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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing of the first American hardcover edition SIGNED by Cunningham on the title page with a black marker. The autograph has bled through the page but no further - a slip of mylar has since been inserted between the pages. A tight copy with sharp corners and spine ends. Ghost of pencil erasure top edge of ffep. The jacket is bright, crisp and price intact. Typical shelf wear to the surface of the black jacket. Also available from this bookseller are autographed American first printings of Golden States, A Home at the End of the World and The Hours. Canadian buyer will be charged GST. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st printing of the first American hardcover edition SIGNED by Norman on the title page. The book is square and tight with sharp corners, and the jacket is bright, crisp and price intact. Canadian orders will be charged GST. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st printing of the first American hardcover edition SIGNED by Crace on the title page. A superior copy that is square and tight with sharp corners, and the jacket is crisp and price intact. Front panel of dust jacket bears a sticker noting that this book was Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker Prize finalist. A secular retelling of the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. Also available from this bookseller are signed British first printings of Acadia and The Devil's Larder. Canadian orders will be charged GST. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing of the first American hardcover edition SIGNED by Cunningham on the title page with a black pen. Red boards and maroon cloth binding with gold titles and white endpapers. The book is tight with sharp corners, and the jacket is bright, crisp and price intact. Minor tanning of the white flaps. Also available from this bookseller are autographed American first printings of the author's first novel, Golden States (NY: Crown, 1984), A Home at the End of the World (NY: FSG, 1990), The Hours (NY: FSG, 1998) and Specimen Days (NY: FSG, 2005). Canadian buyer will be charged GST. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st printing of the first American hardcover edition of the author's first book SIGNED by Franzen on the title page, in black ink. Green paper boards with black cloth binding. A square and tight copy with sharp corners, and the jacket is bright, crisp and price intact. A heavy book, this copy has been shelved on its spine so that the binding remains tight. No previous owner's markings, and the exposed page edges are clean. There is a soft reading crease that runs the length of the book's spine - the jacket is unaffected. The bottom corner of the front board is rubbed. Trifling wear to the jacket at the heel and crown of the spine but with no discoloration. Tanning to the edges of the white flaps. Typical wear to the black front panel along the edge of the binding. Buyer will be asked to the actual cost of postage due to weight. Canadian orders will be charged GST. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing of the first American hardcover edition SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated by him during his tour of his latest novel, Day. Beige paper boards with brown paper binding, silver titles and white endpapers. A tight copy with sharp corners. Ghost of a pencil erasure top edge of ffep. The jacket is bright, crisp and price intact. The top corner of the front flap is ever so softly creased (many dealers would not note this tiny flaw). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner Award and basis of the film. Also available from this bookseller is an autographed first printing of the first American hardcover edition of the author's first book, Golden States (NY: Crown, 1984), A Home at the End of the World (NY: FSG, 1990) and Specimen Days (NY: FSG, 2005). Canadian buyer will be charged GST. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 320 pages. Published in 2013. Retrospective collection of essays. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only and as an FSG Originals title. The First Edition is now scarce. "Autographed Copy" round green sticker pasted in front. The book is very beautifully produced and features Andy Warhol's iconic Polaroid portrait of Debby Harry on the cover. Presents Wayne Koestenbaum's "My 1980s And Other Essays". A "retro" glance at the formative decade of his writing life - he is that rare animal, a poet, and a critic - which also happens to be the most crucial decade of the late-20th century. "Impossible lovechild from a late-night, drunken three-way between Joan Didion, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag, Wayne Koestenbaum brings together a hyper-literate collection of manifestos, essays, and disclosures that wrestle with a series of prominent cultural figures - Koestenbaum's lodestars - and blur the boundary between academic and personal" (Publisher's blurb). A "kaleidoscopic intellectual autobiography" of the first rank, we come to know Koestenbaum, as we do every great critic/commentator, through his passions and obsessions. "Interests" doesn't quite do justice in his case, and Koestenbaum has an authoritative voice and presence: We not only hear but see him on every page. His style re-defines "threshold" in that it is reassuringly predictable and "come-from-nowhere", disruptively unpredictable at the same time. His range is staggering: James Schuyler, Roberto Bolano, Cindy Sherman, and Brigitte Bardot, among many others. His homages to his personal gods (who are frequently goddesses: Anna Moffo, with whom he is practically identified, Elizabeth Hardwick, Susan Sontag, ditto) are idiosyncratic, brilliant, and moving. His essays on popular culture shade Camille Paglia. As radical, insightful, and brilliant as Paglia could be, Koestenbaum tops her because his flamboyance is irresistible whereas Paglia's pugnaciousness, a sign of insecurity, can be tiresome and reactionary in the end. "An intellectual high-wire act that rarely falters" (Kirkus). An absolute "must-have" title for Wayne Koestenbaum collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Wayne Koestenbaum. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant culture critics of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER WAYNE KOESTENBAUM TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374533776. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st printing of the first American hardcover edition scarcely SIGNED by Thorpe on the title page in black ink with a stroke through his printed name. No inscription and no markings by a previous owner. A square and tight copy. The crown of the book's spine has softened, the bottom corner of the back board has been bruised, and there is the ghost of a pencil erasure at the top corner of the ffep. The white dustjacket is bright, clean, crisp and price intact. Ulverton is one of the most highly acclaimed literary expressions of post-modernism published to date. John Banville called Ulverton "A superb and moving meditation on history, fate and the nature of time . . . at once a traditional fiction and a daring and wholly successful testing of the limits of literary art." A dozen accounts, narrated by a dozen different voices, tell the story of the fictional English village of Ulverton through a 300-year cycle of generations. The author makes few public appearances in North America. Canadian buyer will be charged GST. Signed by Author(s).