Search Results: Titles starting with B from Century Books

Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Remainder mark. Author was described by Andrew Vachss as someone who 'makes Camus look like Pollyanna.' Also wrote the novel Wild at Heart, which was made into a film by David Lynch. Esquerita Reyna (Baby Cat-Face) meets up with wild characters in her journeys through love, fundamentalist religion and extraterrestrial activity in the American south.

New York: St. Martin's, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Owner name on first free endpaper. One small tear on DJ, some edgewear.

London: Quartet Books, 1986. 1st thus. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Light scuffing on dust jacket, else fine. Seven remarkable yet largely unknown stories by four men writing in pre-Revolutionary Russia. The stories are Bad Company by Vladimir Korolenko; The Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District by Nicholas Leskov; Abyss by Leonid Andreev; and four by Alexander Kuprin - The Bracelet of Garnets, Sasha, The Army Ensign, and The Jewess.

New York: Writers and Readers Publishing, 1996. 1st Printing. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Novel of a cosmopolitan British woman who plunges herself into the life of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Crisp and unread condition.

New York: Basic Books, [1973]. 1st Edition. Hardback. Good in Good dust jacket.. Underlining throughout, else book is fine. Dust jacket has small chips, tears, faded spine.

New York: Modern Library, c. 1938. Later ptg.. Hardback. NF/VG. Translated and Edited w/ an introduction by Dr. A.A. Brill. Includes Psychopathology of Everyday Life, The Interpretation of Dreams, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, Totem and Taboo, and The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement. Small tear on half-title page. DJ has edgewear, sunning, light scuffing. A 1-inch by 3-inch piece of the top of the front flap is cut off.

Colorado Springs, Colo.: Century One Press, c. 1966. Revised Edition, 3rd ptg.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Some light wear at edges. Includes fold-out map of the real South Park area in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Remainder marks on bottom edge. Dust jacket is price-clipped, some rubbing. Title story is novella appearing here for the first time. The other stories included are: Miserere; Absence of Mercy; Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta; Helping; Under the Pitons; and Aquarius Obscured.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. Large format paperback with owner name on front cover, one small tear on back cover, else fine. A Brown Paper School book. Illustrations by Kim Solga. Ways of exploring nature.

New York: Henry Holt, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Set in North Dakota and filled with unforgettable characters, the story is a family drama suffused with dark humor that spans 40 years. Author's second novel (third book).

Viking, 1999. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Softcover. Near Fine condition. A beautifully rendered, keenly detailed and sexually frank novel about mother and marriage, love and infidelity. Spans three generations from present-day Oslo to 1930s Brooklyn. Translated from the Norwegian by Tiina Nunnally.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941. Hardback. VG. Library binding w/ printed cover. Space where pocket was glued and removed from pastedown endpaper and two library stamps. Some soil. Young adult biography illustrated by Paul Laune.

Mysterious Press, 1995. 1st US Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Slight bow to front board, else book is fine. Bertie, Prince of Wales, takes a blue-blooded approach to red-blooded murder in this mystery set in Paris in 1891 and featuring a dazzling array of historical characters, including the divine Sarah Bernhardt.

New York: Mysterious Press, [1988]. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. First of the Victorian mystery series featuring Albert Edward the Prince of Wales

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1953. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps on cover.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1973. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps.

Olympia, Wash.: State of Washington Department of Natural Resources, 1969. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps on cover. 375 pages.

Bantam, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Novel set in Runnymede, MD, a town divided by the Mason-Dixon line since before the Civil War. It's now the setting for combat of another kind as two elderly widows vie for the love of the new man in town.

HarperCollins, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. Book is as new, unread. Erdrich's fourth novel and sequel to Love Medicine.

Riverhead Books, 2000. Uncorrected Proofs. Softcover. Fine condition.. Story of a young African-American writer in Paris, determined to follow in the footsteps of such black expatriates as Langston Hughes, Josephine Baker, and James Baldwin.