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Urbana. 1982. University Of Illinois Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0252009959. 102 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Australia Aborigine. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A collection of Aboriginal short stories which open the door to an entirely unique world of human life and struggle. BABARU proves that the critical acclaim for B. Wongar's first book, THE TRACK TO BRALGU, (Little Brown, 1978), was neither accidental nor exaggerated. Like that first collection, BABARU is a ‘fine book of fantastic stories, by an Australian aborigine, which depicts that lethal conflict between a race that sees the earth as no more than a quarry and another and more ancient one to whom it is an extension of body, soul, and family.' Thomas Keneally, New York Times Book Review. inventory #28513 ISBN: 0252009959.

New York. 1946. February 1946. Bantam Books. Paperback Edition. Good in Wrappers. 408 pages. paperback. 22. keywords: Literature America Vintage Paperback. FROM THE PUBLISHER - BABBITT, first published in 1922, is a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Largely a satire of American culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure on individuals toward conformity. inventory #35482

New York. 1961. October 1961. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451500911. Foreword By Eleanor M. Tilton. 328 pages. paperback. CT91. Cover: Lambert. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback Literature America 20th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - With his portrait of George F. Babbitt, the conniving, prosperous real - estate man from Zenith, Sinclair Lewis created one of the ugliest, but most convincing, figures in American fiction - the total conformist. Babbitt's demons are power in his community and the self - esteem he can only receive from others. In his attempts to reconcile these aspirations, he is loyal to whoever serves his need of the moment: time and again he proves an opportunist in business practice and in domestic affairs. Outwardly he conforms with 'zip and zowie,' is a 'big booster' before the public eye; inwardly he converges day by day upon the utter emptiness of his soul - too filled with rationalizations and… Read More

New York. 1966. Ace Books. 1st Printing. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. Paperback Original. 173 pages. paperback. F-388. keywords: Science Fiction African American . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The commander of the Earthpeople's Alliance journeyed into the bizarre - depths of Transport Town to seek Rydra Wong, the cosmic poetess whose words reached across space and whose mind could perceive the meaning of all the worlds' tongues. And his request placed her into the heart of the vile interstellar war between the Alliance and the Invaders. The new weapon of the Invaders was Babel-17, a menacing hum clogging up Alliance space communications. Rydra had to decipher the communications power of Babel-17 before it could lead to intergalactic defeat. And to do that, she would have to be the target of the next outer-space attack. A brilliant new novel by a rapidly rising star of the science-fiction cosmos. inventory #24206

New York. 2000. September 2000. Delacorte Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0385333927. 263 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. keywords: Mystery America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - This novel begins in Rwanda with a priest named Terry Dunn. It is a few years after the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus and Father Terry Dunn lives in Rwanda with his girlfriend Chantelle. He doesn't have qualms about substituting punishment for penance. If that means killing four Hutu murderers who slaughtered his Tutsi congregation, so be it. After being an instrument of divine wrath Dunn breaks camp and heads for Detroit. He wants to raise money for ‘Pagan Babies' - the children orphaned during the genocide. Dunn's brother Fran specializes in lawsuits for personal injuries. He is helping Debbie, a woman who spent three years in jail for deliberately hitting her ex-husband Randy with a Ford Escort. Debbie is trying to have a career as a comedian. In the meantime we learn more… Read More

New York. 1991. Rabbit Ears/Simon & Schuster. Hardcover book with audio cassette . Very Good in Hardcover and Slipcase. 0887081452. Illustrated by Henrik Drescher. Music by Taj Mahal. 5 - 8 years. 32 pages. hardcover with cassette. keywords: Children's Books Audio Cassette. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Brer Fox tries to outsmart the sassiest critter in 10 counties, Brer Rabbit. inventory #43715 ISBN: 0887081452.

New York. 1991. Rabbit Ears/Simon & Schuster. Hardcover book with audio cassette . Very Good in Hardcover and Slipcase. 0887082505. Illustrated by Henrik Drescher. Music by Taj Mahal. 5 - 8 years. 32 pages. hardcover with cassette. keywords: Children's Books Audio Cassette. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Brer Fox tries to outsmart the sassiest critter in 10 counties, Brer Rabbit. inventory #47952 ISBN: 0887082505.

