1990Best.-Nr. 570491New York: Dutton / William Abrahams 1990. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated wrappers. Small scratch on front wrap near fine. Advance Review Copy with publisher's letter laid in. Third book using this pseudonym a suspense novel centering around a rape and murder. Dutton / William Abrahams unknown books
1990Best.-Nr. 2350823New York: Dutton 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 20x20x20. First edition. Board edges slightly toned otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1990 Hard Cover. 276 pp. 8vo. A novel by National Book Award winning author Joyce Carol Oates who has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize multiple times. Published under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. "Maggie teaches piano at the Conservatory. Beneath the surface of the academic community sinister passions are stirring. Suddenly with a savage act of rape Maggie's civilized and sophisticated way of life is shattered and she is drawn into a horrifying world of sexual exploitation and violence. Dutton hardcover books
1990Best.-Nr. 11239NY: Dutton 1990. Advance reading copy. 274 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Promotional flyer laid in. The third book by Oates under this pseudonym. SIGNED by Oates as Oates on the title page. NY: Dutton unknown books
2003Best.-Nr. 76598New York NY.: RAW Junior LLC. Fine. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060286288 . This book is hard-bound in color pictorially printed paper covered boards with a blue spine with white and yellow printing. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with nice color illustrations throughout done by various artists. This book is signed by 5 of the artists/illustrators who contributed to the book Art Spiegelman Barbara McClintock Neil Gaiman Lemony Snicket and Francoise Mouly. ; 13.5 X 9.6 X 0.4 inches; 48 pages; Signed by Illustrator . RAW Junior LLC hardcover books
1988Best.-Nr. 240900New York: Walker and Co 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket a nice clean copy almost new. Walker and Co hardcover books
1998Best.-Nr. 166267VA: Intercontinental 1998. Softcover. Very Good. Uncor. Pf. Very good in wrappers. Paperback. Intercontinental unknown books
1998Best.-Nr. 218949VA: Intercontinental 1998. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in wrappers a paperback. Intercontinental unknown books
1998Best.-Nr. 18064Fairfax Station VA: Intercontinental Publishing. Fine with no dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1881164837 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition with minor stains to bottom of textblock. Signed inscribed and dated 7-12-98 by author Joyce Spizer directly on the title page. Paperback original; The Cop Was White As Snow tells the story of a white police officer who is the only one on his police force who is black. The officer is constantly discriminated against and has to fight for his rights.; A Harbour Pointe Mystery; 8vo; FSA ; Signed by Author . Intercontinental Publishing paperback books
1977Best.-Nr. LD12306Dublin: Gill and Macmillan 1977. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Red cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. xxvi 512 illustrated in b/w. Some discreet notations on endpapers; a little dust-soiling along edges of text block nowhere infringing into the margins or text itself. A nice bright copy in lightly rubbed and age-toned dust jacket with a few small closed tears along the edges. Facsimile reprint of the 1939 edition. Gill and Macmillan hardcover books
1962Best.-Nr. 508209No Place: The Georgia Review 1962. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Offprint. Reprinted from The Georgia Review Volume XVI Number 4 Winter 1962. Large octavo. 4pp. Stapled white printed wrappers. Prints the text of a letter from James Joyce to his maid Mary Kirn written on August 30 1911. A near fine copy. The Georgia Review unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 2256Seattle: University of Washington Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0295954949 . First edition. Remainder mark on fore edge else about fine in a near fine minor edge wear price clipped dust jacket. . University of Washington Press hardcover books
1978Best.-Nr. 461461978. LANCASTER Joyce Wilson. A Child's Garden of Verses. By Robert Louis Stevenson. 114 4 pp. Illustrated throughout by Joyce Lancaster Wilson with 9 full-page woodcuts 36 woodcut initials and several woodcut vignettes of various sizes. Large 8vo. 250 x 160 mm bound in half morocco over boards title in gilt on spine. San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley 1978. Nine poems by Stevenson are published here for the first time. The book is a combination of colourful initials vignettes and full-page plates designed and printed by Joyce Lancaster Wilson and skillfully printed by her husband the renowned San Franciscan scholar-printer Adrian Wilson in Centaur and Arrighi types. One of 500 copies signed by the illustrator. hardcover books
1989Best.-Nr. USTELEI00drpKeepsake 1989. Very Good. Steward Joyce S. The Leisure Pen: A Book for Elderwriters. Croft Mary K. Amherst: Keepsake 1989. 206pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle rubbing and bumping. Signed by Joyce S. Steward on first page. Keepsake paperback books
1988Best.-Nr. 00574scPortland Oregan: Timber Press 1988. Royal octavo full-color illus. boards hardcover 124 pp. Near-Fine with small smudge to ffep in a Fine As New dust jacket. Illus. in b&w full-color. “This book about orchids and orchid growing begins with a history of the first intorudction to Western horticulture more than 250 years ago and describes the difficult days of learning how to grow them. The main body of the book is concerned with the principles of growing propagating and caring for orchids in temperate regions. Discussions of the environmental conditions found where orchids grow in the wild help to give enthusiasts a clearer understading of the cultural needs of the plants under cultivation. Many of the orchids described in this book can be grown with success in a conservatory or on a windowsill others need rather more specific conditions that can be provided by a plant case or greenhouse. A brief look is also taken at orchids suitable for growing in the garden including those that can be grown in containers for summer display.In all Joyce Stewart describes well over 500 species and hybrids of this immense family. The carefully chosen colour illustrations and delightful historical prints show something of the amazing range and diversity of the ORchidaceae.” Timber Press, [1988]. hardcover books
