The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese
Vanguard Press, January 1975. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket. Purple cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Lilac end pages. Tight binding. [189 pages]. More
Vanguard Press, January 1975. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket. Purple cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Lilac end pages. Tight binding. [189 pages]. More
Dutton Adult, May 1992. Hardcover. More
Plume, May 1993. Trade Paperback. Joyce Carol Oates has taken a shocking story that has become an American myth and, from it, has created a novel of electrifying power and illumination. Kelly Kelleher is an idealistic, twenty-six-year-old "good girl" when she meets the Senator at a Fourth of July party..... More
Harper Perennial, March 2001. Trade Paperback. In her most ambitious work to date, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker -- the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice..... More
Hogarth Press, June 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An "enthralling" (Los Angeles Times) and "remarkably engrossing" (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite..... More
Hogarth Press, June 2026. Hardcover. A gripping collection of propulsive, psychologically suspenseful stories by the legendary Joyce Carol Oates "who is surely on any shortlist of America's greatest living writers" (The New York Times Magazine) "A genius in the truest sense of the word."--Rebecca Makkai "One of the greatest writers..... More
Dutton, August 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, fist printing: full number line; dust jacket is wholly intact, but is cocked at the front flap and show mils edgewear elsewhere; board covers show mild shelfwear. More
Harpercollins, November 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed on the half-title page by Joyce Carol Oates. An exceptional copy. Jacket wrapped. More
Generic, January 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited leather-bound edition; Privately printed and personally signed by the author exclusively for The Signed First Edition Society as published by The Franklin Library; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy brown leather boards w/ immaculate gilt design/text at front and rear covers, hubbed spine; Outer edge..... More
The Franklin Library, 1984. First Edition. Leather. Franklin Library signed first edition, full leather; Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Previous owner name inked at limitation page w/ book-plate present at front paste-down; Pages else clean; An excellent copy. More
Harper Perennial, January 1995. Trade Paperback. "No other subject is, for the writer, so intensely personal as boxing. To write about boxing is to write about oneself--however elliptically, and unintentionally. And to write about boxing is to be forced to contemplate not only boxing, but the perimeters of civilization--what it..... More
Black Sparrow Pr, May 1977. Paper Back. More
Ecco Press, March 2005. Hardcover. Uncensored: Views & (Re)views is Joyce Carol Oates's most candid gathering of prose pieces since (Woman) Writer: Occasions & Opportunities. Her ninth book of nonfiction, it brings together thirty-eight diverse and provocative pieces from the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and..... More
The Vangaurd Press, Inc., 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. First printng w/ no additional printings stated; Flat-signed and dated by Joyce Carol Oates at title page; Solid binding, gentle wear at rear hinge; Clean, sturdy boads; Previous owner name inked at front free-end page; Pages else free of markings; Un-clipped dust..... More
Titan Books (UK), September 2021. Hardcover. The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today's best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more. A collection of new and..... More