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New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 308pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Black paper over boards with spine lettered in yellow. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart. For more than seventeen years, this devoted and ambitious doctor has been in love with an educated,… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books, 1979. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 7" X 4 1/4"; 6 7/8" X 4 1/4". 214pp, 246pp. Mild wear to color pictorial wraps featuring the art of Gene Szafran (1941-2011) and others, with bumping and rubbing to extremities and faint creases to spines. Bindings are firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid and overall well-preserved pair of early printings of the first two published books, and the first two books in her Holdfast Chronicles, by the late Hugo and Nebula Award-winning writer Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023). This important work of the feminist and queer science fiction of the 1970s introduces readers to a post-nuclear-apocalyptic dystopia where men and the "fems" they blame for the end of the world live in strange, sometimes separate societies.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1974. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. First Edition. Paperback. Signed by Suzy McKee Charnas to title page. Stated first printing. 7" X 4 1/4". 214pp. Mild wear to color pictorial wraps featuring the art of Gene Szafran (1941-2011), with small tears to head and tail of spine, bumping and rubbing to extremities, and faint crease to rear. All edges yellow. Binding is firm, tight, and sound, with no creasing to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid and overall well-preserved first printing, signed by the late Hugo and Nebula Award-winning writer Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023), of her first published book and the first volume of The Holdfast Chronicles, Walk to the End of the World. This important work of the feminist and queer science fiction of the 1970s introduces readers to a post-nuclear-apocalyptic dystopia where men and the "fems" they blame for the end of the world live in strange, sometimes separate societies.

New York: Grand Central, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Andrew McCarthy to specially bound-in page by the publisher. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 245pp. Gentle shelfwear to dust jacket. Bound in gray paper over boards, with spine backed in black and lettered in white. Gentle shelfwear to binding, firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. A highly presentable signed first printing of this intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following Andrew McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author and actor of such iconic films as Pretty in Pink and Less Than Zero, as he walks the Camino de Santiago with his son Sam. ABOUT WALKING WITH SAM: When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest, as well as recreate his own life-altering… Read More

Glendale: Balcony Press, 2011. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 10 3/4" X 10 1/4". 192pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper over boards with rubbing and gentle bumps to covers and edges. Price-sticker to rear cover. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: John Marx is of the generation of design architects who witnessed their pencils morph into mouses and their drafting tables into computer desktops. Throughout this transition, he has maintained a remarkable aesthetic consistency in his architectural projects. Wandering the Garden of Technology and Passion is a study of digital design through Marx's work. This beautifully illustrated book traces the professional path of an architect whose mastery of digital tools transformed his practice into a global player, but who still manages to hold on to the intimate qualities of a boutique practice.(Publisher).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. Stated First Edition. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xi, 315pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. "For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/fair. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/8" X 5 3/4". 307pp. True First Edition, First Printing with statement and code B-G on copyright page and price of $3.50 to front flap. Rather heavy edgewear to dust jacket, with chipping at extremities and open tears to spine. Dust soiling to rear panel of dust jacket and inked marks to spine and front flap. Green cloth over boards with spine backed in dark blue cloth. Mild edgewear to binding. Crease to spine. Front hinge a touch tender. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid first printing copy of John Cheever's first novel.

New York: Modern Day Periodicals, 1975. Staplebound. Good. Staplebound. 10 3/4" X 8 1/4". 66pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, toning, chipping, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Age-toning to pages. Light chipping to edges of last few pages. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding remains sound. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. An overall solid copy of this 1975 war magazine on tanks.

New York: Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2008. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 3/4" X 7 1/4". 48pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Elephants have been deployed as weapons for centuries, particularly in South and South-East Asia, where war elephants constituted the bulk of most armies in the region from antiquity right up to the 19th century. This book offers an insight into the incredible history of these "living tanks," focusing on the design of the equipment and armament that made them so terrifying, particularly the development and structure of the fighting tower. The author, Konstantin S. Nossov goes on to trace the battle history of war elephants, from their deployment against Alexander the Great's army at the battle of Gaugamela, through to their use in the 19th century by the myriad armies of South-East Asia, all the time analyzing the battle formation and tactics of war elephants in… Read More

