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New York. 1980. April 1980. Crowell. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Price-Clipped Dustjacket. 0690039956. 152 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Amelia Lau. keywords: Children's. FROM THE PUBLISHER - When Jack travels to the Indonesian island of Maggasang to search for his missing anthropologist parents, he begins a series of incredible adventures which take him outside the universe. inventory #10690 ISBN: 0690039956.

New York. 1999. August 1999. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0393047687. 1st Novel. 250 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Charles Maraia. keywords: Literature America New Orleans. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Hailed by reviewers as ‘an electrifying debut' (Baltimore Sun) and ‘perhaps the best evocation of New Orleans ever to appear in print' (Richmond Times-Dispatch), YELLOW JACK has given Southern literature its own intoxicating hybrid of Caleb Carr, Flannery O'Connor, and Vladimir Nabokov. Russell's ‘virtuoso storytelling, evocative prose and original conception mark [his first book] as a significant work that we can only hope will be followed by many more' (Chicago Tribune). YELLOW JACK is a ribald, picaresque trip through an 1840s New Orleans saturated with sex, drugs, death, and corruption. In this ‘luminously haunting' (Entertainment Weekly) portrait of decadence, daguerrotypist Claude Marchand becomes hopelessly entangled with both… Read More

New York. 1984. February 1984. Holt Rinehart Winston. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0030686822. 85 pages. paperback. Cover design & illustration by David Gatti. keywords: Poetry America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The poems of Louise Erdrich eloquently and passionately bring to life what it is to be a woman, a Midwesterner, and a Native American. She presents that region and those people without sentimentality but with a powerful magic. Although she often draws from a deep, enchanted well, she does not ignore the ordinary: a lady who drives a pink Mustang, a hooker who works the carnival circuit. One series of poems presents a small town in the early part of this century and Mary Kroger, the butcher's widow. Mary lives within the shadows of her memories, the pulse of her desires, and the pragmatic surface of her commonplace days in the center of a town awash with gossip, commerce, and lust. Other poems draw from images so ripe they become myth, signs and directions the visible world… Read More

New York. 1992. February 1992. Dell. 1st Dell Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0440211379. 181 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature African America Women Caribbean. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Edith Jackson lived in Peekskill, New York, with her three sisters, two foster brothers, and her foster mother, Mother Peters. Soon she would be eighteen, and when she left high school, she swore, she would take her sisters and give them a home of their own. But then she met Mrs. Bates, a retired lawyer, who laughed at Edith's ambition and gave her the reasons she felt Edith would fail. Edith hated Mrs. Bates for her preaching and wanted to stop visiting her comfortable, disheveled home. But if she did, she would lose her chance to see ' 'Mr. Brown again, Mrs. Bates's handsome nephew. Meanwhile, Edith's sisters were making plans of their own - and they were not the same as Edith's. Bessie with the mussy eyes had begun to cuddle up to Uncle Daniels, Mother Peters' friend, and… Read More

New York. 1991. Margaret K. McElderry Books/Macmillan. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0689504942. Illustrated by Ashley Bryan. 22 pages. hardcover. keywords: Black Children Bible. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This book presents nine Biblical heroes - Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, David, Ezekiel, Daniel, and Jonah, with a few lines of text to introduce each. inventory #21350 ISBN: 0689504942.

London. 1965. Andre Deutsch. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 236 pages. hardcover. keywords: Jamaica Travel . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Fifteen chapters on Jamaica, beginning with Introducing Jamaica by Commander Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, who wrote his thrillers from his Jamaican home. The Contents are: Introduction by Ian Fleming; A Preliminary Canter by Morris Cargill; Landscape with Faces by John Herne; Political Development by Frank Hill; Dialect Magic and Religion by H. P. Jacobs; The Archives by Clinton V. Black; The Great Houses of Jamaica by T. A. L. Concannon; Natural History by Bernard Lewis; Birds by Phoebe Hart; Jamaican Literature by C. G. O. King; Contemporary Jamaican Art by Norman Rae; Jamaica as Your Home by Cynthia Wilmot; Skin Diving by Dolores Keator; The Cooking in Paradise by Poppy Cannon; and Some Stories About Stamps by Everard Aguilar; followed by an appendix: The Organisation and Conduct of Business Entities by Jack D. Ashenheim. inventory #3413

Atlantic Highlands/New Jersey . 1994. Humanities Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0391037862. Edited by Scott McLemee & Paul Le Blanc. 252 pages. hardcover. Designed by Suzanne G. Bennett. keywords: Politics Black Caribbean. FROM THE PUBLISHER - C. L. R. James (1901-1989). a prominent black Trinidadian intellectual, has been increasingly recognized as a social critic, historian, and cultural commentator of central importance. During the late 1930s and 1940s, James played a key role in the revolutionary socialist current associated with Leon Trotsky. This volume provides an in-depth look at James's ‘Trotskyist years,' presenting writings by James on Trotsky's life and work that are unavailable in other collections. The volume also includes essays by James on the work of Edmund Wilson and Richard Wright, on the impact of European colonialism on Africa, on the interrelationship between U.S. and international labor history, and on African-American history.… Read More

