Search Results: Titles starting with A from acornbooks

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009 DJ price-clipped and with hint of rub to upper corners, otherwise book and DJ Fine. Signed by Patrick deWitt with signature only on the title page. Author's first book.

New York, New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2011 Fine. Signed by Brad Cloepfil, founding Principal of Allied Works Architecture, on the title page (no inscription, no personalization). Illus. with color and B&W photos, and B&W and color drawings. Incl. Brad Cloepfil in conversation with Doug Aitken, and contributors Ann Hamilton, Douglas Reed, Ben Rubin, Eric Sanderson, Mark C. Taylor, and Jan Tichelaar. 440 pp. Large, very heavy book.

New York, New York: Riverhead Books / Penguin Putnam, Inc., 2003 Fine.

Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Comics, 2004 Fine. Protected in plastic sleeve. Original first Dark Horse Comics printing of "The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist", No. 1. Illus. in color by artists Eric Wight, Jim Starlin, Kyle Baker, Howard Chaykin, Kevin McCarthy and Steve Lieber. Signed by Michael Chabon on the title page, plus his drawing of the key. 80 pp.

New York, New York: Little Simon / Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2004 Fine. In publisher's original plastic cover (which has been opened) with descriptive insert. Seven double-paged pop-ups depicting themes interpreted by Robert Sabuda from the song "America the Beautiful", words by Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929). Book illus. in color and mostly white magnificent pop-ups: Golden Gate Bridge, The Great Plains with 'waves of grain', Mount Rushmore, Mesa Verde, steamboat on the Mississippi River, the U. S. Capitol with Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool, and lastly the Statue of Liberty. Last pop-up page includes a booklet with the words to "America the Beautiful" (July 4, 1895) and illus. with four miniature pop-ups.

New York, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981 Light rubs to lower edges of boards and spine ends. DJ with light rubs at corners and edges, and a 1/4 inch tear at upper edge of rear panel near spine. DJ in plastic cover. Author's first book. A funny and sad coming of age first novel written with an "uncanny eye for childhood and adolescent absurdities" (from endflap info).

New York, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1995 Hint of rub to spine ends, and small stain lower edge of leaf with pp. 205/206, otherwise Fine. No prev. owner name. DJ price corner intact. Signed by Jonathan Lethem with signature only on the title page. This, "Lethem's second novel, is 'The Wizard of Oz' remade as road noir" (from front endflap).

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986 Slight fading to edges of boards, and occasional tiny indents on lower edges. No prev. owner name or markings. DJ with hint of rubs at corners. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Author's first novel.

New York, New York: William Morrow / HarperCollins Publishers, 2008 Unread. Fine. Signed by Neal Stephenson with signature only on the left side of double-page title pages. (xvii) 935 pp. Incl. new "Anathem" black cotton t-shirt (size - standard medium). Heavy book.

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988 DJ with occasional scuff. DJ in plastic cover. Short stories.

New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007 Light rubs to corners of boards and spine ends; bump to upper corner of rear board. No prev. owner name. DJ with hint of rub to corners and ends of spine panel. DJ in plastic cover. Illus. with B&W drawings at chapter headings. Signed by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp on the title page. Incl. References, Organizations and Sidebar Resources. 370 pp.

New York, New York: Random House, 2003 Fine, with white wraparound band in place. Illus. with color and B&W photos. Inc. Notes on Photographs, and Index of Subjects. 264 pp. Large heavy book.

Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1998 Fine. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Signed by Barry Lopez with signature only on the title page. Illus. in B&W with woodcuts. Lopez' story, written after a road trip from Oregon to Indiana, explores the moral and emotional upheaval he experienced in tending gently to animals dead from vehicular destruction.

New York, New York: Viking Penguin, 2001 Slight crimp and rub to spine ends, otherwise Fine. DJ with slight sunning along rear edge of spine panel. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Signed by Vollmann with signature only on the title page, plus his drawing of a face on the opposite page. Illus. with drawings and maps in B&W by the author. A volume in a series of historical novels of panoramic vision about the clash between Indians and Europeans in the New World. Includes A Chronology of the Third Age of Wineland, Glossaries, Sources (and a Few Notes), and Acknowledgements. 747 pp. Heavy book.

New York, New York: Doubleday, 1997 Book with very, very slight rub at tail of spine. DJ in plastic cover.

New York, New York: Viking Penguin, 1996 DJ with hint of rub at corners, otherwise book and DJ Fine. DJ in plastic cover. Signed (no personalization) by Vollmann on the title page. Illus. with B&W photos. Incl. Sources and a Note.

New York, New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2002 DJ with slight rub and a tiny 3 mm tear at lower corner of rear panel. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Shortlisted for the 2001 Man Booker Prize. Winner of the 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and winner of the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fcition.

New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996 Rubs to lower edges of boards, and light soiling to edges of text block. No prev. owner name. DJ with hint of rubs at corners. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. The story of a father's fierce love for his son. Written as a murder mystery.

New York, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996 Bump to upper corner of front board, and very light rub to edges of boards. No prev. owner name. DJ with hint of edge rubs. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Signed by Jamaica Kincaid on title page.

San Francisco, California: A Byzantium Book / Chronicle Books, 1994 Audio tape is unused, new. Book and tape in Fine slipcase box. Shrinkwrap on slipcase opened only for author's signature, which Nick Bantock has signed on both inside spine panel of box and on title page of book. "...twenty-three playful and savage poems about the social life of animals and their humans" (from the rear cover of book) written, illustrated in color and performed by Bantock. Tape is 30 min. and companion book is 60 pp.