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New York. 1984. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670427896. Winner Prix Femina Etranger - France. 175 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Bascove. keywords: Literature South Africa . FROM THE PUBLISHER - From the highly acclaimed author of Waiting for the Barbarians - hailed by The Washington Post as ‘a novel beyond the ordinary' and chosen as one of the Best Books of 1982 by The New York Times - comes a major novel of extraordinary power. J. M. Coetzee takes us into the world of Michael K, a young man unwillingly caught up in a war in South Africa. At the age of thirty-one, Michael loses his job as a gardener for the city of Cape Town, and promises to take his ailing mother back to her home town of Prince Albert. On the way there she dies, leaving Michael completely alone. He takes refuge on a deserted farm, living off the land ‘by the rising and setting of the sun in a pocket outside time.' When the fam is invaded by an army deserter, Michael, flees into… Read More

Johannesburg. 1983. Ravan Press. 1st South African Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 086975159x. Winner Prix Femina Etranger - France. 249 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Marcus Wilson-Smith. keywords: Literature South Africa . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In South Africa, whose civil administration is colapsing under the pressure of years of civil strife, an obscure young gardener named Michael K decides to take his mother on a long march away from the guns towards a new life in the abandoned countryside. Everywhere he goes however, the war follows him. Tracked down and locked up as a collaborator with the rural guerrillas, he embarks on a fast that angers, baffles, and finally awes his captors. The story of Michael K is the story of a man caught up in a war beyond his understanding, but determined to live his life, however minimally, on his own terms. J.M. Coetzee has produced a masterpiece which has the astonishing power to make the wilderness boom. Winner of the 1983 Booker Prize inventory #2152… Read More

Princeton. 2004. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0691118167. 288 pages. hardcover. keywords: Franz Kafka Literary Criticism Literature Germany. FROM THE PUBLISHER - On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story ‘The Judgment,' which came out of him ‘like a regular birth.' This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home, for artistic fulfillment can be understood as a figure for Kafka's own search to reproduce the ecstasy of a single night. In Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka, the preeminent American critic and translator of Franz Kafka traces the implications of Kafka's literary breakthrough. Kafka's first concern was not his responsibility to his culture but to his fate as literature, which he pursued by exploring ‘the limits of the human.' At the same time, he kept his transcendental longings sober by… Read More

Lincoln. 2015. University of Nebraska Press. 1st American Edition. Some Bumping to Bottom Corner Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780803254770. 315 pages. hardcover. keywords: Sports Surfing Biography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Waterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku (1890–1968): swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist, Hawaiian icon, waterman. Long before Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz made their splashes in the pool, Kahanamoku emerged from the backwaters of Waikiki to become America's first superstar Olympic swimmer. The original human fish set dozens of world records and topped the world rankings for more than a decade; his rivalry with Johnny Weissmuller transformed competitive swimming from an insignificant sideshow into a headliner event. Kahanamoku used his Olympic renown to introduce the sport of surf-riding, an activity unknown beyond the Hawaiian Islands, to the world. Standing proudly on his traditional wooden longboard, he spread surfing from Australia… Read More

New York. 1987. George Braziller. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0807611689. 240 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Karen Katz. keywords: Literature New Zealand Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Representing the author's writing over the last ten years, TE KAIHAU - THE WINDEATER is a richly varied collection of stories by the author of the highly-acclaimed novel, THE BONE PEOPLE, winner of the 1985 Booker Prize. An author of Maori descent, Ken Hulme has brought the foreign and melodic traditions of that culture and language to an international audience, seen here in ‘He Tauware Kawa, He Kawa Tauware' and ‘Te Kaihau The Windeater.' Other stories concern the mysteries of the natural world, the strong ties that bind families together, and a sense of inevitable loss. The story ‘Hooks and Feelers,' which portrays a mother who has inadvertently maimed her son, won the Katherine Mansfield Award and has been made into a television play. Throughout, she experiments with… Read More

New York. 1992. St Martin's Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0312070071. 160 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America Science Fiction. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Curtis MacKinnon is an intemperate, naive fool. Sure of his invulnerabilty as an American expatriate, he comes to Borneo to play at being disreputable. His illusions and charm make him a dangerous man: soon enough, he is in trouble and forced to hide in the jungles of Kalimantan. inventory #25646 ISBN: 0312070071.

New York/Philadelphia. 1995. Chelsea House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0791030210. Illustrated by Mei-Yim Low. 30 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Africa Children's Books. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Mr Kalogo comes to Kyenyanja to build a new factory. He tells the people it will bring jobs and money to the village. But the people are against his plan. Their chief knows that Mr Kalogo has a terrible secret. It is a secret which could destroy the village. The Junior African Writers Series offers young readers exciting and interesting original stories set in Africa. The stories are graded into five levels of language difficulty. This is a level 2 reader. inventory #24603 ISBN: 0791030210.