New York. 1998. Morrow. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0688153321. 374 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by K. Schermerhorn/Photonica. Jacket design by Bradford Foltz. Inscribed by the Author. keywords: Mystery Boston America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The neighborhood is no place for the innocent, the young, the defenseless or the pure. This is a territory of broken families, bitter cops, whacked out ex-cons, and a mother who watches herself on the nightly news as her missing child floats further and further into the unkown. Boston private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, don't want this case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they embark upon an investigation and ultimately risk losing everything- their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives-to find this little-girl-lost. Capturing the voices that echo within blue collar Boston, Dennis Lehane is a master storyteller, who weaves together embittered people, tattered emotions, and brutal crime to… Read More

New York. 2001. September 2001. Pocket Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0743421566. Translated from the Chinese by Bruce Humes. 263 pages. hardcover. Cover design by Lisa Litwack. keywords: Literature China Shanghai Women Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Although it caused an uproar in the author's native China, Western readers will find 27-year-old Wei Hui's semiautobiographical offering reminiscent of fiction by the brat pack writers of the ‘80s, though more clich?d and less edgy. Waitress Nikki ‘but my friends call me Coco after Coco Chanel' is in love with Tian Tian, a melancholy and impotent artist who falls prey to narcotics. Coco loves him madly, but not so madly that she wants to give up sex, and this is why she's also been seeing Mark, a married German businessman. Coco's deceptions, Tian Tian's problems with his wealthy mother (who he suspects killed his father) and the intertwining worlds of art and fashion are all fodder for Coco's… Read More

New York. 1963. Heritage Press. Reprined Hardcover Edition. Very Good in Hardcover. No Dustjacket. Newly Translated from the Ancient Greek by Philip Vellacott. Illustrated by Michael Ayrton. 184 pages. hardcover. keywords: Drama Literature Ancient Greece Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Euripides was a brilliant and powerful innovator within the traditional framework of Attic drama. The last of the three great Athenian dramatists, and during his lifetime perhaps the most controversial, Euripides was the first playwright to use the chorus as a commentator; the first to put contemporary language into the mouths of heroes; and the first to interpret human suffering without reference to the wisdom of gods. The three plays in this volume all show Euripides to have been a man defiant of established beliefs, and preoccupied with the dichotomy between instinctive and civilized behaviour. And his daring interpretations of ancient myths are enhanced by his brilliance as a lyricist, for Euripides' choral… Read More

New York. 1996. Viking Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket . 0670869902. 368 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Black America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy - and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon. She does it all well, too, if her chic house, personal trainer, BMW and her loving son are any indication. So what if there's been no one to share her bed with lately, let alone rock her world? Stella doesn't mind too much; she probably wouldn't have the energy for love - and all of love's nasty fallout - anyway. But when Stella takes a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Jamaica, her world gets rocked to the core not just by the relaxing effects of sun and sea and an island full of attractive men, but by one man in… Read More

New York. 1996. Viking Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670869902. 368 pages. hardcover. Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature Black America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy - and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon. She does it all well, too, if her chic house, personal trainer, BMW and her loving son are any indication. So what if there's been no one to share her bed with lately, let alone rock her world? Stella doesn't mind too much; she probably wouldn't have the energy for love - and all of love's nasty fallout - anyway. But when Stella takes a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Jamaica, her world gets rocked to the core not just by the relaxing effects of sun and sea and an island full of attractive men, but by one man in… Read More

Berkeley. 2012. February 2012. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520269125. 10 line illustrations. 240 pages. hardcover. keywords: Animal General Ecology Invertebrate Zoology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - With Illustrations by James Nardi ‘A fascinating look at the critical role of insects in ecosystems and the myriad ways in which they avoid the constant threat of predation.' Carol Anelli, Washington State University All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful disguises to physical and chemical lures and traps, predatory insects have devised ingenious and bizarre methods of finding food. Equally ingenious are the means of hiding, mimicry, escape, and defense waged by prospective prey in order to stay alive. This absorbing book… Read More

