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Harper, Toronto, 2016. First paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, price sticker on rear cover.1878 Paris. Following their father's sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant seventeen francs a week, she will be trained to enter the famous ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work as an extra in a stage adaptation of Émile Zola's naturalist masterpiece L'Assommoir.Marie throws herself into dance and is soon modeling in the studio of Edgar Degas, where her image will forever be immortalized as Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. There she meets a wealthy male patron of the ballet, but might the assistance he offers come with strings attached? Meanwhile Antoinette, derailed by her love for the dangerous Émile Abadie,… Read More

Touchstone, New York, 2012. 2nd hardcover printing. Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket, light edge wear and corner bumps and very light sun fading.Building on the huge success of books like The Paleo Diet, Nell Stephenson's Paleoista offers a fun, female-friendly way for women to enjoy the health benefits of what has been called the "Caveman Diet," including more than fifty simple, delicious Paleo recipes!

Intervarsity Press, 1993. Presumed 15th paperback printing as number line shows 15/93. Condition: Very good plus, light sunning and nicks at spine ends, price sticker on rear cover.

Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2012. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge and corner wear, faint and small crease at top right comer, price sticker on rear over.Published for the first time in English, Paris 1928 (Nexus II) continues in true Henry Miller fashion the narrative begun in Nexus, the third volume of the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy. A rough draft that Miller ultimately abandoned, the story describes Miller's first wondrous glimpse of Paris and underscores several of the recurrent themes of his work. These previously unpublished memoirs capture Miller's troubled relationship with his second wife, June; reflections on what he left behind in New York's sweltering summer of 1927; and the anticipation of all that awaits him in Europe. Paris 1928 presents Miller's views on Europe on the brink of great changes, counterpointed by his own personal sexual revelry and freedom of choice. Illustrations in this edition are by Australian artist and filmmaker Garry Shead.

Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and spine nicks.Includes interviews with William Gibson and Samuel R. Delany, contributions by Jonathan Lethem, David Gates, Roberto Bolano, Laurel Nakadate, and Mika Rottenberg.

New Directions Paperback, New York. 14th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, price sticker on rear cover.Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art, and women. Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry—a format which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux, and freedom of his age—and one of the founding texts of literary modernism.

Vintage, New York. 4th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge, spine, and corner wear.In Pass the Butterworms Cahill takes us to the steppes of Mongolia, where he spends weeks on horseback alongside the descendants of Genghis Khan and masters the "Mongolian death trot"; to the North Pole, where he goes for a pleasure dip in 36-degree water; to Irian Jaya New Guinea, where he spends a companionable evening with members of one of the last head-hunting tribes. Whether observing family values among the Stone Age Dani people, or sampling delicacies like sautéed sago beetle and pre-masticated manioc beer, Cahill is a fount of arcane information and a master of self-deprecating humor.

Berkley, New York. 35th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.It is fall. Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets, historian, ex-Marine and CIA analyst Jack Ryan is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter, when a terrorist attack takes place before his eyes. Instinctively, he dives forward to break it up, and is shot. It is not until he wakes up in the hospital that he learns whose lives he has saved -- the Prince and Princess of Wales and their new young son -- and which enemies he has made -- the Ulster Liberation Army, an ultra-left-wing splinter of the IRA.By his impulsive act, he has gained both the gratitude of a nation and then enmity of hits most dangerous men -- men who do not sit on their hate. And in the weeks and months to come, it is Jack Ryan, and his family, who will become the targets of that hate.

Orb Books, New York, 2012. First printing of the second edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and nicks at spine ends.Peace is a spellbinding, brilliant tour de force of the imagination. The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living out his last days in a small midwestern town, the novel reveals a miraculous dimension as the narrative unfolds. For Weer's imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself. Powerful, moving, and uncompromisingly honest, Peace ranks alongside the finest literary works of our time.

No edition noted. Condition: very good, edge and corner wear and slight nicks at bottom spine end.

Viking, New York, 2003. First edition. Condition: Near fine, dust jacket has light edge wear, slight wrinkling on rear cover of dust jacket.From the publisher: A lively, historical account of the rise and fall of a great empire; a war lasting three decades at the end of the fifth century B.C. E., the Peloponnesian War pitted Greek against Greek --the Athenians, a democratic government, with extraordinary cultural achievements-- against the Spartans, a militaristic, oligarchic state.

Schoken, New York, 1986. 33rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, one long faint crease at front right cover, light wrinkling at spine.Gathering many of Kafka's shorter fiction, these classic stories, from The Metamorphosis to A Hunger Artist, form the basis of a book that should sit on everyone's shelves.

Condition: Book is very good, light corner bumps and edge wear, previous owner's name on inside front cover and initials on last page but no underlining or other writing; dust jacket has tears, chips, and creasing.Scribner A-1.69 (UV)

Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, else fine. Hundreds of ready-to-use phrases to help you get the best possible salary, perks or promotion.The latest guide in the top-selling, easy-to-use Perfect Phrases series gives you the correct vocabulary to use to get the best salary or job offer possible. Using words and phrases that take away the taboo surrounding the subject of money, you can ask for what you want-and deserve-with confidence.Provides quick, easy steps that prepare readers for salary negotiations, job interviews, or performance reviews, giving them the competitive edge.

Condition: Good plus, light edge wear and corner creasing, spine has light creasing and wear at edges, no writing or underlining.From the ancient near east through the age of absolutism. Features a diverse range of primary sources for analysis, with classic and contemporary documents of varying length.

Scholastic, Toronto, 2013. First print. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, light creasing at corners and slight nicks at edges, previous owners name on inside front cover. ALL stickers still intact.Includes 40 stickers of hilarious pets.

Pocket Essentials, UK, 2001. First paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light corner wear, price sticker residue on rear cover.Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. At a time when most science fiction was about cowboys in outer space, Philip K. Dick explored the landscapes of the mind, conjured with fake realities, and was able to make you believe six impossible things before breakfast. He embodied the counter-culture a decade before the 1960s. Perhaps best known for Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?—the novel which inspired Blade Runner—Dick's world is one where reality is only provisional, where the President might be an android, where psychiatrists come in suitcases, and where God speaks through cat food commercials and comes in a handy aerosol can. As… Read More

Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps, NO underwriting or highlighting. This is a large book and may require additional postage.As the most widely adopted new physics book in more than 50 years, Knight's Physics for Scientists and Engineers was published to widespread critical acclaim from professors and students.

Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps, small creases at corners, NO underwriting or highlighting. This is a large book and may require additional postage.As the most widely adopted new physics book in more than 50 years, Knight's Physics for Scientists and Engineers was published to widespread critical acclaim from professors and students.

Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear and corner bumps, one long crease at rear cover, NO underwriting or highlighting. This is a large book and may require additional postage.As the most widely adopted new physics book in more than 50 years, Knight's Physics for Scientists and Engineers was published to widespread critical acclaim from professors and students.