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- exemplaire signée 2009, ISBN: 9780520068445
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New York:: Doubleday, 2005. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is only a little rubbed on the rear panel. NOT price clipped (24.95). No chips. No tears. No o… Plus…
New York:: Doubleday, 2005. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is only a little rubbed on the rear panel. NOT price clipped (24.95). No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Bound in the original maroon boards, with a maroon spine lettered in bright gold. From the Dust Jacket: "The triumphant follow-up to the bestselling BEE SEASON, WICKETT'S REMEDY is a brilliant novel about the dream of progress... Goldberg leads us back to Boston in the early part of the twentieth century and into two completely captivating worlds. One is that of Lydia, an Irish-American shopgirl with bigger aspirations than your average young woman from South Boston. She seems to be well on her way to the life she has dreamed of when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy medical student and the scion of a Boston Brahmin family. However, soon after their wedding, Henry abruptly quits medical school to create a mail-order patent medicine called Wickett's Remedy, and just as Lydia begins to adjust to her husband's new vocation, the infamous Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 begins its deadly sweep across the world, irrevocably changing their lives. In a world turned almost unrecognizable by swift and sudden tragedy, Lydia finds herself working as a nurse in an experimental ward dedicated to understanding the raging epidemic -- through the use of human subjects... Based on years of research and evoking actual events, WICKETT'S REMEDY perfectly captures the texture of the times and brings a colorful cast of characters vividly to life... With dazzling dexterity, Goldberg has fashioned a novel that beautifully combines the intimate with the epic. WICKETT'S REMEDY announces her arrival as a major novelist.". Signed by Author (on title page - signature only). First Printing of the First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./Near Fine dust jacket.. 8vo. (viii), 326pp.., Doubleday, 2005, 4, HARDCOVER. SIGNED, HAND SIGNED and warmly Inscribed by Debbie Phelps, Michael Phelps mother, on the Full Title Page. She wrote, 'To Melinda, To the Mom of the 4 little swimmers. Enjoy each & every day with love, Debbie Phelps'. Like New. A TRUE First Edition, First Printing copy. Just because a Seller says its a First Edition does not mean its a First Edition/First Printing. Always look at the number line First Edition and 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 printed on the copyright page. Beautiful condition with a beautiful dust jacket. NOT Remaindered, NOT owner Inscribed, NOT Ex-library, NOT Book Club Edition, NOT Price clipped ($25.99). Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges are clean. Interior is clean and legible. DJ is not chipped or crinkled. First Edition, First Printing, Hand SIGNED and Inscribed by the author, Debbie Phelps. Publication date: April 7, 2009. ISBN: 978-006-1780-011. ALWAYS wrapped securely and shipped in a sturdy box for added protection. If you have any questions, please ask. BS0000045., William Morrow; First Edition edition (April 7, 2009), 5, London England: Macdonald and Janes, 1976. Hardback. First Edition. Slightly sunned spine to D/J. The authors itemise and comment on the daily round of events with the aid of 150 prints, drawings, cartoons, advertisements and photographs; they also quote extensively and entertainingly from contemporary memoirs, magazine articles and books of etiquette. if 'society', in the words of one commentator, was made up of the bores and the bored, Society also ensured that as little time as possible was left for such reflections. For the leisured elite play took on something of the arduous nature of work: the daily visits, the parties, the at-homes, the receptions, the 'kettledums', the Court presentations, the race meetings and the regattas filled each day - and much of the night - while (so it was argued) providing valuable employment for the less privileged. The rituals and ceremonies of the late Victorian Season, as here recalled, make strange and fascinating reading today; whether it is Lady Campbell advising that, at the lunch table 'an elegant disorder is perfectly distinct from a vulgar confusion', or one member of Society grumbling at Ascot: 'too much dust and too frequent intrusions of horses to make it a successful garden party, and too many women to make it a thoroughly sporting race meeting'. 162 pp. Illustrated. