Underworld (44 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: New. For thirty years, since the publication of his first novel, Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American.Now, to a…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.Falling Manis a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives o…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life; she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence.Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep,…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. A brilliant billionaire asset manager, en route via white stretch limo to the local haircutter, finds his trip interrupted by a presidential motorcade, music idol's funeral, movie set, and violent political demonstration, and receives a number of important visitors in the fields of security, technology,…

Book Club Edition. With "H-H" code on copyright page. Octavo (21.5cm); dark blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in lime green across spine and covers; gray topstain; patterned endpapers; [viii],295,[1]pp. Previous owners name to upper front endpaper, light wear to extremities, else a bright, Near Fine copy. BOMC boo…

First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet (23cm x 10cm). Printed wrappers, 11pp. Mild toning & soil to cover extremities, else Near Fine. Brief description of life in a federal penitentiary, prepared by a convicted C.O. to give others a notion of what to expect. Rather literal - the author discusses routines, policies, and regulation…

dj. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 304pp. Lightly worn copy, VG or better, in the original pictorial dustjacket which is lightly rubbed with a few small edge-chips, still on the better side of Very Good. Novelist decides to try his hand at crime fiction. Befriends the leaders of two rival gangs, then inv…

Original wanted flyer on pink stock, 10" x 8"; text in a single column beneath headline and mug-shots. Slightly creased; ragged at bottom edge; Very Good. Undated, but we find George Fraser listed as a Constable in Pinole in the California Roster of State, County, and Municipal Employees for 1917. The suspect, Charles Miller, is…

dj. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); olive green buckram, with printed title labels at spine and front cover; dustjacket; 340, [4]pp. Mild sunning to spine, with two faint stains to upper edge of textblock; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket priced $1.50 at mid-spine; hint of sunning and faint vertical crease to spine, light d…

Audio-CD. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Glänzender, zupackender Techno bildet klare, gerade Linien, während kratzende Akustikgitarren die Kanten aufschürfen und geisterhafte Klänge erzeugen. Dabei könnten die Tracks nicht unterschiedlicher sein. Manche werden von kaum mehr als einer metronomischen Kick-Drum und einer Roboterstimme unt…

dj. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 192pp. Tight, Very Good or better copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price clipped on front flap; slightly rubbed with a tiny chip at base of spine; Very Good+. Classic memoir of a London youth's life of addiction, petty crime a…

First Edition. Sold by Subscription. Large octavo. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, titles in gilt on spine; pale yellow endpapers; 670pp; illus. Boards heavily chaffed along foredge, thus Good only, but otherwise a tight, well-preserved copy, with gilt and pictorial devices still crisp and bright. An encyclopedic history of n…

Second American printing (first published in London, 1925; the first American printing also appeared that year). Octavo; blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xviii], 1-619, (2)pp; 15 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones); text illus. A tight, Near Fine copy in the scarce dustwra…

First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's brown decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt, blue-grey glazed endpapers; 256pp.; frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Some light wear to extremities, spine gilt rather dulled, else Very Good or better. Memoir of the professional gambler/drunk-turned-evangelist. See B…

dj. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 248pp. Lengthily inscribed on front endpaper by the author, dated 1957. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy in a bright, unclipped dustwrapper. Biography of Joseph E. Ragen, long-time warden of the Illinois Sta…

Various Editions. Octavo (22cm.); cloth-backed boards with original paper spine label; 330pp (paginated continuously, but each report with a separate title page); six inserted leaves of woodcut plates. A solid, well-preserved copy with scattered foxing to text; Very Good. First four reports of Timothy Dwight's pioneering Prison…