Search Results: Titles starting with R from Joe Staats, Bookseller

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Inc., 2000. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. J/L34

New York, N.Y.: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine, first edition, first printing, in yellow cloth, in near-fine (spine shows sun fading, else fine), mylar-protected dust jacket{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NFBS3

Harrison, NY, U.S.A.: Delphinium Press, Inc., 1991. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author's first collection of stories, including "Past, Future, Elsewhere," for which she won the Pushcart Prize. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L30

New York, New York, U.S.A: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very fine unread first edition, first printing, in black cloth boards, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L95

San Francisco, CA: MacAdam Cage, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink.THE RABBIT FACTORY introduces hilarious and suspenseful mystery series featuring Detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. Welcome to Familyland, an offshoot of Lamaar Studios. Once a small, Southern California animation house, it has grown into an entertainment conglomerate encompassing movies, television, music, video games, and a sprawling theme park. When an actor portraying Familyland's beloved mascot, Rambunctious Rabbit, is brutally murdered on park grounds, Lamaar executives are worried that the idyllic image of '50s America represented in Familyland will be shattered. They ask Mike Lomax and his partner Terry Biggs, the LAPD detectives assigned to solve the case, to keep the circumstances surrounding the death of their mascot quiet. When a second Lamaar employee is killed, Lomax and Biggs uncover a… Read More

San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.: Jossey-Bass, Inc., Publishers, 1996. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reviews the turbulent events of the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson trials from a social and political framework of race relations and police misconduct. This thought-provoking book shows that the issue of race was at the very heart of both of these emotionally charged cases. Psychologist and scholar Jewelle Taylor Gibbs shows how King and Simpson have been transformed by their trials into symbols of the different worlds inhabited by blacks and whites in America. Gibbs's compelling analysis of the issues that permeated these trials will challenge even the most cynical observer to rethink any previously held assumptions about race and the criminal justice system. Fine,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF732

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In this powerfully reasoned, lucidly written work, Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy takes on the highly complex issues of race, crime, and the legal system, uncovering the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals and revealing difficult truths about these factors in the United States. Fine, unread, first editiom, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. 538 pp with index. {not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NFS2

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 2001. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. By the author of PAYBACK. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. AA

New York, New York, U.S.A. : St Martins Press, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. There are approximately 502 million radios in America. For this savvy, far-reaching diary, celebrated journalist and author Sarah Vowell turned hers on and listened-closely, critically, creatively-for an entire year. As a series of impressions and reflections regarding contemporary American culture, and as an extended meditation on both our media and our society, this keenly focused book is as insightful as it is refreshing. First book by the author of ASSASSINATION VACATION, TAKE THE CANNOLI, THE PARTLY CLOUDY PATRIOT, THE WORDY SHIPMATES, UNFAMILIAR FISHES, and LAFAYETTE IN THE SOMEWHAT UNITED STATES. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine( sm spot of surface paper loss at upper rear sine top, else glossy as new) mylar-protected dust jacket..Very scarce title. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Simon & Schuster, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New, unread, pristine, first edition, first printing, in new, myla-protected dust cover. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. George C. Scott (1927-1999) born in Wise, Virginia, created some of the 20th century's most memorable performances on stage and screen - the cunning prosecutor in Anatomy of a Murder , the manipulative gambler in The Hustler , the buffoonishly warmongering chief of staff in Dr. Strangelove , and, of course, the brilliant and rebellious Patton . He also played Willy Loman, Richard III, Mussolini, Scrooge, Fagin, and countless others. But his offstage life was as filled with drama and controversy as any of the lives he portrayed with such intensity. He refused the Oscar for Patton , battled with TV networks to include realistic elements in his series East Side/West Side , invested (and lost) his own money on Broadway and in the scandalous film The Savage is Loose , married five times (twice to Colleen Dewhurst) and had a… Read More

New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he's emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk-once again-with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comes to a brutal end, that conversation never takes place. Has karma caught up with Rand? Or has someone waited for eight patient years to dine on ice-cold revenge? Both seem strong possibilities to Sturgis, but Delaware's suspicions run deeper . . . and darker. Because fear in the voice of the grownup Rand Duchay-and his eerie final words to Alex: "I'm not a bad person"-betray untold secrets. Buried… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Random House, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Her technique was simple: aim for the top," an envious colleague wrote of Clare Boothe Luce. No American woman of the twentieth century aimed so accurately, or rose so far, as this legendary playwright, politician, and social seductress. Born in New York's Spanish Harlem, with nothing to recommend her but beauty, ferocious intelligence, and dry wit, she transformed herself into the youthful managing editor of Vanity Fair. She married two millionaires and wrote three Broadway hits, including the biting satire, The Women. Her second husband, Henry Luce-the publisher of Time, Fortune, and later at her suggestion Life-was only one of the dozens of men she entranced. Adding politics and power to journalism and drama, Clare used sex, street smarts, acid humor, and money to plot a career more improbable than anything in her own fiction. Not content… Read More

U.S.A.: Birch Lane Press, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in Ffine (back shows some rubbing else as new), mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF66

New York, New York, U.S.A.: The Atlantic Monthly Press,, 1995. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. Author's first novel. A

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Simon & Schuster, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on tipped-in page in black fountain ink. When Hackberry Holland became sheriff of a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border, he'd hoped to leave certain things behind: his checkered reputation, his haunted dreams, and his obsessive memories of the good life with his late wife, Rie. But the discovery of the bodies of nine illegal aliens, machine-gunned to death and buried in a shallow grave behind a church, soon makes it clear that he won't escape so easily. As Hack and Deputy Sheriff Pam Tibbs attempt to untangle the threads of this complex and grisly case, a damaged young Iraq veteran, Pete Flores, and his girlfriend, Vikki Gaddis, are running for their lives, hoping to outwit the bloodthirsty criminals who want to kill Pete for his involvement in the murders. The only trouble is, Pete doesn't know who he's running… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. When Hackberry Holland became sheriff of a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border, he'd hoped to leave certain things behind: his checkered reputation, his haunted dreams, and his obsessive memories of the good life with his late wife, Rie. But the discovery of the bodies of nine illegal aliens, machine-gunned to death and buried in a shallow grave behind a church, soon makes it clear that he won't escape so easily. As Hack and Deputy Sheriff Pam Tibbs attempt to untangle the threads of this complex and grisly case, a damaged young Iraq veteran, Pete Flores, and his girlfriend, Vikki Gaddis, are running for their lives, hoping to outwit the bloodthirsty criminals who want to kill Pete for his involvement in the murders. The only trouble is, Pete doesn't know who he's running from: drunk and terrified, he fled the scene of the… Read More

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Third thriller in author's "John Rain" series about a half-Japanese, half-American assassin whose victims all look as if they have died of natural causes. John Rain has disappeared in Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies encircling him in Japan. But the CIA isn't willing to lose its premier "natural causes" contract killer, and they force Rain to take on a high-risk assignment: eliminate a ruthless arms dealer operating in Southeast Asia. The upside? Financial, of course, along with the possibility of moral redemption. But first, Rain will have to survive the downside: a second assassin zeroing in on the target; an alluring and dangerous woman with an agenda of her own; the possibility that the entire mission is nothing but an elaborate setup. From the… Read More

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Tor Books, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. As new, unread copy, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {BUND}

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Tor Books, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. He was a world-renowned poet. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he's starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts . Living with his son's family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access-through nodes designed… Read More