Category: Signed Editions

A Hidden Life: A Memoir of August 1969

By: Reiss, Johanna

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Melville House : January 2009

Seller ID: 457582

ISBN-13: 9781933633558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

For years, Johanna Reiss' American husband, Jim, encouraged her to return to Holland to chronicle the two years, seven months, and one day she had spent hiding from the Nazis in rural Usselo, Holland. In 1969, she finally made the trip. Accompanied by Jim and their two young children, Reiss intended to spend seven weeks researching the book that would eventually become The Upstairs Room, her Newbery Honorwinning account of her time hiding in the attic of a farmhouse in which a contingent of Nazi soldiers was billeted. But unknown to the millions of people who went on to read her beloved classi...
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A Hologram for the King

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $45.00

Publisher: McSweeney's : June 2012

Seller ID: 457211

ISBN-13: 9781936365746

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment -- and a moving story of how we got here.
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

By: Abdurraqib, Hanif

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Random House : March 2021

Seller ID: 476824

ISBN-13: 9781984801197

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in the Rain"Whether heralding unsung entertainers or reexamining legends, Hanif Abdurraqib weaves together gorgeous essays that reveal the resilience, heartbreak, and joy within Black performance. I read this book breathlessly."--Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half At the March on Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker was fifty-seven years old, well beyond her most prolific days. But in her speech she was in a mood to consider her life, her legacy, her departure from the country sh...
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A Monk Swimming

By: McCourt, Malachy

Price: $15.98

Publisher: Hachette Books : June 1998

Seller ID: 198154

ISBN-13: 9780786863983

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Slapped with a libel suit after an appearance on a talk show, Malachy McCourt crows, "If they could only see me now in the slums of Limerick, a big shot, sued for a million. Bejesus, isn't America a great and wonderful country?" His older brother Frank's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Angela's Ashes, took its somber tone from the bleak atmosphere of those slums, while Malachy's boisterous recollections are fueled by his zestful appreciation for the opportunities and oddities of his native land. He and Frank were born in Brooklyn, moved with their parents to Ireland as children, then returned t...
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Aberystwyth mon amour

By: PRYCE, Malcolm

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Bloomsbury : January 2002

Seller ID: 479417

ISBN-13: 9780747557869

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Above the Waterfall: A Novel

By: Rash, Ron

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Ecco : September 2015

Seller ID: 457247

ISBN-13: 9780062349316

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In this poetic and haunting tale set in contemporary Appalachia, New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash illuminates lives shaped by violence and a powerful connection to the land.Les, a long-time sheriff just three-weeks from retirement, contends with the ravages of crystal meth and his own duplicity in his small Appalachian town.Becky, a park ranger with a harrowing past, finds solace amid the lyrical beauty of this patch of North Carolina.Enduring the mistakes and tragedies that have indelibly marked them, they are drawn together by a reverence for the natural world. When an irascible el...
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Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

By: Macintyre, Ben

Price: $34.98

Publisher: Crown : September 2020

Seller ID: 463442

ISBN-13: 9780593136300

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Looks as new, no noticeable markigns or blemishes. Signature on second page.
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American Posters of World War I: A Price and Collector's Guide

By: Theofiles, George

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Dafran House Publishers : January 1975

Seller ID: 460418

ISBN: B001NXAOFY

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

inscription to previous owner with author signautre and date
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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power - Signed / Autographed Copy

By: Gore, AL

Price: $24.98

Publisher: Rodale Books : July 2017

Seller ID: 475519

ISBN-13: 9781635651850

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Anatomy of a Miracle: A Novel*

By: Miles, Jonathan

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Hogarth : March 2018

Seller ID: 450085

ISBN-13: 9780553447583

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

"Funny, bighearted...Miles specializes in giving fully rounded humanity to characters who might elsewhere be treated as stock figures...pitch-perfect."-- New York Times Book Review "Miles is a writer so virtuosic that readers will feel themselves becoming better, more observant people from reading him."-- Los Angeles Review of Books A profound new novel about a paralyzed young man's unexplainable recovery--a stunning exploration of faith, science, mystery, and the meaning of life Rendered paraplegic after a traumatic event four years ago, Cameron Harris has been living his new existence alon...
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Ancient Baseball

