Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2007
ISBN 10: 1843545160 ISBN 13: 9781843545163
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2016, 2016
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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very good dust-jacket, cover price $28.00, fresh attractive brown and white hardcover, appears little used if at all. FUSSELL, BETTY. Eat, live, love, die: selected essays. Introduction by Alice Waters. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2016, 1st printing number line ending with 1, xvi, 298pp., . Selection of 50 years worth of the award-winning author's essays on food, travel and the arts - CONTENTS: Food is.Eating my words -- CULTURES -- If you lack turtles try buffalo hump -- American the bountiful -- True grits -- When corn was king -- Corn porn -- the cowboy and the machine -- Hamburgers -- All about oysters -- Absolutely smashing -- J-E-L-L-O -- 4-F food -- The artful cafeteria -- Class action -- Romancing the stove -- PEOPLE -- Elizabeth David 1914-1992 -- The prime of M.F.K. Fisher -- Great American taste: Claiborne, Child, Beard -- James Beard, American icon -- The greening of Alice Waters -- Grand Dame of Virginia cooking: Edna Lewis -- Breaking bread with Africa: Marcus Samuelsson -- The Count of Cuisine: Jean-Georges Vongerichten -- PLACES -- The beautiful birds of Bresse -- Rich, robust, and rewarding Normandy -- Umbrian truffles and game -- Festival of the flowering almond -- Tracking Cortés in Mexico -- Bahia black and white -- Turning 60 at the top of the world -- The surviving Galápagos -- China solo -- FAMILY -- The eyes have it -- Thanatopsis '83 -- My daughter the painter -- My son the bodybuilder -- Nostalgia: salad days -- Love and mayonnaise -- Home free: of keepsakes and God pots -- On murdering eels and laundering swine -- Earning her food -- Food says.A is for apple. ISBN 9781619027855.
Verlag: Counterpoint, Publisher, Berkeley, CA, 2015
Anbieter: Mare Booksellers ABAA, IOBA, Dover, NH, USA
Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Second printing. Green paper covered boards in unclipped jacket. 66 plus pages. A collection of poetry by Gary Snyder, an acclaimed American poet often associated with the Beat movement. These poems reflect his travels over the previous decade, among other subjects. VERY GOOD+ condition. Minor rubbing, fading and edgewear to the jacket.
Verlag: Counterpoint, Berkeley, CA, 2012
ISBN 10: 1619020556 ISBN 13: 9781619020559
Anbieter: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, USA
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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.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2009), 2009
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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First edition - 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.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2015) dj, 2015
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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Hardcover first edition - 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).
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2012), 2012
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED - 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).
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2008., 2008
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED - 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.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2008), 2008
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED first edition - 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.
Verlag: Counterpoint, Berkeley, CA, 2016
ISBN 10: 1582436290 ISBN 13: 9781582436296
Anbieter: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, USA
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First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 130 pages. Companion book to a movie. Edited by Paul Ebenkamp. Features a foreword by will Hearst and an introduction by John J. Healey along with a transcript of the film. Includes some poems by both writers as well as some black and white images. A clean very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Lacking the dvd.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Soft Skull Press / Counterpoint, (2013), 2013
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED first edition - 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.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2019), 2019
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED first edition - 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).
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2011) dj, 2011
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED hardcover first edition - 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.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2009.), 2009
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED first edition - 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.
Verlag: Counterpoint, Berkeley, CA, 2009
ISBN 10: 1582434298 ISBN 13: 9781582434292
Anbieter: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australien
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Hardback. 1st Edition. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 338 pages.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2008.) dj, 2008
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED hardcover first edition - 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.).
Verlag: Counterpoint, Berkeley, CA, 2008
ISBN 10: 1593761880 ISBN 13: 9781593761882
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover, first edition, with unclipped dust jacket. Upper leading corners are bumped, affecting both board and jacket. No other faults, pages excellent and spine tight. AD. Used.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2019), 2019
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED first edition - Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A chronicle of the author's "650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California. Led by Gaspar de Portol in 1769, the expedition sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. . For twelve weeks, with just a backpack and a tent, he trekked through stretches of California both lonely and urban, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespi." SIGNED on the title page. 404 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner of back cover bumped).
