Them by Oates, Signed (61 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Fifth Printing. SIGNED by author on a bookpate affixed to front end page (signature only). DJ has small closed tear on lower rear. $6.95 price present on DJ flap. Dark navy/black boards with yellow topstain. DJ designed by Ernst Reichl. Early Oates novel and winner of the National Book Award. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine hardcover bound in gilt-decorative full genuine burgundy leather with gilt spinal lettering, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, and a silk tipped-in bookmark (prior owner's bookplate to half-title page). A nice copy. Signed Limited Edition. Signed by author on a special blank tipped-in page at the front of the book. Illustrated by Steven H. Stroud. Includes the Franklin Library "Notes From The Editors" booklet laid in. 601pp. Signed by Author(s).

Leather Bound. Condition: Collectable, good. Only "good" condition due to minor encounter with water. This is the Franklin Press signed limited edition, gorgeous brown leather with elaborate gold dectoration and lettering on spine, silk moire endpapers, silk ribbon placemarker, 1979. Cover as new except 1/4" white spot on upper edge of spine and back cover just slightly warped. Rear endpapers lightly dampstained; about 3 inches of the outer edges of the last half of the pages are moderately rippled due to exposure to water--no mildew or discoloration, pages not stuck together. Author's signature is on the front of the 2nd blank page and protected by an original laid-in very thin piece of paper. Actually, condition is not bad. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Flat signed by Oates on a special sewn-in page. Includes certificate of authenticity. Full leather cover, gilt page-ends, moire end pages, page-marker ribbon and printed on archival paper. All in perfect condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: vg-. SIGNED by author on free front ep; 5th ptg. post card, numbered 1/15 by Matt Phillips 1980 entitled "Bernal Heights" mailed from Trenton with a 14-cent Sinclair Lewis stamp on 12/6/85 to previous owner with long typed message SIGNED by Joyce Carol Oates laid in; 508pp; text clean; grey cloth over boards with silver lettering; shelf wear to edges of rubbed dj in new protective mylar. Signed by author. Hardcover (dj).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Hardcover. Signed. Full maroon leather boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt edges, satin end pages with silk place ribbon.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. 8vo. 508 pp. Full maroon leather, gilt decoration and titling. All edges gilt, silk moire endleaves, silk bookmark ribbon. Signed edition with bookplate and certificate of authenticity. Slight fraying to bookmark ribbon. Otherwise fine. The third novel in the Wonderland Quartet series.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. SIGNED copy. Bound in full leather with gilt decoration, a copy in near fine condition.

Full Leather. Condition: Fine. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 508pp. Bound into full red leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 5 raised bands to spine, moire endpapers, silk ribbon. Part of the "Signed Modern Classics" series, signed by the author. COA, also signed by the author and "a note about" laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Leather bound hardback book (601 pages)- part of Franklin Library's signed limited edition series - with illustrations by Steven H. Stroud. Board show light rubbing with minor scuff marks bottom edge of boards - light rubbing to gilt edge. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-BS-1-middle) rareviewbooks. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. Lavish signed limited edition of Oates's "charnel house of Gothic paraphernalia" (Wolff), drawn in part from her observation of the 1967 Detroit riots while an English professor at the University of Detroit. Includes a new introduction by Oates, a "special message to subscribers" gently clarifying her original 1969 author's note: "If [Jules] and Maureen and Loretta are to be located anywhere, it is in my imagination: just as the ghostly 'Joyce Carol Oates' who appears, indirectly, obliquely, in the narrative, is a fictional character in no significant way like myself." 8.5'' x 6''. Original gilt-tooled burgundy morocco. All edges gilt. Grey silk endpapers and bookmark. 601, [1] pages. Signed by Oates on second blank leaf. Illustrated by Steven Stroud. Minimal edgewear. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. Steven H. Stroud (illustrator). Limited edition. 8vo. 601pp. Gold decorated maroon leather and spine. Raised bands. All gilt edges. Ribbon marker. Silk endpaper. Double-page frontispiece by Steven H. Stroud. Signed by author on second blank page in front. A "disturbing story of a young woman's struggle to rise above poverty and trauma of life with an alcoholic father and a murderous young brother." Near fine condition.

