Search Results: Authors starting with F from Zeno's

New York. 2003. Aladdin/Simon & Schuster. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 0743437322. 384 pages. paperback. keywords: Young Adult. FROM THE PUBLISHER - FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Bobby Pendragon is not like other boys his age. His uncle Press is a Traveler, and, as Bobby has learned, that means Uncle Press is responsible, through his journeys, for solving interdimensional conflict wherever he encounters it. His mission is nothing less than to save the universe from ultimate evil. And he's taking Bobby along for the ride. Fresh from his first adventure on Denduron, Bobby finds himself in the territory of Cloral, a vast world that is entirely covered by water. Cloral is nearing a disaster of huge proportions. Reading the journals Bobby sends home, his friends learn that the desperate citizens of the endangered floating cities are on the brink of war. Can Bobby - suburban basketball star and all-around nice guy - help rid the area of marauders, and locate the legendary lost… Read More

London and New York. 1959. Abelard-Schuman. 1st Edition. Very Good.No Dustjacket. Translated from the German by Michael Bullock. 200 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Germany Switzerland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Travelling on a UNESCO mission to an underdeveloped South American country, Faber, the man who distrusts emotions as ‘fatigue phenomena' and believes only in the calculable, is involved in a series of incalculable events by which he meets and becomes the lover of his own illegitimate daughter, Sabeth. Taking leave from his work, Faber joins Sabeth in a trip through France and Italy, at the end of which she is to rejoin her mother in Athens, He does not suspect her identity until a chance remark on the way reveals the maiden name of her mother, twice married and divorced since Faber last saw her, Sabeth and Faber are thrown into one another's arms by the overwhelming emotion experienced during a lunar eclipse, a cosmic event which Faber of course tries to dismiss as an… Read More

New York. 1993. Morrow. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Dot On Bottom Edge. 0688104010. Illustrated by Robert Rayevsky. unpaginated. hardcover. Cover art by Robert Rayevsky. keywords: Childrens Fables Aesop. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Folksinger & celebrated children's author Paxton packages Aesop's wise and witty fables in some wonderfully spirited verse. An illustrated retelling in verse of ten fables by Aesop, including ‘The Laborer and the Nightingale,' ‘The Frogs Choose a King,' ‘ The Horse and the Donkey,' ‘The Cat & the Fox,' and ‘The Laborer & the Nightingale.' inventory #23636 ISBN: 0688104010.

New York. 1986. October 1986. Dial Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0803702914. Illustrated by Tony Ross. unpaginated. hardcover. Cover art by Tony Ross. keywords: Children . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Contemporary retellings of six fables from Aesop, including ‘The Fox and the Crow,' ‘The Stag and his Mirrors,' and ‘The Hare and the Tortoise.' . In his own inimitable style , Ross has ‘modernized' six of Aesop's fables all but one featuring a fox. In a raucous voice, the audacious crow in ‘The Fox and the Crow' sings ‘Madame Butterfly' and ‘Tiptoe Through the Tulips' to a strolling fox in gentlemanly garb. A boastful tortoise in a bar vows that he's more skilled at running than the clumsy hare, who, during the arranged race, knocks himself unconscious by banging his head on a low tree branch, thus allowing the tortoise to win the race. Such is the humor that Ross employs in both stories and illustrations a tactic that will… Read More

New York. 1982. Penguin Books. Reprinted Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. A Few Instances of Yellow Highlighting Inside, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 0140443762. Translated from the French by James Michie. Introduction by Geoffrey Grigson. 142 pages. paperback. The cover shows The Fox and the Stork by Jean-Baptiste Oudry in the Musee National de Versailles (Photo: Giraudon). keywords: Literature France Translated Fables. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95) is celebrated for his charm, his absent-mindedness and, above all, his wonderful books of fables. Plundering Aesop, Phaedrus, Bidpai and the Persians, Italians and French, he reinvented the fable in a verse full of irresistible brio and freshness. His tales of speaking animals are always rooted firmly in the human world, and collectively they represent one of the high points of European civilization, achieving, over three centuries, an almost proverbial familiarity. ‘How inquisitive La Fontaine was, how indefatigable .… Read More