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2020), 2020
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED first edition - 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.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2008., 2008
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED first edition - Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) " 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 on the title page. 456 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (some toning to the edges of the textblock).
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2019), 2019
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED first edition - Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Award-winning author's second novel. Named a "Notable Book of the Year" by the New York Times who commented that this is "told in alternating chapters from the points of view of two African-American women connected by blood but divided by time: a biracial single mom in 2017 and a former sharecropper turned farm-owning widow in 1924. Both tell their progeny stories that ground the novel in the harsh facts of history even as they take on the weight of myth." SIGNED on the title page. Letter from the publisher and marketing information bound in. 276 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2014), 2014
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED hardcover first edition - First printing. Novel set in 1917 and in 1965 in the town at the confluence of the Hudson and the Mohawk Rivers in upstate New York - a town which earned the nickname of Electric City when Thomas Edison moved his machine works there in 1892. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 322 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2017) dj, 2017
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED hardcover first edition - First printing. A collection of sometime provocative and always entertaining essays, primarily on traveling and writing, but also on aging (and writing), growing up in South Africa under apartheid, marriage, and much more. SIGNED on the title page. 208 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2017) dj, 2017
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED hardcover first edition - First printing. A collection of sometime provocative and always entertaining essays, primarily on traveling and writing, but also on aging (and writing), growing up in South Africa under apartheid, marriage, and much more. INSCRIBED on the title page. 208 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2019), 2019
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED first edition - Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A chronicle of the author's "650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California. Led by Gaspar de Portol in 1769, the expedition sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. . For twelve weeks, with just a backpack and a tent, he trekked through stretches of California both lonely and urban, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespi." SIGNED on the title page and dated in year of publication. 404 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2017) dj, 2017
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED hardcover first edition - First printing. A book which looks at recent history and asks the question "As firsthand survivors of many of the twentieth century's most monumental eventsthe Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Killing Fieldsbegin to pass away, how do we carry those stories forward? [She] organizes her book around three trips with her father to Buchenwald concentration camp - in 1983, in 1995, and in 2015 - and explores the echoes of similar legacies among descendants of African American slaves, descendants of Cambodian survivors of the Killing Fields, descendants of survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the effects of 9/11 on the general population" Named a Best Book of the Year by The San Francisco Chronicle. SIGNED on the title page. Includes an "alphabet of inadequate language", notes. xvii, 268 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a new, unread copy, but end of spine slightly bumped).
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2008.) dj, 2008
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED hardcover first edition - 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 and dated on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Monica Scott. 225 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.).
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2007.) dj, 2007
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED hardcover first edition - First printing. Novel set in postwar Rome - in 1948 - and in the world of resurgent cinema. The story of a poet, translator and lover. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.).
Verlag: Counterpoint, Berkeley, CA, 2008
ISBN 10: 1593761848 ISBN 13: 9781593761844
Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
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Hardcover. Octavo, 244 pages. In Near Fine condition. Inky black cloth slipcase with yellow signature on front cover and yellow lettering along spine, has mild wear along front and rear covers. Boards have mild shelving wear along front cover. Signed flat by Lydia Millet on title page, limited edition #29/200. Shelved Alcove #1. 1382133. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. First Edition, First Printing, Limited Edition #29/200.
Verlag: Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2014) dj, 2014
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED hardcover first edition - First thus - the deluxe audio edition. A beautiful new edition of these very personal poems, issued 10 years after the original publication. SIGNED by Snyder on the title page. Includes two CDs of Snyder reading the poems. Slightly oversized format. List of the audio CD tracks, 119 pp. Dust jacket illustration of Mt St Helens by Tom Killion. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.).