Morgans Passing by Tyler: Signed (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint paperback. No significant wear. Signed by Tyler on the title page. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, an array of peculiar costumes and fantastic headwear, and a serious smoking habit. He likes to pretend to be other people - a jockey, a shipping magnate, a foreign art dealer - and he likes to do this more and more since his massive brood of daughters are all growing up, getting married and finding him embarrassing. Then comes his first dramatic encounter with Emily and Leon Meredith, and the start of an extraordinary obsession. ***** Free shipping available to UK buyers. For customers located outside the UK, if the actual cost of shipping your order is lower than the price paid, then a refund of the difference will be issued. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. dj. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 311 pages. In Good plus condition with Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Spine is gray and brown with light purple lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$9.95" on front flap, has mild shelving wear along extremities and moderate age toning along flaps and rear cover. Boards have mild shelving wear along spine head and tail, spine mildly cocked, and moderate discoloration and age toning along the edges of covers. Text block has mild foxing along edges and to endpapers. Signed flat on title page by Anne Tyler. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1395908. Special Collections - Downstairs. Signed.…

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, 311 pages. In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is grey and brown with purple print. Dust jacket in mylar; slight edge wear, slight peripheral toning. Price unclipped: "$9.95. Boards quarter bound with brown cloth to spine and cream paper to boards. Light wear to spine caps. Text block has a small stain at bottom of pages 3-5, small stain from removed label on rear pastedown. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R. 1397165. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Hardcover. dj. Advanced Reading Copy. Octavo, 311 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is gray and brown with light purple lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$9.95" on front flap. Boards have mild shelving wear along extremities. Textblock has mild dust-burning along head edge. Contains publisher's ARC information between rear cover of dust jacket and mylar covering. Signed flat and dated "3-24-80" on title page by Anne Tyler. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1401061. Special Collections - Downstairs. Signed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cream boards backed in brown cloth, gilt stamped titles, signed by the author and inscribed to previous owner on front free endpaper; faint and tiny spot of soiling at top of front free endpaper, dust jacket spine lightly sunned, now in protective mylar cover. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE. First Edition. 1980 [6], 311, [3]pp. Alfred A. Knopf, New York A fine signed first edition of this award-winning novel by American author Anne Tyler. Flat signed by the author to the title page. The first edition, first printing with 'first edition' stated to copyright page. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. ?Whilst other southern writers, such as Faulkner or Katherine Anne Porter, examine the larger cultural history of the South, or focus, like Flannery O'Connor, on the interior landscape of the southern psyche, Tyler has chosen the American family as her region?- Modern American Women Writers. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally in lovely condition. Dust wrapper is in excellent condition with slight shelf wear and the occasional minor closed tear to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Flat signed by the author to the title page. Grading: FINE in a NEAR FINE dust wrapper. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fourth printing [stated]. [6], 311, [3] pages. DJ has some wear and is in a plastic sleeve. Small hinge tear at rear board. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: for Harold Herman with best wishes. Anne Tyler. This book possibly belonged to the Harold Herman who was Shenandoah Conservatory's Distinguished Professor Emeritus Of Theatre And Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre (SSMT) Founder And Artistic Director Emeritus. Morgan's Passing won the 1980 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction and was nominated for both the American Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Anne Tyler (October 25, 1941) is a novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-three novels, including Morgan's Passing (1980), Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). The last 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. Derived from a Kirkus review: You could say Morgan was a man who'd gone to pieces. . . maybe he'd arrived unassembled." Yes, this is the odyssey of fortyish Morgan Gower-and in the soft muddle of Morgan's familial netting and his calls to freedom, Tyler again finds both warmth and a certain hard coherence. Manager (in name only) of a run-down hardware store and trapped within his Baltimore household web-cheerfully sloppy wife Bonnie, seven industriously dull daughters, a senile mother, an addled sister-Morgan buzzes noisily but to little effect. He's not a "temperate person." He dribbles ashes, fiddles with his beard, and scatters himself through half-baked projects, varied identities, assorted wardrobes. But then Morgan enters the lives of young puppeteers Emily and Leon Meredith: he first meets them when there's a call for "a doctor in the house"-and Morgan pops up to deliver Emily's baby daughter on the spot, posing as "Dr. Morgan." And a year later, his home life withering, Morgan begins to spy, fascinated, on the Merediths, envying their "austerity, certitude, their mapped and charted lives." Then, in an antic confrontation, "Dr. Morgan" confesses his impersonation, but Emily understands "he has to get out of his life sometimes," and soon Morgan's love for Emily blinks on like a desert sunrise. Will romance bloom? Yes, eventually. Emily (product of a stifling past) begins to find Leon too rigid and buttoned-in, an affair commences, Emily becomes pregnant, Morgan elatedly arranges their respective separations from spouses-and the two leave Baltimore with baby and puppets, Morgan taking the name of Meredith. As far as wife Bonnie is concerned (and hence the title) Morgan has "passed on" from his real self-she places a maliciously playful obituary in the local paper. But Morgan can only, in a final summing-up, feel sure that "it matters who you love and why." The Tyler trademarks-surface warmth and humor with a cutting undertow-again on impressive, irresistible display. John Leonard of The New York Times said, "Morgan, like a novelist, wants to be everybody else in order to look at himself through innocent eyes, to be charmed.Miss Tyler, witty, civilized, curious, with her radar ears and her quill pen dipped on one page in acid and on the next in orange liqueur, is asking whether art is adequate to the impersonations life insists on, death absolves. She is a w. Diana H. Walker (Author photograph) (illustrator). Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition THUS. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed and inscribed by author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Book & Jacket, Signed 1st ed 1st pt in protective cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Copyright Date 1980, First Edition, First Printing. Inscribed By The Author On The Inside Title Page. Tinted Brown Cover Over Boards With Guilt Lettering And Design On The Front And On The Spine. Blind Stamped Insignia On The Lower Right Bottom Corner Of The Back Panel. For Edges Are Deckled. Dust Jacket No Tears, Bent Flaps, Nor Is It Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Now In A Clear Protective Cover. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Top corners a little bumped thus near fine in fine dustwrapper. Briefly Inscribed by the author. Signed.

311 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. dj. 311 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on title-page "For Robert Wilson / with best wishes / Anne Tyler 10-4-80". WH/9/Platform/Tyler box 5 Publisher's cloth backed boards, dust jacket. Mild rub to the back of the jacket and one small closed tear near the head. Else fine. Signed.