Search Results: Authors starting with S from Casa Pacifica

SIGNED, FIRST U.S. EDITION, MINT CONDITION/COLLECTIBLE
Casa Pacifica is selling a beautiful, pristine copy of Simon Schama's second volume, Belonging: 1492-1900 in his epic series, The Story of the Jews, in mint condition. Dust jacket is as new and is now protected in Mylar.
Signed by the author, Simon Schama, on the title page.
First U.S. edition print. It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amid grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. The first of two volumes, The Story of the Jews spans the millennia and the continents—from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes readers to unimagined places: a Jewish kingdom in the mountains of southern Arabia, a Syrian synagogue glowing with radiant wall paintings, the palm groves of the Jewish dead in the Roman catacombs. And its voices ring loud and clear, from the severities and ecstasies of the writers of the Bible to the love… Read More

Signed, First Edition, Very Good ConditionThere is separation between the binding and spine when book is opened- binding has slightly loosened, all else fine.Dust Jacket in mint condition and protected in Mylar.Signed by the author, Simon Schama, on the title page.First Edition print.Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings, photographs, lithographs, etchings, sketches-found in London's National Portrait Gallery, The Face of Britain weaves together an account of their composition, framed by their particular moment of creation, and in the process unveils a collective portrait of nation and its history."Portraits," Schama writes, "have always been made with an eye to posterity." Commissioned to paint Winston Churchill in 1954, Graham Sutherland struggled… Read More

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, VERY GOOD CONDITION
Casa Pacifica is selling a copy of Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff's The Witches: Salem, 1962. Binding is in good condition, although there is some separation between the binding and spine (loose binding), as if someone has read the book before. Dust jacket is as new, and is now protected in Mylar. Pages have a deckle edge.
Signed and dated by the author, Stacy Schiff, on the title page.
First edition printing.
The panic began early in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to writhe and roar. It spread quickly, confounding the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, husbands accused wives, parents and children one another. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. Speaking loudly and emphatically, adolescent girls stood at the center of the crisis. Along with suffrage and… Read More

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Spine and binding is tight.Dust jacket is in mint condition and protected with Mylar.Signed by the author, Gino Segrè and Bettina HOerlin, on title page.
"A major biography of the great Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a leading architect of the atomic age"
Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction and conversely to life-saving medical interventions.
This unassuming man struggled with issues relevant today, such as the threat of nuclear annihilation and the relationship of science to politics. Fleeing Fascism and anti-Semitism, Fermi became a leading figure in America's most secret project: building the atomic bomb. The last physicist who mastered all branches of the… Read More

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, VERY GOOD CONDITION
Casa Pacifica is selling a copy of David Shafer's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot in good condition. The binding is separated from the spine when book is opened- see photos, but other than that this book is in great condition. Dust jacket is in mint condition, and is now protected with Mylar.
Signed by the author, David Shafer, on the title page and stamped with an owl.
First edition print. Three young adults grapple with the usual thirty-something problems—boredom, authenticity, an omnipotent online oligarchy—in David Shafer's darkly comic debut novel.The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary, an idealistic online Underground, stands in the way of that takeover, using radical politics, classic spycraft, and technology that makes Big Data look like dial-up. Into this secret battle stumbles an unlikely trio: Leila Majnoun, a disillusioned non-profit worker; Leo Crane, an… Read More

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Spine and binding is tight.Dust jacket is in mint condition and protected with Mylar.Signed by the author, Gabriel Sherman, on title page.The astonishing inside story of Fox News, the most powerful media and political business in the world, from one of the hottest young investigative journalists today. The story of Fox News' ascent is an epic story of political power, business success, brass-knuckle tactics, and old-school showmanship.

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Spine and binding is tight.Dust jacket is in mint condition and protected with Mylar.Signed by the author, Gary Shteyngart, on title page.After three acclaimed novels—The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Absurdistan, and Super Sad True Love Story—Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a candid, witty, deeply poignant account of his life so far. Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. The result is a resonant story of family and belonging that feels epic and intimate and distinctly his own.Born Igor Shteyngart in Leningrad during the twilight of the Soviet Union, the curious, diminutive, asthmatic boy grew up with a persistent sense of yearning—for food, for acceptance, for words—desires that would follow him into adulthood. At five, Igor decided to become a writer, and his grandmother paid… Read More

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, MINT CONDITION/COLLECTIBLE
Casa Pacifica is selling a pristine, mint condition copy of John Simpson's The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary. This book looks unread/untouched, and is ready for a new reader or collector to enjoy it! Dust jacket is in mint condition, and is now protected in Mylar.
Signed by the author, John Simpson, on the title page.
First edition print. "A charmingly full, frank, and humorous account of a career dedicated to rigorous lexicographic rectitude. . . .[John Simpson] is an absolute hero." —Lynne Truss, New York TimesCan you drink a glass of balderdash? And what do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? The answers to these questions can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary. There is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments than its former chief editor, John Simpson. In The Word Detective, an intensely personal memoir and a joyful celebration of English, he weaves a… Read More

Signed, First Edition, Very Good Condition/CollectibleBook's binding seperates from spine when opened, all else fine. Dust jacket in pristine, mint condition and protected in Mylar. Signed by the author, Iain Sinclair, on title page. First Edition print. A New Statesman Book of the YearLondon. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed.Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit. An electrifying final odyssey, The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory.Thank you for supporting Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families! To learn more about us, please visit: www.casapacifica.org

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, NEW, COLLECTIBLE
We are selling an excellent new copy of Patti Smith's (Winner of the National Book Award) M Train. Binding is new. Dust jacket is new and now is protected in Mylar.
Signed by the award winning author, Patti Smith, on the title page.
First edition printing.
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey into the mind of this legendary artist, told through the prism of cafés and haunts she has visited and worked in around the world.M Train is a journey through eighteen "stations." It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; from the ramshackle… Read More

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Spine and binding is tight.Dust jacket is in mint condition.Signed with quote by the author, Susan Southard.A powerful and unflinching account of the enduring impact of nuclear war, told through the stories of those who survived.On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japan's southernmost island. An estimated 74,000 people died within the first five months, and another 75,000 were injured.Published on the seventieth anniversary of the bombing, Nagasaki takes readers from the morning of the bombing to the city today, telling the first-hand experiences of five survivors, all of whom were teenagers at the time of the devastation. Susan Southard has spent years interviewing hibakusha ("bomb-affected people") and researching the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life. She weaves together… Read More