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New York. 1991. May 1991. Summit Books. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0671709208. 1st Mystery. 285 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration & design by Honi Werner. keywords: Mystery Arkansas Lawyers America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A prominent Arkansas politico and state senator is murdered, and the babbling, incoherent man accused of the crime has insanity plea written all over him. Everyone, including Gideon Page, the public defender, thinks this case is nailed shut. But Gideon is curious about a few things, and what he discovers is that even the innocent need an airtight alibi, when a simple case of puppy love turns into a fatal affair to remember. inventory #23307 ISBN: 0671709208.

Pittsburgh. 2018. February 2018. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822965275. Pitt Poetry Series. 6 x 9. 72 pages . paperback. keywords: Poetry . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In Blood Pages George Bilgere continues his exploration of the joys and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in the Midwest. OK, maybe he's a bit beyond middle-aged at this point, and his rueful awareness of this makes these poems even more darkly hilarious, more deeply aware of the feckless and baffling times our nation has stumbled into. And the fact that Bilgere, relatively late in life, is now the father of two young boys brings a fresh sense of urgency to his work. Blood Pages is a guidebook to the fears, foibles, and beauties of our lovely old country as it makes its blundering, tentative way into the new century. inventory #43467 ISBN: 9780822965275.

Pittsburgh. 2018. February 2018. University of Pittsburgh Press. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822965275. Pitt Poetry Series. 6 x 9. 72 pages . paperback. keywords: Poetry . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In Blood Pages George Bilgere continues his exploration of the joys and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in the Midwest. OK, maybe he's a bit beyond middle-aged at this point, and his rueful awareness of this makes these poems even more darkly hilarious, more deeply aware of the feckless and baffling times our nation has stumbled into. And the fact that Bilgere, relatively late in life, is now the father of two young boys brings a fresh sense of urgency to his work. Blood Pages is a guidebook to the fears, foibles, and beauties of our lovely old country as it makes its blundering, tentative way into the new century. The poems in Blood Pages typically arise out of the everyday, such as eating pancakes, a scene at Starbucks, and nostalgia for an old TV set. The wonder here is… Read More

New York. 2010. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780811217149. Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. 134 pages. hardcover. Jacket art; detail of a photograph by Allen Frame. Jacket design by Semadar Megged. keywords: Literature Latin America Chile Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo is in the hospital, afflicted with an undiagnosed illness, and unable to stop hiccuping. His wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud: the Mesmerist Pierre Pain. Pain, a timid bachelor, is in love with the widow Reynaud, and agrees to help. But two mysterious Spanish men follow Pain and bribe him not to treat Vallejo, and Pain takes the money. Ravaged by guilt and anxiety, however, he does not intend to abandon his new patient, but then Pain's access to the hospital is barred and Madame Reynaud leaves Paris. Another practioner of the occult sciences enters the story (working for Franco, using his Mesmeric expertise to… Read More

Toronto. 2020. 8/17/2021. Cormorant Books. 1st Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781770866089. 288 pages. paperback. keywords: Children's Books. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Winner of the 2020 PMC Indigenous Literature Award. When Ralph Thomas comes across graffiti of a horse in an alleyway in the early hours of the morning, he is stopped in his tracks. He recognizes this horse. A half-asleep Indigenous homeless man sees Ralph's reaction to the horse and calls out to him. Over the course of a morning's worth of hot coffee on a bitterly cold day, Ralph and the homeless man talk and Ralph remembers a troubling moment from his childhood when an odd little girl, Danielle, drew the most beautiful and intriguing horse on his mother's Everything Wall, winning the competition set up for children on the Otter Lake Reserve. Ralph has lived with many questions that arose from his eleventh winter. What did the horse mean -- to him, his sister, his best friend, and, most importantly, the girl who… Read More

New York. 1985. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Price-Clipped Dustjacket With A Crease On The Inside Front Flap. 0151628351. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. 130 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration - 'Draftsman with Reclining Woman' by Albrecht Durer. keywords: Literature Translated Italy . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Mr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of the famous telescope, is a seeker after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous. Whether contemplating a cheese, a woman's breasts, or a gorilla's behavior, he brings us a vision of a world familiar by consensus, fragmented by the burden of individual perception. inventory #33893 ISBN: 0151628351.

New York. 1974. Quadrangle/NY Times Books. 1st Edition. Some Foxing, Otherwise Very Good in Hardcover.No Dustjacket. 0812904451. Illustrations by David Arkin. All in the manner of Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann's DER STRUWWELPETER. unpaginated. hardcover. Cover art by David Arkin. keywords: Children America Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Chronicling the adventures of a naughty boy and his pals, Tricky Dick and His Pals was designed to pointedly make a mockery of the Nixon administration. It opens with the lines Look at this child, so clean and slick. He's called Obnoxious Tricky Dick! He'd lie and cheat and hit and steal, and wouldn't care how bad you'd feel, and stories within the collection see Nixon getting bitten by a dog and shooting himself with his own gun. inventory #7351 ISBN: 0812904451.