By: Michael Horowitz

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 254107

ISBN-13: 9780997897838

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

At The Edge of the Orchard

By: Chevalier, Tracy

Price: $26.95

Publisher: Dutton Adult : October 2015

Seller ID: 452110

ISBN-13: 9780525953005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Signed First Edition
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

By: Winchester, Simon

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Harper : November 2010

Seller ID: 457258

ISBN-13: 9780061702587

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate historian, Winchester sets the great blue sea's epic narrative against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution, telling not only the story of an ocean, ...
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Big League poets

By: Horowitz, Mikhail

Price: $39.98

Publisher: City Lights Books : January 1978

Seller ID: 448950

ISBN-13: 9780872861039

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Autographed
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Broke Heart Blues

By: Oates, Joyce Carol

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Dutton Adult : July 1999

Seller ID: 348823

ISBN-13: 9780525944515

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

age spots and yellowing on top of pages
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Brookland: A Novel

By: Barton, Emily

Price: $15.98

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : February 2006

Seller ID: 424710

ISBN-13: 9780374116903

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Autograped First Edition
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Buffalo Nickel

By: Salas, Floyd

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Arte Publico Press : January 1992

Seller ID: 457266

ISBN-13: 9781558850491

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

inscriptionfrom author to previous owner on front back of front cover
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Burning Angel: A Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)

By: Burke, James Lee

Price: $15.98

Publisher: Hyperion Books : August 1995

Seller ID: 269180

ISBN-13: 9780786860821

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Defending an African-American farm family from local mobsters who want their land, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux travels from his native New Orleans to Central America in pursuit of a notorious gambler and hit man.
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Cabal

By: Garbo, Norman

Price: $9.98

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc : January 1979

Seller ID: 229388

ISBN-13: 9780393088274

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Very good hardcover with dustjacket. Inscribed by the author.
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Caleb's Crossing: A Novel

By: Brooks,Geraldine

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Viking Adult : May 2011

Seller ID: 457254

ISBN-13: 9780670021048

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns aft...
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Calypso

By: Sedaris, David

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : June 2018

Seller ID: 478895

ISBN-13: 9780316392389

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself....
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Carp Fishing on Valium and Other Tales of the Stranger Road Traveled

By: Parker, Graham

Price: $18.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press : June 2000

Seller ID: 468089

ISBN-13: 9780312264857

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Like new, inscribed by the author
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City of Refuge: A Novel

By: Piazza, Tom

Price: $29.98

Publisher: Harper : September 2008

Seller ID: 457229

ISBN-13: 9780061238611

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

In City of Refuge, a heart-wrenching novel from Tom Piazza, the author of the award-winning Why New Orleans Matters, two New Orleans families--one black and one white--confront Hurricane Katrina, a storm that will change the course of their lives. Reaching across America--from the neighborhoods of New Orleans to Texas, Chicago, and elsewhere--City of Refuge explores this turning point in American culture, one whose reverberations are only beginning to be understood.

Country of Origin: A Novel

By: Lee, Don

Price: $68.98

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc : January 2004

Seller ID: 457020

ISBN-13: 9780393058123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

When a young American woman goes missing in 1980 Tokyo's sexual underworld, a young U.S. Embassy official considers his prospects for finding her and enlists the help of a neurotic and unpopular Japanese police officer.
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel

By: Franklin, Tom

Price: $45.00

Publisher: William Morrow : October 2010

Seller ID: 457252

ISBN-13: 9780060594664

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

some yellow of pages
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Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

By: Tolhurst, Lol

Price: $198.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press : October 2016

Seller ID: 462287

ISBN-13: 9780306824289

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

On our first day of school, Robert and I stood at the designated stop at Hevers Avenue with our mothers, and that's when we met for the very first time. We were five years old. So began a lifelong friendship that fourteen years later would result in the formation of The Cure, a quintessential post-punk band whose albums-such as Three Imaginary Boys, Pornography, and Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me-remain among the best-loved and most influential of all time. As two of the first punks in the provincial English town of Crawley, Lol Tolhurst and Robert Smith didn't have it easy. Outsiders from the star...
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Dead Wake The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By: Larson, Erik

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Crown Publishers New York : January 2015

