Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Hardcover. 196 pages.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Hardcover. 196 pages.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 196 pages. Inscribed by the author on half-title page. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Front free endpaper has been torn out of the book.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. Hardcover. "Possessing the Secret of Joy" is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a misguided loyalty to the customs of her people led her to voluntarily submit to the tsunga's.....
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. Hardcover. "Possessing the Secret of Joy" is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a misguided loyalty to the customs of her people led her to voluntarily submit to the tsunga's.....
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1981). Hardcover. 167 pages.
Knopf, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 322 pages. Four novellas. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Association copy. Warmly inscribed by the author to author and reviewer Bill Starr on the title page: 'For Bill, a starr and a star. With thanks for all you.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 252 pages. Short stories and novellas. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in an unclipped dust jacket with minor wear at the edges, else fine. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.
The Macmillan Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. 200 pages. Stories; the last book by the Kentucky author. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a dust jacket with faded spine.
Harper Perennial, September 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "It's a good thing that this is only the first book of a trilogy, because after getting to know Tabitha, you won't want to leave her at the end. . . . Written intimately as if you're peering into the mind.....
G. W. Dillingham, 1889. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 322 pages with 4 pages of ads. First edition (first printing). Very good in decorated and printed blue wrappers. Edge wear.
The Franklin Library. Hardcover. First edition. First edition. Signed by author. Minor scratches on gilded edges. Franklin Library information included.
Ballantine Books, April 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place.....
Ballantine Books, January 2020. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Signed by the author. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath.....
Dutton, 1992. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Algonquin Books, April 2024. Hardcover. A new copy. Great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic. "Only an alchemist as wise and sure.....
Algonquin Books, April 2024. Hardcover. A new copy. Great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic. "Only an alchemist as wise and sure.....
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. Trade Paperback. 290 pages. 'This presentation set of folded and gathered sheets of Julia Alvarez's 'How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents' has been prepared for the friends of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.' - from the front cover. The author's first novel. Signed.....
NYRB Classics, March 2013. Trade Paperback. BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR Set in a world in which the Reformation failed, this award-winning science fiction tale is "one of the best . . . alternate-worlds novels in existence" (Philip K. Dick) In Kingsley Amis's virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976, but.....
Summit Books, 1989. Trade Paperback. 253 pages. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
The Viking Press, 1979. Trade Paperback. 264 pages. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). White streaks on rear cover. Mild foxing to page edges.
Hutchinson, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 185 pages. By the Booker Prize-winning author. First edition (first printing). Minor edge wear, thus a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 224 pages. A collection of short stories. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Gold lettering on spine tarnished; spotting to top edge.
Summit Books, 1989. Trade Paperback. 192 pages. Advance proofs of the novel. Light spotting to spine thus near fine in wrappers (paperback).
Viking, 1994. Trade Paperback. 296 pages. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, July 2015. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - From one the most virtuosic authors in the English language: a powerful novel, written with urgency and moral force, that explores life--and love--among the Nazi.....