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardback., Macdonald and Janes, 1976, 3, San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. xv, 270 pp, preface, acknowledgments, Part I: 1. Before Ruth; 2. A Second Little Nuisance; 3. A Crumbling of the Wall; 4. War. Part II: 5. An Innocent Abroad; 6. Billy Frank; 7. The Ring; 8. "That Hustling Baptist Preacher"; 9. The Greater London Crusade. Part III: 10. Little Piney Cove; 11. Her Jungle; 12. Home on the Mountain; 13. The Beginning of a Mission; 14. The Terror by Night; 15. "Other Children." Part IV: 16. Power and Influence; 17. A New Season; 18. Lighting the Darker Places; 19. Darkness over the Face of the Earth; 20. Return to China; Epilogue; index with b&w illustrations. First Printing, 1983. "A long-time friend of Ruth Graham, Patricia Cornwell's first book draws on previously unpublished letters, diary accounts, and memorabilia. For the first time, in a book, to Christian men and women everywhere, Ruth Bell shares the full story of her life and what it is like to be the wife of the most famous Christian evangelist of this century." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Red cloth with black title plate and gilt lettering to spine.., Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983, 5, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1999 Hard Cover. 453 pp. With grace and understatement, Shreve evokes 15-year-old Olympia's emerging sexuality, her family cottage on Fortune's Rocks, and the bright, sea-clean season. The perfect complement to the heroine's enchanted world is Dr. John Haskell, a physician and writer who provides care to the poor of a nearby mill town. Despite his wife and children, Haskell and Olympia fall in love and are soon caught in flagrante. Disgraced, the Biddeford family leaves Fortune's Rocks for Boston, where Olympia discovers she is pregnant. She gives birth, the child is taken to an orphanage, and Olympia is exiled to a western Massachusetts convent. Olympia eventually returns to the cottage at Fortune's Rocks to rebuild her life. She seeks out and finds her lost son, and files a suit to recover him. The trial (a very '90s concoction, with ethnic and class conflict at its heart) is stirring, and though Olympia wins—the adoptive parents are too grubby to raise the boy correctly'she refuses the victory when she sees their pain. Haskell returns from his exile in the West, where he has been treating immigrants and Native Americans, to find Olympia's love for him still strong. They marry, and, sensing the distant strains of political correctness, convert the cottage into a birthing center for unmarried women. Olympia leaps out in sharp focus from the first page, but the conscientiously tangled plotting and the muddle it provokes in her show the strain of transplanting a millennial sensibility back a hundred years., Little, Brown and Company, 1999, 4.5, Boston, Denver: Walter H. Baker Company, 1948. First edition. 8vo, [xvi], 198pp plus [10] index at rear. Gray and red illustrated wraps. Very good with some wear and light chipping at corners and toning to edges. Old price sticker to rear wrapper. Midcentury catalog of all available plays from Walter H. Baker company. Organized into sections such as New Plays for 1949, One Act Plays for Women, Religious Dramas and Pageants, Plays for Men and Boys, etc. This particular issue very interesting for containing an entry for Madeleine L'Engle's first published work, a Baker's Royalty Play called "18 Washington Square, South," which came out in 1944. The catalog describes it: "Emily Britton, a struggling young writer, and Jacqueline Ives, a struggling young actress, find themselves, on Christmas Eve, without funds, without food and two months shelter unpaid for. To two such gay, witty, resourceful good sports it merely spells adventure. The answer to their problem is to marry. How to find a husband? The society page carries a picture of two of the season's most eligible bachelors. There's the little stumbling block of meeting the 'boys' but that means nothing to these clever 'gals.' Their man hunt is a gay, delirious delight." The royalty paid for performances is listed as $5.00 with the price of each copy being 50 cents. The play itself is quite rare., Walter H. Baker Company, 1948, 0, Uiv. Of California, 1990. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good/Good. Boomer by Nieman, Linda Signed Univ. of California Press, 1990, First, ISBN: 0520068440 Hardback in good condition with good dust jacket. Text is clean an unmarked, binding tight. Cloth cover is clean and dust jacket shows little if any signs of wear. Seeing an ad in her Sunday paper "Brakemen Wanted" started Ms. Nieman on an adventure of a life time. Becoming a brakeman then a "Boomer" which is a brakeman who follows the as it migrates with the seasons and with periods of boom and bust she became one of the first women to go railroading with the Southern Pacific and perhaps the only one with a Ph.D. This is the story of her years on the road. Glossary of railroad terms, 245 pages., Uiv. Of California, 1990, 2.5<
