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Publicado por Bluehen Books, 2001
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Librería: More Than Words, Waltham, MA, Estados Unidos de America
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ISBN 10: 0425187608 ISBN 13: 9780425187609
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Publicado por brilliance Audio, Grand Haven, Michigan, U.S.A., 2001
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Publicado por Bluehen Books, 2001
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ISBN 10: 2848760109 ISBN 13: 9782848760100
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Publicado por MacMurray & Beck
Librería: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Like New. Publisher: MacMurray & Beck, Denver, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. As new. Unread. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.
Publicado por Bluehen Books, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 0399148051 ISBN 13: 9780399148057
Librería: Bookmarc's, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. CG5 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Mylene Dressler on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 8.75"x5.5", 226 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. We sat for a moment in a lagoon of silence I found myself grateful for, staring out over my lifted coffee cup, I wondered how long I could go on this way. Sitting in this high, airy, dusky flat of Cora Lowenstein's, with a desert palm swaying over my head, and her late husband looking over my shoulder, his round eyes behind his round glasses starring out at me like a pair of loaded binoculars, his poodle locked up in a room somewhere because of me, ringing its bell feverishly. And there his piano, standing silently, which he must have played to his guests, or perhaps sometimes only to his wife, alone. Would it have been Chopin? Schubert? Liszt? While she listened, right there, in that very seat, soaking in the expert vibrations of his lean, accomplished hands. And I was yearning toward her. While I sat huddled, unable to be truthful with her, to tell her that my mother was not romantic at all, no, no, by the time I knew her, but only rigid, and matter-of-fact, and grinding, and cold. I could smell myself sweating and suffering again, I began to look for a way to steer our meeting back toward my goal. For Cora Lowenstein must give in to me, Cora Lowenstein must see how badly I needed to pull my family's thorn from her side. And since I couldn't' be honest with her in one way. I decided that the best thing would be to be honest with her in another, and let her see how pitiable I was. Let her see how needy and hungry an older man could really be. "I do have my son. Christopher. But we don't speak." "That's too bad. Was it because of the divorce?" "No Cora." There I had used her name. She blinked. Glancing away. Wiping the rim of her saucer with her napkin. She had spilled some cream. I'd noticed it. It then occurred to me, for the first time, that perhaps she sneezed as well. And brushed her teeth. And slept. And even hiccupped. Even more surprising to me, she leaned forward, and in a movement I hadn't seen before set her cup down and brought her knees together under her skirt with her hands, as though to prevent her legs from getting up and starting away. She sat very still. As though she wasn't sure she ought to listen. - from THE DEADWOOD BEETLE Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.
Publicado por Bluehen Books, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 0399148051 ISBN 13: 9780399148057
Librería: Bookmarc's, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. BE1 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Mylene Dressler on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 8.75"x5.5", 226 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. We sat for a moment in a lagoon of silence I found myself grateful for, staring out over my lifted coffee cup, I wondered how long I could go on this way. Sitting in this high, airy, dusky flat of Cora Lowenstein's, with a desert palm swaying over my head, and her late husband looking over my shoulder, his round eyes behind his round glasses starring out at me like a pair of loaded binoculars, his poodle locked up in a room somewhere because of me, ringing its bell feverishly. And there his piano, standing silently, which he must have played to his guests, or perhaps sometimes only to his wife, alone. Would it have been Chopin? Schubert? Liszt? While she listened, right there, in that very seat, soaking in the expert vibrations of his lean, accomplished hands. And I was yearning toward her. While I sat huddled, unable to be truthful with her, to tell her that my mother was not romantic at all, no, no, by the time I knew her, but only rigid, and matter-of-fact, and grinding, and cold. I could smell myself sweating and suffering again, I began to look for a way to steer our meeting back toward my goal. For Cora Lowenstein must give in to me, Cora Lowenstein must see how badly I needed to pull my family's thorn from her side. And since I couldn't' be honest with her in one way. I decided that the best thing would be to be honest with her in another, and let her see how pitiable I was. Let her see how needy and hungry an older man could really be. "I do have my son. Christopher. But we don't speak." "That's too bad. Was it because of the divorce?" "No Cora." There I had used her name. She blinked. Glancing away. Wiping the rim of her saucer with her napkin. She had spilled some cream. I'd noticed it. It then occurred to me, for the first time, that perhaps she sneezed as well. And brushed her teeth. And slept. And even hiccupped. Even more surprising to me, she leaned forward, and in a movement I hadn't seen before set her cup down and brought her knees together under her skirt with her hands, as though to prevent her legs from getting up and starting away. She sat very still. As though she wasn't sure she ought to listen. - from THE DEADWOOD BEETLE Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.
