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Edition: 2nd printing
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780307264657ISBN:0307264653
Description: near fine / near fine. near fine / near fine Updike, John., Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, c2006, 2nd printing, blue cloth (hard cover), PO's name o/w near fine with near fine dj, 310 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 0307264653, 'The story of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an alienated American-born teenager who spurns the materialistic, hedonistic life he witnesses in the slumping New Jersey factory town he calls home. Turning to the words of the Holy Qur'an as expounded to him by the pedantic imam of a local ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date published: 2011
ISBN-13:9780374203054ISBN:0374203059
Description: Eugenides, Jeffrey., Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011, c2011, 1st Edition, 1st printing, boards (hard cover), near fine with near fine dj, 406 pp, tall 8vo, ISBN: 9780374203054, 'Over the next year, as the members of the triangle in this amazing, spellbinding novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events force them to reevaluate everything they learned in school', Literary Fiction; author is winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780393048445ISBN:0393048446
Description: O'Brian, Patrick., W.W. Norton & Co., 1999, c1999, 1st U.S. Edition, boards & cloth (hard cover), fine with near fine dj, 262 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 0393048446, 'Aubrey, again the daring frigate captain of old, stakes all on a desperate solo night raid against the might of the Spanish viceroy in Peru', 20th and last completed in the series. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Date published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780394508269ISBN:0394508262
Description: Capote, Truman., Random House, c1980, 4th printing, cloth (hard cover), near fine with very good+ dj (price clipped, light edgewear), 262 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 0394508262, 'New writing by Truman Capote Including Handcarved Coffins', Literary Fiction; Short Stories; Journalism. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Date published: 2010
ISBN-13:9780060735449ISBN:0060735449
Description: Moore, Christopher., Harper (Harper Collins), 2010, c1997, later printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), very good, 325 pp, small 8vo, ISBN: 9780060735449, 'A wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise; a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats', Literary Fiction; Humor. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Arcade Pub
Date published: 1975
ISBN-13:9781559700221ISBN:155970022X
Description: Kosinski, Jerzy., Arcade Publishing, c1975, 1st trade pb printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), very near fine, 248 pp, ISBN: 155970022X, 8vo, 'Meet Tarden, ex-superspy. A secret agent who drops out without a trace', Literary Fiction. Read More
Language: German
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780679725756ISBN:067972575X
Description: Grass, Gunter; trans. by Ralph Manheim., Vintage International (Random House), 1990, c1989, later printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), 592 pp with glossary, 8vo, ISBN: 067972575X, 'The greatest German novel written since the end of World War II', German Literary Fiction. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Date published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780684853512ISBN:0684853515
Description: King, Stephen., Scribner, 1999, c1999, 1st Edition, 1st printing, boards & cloth (hard cover), near fine with near fine dj, 523 pp, tall 8vo, ISBN: 0684853515, 'Although it is difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened', Literary Fiction. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780684833392ISBN:0684833395
Description: Heller, Joseph., Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1996, c1989, later printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), very good++, 463 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 0684833395, 'A monumental artifact of contemporary American literature', 'Explosive, bitter, subversive, brilliant', With a new updated preface by the author. Literary Fiction; Classic Literature. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yearling Books
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780440422037ISBN:0440422035
Description: Birdsall, Jeanne., Yearling (Random House), 2008, c2008, 7th printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), very near fine, 308 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 9780440422037, 'The Penderwick sisters are home on Gardam Street and ready for an adventure', Children's; Juvenile; Series Fiction. Read More
Edition: 35th Anniversary edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780451191144ISBN:0451191145
Description: Rand, Ayn., New American Library 'A Signet Book', 1996, c1985, 50th anniversary edition, later printing, illus. soft cover (mass market paperback), very good/near fine, 1079 pp, 16mo, ISBN: 9780451191144, 'The astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did', Introduction by Leonard Peikoff. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Date published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780752873091ISBN:0752873091
Description: Rankin, Ian., Orion (UK), 2005, c1986, 1st printing of this reprint edition, black cloth (hard cover), fine with very near fine dj, 205 pp, tall 8vo, ISBN: 0752873091, 'In 1986, a small Scottish publishing company released a first novel from a talented young writer', With a new introduction by the author. Literary Fiction; Scotland. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780307264190ISBN:030726419X
Description: Messud, Claire., Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, c2006, later printing, boards & cloth (hard cover) fine with near fine dj (price clipped), 431 pp, tall 8vo, ISBN: 030726419X, 'A dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, in New York City', Literary Fiction. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780316085397ISBN:0316085391
Description: Moody, Rick., Little, Brown & Co., 2005, c2005, 1st Edition, 1st printing, boards & cloth (hard cover), very good with very good dj (light wear; one tear at fold), 567 pp, tall 8vo, ISBN: 0316085391, 'A richly detailed look at the interlocking worlds of entertainment, money, politics, addiction, sex, work and family in modern America; Moody delivers a masterpiece of comedy', Humor; Satire; Entertainment Industry. Read More
Description: Moore, Christopher., Harper (Harper Collins), 2008, c2007, 1st trade pb printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), fine, 328 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 9780060590307, 'A hilarious romp about young love and ill-fated predators who troll San Francisco looking for a few quarts of hemoglobin before dawn', Humor; Horror Fiction. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780099477310ISBN:0099477319
Description: Heller, Joseph., Vintage (Random House UK), 1994, c1961, later printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), very near fine, 519 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 0099477319, 'A monumental artifact of contemporary American literature', 'Explosive, bitter, subversive, brilliant', With a new updated preface by the author. Literary Fiction; Classics. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780451191151ISBN:0451191153
Description: Rand, Ayn., Signet (New American Library), 1993, c1971, later printing, illus. soft cover (mass market paperback), very good++, 704 pp plus reader's guide, 16mo, ISBN: 0451191153, 'The Fountainhead was published in 1943, creating a public furor and worldwide interest in its brilliant author', 'The story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman', with an introduction by the author and an afterword ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date published: 2010
ISBN-13:9780374158460ISBN:0374158460
Description: Franzen, Jonathan., Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2010, c2010, 1st Edition, 1st printing, boards (hard cover), fine with very near fine dj (price clipped), 562 pp, tall 8vo, ISBN: 9780374158460, 'An epic of contemporary love and marriage. Comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our ... Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780395927205ISBN:039592720X
Description: Lahiri, Jhumpa., Houghton Mifflin Co. 'A Mariner Original', 1999, c1999, later printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), PO's name o/w near fine, 198 pp, 8vo, ISBN: 039592720X, 'Unerringly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations', Author's first book; Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Read More
