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New York: Delacorte Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Dust jacket has a 1/4 inch closed tear to top edge of rear panel at center and light rubbing to edge extremities. Book is in excellent condition, pages are bright and clean. Author's "Ship Fever", a collection of novellas and short stories, won the National Book Award in 1996. Barrett received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, and her book "Servants of the Map" was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.This book is inscribed on the title page to a fellow writer. The inscription reads, "For ___ --/ fellow writer and Bread Loafer--/ Andrea Barrett/ Bread Loaf/ 1990." The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, called by The New Yorker "the oldest and most prestigious writers' conference in the country" was founded in 1926. It is held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury, Vermont. The conference is sponsored by Middlebury College and at its inception was very… Read more

New York: Viking Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good. Advance Reading Copy. Some minor wear to edge extremitie, small bump to top of spine edge, and very light toning to page edges (only on outside edges). Interior is clean and bright. Signed on the title page by the author. Back cover states that the first printing was 40,000 copies, and the Advance Reading Copy is becoming difficult to find, especially signed. The Author has received many literary awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Malamud Prize, the PEN/West Literary Prize, the Commonwealth Gold Medal for Literature, the National Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Prose Excellence. His short fiction has won him six O. Henry Awards for short fiction, and multiple appearances in the Best American Short Story awards.

New York: Doubleday, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Minor rubbing to hardcover edges, slightest lean and light dust soiling to text block. Light rubbing to jacket panels, minor wrinkling to edge extremities, and rear flap has two creases. Still a handsome copy of this true first edition. First Edition, First Printing with all correct first issue points. The novel has provoked a popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and Magdalene's role in the history of Christianity. The book is a worldwide bestseller that sold 80 million copies as of 2009.

Amazing collectible copy, as new. This is a signed first edition, first printing of the debut novel by this award winning writer. Signed on the title page. The novel takes place over a period of two days in a VA Hospital.

New York: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Author's first novel. Signed on the Title Page By the Author. A Beautiful Copy.