New York. 1986. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374180687. Translated from the Russian by Tamara Glenny. 278 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Russia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - One morning in 1949, Fan Fanych, alias Etcetera, is summoned from his apartment to KGB headquarters, where he is informed that he will be charged with a crime more heinous than any mere man could ever devise - he will be tried for the vicious rape and murder of an aged kangaroo in the Moscow Zoo. inventory #231 ISBN: 0374180687.

New York. 1923. Seltzer. 1st American Edition. Previous Owners Names Penned in Front,Otherwise Very Good.No Dustjacket. 421 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - KANGAROO is D. H. Lawrence's eighth novel, set in Australia. He wrote the first draft in just forty-five days while living south of Sydney, in 1922, and revised in three months later in New Mexico. The descriptions of the country are among the most vivid and sympathetic ever penned, and the book fuses lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of political ideas at an immensely personal level. His anxiety about the future of democracy, caught as it was in the turbulent cross currents of fascism and socialism, is only partly appeased by his vision of a new bond of comradeship between men based on their unique separateness. Lawrence's alter ego Richard Somers departs for America to continue his search. inventory #5177

Emeryville, Canada. 2007. Biblioasis. 1st Canadian Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781897231371 . Translated from the Polish by Diana Kuprel & Marek Kusiba. 96 pages. paperback. Cover photograph by Ryszard Kapuscinski. keywords: Poetry Literature Poland Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Ryszard Kapuscinski is considered among the most important journalists of the 20th century. Several of his titles, including THE SOCCER WAR, SHAH OF SHAHS, IMPERIUM and THE SHADOW OF THE SUN are considered part of the modern canon, His `reportages' bore the marks of the highest literary craftsmanship, characterized by sophisticated narrative techniques, metaphor and unusual imagery. What was not known in the English-speaking world, however, was that Ryszard Kapuscinski was also a poet. I WROTE STONE brings together a selection of poems from his two previously published collections, offering to English readers for the first time. Kapuscinski's is a thoughtful, philosophical verse, often aphoristic in tone… Read More

New York. 1985. Dodd Mead. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0396087221. 248 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by David Gatti. keywords: Literature Australia Aborigine. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Out of his own aboriginal-European heritage, B. Wongar weaves a rich and powerful tale of a culture on the brink of extinction. Based upon a terrible truth that has only recently been revealed to a shocked world, his portrayal shows the devastation wrought by the white man upon the lands and tribes of the aborigines of Australia by the mining of uranium and the tests of atomic weapons. It is Anawari who is fated to bridge the chasm between the European culture in which he has been indoctrinated and the traditional tribal culture to which he was born. With the honorary title of Reverend, and affianced to the white girl Ann, Anawari has access to the computers of the Tribal Research and Assimilation Centre that analyzes, and attempts to reproduce the specimens of aboriginal men, women, and children trapped on the… Read More

New York. 1995. May 1995. Riverhead/Putnam. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1573220051. 243 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Lisa Amoroso. Front jacket photograph by Anthony Loew based on a photograph by Anchee Min. keywords: Literature China Asia Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - An American woman comes to China to teach English just as that country opens its doors, six years after the death of Chairman Mao. Her clothes, her hair, her charm - the stories she tells of an American childhood, the lessons in casual conversation and pop music - awaken in the men and women she tutors a yearning for the tantalizing West and an unknowable eroticism. She is a witting and unwitting seductress who cannot conceive that when she enters into a love triangle with two of her students - one male, one female - its consequences will be insidious and inexorably tragic. To this tale of passion and sexual awakening, set amid a generation that came of age during the brutality of the Cultural Revolution, Anchee Min… Read More

New York. 1988. April 1988. Knopf. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394550277. 378 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Kang Yi. Jacket design by Julie Duquet. keywords: Travel Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Mohawk haircuts in Bali. In Guangzhou - in the New China - a Buffeteria serving dishes called ‘Yes, Sir, Cheese My Baby,' ‘A Legitimate Beef,' and ‘Ike and Tuna Turner.' In Japan a madder-than-ever baseball madness (favorite team: Yomiuri Giants), while the Japanese enact their own unfathomable rites against postcard-perfect backdrops of Suburban America. But in Lhasa, the horrendous age-old ceremonial of ‘Celestial Burial' endures. When Pico Iyer set out to explore the East, he was wholly aware that the international pop culture had already arrived at some of the remotest reaches of the • Asian continent. But he was unprepared for the bizarre mixture of old and new, calculation and innocence, illusion and disillusion that he found and brilliantly… Read More