1996Best.-Nr. vas719Portland Oregon: Timber Press 1996. Sponsored by The Kenya ORchid Trust and The Kenya Orchid Society. Octavo black boards hardcover gilt letters map illus. endpapers xv 176 pp. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine. From dust jacket: Situated astride the Equator Kenya is one of the most beautiful countries in Africa. From the idylic white beaches of coral sand facing the Indian Ocean to the snowfields at the top of Mt. Kenya more than 5000 metres above sea level it is a land of great diversity wild landscapes and abundant wildlife. The flora too is very varied. Among the trees and shrubs of the forests and bush and in the extensive grasslands nearly three hundred different kinds of orchids can be found. This is the first book devoted to the orchids of Kenya. It deals with all the epiphytic species the lianes in the genus Vanilla and finally the terrestrial kinds. They are all described in a logical and comparable way. Approximately two-thirds of the species are illustrated in colour many of them in close-up. An important chapter describing the work on orchid conservation at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi is also included. The text describes each species where it grows in Kenya and when it flowers. Other countries in Africa where each can be found are also mentioned. For each of the 50 genera and species are provided. In conjunction with the photographs and descriptions these keys will enable everyone with an interest in these fascinating plants to identify those they find in Kenya today. The book will also be useful to orchid enthusiast living in or visiting other parts of Africa because many of the species are widespread in the continent. Growers of African orchids in many other parts of the world will find the wealth of information it contains invaluable. Timber Press, 1996. Sponsored by The Kenya ORchid Trust and The Kenya Orchid Society. hardcover books
1963Best.-Nr. 187969Australia: The Jacaranda Press 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good ex-library with a "Books Across the Sea" bookplate on the front fly along with a notation in a very good minus dust jacket with tears along the edges. The Jacaranda Press 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
1995Best.-Nr. 20138Saratoga Springs: Skidmore College 1995. First printing. Paper wrappers. A fine copy. Trade format. Interview with Robert Stone articles by George Steiner and Roger Shattuck poem by Michael Ondaatje and a story by Joyce Carol Oates. Skidmore College unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 103712NY:: Viking. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. A novel. First edition. Near fine in a very good age toning along the spine dust jacket. . Viking, hardcover books
1977Best.-Nr. 54563NY:: Farrar Straus and Giroux. 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Stated first American edition. Near fine in a near fine age toning to. flaps dust jacket. 0374324549 . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover books
1968Best.-Nr. 38149NY:: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. First American edition. Fading to cloth along top edges else very good in a very good a few short closed edge tears small impression from a removed sticker on rear panel dust jacket. . Viking, hardcover books
1977Best.-Nr. 369727New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1977. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Good only ex-library with the usual markings rear fly removed tape on edges in a good only dust jacket. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1966Best.-Nr. 596736New York: The Viking Press 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Illustrated by David Rook. Topedge with light spotting letters on spine slightly rubbed very good lacking the dust jacket. The Viking Press hardcover books
1950Best.-Nr. JJ047Milan: Officine Grafiche "Esperia" 1950 Translated by Stanislaus Joyce. First edition first printing. One of 1600 copies 1500 of which were for New Directions this being number 1307. Publisher's stiff cream wrappers lettered in black; original pictorial dust jacket with Man Ray's 1922 photo of Joyce head in hand to front panel and a photo of Svevo looking at the camera to rear panel. Near fine book with toning to page margins and to spine and spine ends lightly wrinkled; very good dust jacket with very shallow chipping to spine ends and light wear to edges and a tiny closed tear to top of rear panel. Overall a sturdy copy of this quaint Christmas keepsake. This volume presents the newly-translated text of Italo Svevo's heartwarming and thoughtful 1927 lecture on James Joyce. Svevo considers Joyce's experience in Trieste where the two first met while examining Joyce's body of work particularly Ulysses. These friends met in 1907 when Ettore Schmitz-better known by his pseudonym Italo Svevo-took English classes from Joyce an expatriate 20 years his junior. The two developed a friendship largely built upon mutual support of each other's literary endeavors. It was Joyce who urged Svevo to continue writing and Svevo who served as a primary model for Leopold Bloom in Ulysses. With the help of Joyce and his new literary fame Svevo's most celebrated work La Coscienza di Zeno was published in 1923. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Milan: Officine Grafiche "Esperia" paperback books
2000Best.-Nr. 33172FL: Winslow Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1890817546 . A wonderful first edition/first printing in As New condition in alike dust-jacket. Signed by author Joyce Sweeney directly on the title page; Players is a novel set in the world of professional baseball. It tells the story of two brothersone a star player the other a journeymanwho are forced to confront the consequences of their choices as they navigate the game's unforgiving landscape.; 8vo; Signed by Author . Winslow Press hardcover books
