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Parragon Books, Bath, UK. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear and corner bumps, price sticker on front cover. No interior writing or markings.Little Bear is curious and asks his grandfather a lot of questions. Fortunately, this is a grandpa who knows a lot. While searching for food, his grandfather gives him all the answers.

Parragon, Bath, UK, 2006. Pictorial boards. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, NO writing or markings.

Gallery Books, New York, 2010. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Good, edge wear and creasing, light nicks along spine and cover, previous owner's name on inside front cover, a well read book.One of the world's foremost practitioners of insult comedy, Jeffrey Ross has memorably and uproariously roasted some of our favorite celebrities. Part memoir and part how-to guide, I Only Roast the Ones I Love unveils the irreverent secrets every successful roastmaster should know.

Ace Double Novel D-109, New York, 1955. Condition: Good plus, light edge wear and spine creasing, light nicks along spine, slight yellowing of interior pages.

Harper, New York. 9th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. This also happens with couples--indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else "losing sight" of that loved one.With stunning artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, Milan Kundera has made this situation--and the vague sense of panic it inspires--the very fabric of his novel. Here brevity goes hand in hand with intensity, and a moment of bewilderment marks the start of a labyrinthine journey during which the reader repeatedly crosses the border between the real and the unreal, between what occurs in the world outside, and what the mind creates in its solitude.Of all contemporary writers, only Kundera can transform such a hidden and… Read More

Signet, New York. 12th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, creasing at corners and spine. light nicks at spine ends. Well read.Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin's honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him.

Berkley, New York. 21st paperback printing. Signed by the author. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear, very light spine crease.Signed by Gibson on the title page.From the author of Neuromancer comes a story that takes readers to 21st century Tokyo after the millennial quake, where something violently new is about to erupt.

Penguin, New York. 17th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer's timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's poetry, and evokes the impact and nuance of the Iliad's mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter… Read More

Del Rey, New York, 1989. 24th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, spine creasing, light scuffing. Well read.After scant days in his "real" world, Thomas Covenant found himself again summoned to the Land. There forty bitter years had passed, while Lord Foul, immortal enemy of the Land, moved to fulfill his prophecy of doom.The Council of Lords found their spells useless, now that Foul the Despiser held the Illearth Stone, ancient source of evil power, High Lord Elena turned in desperation to Covenant and the legendary white hold magic of his ring. And nobody knew how to use the white hold--least of all, Thomas Covenant.Thus continues one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written...

New Directions, New York. 16th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light spine crease, light crease at bottom rear cover, price sticker at rear cover.The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous prestige among readers everywhere and have been a revolutionary influence on poetry in the twentieth century. They are offered here both in their original texts and in superb English translations by Louise Varèse.

Arco Pub/Prentice Hall Press, New York, 1986. First edition. Condition: Very good plus, slight edge wear, minor soiling on covers, no dust jacket as issued.From the publisher: All airlines in service and under development as of 1986 are included in this illustrated book. Interesting nostalgia item for aviation buffs.

Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, spine has nicks and creasing, rear cover has multiple creases.A pictorial biography of the popular singer who became "the quintessence of American popular music".

Knopf, New York, 1944. First edition. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Book has some browning due to age, dust jacket has edge wear and nicks, spine has tears, price clipped.This is a series of essays written in the early 1940s during the German occupation of France and which take the form of imaginary interviews. They range for an introduction to the theatre of Goethe to a firsthand report on the liberation of Tunis and reveal larger issues than at first glance.Gide received the Nobel prize for literature in 1947.

Vintage V-8, New York. Possible 9th paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light previous price sticker residue on front cover, light nicks at spine ends.In The Immoralist , André Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his own nature. The story's protagonist, Michel, knows nothing about love when he marries the gentle Marceline out of duty to his father. On the couple's honeymoon to Tunisia, Michel becomes very ill, and during his recovery he meets a young Arab boy whose radiant health and beauty captivate him. An awakening for him both sexually and morally, Michel discovers a new freedom in seeking to live according to his own desires. But, as he also discovers, freedom can be a burden. A frank defense of homosexuality and a challenge to prevailing ethical concepts, The Immoralist is a literary landmark, marked by Gide's masterful, pure, simple style.

Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1991. First edition. Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket. DJ has slight bumps along the edges. Price clipped.From the publisher: Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming pool instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera...

Metropolitan Books, New York, 2005. 2nd trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, else fine.Interviews with David Barsamian.This volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing America's policies in an increasingly unstable world.

Phoenix, London, 2003. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, creasing at top right corner, slight creases at spine.A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey. Inspired by a painting and financed by a mysterious benefactor, they set off to discover the real Arcadia. Or what remains of it. Their journey begins in ignorance and chaos at Waterloo station and takes them through superstition and myth to harmony. In the Louvre, in front of Poussin's masterpiece, they begin to understand.

Underwood Books, Grass Valley, 1991. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Rumours had circulated for years about the strange contents of a huge unpublished work by Dick. Here at last is the first publication of portions of the legendary Exegesis - selections from 8000 pages written during the last years of his life, when Dick was wrestling with a series of spiritual visions.

Basic Books, New York, 2002. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket, very light edge wear on dust jacket, else fine.For nearly three centuries, Robinson Crusoe has been the archetypal castaway, the symbol of survival in uninhabited wilds. In this book, Tim Severin adds this enterprising hero to the roster of legendary figures whose adventures he's replicated and whose origins he's explored. With the signature approach to literary and historical sleuthing that has led the New York Times to describe him as "original, audacious, and exuberant," Severin uncovers the seaman's world that captured Daniel Defoe's imagination, recounting dramatic survival stories of sailors, pirates, castaways, and native Americans and replicating their journeys to experience for himself the adventures that inspired Robinson Crusoe. He camps on islands that famous castaways once survived on, undertakes a perilous sea voyage, and searches Nicaragua and Honduras for the Miskutu Indians, the tribe that the model… Read More

Phoenix/Orion, London, 2003. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear.Long before the first Hebrew temple, before the birth of Christ or the mission of Muhammad, there lived in Persia a prophet to whom we owe the ideas of a single god, the cosmic struggle between good and evil, and the Apocalypse. His name was Zarathustra, and his teachings eventually held sway from the Indus to the Nile and spread as far as Britain.Following Zarathustra's elusive trail back through time and across the Islamic, Christian, and Jewish worlds, Paul Kriwaczek uncovers his legacy at a wedding ceremony in present-day Central Asia, in the Cathar heresy of medieval France, and among the mystery cults of the Roman empire. He explores pre-Muslim Iran and Central Asia, ultimately bringing us face to face with the prophet himself, a teacher whose radical humility shocked and challenged his age, and whose teachings have had an enduring effect on Western thought. The result is a tour de force of… Read More