Berkeley ca counterpoint (46 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 268 pp. A historical fiction novel by Jenny McPhee, set in post-WWII Rome, about a suicidal Italian poet, Dante Sabato, who becomes entangled in a love triangle with two American sisters. The women are actresses in the burgeoning Italian film industry, and he finds reprieve from his suicidal ideation and the shame his country played in Fascism.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good-. Updated and Expanded Edition. 922 pages; fading to pages. Bump wear to front cover's top edge and first few pages' top edge. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 325 pp. Illus. with photos (illustrator).

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Paperback Edition. 8vo., Wraps 208pp. Beautiful Unread First Paperback Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, tears or toning. . A sharp collectable copy at a great price.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 5.75 X 1.25 X 8.75 inches; 276 pages; some B&W illustrations. Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 6.34 X 1.5 X 9.27 inches; 468 pages; underlining throughout the book. Minor rubbing and minor stains on the covers. Minor scratches on the exterior edges of textblock. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition (Unstated); First Printing. 6.25 X 1 X 9.25 inches; 311 pages; Scuff mark (small) to exterior edge of pages. Stain to edge of pages due to a spill. Very Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. …

Zustand: NEAR FINE. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A novel written in 1963, when Frame was living in London, but not published during her lifetime since she considered it too personal. 203 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First printing. A reflective memoir in which Coyote describes the mentors who shaped him - a violent, intimidating father, a be-bop Bass player, an ex game-warden who initates him into the laws of nature, a gay dancer in Martha Grahams company who introduces him to Mexico and marijuanas, beat poet Gary Snyder, who introduces him to Zen practice, and others. His initial flirtation with Zen deepens into a life-long avocation, and his ordination as a priest. "Through Zen, Coyote discovers a third option that offers an alternative to both the worlds of Love and Powers correlatives of status seeking and material wealth." Photographs, notes. 272 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket (slight dampstaining affecting the upper edge of the rear board and the interior of the dj).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st printing per copyright number line. Binding tight; interior clean. Tan and brown quarter-bound boards with red lettering on spine; small smudge on page body edge. Unclipped ($30) dust jacket in great condition; preserved in mylar. Published posthumously, the story of Native peoples from coast to coast is explored, granting these oppressed and nearly destroyed people a chance to tell their own broad story. 477pp, including appendix.…

Zustand: VERY GOOD. Trade paperback original - 5th printing. The author's first novel, recipient of The Dana Award for a novel-in-progress. Willa Robbins is a master tracker working to reintroduce the Mexican wolf to the American Southwest. But when Colorado police recruit her to find her own brother, Zeb, a confessed murderer, she is thrown back into the past, surfacing memories of a childhood full of intense love, desperate mistakes, and gentle remorse. SIGNED on the title page. List of resources about the Mexican wolf. 212 pp. Very good (edges of textblock bumped, crease to upper corner of rear cover).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 6.5 X 1.75 X 9.75 inches; 546 pages; some B&W photographs and illustrations. Very minor foxing on the top exterior edge of textblock and some speckles on spine inside the DJ. Light speckle stains on the fore-edge of textblock. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. DJ is not price-clipped. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Counterpoint, Berkeley, 2009.Pictorial Hard cover. Book Condition : Near fine, like new, appears unread. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #BY017808.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: xxv, 358 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-316) and index. Subjects: Scott, Robert Falcon 1868-1912; Campbell, Victor 1875-1956; British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913); Wilderness survival; Antarctica Discovery and exploration British. 1 Kg. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good -. Signed by author. Binding tight, interior clean and bright. Wraps are clean with gilt lettering. Front wrap is slightly bent. "Autographed Copy" sticker on the front. Blue spine with brown lettering. Small chip on the edge of the back wrap and light wear on the corners. Montana author. 375 pages. Historical narrative about a young woman escaping the aftermath of her eccentric father's death and her engagement to a violent man seeks to reinvent herself in a frontier town as Widow Nash. Signed by Author(s).…