New York. 1992. Scribners. 4th Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0684193833. 288 pages. hardcover. keywords: Mystery Books . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he is an avid collector of rare and first editions. After a local bookscout is killed on his turf, Janeway would like nothing better than to rearrange the suspect's spine. But the suspect, local lowlife Jackie Newton, is a master at eluding the law, and Janeway's wrathful brand of off-duty justice costs him his badge. Turning to his lifelong passion, Janeway opens a small bookshop - all the while searching for evidence to put Newton away. But when prized volumes in a highly sought-after collection begin to appear, so do dead bodies. Now, Janeway's life is about to start a precarious new chapter as he attempts to find out who's dealing death along with vintage Chandlers and Twains. Includes information on John Dunning's new Cliff Janeway novel, The Bookman's… Read More

Rutland. 1978. Tuttle. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0804812543. 288 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration based on an Edo period woodblock print by Ichihosai Yoshifuji. Cats are held scared and are much feared because of their disposition to do evil!. keywords: Literature Mystery Japan Asia Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The finest contemporary Japanese detective stories available in English. Authors include Eitaro Ishizawa (‘Too Much About Too Many'), Tohru Miyoshi (‘A Letter From the Dead'), Seiichi Mormura (‘Devil of a Boy'), Yoh Sano (‘No Proof'), Masako Togawa (‘The Vampire'), Takao Tsuchiya (‘Write in, Rub Out'), and Yasutaka Tsutsui (‘Perfectly Lovely Ladies'), among others. inventory #6241 ISBN: 0804812543.

New York. 1963. Vanguard Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket with a Few Small Pieces Missing. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia Anthology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A translation of contemporary (as of 1963) Japanese short stories, including one hitherto unpublished piece by Yukio Mishima. inventory #25597

Toronto. 2021. 9/14/2021. Second Story Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781772602074. 336 pages. paperback. keywords: Children's Books. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Twelve-year-old Anna Krawitz is imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with her older sister, Lina, and their father. Happy days spent reading about anatomy and science in Papa's bookshop are long gone, and the knowledge they have is used to help their neighbors through the illnesses caused by starvation and war. With no hope in sight and supplies dwindling, Anna finds herself taking care of an orphaned baby. With a courage she didn't know she had, Anna and the baby leave behind all they know and go into hiding with a Catholic family, changing their names to hide their identity, but Lina is not so lucky and winds up in the infamous Treblinka Camp. Can Lina survive and find her way back to Anna? Will the two sisters even recognize each other after such a long time? A story filled with hope, courage and reconciliation. inventory… Read More

New York. 1989. Grove/Weidenfeld. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0802110320. 241 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Kinuko Craft. Jacket design by Krystyna Skalski. keywords: Literature Canada Women America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Jasmine, widowed at seventeen, and living quietly in the small Indian Village where she was born, wants more. Her journey from rural Hasnapur to southern Florida, to Manhattan and ultimately to Iowa, creates a Jasmine in metamorphsis. Her vision and intelligence reveal America to us in new ways, while her courage and her exhilarating energy draw us irresistibly through pain and tragedy to renewal and hope. 'Mukherjee has eloquently succeeded in creating a kind of impressionistic fable, a prose-poem, about being an exile, a refugee, a spiritual vagabond in the world today.' - THE NEW YORK TIMES. inventory #26969 ISBN: 0802110320.

New York. 1992. April 1992. Knopf. 1st Trade Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0679411674. 229 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari. keywords: America Women African American Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It is winter, barely three days into 1926, seven years after Armistice; we are in the scintillating City, around Lenox Avenue, ‘when all the wars are over and there will never be another one. At last, at last, everything's ahead. Here comes the new. Look out. There goes the sad stuff. The bad stuff. The things-nobody-could-help stuff.' But amid the euphoric decisiveness, a tragedy ensues among people who had train-danced into the City, from points south and west, in search of promise. Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas (‘Everything was like a picture show to her'). At the funeral, his determined, hard-working… Read More