New York. 1998. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 067088235x. Illustrated by Lane Smith. unpaginated. hardcover. Cover art by Lane Smith. keywords: Childrens . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Sure we'd all love to be able to go around telling stories about all the weird, scary, and just-plain-annoying people that we know. But the truth is, no one likes a gossip. Here, the irrepressible Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith have found a way around that problem-they just make like Aesop and change all the people to animals or food, add a moral to each story, and call the stories fables! With tales like ‘Little Walrus,' in which too much of the truth is a dangerous thing, the cautionary ‘Slug's Big Moment,' wherein Slug is so caught up in herself that she doesn't see the steamroller behind her, and ‘Straw and Matches,' which illustrates quite clearly why you should never play with matches (because they cheat), the eighteen fables in this uproarious collection… Read More

New York. 1988. Dutton. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0525444084. 32 pages. hardcover. keywords: Children . FROM THE PUBLISHER - An exciting, full-color photographic book about painted faces from around the world for children to look at, read about, and be inspired by. Some have meaning in other cultures. Some are children's own designs. inventory #11175 ISBN: 0525444084.

Barrytown. 1985. Station Hill Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Boards. No Dustjacket. 0930794982. Translated from the French by Paul Auster. 69 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Vincent Torre. keywords: Literature Translated France . FROM THE PUBLISHER - These early parables of Maurice Blanchot provide a rewarding introduction to a modern master; they also illuminate with hallucinatory intensity certain consequences of the hopeless and irresistible human longing to communicate through language. The world is still haunted by the ghosts of unspoken and unspeakable words emanating from the deaths here recounted almost fifty years ago. inventory #39714 ISBN: 0930794982.

San Diego. 1997. Incommunicado Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 1888277025. 183 pages. paperback. Cover design by Gary Hustwit. Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature America San Francisco Mission District. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The media calls it the most unpopular topic in America today: welfare. Every other person in San Francisco is on the dole. Pregnant teenage welfare mothers in orange nylon vests sweep the streets in ‘work-fare' programs. Developmental disabled couples rob banks. The trickle-down theory has dried up in the city's Mission district. Winos. crack hippies, homeless guys with shopping carts, and refugees from every other city in the nation are now ‘clients' demanding food stamps at the DSS. Enter Charlene Hassler: social worker. She's become a reluctant middleman in an economic shell game. The clients are going postal - but before they'd turn on themselves, they would bite the hand that refused to feed them. ‘Plate's writing brings… Read More

Tribeca. 2018. September 2018. Four Way Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781945588174. 6 x 9. 66 pages. paperback . keywords: poetry . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Engaging the past and present, these poems attempt to reconcile loss and longing while also seeking to understand our own impermanence. Written in a plain-spoken voice, they are meditative, elegiac and tender. . Falconer's poems are sparse, beautiful, and breathtaking . Victoria Chang . These arresting poems move with the complex currents of familial relationships, the strains of joy, love, and loss . An exquisite collection! Rigoberto González. inventory #43953 ISBN: 9781945588174.

New York. 1997. Henry Holt. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0805054065. 449 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America Autobiography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is the story of a young man's struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comic, Paul Auster's memoir is essentially an autobiographical essay about money-and what it means not to have it. From one odd job to the next, from one failed scheme to another, Auster investigates his own stubborn compulsion to make art and describes his ingenious, often far-fetched attempts to survive on next to nothing. From the streets of New York City and Paris to the rural roads of upstate New York, the author treats us to a series of remarkable adventures and unforgettable encounters and, in several elaborate appixes, to previously unknown work from these years. inventory #24524 ISBN: 0805054065.

Berkeley. 2015. January 2015. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520282827. 7 1/2 x 10. 45 color illus., B&W illus. 200 pages. hardcover . keywords: Architecture. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Into the Void Pacific is the first architectural history of the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair. While fairs of the 1930s turned to the future as a foil to the Great Depression, the Golden Gate International Exposition conjured up geographical conceits to explore the nature of the city's place in what organizers called ‘Pacific Civilization.' Shanken adopts the phrase ‘void Pacific' to suggest the isolation and novelty of California and its habit of looking West rather than back over its shoulder to the institutions of the East Coast and Europe. This vision of the Pacific was proposed as an antidote to the troubled Atlantic world, then descending into chaos for the second time in a generation. Architects projected the regionalist sensibilities… Read More

Berkeley. 2008. December 2008. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520256675. 237 duotones. Copub: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 376 pages. hardcover. keywords: Biography Hollywood America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This deft amalgam of biography, film history, and analysis is a superb portrait of a true pioneer who was critically important to the creation of cinema as the defining art form of the twentieth century. Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) was one of the first film superstars, a screenwriter, a major independent producer during the early studio era, a cofounder of United Artists, a founder and the first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and much more. The optimism, energy, and huge success during the 1920s of his best-remembered films The Mark of Zorro, Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad, and The Black Pirate made Fairbanks a popular hero throughout the world and showcased his talents as a… Read More

