Search Results: Titles starting with D from Good Books In The Woods

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0804420297 . "This new study aims to avoid the emotional histrionics of so many critiques of Lawrence - and instead to put the writer's life in fair perspective as it evaluates the lasting importance of his writing." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on front paste-down endpaper. Slight slant to spine. Minimal edge wear. Tiny bumps on spine ends. Tiny rough tear on edge of front paste-down endpaper. Overall, pages are clean and tight. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minor edge and shelf wear. Lightly faded on spine. ; Modern Literature Monographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 165 pages .

London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0701137304 . "Startling and disturbing, this novel reveals with Gothic clarity the frightening and hypnotic power of sexual obsession." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly tilted, minor edge wear, tiny bumps on spine ends, pages are tanned as is typical of a book printed in England. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minimal edge and shelf wear. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 216 pages .

New York: Vintage Books. Near Fine. 1988. First Edition. Softcover. INSCRIBED by author in black ink on full title page, reads: "To Rolland L Comstock (signature of John Wideman) ". Uncorrected proof. A collection of thirteen stories by John Edgar Wideman. "Stories are letters. Letters sent to anybody or everybody. But the best kind are meant to be read by a specific somebody. When you read that kind you know you are eavesdropping. You know a real person somewhere will read the same words you are reading..." (pg. 10 ). Ships same or next business day. Book has minimal shelf and edge wear. Head end of spine is lightly bumped and scuffed, bottom outer corner is lightly bumped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 205 pages; Signed by Author .

Boulder, Colorado: Black Ice Books. Very Good. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0932511848 . INSCRIBED by author on full title page, "To Rolland Bayard Johnson 4/28/95." "Damned Right is a visceral new incarnation of the American road novel that blasts full-throttle toward enlightenment." Ships same or next business day. Book has minimal edge and shelf wear, light tanning and foxing to head edge; otherwise, in near fine condition. Protected in archival bag. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 1994 pages; Signed by Author .

Boston, Massachusetts: David R. Godine. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0879235837 . First US Edition. Seventeen stories. The stories are set on an Indian Reserve and are about survival in a white man's world. "I want my readers to laugh and I want them to cry." -W. P. Kinsella. Ships same or next business day. Tail of spine is very lightly bumped; otherwise in fine condition. Dust jacket ends of spine and corners are rubbed. Front cover head edge ias a red mark. Spine near top has two tiny blue marks. Protected in archival cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 158 pages .

Boston: David R. Godine. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0879235837 . Seventeen stories. "As Kinsetta says, 'Survival is what I write about. Any oppressed people survives by making fun of its oppressors, and this is what my characters do. There are only two universals, laughter and tears,' ..." -from the front flap. Ships same or next business day. Dust jacket has minor shelf and edge wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 158 pages .

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Near Fine. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Advance Reading Copy. SIGNED by author on full title page. "Michael Grant Jaffe writes with grace and complexity about fatherhood and the difficulties of growing up into responsibility." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly tilted, minimal edge wear; overall, pages are tight, bright, and clean. Protected in archival bag. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 242 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0374134669 . SIGNED and dated by author on full title page. Stated First Edition. "In this luminous debut, Michael Grant Jaffe tells the story of Gordon Nash, a part-time lawyer whose wife abruptly walks away from both marriage and motherhood, leaving Gordon sole responsbility for raising their child, Calvin." Ships same or next business day. Slight slant to spine. Minimal edge wear. Tiny bump on spine tail. Overall, pages are tight, bright, and clean. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minor edge and shelf wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 242 pages; Signed by Author .

London: Jonathan Cape. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by author on full title page. "Through his deeply affecting narrative, Richard Burns leads us into a compelling investigation of the personal consequences of war - when the fear and danger an individual has lived through leave no alternative but retreat into a form of mental disorder." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on paste-down endpaper. Book's spine is slightly skewed, slight wearing on both ends of spine, pages are lightly tanned; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected by archival plastic cover. DJ has minor edge wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 173 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Dutton. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0525933123 . INSCRIBED by author on full title page, "To Rolland - Best wishes, Millicent Dillon." This novel "investigates love and marriage, art and life, sexuality and gender in a poetic, highly original novel set in a 1950s California university town." Ships same or next business day. Book has very light edge wear; overall, in fine condition. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has small crease on tail edge of back cover, lightly tanned on flaps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 181 pages; Signed by Author .

Oak Forest, Illinois: Peter Weinberg. Near Fine. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Front cover by Stephen Fabian. Reprints of three stories published in 1933 and 1936: The Dance of the Skeletons by Norvell Page - "They found him on the sidewalk, the man, who, two short hours before, had set out to find the Flesh Destroyer...." , Tiger Pit by Arthur J. Burks - "A human being with the eyes of a beast...." , and Daughter of the Plague by Hugh B. Cave - "Through the black river of death to the Devil's Workshop, John Paine discovered the ghastly truth begind the madness that was striking down is employees...." Ships same or next business day. Very minor shelf and edge wear, slight rubbing front cover near the spine, protected in an archival sleeve. ; Weird Menace Classics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages .

London: The Harvill Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1995. First English Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1860460658 . The Times says: "One of our best and truest novelists." "The Dancer Upstairs is the confession of a military intelligence chief and the most haunting portrait of a broken heart. It is an extraodinary and fine novel by a writer whose tenacity and courage gave him access to one of the most astonishing stories in the whole history of twentieth century terrorism." --from the front flap. Near Fine: edges of pages tanned. Former owner name & date written on front endpaper. Ships same or next business day. ; 9.30 X 5.90 X 1.30 inches; 244 pages .

San Francisco: Chronicle Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0811807878 . Inscribed by the author in black ink on the full title page. From the collection of noted book collector Rolland Comstock whose personal library numbered more than 100,000 First Editions. Inscribed to Comstock - "For Rolland Comstock, most faithful reader - with many thanks, Lynne McFall." Author signature guaranteed authentic - we have Comstock's written correspondence with author. McFall's second novel. The story of a 40 year old woman who falls into a depression. "Hilarious, outlandish, completely believable." Ships same or next business day. ; 0.9 x 8.1 x 5.9 Inches; Signed by Author .

New York: William Morrow and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Previous owner blind seal on half title page. Previous owner name on first free endpaper. Author wrote this book to be "the Bible" for those people who have heard of the mind expanding, psychedelic aspects of advanced physics and would like to know more about them, but have no mathematical or technical background. Book covers clean and bright. No highlighting or underlining. Text, diagrams and illustrations all clean and bright. Head of Dust Jacket spine bumped with small tears. DJ front top corner bumped with 3/4" tear along seam. DJ now protected in mylar. Ships same or next business day well protected in a box. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 352 pages .

Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0700606947 . 1st Edition/1st Printing with numberline including the 1. Author argues that Dance has been the traditional metaphor for resolving conflict among the Southern Plains tribes (Wichita, Caddo, Comanche, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Apache, Arapaho, Delaware) and that these tribes need to re-establish their traditional practices and values to overcome the adverse effects of federal paternalism. Covers clean and bright. Corners sharp. Minor dust-staining to top page edges. No previous owner marks. Text, photographs and maps all clean and bright. Dust jacket clean and bright. DJ now protected in mylar. Ships same or next business day well protected in a box. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 218 pages .

San Angelo, Texas: Fort Concho Sketches Publishing. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by author on half title page. Limited to 1,000 copies. Fort Concho was a US Army fort located in present day San Angelo, TX. Fort Concho was considered by the Army to be one of their most important forts in all of the west during the Indian Wars of the 1870s. Although other authors have recounted the military history of the fort, this book recounts its social history and daily life of the people who lived there. No previous owner marks. Text, photographs, and illustrations all clean and bright. Dust jacket is price clipped. Dust jacket spine panel is a bit faded. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Dust jacket now protected in Mylar. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

Pittsburg, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0822934663 . INSCRIBED by the author in black ink on the second front free endpaper. Inscription reads, "To Rolland, with all the best for the coming year. Robley WilsonSIGNED by the author in black ink on the title page. Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 1982. Inscription reads: "To Rolland with all the best for the coming year. Robley Wilson 12/24/90." "The book is a collection of stories about the circumstances that join and divide men and women - stories of politics, sexual and otherwise; of age differences; of the weight of custom; of contempts whether vicious or polite." Ships same or next business day. Small discolorations on fore-edge pages 93-118, 127-136, 149-154. Bottom corner of fore-edge onto tail-edge is soiled. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has small crease on front flap. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10"… Read More

Pittsburg, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 0822934663 . INSCRIBED by the author in black ink on the half-title page. Inscription reads: "For Rolland - continuing thanks - Robley 3/92." SIGNED by the author in black ink on the full title page. Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 1982. "This book is a collection of stories about the circumstances that join and divide men and women...Wilson is a master of surprise and nuance, and his stories combine fidelity to the surface texture of events with a startlingly accurate perception of the peculiar sources of human action." Ships same or next business day. Edges of text block are lightly foxed. Dust jacket front flap is creased, small crease on top corner of back flap. Dust jacket is protected in an archival cover. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 153 pages; Signed by Author .

London: Secker & Warburg. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0436205831 . SIGNED by author on full title page. "Dancing in the Dark is an outstanding novel as much about the tragedy of race and identity, and the perils of reinvention, as it is about the life of one remarkable man." Ships same or next business day. Slight slant to spine. Minimal edge wear. Tanning to edges of pages. Otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minor edge and shelf wear. Price sticker on front cover. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 214 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679431071 . "In each of the fourteen stories in Dancing After Hours, Dubus uncovers the mystery of ordinary life as his characters - often perseverant, yet occasionally crazed by desire, loss, or disappointment - wrestle with love, faith, and luck." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly skewed and loose; overall, book is tight, bright, and clean. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 234 pages .