Publicado por Bluehen Books, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 0399148051 ISBN 13: 9780399148057
Librería: Bookmarc's, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. AB6 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Mylene Dressler on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 8.75"x5.5", 226 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. We sat for a moment in a lagoon of silence I found myself grateful for, staring out over my lifted coffee cup, I wondered how long I could go on this way. Sitting in this high, airy, dusky flat of Cora Lowenstein's, with a desert palm swaying over my head, and her late husband looking over my shoulder, his round eyes behind his round glasses starring out at me like a pair of loaded binoculars, his poodle locked up in a room somewhere because of me, ringing its bell feverishly. And there his piano, standing silently, which he must have played to his guests, or perhaps sometimes only to his wife, alone. Would it have been Chopin? Schubert? Liszt? While she listened, right there, in that very seat, soaking in the expert vibrations of his lean, accomplished hands. And I was yearning toward her. While I sat huddled, unable to be truthful with her, to tell her that my mother was not romantic at all, no, no, by the time I knew her, but only rigid, and matter-of-fact, and grinding, and cold. I could smell myself sweating and suffering again, I began to look for a way to steer our meeting back toward my goal. For Cora Lowenstein must give in to me, Cora Lowenstein must see how badly I needed to pull my family's thorn from her side. And since I couldn't' be honest with her in one way. I decided that the best thing would be to be honest with her in another, and let her see how pitiable I was. Let her see how needy and hungry an older man could really be. "I do have my son. Christopher. But we don't speak." "That's too bad. Was it because of the divorce?" "No Cora." There I had used her name. She blinked. Glancing away. Wiping the rim of her saucer with her napkin. She had spilled some cream. I'd noticed it. It then occurred to me, for the first time, that perhaps she sneezed as well. And brushed her teeth. And slept. And even hiccupped. Even more surprising to me, she leaned forward, and in a movement I hadn't seen before set her cup down and brought her knees together under her skirt with her hands, as though to prevent her legs from getting up and starting away. She sat very still. As though she wasn't sure she ought to listen. - from THE DEADWOOD BEETLE Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.
Publicado por Bluehen Books, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 0399148051 ISBN 13: 9780399148057
Librería: Bookmarc's, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. AS5 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Mylene Dressler on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 8.75"x5.5", 226 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. We sat for a moment in a lagoon of silence I found myself grateful for, staring out over my lifted coffee cup, I wondered how long I could go on this way. Sitting in this high, airy, dusky flat of Cora Lowenstein's, with a desert palm swaying over my head, and her late husband looking over my shoulder, his round eyes behind his round glasses starring out at me like a pair of loaded binoculars, his poodle locked up in a room somewhere because of me, ringing its bell feverishly. And there his piano, standing silently, which he must have played to his guests, or perhaps sometimes only to his wife, alone. Would it have been Chopin? Schubert? Liszt? While she listened, right there, in that very seat, soaking in the expert vibrations of his lean, accomplished hands. And I was yearning toward her. While I sat huddled, unable to be truthful with her, to tell her that my mother was not romantic at all, no, no, by the time I knew her, but only rigid, and matter-of-fact, and grinding, and cold. I could smell myself sweating and suffering again, I began to look for a way to steer our meeting back toward my goal. For Cora Lowenstein must give in to me, Cora Lowenstein must see how badly I needed to pull my family's thorn from her side. And since I couldn't' be honest with her in one way. I decided that the best thing would be to be honest with her in another, and let her see how pitiable I was. Let her see how needy and hungry an older man could really be. "I do have my son. Christopher. But we don't speak." "That's too bad. Was it because of the divorce?" "No Cora." There I had used her name. She blinked. Glancing away. Wiping the rim of her saucer with her napkin. She had spilled some cream. I'd noticed it. It then occurred to me, for the first time, that perhaps she sneezed as well. And brushed her teeth. And slept. And even hiccupped. Even more surprising to me, she leaned forward, and in a movement I hadn't seen before set her cup down and brought her knees together under her skirt with her hands, as though to prevent her legs from getting up and starting away. She sat very still. As though she wasn't sure she ought to listen. - from THE DEADWOOD BEETLE Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.
