Published by G P Putnam's Sons, New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 0399132821 ISBN 13: 9780399132827
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 224 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter grey cloth with silver lettering to spine over green boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Vonny lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard with her husband Andre and son Simon. Their neighbor Elizabeth, a woman in her seventies, falls from an upstairs window and her granddaughter Jody is summoned to nurse her through her convalescence. The scene is set for a magical story of love and loneliness, of terror and human frailty, of the mystery and grace of ordinary experience. Alice Hoffman's ability to fuse the domestic and the mythic in a narrative of such gentle yet magnetic force confirms her stature as one of the most gifted of American novelists. Condition: Near fine in like jacket.
Published by New York: Little, Brown and Co, 2007, 2007
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
very good dust-jacket, original price $24.99, very good light blue and black hardcover. INSCRIBED on title page to recipient with first name only and SIGNED Alice Hoffman neatly in black marker. HOFFMAN, ALICE. Skylight confessions. New York: Little, Brown and Co, 2007, stated First Edition, with 1st printing number line, 262pp., . ISBN 9780316058780.
Published by New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020, 2020
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
very good dust-jacket, cover price $27.99, fresh attractive hardcover, with black spine and black boards. SIGNED hastily with a curvy squiggle above her name on a special bound in page "This signed edition of" Magic Lessons "has been specially bound by the publisher.". HOFFMAN, ALICE. Magic lessons. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020, First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition, and 1st printing number line ending in 1, 396pp., . The signature seems typical of these specially bound copies. Normal copies may be signed with a more elaborate signature. ISBN 9781982108847.
Published by Ediciones El Andén, 2008
ISBN 10: 8492475250 ISBN 13: 9788492475254
Seller: Almacen de los Libros Olvidados, Barakaldo, Spain
Tapa blanda. Condition: 2ª Mano. , . firma ant prop, algo deslucido. . . . 260 p., 23x15 cm., tapa blanda.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York NY, 1977
Seller: Longs Peak Book Company, Loveland, CO, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hoffman's classic debut presents a young woman in love with an NYC gang leader but who hates the idea of becoming "Property of" the gang. This copy is in very good condition as an EX-LIB copy with the usual spine label, stamps and card pocket but with a tight, straight binding. It is a stated first edition, first printing simply signed by Hoffman at the Tucson Book Festival.The excellent dustjacket is price-intact and enclosed in archival, clear mylar covering.The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping. Signed by Author(s).