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New York. 1999. Atheneum. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0689210628. Illustrated by Raul Colon. unpaginated. hardcover. Cover art by Raul Colon. keywords: Childrens Black History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The daughter of a slave forms a gospel singing group (the Jubilee Singers) after the Civil War and goes on tour to raise money to save Fisk University. inventory #26521 ISBN: 0689210628.

New York. 1998. June 1998. Simon & Schuster. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684819066. Biography Of The Mathematical Genius. John Nash. 461 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Timothy Hsu. keywords: Biography Science . FROM THE PUBLISHER - A Beautiful Mind traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., from his lonely childhood in West Virginia to his student years at Princeton, where he encountered Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, and a host of other mathematical luminaries. At twenty-one, the handsome, ambitious, eccentric graduate student invented what would become the most influential theory of rational human behavior in modern social science. Nash's contribution to game theory would ultimately revolutionize the field of economics. As a young professor at MIT, still in his twenties, Nash dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed ‘impossible' by other mathematicians. At thirty, Nash was poised to take his dreamed-of place in… Read More

New York. 1986. Dutton/Unicorn. 1st Unicorn Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0525442421. Illustrated by David McPhail. unpaginated. paperback. Cover art by David McPhail. keywords: Childrens Lies. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A boy's little lie comes alive in the form of a monster who grows and grows until the boy finds the only way to make it go away - by telling the truth. inventory #28681 ISBN: 0525442421.

Kenmore. 2016. October 2016. Camel Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781603812115. 5 x 8. 264 pages. paperback. keywords: Mystery. FROM THE PUBLISHER - On the eve of the U. S. Bicentennial, newsman Coleridge Taylor is covering Operation Sail. New York Harbor is teeming with tall ships from all over the world. While enjoying the spectacle, Taylor is still a police reporter. He wants to cover real stories, not fluff, and gritty New York City still has plenty of those in July of 1976. One surfaces right in front of him when a housewife is fished out of the harbor wearing bricks of heroin, inferior stuff users have been rejecting for China White, peddled by the Chinatown gangs. Convinced he's stumbled upon a drug war between the Italian Mafia and a Chinese tong, Taylor is on fire once more. But as he blazes forward, flanked by his new girlfriend, ex-cop Samantha Callahan, his precious story grows ever more twisted and deadly. In his reckless search for the truth, he rattles New York's… Read More

Princeton. 2011. September 2011. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691139890. 1 halftone. 6 x 9. 296 pages. hardcover. keywords: Phliosophy History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - THE VIVID STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT - AND INCENDIARY - BOOKS IN WESTERN HISTORY. ‘This an excellent book. Steven Nadler's wonderfully elegant and fluid writing style makes difficult ideas accessible and exciting without watering them down. A prime virtue of the book is that it provides just enough biographical and historical background to make the philosophy come alive and to reveal what a dramatic work Spinoza's treatise is.' - Michael Della Rocca, Yale University. When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological- Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published - 'godless,' ‘full of abominations,' ‘a book forged in hell . by the devil himself.' Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to… Read More

New York. 1997. Verso. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 1859848850. 184 pages. hardcover. keywords: Ireland Travel Culture. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Strangely positioned between Europe and the post-colonial world, Ireland occupies a fluid and contradictory space, not least in the memory or imagination of its many emigrants. In this exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit returns to Ireland, armed with a newly-acquired passport - courtesy of otherwise forgotten maternal ancestors. Her journey is not to find a stable identity in ancestral roots, but to confront notions of stability, identity, ethnicity and nationalism in one of their great mythic sources. The book is a post-colonical revision of conventional travel literature. In her passage through Ireland, Rebecca portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Travel itself produces its own versions of memory and identity, and travel's transformation… Read More

London. 1985. Collins. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0002172380. 574 pages. hardcover. keywords: Travel History Anthology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - An anthology of writings by and for travellers from all around the world. Featuring Henry James on the Epsom Derby, Cecil Beaton on an evening with the Rolling Stones in Marrakesh, and Hannibal on crossing the Alps, this anthology offers more than three hundred travel pieces dating from 430 B.C. to the 1980s. inventory #560 ISBN: 0002172380.

