title first moon (12 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 394 pages. Published in 2000. The author's ninth novel. One of Michael Connelly's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Michael Connelly's "Void Moon". Ingenious (on his and his protagonist's part) and infernal (his villains) being the author's metier. "Infernally ingenious" (The New York Times). "The top notch of the new generation of crime writers" (Los Angeles Times). An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Connelly collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Michael Connelly. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American novelists in the crime thriller genre of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MICHAEL CONNELLY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0316154067. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 265 pages. Published in 1984. The author's third novel. The first volume of James Ellroy's "Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins" trilogy. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents James Ellroy's "Blood On The Moon: A Novel of Suspense". The inaugural "Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins" novel. Followed by "Because The Night" (1985) and concluded with "Suicide Hill" (1986), "turning point" novels that permanently define Los Angeles as the "noir" genre of our time and compel us to stick it out with his anti-hero, who can be as mean and fatally flawed as the villains he pursues, a genuine literary character, the "antidote to the sensitive, candy-assed philosophizing private eye" of yore. "Pits the racist, reactionary, sexually obsessed Hopkins against a sexually motivated serial killer whose intelligence and capacity for brutality match the detective's own. Exhibits the seminal hallmarks of Ellroy's taut, haunting prose. His dark and disturbing portrait of Hopkins, a thoroughly unlikable protagonist, drives the novel with unrelenting force, taking readers down paths they might not really want to explore. He has created 'a complex monument to a basically shitty guy', and in doing so, laid the groundwork for the novels that have earned him a seat at the table of truly great crime novelists" (L. A. Smith). The trilogy was issued as an Omnibus Edition in 1998. The basis of the underrated film adaptation, "Cop", with James Woods, appropriately enough, as the diabolical sergeant. An absolute "must-have" title for James Ellroy collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed (initialled/"scrawled") in black ink-pen on the title page by James Ellroy. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMES ELLROY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0892960698. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 394 pages. Published in 2000. The author's ninth novel. One of Michael Connelly's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Michael Connelly's "Void Moon". Ingenious (on his and his protagonist's part) and infernal (his villains) being the author's metier. "Infernally ingenious" (The New York Times). "The top notch of the new generation of crime writers" (Los Angeles Times). An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Connelly collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Michael Connelly. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of relatively few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American novelists in the crime thriller genre of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MICHAEL CONNELLY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0316154067. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 247 pages. Published in 1995. The author's second novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jonathan Lethem's "Amnesia Moon". Often referred to as the "Wizard of Oz" remade as a road film. It shows the young novelist at his experimental best. Jonathan Lethem gained a cult following with his critically acclaimed (but commercially ignored) crime novel, "Gun, With Occasional Music" (1994). He has always been fascinated by literary genres and sub-genres, and uses them as his starting point to create his inventive and luminous novels. "Amnesia Moon" is his first (one of several) stab at science fiction, perhaps the most underappreciated and maligned literary sub-genre. People now consider it perfectly respectable for an established author to write cute children's books but "sci-fi" is still considered an esoteric, "specialized" taste (because it is much harder to read and write). The protagonist named Chaos discovers that each new American town he comes to is afflicted with its own form of insanity, ranging from an imaginary, blinding green mist to an obsession with luck. Returning to his native San Francisco, he remembers his previous identity as a man named Moon and discovers the power his own dreams can have to cure the madness around him. Lethem's fascination with the condition called amnesia is something he shares with a very wide constellation of writers, and he has edited a brilliant anthology on the subject, "The Vintage Book of Amnesia", one of the finest collections of its kind. Beautifully written, as always, with touches of surrealism, symbolism, and apocalypse, this is a compelling novel. An absolute "must-have" title for Jonathan Lethem collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Jonathan Lethem. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. His signature virtually fills up the page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Crawford Award for Best Fantasy Novel and the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1994 for "Gun, With Occasional Music". Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999 for "Motherless Brooklyn". Selected as one of the "Best Books of The Year" by the New York Times in 2003 for "Fortress of Solitude". Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2005. One of the most brilliant new voices in American literature. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JONATHAN LETHEM TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0151000913. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 644 pages. Published in 1998. Omnibus Edition of the author's "Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins Novel of Suspense" trilogy. The "turning point" novels in the arc of Ellroy's literary achievement. The First Omnibus Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents James Ellroy's "L. A. Noir". Three novels in one affordable yet elegant volume: "Blood On The Moon" (1984), "Because The Night" (1985), and "Suicide Hill" (1986). He acknowledges the subsequent influence of Thomas Harris' "Red Dragon" (1981) as the foundational novel of the "serial killer" sub-genre, which now completely dominates the crime thriller genre - in books, on film, and in streaming series from all over the globe. Serial killers everywhere. It was Harris who mined the psychopathology of the serial killer better than any writer before him, including Ellroy, and better than anyone else after. The achievement of "L. A. Noir" is literary: Ellroy has permanently made Los Angeles THE "noir" genre of our time (not Chicago or New York, for instance). His anti-hero, Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins, who can be as mean and fatally flawed as the villains he pursues, is a genuine literary character, the "antidote to the sensitive, candy-assed philosophizing private eye" of yore. James Ellroy is THE crime writer of Los Angeles of our time: His work isn't just about LA; he encompasses and embodies it; he is LA Incarnate. An absolute "must-have" title for James Ellroy collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed (initialled/"scrawled") in black ink-pen on the title page by James Ellroy. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great collection. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Omnibus Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMES ELLROY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0892966866. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 247 pages. Published in 1995. The author's second novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jonathan Lethem's "Amnesia Moon". Often referred to as the "Wizard of Oz" remade as a road film. It shows the young novelist at his experimental best. Jonathan Lethem gained a cult following with his critically acclaimed (but commercially ignored) crime novel, "Gun, With Occasional Music" (1994). He has always been fascinated by literary genres and sub-genres, and uses them as his starting point to create his inventive and luminous novels. "Amnesia Moon" is his first (one of several) stab at science fiction, perhaps the most underappreciated and maligned literary sub-genre. People now consider it perfectly respectable for an established author to write cute children's books but "sci-fi" is still considered an esoteric, "specialized" taste (because it is much harder to read and write). The protagonist named Chaos discovers that each new American town he comes to is afflicted with its own form of insanity, ranging from an imaginary, blinding green mist to an obsession with luck. Returning to his native San Francisco, he remembers his previous identity as a man named Moon and discovers the power his own dreams can have to cure the madness around him. Lethem's fascination with the condition called amnesia is something he shares with a very wide constellation of writers, and he has edited a brilliant anthology on the subject, "The Vintage Book of Amnesia", one of the finest collections of its kind. Beautifully written, as always, with touches of surrealism, symbolism, and apocalypse, this is a compelling novel. An absolute "must-have" title for Jonathan Lethem collectors. This copy is very boldly, uniquely, and beautifully signed in metallic-silver pen-marker on the title page by Jonathan Lethem. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The special pen Lethem used is lovely: His signature fills up the page and glows radiantly against the light. It is one of the most beautiful signed copies by the prolific Lethem we have ever seen. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Crawford Award for Best Fantasy Novel and the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1994 for "Gun, With Occasional Music". Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999 for "Motherless Brooklyn". Selected as one of the "Best Books of The Year" by the New York Times in 2003 for "Fortress of Solitude". Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2005. One of the most brilliant new voices in American literature. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JONATHAN LETHEM TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0151000913. Signed by Author.

