Patchwork Planet First Printing by Tyler Anne (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Carson, Carol Devine (jacket design); Coughlin, Paul (jacket front photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine condition gold boards, black spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Anne Tyler; Author Dedication and A Note About the Author. "In this, her fourteenth novel - and one of her most endearing - Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order. Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he was after, like his teenage cohorts. It was just that he liked to read other people's mail, pore over their family photo albums, and appropriate a few of their precious mementos. But for eleven years now, he's been working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins who can't move their own porch furniture or bring the Christmas tree down from the attic. At last, his life seems to be on a n even keel. Still, the Gaitlins (of "old" Baltimore) cannot forget the price they paid for buying off Barnaby's former victims. And his ex-wife would just as soon he didn't show up ever to visit their little girl, Opal. Even the nice, steady woman (his guardian angel?) who seems to have designs on him doesn't fully trust him, it develops, when the chips are down, and it looks as though his world may fall apart again. There is no one like Anne Tyler, with her sharp, funny, tender perceptions about how human beings navigate on a puzzling planet, and she keeps us enthralled from start to finish in this delicious new novel." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Fine: First edition, first impression with full number line, including 1; very clean and bright spine with gilt letters and boards with sharp corners; no previous owner's marks or gift dedication; very clean and tight text block with no sunning or spotting, just dusty top edge, otherwise fine. Dust jacket condition: Fine: very clean and bright with no losses, tears or nicks; single scuff to top edge of rear flap fold, otherwise fine; not price clipped.