Boston. 1999. September 1999. Houghton Mifflin. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0395944775. 272 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan. keywords: Literature America Autobiography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘Every family has its odd character, the one member who never seems right with the world. In his pairing of family history with the history of civilization, John Vernon discovers the extraordinary sources of ordinary things in the life of his reclusive brother, Paul. When Paul died and John was charged with settling his affairs, he came face to face with a life he had never suspected. His brother's house in southern New Hampshire was in a state of squalid disrepair: piled high with a lifetime of trash, unheated and decrepit, pitifully unlivable. An assembly worker and an amateur inventor, Paul had managed to keep his sad and strange world hidden from his family and acquaintances. Why does a childhood full of promise turn wrong? Why do we clutter our lives with things? How do… Read More

New York. 2008. Bloomsbury USA. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Chipping and Tears. 9781596912984. 199 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Amy C. King. keywords: . FROM THE PUBLISHER - A bold new view of anxiety from an unerringly smart and funny writer who has suffered from it her whole life. The millions of Americans who silently cope with anxiety at last have a witty, articulate champion in Patricia Pearson, who shows that the anxious are hardly nervous nellies with weak characters who just need medicine and a pat on the head. Instead, Pearson questions what it is about twenty-first century American culture that is making people anxious, and offers some surprising answers?as well as some inspiring solutions based on her own fierce battle to drive the beast away. Drawing on personal episodes of incapacitating dread as a vivid, often hilarious guide to her quest to understand this most ancient of human emotions, Pearson delves into the history and geography of… Read More

Portsmouth. 1988. Heinemann. Reprinted Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0435988824. Caribbean Writers Series. A paperback original. 141 pages. paperback. Cover design by Keith Pointing. Cover illustration by Christine Tongue. keywords: Literature Trinidad Caribbean. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A rich and entertaining new collection of short stories from Trinidad's foremost story-teller. With the characteristic skill now expected from this writer of international repute, Earl Lovelace paints a sensitive, compassionate and often humorous portrait of everyday Trinidad life. Ordinary people like Victory the barber, Shoemaker Arnold, Miss Ross - once the most sought after woman in Cunaripo - Blues and Joebell, both ambitious to see new lands, are invested with a special magic that draws the reader into a rhythmical, colourful and changing world. ‘His writing is lyrical, reflecting Trinidadian speech habits as well as they have ever been reflected.' -… Read More

New York. 1996. Harper Collins. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0060186674. 323 pages. hardcover. Jacket design and illustration by Honi Werner. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - This extraordinarily engrossing literary mystery exposes a little-known chapter of twentieth-century history - the detention of nearly 400,000 German prisoners of war in the U.S. during World War II. The landscape of rural Maine pro1ded a surreal sort of shelter for these most reviled casualties during the war. While many prisoners served their time peacefully enough, some escaped and others - like the brother of Wolfgang Kallick - were simply reported to have died. A BROTHER'S BLOOD commences decades after the war, with Wolfgang Kallick's arrival in America to learn the details of his brother Dieter's death. When he discovers that Dieter escaped from the camp and was found dead months later, he vows to find out how his brother died. Libby, a flinty local woman who grew up during the war,… Read More

Tokyo. 2001. Kodansha. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 4770026862. Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum. 240 pages. hardcover. Cover: Lester C. Pancoast. keywords: Literature Japan Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - An intelligent, cosmopolitan novel set in the exotic surroundings of Bali and alive with suspense, drug intrigue, courtroom drama, and political tension, A BURDEN OF FLOWERS is based on a true story of the 1980s. The action centers on Asia-traveling Japanese artist ‘Tez' Nishijima and his Europhile sister Kaoru. When Tez is arrested in Bali on charges of heroin trafficking and faces the death penalty, his parents are paralyzed with shame, leaving his Paris-based sister to come to the rescue. She enlists the help of an old expert on Indonesia and two of his friends, and - ‘like Dorothy with the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, and Scarecrow' - sets off to challenge a shadowy and, to her, very alien situation. Her brother, languishing in Jail, thinks back… Read More

Fort Lee. 2017. March 2017. CavanKerry Press. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781933880600. 107 pages. paperback . keywords: Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The poetry of A Car Stops And A Door Opens gives us an insight into the anguish of longing, be it the longings of a troubled student or an elderly grandparent. It is poetry that is grounded in the particulars of both childhood and adulthood, and poetry for anyone who remembers what it's like to be a kid and long for something you can't put a name to. Not afraid to be naked and to laugh at this nakedness, it knows the sublime and the ridiculous and embraces both. inventory #45077 ISBN: 9781933880600.