New York. 1979. Mayflower. Reprint of Macmillan Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 231 pages. hardcover. keywords: Mythology Japan Children. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is a facsimile of the 1923 1st edition, which was titled 'Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales.' It consists of 30 individual stories, which have been collected together from many sources, some from the Ko-ji-ki or Record of Ancient Matters, others from memory. inventory #4865

New York. 2003. April 2003. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0375412174. 421 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Gabriele Wilson. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Jane Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts-comic timing, empathy, emotional wisdom, an ability to deliver slyly on big themes and capture the American spirit - to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about What happens when the American Dream morphs into a seven-figure American Fantasy. Joe Stratford is someone you like at once. He makes an honest living helping nice people buy and sell nice houses. His not-very - amicable divorce is finally settled, and he's ready to begin again. It's 1982. He is pretty happy, pretty satisfied. But a different era has dawned; Joe's new friend, Marcus Burns from New York, seems to be suggesting that the old rules are ready to be repealed, that now is the time you… Read More

New York. 1999. Harcourt Brace. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0151003882. 376 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Iran Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - One star-studded night, five-year-old Lili witnesses her mother, Roxanna the Angel, sprout wings and vanish into the sky, undisturbed by the rules of gravity. Roxanna leaves no farewell, no word of explanation, no trace of her existence. Lili's subsequent search for her mother-spurred by the tireless efforts of her aunt Miriam the Moon-is at the heart of this mesmerizing epic tale that follows Roxanna, born as a bad-luck child in the harsh Jewish ghetto of Tehran, through the opulent world of Iran's aristocracy, to the whorehouses of Turkey and beyond, to present-day Los Angeles. At stake are Roxanna's hopes for happiness, for escaping the bonds of Old World tradition and finding forgiveness for that most egregious of sins-desire. Weaving together strands of Persian and Jewish culture, Gina Nahai brings to life a courageous… Read More

New York. 1956. February 1956. Bantam Books. 1st Bantam Books Paperback Edition. Good in Worn Wrappers. 143 pages. paperback. 1420. keywords: Mystery Vintage Paperbacks. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Three people had died under the big hammer, and maybe she had put them there - but she was too lovely to die. inventory #37283

Boston. 1976. Little Brown. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0316617385. 450 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. keywords: Literature England Shakespeare. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Irascible and still lecherous at age 81, Sir John Falstaff, one of Shakespeareís greatest characters, spins out these memoirs as an antidote to legend, and in so doing manages to recreate his own. Set in an England that was earthy, violent, superstitious, and brimming with a new sense of national purpose, FALSTAFF brings to life not only the man himself but the whole Elizabethan era. Here we see what history and the Bard overlooked or purposely left out of his plays: what really happened that celebrated night when Falstaff and Justice Shallow heard the chimes at midnight; who killed Hotspur; how many men really fell at Agincourt; what actually transpired at the coronation of Henry V (‘Harry the Prig') and much, much more! inventory #5892 ISBN: 0316617385.

Berkeley. 1986. University Of California Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520053470. 213 pages. hardcover. keywords: California Mexico History Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration which centers on the family. Spanish, American, and English exploits paved the way for exchange between Baja and Alta California. Alvarez shows how cultural stability actually increased as migrants settled in new locations, bringing their common values and memories with them. inventory #26499 ISBN: 0520053470.

New York. 1977. June 1977. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Mark. 0394402227. Translated from the Spanish by Andree Conrad. 209 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Lidia Ferrara. Jacket painting, Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds, by Salvador Dali, (c) A.D.A.G.P., Paris, 1977. keywords: Literature Translated Chile Latin America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Three interlinked novellas of sinister brilliance and wit. With a mercilessly delighted ear for the telltale nuances of social repartee, with a connoisseur's eye for the Pose and the Attitude, Donoso launches his assault on the would-be-cosmopolitan tastemakers of the not-so-International Set in their Mediterranean playgrounds. Suddenly we are in the thick of war . between a cover girl-and her friends-rebelling against the men who ‘created' them and manipulate them, learning to use the female arsenal of cosmetics, particularly vanishing cream, to devastating effect (so startlingly efficacious when it comes… Read More