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Boston. 1992. South End Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 089608437x. 223 pages. paperback. Cover by Dione Brooks & Todd Jailer. keywords: Mexico History Labor Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Incorporating scores of interviews with workers, union officials, women's organizations, lawyers and human rights activists, Dan LaBotz illustrates the [history] of Mexican workers and looks at their post-NAFTA prospects. inventory #35777 ISBN: 089608437x.

Boston. 1929. Houghton Mifflin. 1st Edition. Good. No Dustjacket. 302 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America American Indian. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This Pulitzer Prize - winning novel captures the essence of the Southwest in the early 1900s - and depicts a young Native American couple experiencing all the uncertainties and joys of first love. Laughing Boy is one of the most powerful novels in American fiction. inventory #5125

New York. 1982. Penguin Books. Reprinted Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. A Few Instances of Yellow Highlighting Inside, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 0140443762. Translated from the French by James Michie. Introduction by Geoffrey Grigson. 142 pages. paperback. The cover shows The Fox and the Stork by Jean-Baptiste Oudry in the Musee National de Versailles (Photo: Giraudon). keywords: Literature France Translated Fables. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95) is celebrated for his charm, his absent-mindedness and, above all, his wonderful books of fables. Plundering Aesop, Phaedrus, Bidpai and the Persians, Italians and French, he reinvented the fable in a verse full of irresistible brio and freshness. His tales of speaking animals are always rooted firmly in the human world, and collectively they represent one of the high points of European civilization, achieving, over three centuries, an almost proverbial familiarity. ‘How inquisitive La Fontaine was, how indefatigable .… Read More

New York. 2012. Little Brown. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780316200905. Art by Jane Mount. 226 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Jane Mount. keywords: Art Books Reading. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The books that we choose to keep --let alone read-- can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In MY IDEAL BOOKSHELF, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most; books that define their dreams and ambitions and in many cases helped them find their way in the world. Contributors include Malcolm Gladwell, Thomas Keller, Michael Chabon, Alice Waters, James Patterson, Maira Kalman, Judd Apatow, Chuck Klosterman, Miranda July, Alex Ross, Nancy Pearl, David Chang, Patti Smith, Jennifer Egan, and Dave Eggers, among many others. With colorful and endearingly hand-rendered images of book spines by Jane Mount, and first-person commentary from all the contributors, this is a perfect gift for avid readers, writers, and all who have known the influence of a great… Read More

New York. 1952. October 1952. Pocket Books. 1st Pocket Books Paperback Edition. Good in Worn Wrappers. 212 pages. paperback. 896. Cover illustration by Morgan Kane. keywords: Mystery Vintage Paperbacks. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This private eye, RICK LARKAN, is REALLY TOUGH and needs to be. He's got a blonde in his apartment, a blonde with half a million bucks in cold cash belonging to someone else. The blonde's girl friend has been tortured and murdered. His own buddy has been killed. His clients want him to turn up another murderer, and the polite want his help in cracking a gang of smugglers. And all this in America's most lush playground, Miami . a town where vicious people often play too rough at vice and smuggling, and swollen citizens come floating in from Biscayne Bay . dead and stinking. inventory #37165

New York. 1999. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0393320375. 191 pages. paperback. Cover: Geoff Spear. keywords: Politics Global Capitalism America Sports Endorsements Michael Jordan. FROM THE PUBLISHER - With Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, Walter LaFeber has written a biography, a social history, and a far-ranging economic critique. From basketball prodigy to international phenomenon to seductive commercial ideal, Michael Jordan is the supreme example of how American corporations have used technology in a brave, massively wired new world to sell their products in every corner of the globe. LaFeber's examination of Nike and its particular dominion over the global marketplace is often scathing, while his fascinating mini-biography of Michael Jordan and the commercial history of basketball reveal much about American society. For this new paperback edition, LaFeber has added a chapter on globalization in a changed world, after mass protests and since September 11.… Read More

Columbia. 1989. Readers International. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0930523644. Translated from the French by Jacqueline Kaye. 180 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Morocco North Africa . FROM THE PUBLISHER - RUE DU RETOUR is about a poet's return - to home and family, to himself, and to the eternal values of love and hope. inventory #25029 ISBN: 0930523644.