New York. 1990. July 1990. Fireside/Simon & Schuster. 1st Fireside Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0671705350. 290 pages. paperback. Jacket illustration by John Jinks . keywords: Literature Translated Latin America Cuba America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - On April 6, 1980, ten thousand Cubans storm through the gates of the Peruvian embassy in Miramar, Havana, seeking asylum from the Castro government. Theirs becomes a quest for freedom. Hugo Carranza, political prisoner, ex-patriot, member of the revolutionary forces in Santiago, is among those who break in. He has escaped from the work (death) camps and terrifying Cuban prisons like La Cabana and Boniato. He is also in love with a woman named Lucinda, who fought with him in Sierra Maestra and who has mysteriously disappeared. Hugo refuses to leave without her. At the time of the Peruvian embassy incident, hundreds of miles away in Los Angeles, Hugo's father, Esteban Carranza, finds himself a lonely man, disappointed with how his life has… Read More

Berkeley. 1987. Creative Arts Book Company. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0887390501. 143 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - THE MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS is a collection of three novellas written in the voices of people from the Louisiana - the title story is of a jazz musician who, by a fluke, becomes an elected official. An evocative recreation of the many facets of New Orleans life. Author's first book. inventory #24415 ISBN: 0887390501.

Berkeley. 2011. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520268906. 19 b/w photographs, 5 tables, 7 music examples. A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book . 388 pages. paperback. keywords: American Music Jazz Cinema & Film Studies . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Fred Astaire: one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century? Astaire is best known for his brilliant dancing in the movie musicals of the 1930s, but in Music Makes Me, Todd Decker argues that Astaire's work as a dancer and choreographer - particularly in the realm of tap dancing - made a significant contribution to the art of jazz. Decker examines the full range of Astaire's work in filmed and recorded media, from a 1926 recording with George Gershwin to his 1970 blues stylings on television, and analyzes Astaire's creative relationships with the greats, including George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer. He also highlights Astaire's… Read More

New York. 1990. April 1990. Grove Weidenfeld. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 080210021x. Translated from the French by Alan Sheridan. 126 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Russell Mills. keywords: Literature Translated France . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Like his best-selling novel The Ogre, Michel Tournier's Gilles & Jeanne is a brilliant fictional appropriation of resonant historical events. It deals with the relationship between Jeanne d'Arc and Gilles de Rais, one of the French nobles who rallied to the cause of the Dauphin and fought by Jeanne's side. After her death, he retreated to his castle in the VendEe and became obsessed with alchemy and the black arts. In 1440, nine years after Jeanne's immolation, Gilles himself went to the stake, condemned as a heretic and convicted of torturing and murdering scores of local children. Shrouded in mystery and dark legend, Gilles has survived the centuries as the historical basis for the figure of Bluebeard. In the… Read More

Toronto. 1979. Coach House Press. 5th Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0889101078. 72 pages. paperback. Front cover - a detail from an old stained glass window which originally decorated a nursery school in London, Ontario. Tanks to Anne Garwood who now has it, and thanks to the unknown artist. Signed by the Author. keywords: Poetry Canada . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Michael Ondaatje's fourth book of poetry. ‘Some of these poems first appeared in the following magazines: Canadian Forum, Fiddlehead, Quarry, Alphabet, Duel, Writing, artscanada, Open Letter, IS, Unicorn portfolio, Ant's Forefoot, White Pelican, Tuatara, Blew Ointment, Talon. And in the following anthologies: Made in Canada (Oberon), and Fifteen Canadian Poets (Oxford). Most of them were written in London, Ontario or in the country east or north of Kingston - around Inverary, Elginburg, Battersea and Gananoque. Some in Toronto. They consist of shorter poems written between t 966, when THE DAINTY MONSTERS was finished, and the… Read More

New York. 1964. St Martin's Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 247 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Set in wartime Oxford, this novel is a deeply perceptive study of a sensitive, intellectually eager youth seeking defense against the fear of social inadequacy, striving to attain a viable pattern of existence amid the bewildering mores of companions in less straitened circumstances. John Kemp, a diffident boy of provincial background, comes to the university as a freshman in the fall of 1940. The colleges are overcrowded, Rationing and austerity are eliminating the privacy, the privilege and the luxury of the past. Already a thoughtless, slovenly attitude pervades the new undergraduate body. John has to share rooms with Christopher, lazy, selfish and self-assured, The behavior of Christopher and his friends baffles John, so that he is driven to find some means of communicating with them on a common level. Tired of being taken for granted, he… Read More

New York. 1961. September 1961. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451500512. Afterword By Murray Krieger. 319 pages. paperback. CD51. Cover: Lambert. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback England Literature 20th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - With this book Joseph Conrad set the style for a whole class of literature - the novel of the outcast from civilization finding refuge in the tropics. The natives of Patusan in the Far East worship the bold young Englishman by the name of 'Lord Jim', but he despises himself. Tortured by an act of cowardice and desertion that wrecked his career in the Merchant Service years before and tormented by his ideal of what an officer should be, he has fled from scandal farther and farther East. It is only here in remote Patusan, filling a post given him by the trader Stein, that he at last finds the will to cease sacrificing himself on the altar of conscience. He becomes a part of life again by accepting the… Read More