Search Results: Authors starting with V from BIAbooks

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's FIRST NOVEL. "With this novel, [author] has created a starburst story filled with starburst characters.The Latina community has a rich new voice."--Jeffrey Kluger

New York: Nan A. Talese; Doubleday, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book that appears UNREAD. Gus Van Sant is one of America's most original and celebrated filmmakers, whose credits include three films already considered classics: Drugstore Cowboy, which anticipated the current 90s revival; My Own Private Idaho, with River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves; and To Die For, a black comedy that was a critical and box-office success. With Pink, Gus Van Sant brings his unique and playful genius to the novel, and the result is both delirious and disarmingly tender. (DD)

New York: The Dial Press, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's FIRST novel. "A splendid debut, which captures in the intertwined stories of two women a passion for life and for science that transcends time."---Andrea Barrett. "Easter Island is fully imagined and wonderfully written. .The interwoven stories are utterly captivating.This is one of the best novels of the year and the debut of an important young talent."---Robert Stone. Keywords: VANDERBES FIRST NOVEL EASTER ISLAND ANTHROPOLOGISTS SPOUSES BOTANISTS WOMEN

New York: Pantheon Books, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Lara Vapnyar is Jane Austen with a Russian soul." ---Louis Menand

New York: Farrar,Straus,Giroux, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine, collectible book. Appears UNREAD. "Yvonne Vera writes with magnificent luminosity. The Stone Virgins is a song about the author's people, and the tragedy of their lives and their loves, contrasted against the sheer beauty of their land. It may yet prove to be one of the notable novels of the twenty-first century." -Ama Ata Aidoo

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A beautiful book SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Book appears UNREAD. Dirtdobber Blues, a fictionalized account of immensely talented and devastatingly self-destructive, singer/songwriter Charles "Butch" Hornsby life written by his close friend Cyril Vetter, provides the gritty but engrossing story of this man, his demons, and his art. In addition to Vetter's lively and captivating account of Butch's life, the book includes Hornsby's sheet music and a CD with fourteen of his songs. Photos of Butch and images of his found-object artwork by photographer Philip Gould are also included. ''Once again, my lifelong friend Cyril Vetter has created a multilayered experience, combining art, music, and a powerful and deeply moving human story. Dirtdobber Blues is a sui generis novel that is a must read, must listen, and must see all rolled into one.'' James Carville

Pittsburgh, PA: Dorrance Pub Co, 1999. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A young biophysicist risks his reputation in an unswerving effort to prove that cancer can be of viral origin, and to do whatever possible to conquer it. He not only searches for a solution to mankind's most deadly disease, but also for deep rooted love. A prestine book that appears UNREAD. The only flaw is a closed tear on back of dj, unnoticable under a mylar protective cover. This book is INSCRIBED by the author to medical student. Keywords: VEZZOLI BIOPHYSICIST SEARCH CANCER CURE LOVE

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. Author's FIRST novel. "And Now You Can Go is so fast, so mesmerizing to read, and so accomplished that it's hard to think of it as a first novel, which it is -- Vendela Vida has promise to spare." --Joan Didion; ".It is the debut of a writer with enormous talents."--Amy Tan. DJ has a few slight dimples on front panel near hinge, else fine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's FIRST novel. "And Now You Can Go is so fast, so mesmerizing to read, and so accomplished that it's hard to think of it as a first novel, which it is -- Vendela Vida has promise to spare." --Joan Didion; ".It is the debut of a writer with enormous talents."--Amy Tan

New York: Random House, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collectible book, clean, tight and fresh.Twentieth-century television networks compete murderously for exclusive rights to broadcast the Crucifixion, in an irreverent assault on religious, sexual, and commercial mores by the author of Lincoln.

New York: Soho Press Inc., 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Author's DEBUT novel. "A tender, elegiac novel., is a wonderfully observed, richly evocative story of growth and discovery. Luminous and moving, 'Motherland' is a marvelous debut."--Shashi Tharoor

New York: Little Brown & Company, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Author's FIRST novel which was surrounded by controversy concerning plagiarism. Author admitted that she "accidentally" borrowed some passages from Megan McCafferty's novels. The publisher noted more than forty passages of similar or identical wording.

New York: Viking, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Vollman's vision of our planet in all its squalor, violence, and beauty, swarming with lives and deaths portrayed in miniature by fifty-three interconnected stories. He writes of memory, oppression, loneliness, war, the thrill of the alien, and the infinitely precious pain of love. A handsome book by a remarkable author.

New York: Delacorte Press, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is a Pristine collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post¿World War II America¿a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence.

New York: G.P Putnam, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, with slight remainder mark. Very mild edgewear, else fine. Page bright,clean, fresh. DJ design by Paul Bacon. Back cover photo by Jill Krementz. Number 9009 below text on front flap. Hocus Pocus the major plot event concerns a prison break in a small New York village, located directly across from a prominent university. The protagonist's life revolves heavily around both the prison and the university, and the community that must accommodate both.

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1979. Second Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Good. The book is clean, fresh and tight. The DJ has an inch closed tear on top edge, front panel plus minor wear along edges. Also price clipped.

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1979. Second Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The book/text is clean and fresh, has no flaws and appears unread. The DJ has one half inch closed tear on top edge, front near hinge and two minor cuts on back top edge. Also price clipped. Still a handsome book well worth the price.

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. This First trade printing is clean, fresh and tight. The DJ has one half inch closed tear on bottom edge of hinge with a small cut on bottom of flap. Dj has the original 9.95 price on the dustjacket with 0979 on bottom corner of flap.

New York: Viking Press, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This book ".is both an entertaining and thought-provoking portrait of this admirable pioneering spirit. Susan Vreeland has a natural sympathy for her subject and is adept at protraying human bonds strained by artistic demands. The novel sparkles without being shallow, portrays shadows without being melancholy and gives us a privileged glimpse into an extraordinary woman's soul."--Margaret George

New York: Viking Press, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This book ".is both an entertaining and thought-provoking portrait of this admirable pioneering spirit. Susan Vreeland has a natural sympathy for her subject and is adept at protraying human bonds strained by artistic demands. The novel sparkles without being shallow, portrays shadows without being melancholy and gives us a privileged glimpse into an extraordinary woman's soul."--Margaret George