Condition: Fine. Illustrated By Steven H. Stroud (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Original maroon leather, fine with gilt-stamped titles and designs to covers and spine, AGE with original silk ribbon book marker, contains ribbed spine with purple silk pastedowns. This copy in very neat and complete. By the Author.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. A FINE, CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY. BOUND IN FULL LEATHER BY THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. No bumped corners to book. Spine tips are smooth and round. No ownership signatures. No bookplates. Gold gilt edges are clean and bright. Signed.

Full Burgundy Leather. Condition: Nearly Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Collector's Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on front limitation page. All edges gilt. Covers and spine decorated in gilt. Silk bookmark sewn-in. A certificate of authenticity and an Easton Note about author and book laid-in. Small scratch to fore-edge gilt. First published in 1969, the book won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1970. 508pp. Size: Tall Octavo. Signed by Author.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Limited. 8vo, brick red leather, gilt, all edges gilt. Norwalk: Eastern Press, (2002). Lmited signed edition. Autographed by the author, and with a signed certificate of authenticity,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. Exquisite COLLECTOR'S EDITION, SIGNED by AUTHOR! Bound in genuine rich red leather with elegant gilt stamping, all gilt edges; raised bands on spine. Luxurious silk moire endpapers; attached silk bookmarker ribbon add the finishing touches to this wonderful item. Certificate of Authenticity and Collector's Note laid in. Aside from miniscule scratches to gilt edges, an immaculate copy. Pages are pristine with binding fully intact. RBR/F. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket, as Issued. First Edition Thus. 508 pages. Limited Collector's Edition of the winner of the 1970 National Book Award. SIGNED by the author. Beautifully bound in full brick-red leather, with gilded decoration on spine and both covers; all edges gilt. Laid in are an Easton certificate of authenticity and an Easton card with "a note about THEM." The book is in virtually as-new condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. It is painful to have to describe this copy because of the issues it posesses affecting its value and the description given and sold by a reputable book dealer - invoice and description laid in. The book does have glue residue on the rear first free endpaper. Tape residue on the outside front and rear covers. Slightly frayed bottom of spine and two slightly bumped corners. A couple of small spots on the foredge of the textblock and also a few more on the interior of the book. Perhaps the biggest descrepancy is the dustjacket - it obviously has been "married" to this copy of the book, which is not mentioned in the dealer's description. It does have a couple of closed tears at the top of the spine - see image. ; Signed, inscribed and dated by the author on the first front free endpaper. 1st issue DJ with $6.95 present and Barbara Bannon blurb on front flap, as well as Robert Benyas photo credit on rear panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 508 pages; Signed by Author. Signed by Author(s).

Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Stroud, Steven H. (illustrator). Limited Edition. 601 pages, 8vo. Signed by Joyce Carol Oates. Limited Edition, privately printed and individually signed. Illustrated by Steven H. Stroud. Bound in genuine leather. Two raised bands along hubbed spine. Includes bound ribbon bookmark. Silk moire free endpapers and inside covers. Gilt page edges. Minor shelfwear. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Near Fine condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. Limited Edition. VERY FINE GUARANTEE. As New (Sealed). The condition is of the highest quality without any discernible flaws. Lifetime Guarantee of Signature Authenticity. Personally hand SIGNED by the author directly into the book. The autograph is not a facsimile, stamp, or auto-pen. Personally signed by Joyce Carol Oates directly on a special title page. Easton Press, 2002. Joyce Carol Oates "Them" Signed Limited Edition. Contains COA from the publisher. A wonderful copy in As New condition, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap. Bound in rich, full genuine leather. Book Description Winner of the National Book Award and in print for more than thirty years, "Them" ranks as one of the most masterly portraits of postwar America ever written by a novelist. Including several new pages and text substantially revised and updated by the author, this Modern Library edition is the most current and accurate version available of Oates' seminal work. A novel about class, race, and the horrific, glassy sparkle of urban life, them chronicles the lives of the Wendalls, a family on the steep edge of poverty in the windy, riotous Detroit slums. Loretta, beautiful and dreamy and full of regret by age sixteen, and her two children, Maureen and Jules, make up Oates' vision of the American fam-ily--broken, marginal, and romantically proud. The novel's title, pointedly uncapitalized, refers to those Americans who inhabit the outskirts of society--men and women, mothers and children--whose lives many authors in the 1960s had left unexamined. Alfred Kazin called her subject "the sheer rich chaos of American life." The Nation wrote, "When Miss Oates' potent, life-gripping imagination and her skill at narrative are conjoined, as they are preeminently in them, she is a prodigious writer." In addition to the text revisions, this--new edition contains an Afterword by the author and a new Introduction by Greg Johnson, Oates' biographer and the author of two monographs on the work of Joyce Carol Oates. From the Inside Flap Winner of the National Book Award and in print for more than thirty years, them ranks as one of the most masterly portraits of postwar America ever written by a novelist. Including several new pages and text substantially revised and updated by the author, this Modern Library edition is the most current and accurate version available of Oates' seminal work. A novel about class, race, and the horrific, glassy sparkle of urban life, them chronicles the lives of the Wendalls, a family on the steep edge of poverty in the windy, riotous Detroit slums. Loretta, beautiful and dreamy and full of regret by age sixteen, and her two children, Maureen and Jules, make up Oates' vision of the American fam-ily--broken, marginal, and romantically proud. The novel's title, pointedly uncapitalized, refers to those Americans who inhabit the outskirts of society--men and women, mothers and children--whose lives many authors in the 1960s had left unexamined. Alfred Kazin called her subject "the sheer rich chaos of American life." The Nation wrote, "When Miss Oates' potent, life-gripping imagination and her skill at narrative are conjoined, as they are preeminently in them, she is a prodigious writer." In addition to the text revisions, this--new edition contains an Afterword by the author and a new Introduction by Greg Johnson, Oates' biographer and the author of two monographs on the work of Joyce Carol Oates. From the Back Cover "Future archaeologists equipped with only her oeuvre could easily piece together the whole of postwar America." ----Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "[Oates'] gifts are at least equal to those of the late Flannery O'Connor. If she is not absolutely more serious than Nabokov, she is more obviously 'ours' and therefore to be taken more seriously by us. Everything she touches turns to such blistering gold that sometimes I suspect she must have had Rumpelstiltskin in to help her spin it in the night." ----R. V. Cassill. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. signed copy, bound in full red leather with gilt decoration. water stain at the bottom corner.

Hardcovers. Condition: Fine. Limited edition. Issued signed by Oates. "Special Message" by Oates for this edition. Illustrated by Steven H. Stroud. Gilt-stamped leather-covered boards, all edges gilt, satin pagemarker. Issued without dustjacket. Tissue insert for signature page as issued. Beginning toning of extremities of the moire endpages. Tight copy in Near Fine condition. Oates' third novel in her Wonderland Quartet. 1970 National Book Award winner for fiction. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fourth Printing. Protected jacket has a large piece missing in the lower right corner in front, some closed tears in the back, and other edge wear. Price of $6.95 intact, slight tilt to spine, covers in very good shape, some pages marked in pen by Ameriican novelist William Heath. Oates nominated his novel The Children Bob Moses Led for Ainsfield-Wolf Award. Signed by Oates on the first inside page and dated 4/25/70. Winner of the National Book Award. Rare and collectible. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Early novel and National Book Award winner from Joyce Carol Oates. First edition, first printing, with bookplate signed by the author attached to ffep. Very good book with a couple small stains to page block edge, lightly bumped corners, and toning to edges of boards. Very good first state jacket shows some light chipping at spine ends and upper rear corne, and a few scuffs to front panel. Original price of 6.95 in tact, and jacket is protected in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Franklin Library Pulitzer Prize edition. Fine in full leather as issued. One of an unspecified number of copies of the first edition Signed by the author with a special message to subscribers from the author not included in any other edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Published in Pennsylvania by the Franklin Library in 1979. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Leather-bound, with decorative endpapers, gold gilt cover designs and page edges, and a satin ribbon page marker. Book fine. No DJ, as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. First Limited Edition of the Franklin Mint. Flat-signed by author behind protective tissue on publisher's bound-in page with NO inscription as issued. Brown leather boards with gold ornamentation on all boards and raised bands on spine, satin page marker, silk pastedowns and AEG. FINE cond with only flaw being small light spots in gold coating of top face only ( Hard to see). NO other flaws. Unread - spine not broken. Signed by Author(s).