Racine: Whitman Publishing Company, 1940. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 3 3/4" X 5 3/4". 64pp. Light rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Cleanly punched hole to front and rear cover of A Guide to American Airplanes. Rubbing to insides of covers of both volumes. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bindings are sound. War Planes includes 60 full color illustrated airplanes. American Airplanes includes 56 full color illustrated airplanes. Light rubbing to exterior of metal plane. Winding mechanism of toy appears to no longer function.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". viii, 352pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket with a small spot of toning to rear cover. Light toning to edges of pictorial paper over boards. Head and tail of spine are lightly bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A highly presentable first printing of this 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award winning novel by Ha Jin. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Ha Jin's masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War. In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarly and self-effacing clerical officer in Mao's "volunteer" army, is taken prisoner south of the 38th Parallel. Because he speaks English, he soon becomes an intermediary… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. Stated First Edition. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 396pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in red paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: #1 New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley takes us back to Sugar Island in this high-stakes thriller about the power of discovering your stolen history. Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But as the rising number of missing Indigenous women starts circling closer to home, as her family becomes embroiled in a high-profile murder investigation, and as greedy grave robbers… Read More

Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2016. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Printing. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". viii, 351pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers and edges of dust jacket. Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine. Pages bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this text that explores the relationship between American civilians and their military.

Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1986. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7". ix, 82pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of black cloth over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book traces the history of the Washington Iron Works, in Franklin County, a small charcoal furnace typical in size and operation. The second Virginia works erected south of the James River and the first major industry of Franklin County, the Washington Iron Works differed from other antebellum Virginia ironworks in two ways: its continued vitality (in a period when iron-manufacturing companies rose and fell with alarming regularity) and the unusual talents and personalities of the men associated with it. The owner's of the ironworks and their extended families were among the most influential inhabitants of the county in the antebellum period, and their role in the county's history is remembered there even today.(Publisher).

London: Oxford University Press. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 6 1/2" X 4 1/4". 32pp. MIld rubbing and toning to covers and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Previous owner's name in ink to title page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this booklet detailing the classic Indian story of The Water Carrier's Son.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiv, 238pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Faint dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in medieval cities and monasteries, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance. Roberta Magnusson explores the systems' technologies how they worked, what uses the water served and also the social rifts that created struggles over access to this basic necessity. Mindful of theoretical questions about what hastens technological change and how society and technology mutually influence one another, the author supplies a… Read More

London: Little, Brown, 2005. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xi, 401pp. Rubbing, creasing, and several small tears to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Clear tape used to repair tear at bottom rear of jacket. Rubbing and bumps to corners and edges of brown paper over boards. Lean to spine. Toning to edges of text block. Lacks front free endpaper. Previous owner's name in ink to half-title page. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book brilliantly charts history's many different ways of explaining the unconscious mind, from ancient descriptions of the "underworld" to theories of contemporary neuroscience. Guy Claxton's beautifully written book takes in intellectual and cultural history, literature, and spirituality. In The Wayward Mind, the common image of the mind is skillfully redrawn to acknowledge the constant influence of its invisible foundations on everyday human behavior.(Publisher).

New York: Penguin Books, 2021. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. Signed by Alice Waters in ink. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 191pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eats In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture, the philosophy at the core of her life's work. When Waters first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. Customers responded to the locally sourced organic ingredients, to the dishes made by hand, and to the welcoming hospitality that infused the small space—human qualities that were disappearing from a country increasingly seduced by takeout, frozen dinners, and prepackaged ingredients. Waters came to see that the phenomenon of… Read More

Portland: Timber Press, 2023. Hardcover. Very good +. Hardcover. Signed by Mary Reynolds in ink to front free endpaper. 8 1/4" X 6 1/4". 275pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: "Reynolds gives us a much-needed reason for hope. The gardener, the conservationist, the city planner, and the nature lover will all be inspired for this wonderful book shows how thousands of even small wildlife friendly gardens can provide habitat for embattled wildlife around the world." —Jane Goodall, Phd, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace Individuals can't save the world alone. But if millions of us work together to save our own patch of earth—then we really have a shot. How do we do it? With Acts of Restorative Kindness (ARK). An ARK is a restored, native ecosystem. It's a thriving patch of native plants and creatures that have been allowed and supported to re-establish in the… Read More

New York: Avid Reader Press, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. As new/as new. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front free endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 244pp. As New in As New dust jacket. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—made into the Academy Award-winning movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper—comes a poignant and hopeful novel about a widower who takes in a grieving teenager and inspires a magical revival in their small town. Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone in Majestic sees Lucas as a hero—everyone, that is, except Lucas himself. Insisting that his deceased wife, Darcy, visits him every night in the form of an angel, Lucas spends his time writing letters to his former Jungian analyst, Karl. It is only when Eli, an eighteen-year-old young… Read More