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1958Best.-Nr. 11844WRITERS AT WORK THE PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEWS Viking 1958 first edition fine in near fine dust-wrapper with some slight wear to the dust-wrapper spine extremities. The first book in the series. Interviews with E. M. Forester Francois Mauriac Joyce Cary Dorothy Parker James Thurber Thornton Wilder William Faulkner Georges Simenon Frank O'Connor Robert Penn warren Alberto Moravia Nelson Algren Angus Wilson William Styron Truman Capote & Francois Sagan. Viking unknown books
1952Best.-Nr. 300278New York Harper & Brothers 1952. 1952. First edition so stated; "H-B. 8vo. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped. Very good. 301 pages. No bookplates. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in loose with publication date of Sept. 18 original price of $3.00. Also laid in loose is a postcard from the publicity department Harper & Brothers announcing the publication date changed from September 18 to October 13. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Harper & Brothers [1952]. hardcover books
1968Best.-Nr. 310362New York: Viking 1968. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in fine slipcase with a bit of foxing to the printed label on the box. Illustrated with four full-scale facsimile pages from the manuscript. Viking hardcover books
2011Best.-Nr. 71112NY: Ecco 2011. First edition first prnt. Signed and dated "4/13/11" by Oates on the title page. Oates had written "3" and then wrote "4" as a correction for the date. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ecco hardcover books
2011Best.-Nr. 41919NY: Ecco 2011. First edition first prnt. Signed and dated "4/14/11" by Oates on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ecco Hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 55839New York: The Vanguard Press Inc. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0814907741 . A Near Fine first Printing of the First Edition with some mild soiling and damp stains to the red cloth boards in alike dust-jacket; Crossing the Border is a collection of fifteen short stories about the human experience told from a variety of perspectives. Each story is rooted in a true event and Oates' trademark narrative skill as well as her gift for creating memorable characters brings these events to life.; 8vo; 256 pages; Price . The Vanguard Press, Inc. hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 55837New York: The Vanguard Press Inc. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0814907741 . A Very Good first Printing of the First Edition that is soiled and dampstained in an aged Near Fine dust-jacket showing some dampstains; This book is a collection of fifteen short stories set on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border. Each story is about a different character and most of them explore the dynamics of the borderland its people and its culture.; 8vo; 256 pages; Price . The Vanguard Press, Inc. hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 55838New York: The Vanguard Press Inc. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0814907741 . A first Printing of the First Edition in Fine condition that has a tiny black soil spot on the front cover in a mildly soiled Near Fine dust-jacket; The Crossing the Border anthology is a collection of fifteen short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. The stories explore the themes of immigration and the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. The stories are written with a keen eye for detail and are filled with vivid characters and compelling stories.; 8vo; 256 pages; Price . The Vanguard Press, Inc. hardcover books
1974Best.-Nr. 31728Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1974. First edition the deluxe limited issue of 350 numbered copies signed by Oates on the limitation page of a total 1350 hardcover copies. Copy #297. Quarter-cloth with printed spine label and paper-covered boards in plastic dustwrapper. Design by Barbara Martin. Production photographs by James Tilton. Small chip on dustwrapper spine topedge. Fine condition in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A play in twelve scenes first presented in NYC in Dec. 1973. Cast included Robert Guillaume Marcella Lowery F. Murray Abraham et al. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Black Sparrow Press Hardcover books
1979Best.-Nr. 55041Franklin Center PA: Franklin Library. Fine. 1979. Limited Signed Edition. Full-Leather. A Fine Limited edition signed by Joyce Carol Oates; Winner of the National Book Award Them ranks as one of the most masterly portraits of postwar America ever written by a novelist. A novel about class race and the horrific glassy sparkle of urban life them chronicles the lives of the Wendalls a family on the steep edge of poverty in the windy riotous Detroit slums. This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather and features gilded sewn in pages and ribbon marker simply superb quality Franklin Library at its best; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; xx 601 5 pages; Signed by Author . Franklin Library hardcover books
1994Best.-Nr. 17626New York: Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0525938362 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; Joyce Carol Oates' latest novel tells the story of a woman who is forced to reckon with the choices she's made in her life. After a life of privilege and ease she is faced with the consequences of her choices as she battles cancer. What I Lived For is a compelling and thought-provoking book that will stay with you long after you finish it.; 8vo . Dutton hardcover books
1975Best.-Nr. 9001490Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Very good/very good. The dust jacket has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities. Louisiana State University Press hardcover books
1984Best.-Nr. 9671Franklin Center: Franklin Library 1984. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Privately printed and personally signed by the author for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Bound in publisher's original brown composition leather with the covers and spine stamped in gilt. Four raised bands on the spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Franklin Library hardcover books