Publicado por MacMurray & Beck, Inc., Denver, Colorado, 1997
ISBN 10: 1878448757 ISBN 13: 9781878448750
Librería: Bookmarc's, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. CO6 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Mylene Dressler on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Book cocked, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. This is the author's first novel. 8"x5.25", 180 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. When she reaches the orderly house of her Dutch-Indonesian grandmothers, Marget learns quickly that if she only pays attention to them, then she can go unnoticed herself. And that is exactly what she needs just now. Marget is pregnant and alone. With her dancing career over and her mother absent, Marget must decide for herself whether it is wise to continue the raveling line of her extended family. Mylène Dressler's powerful debut novel, The Medusa Tree, is the story of a family of displaced women, not all related by blood, who manage despite distance and conflict to provide one another sanctuary. In the tradition of Amy Tan and Gloria Naylor, Dressler brings us a bold and heartfelt debut, rich in culture and character. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.
Publicado por Macadam Cage Pub, 1997
ISBN 10: 1878448757 ISBN 13: 9781878448750
Librería: Columbia Books, ABAA/ILAB, MWABA, Columbia, MO, Estados Unidos de America
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1997 Dressler, Mylene THE MEDUSSA TREE Denver: MacMurray & Beck, c1997 first printing 180pp 8vo fine hardcover in d/j.
Publicado por Putnam Publishing Group, The, New York, NY, 2001
ISBN 10: 0399148051 ISBN 13: 9780399148057
Librería: Daedalus Books, Portland, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: CBA
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition Review Copy. inprint 23.95; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Publicado por MacMurray & Beck, 1997, 1997
Librería: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR Fine/fine. Signed by Author(s).
Publicado por Putnam Adult, 2004
ISBN 10: 039915163X ISBN 13: 9780399151637
Librería: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Hard cover wit. Condición: Used: Acceptable. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Contemporary Fiction; acceptable hardcover with dustjacket; remainder mark bottom edge; slight bend front board; dustjacket creases, tips/edges bumped, slight signs of wear; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.
Publicado por G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 039915163X ISBN 13: 9780399151637
Librería: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have light wear. edges of pages have very light wear and light toning. dust jacket has very light wear. Inscribed by Author(s).
Publicado por G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 039915163X ISBN 13: 9780399151637
Librería: Bookmarc's, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. BS2 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Mylene Dressler to previous owner on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has wrinkling and chipping on the top edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some chipping on the top cover edges, some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 8.5"x5.75", 176 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. If every family has its drama, then the Buelles are enjoying a good, long run. Harry Buelle - the son of a famous, and famously demanding, southern playwright - awakes confused one morning in his bathtub. His stepmother phones him, complaining that his father has stopped taking his heart medicine. Harry has never heard her sound so tired, and with his own life in shambles he agrees to join his parents - and his sister Sarah and her ambitious, much younger husband - at their southern beach house retreat. At first the plan for the weekend is simply to finish the documentary Sarah has been making of their father's brilliant life and career - but their father is instead preoccupied with a wounded bird that has flown inexplicable into the house. The young filmmakers have brough a hefty supply of emotional ammunition along with their blank tape, and soon all the good-natured familial ribbing leads to uncomfortable sparring, goading, and manipulation - rubbing raw old wounds and tearing away at long-held, secret compromises. Mylène Dressler's previous novel, The Deadwood Beetle, was heralded as "haunting, demanding, and perfect," by The Christina Science Monitor, and as "splendid" by The New York Times. Now, with that same sense of poetry and precision, The Floodmakers delivers a unique, almost theatrical narrative - yet never once sacrifices the humor or humanity of its characters. Reminiscent of the plays of Tennessee Williams, The Floodmakers is the penetrating observation of a family struggling for survival in close quarters and of the dizzying tensions that boil beneath the surface. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.
Publicado por Bluehen Books, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 0399148051 ISBN 13: 9780399148057
Librería: All About Authors, Englewood, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Bluehen Books, 2001. Hard Cover. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good, hardcover, 8vo. no marks internally clean. nice condition.
