Search Results: Authors starting with L from BIAbooks

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive flawless book. In these eleven stories the author enlarges the boundaries of the story, and casts a new, sometimes alarming, light on human experience.--HRW

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's first novel.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. Second Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Author's FIRST Novel. A fine tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity. Author won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut collection of short stories, INTERPRETER OF MALADIES. DJ has a thumb size stratch on front panel. Otherwise perfect.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. "Ivonne Lamazares's fresh, clear voice and lyrical vision of Cuba past and present are a welcome addition to the New American Literature that's developing fast along our borders from Miami to Los Angeles." -- Russell Banks

New York: Pantheon Books, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Lamott is at the top of her form in this complex coming-of-age novel in which tennis becomes the metaphor for life's toughest lessons."--Sue Grafton. "Crooked Little Heart is pure Anne Lamott, with her marvelous, unique and totally original voice, so warm and welcoming, kind, and always so wonderfully, reliably, funny."-- Alice Adams

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Author's DEBUT novel. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book. This book appears UNREAD. Minor closed tear on front panel of DJ, else fine. "For those who appreciate linguistic virtuosity and light-fingered irony, who enjoy constructing a jigsaw puzzle out of tantalizing clues, this novel will be a lagniappe, fit for connoisseurs of fine food and writing."--Publishers Weekly. "A gorgeous, dark, and sensuous book that is part cookbook, part novel, part eccentric philosophical treatise."

New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Spanning seven decades this story moves from the intrigue and doubledealing of the 1930s, through the savagery of the Japanese occuption, to end in contemporary Hong Kong. a story of forbidden love whose reprecussions echo across the years, surviving war, taboos, and even death. A very attractive first edition.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. A collectible book. Author's DEBUT novel. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book. "For those who appreciate linguistic virtuosity and light-fingered irony, who enjoy constructing a jigsaw puzzle out of tantalizing clues, this novel will be a lagniappe, fit for connoisseurs of fine food and writing."--Publishers Weekly. "A gorgeous, dark, and sensuous book that is part cookbook, part novel, part eccentric philosophical treatise."

Caanan, NH: Phoenix Publishing, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine collectible book with very minor bubbing at two corners of DJ. This book chronicles the life of Mary Hitchcock and this unique nursing school until its closing in 1980.

Pureplay Press, 2003. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Fine/Fine.

New York: A Ballantine Book/Random House, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Penguin, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Reif Larsen. A pristine book.Unique DEBUT that's illustrated by the author throughout: b/w drawings, schematics, maps, etc. "The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet" is a story like no other: exhilarating, funny, endlessly charming and unbearably poignant. It is a journey through life's mysteries great and small, and about how on earth a boy with a telescope, four compasses and a theodolite should set about solving them.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine collectible book. This is the second book in the trilogy by Stieg Larsson, featuring the morally ruthless and socially dysfunctional genius Lisbeth Salander. Translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland. Date on bottom of back flap of DJ is 8/2009.

New York: Blue Sky/Scholastic Press, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Drawing from extensive research, has woven an unforgettable story about good and evil- and our power as individuals to make mora l choices. Set in 1692, a 12-year-old fights to save her mother from execution after being accused of witchcraft.

New York: Simon And Schuster, 1970. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. D.j. mylar-protected. A great copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. A pristine book the appears UNREAD. I touch of rubbing on one corner, else fine. 'One of the finest writers in the English speaking world."--Christian Science Monitor. "Mary Lavin has given us in these stories an entire country, and surely there is no greater gift a writer can make to his time."--Kay Boyle.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine collectible book. "A magnificent thriller, a celebration of courage, a novel of hope for our time."-DJ

Markham, Ontario: Viking/Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine collectible book. "A magnificent thriller, a celebration of courage, a novel of hope for our time."-DJ