Chilly Scenes Winter, Signed (14 results)

Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Signed by author on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. SIGNED. First Edition. Later printing. Signed by Ann Beattie on the front endpaper. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and good tips and light wear to spine ends. Publisher speckled remainder spray to bottom fore-edges. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is price-clipped with chipping to extremities and creases to the bottom front panel (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 280 Pages. 5½ x 8½" tall. Author's first novel. This is the story of a love-smitten Charles; his friend Sam, the Phi Beta Kappa and former coat salesman; and Charles' mother, who spends a lot of time in the bathtub feeling depressed. For Beattie's characters, much of the concern is that the 1960s are dead. Charles, for example, is a Janis Joplin fan and he mourns her death and the death of other 1960s rock icons, such as Jim Morrison. For now he is stuck in the dull, grey, hopeless 1970s. B. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. In protective mylar cover.

Hardcover. Stated First Edition. First Printing, Very Good in Good jacket. Signed by author on title page. In grey paper covered boards and blue c;loth spine with silver lettering. Square, intact, and tight binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Light bumping to ends of spine. Jacket is intact with price on upper front flap. Small crease on lower front panel. Light to modertae shelf rubbing. In Mylar protective cover. Photos upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 280 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine grey with teal lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "$7.95". Chipping and tearing to corners of dust jacket. General wear to head and tail of spine. Interior pages clean. Signed flat by Beattie on publisher's tipped-in page. Shelved under Display Table #2. 1386563. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo. 280 pp. Signed by Beattie on the half title-page. Mild wear and bruising to head and foot of spine; price-clipped dustjacket is chipped at head and foot of spine and mildly chipped at flap hinge corners, and there are three short closed tears as well. Beattie's first novel published simultaneously with Distortions" her first collection of short stories. ". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine +. First Edition/Later Printing. This copy has been SIGNED by Ann Beattie on the title page! A later printing of an original and important American writer. The comically grotesque world of "Chilly Scenes of Winter" is the seventies portrayed with a special combination of the hysteria of black humor and the clarity of super-realism. Very slight wear to the head/tail of spine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The author's first novel. Made into the 1979 ("Head Over Heels") and 1982 films. First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Patch of abrasion on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (light edge wear and age toning) dust jacket. ; 280 pages.

hardcover. Condition: very good(-). Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 280 pages, 8vo, blue cloth over grey boards (spine quite spotted, cover edges a little toned), dust wrapper (light wear). New York: Doubleday, 1976. A very good(-) copy in a very good dust wrapper. Signed in full on the front free endpaper. Her first novel.

F/VG+. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE D.J. HAS ONE INCH TEAR AT THE TOP OF THE FRONT PANEL, AND A BIT OF LIGHT CORNER AND SPINE-END WEAR. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcovers. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first prnt. Inscribed by Beattie on the front free endpage. "For Hugh with good wishes - a book that I hope entertains. Ann Beattie January 10, 1978."Also, a hologrpah note by Beattie is laid-in. "Dear Hugh - You'd be surprised how long it can take a crazy person to get around to buying a mailing envelope & taking it to the post office. - Ann." 5.5 x 8.5 inch note paper, folded and toned at the edges. The book has minimal edgewear and a tapped corner; the dustjacket has wear at the spine ends and toning on the interior edges which is not visible on the outside. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Beattie's first novel, issued simultaneously with her first story collection, Distortions. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in dust jacket with wear and one small tear at the upper spine and lower front cover. Slight wrinkling on top back dust jacket and bumping at edges of book and dust jacket. Author's signature on front flyleaf. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Signed hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue cloth spine over gray paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 280pp; illus. Signed by author on front endpaper. Light sunning to board edges, with tiny soil to rear board; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Paul Bacon, unclipped (priced $7.95), tanned, with two 0.5" tears to lower rear panel, and tiny tears and creases to flaps and extremities; Very Good. Beattie's first novel is set in the 1970s and explores a man's relationships and world-view. Its film adaptation (1979), written and directed by Joan Micklin Silver, starred John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, and Peter Riegert. [84398]. Signed.