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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. F. Knopf, 1993. First edition. New in dust jacket. Illus. by Ravid, Joyce. Square small 4to., (iv), 103 p., 87 colored photographs. Ravid's hand-colored photographs have appeared in and as covers for TIME, NEWSWEEK, CONDE NAST TRAVELER, FORTUNE, GQ, and ROLLING STONE. Beautifully irresistible hand-tinted images from around the world--still lifes, portraits and panoramic views--from Kyoto dragons to Red Square at night, a Nicaraguan beach and an unusual Midwestern barn. Hardbound 87 color illustrations. 104 pages 0.0.

Softcover. Etat : Fine. Susan Mitchell / Joyce Ravid(Cover Artist) (illustrateur). First Edition. Afterburn by Colin Harrison (First Edition) ARC / Advance Reading Copy A sharp, tight, square copy. Seemingly unread. First Edition (stated), ARC / Advance Reading Copy, the true First Edition. Trade paperback with pictorial wrappers. The author's fourth novel; standalone book. BOOK.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Ravid, Joyce (illustrateur). First Edition. New York: Knopf, 1993. First edition. 8vo. Collection of beautiful hand-colored photographs. Fine in near fine dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good-. Illustrated by The Author; Photographer (illustrateur). First Edition. Signed by the photographer on the half-title page. DJ has a very slight crease to the front bottom spine corner and very slight rubbing. ; 9.80 X 9.60 X 0.90 inches.

First Edition. F- in F- DJ, 1st edition. 103 pages, octavo. Whispers of wear. This book looks new. Jacket in protective mylar. An interesting collection of hand colored photographs.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : Like New. First Edition. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. Dust jacket in a mylar cover. Oblong 4to. 103pp.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. Susan Mitchell / Joyce Ravid (illustrateur). First edition. Signed. First Edition (stated) 2000. Signed by the author on the title page, no inscription. The author's fourth novel. Non-series. Signed.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. pp. 103. 87 colour illus. cloth. dw. First Edition.

Cloth. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. 101p, previous owner's inscription.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Very good. Joyce Ravid (Author photograph) (illustrateur). First Printing [Stated]. 25 cm. 671, [1] pages. Notes. Index. Minor DJ scuffing. Signed by the author on the title page. Large autographed sticker on front of DJ. Betty Friedan (February 4, 1921 - February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century. In 1966, Friedan co-founded and was elected the first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), which aimed to bring women "into the mainstream of American society now [in] fully equal partnership with men." In 1970, after stepping down as NOW's first president, Friedan organized the nationwide Women's Strike for Equality on August 26, the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote. The national strike was successful beyond expectations in broadening the feminist movement; the march led by Friedan in New York City alone attracted over 50,000 people. In 1971, Friedan joined other leading feminists to establish the National Women's Political Caucus. Friedan was also a strong supporter of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that passed the United States House of Representatives (by a vote of 354-24) and Senate (84-8) following intense pressure by women's groups led by NOW in the early 1970s. Following Congressional passage of the amendment, Friedan advocated for ratification of the amendment in the states and supported other women's rights reforms. The Fountain of Age suggests new possibilities for every one of us, all founded on a solid body of startling but little-known scientific evidence. It demolishes those myths that have constrained us for too long, and offers compelling alternatives for living one's age as a unique, exuberant time of life, on its own authentic terms. Derived from a Kirkus review: A book that explodes the myths of aging-just as, 30 years ago, Friedan exploded the mirage of the contented housewife. American women's lives changed forever with The Feminine Mystique-and this challenging exploration of aging may do the same for the skyrocketing population of men and women who have hit 60 and can anticipate 20 or 30 more years of living. The problem, Friedan says, is that although only about five percent of people over 65 are in nursing homes and fewer than ten percent ever will be, age is seen-by media, doctors, politicians, academics, even activists on behalf of the aging-as a ``problem,'' a ``plight,'' a time of rapidly decreasing physical and mental faculties. Older people buy into that picture, straining to stay youthful or removing themselves from active participation in society, often by retiring to ``leisure'' communities, whether or not leisure is what they crave. Friedan produces research studies and anecdotal evidence that the `Third Age' (after growing up and then generating a family and/or career) may be the age of true creativity-even of evolution. She examines the tragedies of productive lives cut short by early retirement; the new myths of menopause; early preparation for death; and anxious overprotectiveness by family, friends, professionals, and government. In fact, the many resourceful older men and women cited here have found ways not only to sustain rewarding lives but to grow intellectually, emotionally, and even physically. That America's youth-oriented culture puts its elders on a social ice floe at a time when wisdom, experience, and honed critical faculties are most needed indicates, suggests Friedan, a nation with its priorities sadly skewed. A far-sighted and far-reaching critique that may move the over-60s to reestablish the ``priorities of evolving life.and new visions for our stagnant society.''