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Beloved
by Morrison, Toni
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1987. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1987 Knopf FIRST edition/FIRST printing from the late and highly honored author. Beloved won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This book is in NearFine/NearFine condition. The DJ is price clipped but shows only very minor wear. The hardback is intact with no marks, lettering bends or folds. A wonderful copy of a classic and one of the great works of modern fiction from the1993 Nobel...
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$245.00
John Adams
by McCullough, David
Simon & Schuster, 2001. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$6.36
The Overstory: A Novel
by Powers, Richard
W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells Medal, plus on the shortlist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. If nothing else, it will alter the way you look at trees. The novel is in Fine/Fine condition. The HB is intact with no bumps and only a slight bend of the lower spine edge. The HB is as new but for being price clipped. A real treasure. Brenbooks specializes in rare and hard to find first editions.
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$325.00
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
by Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1932. Early printing of this Newbery Medal winning book about a Chinese youth, his apprenticeship and adventures. Both author and illustrator spent some years in China, and the book is regarded as a good starting point for discussions on Chinese culture and history, though from a western colonialist viewpoint. No edition or printing stated, as was Winston's practice at this time, but the second state, with dedication text present on page [iv] and text on the...
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$200.00
Humboldt's Gift
by Bellow, Saul
New York: Viking, 1975. Novel based in part on Bellow's friendship with poet Delmore Schwartz, the model for the title character. Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for this book in 1976; it was also influential in his selection as a Nobel Prize winner that year. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; first edition (first printing), listing no later printings. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in leaf, with Kroch's & Brentano's First Edition Circle bookmark laid in. Hint of wear to book, spine...
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$150.00
Seferis and Friends (Some of George Seferis' Friends in the English-Speaking World
by Thaniel, George; edited by Ed Phinney
Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press, 1994. Collection of letters with commentary; correspondents include Lawrence Durrell, Auden, Cavafy, Spender, MacLeish, Eliot, Runciman, Eugene J. McCarthy, E. M. Forster, John Lehmann, Robert Graves, Henry Miller. Paperback, off-white covers, copper & black titling. Light wear, hint of corner curl. Text clean; 144 pages. . First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 6" by 9".
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$20.00
Laughing Boy
by La Farge, Oliver
Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge (1929 Houghton Mifflin 1st. Edition) Please see our stock photos. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Spine is sunned. Summary: Laughing Boy is a 1929 novel by Oliver La Farge about the struggles of the Navajo in Southwestern United States to reconcile their culture with that of the United States. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930. It was adapted as a film of the same name, released in 1934."
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$100.00
World Light
by Laxness, Halldor; translated by Magnus Magnusson
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. First edition in English of this Icelandic author's satiric look at his homeland, inspired by the life of alienated poet Magnus Hjaltason Magnusson, the last of his "epic" novels, not well-received in Iceland because of its "harshly ironic portrayal of a backward Iceland during the rise of capitalism"; Laxness won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955. Stout hardcover, full blue cloth, silver titling. Light wear to book, rear corners...
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$235.00
Ethics and Economic Progress
by Buchanan, James M
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Economic theory. Buchanan won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1986. Hardcover. As new in shrinkwrap, clean, unmarked, unused.. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Octavo.
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$40.00
The Great Gilly Hopkins
by Paterson, Katherine
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1978. Fifth printing of this Newbery Honor book, about a gutsy & scheming foster kid. SIGNED by the author on the title page, dated 3/15/80. Hardcover, light blue cloth spine over tan boards, yellow titling. Light wear to book, minor fading to top edge; jacket shows minor edgewear, short tear to upper front panel; some creasing to the rear panel & lower spine. Text clean; [10], 148 pages + biographical note. . Signed by Author. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very...
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$50.00
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Wilder, Thornton
NY: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1927 Albert & Charles Boni FIRST EDITION stated 4th printing (December 1927) in VG/G condition. The HB is clean and tight with minor wear. The unclipped DJ ( $ 2.50) is later state ( 156th thousand) in GOOD condition missing a small piece at the top spine end. The colors are still bright.
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$200.00
A Death in the Family
by Agee, James
New York: McDowell Obolensky, 1957. Novel of the death of a young father and its effects on his family, and life in Knoxville Tennessee before the Great War, published posthumously; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958. First edition (first printing), first state, with title page in blue and textual error ("Walking" for 'Waking') on page 80. Hardcover, full blue cloth, silver titling, green decoration. Light wear to book, some fading to the spine & edges, minor binding...
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$100.00
A Strange Loop
by Jackson, Michael R
Theatre Communications Group, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Jackson, Michael R. A Strange Loop from 2020 1st/1st softback edition is in Fine condition. At the 75th Tony Awards, A Strange Loop earned a leading 11 nominations and won for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical. A Strange Loop also won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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$35.00
Paul Revere & the World He Lived In
by Forbes, Esther
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the notorious anti-British silversmith, industrialist, and after-hours canterer. Apparently the first printing, with date on title page, but actually the first book club issue, with no price on the jacket; binding of fine-weave salmon cloth titled in blue, small cover design, no book-club deboss on back, top edge tinted light orange, BOMC flyer laid in. Light wear to book; jacket shows minor edgewear. Text clean; xiii, blank, 498...
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$25.00
Many Moons
by Thurber, James
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First printing (first edition) of this Caldecott Medal winner about a young princess who wanted the moon; with 'I' on copyright page, war bond ad on rear jacket flap. Hardcover, full salmon cloth, black titling. Light wear to book, fading to head of spine; price-clipped (all four corners) jacket torn, creased, & chipped, missing a 1½" triangle from upper front corner, smaller triangle to lower front corner, about an inch from the head...
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$350.00
Thomas and Beulah; poems
by Dove, Rita
Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1986. Paperback. 79p., very good first edition, second state with Pulitzer announcement on cover, trade paperback in dark blue pictorial wraps.
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$12.00
Before the Ever After
by Woodson, Jacqueline
New York: Nancy Paulsen Books / Penguin Random House, 2020. Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel in verse of a young man whose sports-hero father is changing in a scary way; his friends have his back. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; first edition (first printing) with full number string; no notice of award on jacket. Light wear to book & jacket, minor bumping to corners; clean & unmarked. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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$40.00