New York. 1975. September 1975. Avon/Bard. 1st Bard Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0380004828. Translated from the Norwegian by James W. MacFarlane. 160 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Norway Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - OF NATURE AND DESIRE . Set in a dense, wild forest on the Norwegian seacoast, PAN is the intense, passionate chronicle of a doomed and all-consuming love affair. Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, a man possessed by the magnificence of sea, sky, and forest, spends dreamlike days hunting and fishing - until he encounters the beautiful Edvarda. At first their passionate affair mirrors the supreme ecstasy of the Nordland summer. But when Edvarda spurns him, Glahn becomes a frenzied, desperate thing . and the lovers idyl turns to tragedy. From its first publication in the late 19th century to the present, PAN has received strong critical acclaim. Written with Freudian insight years before the Freudian subconscious became widely known, this novel has been praised in Commonweal… Read More

New York. 1995. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374229422. 375 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye. Jacket photograph - 'At The Bridge', (1862-63) by Adolph Braun . Inscribed by the Author. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Paris, 1892. American historian Henry Adams, grandson of one president and great-grandson of another, is looking for Miriam Talbott, a young American student. Miriam is alive in ways Adams can scarcely remember being, but when he goes looking for her, she disappears. When another woman's body is fished out of the Seine and identified as hers, Adams becomes embroiled in the police's attempt to identify the body and in the Panama Canal scandal that threatens to engulf France. Adams' search leads him into the darker reaches of Paris, into a political world as impenetrable and threatening as the jungles of Panama. The dead body, Miriam Talbott, and the information he uncovers are the keys to the… Read More

New York. 2000. Simon & Schuster. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0689843100. The World Welcomes Hua Mei At The San Diego Zoo. unpaginated. hardcover. Jacket design by Heather Wood. keywords: Childrens Pandas. FROM THE PUBLISHER - She's the first giant panda cub ever to survive in captivity in the Western Hemisphere. There are fewer than one thousand giant pandas left in the world, making Hua Mei's birth at the World-Famous San Diego Zoo in August 1999 a cause for celebration. In Little Panda, filled with exclusive photographs from the zoo, Hua Mei's first year is chronicled as she grows quickly from a tiny infant into a curious cub. Ever ready to play a game of tag with Mama or bravely explore new territory, Hua Mei will charm readers of all ages. Acclaimed author Joanne Ryder perfectly captures the spirit and playfulness of this endangered animal while teaching readers about the life and plight of the giant panda. inventory #29566 ISBN: 0689843100.

New York. 1988. January 1988. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394550250. 255 pages. hardcover. Jacket design & illustration by Steven Guarnaccia. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Krazy Kat adores Ignatz Mouse. She sees the bricks he hurls at her head as tokens of love, and each day Ignatz arranges a cunningly different method of delivery for his missile. But when Ignatz and Krazy witness the mega-brick explosion in the desert, Krazy becomes depressed, and refuses to perform. To coax her back to work so they can regain their lost limelight, Ignatz invents his own brand of psychotherapy, orchestrates her kidnapping, and tries to seduce Krazy with promises of stardom from a Hollywood producer. As the mouse confronts the Kat with bewildering new concepts like sex, death, and politics, Ignatz and Krazy begin yearning to become round, for a fullness of body and spirit beyond their two-dimensional realm. Forming an altogether witty and winning counterpoint to… Read More

Lincoln. 1986. University Of Nebraska Press. 1st American Edition. A Few Very Small Tear Marks,Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0803211910. 156 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literary Criticism Rabelais . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In RABELAIS AND BAKHTIN, Richard M. Berrong demonstrates both the historical and textual weaknesses of the argument advanced by Mikhail Bakhtm in his influential study RABELAIS AND HIS WORLD. The publication of Bakhtin's book in the West in the late 1960s brought both Rabelais and Bakhtin to the attention of students interested in the ‘New Criticism' in literature. Bakhtin argued that the key to Rabelais's narratives was to be found in their language of popular culture, which was intended to free his readers from the ideological ‘prison house' of official, establishment discourse; to provide them with a nonofficial perspective from which to view- and combat- the establishment and its institutions. Since the publication of Bakhtin's study, scholars… Read More

New York. 2001. McElderry Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0689829760. 85 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Angela Carlino. keywords: Literature Childrens Young Adult. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The beast of the moor. Pati is sure the rumors are true -- there is a West Country panther. Now she and Simon are setting out to track it. They're confident of their survival skills, but as they are drawn deeper and deeper onto the moors, they have to ask themselves: What will happen when they find the wild cat? inventory #28845 ISBN: 0689829760.