Richmond. 2014. Omnidawn Publishing. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781890650971. 6 x 9’. 92 pages. paperback. keywords: poetry nature place. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Spare, vivid lyrics on the microclimate of coastal California Joseph Massey's third collection, To Keep Time, limns the microclimate of coastal Humboldt County, California. These poems live where modern life - radio static, a space heater, traffic - collides with the so-called natural world. With spare, vivid imagery, Massey builds brilliantly on concerns familiar to readers of his earlier works. Here ‘The near-silence / rattles me // to attention;' here the vagaries of language itself - what's been left out as much as what's been written in - penetrate the heart of these stealthy, aching poems. To Keep Time stops the world's chatter for a moment and listens to its loneliness and longing, and hears the grace in the relentlessness of days. ‘Massey's images are so clear, so lucid, so… Read More

Pittsburgh. 2013. October 2013. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822962564. Pitt Poetry Series. 78 pages. paperback. Cover art by Sarah Masters, 'Cave Light,' 2009, oil stick on paper. Cover design by Joel W. Coggins. keywords: Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The poems in Keeper explore, and long for, intimacy: with nature, with others, with the unknown. They delve into purely dark spaces (the insides of birdhouses and mailboxes, caves of prehistoric paintings) and in-between places, searching out, as Paul Eluard put it, the other world inside this one, pointing to the pervasive sensuality that connects all beings, and to the fact that essential goodness and sorrow often walk hand in hand. inventory #40583 ISBN: 9780822962564.

New York. 1992. May 1992. Warner Books. 1st Warner Printing. Good in Wrappers. 0446393665. Penciller - J. J - Birch, Inkers - Michael Bair, Letterer - Agustin Mas, Colorist - Adrienne Roy. 87 pages. paperback. keywords: . FROM THE PUBLISHER - After a beating, young streetwalker Selina Kyle becomes Catwoman, but her enemies kidnap her sister, a nun, and in attempting a rescue she comes into contact with Batman, in a novel in comic book format. inventory #39505 ISBN: 0446393665.

Boulder. 1997. Roberts Rinehart. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1570981671. Photos by Tom Kelly. 115 color photos. Maps. 156 pages. hardcover. keywords: Ireland Photography Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Following their highly acclaimed and bestselling previous books, Ireland: The Living Landscape and Literary Ireland, Tom Kelly and Peter Somerville-Large team up once again to provide a highly entertaining visual journey though the scenery of Ireland's many great literary traditions. Throughout time, the lives and works of Irish writers have been greatly influenced by the ever-shifting light and shadow of the Irish landscape. With his atmospheric, magical photography, Tom Kelly captures this spectacle of color and mood in what is simply his best work to date. Peter Somerville-Large provides a lively accompaniment of literary background and anecdote to the images. The book follows Ireland's famous writers - from the dawn of time to the present - to their homes, workplaces and… Read More

Oakland. 2005. Conservation Press. 2nd Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0976236214. 211 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This rich and powerful story tells the stories of several colorful characters in Lake County, California shortly before the start of the Great Depression. With her first novel published at age 90, Taper vividly illuminates the thoughts, feelings, actions and hearts of her characters lives in the summer of 1927 in rural and small town Lake County, California. Most folks struggle for a livelihood in Kelseyville, a tiny farm town where pears and grapes ripen beneath the slopes of Mount Konocti, and everyone readies for the long days of harvest. The young are brash and hopeful of success -- in love, in business -- while their elders wish only for what is reasonably hard won. The promise of the harvest and the hopes of Kelsey Creek's women and men come up hard against the tragic events of this summer. With precise descriptions of smell, sound and… Read More

Berkeley. 1993. Odonian Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good Wrappers. 1878825127. The Real History series, Edited by Sandy Niemann. 94 pages. paperback. keywords: History America Assassination Robert Kennedy. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Destruction of key evidence by the Los Angeles police, intimidation of witnesses by CIA operatives, and the escape of the ‘woman in the polka-dot dress,' are all crucial elements in the author's argument that Sirhan Sirhan could not have been the only shooter. inventory #18098 ISBN: 1878825127.

New York. 1990. Penguin Books. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0140122087. Paperback Original. Kesey Collaborated With A Group From The University Of Oregon On This Novel Of Adventure. Introduction by Ken Kesey. 325 pages. paperback. Signed by Kesey. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - This novel is a collaborative effort on the part of Ken Kesey's University of Oregon writing class. The story, set in the 1930s, relates the adventures of a group of explorers in search of a major archaeological find and cosmic truth. The pilgrims include Charles Loach, an ex-con spiritualist; Dogeye, his recluse brother; a Mormon terrorist; a renegade priest; two clairvoyant sisters; a has-been reporter; a movie producer; an anthropophobic archaeologist; a pregnant woman; a veteran suffering the effects of mustard gas; and an armadillo. inventory #13288 ISBN: 0140122087.