.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Hobbing, Erich (book design); Fulbrook, John (jacket design); Ravid, Joyce (author photograph) (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Very fine unread condition maroon linen boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic and color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Don DeLillo and Praise for Underworld. Illustrated with a two page New York Times front page from October 1, 1951. Remainder mark at lower page edge. "Pafko at the Wall is from the novel Underworld." - from the rear outer jacket. "There's pleasure on every page of this pitch-perfect evocation." - Malcolm Jones, Newsweek. "There's a long drive. It's gonna be. I believe. The Giants. win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant." - Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951. "On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World," Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction the larger-than-life characters who on October 3, 1951, witnessed Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Jackie Gleason is razzing Toots Shor in Leo Durocher's box seats; J. Edgar Hoover, basking in Sinatra's celebrity, is about to be told that the Russians have tested an atomic bomb; and Russ Hodges, raw-throated and excitable, announces the game - the Giants and the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds in New York. DeLillo's transcendent account of one of the iconic events of the twentieth century is a masterpiece of American sports writing." - from the inner front jacket flap. "Pafko at the Wall is the prologue to Don DeLillo's eleventh novel, Underworld. It origiinally appeared, in different form, in Harper's, October, 1992." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Bacon, Paul (jacket design); Ravid, Joyce (author photograph); Metz, Eve (book design) (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Fine condition red boards, blue cloth spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Joseph Heller and Acknowledgments. The Sequel to Catch-22. "In a novel as darkly comic and audaciously ambitious as was Catch-22, Joseph Heller has dared to write the sequel to his American classic, using many of Catch-22's characters, now older if not wiser, to deftly satirize the realities and the myths of America in the half century since they fought World War II. In 1961, Joseph Heller's remarkable first novel made its way immediately into the American psyche and came to symbolize the absurdity of war and of life. Catch-22 was recognized overnight as a classic and has sold nearly ten million copies in the United States alone. It remains perhaps the funniest - and the most serious - novel ever written about war, "an apocalyptic masterpiece," in the words of one reviewer. Now, thirty-three years later, Joseph Heller has written the sequel. You don't have to have read Catch-22 (but then, who on earth hasn't?) to enjoy Closing Time, which is a fully independent companion work, a comic masterpiece in its own right, in which Heller spears the inflated balloons of our national cousciousness - the absurdity of our politics, the decline of society and our great cities, the greed and hypocrisy of our business and culture - with the same ferocious humor that he used against the conventional view of warfare. His characters are those of Catch-22, coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian, and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked, this time in uneasy peace and old age, fighting, not the Germans this time, but The End. Closing Time is outrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful as Catch-22 itself, a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Joyce Ravid (Author's Photo); Eve Arnold (Jacket Photo); Kathleen Digrado (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Signed by Don DeLillo directly on the title page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Ng, Kapo (jacket design); Chung, Sam (jacket type illustrations); Ng, Kapo (jacket photograph); Ravid, Joyce (author photograph) (illustrateur). As new condition blue boards, black spine, and neon blue spine lettering in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Book(s) by Nicole Krauss and Author Dedication. Signed and dated (June 7, 2005) by the author, Nicole Krauss, with black Sharpie/marker at the center of the full title page. "Nicole Krauss strides into the forecourt of American letters." - Susan Sontag. "Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive, drawing attention to himself at the milk counter of Starbucks. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And although he doesn't know it, that book also survived: it crossed oceans and generations, and changed lives. Fourteen-year-old Alma was named after a character in that book. She has her hands full keeping track of her little brother Bird (who thinks he might be the Messiah) and taking copious notes in her book, How to Survive in the Wild Volume Three. But when a mysterious letter arrives in the mail she undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. In her extraordinary new novel Nicole Krauss has created some of the most memorable and moving characters in recent fiction. A tale brimming with laughter, passion, and soaring imaginative power, The History of Love confirms Krauss as one of the most remarkable writers of her generation." - from the inner front jacket flap. "Charming, tender, and wholly original." - J.M Coetzee. "The interwoven threads of this marvelous tapestry offer delights at every turn. The writing is gorgeous, and Krauss's questing characters follow surprisng and touching paths." - Andrea Barrett. "From the twentieth-century Jewish experience of dislocation Nicole Krauss has constructed - with nods to Bellow and Singer and a kiss blown across the gulf of years to Bruno Schulz - a stirring, soulful novel that speaks to our own losses and loves. This book will break your heart and at once mend it." - Ken Kalfus. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Very good. Joyce Ravid (Author photograph) (illustrateur). Presumed First Edition, First printing. [12], 628 pages. Note to the Reader. Author signature is on a separate insert. PAT CONROY is the author of five previous books: The Boo, The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides, the last four of which were made into feature films. Donald Patrick Conroy (October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016) was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs; his books The Water is Wide, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini were made into films, the last two being nominated for Oscars. As a graduate of The Citadel's Corps of Cadets, his experiences at The Citadel provided the basis for two of his best-known works, the novel The Lords of Discipline and the memoir My Losing Season. The latter details his senior year on the school's underdog basketball team, which won the longest game in the history of Southern Conference basketball against rival Virginia Military Institute. The main character of The Great Santini is Marine fighter pilot Colonel "Bull" Meecham, who dominates and terrorizes his family. The character is based on Conroy's father Donald. In 1995, Conroy published Beach Music, a novel about an American expatriate living in Rome who returns to South Carolina upon news of his mother's terminal illness. The story reveals his attempt to confront personal demons, including the suicide of his wife, the subsequent custody battle with his in-laws over their daughter, and the attempt by a film-making friend to rekindle old friendships which were compromised during the days of the Vietnam War. Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a story that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust. Beach Music is about Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's suicide. But his solitude is disturbed by the appearance of his sister-in-law, who begs him to return home, and of two school friends asking for his help in tracking down another classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced. These requests launch Jack on a journey that encompasses the past and the present in both Europe and the American South, and that leads him to shocking--and ultimately liberating--truths. Told with deep feeling and trademark Conroy humor, Beach Music is powerful and compulsively readable. It is another masterpiece in the legendary list of classics that his body of work has already become. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Booksellers and other vitally interested parties can quit holding their collective breath: Conroy has not lost his touch. His storytelling powers have not failed; neither has his poetic skill with words, nor his vivid imagination. His long-awaited sixth book sings with the familiar elegiac Southern cadences, his prose is sweepingly lyrical, unabashedly sentimental. The hero, Jack McCall, describes himself as a man on the run from his past: the suicide of his beloved wife; the destructive influence of his icy, manipulative mother and mean, bullying, alcoholic father; the betrayal of his youthful ideals, his boyhood friends. There is, of course, the familiar theme of dysfunctional families; in addition to the McCalls, two other family units vie for the dubious title of most messed-up. But Conroy has added a new element here, by dramatizing his conviction that the `unbearable wound' of Vietnam was our country's spiritual Holocaust. Conroy takes on these emotionally laden issues in chapters so direct and powerful that readers will be moved by his intimacy with the material, and perhaps astonished by his authority over it. Conroy meshes complex plot lines with ease.

