Search Results: Authors starting with P from BIAbooks

Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book, inscribed by the Author."Central Square confirms again that George Packer is one of the great young talents of American fiction. This beautifully wrought novel, about a city, a love affair, and the perpetual American hope for renewal, makes high art-- and compelling drama-- from the follies and compromises that attend all of those things."--Scott Turow

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf , 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. A pristine NEW book, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. "Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be it."--Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review. "Mesmerizing.An elegy not just for Holbrooke but for the vision of American power he represented.Insightful and beautifully written." -Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor

New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine collectible book. A Granta 2007 author. Author's DEBUT book."Z.Z. Packer's first collection, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and a New York Times Notable Book. "An outstanding debut story collection, Z.Z. Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere has attracted as much book-world buzz as a triple espresso.This is a debut not to miss." --Regina Marler

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine collectible book that appears UNREAD. The first biography and the definitive story of a restored American literary treasure. "Gore Vidal, writing in 1987, said she "should have been as widely read as, say, Hemingway or the early Fitzgerald.

Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Inc., 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. The Author is a two-time Pushcart Prize winner and O.Henrt Award winner. This is Paine's FIRST book 'The prose is unostentatiously gorgeous. Te seductive cadence of the language, the velocity of the narrative, the vividness of the physical universe all converge in Tom Paine's undeniably powerful work."-- Bob Shacochis

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. A collectible book.The much anticipated memoir by the former Mayor of Wasilla and the Governor of Alaska; the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate and Fox News political commentator.432 pages; 8vo (9.25") 24 cm; Dark blue boards, 68 photos on glossy plates, most in color. No index. SIGNED by Sarah Palin in very large hand.; First edition stated, with full number line. Map by Nick Springer. Additional chapter by Dewey Whetsell

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A pristine book. DJ has a slight scratch on the back pane else fine. The much anticipated memoir by the former Mayor of Wasilla and the Governor of Alaska; the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate and Fox News political commentator.432 pages; 8vo (9.25") 24 cm; Dark blue boards, 68 photos on glossy plates, most in color. No index.; First edition stated, with full number line. Map by Nick Springer. Additional chapter by Dewey Whetsell

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine collectible book. Red colored cloth over boards with paste-down illustration on upper and lower; gilt text on upper and spine. Foreword by Jack Nicklaus. The title also includes: stories and wisdom from on and off the golf course. Endpaper photographs. Interior pages clean, unmarked; bright. Binding is tight and straight. "A wonderful compilation that reflects who he was as a person, as a golfer" Jack Nicklaus

New York: Tom Doherty Publishers, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's first novel that wonthe Crawford Award. 'The strongest and wisest novel I have ever read about the problem of child abuse.a novel, not a polemic or a tract, the book is impossible to read without being moved to fury and tears.'--Jane Yolen

New York: Saint Martin's Press, Inc., 1988. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine, collectible book protected in a mylar cover. This book appears UNREAD. Author's second book. This is a novel of suspense and betrayal set in the Vietnamese immigrant community known as "Little Saigon" in Long Beach, California. Chuck Frye, sometimes journalist and semi-pro surfer investigates. ".a powerful, meticulously orchestrated novel."--Washington Post

New York: Saint Martin's Press, Inc., 1991. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. A pristine, collectible book protected in a mylar cover. This book appears UNREAD. Author's third book. thriller set in Newport Beach, California. "Parker's powerful story of murder and police corruption--a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection in cloth--features sparkling, tough prose in the hard-boiled tradition of Chandler and MacDonald."-- Publishers Weekly

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book, provided in a mylar dust jacket protector. In 1996 Michael Parker was a finalist for Granta¿s 20 best American fiction writers under 40. He is the author of Hello Down There, a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the PEN/ Hemingway award. ".this story will break your heart, but it will also make you laugh, sometimes ruefully. The music in Joel Junior's head is telling him about love and, with no teachers other than soul singers, he is trying to make it up as he goes along. Read this short novel in one sitting; it'll knock you out." --Valerie Ryan

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Spenser mystery of extraordinary excitement and power that has our sleuth searching for terrorists responsible for a London bombing. A PRISTINE book with slight rubbing at bottom edge of DJ spine." Robert B. Parker has taken his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald."-The Boston Globe. Keywords: PARKER FICTION DETECTIVE MYSTERY SPENSER LONDON TERRORISTS

New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1998. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. A pristine book that appears UNREAD.This is the 25th Spenser novel, that finds Robert B. Parker's seemingly ageless sleuth once again engaging Boston's bad guys and sorting out life's moral dilemmas, all (or mostly) in the name of love. "Sparkling."--Detroit Free Press

New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine++/Fine. An attractive book with a a faded droplet of a stain on edge of text block, else fine. "An irresistible new crime novel that will captivate both longtime and soon-to-be-devoted Spenser lovers. In this, Parker's 26th novel the private investigator returns to delight readers with his sexy and literate brand of hardball-goofball that rightfully has gained him his faithful following."--Kirkus Reviews

New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 2007. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. A pristine book that appears UNREAD.cThis is the 35th Spenser novel."This briskly paced cat-and-mouse game offers Spenser fans exactly what they've come to expect from the reliable Parker's no-nonsense action and plenty of romantic give-and-take between Susan and Spenser, who even find the subject of marriage intruding once more."--Publishers Weekly

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. The author's last book. "With its eloquently spare prose and some of the best supporting characters to grace the printed page, The Professional is further proof that [t]here's hardly an author in the crime novel business like Parker" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A prestine book. A cheating husband and a wayward wife provide spenser with an unconventional and dangerous surveillance job.

New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. This excellent collectible book by the late great Robert Parker is clean, tight and fresh. The only flaw is a half inch closed tear on rear panel edge at hinge, else fine.