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‘Black Water’ signed by Joyce Carol Oates

Debs — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:43:25 +0000

I'm a huge fan of Joyce Carol Oates and this signed first edition copy of the Pulitzer Prize nominated novella Black Water is a real prize. One of the most prolific writers working in the States today, Oates is not only a novelist, but has also published numerous collections of short stories, as well as many other novellas, plays, poetry and literary criticism. This edition is the UK hardback, first published by Macmillan London Ltd in 1992 and is signed by the author in the only space available on the first printed page of the book.

	FRANKLIN LIBRARY SIGNED 60 LEATHER THEM by JOYCE CAROL OATES w EDITOR NOTES
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	Oates Joyce Carol GEORGE BELLOWS AMERICAN ARTIST Signed 1st Edition First Print
			US $80.00	2h 36m

	Where is Here Joyce Carol Oates SIGNED First Ed 1992
			US $24.99	2h 58m

	MARYA a Life by Joyce Carol Oates SIGNED franklin lib
			US $116.99	1d 16m

	Them SIGNED Joyce Carol Oates Limited Edition Gold Gilt Leather 1979
			US $112.49	1d 3h 9m

	Franklin Library MARYA A LIFE by Joyce Carol Oates SIGNED FIRST ed LEATHER
			US $33.56	1d 20h 12m

	Joyce Carol Oates Them Easton Press Full Leather Signed Collectors Edition
			US $65.00	1d 21h 43m

	Joyce Carol Oates My Heart Laid Bare Easton Press Signed First Edition
			US $75.00	1d 22h 5m

	SignedLtd Ed Joyce Carol Oates MARYA A LIFE Franklin LibraryLeather Gold Edge
			US $59.95	2d 39m

	Joyce Carol Oates Marilyn Monroe SIGNED Blonde 1st 1st HC Photo
			US $82.41	2d 5h 23m

1962 Corgi Paperback Movie Tie-in Edition of ‘Lolita’ by Vladamir Nabokov

Debs — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:04:21 +0000

I recently visited a wonderful Stanley Kubrick exhibition in Rome and was reminded of a small piece of my own original Kubrick memorabilia, this 1962 movie tie-in paperback edition of one of my absolute favourite novels - Vladamir Nabokov's Lolita. First reissued by Corgi in 1961, this is the fourth 1962 reprint and although hardly a rare item, is nevertheless an interesting piece of both film and book memorabilia.

	Vladimir Nabokov King Queen Knave 1968 1st Edition HC DJ Lolita Author
			US $19.99	13h 46m

	Nabokov Vladimir LOLITA 1st Edition First Printing
			US $360.00	19h 39m

	Vladimir Nabokov Transparent Things First Edition
			US $47.40	20h 19m

	First Edition Library LOLITA Vladimir Nabokov SEALED
			US $550.00	1d 12h 45m

	Vladimir Nabokov The Eye First Edition VG
		0 Bid	US $18.00	1d 16h 7m

	King Queen Knave Vladimir Nabokov First American Edition 1968
			US $67.49	2d 14h 42m

	Scarce VLADIMIR NABOKOV First Edition 1961 F F
			US $250.00	2d 17h 29m

	1st 1st Edition VERSES AND VERSIONS Vladimir Nabokov RUSSIAN Poetry POEMS
			US $36.00	2d 19h 40m

	Lolita Nabokov Weidenfield nicolson First edition 1959 dust jacket
		0 Bid	US $61.62	2d 19h 49m

	BEND SINISTER by Vladimir Nabokov POLICE STATE 1st Ed
			US $74.99	2d 21h 36m

Campaign for Nobel in Literature…for JK Rowling!

Debs — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:53:23 +0000

As the announcement was made this week for Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize in Literature win, a campaign is under way to nominate another world famous British writer...J K Rowling!

If you agree or disagree head over to the Squidoo Lens on JK Rowling and make your voice heard. Do you think she should win the Nobel Prize in Literature? Vote in the poll! The plan is to create enough publicity so that she is at the very least considered as a serious candidate.

Seriously - has anybody done MORE in recent years to get the world reading...?!

	★ SIGNED JK Rowling SIGNED Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Extras ★
		0 Bid	US $1,736.42	3d 13h 38m

	JK ROWLING Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows SIGNED UK 1st ptg with ephemera
			US $2,100.00	4d 6h 18m

	JK ROWLING Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban SIGNED US FIRST EDITION
			US $750.00	7d 23h 41m

	HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE SIGNED JK ROWLING TRUE 1st 1st EDITION
		0 Bid	US $466.10	8d 19h 38m

	HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE SIGNED JK ROWLING TRUE 1st 1st EDITION
		0 Bid	US $869.00	8d 19h 47m

Joseph Heller | Something Happened

Debs — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:30:52 +0000

Joseph Heller (1923, Brooklyn, NY - 1999, Long Island, NY) lived most of his adult creative life in the shadow of his brilliant first publication, a work of genius that quite literally spoke to an entire generation, was the Zeitgeist book that encapsulated the anti-war mood of the times and even gave the world a new English expression which has since entered into the common vernacular – Catch-22.
In his final book, Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man he ruefully explores this very theme in a novel that is also laden with gallows humour (Heller died shortly after completing the novel).

To jog your memories, here's a clip from Mike Nichols' movie adaptation of Catch-22 (1970).

	FRANKLIN LIBRARY SIGNED 60 LEATHER JOSEPH HELLERs GOOD AS GOLD FINE COPY
		6 Bids	US $22.50	2h 9m

	FRANKLIN LIBRARY SIGNED 60 CATCH 22 by JOSEPH HELLER FINE LEATHER BINDINGR
		15 Bids	US $224.50	2h 23m

	1979 JOSEPH HELLER A NOVEL GOOD AS GOLD SIGNED
		1 Bid	US $9.99	1d 1h 40m

	SIGNED Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 1994 1st Ed Reprint
			US $750.00	1d 19h 48m

	Good as Gold SIGNED Joseph Heller Leather Limited Edition 1982
			US $206.99	1d 22h 13m

It's not surprising therefore, that the gestation period for Heller's second novel, Something Happened, was somewhat protracted. The book was finally published in the United States in 1974 by Alfred A Knopf, thirteen years after Catch-22 first appeared in 1961. Although it never achieved the commercial success of its predecessor it received a glowing reception from the critics. Although Something Happened retains some of the absurdist juxtapositions of Catch-22 on the whole the overall feeling is very bleak with its wilfully repetitive, internal monologue of the narrator, Bob Slocum, a jaded and cynical middle-aged man frustrated by the disappointments of living the American Dream.

I love Jospeh Heller, and this is my absolute favourite - the book has a maddening hypnotic power right through to its mesmerising conclusion.

Anyway, here is my copy - a signed first US edition of Jospeh Heller's Something Happened.

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