New York. 1996. Viking Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0670869902. 368 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Black America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy - and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon. She does it all well, too, if her chic house, personal trainer, BMW and her loving son are any indication. So what if there's been no one to share her bed with lately, let alone rock her world? Stella doesn't mind too much; she probably wouldn't have the energy for love - and all of love's nasty fallout - anyway. But when Stella takes a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Jamaica, her world gets rocked to the core not just by the relaxing effects of sun and sea and an island full of attractive men, but by one man in particular. He's… Read More

New York. 2000. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374246262. 563 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America African American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - An astonishing debut novel, exploring the bonds, boundaries, and bondage of an African American family. Rails Under My Back is a daring work of art that reveals its family theme in a stunning depiction of its paradoxically opposite: abandonment. In this multifaceted, brilliantly colored, intensely musical novel, Jeffery Renard Allen tracks the interwoven lives of two brothers, Lucius and John Jones, who are married to two sisters, Gracie and Sheila McShan. For them, their parents, and their children, life is always full of departures; someone is always fleeing town and leaving the remaining family to suffer the often dramatic, sometimes tragic consequences. The multiple effects of the comings and goings are devastating: these are the almost mythic expression of the African American experience during the past… Read More

New York. 2000. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Some Spotting On Top Edge,Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374246262. 563 pages. hardcover. Cover: Chris Scott. keywords: Literature America Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER - An astonishing debut novel, exploring the bonds, boundaries, and bondage of an African American family. Rails Under My Back is a daring work of art that reveals its family theme in a stunning depiction of its paradoxically opposite: abandonment. In this multifaceted, brilliantly colored, intensely musical novel, Jeffery Renard Allen tracks the interwoven lives of two brothers, Lucius and John Jones, who are married to two sisters, Gracie and Sheila McShan. For them, their parents, and their children, life is always full of departures; someone is always fleeing town and leaving the remaining family to suffer the often dramatic, sometimes tragic consequences. The multiple effects of the comings and goings are devastating: these are the almost mythic expression of the African… Read More

Berkeley. 2004. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0520243560. 282 pages. paperback. keywords: Anthropology Politics . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, Robert Kaplan, and Dinesh D'Souza to cold, hard scrutiny and finds that their writing is often misleadingly simplistic, culturally ill-informed, and politically dangerous. Mixing critical reflection with insights from their own fieldwork, twelve distinguished anthropologists respond by offering fresh perspectives on globalization, ethnic violence, social justice, and the biological roots of behavior. They take on such topics as the collapse of Yugoslavia, the consumer practices of the American poor, American foreign… Read More

Boston. 1988. October 1988. Houghton Mifflin. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket With A Few Small Tears. 0395486688. Illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. 32 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Chris Van Allsburg. keywords: Children's Ants. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The three-time Caldecott medalist tells the tale of two ants who decide to leave the safety of the others to venture into a danger-laden kitchen. inventory #10803 ISBN: 0395486688.

New York. 1958. November 1958. Fawcett Crest. 1st American Edition. Good in Worn Wrappers With a Piece Coming Off Near The Bottom Spine. Paperback Original. 158 pages. paperback. 253. keywords: Mystery Vintage Paperbacks. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This was Lolly. Barney had spent four years trying to burn away memories of their past. Now fate had trapped them together in a whirlwind of vioelnce and terror. A FOOTSTEP WHISPERED BEHIND HIM. But even as he spun around he knew it was too late. Something heavy and hard jolted his wrist and slid along his arm until it caromed off the side of his head. He sank to his knees on the dirty cabin floor. ‘You were rear careless, Sport,' came a whisky-thick voice from the darkness. ‘You shouldn't have interfered. I know Lolly's here with you. Now I've got to do it all over again. Only this time I hate to kill you, too.' Suddenly and silently a shadow had moved like a wraith behind the man. A blade, thin and lethal, glinted dully. Barney… Read More

New York. 1987. January 1987. Arbor House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0877958416. 345 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Gerard Huerta. keywords: Mystery America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Set in New Orleans. The bandits are an ex-nun, an ex-con, and an ex-cop. They've stumbled onto a private fund-raising scheme to aid the Contras in Nicaragua. And they've decided that the several million dollars raised should not leave New Orleans. Of course, a lot of other people have their eyes on the money too. inventory #7510 ISBN: 0877958416.