Año de publicación: 2001
Librería: Columbia Books, ABAA/ILAB, MWABA, Columbia, MO, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
2001 Dressler, Mylene THE DEADWOOD BEETLE NY: Bluehen Books, c2001 First printing 226pp, 8vo, New hardbound in d/w,
Publicado por G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 039915163X ISBN 13: 9780399151637
Librería: Bookmarc's, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Ejemplar firmado
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. CI3 - An uncorrected proof paperback book SIGNED by Mylene Dressler on the title page in very good condition that has some bumped corners, some scattered light stains, light discoloration and shelf wear. 8.25"x5.25", 176 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. If every family has its drama, then the Buelles are enjoying a good, long run. Harry Buelle - the son of a famous, and famously demanding, southern playwright - awakes confused one morning in his bathtub. His stepmother phones him, complaining that his father has stopped taking his heart medicine. Harry has never heard her sound so tired, and with his own life in shambles he agrees to join his parents - and his sister Sarah and her ambitious, much younger husband - at their southern beach house retreat. At first the plan for the weekend is simply to finish the documentary Sarah has been making of their father's brilliant life and career - but their father is instead preoccupied with a wounded bird that has flown inexplicable into the house. The young filmmakers have brough a hefty supply of emotional ammunition along with their blank tape, and soon all the good-natured familial ribbing leads to uncomfortable sparring, goading, and manipulation - rubbing raw old wounds and tearing away at long-held, secret compromises. Mylène Dressler's previous novel, The Deadwood Beetle, was heralded as "haunting, demanding, and perfect," by The Christina Science Monitor, and as "splendid" by The New York Times. Now, with that same sense of poetry and precision, The Floodmakers delivers a unique, almost theatrical narrative - yet never once sacrifices the humor or humanity of its characters. Reminiscent of the plays of Tennessee Williams, The Floodmakers is the penetrating observation of a family struggling for survival in close quarters and of the dizzying tensions that boil beneath the surface. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).
Publicado por G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 039915163X ISBN 13: 9780399151637
Librería: Bookmarc's, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. CV6 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Mylene Dressler on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 8.5"x5.75", 176 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. If every family has its drama, then the Buelles are enjoying a good, long run. Harry Buelle - the son of a famous, and famously demanding, southern playwright - awakes confused one morning in his bathtub. His stepmother phones him, complaining that his father has stopped taking his heart medicine. Harry has never heard her sound so tired, and with his own life in shambles he agrees to join his parents - and his sister Sarah and her ambitious, much younger husband - at their southern beach house retreat. At first the plan for the weekend is simply to finish the documentary Sarah has been making of their father's brilliant life and career - but their father is instead preoccupied with a wounded bird that has flown inexplicable into the house. The young filmmakers have brough a hefty supply of emotional ammunition along with their blank tape, and soon all the good-natured familial ribbing leads to uncomfortable sparring, goading, and manipulation - rubbing raw old wounds and tearing away at long-held, secret compromises. Mylène Dressler's previous novel, The Deadwood Beetle, was heralded as "haunting, demanding, and perfect," by The Christina Science Monitor, and as "splendid" by The New York Times. Now, with that same sense of poetry and precision, The Floodmakers delivers a unique, almost theatrical narrative - yet never once sacrifices the humor or humanity of its characters. Reminiscent of the plays of Tennessee Williams, The Floodmakers is the penetrating observation of a family struggling for survival in close quarters and of the dizzying tensions that boil beneath the surface. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.
Publicado por Bluehen Books, New York, 2001
Librería: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Softcover. Condición: Fine. First edition. Advance reading copy. Wrappers. Fine.
Publicado por G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 2004
Librería: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Softcover. Condición: Fine. First edition. Advance reading copy. Wrappers. Fine.
Publicado por Bluehen Books, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 0399148051 ISBN 13: 9780399148057
Librería: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: TXBA
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. "But as their lives become entangled, Tristan must make a choice. Can he tell Cora the truth? Begun in deceit, their relationship like Tristan's salvation, hinges on his willingness to confront and finally confess the terrible secrets of his family's past." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly skewed, small bumps on spine ends; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket has minor edge and shelf wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 226 pages.
Publicado por Bluehen Books, NY, 2001
ISBN 10: 0399148051 ISBN 13: 9780399148057
Librería: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First printing. Small light stain on top edge, else fine in a very near fine dust jacket.