Celestial Navigation by Tyler, First Edition (70 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condition: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

1st edition. 282 pp. Written in to previous owner: Merry Christmas, Jan! Love, Suzi. Trade paperback. Light shelfwear. Very Good.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Jeremy Pauling hasn't left his block or even his house in years. He spends his time creating textured sculptures and takes in boarders. Wear at edges, light interior browning. Size: 4 1/4" x 6 3/4". PAPERBACK.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound in unclipped dust jacket.Small closed tears & minor edge wear & fading to dust jacket, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Seventeenth Printing. Glue on FFEP. Spine cocked. Front board is soiled. D-j has shelf wear.

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, 273 pages. In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is black with white and blue print. Dust jacket has slight edge wear, slight soiling. Price unclipped: "$6.95". Boards in yellow cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners, slight soiling to top edge. Text block has yellow tinted top edge, light tanning to endpapers. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column L. 1384524. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 273 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated First Edition. Slight wear to bottom of spine. Jacket with original price and only slight wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. . . . . 1st edition. 8vo, hardcover. Prev. owner's inscription on endpaper, exterior lightly soiled around board edges, mild foxing to fore-edge; otherwise vg condition in slightly upper-spine-worn, else vg dj. 276 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 273 pp, stated First Edition, Pages Near Fine, bumped bottom spine DJ and 1/2" bottom spine external cloth, else Near Fine. 5.9" x 8.6" orange-yellow cloth boards, in unclipped DJ. Size: Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The dust jacket is slightly edge worn, but it still look good in cellophane though. The boards are in a very good condition. There is a minor scare on the front end page. Internally clean and tightly bound. Complete with 274 pages. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good hardcover in a Very Good dj (slight rubbing to pastedowns; slight vertical crease to length of left edge of rear inner dj flap; small crease to top right corner of front inner dj flap). First Edition, First Printing.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, so stated. 276 pp. yellow cloth with brown tiles to the spine. This copy is VG in a VG, unclipped ( $6.95) , Brodart protected DJ with an "0374" on the back lower flap.Top page edges dyed lime green.Exterior is bright and clean. One worn spot on back lower edge (looks a publisher's flaw)and a bit of crimping to spine ends. Inside has a small"49c" written on the front board, otherwise unmarked, clear, and firmly bound. DJ is clean and bright with minimal wear to spine ends and the tips.

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, price clipped with price sticker present). Pp. 273 (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1974. Alfred A. Knopf. 276 pages. Small triangle image on endpaper, else Book is in FINE condition. Dust Jacket light wear at top of spine, else Very Good Plus condition. First Printing. ; 6.7 X 4.0 X 1.0 inches; 276 pages.

ex-lib first edition 276pp VG+ (blue cloth,tape stains to boards w.libr.mark to spine,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,usual stamps,lower board sl.shaky,spine cracked and cocked) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled w.libr.mark to spine,sl.wear to extrems.,gum stains to trimmed edges).

Condition: GOOD. First printing. Her rather uncommon fifth novel - one of my favorites among her books, a sad and penetrating look at the inability of people to connect. Jeremy Pauling is one of the most unusual protagonists in fiction, and Tyler's portrayal of him is masterful. Although there are no library stamps, this book shows signs of a pocket or bookplate being removed from the front endpaper, as well as evidence of much reading - so good only in a very good, unmarked dustjacket (some fading to the back of the dj.).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition/First Printing. Nice, very attractive.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 1st, yellow cloth w/ green top edge, vg ( spine ends bumped; bookplate on front pastedown) in vg+ though price-cl. dj. 276 pp.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. Her fifth novel. A near fine copy in a close to near fine price clipped dust jacket that has some creasing and a small tear to the front flap as well as some other very minor wear. Still, a very nice copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. in VG+ d.w. Only flaws are slight staining to top edge and minor separation at top of binding. Dustwrapper is about 2 mm. shorter than the book (presumedly a publisher's flaw). One of 10,273 copies of the first edition of the author's fifth book. A nice collectible copy of this title.

Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 273pp, (3pp). Near fine/near fine. Miniscule front flyleaf ownership signature. Quite lovely and tight first edition of this early Tyler production, a novel set in Baltimore.

hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974.FINE hardcover book in FINE- mylar-protected dust-jacket. DJ shows a tiny bit of shelf rub, otherwise as new. Unread. First Edition, First Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. VG+ hardcover in a Good dust jacket which has some chipping to the edges. The dust jacket has been wrapped. Signed by the author on the title page, with Authentication Certificate and stamp. ; 1 x 6.7 x 4 Inches; 273 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 276 pages; Jacket with minor rubbing, soiling and wear. Name on inside front flap of jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. Dustwrapper photograph by Denis Straughan. Rear panel of dustwrapper photograph of Anne Tyler by Jeannie Allen. ***Please note that this is an ex-library copy (but with only one stamp and number, otherwise unmarked and pristine). ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Tail of spine very slightly rubbed. Corners sharp. Grey ink Ex-Library stamp: 'Discarded by Havering Library Service' to title page, and library classification number to bottom of title-page. No other library markings or stamps. Pages clean. No foxing. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £3.00 net. The dustwrapper is complete without any chips or tears, and has not been library-laminated. No fading even to the light-sensitive red colour to the spine. Dustwrapper crisp and bright. ***204mm x 134mm. 276 pages plus a one-page note about the author at the back of the book. ***'In this wise, imaginative and moving novel, Anne Tyler creates a lonely, withdrawn human being and shows with insight and compassion what it is that has made him an artist. On his mother's death Jeremy Pauling is left sole owner of her run-down boarding house in Baltimore. An unkempt bachelor of thirty-eight years, physically terrified of wandering more than a few steps from the house, a ghost (though a meek and courteously treated one) among his tenants, he spends his time working on sculpture-like collages, making use of tacks, twine, tops of tins and whatever else comes to hand and his imagination. Then a pretty new boarder arrives, Mary Tell, with her small daughter. Mary is strong, pragmatic and only too fertilely maternal, and brings Jeremy more closeness than he can live with, and despite mutual love and striving their relationship fails. But Miss Vinton, the most faithful of the tenants, remains to provide Jeremy with the minimum human contact he requires, for she knows that he lives, as he creates, by celestial navigation: he sees from a distance, he lives at a distance. ***'Celestial Navigation has earned a wide and excellent critical reception in America - Publisher's Weekly. ***'---a must for readers who appreciate the quality novel.' [Quotes taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***'Anne Tyler (born Oct 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-three novels, including "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" (1982), "The Accidental Tourist" (1985), and "Breathing Lessons" (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and "Breathing Lessons" won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, "A Spool of Blue Thread", was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and "Redhead By the Side of the Road" was longlisted for the same award in 2020. She is recognized for her fully developed characters, her "brilliantly imagined and absolutely accurate detail," her "rigorous and artful style", and her "astute and open language." Tyler has been compared to John Updike, Jane Austen, and Eudora Welty, among others.' [Wiki] ***First impression of the first UK edition of Anne Tyler's fifth novel, complete in the dustwrapper, in very nice bright collectable condition. An uncommon title - of interest to collectors of Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Anne Tyler and twentieth century literary first editions. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.