THE ROBBER BRIDE
ATWOOD, MARGARET New York: Doubleday, 1993. A fine copy in quarter-backed gray cloth and tan boards with gilt letering in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. . Atwood's eighth novel is an intriguing and compassionate novel, in a very readable and intelligent style.Set in contemporary Toronto, The Robber Bride revolves around the lives three women who are classmates from university, each of whom has shared a past friendship with the irresistible Zenia. It is now twenty years later and they have met at Zania’s funeral. But at lunch, after the funeral, they spot Zenia—not dead at all and up to no good.!- $40
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THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW
BERRY, I. S. New York: Atria Books, 2023. First Edition. An As-new copy in black boards with silver spine letters in an As-new illustrated dustwrapper. Both book and jacket are immaculate. A new author brings us a gripping tale of the Arab Spring in Bahrain from the point of a heavily-involved spy in a style reminiscent of The Spy Who Came in from The Cold. Berry is a highly skilled observer of the Arab World, its internal turmoil and hatred of the West. The author is a former CIA member who was stationed in Bahrain during the uprising. A crackerjack novel full of conspiracies and betrayals.- $20
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PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT
ROTH, PHILIP New York: Random House, 1969. Stated First Printing. A fine copy bound in black cloth with gilt lettering and red topstain, in a fine, bright yellow, dustwrapper. Both book and jacket are immaculate, as new. One of Roth's most popular titles, which turned the literary world on its ear when it appeared. The book was made into a very funny 1972 film starring Richard Benjamin.- $30
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THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST New York: Scribner, 1987. First edition. A fine copy in quarter-backed red cloth and orange boards in a fine dustwrapper. Both book and jacket are immaculate. The Finca Vigia edition with a foreword by the author's three sons and a preface by Charles Scribner, Jr. This comprehensive edition includes all of the stories from The First Forty Nine plus fourteen stories published subsequently and seven never-before-published short stories and three extended scenes from unfinished novels. A marvelous item for collectors.- $35
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THE MASTER (SIGNED)
TOIBIN, COLM New York: Scribner, 2004. First Edition. A fine copy in black and tan paper-backed boards with gilt spine lettering in a fine, pictorial dustwrapper featuring a painting by Pietro Fragiacomo of Piazza San Marco. Both book and jacket are immaculate. Toibin is one of Ireland's finest writers and he has here produced a magnificent novel about the American-born writer Henry James in the final years of the 19th century, living in a protected house in England's countryside and wrestling with his personal demons and immense talents. Toibin writes in much the same style as James, but more readable. This book won many literary awards at publication and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Toibin has inscribed this copy on the title page, "For Roseann with my very best wishes.Colm Toibin."- $35
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The Ronald S. Lauder Collection: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century Germany, Austria, and France
Wixom, William, Phyrr, Stuart, Thaw, Eugene, Witt-Dorring, C New York: Prestel, (Neue Galerie) 2011. A fine copy in black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering in a fine dustjacket. First Edition. Profusely illustrated in color. 540 pages. Preface by Ronald S. Lauder, foreward by Renee Price, and contributions by Alessandra Comini, Stuart Phyrr, Elizabeth Szancer Kujawski, Ann Temkin, Eugene Thaw, Christian Witt-Dorring, and William D. Wixon. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Neue Galerie, October 27, 2011 - April 2, 2012.- $20
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Picasso: Life with Dora Maar: Love and War 1935-1945
BALDASSARI, ANNE New York: Flammarion, 1986. An As-new hardcover first edition in black boards in an As-new dustwrapper featuring a negative photo of Picasso. Approx 11" X 9", 1st. 4to. 317pp. Color plates; photo-reproductions; black & white illustrations; 40pp of reproductions of notes scrawled on matchboxes and small sketches which are produced on onion skin paper. This exhibition catalog follows the relationship between the two artists. the painter and the photographer. frof their first meeting in autumn 1935 through 1945.- $25
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FIXIT: AN IQ NOVEL
IDE,JOE New York: Little, Brown, 2023. An As New copy in black boards with orange spine lettering in an As New photographic dust wrapper. In his sixth of the series, the prize-winning author delivers another bombshell about our hero, IQ, who learns the love of his life, Grace, has been kidnapped. An explosive collection of drug dealers, thieves, maniacs, shotguns, vicious dogs, stampeding horses stands in his way as he attempts a rescue. Another great read with wonderful, terrible characters. First Edition.- $20
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SINK: A MEMOIR
THOMAS, JOSEPH EARL New York: Grand Central, 2023. An As-new copy in gray boards with white spine lettering in an As-new dustwrapper featuring a house you woudn't want to live in. This young author has written a growing-up memoir which is reminiscent of David Copperfield except it's set in contemporay Philadelphia with a mostly all-Black cast you will hate or cherish. An exciting new writer.- $20
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COCKTAILS WITH A CURATOR
SALOMON, XAVIER F; LUIS SERRANO (ILLUSTRATOR) New York: Rizzoli Electra, 2022. A new hardcover copy in red boards with a new illustrated jacket still in original wraps. Hardcover.The curators of the Frick deliver wonderful histories of works of art combined with selected cocktails--a a delightful introduction to the treasures of the museum's collection. Based on the video series of the same name. This is a fascinating collection of lively and informative essays featuring paintings, sculpture, furniture, and porcelain--from medieval times through the Renaissance to Rembrandt, Vermeer, Whistler, Manet and works of the early twentieth century.- $25