Condición: Fine. RUA6803914.

Hardcover. Condición: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SCARCE SIGNED! FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full number line present. Personally hand signed by Ms. Bardugo directly to the full title page. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, a #1 Netflix series - Season 2 coming March 16, 2023! A bewitching journal filled with prompts and quotations from the imagination of worldwide #1 bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. "We learn to wring magic from the ordinary." Find the magic in your life with this year-long journal. On every page you will find an introspective question to respond to, or an evocative quotation from the novels of the Grishaverse?a magical world created by bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. Open your windows to the moon, write down what each prompt or quote conjures in your mind, and let this journal guide you through 365 days of magical self reflection. This gorgeously designed journal includes foil accents and a ribbon bookmark. Signed by Author.

large format hardback [27x21cm]. 33 pges of text and illustrations plus three plates of lunar images, with explanatory notes on adjacent pages. good clean condition in the original blue decorated cloth, lettered in gilt. mottled discolouration to lower board, and more faintly to upper board. Text in Russian. [Please see our storefront page for shipping information] with compliments slip from Semyon Tsarapkin, paper-clipped to front free end-paper, hand-written on card embossed with the CCCP logo and dated in Geneva, 17th December 1959. Tsarapkin was an influential Soviet diplomat during the Cold War period, and at this time was Chief Soviet Negotiator at the Geneva Disarmament Conferences.

