Recent Arrivals from Joe Staats, Bookseller

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Harper, 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. What happens when German spies collaborate to unleash a campaign of terror upon America at the start of World War I? In the summer of 1914, New York Police Department captain Tom Tunney is preoccupied by… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. A classic restored--the complete and unexpurgated text of the first, most powerful, and most autobiographical novel of the great African American writer Chester Himes.This 1998 edition of the author's 1937 novel of Jimmy Monroe portrays an African American… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Counterpoint LLC, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As the bombs rain down on the city, Belfast's first ever female zookeeper must fight to save the baby elephant in her charge in this gripping, uplifting tale based on a true story. 1941.… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners - after the terrible slaughter of WWI… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Harper, 2023. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Soho Press, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. When Belinda discovers her husband is having an affair, her world is turned upside down; she's furious, hurt, and bent on evening the score. But Belinda isn't the only one in her affluent suburban… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Minotaur Books, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Brady Coyne is a Boston attorney who focuses on a few private clients and the legal drudgery of their everyday life, which leads to a generally unexciting life. Brady, however, gets a call from… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Dey Street Books, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. ASTOUNDING is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers-John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard-who set off a revolution in science fiction and forever changed our… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Riverhead Books, 2024. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. "Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves,"… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Crown, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her enslaved ancestors, yet her cells-taken without her knowledge-became one of the most… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Viking, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Sequel to THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH. Follett is the 2013 co-winner (together with Margaret Maron) of the prestigious Grand Master award given annually by the Mystery Writers of America for lifetime achievement.As new, unread,… Read more about this item

London, U.K.: Harvill Secker, 2017. First British Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on half-title with fine black marker pen. Translated from the French by Sam Tayloer. Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Harper, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. With beautiful understatement, Louise Brown turns a novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination - the lives of the 'dancing girls' of Lahore, Parkistan. THE DANCING GIRLS OF LAHORE inhabit the… Read more about this item

Philomel Books, 2024. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Illustrated by Sandy Rodriquez. (Based on Allende's own dog, Perla, she has said the illustrator capture the look and spirit of the real dog). In the first children's book written by critically acclaimed, international literary superstar Isabel Allende, Perla, the mighty dog,… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Scribner, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Six months after a crane crushes his pickup truck and his body self-made millionaire Edgar Freemantle launches into a new life. His wife asked for a divorce after he stabbed her with a plastic knife and… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire, island by island. This masterful history encompasses… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Penguin Press, 2022. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : William Morrow, 2024. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. I'll be dead in three months. Come tell my story." This is the chilling invitation from Sebastian Trapp, renowned mystery novelist, to his long-time correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. Welcomed… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Mulholland Books, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. At the age of forty-eight, Cicero-the greatest orator of his time-is in exile, his power sacrificed on the altar of his principles. The only way to return to Rome is to pledge… Read more about this item