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Whitney Biennial 2022: Whitney Museum of American Art–Quiet as It’s Kept
Breslin, David & Adrienne Edwards (Curators) New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2022. A new copy in red boards with participants' names and titles embossed on the front panel and spine. The 2022 Whitney Biennial is captured in this landmark volume. Each of the Biennial's participants is represented by a selected exhibition history, a bibliography, and imagery complemented by a personal statement or interview that foregrounds the artist's own voice. Essays by the curators and other contributors elucidate themes of the exhibition and discuss the participants. The book was purblished without dustwrapper but is still in its original wrapping.- $20
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MURDER BOOK
PERRY, THOMAS New York: Mysterious Press, 2023. First Edition. A fine copy in black boards with gilt spine lettering in an illustrated dustwrapper. Perry is one of the masters of mystery with over thirty books to his name, including The Butcher Boy (Winner of The Edger Prize and many others. There is a slight staining on the inside of the dustwrapper, not visible.- $20
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A MULTITUDE OF SINS
FORD, RICHARD New York: Knopf, 2002.First Edition. An As New Copy in green and black boards with silver spine lettering in an As-New, pictorial dustwrapper featuring a photo of Grand Central Station and a portrait of Ford on the rear panel. A stellar collection of stories by the Pulitzer Prize Winner and author of The Sportswriter, Independence Days, and other glittering novels.- $20
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WILDLIFE
FORD, RICHARD New YorK: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. First edition. An As New Copy in gray cloth with gilt spine lettering in an As New Pictorial dustwrapper, bright and flawless, with a portrait of Ford on the rear cover. The author of The Sportswriter and Canada writes a coming-of-age story of a young man on the edge of the Great Plains and the terrible lessons it teaches him in this, Ford's fourth novel.- $20
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DESERT STAR
CONNELLY. MICHAEL New York: Little Brown, 2022. A fine copy in black boards with yellow spine lettering in a fine, illustrated dustwrapper. Book and jacket are as-new with B & N sticker is on the front cover. Connelly links up with his old partner, Renee Ballard, now in charge of cold cases for the LAPD. They are searching for some truly awful rapists and murderers. This latest Connellly offering is right up there with his most popular recent books. First edition.- $20
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THE BETROTHED
MANZONI, ALESSANDRO; JUMPA LAHIRI preface New York: Modern Library, 2022. First Edition. An As-new copy of one of Italy's great books, first published in its final form in 1842, and now published in a sparkling contemporary translation by Michael Moore with a cheering section from Jumpa Lahiri in the Preface. The story of modern lovers prevented from marriage by a corrupt society in 1628 has gripped the Italian literary world ever since. Of particular note is a description of the bubonic plague in Milan among other truly fascinating parts of this long novel (652 pp).- $30
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ACT OF OBLIVION
HARRIS, ROBERT New York: HarperCollins, 2022. A fine copy in black boards with gilt spine lettering. Book and jacket are pristine. A masterful new novel by Richard Harris set in the 17th century about a thrilling manhunt to find two men who participated in the killing of Charles II before escaping to America. Scenes set in Restoration-era London and the wilds of pre-revolutionary New England bring to life as only Harris can do the gripping chase over many years to locate the "regicides" by implacable Royalists. Act of Oblivion is right up there with other Harris masterpieces such as Munich, The Ghost Writer and Fatherland. First edition.- $25
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THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS
JEWETT SARAH ORNE Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1897. First edition, second printing (8th thousand). Original gilt-stamped green cloth. with 2 pp. of ads. A lovely copy, square and tight, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front panel, with slight darkening to the spine and slight bumping at the spine ends. Critics consider this book to be Jewett's finest work-- a collection of short stories commenting on the decline of life in late 19th-century Maine fishing villages. Willa Cather rated The Country of the Pointed Firs along with Huckleberry Finn and The Scarlet Letter as the American work of fiction most likely to be acknowledged by posterity as an immortal masterpiece.- $50
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THE ODYSSEY
CHAFFIN, TOM New York: Pegasus Books, 2022. An As-New copy in green and white boards with an As-New illustrated dustwrapper with an image of the young Charles Darwin and the famed Beagle on which he circumnavigated the world, studying its flora and fauna as well as the geology of many sites in Africa, South America, New Zealand, Australia and other places. It all led to The Origin of the Species thirty years later. The author has drawn from Darwin's diary and other published works to deliver this thoroughly delightful book about one of the great findings of the 19rh century.- $20
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THE REVELATORS
ATKINS, ACE New York: Putnam, 2022. A new copy in orange boards with an illustrated dustwrapper. Quint Colson returns with his new wife, Maggie, to find the hombres who attempted to kill him. A great Western read about the grizzled Southern lawman on the trail again. "My kind of Guy," says Lee Child.- $15
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