Zustand: FINE. Trade paperback. " A Mystery of Colonial America" - the first book in a new series by this author best known for his series set in Tibet - but like that series, this also involves the need to understand different cultures and spirits. "Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, protagonist Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and apparent suicides among his fellow Scottish prisoners. [He] is thrust into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War and finds himself exploring a frontier world shrouded in danger and defying death in a wilderness populated by European settlers, Indian shamans, and mysterious scalping parties." SIGNED and dated on the title page.Time line. Promotional postcard laid in. 460 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Little read! Signed by author on title page. Binding tight; interior clean. Midnight blue boards with white lettering, in great shape. Unclipped dust jacket looks fabulous in mylar; "Autographed Copy" sticker front cover. In this compelling family drama set against the dangerous beauty of the Yellowstone, Polly is still trying to get her life back on track after a recent accident, not always trusting reality. Stated 1st edition; 1st printing per copyright number line. 279pp. Signed by Author(s).…

Zustand: FINE. First US printing, a trade paperback. Set is 1998 in London, in the safe haven of her office, "a room her husband jokingly calls The Delivery Room therapist Mira Braverman listens to the stories of her troubled patients. . . Once the last client closes the door behind them, however, Mira too has her share of concerns and dilemmas demanding acknowledgement, attention and (re)solution. But as she navigates the central relationships in her life - with her husband, and the son he didn't know about for years, with her war-ravaged homeland, and the sister who lives there still, with her various clients - she finds it's not always easy to keep home and work separate." SIGNED on the title page. 399 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. 6.33 X 1.03 X 9.35 inches; 276 pages; B&W photographs. Dog-earing on the top corner of a single page. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. DJ is not price-clipped.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 6.5 X 1.25 X 9.5 inches; 325 pages; B&W photographs. Creasing on front free endpaper. Minor, faint scratches on the exterior edges of textblock. DJ is not price-clipped. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. 456 pages; Light shelf wear to DJ, minor tears to edges. Some smudges to book's covers. Very Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - We're committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Signed and inscribed by author on title page: "David - Well, if you can make the Iraq war funny, I'll have to look into your work. Thanks so much for coming out. Bruce Holbert 2014." Tight binding, clean interior. Tan boards with bright gold lettering. DJ is preserved in mylar, has not been price clipped. Text is unmarked. "Holbert returns with The Hour of Lead, an epic family novel and coming of age story that is once again imbibed with the mythology of the west." 307 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Zustand: FINE. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A satirical novel about a fortyish game designer, who decides he has had enough - "When his bicycle is intentionally run off the road by a neighbor's SUV, something snaps in Bob Coffin. Modern suburban life has been getting him down and this is the last straw." INSCRIBED on the second page "To --- I hope you dig the madcap romp!" 252 pp. Issued as a trade paperback original. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.…

Zustand: NEAR FINE. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Set in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's first novel "grapples with the complexities of the second-generation American experience, what it means to be a woman of color in the workplace, and a sister, a wife, and a mother to daughters in today's America. Drawing inspiration from the author's own terrifying experience of a raid on her home, she explores, in exquisite, lyrical prose, an alternate reality that might have been." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2018 (that is, before publication) 260 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to edges of textblock).…

Zustand: FINE. First printing. Fourth novel by this highly praised California author. "Mark Perdue has so many problems that when he starts feeling chest pains on the tarmac at LAX, it dawns on him that a heart attack might be an efficient way out. Once an eminent physicist, he hasnt published or had a new idea in a decade. The younger professors at UC Berkeley pity him, and hes taken to using the back staircases to avoid their looks, which all seem to be labeling him dead weight. At home, his wife has been inconsolable since the recent late-term abortion of their afflicted fetus. And he cant deny it any longer he is decidedly losing his mental faculties to chronic Lyme disease. Now Mark is visiting Los Angeles with his ambitious daughter, Carlotta, so she can attend a Celebrity Fantasy Vacation, in which she is promised three days and two nights of the rock star lifestyle." SIGNED on the title page. 219 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.…

Zustand: FINE. First printing, a trade paperback original. Historical novel, a story of love and murder, set in a small Maryland town which is still after the Civil War. Based on a true story about the author's family. SIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition; Third Printing. 848 pages; minor stains INSIDE the DJ flap. Not visible superficially. Light fading to pages. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Zustand: Good. Paperback, 8vo.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. Set in the San Francisco bay area, this is a novel about the perils of modern marriages. Praise from Ann Packer who called it a "slim, devasting novel" and from Daniel Handler, Anne Lamott and others. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Monica Scott. 225 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). …

Zustand: FINE. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's first book, an award winning collection of stories about the immigrant experience, originally published in 2016 and here reissued with new stories added. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp, Fine in illustrated wrappers.