New York. 1979. Watermill Publishers. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0883700069. hardcover. Jacket design by Carol Troisi Seibold. Inscribed by the author. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A CASE IN POINT . letters . diaries . old photographs . visits with strangers to talk about someone we love or think we love . there is a remarkable degeneration of character which takes place because of all the searching, prying, and gossiping, the suspicions generated and the facts uncovered by the narrator, Regis O'Rourke. Through a series of bizarre encounters and a breakdown of his untested moral standards, O'Rourke comes to learn the weird and grotesque truth about himself and about Claudette and Claude Belladonna, decadent Wildean twins who, for a dangerously long time, had attracted him, fascinated him, held him treacherously under their spell. The unwholesome and unholy sister and brother who had chanced O'Rourke's way reflected each other like the dusk at the end of… Read More

Baltimore. 1975. Mirage Press. 1st Edition. 1 of 2,000 Copies. Very Good in Hardcover. No Dustjacket. 0883581221. 73 pages. hardcover. Signed by Mark Owings, one of the compliers. keywords: Bibliography Horror H. P. Lovecraft. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Comprehensive bibliography and reference work on H. P. Lovecraft. Illustrated with 24 photos and illustrations on plates. published only in an edition of 2,000 copies and published without a dustjacket. inventory #26645 ISBN: 0883581221.

Princeton. 2005. Princeton University Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 069112292x. 104 halftones. 176 pages. hardcover. keywords: History Princeton University Press Publishing. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It all began atop a drugstore in Princeton, New Jersey, in November 1905. From its modest beginnings, Princeton University Press was to become one of the world's most important scholarly publishers, embracing a wealth of disciplines that have enriched our cultural, academic, and scientific landscape. Both as a tribute to our authors and to celebrate our centenary, Princeton University Press here presents A Century in Books. This beautifully designed volume highlights 100 of the nearly 8,000 books we have published. Necessarily winnowed from a much larger list, these books best typify what has been most lasting, most defining, and most distinctive about our publishing history - from Einstein's The Meaning of Relativity (1922) to the numerous mathematical and other works that marked the… Read More

Garden City. 1978. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With A Few Tears. 0385002793. 583 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. keywords: Literature Biography Spain. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A dramatic life-and-times biography of Cervantes, creator of the immortal book Don Quixote. When the first part of his classic book was published, in 1605, Cervantes was fifty-seven years old, and his life up until that time had been a difficult and harsh one. What was it about this seemingly unremarkable man that enabled him to produce a book, late in life, that is among the most influential novels ever written? This is the first full-scale biography of Cervantes to use modem scholars hip and up-to-date research in an attempt to show the life of Cervantes as it really was. CERVANTES: A BIOGRAPHY goes beyond the myths that have surrounded the man, and presents him as he really was - drifter, tax collector, trader, captive of Barbary pirates, tormented man, journeyman… Read More

New York. 1982. Morrow. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0688011314. 525 pages. hardcover. Cover: Honi Werner. Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature South Africa Afrikaans. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A Chain of Voices opens with a historical document, the charges brought against a group of South African slaves in 1825 in the aftermath of a revolt during which a handful of whites were murdered. It closes with the verdict that was handed down. The book itself is a fictional, entirely imagined re-creation of the events and entanglement of lives that caused the rebellion and killings. The leader of the insurrection is the slave called Galant, whose father may or may not have been white and whose master and victim, Nicolaas van der Merwe, may or may not have been his half-brother. The action takes place on a remote Afrikaaner farmstead, seven days by wagon from Cape Town. The voices that tell the story, each in the first person, belong to some two dozen characters, black and white, whose… Read More

New York. 1982. Morrow. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0688011314. 525 pages. hardcover. Cover: Honi Werner. keywords: Literature South Africa Afrikaans. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A Chain of Voices opens with a historical document, the charges brought against a group of South African slaves in 1825 in the aftermath of a revolt during which a handful of whites were murdered. It closes with the verdict that was handed down. The book itself is a fictional, entirely imagined re-creation of the events and entanglement of lives that caused the rebellion and killings. The leader of the insurrection is the slave called Galant, whose father may or may not have been white and whose master and victim, Nicolaas van der Merwe, may or may not have been his half-brother. The action takes place on a remote Afrikaaner farmstead, seven days by wagon from Cape Town. The voices that tell the story, each in the first person, belong to some two dozen characters, black and white, whose passions fuel the flames.… Read More

New York. 1968. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears. Translated from the Spanish by Sam Hileman. 462 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by S. Neil Fujita. keywords: Literature Mexico Latin America South America Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - On Palm Sunday, four persons decide to drive from Mexico City to Veracruz for Semana Santa-Holy Week. On the way they stop over at Cholula, the pantheon city of the Aztecs, where Cortez betrayed and massacred the Indians. The driver of the car is Franz, an expatriate Sudeten German who• was once in the service of the Nazis. With him is Isabel, his lover, a Mexican ‘pussycat,' a hipster always in search of some new ‘kick.' The other two members of the party are Javier and his wife Elizabeth. In his youth Javier published ‘a fine, sensitive book of poetry.' He was awarded a fellowship to New York, and has done nothing since. Now in his forties, he is a talented failure. Elizabeth is… Read More