Toronto. 2021. 9/28/2021. Second Story Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781772602036. Ciel. Translated by Andrea Zanin. 192 pages. paperback. keywords: Children's Books. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Ciel may have settled into high school with their best friend Stephie and new buddy Liam, but life is anything but ordinary for this non-binary trans kid! Between an important science project for school and their ever more popular YouTube channel, Ciel and their friends find themselves involved in a campaign to represent the LGBT Alliance. Life is taking off in all directions! inventory #46626 ISBN: 9781772602036.

New York. 1962. May 1962. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451501276. Translated From The French By Richard AldingtonForeword By Harry Levin. 384 pages. paperback. CT127. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback Literature France Translated 18th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The systematic corruption of the innocent by two partners - in - jealousy is the theme of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the great French novel that crystallizes the tragedy of the highly civilized society where the intellect reigns supreme in every facet of life, especially love. Revealed through their intimate, wickedly detached correspondence.; the conquests effected by the Marquise de Merteuil and the libertine Valmont, her former lover, are, on the surface, motivated by revenge. In a deeper sense, they are seen to be the results of a power struggle between the pair for sexual supremacy. Laclos has likened their exposure and eventual ruin to the doom of the hyperrational… Read More

New York. 1996. Scribner. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684804107. 1st Novel From The Director Of The Bunting Institute At Radcliffe. 319 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Black America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This searing first novel is the story of Sarah Stewart, a young black Harvard graduate in the 1960s whose growing interest in Africa-- and down a path of self-discovery, love, and the choice between loyalty and truth. This is at once the story of the emerging civil rights movement and the beginning of Afro-centrism. Lyrical. Lyrical, moving, and ultimately uncompromising, 'Sarah's Psalm' is also a powerful story of love and coming of age. inventory #22519 ISBN: 0684804107.

New York. 1997. Scribner. 1st Scribner Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0684832798. 320 pages. paperback. keywords: African American Literature Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This searing first novel is the story of Sarah Stewart, a young black Harvard graduate in the 1960s whose growing interest in Africa-and down a path of self-discovery, love, and the choice between loyalty and truth. This is at once the story of the emerging civil rights movement and the beginning of Afro-centrism. Lyrical. Lyrical, moving, and ultimately uncompromising, Sarah's Psalm is also a powerful story of love and coming of age. inventory #40685 ISBN: 0684832798.

New York. 1996. Scribner. Uncorrected Proofs. Very Good in Wrappers. 0684804107. 1st Novel From The Director Of The Bunting Institute At Radcliffe. 319 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Black America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This searing first novel is the story of Sarah Stewart, a young black Harvard graduate in the 1960s whose growing interest in Africa-- and down a path of self-discovery, love, and the choice between loyalty and truth. This is at once the story of the emerging civil rights movement and the beginning of Afro-centrism. Lyrical. Lyrical, moving, and ultimately uncompromising, 'Sarah's Psalm' is also a powerful story of love and coming of age. inventory #43946 ISBN: 0684804107.

New York. 1945. Hill & Wang. 4th Paperback Printing. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. Translated from the Swedish by Alexandra Dick. 228 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Translated Sweden Scandinavia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The narrator of this novel is a dwarf at the court of an Italian Renaissance prince-his master's favorite, mascot, plaything, and evil genius. He is a kind of articulate, clever Caliban, whose intuition for evil in others brings him great power and finally causes his downfall. A great antagonism develops between the dwarf and Maestro Bernardo, a painter and inventor reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci, who seeks to encourage the prince's humanistic leanings. The story reaches a climax when the prince's enemies, with whom he has at last made peace, are treacherously murdered at a banquet, and the licentious princess turns away from her sins to the religious life: in both these events, the dwarf plays a sinister part. This drama of the conflict in man's soul… Read More

Pittsburgh. 2018. March 2018. Autumn House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781938769283. 256 pages. paperback. keywords: Memoir San Francisco Oakland Chinese American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This memoir details a first-generation Chinese immigrant growing up in the projects of San Francisco. In this collection, we learn about Chinese history, gangs, graffiti, and the secret violence that can occur within a family. inventory #43402 ISBN: 9781938769283.

