Search Results: Authors starting with W from BIAbooks

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1986. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1977. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Dan Wakefield is a master storyteller.a writer's writer."--LA Times Book Rview. "Our most humane reporter of the Sixties."--John Leonard. A clean, crisp, tight, bright book. Minor rubbing on bottom of DJ's spine, else fine.

New York: Scribner, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Author's FIRST NOVEL that establishes Walbert as a writer of astonishing elegance and power. With lyrical, seductive prose that spins several parallel stories of the emotional damage done by war and like the gardens of Kyoto gracefully assemble into a single, rick mossaic. "A fine debut novel--a strong story, written with the grace and poignancy that hindsight brings."--Edna O'Brien--- An excellent book that has a tiny chip with a dime size scratch to front of DJ. Key words: WORLD WAR TWO JAPAN KYOTO GARDENS MARYLAND FIRST NOVEL

Tupelo Press, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/New. a NEW, pristine 1st Edition, 1st Printing of this extraordinary book that is SIGNED by the author. "For several books now, G.C. Waldrep has been writing poetry that inhabits the tensions between faith and matter, flesh and mind, fullness and nullity. Feast Gently is a lavish new iteration of his visionary work. In language that is always exultant, the poems in this beautiful and demanding book inquire into the body itself--the prismatic entity that manifests as the lyric body, the civic body, the spirit body, and the achingly physical body. What's newly urgent in these poems is the knowledge that the body's vulnerability is probably the fulcrum of its joy. As a speaker in one poem claims, 'Sometimes touch is better / than illumination.' Still, here is a poetry of illumination, rapture, and rapt attention." --Rick Barot. "Rarely have I encountered such intransigent songs of devotion, as baroque in… Read More

New York: Scribner, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A "meditation on Life, Spirit, Art, and the Making of the Film The Color Purpose Ten Years Later." Walker's memoir of the personal dilemmas and controversy surrounding release of the film based on The Color Purple.

New York: Scribner, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A "meditation on Life, Spirit, Art, and the Making of the Film The Color Purpose Ten Years Later." Walker's memoir of the personal dilemmas and controversy surrounding release of the film based on The Color Purple.

New York: Random House, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. DJ has very slight wearing on one corner. " These provocative stories showcase Walker's hard-won knowledge of love of many kinds and of the relationships that shape our lives, as well as her infectious sense of humor and joy. Filled with wonder at the power of the life force and of the capacity of human beings to move through love and loss and healing to love again, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart is an enriching, passionate book by "a lavishly gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review).

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1992. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. A pristine, collectible book. This is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who submits to ritual of genital mutilation and then living her adult life as an African woman in America searches for the "reasons" why, and to regain the ability to recognize her own reality and to feel. The author strikes with graceful power at the heart of one of the most controversial issues of our time. A pristine book. Keywords: WALKER AFRICA TRIBAL CUSTOMS GENITAL MUTILATION TSUNGA PHARAONICALLY CIRCUMCISION

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book that appears UNREAD. "By the Light of My Father's Smile is Alice Walker's first novel in six years-a stunning, original, and important book by 'one of the best American writers of today' .---The Washington Post) Ms. Walker explore's in this magical novel the ways in which a women's denied sexuality leads to the loss of the original self; and how she regains that self, even as her family's past of lies and love is Keywords: WALKER SEXUALITY MEXICO SIERRAS MUNDO SPIRITUALITY

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book that appears UNREAD. A moving story of a woman's spiritual journey as she wanders through time and space in a quest for self and a deeper understanding of love. Keywords:Self-Actualization (Psychology) - Fiction Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Separation Amazon Region Shamanism Travelers Hawaii

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A well preserved COLLECTIBLE book. "Exciting and cleverly plotted. . . the extraordinary tension. . . blackmail, murder, shocking secrets. . . builds during the countdown to the Reappearance. . . Wallace's handling of the final act in the drama is a miracle itself."--Publishers Weekly. KEYWORDS: Wallace Bernadette Virgin Mary Lourdes Miracles

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's FIRST NOVEL. Wallace's haunting concoction of stories within stories in this unusually compelling first novel. (The daughter of Irving Wallace, her previous efforts include The Prodigy , a biography). Itself like an opium dream, the book hypnotically pulls the reader into its mysterious erotic core, never taking the cheap or easy way. Depicting the obsessions that drive people to fulfill or deny their hearts' desires, Wallace demonstrates that the answer can come in the shape of sacred or profane love--or, sometimes, a rare blue pearl.

New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1987. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, Collectible, stated 1st printing. In his most powerful and provocative novel to date, master storyteller Irving Wallace turns his incomparable talents to the world of sex therapy. Erotically charged, compassionate, and suspenseful, The Celestial Bed explores the way people make love in postsexual-revolution America.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Slight edgewear and a few small cuts or nicks to dj. A well preserved, attractive copy of this classic suspense story of international intrigue and diplomacy. Presented in a protective sleeve.

New York, NY: New Directions/Christine Burgin Gallery, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. A pristine, collectible book by Robert Walse, translated by Susan Bernofsky. "The incredible shrinking writer is a major 20th-century prose artist who, for all that the modern world seems to have passed him by, fulfills the modern criterion: He sounds like nobody else" (The New Yorker Magazine) . "One of the profoundest products of modern literature" (Walter Benjamin) . An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Walser collectors. Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only after the author's death in 1956.At first considered random restless pencil markings or a secret code, the microscripts were in time discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of antique German script: a whole story was deciphered… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine.