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Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First trade edition. Set in Baltimore - as many of her novels are - this is the story of a young man who, as an attempt to attone for the wrong he thinks he has done his brother, finds himself raising his brother's three children. Reviewer Lee Lescaze commented on Tyler's extraordinary talent which 'can crush the heart with the hopelessness on one page and liftit with love and humor on the next.' Near fine in a fine dustjacket (prev owner's first name stamped on front endpaper.).
Edité par New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover - Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition). 'A mesmerizing novel of suspense and supernatural horror-set in the recent past and a near future grislier than anyone could possibly imagine-in which the caduceus, the winged, serpentine emblem of the physician's healing art, becomes the ultimate instrument of corruption and death.' Finalist for the 1992 Bram Stoker Award for best novel. Dustjacket praise from Dean Koontz and Stephen King (who says 'The M.D. is simply one of the best novels of horror-fantasy I've ever read.') 401 pp Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First US edition. A novel about 30 friends, all around 30, set in London - one in which 'three wonderfully realized voices are telling 3 wildly different versions of one story.' Very good in near fine dust jacket.
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First trade edition. Set in Baltimore - as many of her novels are - this is the story of a young man who, as an attempt to attone for the wrong he thinks he has done his brother, finds himself raising his brother's three children. Reviewer Lee Lescaze commented on Tyler's extraordinary talent which 'can crush the heart with the hopelessness on one page and liftit with love and humor on the next.' Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (remainder mark).
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First edition. Tells the stories of the families who moved North from the 1940s to the 1960s, and the politicians who suddenly realized they had a new consitutency and a new crisis in the big cities. Ex-library. Ex-library with usual flaws, in a very good, pc, dj.
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. Highly praised author's seventh novel - set on an island in the Aegean. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover - Later printing. Novel set in the post-cold war changing world of espionage. 335 pp. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (sunning to spine of dj and a small scrape).
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First US printing. Dorrie's second collection of short stories with settings ranging from her native Germany to Southern California. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. 155 pp. Dust jacket art by Edward Gorey. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line, some light soiling to cream background of dj, toning to spine).
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First US edition. A novel about 30 friends, all around 30, set in London - one in which 'three wonderfully realized voices are telling 3 wildly different versions of one story.' Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.).
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. His 3rd hardboiled thriller set in Key West Florida. 308 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot.).
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First trade edition. Set in Baltimore - as many of her novels are - this is the story of a young man who, as an attempt to attone for the wrong he thinks he has done his brother, finds himself raising his brother's three children. Reviewer Lee Lescaze commented on Tyler's extraordinary talent which 'can crush the heart with the hopelessness on one page and liftit with love and humor on the next.' Fine in fine dust jacket.
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. The authorÕs very highly praised first book - blurbs from Joy Williams (who called it 'great nasty fun'), Barry Hannah, Joseph Heller ("It is a sizzler of a novel, a whirlwind. It swept me up in the opening paragraphs and did not set me down until its fine closing sentence.") and others. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. From the dj: "The story of one manÕs rapid unravelling, [a year after the deaths of his wife and father]- between Independence Day and Christmas - as he observes, appalled and entranced, his own self-destructive ingenuity." 238 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.).
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. Novel set in San Francisco in the 1980's - the story of a mother and her 5 very different daughters (from 3 different marriages.) 307 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991 dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. Novel by this award-winning writer set in Waco, Texas - the story of a woman who leaves her constricting marriage to a Presbyterian minister and reconnects with her high school boyfriend as Waco itself becomes a "new world where superconducting supercolliders, threatening farmlands, have brought into the area a global mix of superscientists." 243 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. The second book by this Southern writer and his first collection of shorter fiction, consisting of nine stories and two novellas, written over a period of 20 years. 252 pp. Dust jacket design by Chip Kidd. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark).
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. Cary's first book, a highly praised memoir about her years at a formerly all-male New England prep school - where she was pushing the barriers as both black and female - and also about her return to that school as a teacher. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (gift inscription.).
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First US printing. A collection of six short novels, by this Russian emigree writer, novels rooted in the lives of those who fled the Russian Revolution to live in exile in Paris, as Berberova herself did for many years. Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz. 308 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. First novel by the 2004 winner of the National Book Award. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. The authorÕs very highly praised first book - blurbs from Joy Williams (who called it 'great nasty fun'), Barry Hannah, Joseph Heller ("It is a sizzler of a novel, a whirlwind. It swept me up in the opening paragraphs and did not set me down until its fine closing sentence.") and others. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. From the dj: "The story of one manÕs rapid unravelling, [a year after the deaths of his wife and father]- between Independence Day and Christmas - as he observes, appalled and entranced, his own self-destructive ingenuity." 238 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.).
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. His second book, first collection of shorter fiction, consisting of nine stories and two novellas, written over a period of 20 years. 252 pp. Dust jacket design by Chip Kidd. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First US printing. Dorrie's second collection of short stories with settings ranging from her native Germany to Southern California. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. 155 pp. Dust jacket art by Edward Gorey. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. The author's first book, a collection of 15 interlinked short stories, set in Montana and Nevada: "part Hemingway sparseness, part lush poetry" - and most featuring Harry Drake, a man in search of himself in a rootless America. Cover praise from James Dickey and Barry Hannah (who called this "utterly magnificent.") 176 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. First novel by the 2004 winner of the National Book Award. Near fine in fine dust jacket (an otherwise new copy, but with the corners torn from 2 pages, not affecting the text).
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. Author's fourth novel about the South and the sixties, set in part in Charleston, South Carolina where the author herself grew up - a story of fighting for the freedom to make choices - even when the choices might not be the best ones ("booze and mescaline give way to booze and cocaine"). 205 pp. Near fine in a fine dustjacket (an apparently unread copy, but signs of handling.).
Edité par New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. The author's second novel, one that 'brilliantly invents two figures: a great New York poet of the 40's and 50's and his obsessed biographer.' Fine in fine dust jacket.
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. His seventh collection of poetry. 85 pp. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (ink mark on bottom edge.).
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. Piercy's highly praised science fiction novel - an interweaving of 2 stories, one that of a young woman in the 21st century in the vast toxic wasteland that used to be North America, the other a kabbalist in the 16th century in Prague's Jewish ghetto. Fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. Author's fourth novel about the South and the sixties, set in part in Charleston, South Carolina where the author herself grew up - a story of fighting for the freedom to make choices - even when the choices might not be the best ones ("booze and mescaline give way to booze and cocaine"). 205 pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.).
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. First novel by the 2004 winner of the National Book Award. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy).
Edité par New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj, 1991
Vendeur : Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover first edition - First printing. The highly praised first book by a writer who was selected as a regional Granta novelist, winner of the Whiting award. Amy Hempel called him 'both knowing and impressionable, a brilliant new writer.' Fine in fine dust jacket.