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A softcover edition in new condition throughout. Boards are unmarked, with no creasing along the edges or spines. Pages are crisp throughout and appear unread. First St. Martin's Griffin edition (paperback), first printing, September 2019; originally published in hardcover by St. Martin's Press, 2018. Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, follows the Allbright family as they relocate to a remote homestead in 1970s Alaska, seeking a fresh start. One of Hannah's most acclaimed novels, praised for its vivid sense of place and emotional intensity. Ships within Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.
A first paperback edition in fine condition. Boards are clean and square, with no creasing to the spine and no wear to the corners. Pages are crisp and unmarked throughout, and the book appears unread aside from a small inscription on the inside front cover. First paperback edition, published by Bloomsbury Publishing in London in 2001, following the first hardcover edition of 2000. In Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, chef and author Anthony Bourdain recounts twenty-five years in professional kitchens, from an early oyster in the Gironde to dishwashing in a Provincetown fish restaurant and cooking at the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center. Told with dark humour and unsparing candour, the book was a critical and commercial success on publication and remains one of the defining memoirs of the restaurant trade,
A beautiful softcover edition in fine condition, first edition. A large format edition. No creasing to the spine. Boards and pages are clean and unmarked throughout, printed to high production standards. An essentially unread copy. Cooking with Master Chefs by Julia Child. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1993. First edition. Featuring recipes and profiles of leading American chefs including Emeril Lagasse, Alice Waters, Jacques Pépin, Lidia Bastianich, Jeremiah Tower, and Jean-Louis Palladin, with photography by Fred Maroon, Barry Michlin, Micheal McLaughlin, Penina Meisels, and Steven Minkowski. Ships within Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.
A beautiful softcover in very good condition. Boards are clean and unmarked. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. The front page binding shows some natural ageing consistent with the age of the copy. Local Visitations: Poems by Stephen Dunn. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2004. First Norton paperback edition, first printing. Dunn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2001 for Different Hours, the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships. Ships within Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.
A softcover copy in good condition, first Harper paperback edition, first printing. The front board shows some shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. The Miracles of Prato by Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz. Harper / HarperCollins, New York, 2010. First Harper paperback edition, first printing. A historical novel set in fifteenth-century Florence, following the painter Fra Filippo Lippi and the novice nun Lucrezia Buti.
A beautiful softcover edition in fine condition, first paperback edition, first printing. No creasing. Boards and pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran. Broadway Paperbacks / Crown Publishing Group, New York, 2011. First paperback edition, first printing. A historical novel following Marie Tussaud through the French Revolution, from the court of Versailles to the Terror. Optioned for a television mini-series in 2011. Moran is an internationally bestselling American author whose novels have been translated into more than twenty languages.