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1995500722Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Robert Atwan series editor. 263pp. Fine in an about fine dust jacket with some rubbing on the rear panel. Signed by Jamaica Kincaid. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
2003DADAX0374528748Farrar Straus & Giroux 2003-07-16. First Edition. paperback. New. 5.00x0.46x8.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Farrar Straus & Giroux paperback
198316975LITNew York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1983. 82 pp. Original orange paper covered boards w/ gilt title on green cloth. Very bright and clean. Contents very nice. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Farrar, Straus, Giroux Hardcover
18902134New York, Walbridge & Co, 1890. 1 vol. in-8 de XII-243 pages, pleine percaline verte d’éditeur, dos lisse muet, premier plat orné. Coins et coiffes légèrement frottés.
9788556521316ALFAGUARA. new. Desde a f�ria do fim passando pelo passado sublime e pelo futuro s��rdido Jamaica Kincaid nos brinda com uma hist��ria inesquec�vel sobre separa��o mas tambǸm sobre o que significa continuar lutando. O sr. Sweet comp��e em seu est�dio enquanto a sra. Sweet passa o tempo na cozinha escrevendo. Seus filhos correm pela grande casa que um dia pertenceu a Shirley Jackson. Contudo a perfeita imagem da fam�lia tradicional americana Ǹ abalada quando o marido deixa a esposa por uma mulher mais jovem. AtravǸs dos fluxos de consci�ncia de m�ltiplos personagens Jamaica Kincaid mostra as ang�stias profundas que existem por trǭs de uma aparente perfei��o. Uma anǭlise ferina sobre as diversas maneiras como o transcorrer dos anos afeta um casamento Agora veja ent�o Ǹ um livro ao mesmo tempo singelo e potente. Os personagens em confronto se desesperam em situa����es cotidianas suas mentes tentando entender linearmente uma realidade que aqui de fato n�o Ǹ linear. Escrevendo no passado no presente e no futuro Kincaid faz da passagem do tempo sua principal ferramenta narrativa. ""O dom de Kincaid Ǹ contar uma experi�ncia comum com ferocidade m�tica."" �New York Times Book Review ""Agora veja ent�o Ǹ a hist��ria de uma esposa rejeitada como se fosse escrita por Gertrude Stein e Virginia Woolf."" � NPR ALFAGUARA unknown
9788556521101ALFAGUARA. new. Uma hist��ria de amor medo perda e forma��o de carǭter um relato da evolu��o de uma mulher negra caribenha escrito por uma das autoras mais habilidosas da literatura contempor�nea.Poderoso perturbador e emocionante este romance de Jamaica Kincaid conta a hist��ria de Xuela Claudette Richardson filha de m�e caribenha e pai meio escoc�s e meio africano moradora da ilha de Dominica. Sua m�e morre no parto e a garota precisa ent�o encontrar seu lugar no mundo sem o aux�lio materno.Kincaid conduz o leitor pela vida de Xuela com extrema habilidade literǭria: da casa de sua inf�ncia onde ela podia ouvir o canto do mar e da sala com telhado de zinco onde mora como estudante atǸ sua casa da velhice. Seu mundo Ǹ intensamente f�sico cheirando a frutas maduras enxofre e chuva ALFAGUARA unknown
1983009956Farrar Straus and Giroux. DJ in archival cover. . Fine. Hardcover. 1983. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
1998DADAX0374281939Farrar Straus and Giroux 1998-11-01. First Edition. hardcover. New. 6.14x0.69x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
0331275635.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
3659487775.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
198571-00382Farrar Straus and Giroux 1985-06-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
8vo. First Edition, with numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, inked scribble on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. With relevant cuttings mounted on endpapers. SCARCE.
0260871923.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1991Q-0452266777Plume 1991-10-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Plume paperback
Two Volumes. Top edges gold gilt. Mildly XLib. 6.75" x 4.25" In 8's. Original full leather bindings, bound by Brentano's, New York. Boards ruled in gold with gilt turn ins. Spines decorated in gold with raised bands. Remnants of leather spine labels. Volume One spine repaired, front board very fragile. Volume Two front board detached. Hardbound. Very good. Michael Scott, wrote a series of amusing and exotic stories for "Blackwood's Magazine" which were later collected as "Tom Cringle's Log" and "The Cruise of the Midge." Published anonymously, their authorship was not known till after Scott's death at Glasgow. Scott paints many interesting and alluring pictures of his sea travels. Sea fights, tropical scenery, Creoles, planters, flirtations, duels, and other pleasures or dangers of West Indian life. Interestingly, the first known use of the phrase "Where there's a will, there's a way" came from these pages. Scarce original edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 7
19909494New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1990. Advance reading copy. 8vo original pictorial wrappers. 165. Mint as issued. The advance reading copy of Kincaid's fourth novel. Farrar Straus and Giroux unknown
18620A Londres et à Paris, chez la veuve Duchesne, 1767, 1 broché, couverture en papier dominoté. 2 volumes in-8, faux-titre, titre, 382 pages et faux-titre, titre, 399 pages, exemplaire à pleines marges ;
1997Q-0452274664Plume 1997-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Plume paperback
1997Q-0374216819Farrar Straus and Giroux 1997-10-30. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
2000Q-0374527075Farrar Straus and Giroux 2000-04-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback
1998DADAX0374525625Farrar Straus and Giroux 1998-11-09. paperback. New. 5.40x0.60x8.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback
2013Q-1590176804NYRB Classics 2013-08-20. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! NYRB Classics paperback
197464110London: Secker and Warburg 1974. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xii196pp; illus. Neat ownership stamp to front free endpaper and title page else tight clean and unmarked. In the original dustwrapper price-clipped else Fine. <br /> <br /> The Jamaican anthropologist's final published work a pioneering study of attitudes towards race-mixing in the West Indies Latin America and the United States. Henriques 1916-1976 was a major theorist of class color and sexuality best-known for his massive three-volume survey Prostitution and Society 1962-68. He was Director of the Centre for Multi Racial Studies from 1964 to 1974. Secker and Warburg unknown
1983010536Farrar Straus and Giroux 1983. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author's First Book.Fine Copy In A Fine Price Clipped Jacket.First Edition.Signed by the Author on the Title-page.Excellent Copy. Farrar Straus and Giroux Hardcover
1995antholgoies-signed-001Houghton Mifflin Company Boston 1995 First printing. Correct number line including the 1. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A tight copy new and unread without any marks or defects. Dust jacket is clean and bright with price intact on front flap $24.95. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. Includes essays by Joseph Brodsky Harold Brodkey William H. Gass Edna O'Brien Cynthia Ozick Grace Paley Charles Simic Tobias Wolff and others. SIGNED BY TOBIAS WOLFF on page 216 which is the first page where his selection "Civilian" begins. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston hardcover