Princeton. 2010. November 2010. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691147666. 107 color illus. 97 halftones. 366 pages. hardcover. keywords: Art . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Michelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Pietà, and the dome of St. Peter's. Yet throughout his seventy-five year career, he was engaged in another artistic act that until now has been largely overlooked, not only filling hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, sketches, and doodles - but also, on fully a third of these sheets, composing his own words. Here we can read the artist's marginal notes to his most enduring masterpieces; workaday memos to assistants and pupils; poetry and letters; and achingly personal expressions of ambition and despair surely meant for nobody's eyes but his own. Michelangelo: A Life on Paper is the first book to examine this intriguing interplay of words and images,… Read More

Berkeley . 2007. March 2007. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520248740. Senior Editor: Clayborne Carson Volume Editors: Susan Carson, Susan Englander, Troy Jackson, and Gerald L. Smith. Martin Luther King Papers, 6. 755 pages. hardcover. keywords: History Martin Luther King Religion Black America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Dedicated to documenting the life of America's best-known advocate for peace and justice, The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. breaks the chronology of its series to present King's never-before-published sermon file. In 1997 Mrs. Coretta Scott King granted the King Papers Project permission to examine papers kept in boxes in the basement of the Kings' home. The most significant finding was a battered cardboard box that held more than two hundred folders containing documents King used to prepare his celebrated sermons. This private collection that King kept in his study sheds considerable light on the theology and preaching… Read More

Berkeley . 2014. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520282698. Senior Editor: Clayborne Carson Volume Editors: Susan Carson, Susan Englander, Troy Jackson, and Gerald L. Smith. Martin Luther King Papers, 6. 709 pages. hardcover. keywords: History Martin Luther King Black America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Following Kennedy's inauguration in January 1961, King's high expectations for the new administration gave way to disappointment as the president hesitated to commit to comprehensive civil rights legislation. As the initial Freedom Ride catapulted King into the national spotlight in May, tensions with student activists affiliated with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were exacerbated after King refused to participate in subsequent freedom rides. These tensions became more evident after King accepted an invitation in December 1961 to help the SNCC-supported Albany Movement in southwest Georgia. King's arrests in Albany prompted… Read More

Pittsburgh. 2012. January 2012. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822961840. Pitt Poetry Series. 69 pages. paperback. Cover art by May Stevens, 'White Only,' 1963. Cover design by Ann Walston. keywords: Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - White Papers is a series of untitled poems that deal with issues of race from a number of personal, historical, and cultural perspectives. Expanding the territory of her 2006 book Blue Front, which focused on a lynching her father witnessed as a child, this book turns, among other things, to Martha Collins' childhood. Throughout, it explores questions about what it means to be white, not only in the poet's life, but also in our culture and history, even our pre-history. The styles and forms are varied, as are the approaches; some of the poems address race only implicitly, and the book, like Blue Front, includes some documentary and 'found' material. But the focus is always on getting at what it has meant… Read More

New York. 1990. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670829463. Illustrated by Alexandra Day. 32 pages. hardcover. keywords: Children . FROM THE PUBLISHER - A boy, his father, and his toys take to the water. inventory #14082 ISBN: 0670829463.

London. 1997. British Film Institute. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0851703658. 96 pages. paperback. keywords: Film. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Les enfants du paradis, a magnificent picaresque saga of parisian street life and popular culture, has been called the greatest film ever made. Completed during the occupation, it nevertheless boasted the largest set ever to have been built in a French studio, a crowd of extras and, under the direction of Marcel Carne, some of the most accomplished technicians and actors available (including Arletty and Jean-Louis Barrault as the central couple doomed to remain apart). Jill Forbes examines how, at a time of crisis, the film reimagined the history of France. Although les Enfants du paradis is escapist, even fantastic, Forbes finds in it a radical, counter-cultural sensibility concerned with destabilising social hierarchies and prescribed sexual roles and questioning the opposition between life and art. inventory #34811 ISBN: 0851703658.

Berkeley. 2004. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520240162. 330 pages. hardcover. keywords: Guatemala History Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz–an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala–tells the story of the village of Santa María Tzejá, near the border with Mexico. Manz writes eloquently about Guatemala's tortured history and shows how the story of this village–its birth, destruction, and rebirth–embodies the forces and conflicts that define the country today. Drawing on interviews with peasants, community leaders, guerrillas, and paramilitary forces, Manz creates a richly detailed political portrait of Santa María Tzejá, where highland Maya… Read More