Octavo, pp. [1] 2-28, untrimmed, sewn. First edition. First publication in book form of Locke's successful hoax perpetrated in series of six articles published in the NEW YORK SUN, 25-31 August 1835. The revelations, supposedly reprinted from the actually defunct EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, pretended to reveal a discovery that men and animals existed on the moon and were so cleverly wrought that, for a short time, the report was given credence in scientific circles in the United States and Europe. The report was soon denounced as a hoax by the public press and Richard Adams Locke (1800-1871), a reporter for the SUN, was identified as the perpetrator of the "ingenious astronomical hoax." Interest in the lunar discoveries increased the SUN's circulation to more than nineteen thousand, the largest of any daily of that time. On Friday 28 August 1835, the SUN announced "that a pamphlet edition of the Supplement was being printed. The great work by Herschel, which would discuss his researches completely, was being prepared for publication at considerable price; the SUN would offer the popular substance for twelve or thirteen cents." According to William Gowans who reprinted the story in 1859, the owners of the SUN published sixty thousand copies of it in pamphlet form. The pamphlet was published in September 1835 and every copy was sold in less than a month. Nevertheless, the 1835 printings are rare and only a handful of copies survive. The SUN printed the undated pamphlet in two formats in 1835, one being an 11-page booklet printed in double columns (perhaps reprinted from the SUN's special "Supplements;" only known copy in DLC), the other this single column 28-page pamphlet (of which only 13 copies are known to exist). Locke's "Moon Hoax" was certainly one of the great deceptions of the century. P. T. Barnum, a man who could fairly claim to be an authority on deceptions of the public, called it " the most stupendous scientific imposition upon the public that the generation with which we are numbered has known." Edgar Allan Poe, himself a noted literary hoaxer, called the story "ingenious" and praised Locke's "rich imagination," but lamented its lack of verisimilitude, observing that "it wanted much of the force which might have been given it by a more scrupulous attention to facts and to general analogy. That the public were mislead, even for an instant, merely proves the gross ignorance which is so generally prevalent upon subjects of an astronomical nature." See Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 1-23; and (1981) 1-137. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1348 and 1349. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 728. Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel L44. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel (1951), pp. 27-30. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 142 (recording a later edition). Locke, Voyages in Space 130. Bleiler (1978), p. 125. Reginald 09129. Wright (I) 1704a (not recording this printing). See Dictionary of American Biography; and F. M. O'Brien, The Story of the Sun (1918), pp. 64-102. First leaf a bit tanned, some faint scattered foxing, first two leaves irregularly trimmed (as is often the case with this hastily got up booklet). but basically a fine copy, untrimmed as issued (and quite scarce thus). Accompanied by detached old hand-lettered brown wrappers, but these are not original to the pamphlet which was issued sewn with no wrappers. Enclosed in a custom quarter leather clamshell box with rounded spine and elaborate gold tooling. A lovely copy. (#168415).

Original Wraps. Condición: Near Fine. Only. Grey duotang with white title label and title in black. Listed as the First Draft and a date of May 27, 1959. 48 pink mimeographed pages. Some minor pencil notes in margins. Apparently never produced. Clavell at this time was working in Hollywood writing screenplays.This is 4 years before his first book King Rat was published in 1963. Near fine copy. Rare. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.

Vol. I: Illustrated "title-page," one double-page woodcut with foldouts to form a four-panel diptych, with the addition of a "trick super flap" depicting three female genitalia (young woman, mistress, & wife), six double-page woodcuts, & two single-page woodcuts, all color-printed; & three double-page black & white woodcuts. Vol. II: Illustrated "title-page," five double-page woodcuts, & two single-page woodcuts, all color-printed; & four double-page black & white woodcuts. Vol. III: Illustrated "title-page," four double-page woodcuts, & two full-page woodcuts, all color-printed; & three black & white double-page woodcuts. All leaves have color-printed borders. .5, 1 folding leaf of preface (color-printed), 13 folding leaves; .5, 13 folding leaves; .5, 12 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. decorated semi-stiff patterned boards, with color-printed symbols of the moon, flowers, & snowflakes, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers of Vols. I & II (lacking on Vol. III, but there is no evidence a label was ever there), new stitching. [Japan]: Preface dated 1850. First edition and very rare; we can find no copy in WorldCat or NIJL. Almost all of the techniques that make Japanese illustrated books so remarkable are utilized here. Finely illustrated and richly colored, this late shunga employs bokashi, the delicate variation of shading of pigment within the image; blind-embossing; and the very ample use of metallic pigments. The depicted garments are a mixture of extremely complex textures, colors, and patterns, all accentuated by blind-embossing and multiple woodblock impressions. In Vol. I, the folding woodcuts which reveal a man and woman engaging in sex open to reveal a fine and complex four-panel scene in which we see three couples also having sex: a young couple, a man with his mistress, and the same man with his wife. On the third panel from the right, a hidden "trick" flap is revealed, depicting and comparing the genitalia of these three women. This "trick" panel has the title printed with seven kanji characters (the first two are indecipherable): "mitate setsugekka" ["Visual Puns of Snow, Moon, Flower"]. Each volume begins with a finely colored paste-down leaf, artistically depicting the themes of snow, moon, and flower, with poems. Facing each of these leaves is a portrait of a woman: mistress, young, and wife. All the black & white woodcuts also depict men and women engaging in sex and self-pleasuring. Koikawa (1821-1907), was a prolific artist. He illustrated as well as wrote numerous books, under various pen names. At the end of the Preface in Vol. I, we find "Insuitei," one of his pen names. Fine set, with fresh coloring. The four-panel diptych has several small burn holes on the right-hand side. One black & white illustration has been "heightened" with red ink in a very minor way. Slight thumbing and a few minor stains.