1995Best.-Nr. 193536Austin Texas: University Of Texas Press 1995. Hardcover. VG light scuffs to boards; edge-wear to lower boards. spine ends crinkled. light rubbing to corners. dustjacket scuffed & smudged; light wear. black cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. 284 pgs w/ bw illustrations 12 color plates. glossy illustrated dustjacket w/ color illustrations. "Describes the cave site of Naj Tunich in the southeastern Petén region of Guatemala. Includes an analysis of the cave painting style and iconography and with Barbara MacLeod of the hieroglyphic texts that accompany some of them. A survey of cave paintings from other parts of the Maya world and elsewhere in Mesoamerica provides a broad comparative context"--WorldCat. University Of Texas Press hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 003464New York: Peter H. Wyden 1972. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. First Printing. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR Dr. Joyce Brothers on front endpage "To June Miller- warm good wishes. I hope I can call you a friend. Joyce". At bottom edge front endpage in different ink from the inscription is the address "305 E. 86th St. N.Y.C. 10028" Near Fine top edge lightly dusted in a Very Good Plus dustjacket with small dampstains along top and bottom edges. Peter H. Wyden Hardcover books
1944Best.-Nr. 60181New Directions 1944. First edition. 8vo pp. 234. Paper over boards stamped in gilt pulled at the top off the spine. Poet Barbara Howes' copy with her signature on the endpaper and bookplate laid in. New Directions unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 12046BITCHES & SAD LADIES Harper's 1975 first edition some soiling to covers else vg in wraps. Uncorrected proof. Scarce thus with contributions by: Joyce Carol Oates Cynthia Ozick Ann Beattie Mary Betts Edna O'Brien Mary Sexton Grace Paley Ursula Leguin Anne Godust-wrapper in et.al. Edited by Pat Rotter. Harper's paperback books
2017Best.-Nr. 168508Santa Barbara CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art 2017. Hardcover. VG. Beige cloth with red and white paper illustration black lettering on spine. 183 pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Published for the exhibition held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art September 17-Decemer 31 2017 and the Phoenix Art Museum March 24-July 15 2018. Santa Barbara Museum of Art hardcover books
1987Best.-Nr. 184978Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press 1987. Hardcover. VG-/VG- ex-library with labels and stamps on spine block inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Age toning to pages. Text is otherwise clear. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; black dj with red lettering bw illustration mylar cover; v 320 pp bw map. "There is by now a considerable academic literature concerned with matters such as the development of the labour process labour history and the sociology of work."- dj. Contents: The historical meanings of work: an introduction / Patrick Joyce -- Mythical work: workshop production and the compagnonnages of eighteenth-century France / Michael Sonenscher -- Women's work mechanisation and the early phases of industrialisation in England / Maxine Berg -- The property of skill in the period of manufacture / John Rule -- 'L'ouvrière! Mot impie sordide . ': women workers in the discourse of French political economy 1840-1860 / Joan W. Scott -- The languages of factory reform in Britain c.1830-1860 / Robert Gray -- Time to work time to live: some aspects of work and the re-formation of class in Britain 1850-1880 / Keith McClelland -- 'A time to every purpose': an essay on time and work / Richard Whipp -- The 'work ethic' and 'leisure' activity: the hot rod in post-war America / H.F. Moorhouse. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1958Best.-Nr. 15491New York: Viking Press 1958. First American edition 8vo pp. xxii 266; 2 portraits on recto and verso of 1 plate; fine copy in the jacket. "Quoted in the text are several unpublished or uncollected pieces of early Joyce writings preserved by Stanislaus" jacket blurb. Viking Press unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 017458Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Small tear at the bottom of the front cover; slight strip of sunning to the front edge. Near Fine and uncommon. Uncorrected Proof in tall 10-3/4" printed green wraps. First Prize went to Raymond Carver's "A Small Good Thing." Publication date and price in ink on the front cover. Doubleday & Company, Inc. paperback books
1958Best.-Nr. 31276NY: Viking 1958. First edition. xxii 266 pp w/index. Topstain dull else near fine in full green buckram with some foxing to the one b&w plate and opposing leaves. No dust jacket as issued. Edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Ellmann. Preface by T.S. Eliot. One of 375 copies published in advance of the first edition as a Christmas remembrance for friends of the Press. NY: Viking, hardcover books
1967Best.-Nr. 89690NY: New Directions 1967. First edition. 314 pp w/index. Light soiling to top and bottom edge else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited and with Commentary by Forrest Read. NY: New Directions unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 5982New York: Gotham Book Mart 1950. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. A Proceeding of the James Joyce Society delivered at the Meeting of November 18 1948. Minor shelf/edge wear touch of sun at the spine booksellers stamp at the rear else tight bright and unmarred. Blue paper wraps black ink lettering. 8vo. 64pp. Illus. b/w plates. Gotham Book Mart unknown books
2003Best.-Nr. 420208Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press 2003. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Glossy pictorial self-wrappers. Fine. Affectionately Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco by Irving Adler. University of the West Indies Press unknown books