Seller ID: 467807

ISBN-13: 9780804188197

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Divisadero

By: Ondaatje, Michael

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf : May 2007

Seller ID: 457243

ISBN-13: 9780307266354

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The eagerly awaited novel by the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient offers a psychologically intricate, devastating, and beautiful story of how a traumatic event shatters a makeshift family and sets each on a separate course.
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Eternal Life: A Novel

By: Horn, Dara

Price: $14.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : January 2018

Seller ID: 468868

ISBN-13: 9780393608533

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

AUTOGRAPHED
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Faire Mount: A Novel

By: Breslin, Ed

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Parkside Books : June 2021

Seller ID: 471009

ISBN-13: 9780578237626

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Far as the Eye Can See: A Novel

By: Bausch, Robert

Price: $49.98

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA : November 2014

Seller ID: 469425

ISBN-13: 9781620402597

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Bobby Hale is a Union veteran several times over. After the war, he sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. As he stumbles around the West, from the Wyoming Territory to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, he finds meaning in the people he meets-settlers and native people-and the violent history he both participates in and witnesses. Far as the Eye Can See is the story of life in a place where every minute is an engagement in a kind of war of survival, and how two people-a white man and a mixed-race woman-in the midst of such majesty and violence can manage to find a pathway t...
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First Lady from Plains

By: Carter, Rosalynn

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T) : April 1984

Seller ID: 434127

ISBN-13: 9780395352946

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

inscription by author on first page
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Florida

By: Groff, Lauren

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Riverhead Books : June 2018

Seller ID: 474319

ISBN-13: 9781594634512

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The universally acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies and MatrixFlorida is a superlative book (Boston Globe), frequently funny (San Francisco Chronicle), brooding, inventive and often moving (NPR Fresh Air) --as Groff is recognized as Florida's unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California. (Washington Post) In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild--a place where the haza...
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For Love Alone

By: Trump, Ivana

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Century : January 1992

Seller ID: 457256

ISBN-13: 9780712653626

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Inscription reads 'Dear Mark, Here'sa special copy of my book, just for you! I'm sending it with a big, wet, slurpy, soppy kiss, right on your you-know-what'!!'
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Half of a Yellow Sun

By: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf : September 2006

Seller ID: 457268

ISBN-13: 9781400044160

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as "the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe," Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed. With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a universit...
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

By: Clarke, Susanna

Price: $34.98

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA : September 2004

Seller ID: 478901

ISBN-13: 9781582344164

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory.But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman from...
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Keep Talking to Her, Private

By: Mullenneaux, Lisa

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Post Traumatic Press : January 2017

Seller ID: 460540

ISBN-13: 9780999436905

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Krazy

By: Tisserand, Michael

Price: $18.98

Publisher: Harper : December 2016

Seller ID: 100344

ISBN-13: 9780061732997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD FOR BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOKFINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD IN BIOGRAPHY FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYIn the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged--and the deep secret he explored through his art.The creator of the greatest comic strip in history finally gets his due--in an eye-opening biography that lays bare the truth about his art, his heritage, and his life on America's...
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Lake Success: A Novel

By: Shteyngart, Gary

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Random House : June 2018

Seller ID: 431303

ISBN-13: 9780812997415

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Spectacular."--NPR - "Uproariously funny."--The Boston Globe - "An artistic triumph."--San Francisco Chronicle - "A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced."--The Washington Post - "Shteyngart's best book."--The Seattle Times The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very much of our times.NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND MAUREEN CORRIGAN, NPR'S FRESH AIR AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - NPR - The Washington Post - O:...
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Like Trees, Walking: A Novel

By: Howard, Ravi

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Amistad : February 2007

Seller ID: 457261

ISBN-13: 9780060529598

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

LIKE TREES, WALKING examines an old tale in the New South. Based on the true story of the 1981 lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, the novel follows the lives of Paul and Roy Deacon, teenagers and childhood friends of Michael Donald, as they cope with the aftermath of his hanging. It is Paul Deacon who discovers the body, and the experience leaves him forever changed. The Deacons have operated a funeral home in the city for over 100 years. When the family is asked to conduct the services for Michael, Roy Deacon must examine whether a life in the family tradition is where he belong...
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