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Scribner, New York, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021 neatly SIGNED by Anthony Doerr on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 625 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, blue paper over black boards, white title on spine, pictorial wrap with blue book with golden walls on a white background. Condition is Fine in Fine - no flaws observed. How do you follow up a Pulitzer Prize-winning work of fiction? If you're novelist Anthony Doerr ("All the Light We Cannot See") you write a story that consists of five separate stories, spans millennia, and all ties together with a fictional manuscript attributed to the ancient Greek novelist Antonius Diogenes called "Cloud Cuckoo Land."

Simon & Schuster, 1st Edition, 3rd Printing 2021, SIGNED by Walter Isaacson on a tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 536 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, blue boards with gilt titling, jacket features photographic headshot of Nobel Prize Winner Jennifer Doudna on front and spine. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn t become scientists, she decided she would. More masterful storytelling from Walter Isaacson.

Simon & Schuster, 1st Edition, 3rd Printing 2021, SIGNED by Walter Isaacson on a tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 536 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, blue boards with gilt titling, jacket features photographic headshot of Nobel Prize Winner Jennifer Doudna on front and spine. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn t become scientists, she decided she would. More masterful storytelling from Walter Isaacson.

Dutton Books. New York, 1st Edition, Later Printing, SIGNED by Malinda Lo ON THE TITLE PAGE. Hardcover with dust jacket, 409 numbered pages, 22 by 15 cm, navy blue boards with gilt titling on spine, jacket features cartoon illustration of 1950s Chinatown nightlife, includes a Last Night at the Telegraph bookmark with charming matchbook illustration on the back. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, minimal shelfwear, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. "Last Night at the Telegraph" is the winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, but has faced bans in schools in multiple states, and is included in NYPL's NYC Banned Books Challenge. "That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other." And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: "Have you ever heard of such a thing?"

Viking, New York, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021 SIGNED in characteristic fun style by Amor Towles on TITLE PAGE. Hardcover with dust jacket, 575 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America.

Riverhead Books, New York, 1st Edition, 7th Printing, 2021, SIGNED by Patricia Lockwood is blue ink on the TITLE PAGE. Small format hardcover with dust jacket, 210 numbered pages, 21 x 14 cm, blue paper over yellow boards, silver titling on spine, jacket has "Eischer" ring in foreground over sunset scene. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. "One of the most incisive observers of the spectacle of digital discourse . . . Lockwood is a sharp and often funny social critic" (Courtesy Wall Street ournal). Named a Best Book of 2021 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, NPR, TIME, Vulture, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, PopSugar, Harper's Bazaar, LitHub and Publishers Weekly. Now everyone is talking about Savannah author Patricia Lockwood after Booker Prize recognition.

Avid Reader Press, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Susan Orlean on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 241 numbered pages, 24 x 17 cm, boards covered with white paper, cream textured spine with black titling, brilliant white just jacket with over-sized lettering and a chicken. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine (no faults observed), packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. Susan Orlean is a journalist and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book, and a staff writer for The New Yorker with a dedicated following. The Orchid Thief was adapted into the film Adaptation (2002), and Meryl Streep won an Oscar nomination for her performance as Orlean. Susan Orlean brings a fresh buzzword to the cultural conversation when she describes herself as "animalish" in her new collection of essays, "On Animals". "I don't just mean as a child," she writes, "since all… Read More

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, 3rd Printing SIGNED by Damon Galgut on the title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 293 numbered pages, 22 x 15 cm, black boards with silver titling, jacket printed in black and white with red lettering, features photograph of child on front. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine: minor crushing at spine top and bottom (no tears, chips or loss of any kind). BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2021. Damon Galgut won the Booker prize for his portrait of a white South African family navigating the end of apartheid. The judges praised The Promise as "a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh", and compared it to the work of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, 5th Printing SIGNED by Damon Galgut on the title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 293 numbered pages, 22 x 15 cm, black boards with silver titling, jacket printed in black and white with red lettering, features photograph of child on front. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine. BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2021. Damon Galgut won the Booker prize for his portrait of a white South African family navigating the end of apartheid. The judges praised The Promise as "a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh", and compared it to the work of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf.

ACCART Books, Suffolk, England, 2nd Printing, March 2020, SIGNED by Bill Wyman on a bookplate affixed to the title page. Large format hardcover without jacket (as published), 267 numbered pages, 31 x 25 cm, black board with B&W lettering on the front except for color photographs within the "STONES" letters; color photographic strip effect on rear cover, color and B&W photos, both candid and posed, throughout. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, with minimal shelfwear. Extra postage required for outside US or priority mail. After joining what would become the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band, Wyman continued his photographic hobby. When he didn't have his bass, he had his camera. The result is an arresting, insightful and often poignant collection of photographs, showing his exclusive inside view of the band. From travelling to relaxing, backstage and on, Stones From the Inside is a unique view captured by a man who was there, every step of the way. Along with the images of the band at… Read More

Delacorte Press, 1st Edition 2020, 3rd Printing, SIGNED by Ruby Bridges on a publisher's bookplate attached to the half title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 55 numbered pages, 19 x 14 cm, black boards with silver titling on spine, jacket is white with a Norman Rockwell image ("The Problem We All Live With"), depicting Ruby Bridges' historic walk to school, lavishly illustrated with many (30+) period photographs and illustrations. NEW (unread) book. FINE in FINE DJ. Written as a letter from civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges to the reader, This Is Your Time is both a recounting of Ruby's experience as a child who had to be escorted to class by federal marshals when she was chosen to be one of the first black students to integrate into New Orleans' all-white public school system and an appeal to generations to come to effect change.

Delacorte Press, 1st Edition 2020, 3rd Printing, SIGNED by Ruby Bridges on a publisher's bookplate attached to the half title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 55 numbered pages, 19 x 14 cm, black boards with silver titling on spine, jacket is white with a Norman Rockwell image ("The Problem We All Live With"), depicting Ruby Bridges' historic walk to school, lavishly illustrated with many (30+) period photographs and illustrations. NEW (unread) book. FINE in FINE DJ. Written as a letter from civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges to the reader, This Is Your Time is both a recounting of Ruby's experience as a child who had to be escorted to class by federal marshals when she was chosen to be one of the first black students to integrate into New Orleans' all-white public school system and an appeal to generations to come to effect change.