Search Results: Authors starting with M from BIAbooks

New York, NY: Publisher: New Press, 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. A PRISTINE BOOK. Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. Nominated for the 2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award. "In lyrical and disarmingly serene prose, the author evokes shock, wonder, and sometimes dismay as he searches for his past...A tender, poetic chronicle of an exile's return."? Kirkus. "This is a beautiful book, the past hauntingly reentered, the present truthfully faced, and the translation rises gorgeously to the challenge."?Salman Rushdie

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf , 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, SIGNED, Collectible book. "Living Wills indicates not only what this poet has done over the past twenty years but new directions and powers...Ms. Macdonald's work has always had a gorgeous, almost baroque quality...The newest poems here, under the title 'The Precise Shape of a Wave ,' constitute two-thirds of a full-length book of poems, and they are the best in the collection. 'Separations' is a remarkable poem about familial love and loss, 'At the Round Earth's Imagin'd Corners' is a tour de force, and 'Rose Magpie and Magpie Rose' reveals the poet's new, brighter, richer, more varied palette."Liz Rosenberg, The New York Times Book Review

New York: The Viking Press Inc., 1981. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Interior and boards are pristine. DJ has two cuts along top edge of back panel and minor wrinkles at very top edge at spine. Other wise the colors are vivid and the DJ intact. A Travis McGee mystery that is the story of an inherited fortune and an unsolved murder. It ranges from Florida to California and involves McGee in everything from motorcycles to movies to hot air balloons. Keywords: MCDONALD TRAVIS MCGEE MYSTERY INHERITENCE FLORIDA MURDER

New York: Harcourt Inc., 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Author's FIRST novel."Eros, crime and the inscrutability of a secluded people combine to lend a tantalizing atmosphere of cool suspense - This is a flat-out great book." --Scott Turow. "Powerful clarity.terse prose, rich character development and strong themes."--PW Keywords: CAPE BRETON ISLAND BOSTON CANADA NOVA SCOTIA

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1985. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The last Travis McGee mystery that is the story of a disappearance of a custom-built yacht.the brutal murder of a Peruvian debutante.the sloppy "accidental death" of a Florida tycoon. These are the pieces Travis McGee must fit together to save his own life. Keyywords: MCDONALD TRAVIS MCGEE MYSTERY FLORIDA MURDER DRUG SMUGGLERS

New York: The Viking Press Inc., 1981. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. A Travis McGee mystery that is the story of an inherited fortune and an unsolved murder. It ranges from Florida to California and involves McGee in everything from motorcycles to movies to hot air balloons. A prestine book without a dustjacket. Keywords: MCDONALD TRAVIS MCGEE MYSTERY INHERITENCE FLORIDA MURDER

New York, NY: Poseidon Press, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book that appears UNREAD. " In this chronicle of his grandparents' generation, Macfarlane deftly intertwines personal memory, family lore and vivid images of WW I battles where three of his relatives perished. Macfarlane portrays the exploitation of Newfoundland by outsiders and its decline from prosperous colony to desperately poor province in this engaging story of people and events.

New York: Shaye Areheart Books, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine SIGNED book. Author's DEBUT book that appears UNREAD. "Haunting, thrilling, and beautifully drawn"--Amanda Eyre Ward

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collectible book. In his play, "Herakles" MacLeish tells the story of the Greek hero Herakles, who masters the evils of the universe and becomes a god himself only to find that he has murdered his own sons. The myth in "Herakles" becomes a myth not of the fabulous past but of the actual present.

Westminster, Maryland: Fawcett Books, 1989. First Edition, Later Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine. Radically original biography of Nora, James Joyce's wife. Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize for Biography. Book is clean, tight with a hint of toning at text, else fine. 6-1/4 x 9-1/4, 472 pp, index, bibliography, notes, b/w photo section.

New York: Pharos Books, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In October 1923 the Malrauxs went to Cambodia to obtain Khmer art figures for sale in New York. This trip and the Malraux's subsequent adventures in French Indochina through the spring of 1926 make up most of the book. The last three chapters cover the Malrauxs' other travels, a summary of the rest of their lives, and an epilogue to the Indochina adventure.--- Library Journal. Full bilbliography and Index with 25 b/w photos. An excellent book.

New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine, collectible book. INSCRIBED by the Author. "A gloriously far fetched tale, but alarmingly real to anyone who knows the weird world of MFA programs. Besides which, it's a shit-load of fun."Peter Carey is not just an unforgettable literary romp but also a surprisingly tender take on two men one a scam artist frantic to be believed, the other an old lion desperate to be remembered.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In the slapstick tradition of 'A Confederacy of Dunces' this book is part treatise on what it means to be a man in America, part true life tale of a twenty something man stumbling through the Reagan years, all of it funny in a way that will warm your heart and have you cheering for lummoxes everywhere. An excellent copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. First Edition, Third Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. A clean, bright and crisp book that has rubbing at two corners at flap. This book tells the tale of contemporary Irish women through a series of brilliantly animated scences that take the reader from Dillon's tiny pub in rural Corofin to the heart of Dublin. This beguiling account of Irish life transcends that nation's small shores through the power of Mahoney's great storytelling gifts. "Whoredom in Kimmage is a fascinating book: uncommonly well written, eminently readable, a thorough and perceptive investigation of its subject."--William Trevor

New York: Random House, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The DEBUT novel by Ms. Norman Mailer's wife. "The breezy, lighthearted tone of this debut novel immediately captures the reader's attention, but its guilelessness conceals a sophisticated, multifaceted evocation of the consequences of the Vietnam War, played out in the small town of Sweet Valley, Ark". -- Publishers Weekly. "An endearing novel with a lovable young narrator, written with charm, candor, and authority."------Joseph Heller

New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A FINE, COLLECTIBLE FIRST PRINTING. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Remarkably well-preserved for a book of such size. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($30.00), is fresh and bright with no creases, chipping or tears. With unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his society-and his own past-takes him through the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Kennedy assassination. "Immense, fascinating, and in large part brilliant."-Salman Rushdie

New York: Random House, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The DEBUT novel by Ms. Norman Mailer's wife. The flaps on this lovely book have been glued to the boards."The breezy, lighthearted tone of this debut novel immediately captures the reader's attention, but its guilelessness conceals a sophisticated, multifaceted evocation of the consequences of the Vietnam War, played out in the small town of Sweet Valley, Ark". -- Publishers Weekly. "An endearing novel with a lovable young narrator, written with charm, candor, and authority."------Joseph Heller

New York: Random House, 2010. First Printing . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. A pristine, NEW, SIGNED book. "A Ticket to the Circus is an honest, witty, revealing, thoughtful, fascinating memoir -- a magnificent piece of work. It makes the reader fall in love with the brave and beautiful woman Norman Mailer could not live without. We recall Norman Mailer as a literary lion, but now with this book Norris Church Mailer, too, will be remembered for many years to come." --Doris Kearns Goodwin

New York: Random House, 1984. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Minor wrinkle top of front dj.

Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1983. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. This book is clean, crisp and unmarked. The DJ is whole but with a minor wrinkle top of front dj and inside back flap. DJ is bright and colors are vibrant. the Egypt of the nineteenth and twentieth dynasties--1290-1100 B.C.--Menenhetet is reincarnated three times, his fate taking him from peasant childhood, to power as the pharaoh's most intimate adviser, to the squalor of grave robbing. "Ancient Evenings' by Norman Mailer makes a miraculous present out of aged, deep memories, bringing to life the rhythms, images, the sensuousness of a lost time." New York Times - Marilee Settle