Search Results: Titles starting with I from BIAbooks

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Pristine,Fine, Collectible book. A bewitching collection of short fiction--haunting and hypnotic meditations on art, movies, literature, and life. "A dazzlingly inventive collection of nine uninhibited narratives that uses myths, meditation, and old-fashioned morality to examine age-old conundrums of life and art." ?Elle. "A wonderfully intelligent, audacious, and perverse collection...I savored every mythic, mesmerizing word of it." ?Jim Crace

New York: Grand central Publishing, 2007. First Edition (second issue) . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report. This book contains Stephen's most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form. Stephen addresses why Hollywood is destroying America by inches, why evolution is a fraud, and why the elderly should be harnessed to millstones.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A writer with a distinctive voice and a considerable narrative gift.Gichrist excels in drawing the bonds of love and resentment in sexual and family relationships."--Publishers Weekly. "She is in the company of Anne Tyler, Louise Endrich and Ellen Douglas, intrepid explorers of the human heart."--Newsday

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. "A writer with a distinctive voice and a considerable narrative gift.Gichrist excels in drawing the bonds of love and resentment in sexual and family relationships."--Publishers Weekly. "She is in the company of Anne Tyler, Louise Endrich and Ellen Douglas, intrepid explorers of the human heart."--Newsday

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Highly collectible book. Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs .a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The patron saint of anyone who has ever felt like an outsider"---The Washington Post. "Comedy's most fearless superhero"--Entertainment Weekly

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1989. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A prestine book with a discret reminder mark on bottom edge. This is a "wildly inventive, outrageous, even blasphemous confession, supposedly created in the hereafter by John F. Kennedy. It is 25 years after JFK's death and almost time for him to move to the next tier, so he decides to write his memoirs or confession and set the record straight. In his present state he is surrounded by Bobby Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Adlai Stevenson. Marilyn Monroe has already moved on; and Jimmy Hoffa, father Joe, and J. Edgar Hoover are in hell."--Library Journal

London, U.K: Michael Joseph, 1957, 1957. First English Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A VERY GOOD book with rubbing at spine, minor spot on top of text block and light toning. The book binding is tight, sturdy and square. It is internally clean and complete. The DJ remains bright and clean and has been protected in an archival cover. I, Libertine by Frederick R. Ewing AKA fantasy and science fiction legend Theodore Sturgeon. Originally written pseudonymously by Sturgeon, the book was banned by the Archdiocese of Boston, prior to creation/publication. I, Libertine is a glorious tale of close shaves, daring escapes, and wildly licentious behavior. It covers the bawdy misdeeds of Captain Lance Courtenay as he carelessly romps through the royal court and the bedchamber's of London's finest ladies. Chock-full of wicked wit and Sturgeon's trademark twists and turns, it is a hilarious, picaresque adventure.

New York: Random House, 2000. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, collectible book. Starting in 1959, and up through the 1990s, Ronald Reagan wrote letters to his wife. In this beautiful book those extraordinary letters are woven into a moving protrait of a long and loving marriage. Former First Lady Nancy Reagan shares not only the letters but also her reflections on them. A great book.

New York: Random House, 2000. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, collectible book. Starting in 1959, and up through the 1990s, Ronald Reagan wrote letters to his wife. In this beautiful book those extraordinary letters are woven into a moving protrait of a long and loving marriage. Former First Lady Nancy Reagan shares not only the letters but also her reflections on them. A great book.

New York: The Ecco Press, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. ".it is first a singular and affecting story: an American village tale of passion suppressed by the obdurate convention past the point of endurance.Its beauty lies in tis patience, its inquiring thoroughness, its emotional particularity and lyricism.This is a stirring book."---Richard Ford

New York: The Ecco Press, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. ".it is first a singular and affecting story: an American village tale of passion suppressed by the obdurate convention past the point of endurance.Its beauty lies in tis patience, its inquiring thoroughness, its emotional particularity and lyricism.This is a stirring book."---Richard Ford

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book, clean, bright, fresh, whole. "A breathlessly mannered, affecting new work.Small, vital snapshops make up two lives closely shared, and beautifully portrayed in this triumph of a novel."--Publishers Weekly. Ms. Tuck won the National Book Award for her novel "The News From Paraguay".

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine collectible book. The acclaimed novelist returns to her native Hawaii to offer a celebration of the myth, culture, landscape, and music of Kauai as it reveals the rich Polynesian traditions that have shaped the modern island state.

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman combines her deep understanding of the world with her immense passion for language to craft richly sensual poems that "honor all life/wherever and in whatever form/it may deal." "Brilliant . . . Ackerman expresses her signature love for the world in all its seething glory. . . . Her sensuality is still in full force." --Booklist

New York: Pantheon Books, 1959. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. An attractive collectible book translated from Russian with a Preface and Notes by David Magarshack. Seventeen beautiful illustrations reproduced by way of The Pyshkin Club, London and Guangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan. With an essay on Translating Shakespeare translated by Manya Harari. Book is clean, bright, fresh with no internal markings. The colors of the DJ are still vivid. The DJ is whole with minor edge wear and two small closed tears along top edge of front panel. One corner is rubbed. DJ is NOT price clipped.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2002. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. This Short Story Collection has all the poignancy, hilarity, and wisdom that are the hallmarks of her fiction, Ellen Gilchrist introduces a gallery of unforgettable characters-Southern women and men whose off-kilter lives are delicately revealed by the author's keen and forgiving gaze. This jubilantly acclaimed collection affirms anew why, as the Washington Post puts it, 'Ellen Gilchrist should be declared a national treasure.' --LBC