Etat : Fine. - Quarto [9-3/4 inches square], cloth in a dust wrapper. 103 pages plus colophon. Profuse full-page photographic illustrations & plates in color and black & white, including reproductions of 87 hand-colored photographs, by Joyce Ravid. Fine. First edition.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Very good. Joyce Ravid (author photograph) (illustrateur). First Printing [Stated]. 827, [3] pages. Signed and dated by the author on the fep. A monumental work combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years gives readers a glimpse into the realities upon which America's modern culture is based and explores the complex relationship between "waste analyst" Nick Shay and artist Klara Sax. Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism. DeLillo was already a well-regarded writer in 1985, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and won him the National Book Award for fiction. DeLillo has twice been a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist (for Mao II in 1992 and for Underworld in 1998), won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II in 1992, won the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, was granted the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2010, and won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013. DeLillo had described his fiction as concerned with "living in dangerous times",[3] and in a 2005 interview he said that writers "must oppose systems. It's important to write against power, corporations, the state, and the whole system of consumption and of debilitating entertainments. I think writers, by nature, must oppose things, oppose whatever power tries to impose on us." Underworld went on to become DeLillo's most acclaimed novel to date, achieving mainstream success and earning nominations for the National Book Award and the New York Times Best Books of the Year in 1997, and a second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction nomination in 1998. The novel won the 1998 American Book Award, the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, and both the William Dean Howells Medal and Riccardo Bacchelli International Award in 2000. It was a runner-up in the 2006 New York Times' survey of the best American fiction of the last 25 years. White Noise and Libra were also recognized by the anonymous jury of contemporary writers. DeLillo later expressed surprise at Underworld's success. In 2007, he remarked: "When I finished with Underworld, I didn't really have any all-too-great hopes, to be honest. It's some pretty complicated stuff: 800 pages, more than 100 different charactersâ"who's going to be interested in that?" After rereading it in 2010, over ten years after its publication, DeLillo said that rereading it "made me wonder whether I would be capable of that kind of writing nowâ"the range and scope of it. There are certain parts of the book where the exuberance, the extravagance, I don't know, the overindulgence.There are city scenes in New York that seem to transcend reality in a certain way." Derived from a Kirkus review: Working at the top of his form, DeLillo draws on his previous novels in shaping his most ambitious work yet, a grand Whitmanesque epic of postwar American lifeâ"a brainy, streetwise, and lyrical underground history of our times, full of menace and miracles, and humming with the bop and crackle of postmodern life. DeLillo's bottom-up chronicle is the history of garbage, from a rubble-strewn lot in the Bronx to nuclear waste dumps in the Southwest. And the true-blue American who spans these landscapes is one Nick Shay, now an executive with a waste-management firm, once a j.d. on the not-so-mean streets, where his father kept book and his mother worried her rosary for her two boys, the other a chess prodigy who later lends his mathematical genius to the weapons industry. From the '50s on, DeLillo's always accessible narrative is also the history of a baseball, the one that was the "Shot Heard Round the World," Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run in 1951. The fate of the actual ball, a relic of spiritual significance, seemingly lost, is also a lesson in e.

Cardboard. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Promotional EASEL. (NOT THE BOOK) (12" X 18") SIGNED by Andrew Vachss in gold ink at righthand margin. Near fine on a single printed sheet of cardboard. (Hint of faint foxing on blank reverse) Arresting photographic portrait of the author, with eye-patch, staring impassively with the header above stating- "Move over Dashiell Hammett and Raymond chandler, you've got company- Cosmopolitan." Uncommon ephemeral item. (B).