Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Anne Tyler. Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant. Alfred a Knopf Incorporated, 1982.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Eighty-five-year-old Perla Tull recalls the desertion of her husband and her solo attempts to raise three children--Cody, Ezra, and Jenny--who must come to terms with themselves and their father after their mother's death. (General Fiction) Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Mylar protector included. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.
Tyler, Anne. DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT. Alfred A. Knopf, New York NY, 1982.
Price: US$6.50 + shipping
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket; Eighty-five-year-old Perla Tull recalls the desertion of her husband and her solo attempts to raise three children--Cody, Ezra, and Jenny--who must come to terms with themselves and their father after their mother's death. ; 303 pages
Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.
Tyler, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: D-j has one small tear and is soiled. Ink stain on top edge. Top edge bumped.
Seller: Encanto Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Tyler, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Jacket and boards have only light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Tyler, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Orange paper-covered boards with brown backstrip and orange metallic lettering. Text is clean and white, no marks. DJ shows one small closed tear at center of front flap fold, hint of edgewear. "The place is Baltimore. The novels opens as the mother, Pearl Tull, eighty-fove (and at last no longer angry), is dying. Her musing carry us back thirty-five years to the day her traveling-salesman dandy of a husband left her. As she tries to hold together her family's disrupted lives, we see her children pummeled into adulthood through her excesses of maternal energy and spurts of terrifying rage." (from the jacket)
Seller: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.
TYLER, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Creases and a tiny tear on one leaf, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a lightly toned spine, a tiny tear, and small abrasions.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
TYLER, Anne. Dinner at The Homesick Restaurant. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 303 pages. Tyler's well received ninth novel which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A clean and tight near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Anne Tyler. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Alfred A. Knopf,, New York:, 1982.
Price: US$36.75 + shipping
Description: First printing Fine in 1/4 brown cloth and orange paper covered boards with copper colored text stamping on the spine. In a near fine dust jacket with a long narrow offsetting mark on the rear panel and the lower 1" of the rear panel at the fold to the flap lightly soiled. A nominee for the 1982 National Book Critics Circle Award. Overall a very handsome copy in very collectable condition.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Trade paperback, color-illustration of chairs stacked on table on front wrapper, praise for "Morgan's Passing" on back wrapper from Doris Grumbach, John Leonard of New York Times and others. 303 pages. Light wear to long front edge, very slight wear to all four spine edges. Near Fine.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Tyler, Anne. Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant (Uncorrected Proof). Alfred Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Uncorrected Proof copy in ecru bound wrappers. 285 pp. A clean very good example.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Tyler, Anne. DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth backed boards. Set in Baltimore. This novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award. Highly regarded by critics in which some consider this her best work. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a closed tear to upper front panel, slight bump and shelfwear to upper right corner and some black soil marks to front panel. (16508)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Tyler, Anne. DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth backed boards. Set in Baltimore. This novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award. Highly regarded by critics in which some consider this her best work. A nearly fine copy in a very good or slightly better dust jacket with a closed tear and mild crease to lower front panel. (9684)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Tyler, Anne. DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 303pp. Brown cloth spine with gilt title and biege paper over boards. Pictorial Dust Jacket. REVIEW COPY with slip laid in.
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
TYLER, ANNE. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Uncorrected proof. Cream wrappers. Crease on the rear wrap with small stains and a short tear on cover, bottom half of spine separating from text block, about very good.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
TYLER, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket, green topstain; [8],303pp. Topstain somewhat faded, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, priced $13.50 on front flap; rear jacket panel a bit dusty, still Near Fine.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Tyler, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1982.
Price: US$62.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Quarter-bound in brown cloth, light brown boards. Titling in copper on spine; author's name on front panel. The mylar-protected dust jacket, price-clipped, shows some dusting and a small chip at the upper end of the spine.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
TYLER, ANNE. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Uncorrected proof. Cream wrappers. Small tear and a small faint stain, both on front wrap, very good.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Tyler, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$70.07 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description:
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Tyler, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$90.09 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description:
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
TYLER, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Uncorrected proof. Printed cream wrappers. A couple of tiny spots on the front wrap, near fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Anne Tyler. DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$184.95 + shipping
Description: Near Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. Soiling to rear panel. First Edition stated. ; 8.40 X 5.70 X 1.20 inches; 303 pages.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
TYLER, ANNE. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Uncorrected proof. Cream wrappers. Fine with publisher's material stapled to the front wrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.