Search Results: Titles starting with J from BIAbooks

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. Kinssey Millhone's tenth excursion into the dark places of the heart where duplicity is the governing rule and murder the too-frequent result. -HHC A bright, clean fresh book. Slight cut to one corner of DJ, else fine.

New York: Summit Books, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive book." Carol Easton's judicious and well ressearched biography.illuminating exploration and celebration of a musical personality loved by her public."--The Spectator

New York: Viking Penguin, 1987. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A flawless book. A brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, a country in the midst of a revolution. "Stirring and original. . .it gives us a picture of the country in bright, patchwork colors unavailable in your usual journalistic dispatches." --The New York Times. "A masterpiece of sympathetic yet critical reporting." --Edward W. Said

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. This First trade printing is clean, fresh and tight. The DJ has one half inch closed tear on bottom edge of hinge with a small cut on bottom of flap. Dj has the original 9.95 price on the dustjacket with 0979 on bottom corner of flap.

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1979. Second Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Good. The book is clean, fresh and tight. The DJ has an inch closed tear on top edge, front panel plus minor wear along edges. Also price clipped.

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1979. Second Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The book/text is clean and fresh, has no flaws and appears unread. The DJ has one half inch closed tear on top edge, front near hinge and two minor cuts on back top edge. Also price clipped. Still a handsome book well worth the price.

New York: Viking Press, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very handsome first edition. "Everything you ever hoped the author of Lucky Jim might have to say about the relations between men and women."---Alistair Cooke

New York, NY: Doubleday, 2024. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. A NEW, PRISTINE, SIGNED, 1ST PRINTING. "Percival Everett [is] our current Great American Novelist. . . [JAMES] is a masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature, while also being a major achievement on its own. . . I almost cannot imagine a future where teachers assign The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn without also assigning James alongside it. . . Everett is one of the most, if not the most interesting writers working today."-The Chicago Tribune. " James is a provocative, enlightening work of literary art." -The Boston Globe

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Carol Shields's first foray into biography. Her life of Jane Austen is one in the series of Weidenfeld's short, popular Lives, which match well-known writers and subjects. Ms. Shields won the Orange Prize for 'Larry's Party', the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Stone Diaries' and shortlisted for the Booker Prize for 'The Stone Diaries' and for 'Unless', her last novel. She died in 2003. This is a pristine' unread book. A true 1st printing from London.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. First in the Yashim series. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Precedes the British edition. "An unusual, exotic historical mystery that reads like literature and moves like a thriller."--George Pelecanos

New York: Del Ray/Ballantine Books, 1984. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. "Robert A. Heinlein has been the leading writer of fantastic fiction since 1939.JOB. It is funny, exciting, and thought-provoking!"--Isaac Asimov

New York: Saint Martin's Press, Inc., 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is a flawless, collectible book. It is about Danny, a junior at Yale in 1980, a product of a New Jersey public high school who is pitting his smarts (both street and classroom) against those of the products of Skull and Bones, Choate, and Groton. "Tom Perrotta.is like an American Nick Hornby: companionable and humane, lighthearted and surprisingly touching." --Newsweek "An absorbing, fleshed-out portrait of an American male edging toward adulthood by crossing seemingly rigid social boundaries." --The New York Times Book Review

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1986. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine book, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf page. John Foster Dulles was President Eisenhower's Secretary of State. Louis Jefferson was Dulles's security officer for five years until the diplomat died in 1959. Mr. Jefferson has compiled personal recollections and press-club-bar war stories of Mr. Dulles.

New York: Doubleday, 2001. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A clean, fresh, bright book.The author's second novel a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. This book is a novel of extraordinary scope and mythic power that juxtaposes history with popular culture, the blatant bigotry of the past with the more insidious racism of the present, and laugh-out-loud humor with unforgettable poignancy.

New York: The Penguin Press, 2007. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book that appears UNREAD. The Journals of Mr. Schlesinger, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian from 1952 to 2000. 892 pp, with index.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1987. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, Collectible book, SIGNED by the author. Ms. Tan's DEBUT novel. "Powerful as myth." -The Washington Post Book World. "Beautifully written...a jewel of a book." -The New York Times Book Review."Powerful...full of magic...you won't be doing anything of importance until you have finished this book." -Los Angeles Times. "Wonderful...a significant lesson in what storytelling has to do with memory and inheritance." -San Francisco Chronicle

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Spenser mystery of extraordinary excitement and power that has our sleuth searching for terrorists responsible for a London bombing. A PRISTINE book with slight rubbing at bottom edge of DJ spine." Robert B. Parker has taken his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald."-The Boston Globe. Keywords: PARKER FICTION DETECTIVE MYSTERY SPENSER LONDON TERRORISTS

Boston: Little Brown & Company, 2005. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child+s Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul. "A feast, a voyage, and a marvel." --Elizabeth Gilbert

Minneapolis MN: Milkweed Editions, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Pre-quel to Montana 1948."With the stark, lyrical prose that Larry Watson is known for "as fresh and clear as [a] trout stream" -The Washington Post Book World

New York: Scribner, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's FIRST BOOK. Josie Trask is a graduate student with marital and career problems who takes a job working for an abrasive celebrity biographer following the death of Jacqueline Onassis. Judith Viorst, called this ''an amiable first novel spiced with stories and quotations from the Jackie archives.