Authors starting with I from Joseph The Provider / Books

London:: Gollancz,, 1950.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Scarce thus. 8vo. Three separate imaginings of incidents from "Hamlet" that take the form of detective story narratives. ... more information

New York:: Dutton,, [1981].. First trade edition. Hardcover. Trace of foxing to edges, else a fine, fresh copy in an equally fine dust jacket. Small 4to. ... more information

New York: Random House, [1968]. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Printed in a small edition, this important debut novel, set in post-World War II Vienna, has from the get-go been difficult to find in collector's condition. Laid into this copy is a 1992 TLS from Irving to fellow novelist Alice Denham in which he defends the rights of women to write without subject limitations.... more information

New York:: Random House,, [1974].. First edition of the author's third book. Hardcover. A fine, unread copy in an equally fine, fresh dust jacket (price-clipped). 8vo. ... more information

New York:: E.P. Dutton,, [1978].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. The author's breakthrough book. ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1998.. First U.S.edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. ... more information

New York:: Random House,, [1998].. First trade edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. ... more information

New York:: Morrow,, [1985].. First trade edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. ... more information

London:: Methuen,, [1962].. First English edition (following U.S. publication).. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Advance review copy with publisher's dated review slip laid in. ... more information

Norfolk:: New Directions,, [1947].. First American edition. Hardcover. Light foxing to endpapers and edges, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket (half-inch tear on back panel). 8vo. ... more information

London:: Faber & Faber,, [1982].. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Postwar Nagasaki as seen through the eyes of a middle-aged Japanese woman. ... more information

London:: Faber & Faber,, [1986].. First edition, first issue (with Butler & Tanner as printer) of the author's second book. Hardcover. A fine, tight copy in a fine, fresh dust jacket. . 8vo. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of England's Whitbread Award for best novel of the year. ... more information

New York:: St. Martin's,, [1987].. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Many believe that Izzi's death (he was found hanging outside the window of his 14th floor office, wearing a bulletproof vest) was the result of the unflattering and too-close-to-the-mark portraits of Chicago gangsters in his novels. ... more information