Mordechai Books offers mostly first editions in very good condition. Titles include novels and essay collections from Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Calvin Trillin, Joan Didion, John McPhee, Susan Sontag, Annie Proulx, among others. Also offered are cookbooks, and books on Jewish history and culture,and on French literature and cinema.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Audience: General/trade. Dust cover and book block in very good condition. A few lines in introduction are underlined in pen, otherwise the text is in pristine condition. Slight yellowing of pages.
Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 352 p. Audience: General/trade. First edition, signed by author, fine condition.
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY
Date published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780679441243ISBN:0679441247
Description: Very good in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 240 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Signed, stated First Edition from the famed Peter Mayle series on life in Provence. Inscribed by author to first owner: "Pour Qui le Soleil de Provence N'A Pas de'Equal." Book block in fine condition, sharp edges, bright pages. Dust cover very good with a few small spots. Cover illustration and illustrations throughout by Ruth Marten. Read More
Edition: Advance Reader
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York, NY
Date published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780671703769ISBN:0671703765
Description: Very good. Book in very good shape, sharp corners, bright pages, several marks on cover, Coverleaf slightly pulled away. Sewn binding. Board cover Audience: General/trade. Collectible, pre-publication Advance Copy, with Dear Bookseller's note on frontispiece. Book in very good condition, sharp corners, Cloth cover with title sticker on front board, several marks. Author's gilded signature printing on cover. Inside leaf slightly pulled away from binding, poorly glued, not damaged. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company, Boston, MA
Date published: 1959
ISBN-13:9780316769570ISBN:0316769576
Description: Very good in fair dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. First Edition, stated. Book in very good condition, bright pages. Dust Cover intact except for small patch lost in back, worn surface. Back board slightly curved. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York: London
Date published: 1937
Description: Good. No dust jacket. 3 p. L., 319 p., 1 L. 21 cm. Stated "First Edition A-M" of 1937 translation from Italian by Gwenda Davis and Eric Mosbacher. No dust jacket but cover boards in good condition, slightly rounded. Pages browned at edges. Text block is slightly pulled away from front cover board. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, New York
Date published: 1958
Description: Glaser, Milton. Very good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. 214 p. 22 cm. The 1958 Farrar, Straus & Cudahy edition of collected stories by Malamud. Book in very good condition, sharp corners. Dust cover intact with several small edge tears and wear. Jacket illustration by Milton Glaser. Read More
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Date published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780151446445ISBN:015144644X
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Price clipped. Text in English, Hebrew. 257 p. Audience: General/trade. Stated "First Edition" of seminal travelogue and commentary by foremost Israeli author. Book and dust cover are like new. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London
Date published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780297000402ISBN:0297000403
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. First British Edition of seminal Bellow novel, in very good condition. Book block in excellent shape, sharp corners. Dust jacket in mylar protective sleeve has a few small edge tears. Book inscribed on frontispiece as gift to original owner. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, New York
Date published: 1941
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Text in English, German. 267p. Original 1941 Daphne Hardy translation of Arthur Koestler classic. No dust jacket, boards in good shape, slightly turned at corners. Text block slightly pulled away from boards. Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York
Date published: 1943
Description: Don Freeman. Good. No dust jacket. Original owner wrote name on frontspiece, not dust cover. ix, 291 p. : ill.; 22 cm. Includes Illustrations. Original 1943 edition, richly illustrated throughout by Don Freeman. No dust cover, hardbound book in good shape, owners name in ink at front and pencil marks on inside back cover. Pages are lightly browned by all intact Read More