Santa Fe. 1986. Tooth Of Time Books. 1st American Edition. Slightly Water Marking To Top Page Cotners,Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 0940510146. An edition of 3000 copies set in 11 point Barcelona Roman & Italic design by Wendy Welsh & John Brandi printed by Thomson-Shore. Bilingual texts in Spanish and English. 225 pages. paperback. keywords: Poetry Translated Latin America Mexico Anthology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - POETS INCLUDED: Luis Miguel Aguilar; Gaspar Aguilera Diaz; Homero Aridjis; Alejandro Aura; JosE Carlos Becerra; Coral Bracho; Ricardo Castillo; Elsa Cross; Mario del Valle; Raul Garduño; Orlando GuillEn; Francisco Hernández; David Huerta; Elizabeth Hulverson; Eduardo Langagne; Elva Maclas; Hector Manjárrez; Gilberto Meza; JosE Emilio Pacheco; Jaime Reyes; Jose Luis Rivas; Rafael Torres Sanchez; Ricardo Yañez. inventory #15095 ISBN: 0940510146.

Berkeley. 2013. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520269729. Edited By Garrett Caples, Andrew Joron, and Nancy Joyce Peters, with a Foreword By Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 6 x 9. 8 b/w photos. 500 pages . hardcover. keywords: American Literature Poetry . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia represents the lifework of the most visionary poet of the American postwar generation. Philip Lamantia (1927-2005) played a major role in shaping the poetics of both the Beat and the Surrealist movements in the United States. First mentored by the San Francisco poet Kenneth Rexroth, the teenage Lamantia also came to the attention of the French Surrealist leader AndrE Breton, who, after reading Lamantia's youthful work, hailed him as a voice that rises once in a hundred years. Later, Lamantia went on the road with Jack Kerouac and shared the stage with Allen Ginsberg at the famous Six Gallery reading in San Francisco, where Ginsburg first read… Read More

Edison. 1998. April 1998. Chartwell Books. Hardcover. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0785808205. 125 pages. hardcover. keywords: Games Gambling Casinos. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Techniques, strategies and hints on how to play any game you find in a casino. inventory #37861 ISBN: 0785808205.

New York. 1954. McGraw Hill. 1st American Edition. Previous Owner’s Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Good in Worn Dustjacket With Some Pieces Missing . 282 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Denis Williams. keywords: Literature Caribbean Barbados Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER - THE EMIGRANTS begins in a sense where Mr. Lamming's first prose narrative, IN THE CASTLE OF MY SKIN, left off. The emigrants are a group of West Indians who have set out for England in a blind search for a ‘better break.' In three sections - ‘A Voyage,' ‘Rooms and Residents,' and ‘Another Time' - Mr. Lamming describes their voyage over and their settlement in the mother country. He shows us the small world of the emigrants, torn loose from their native moorings, within the larger world of England. Writing lyrically and with imagination, he reveals their aspirations and doubts, their bewilderment and lonely isolation as they seek to find roots in an unfamiliar society whose complex terms… Read More

Minneapolis. 1999. University Of Minnesota Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0816631573. 184 pages. paperback. keywords: Radio Politics America History Radical. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It has been more than twenty years since President Nixon declared the War on Drugs. In On Drugs, David Lenson delivers a scathing indictment of this war as an effort based, like all attempts to eradicate 'getting high', on an incomplete understanding of human nature. From lotus-eaters to hippies to crackheads, he contends, history has shown the state's inability to legislate the bloodstreams of its citizens. Lenson ventures beyond conventional genres to view the drug debate from the largely forgotten perspective of those who use drugs. In successfully walking the fine line between the antidrug hysteria of the 1980s and an advocacy of drug use, Lenson shatters the ban on debate regarding drugs enforced in the 'Just Say No' campaign and reveals the myriad ways 'straight society' demonizes… Read More

Berkeley. 2002. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0520229495. 380 pages. paperback. keywords: Anthropology Post-Colonial Africa Colonialism History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa–mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. Paul S. Landau and Deborah Kaspin have assembled a wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments, cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits. The contributors, experts in a number of disciplines, discuss various modes of visuality in Africa and of Africa, investigating the interplay of visual images with personal identity, class, gender, politics, and wealth. Integral to the argument of the… Read More