Verlag: Knopf, 2017
ISBN 10: 1524731803 ISBN 13: 9781524731809
Anbieter: More Than Words, Waltham, MA, USA
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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2018
ISBN 10: 0525432310 ISBN 13: 9780525432319
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Verlag: riverrun, 2018
ISBN 10: 1786485060 ISBN 13: 9781786485069
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Paperback. Zustand: USED_VERYGOOD. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Knopf, 2017
ISBN 10: 1524731803 ISBN 13: 9781524731809
Anbieter: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: USED_VERYGOOD. 1st. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.
Verlag: riverrun, 2017
ISBN 10: 1786485044 ISBN 13: 9781786485045
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Verlag: Houlston and Sons, 1887
ISBN 10: 1786485052 ISBN 13: 9781786485052
Anbieter: medimops, Berlin, Deutschland
Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1524731803 ISBN 13: 9781524731809
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a shallow skew starting to the binding, and light bumps to the spine ends with slighter bumps to the cover corners, otherwise a solid, tight, clean Very Good+ copy in a like unclipped dust jacket, which has slight bumps to the spine ends and corners, a touch of edge wear, and some faint rubbing to the covers.
Verlag: Solid Objects, Alfred A. Knopf, 2010
ISBN 10: 0984414231 ISBN 13: 9780984414239
Anbieter: Remarks Used Books, Pittsfield, MA, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Special Edition. 3 pristine paperbacks sold together. Bright, clean & tight copies, unread, in Fine+ condition. MASTER OF MINIATURES [Solid Objects, 2010, 51pp.] "Shepard considers the Japanese special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya and his cinematic inventions for the science-fiction movie we know as Godzilla. And like many of Shepard's stories, MASTER OF MINIATURES limns the intense and alienated world of a focused expert obsessed with his field of endeavor, at a cost to his marriage and children. For Japanese survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the fifties, America itself seemed king of the monsters, to be looked at with fear and awe. This is a poignant and important story that seems to me a summation and condensation of many themes that have preoccupied Shepard before. Like a diamond held aloft, each turn of this tale in his deft hand flashes still more light."--Ron Hansen. "A perfect embodiment of mid-20th-century anxiety, MASTER OF MINIATURES touches on hubris and nuclear testing, lunatic perfectionism and fire-tornadoes and the schisms wrought by grief and silence. In Jim Shepard's deft and darkly brilliant tale about the master behind a legendary film, the complexities of creating a monster and shooting special effects resonate exactly with one man's inner life. No one writes like Shepard, quietly layering loss over loss--and no one orchestrates catastrophe better."--Andrea Barrett. [back cover copy] THE BOOK OF ARON [Knopf ARC, 2015, 260pp.] "Dave Eggers has said, 'Let's hope Shepard becomes as influential as he should be. He's the best we've got.' His work, as the critic John Freeman put it, 'should be essential reading.' And on NPR, Michael Schaub called him 'one of the most perceptive, intelligent, and fearless writers of fiction in America today.' This has been proven over and over again, in six previous novels and four collections of stories, and we believe THE BOOK OF ARON will immediately join the short list of classics about children caught up in the Holocaust. [] As Anne Michaels has written: 'This moving novel bears witness to human complexity with an uncompromising compassion. It is also a testament not only to Janusz Korczak and the children in the Warsaw Ghetto but to every child abandoned in war. History must open our hearts to the present and this is Jim Shepard's powerful achievement.'" [back cover copy] THE WORLD TO COME [Knopf ARC, 2017, 258pp.] 10 stories. "Shepard is a fantastic writer--compassionate, funny, and fearless--[whose work] does what great writing always does: inspires us to look more closely at life, and be more caring."--George Saunders. "[Shepard's] stories come bearing enough unimpeachable detail to ensure they never sink into the mush of a half-baked world. . . . [His] approach gives the individual stories heft and [his] collections a dizzying range."--The New York Times Book Review. "Arresting. . . . [Shepard] has a knack for compressing a novel's worth of life into 30 or 40 pages."--The Boston Globe. "An astonishingly powerful demonstration of fiction's capacity to transport us across time and space. . . . An absolute pleasure to read."--The Christian Science Monitor. Pristine paperbacks [2 Knopf Advance Reader's Copies] w/sharp corners & crisp edges, square & tight bindings w/no creases in spines & no jackets as issued. Quite presentable fiction package.
Verlag: New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1524731803 ISBN 13: 9781524731809
Anbieter: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 260 pages. Published in 2017. Retrospective collection of short stories. One of Jim Shepard's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Jim Shepard's "The World To Come". Ten stories that "ring with voices" from The Past, reverberating to this day. The latter belong to "English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions; a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly under-reported hazards of our crude-oil trains; eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight; and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their isolation on the frontier of settlement. In each case, the personal is the political as these characters face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale. Makes each of these wildly various worlds his own, and never before has he delineated anything like them so powerfully" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Jim Shepard collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (shortly after publication) in black pen on the title page by the author: "Jim Shepard NYC 5/18/17". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page, as copies available online are. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Material of the event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of very few such signed, placed, and publication-year dated 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 rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 1524731803. Signed by Author.
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, New York, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1524731803 ISBN 13: 9781524731809
Anbieter: Mike Murray - Bookseller LLC, East Windsor, NJ, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: USED_FINE. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. This copy of "The World to Come: Stories" has been SIGNED by Jim Shepard on the title page! Shepard seamlessly inhabits a multitude of disparate men and women, disappearing into each of them with uncanny confidence and skill, and never before has he delineated this feat so powerfully. These ten stories burst with his wicked sense of humor and incomparable understanding of what it means, and has always meant, to be human. "The World to Come" is the work of a true virtuoso. Signed by Author(s).