if tumultuous, duet between two opposite but precisely compatible souls. But one day, in the midst of organizing his already hyperorganized life, Victor discovers a series of index cards covered in Sara's handwriting. They chronicle the major "changes in direction" of their marriage, written as part of a brief fling with couples counseling. Sara's version of their great love story is markedly different from his own, which, for the eminent memory… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Simon & Schuster, 1970. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The life and tiems of Dorothy Parker. Because she said and wrote so many funny lines, it was widely presumed that Dorothy Parker's Life was a ceaselessly merry one. She did have a great deal of fun but Parker was also an artist tormented by her own merciless sensibilities, viewing mankind with a wry, hard suspicion. Fery fine, first edition, first printing, in brown cloth boards, in good (price-clipped; flap creases; sl chipping to spine) mylar-protected dust jacket.. A104

New York, NY, U.S.A.: E.P. Dutton, 1987. First Trade Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L18