Rare books from Books of the World

Cornwall, Connecticut: Mercury Press, Inc. August 1980. Digest-size Magazine. First Edition. Fine. No Mailing label. In protective cover.
Thomas M. Disch's hugely popular children's novel The Brave Little Toaster first appeared in print in the August 1980 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction with cover art by Gahan Wilson six years before it was published in book form. It won the 1980 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Fiction, the 1981 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette, and the 1982 Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story. It was also nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Balrog Awards and inspired an additional book and three children's movies. Disch published The Brave Little Toaster in an adult science fiction magazine after it was rejected by children's book publishers who thought the notion of appliances talking and having characters was just too far-fetched and children would not accept it. Even after Disney bought the story rights and had the movie in… Read More

Lisboa : Ministerio do Planeamento e da Administracao do Territorio, Secretaria de Estado da Ciencia e Tecnologia ; Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical, Centro de Estudos de Historia e Cartografia Antiga. Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light shelfwear to covers, otherwise As New. 1048 pages. Chiefly Portuguese; includes some documents in English. Heavy item, possible additional charges for expedited or international shipping.

New York: Pantheon, March 1979. Trade Paperback. First Revised American Edition (stated) / first printing (no additional printings listed). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, very tight, and uncreased. Corners sharp. Very slight edge wear is the only thing keeping this from being As New. Its hard to imagine a 40+ year-old book in better condition than this. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 172 pages. Lenin is the key to understanding the Russian Revolution. His dream was the creation of the world's first Socialist state. It was a short-lived dream that became a nightmare when Stalin rose to absolute power in 1929. Lenin was the avant-garde revolutionary who adapted Marxist theory to the practical realities of a vast, complex and backward Russia.

New York: Pantheon, November 1982. Trade Paperback. First American Edition (stated). Near Fine. Lightly tanned. Unmarked. Binding is straight, tight and uncreased. Light shelf and reading wear. Dog-ear to top front corner. See photos. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 191 pages.

An introduction to the influential economics treatise explains the concepts of commodities, exchange value, abstract labor, money, and class struggle.

RARE! London: Jesuit Missions, 1985. Paperback. First Edition (not stated). Very Good. Text unmarked. A few notes to penultimate (blank) page. Spine straight, but creased and wrinkled. Creases to both covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xv + 169 pages. Selections from the personal narrative of Fr Cuthbert Cary-Elwes describing his pioneer missionary effort among the aboriginal Indians of British Guiana.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875. 8vo (9 x 6 x 15 inches). Three-quarter bound in black morocco-grain cloth with marbled-paper sides. Spines in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, intricate gilt tooling in the remainder. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. First vol. has frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Armoral bookplate of Howell Wharton Bickley (1842-80) to each front pastedown. "MButler" penciled on top of three bookplates. A handsome set, particularly when shelved. All volumes unmarked, tightly bound, square and clean. No evident repairs. Interiors are in exceptional condition for books nearly 150 years old, with only slight tanning. Exteriors show a good deal of reading and shelf wear and general abrasion. Rubbing and chipping at hinges and spine ends. A 1.5 inch gouge mars the spine of Vol. 5. Dents to top and bottom edges of the rear covers of Vols. 5 and 7. Part of the marbled is missing from the rear cover of Vol. 7 and front cover of… Read More

South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 1996. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition (stated). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Slight reading wear to lower corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 436 pages. For a few years in the early 1960s the CIA seemed to be running a perfect covert war in Laos - quiet, inexpensive, just enough arms to help Meo (Hmong) tribesmen defend their home territory from the communist Pathet Lao. Then the big American war next door in Vietnam spilled across the border. How the perfect covert war ballooned into sorrow and disaster is the story Roger Warner tells in Shooting at the Moon, awarded the Cornelius Ryan Award for 1995's Best Book on Foreign Affairs by the Overseas Press Club. Warner describes his characters with a novelist's touch - soldiers and diplomats busy with war-making; CIA field officers from bareknuckle warriors to the quiet men pulling strings in the shadows; and above all the Meo as they realized… Read More

Freetown: Peace Corps Sierra Leone, 1987 (date approximate). Staple-Bound Photocopy. Good. 90 pages. "We Mariatu no de, we foh Manej we yone. Na we yone dis."

London: Macmillan Caribbean, 1974. Trade Paperback. 1990 reprint. Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. vi + 218 pages.
Contents : The first Guyanese; The Discovery of Guiana; The search for El Dorado; The European Settlement; The Introduction of sugar and slaves; The first English Invasion; The Buccaneers; The Development of Essequibo and Berbice; The Rise Demerara; The return of the English; The French occupation; The Third English Invasion; The final English Invasion; The Abolition of slavery; Negro villages and Immigration; Making Guyana a modern state; The boundaries of Guyana From Colony to co-operative republic.

Georgetown, Guyana: Fr. Andrew Morrison, SJ, June 1998. Trade Paperback. First Edition (stated). Very Good. Unmarked. Spine heavily creased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. 419 pages.
The only book to date that can be read to understand the period of Forbes Burnham's control of Guyana is this superb work by Jesuit priest, Father Andrew Morrison, the former editor of the Catholic Standard, the official paper of the Catholic Church in Guyana. It is essential reading to get a glimpse of how an unelected government can destroy a country.

Rare! Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree Press, 2000. Paperback. First Edition. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 52 pages. A collection of short stories set mainly in Guyana which feature brave, ingenious, kindly, and sometimes mischievous animals and children.

Bridgetown, Barbados: Carib Research & Publications, 1987. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Text pristine. Tanning to edges and first and last pages. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Shelf and reading wear to covers. Errata slip. xxii + 299 pages. Illustrated, maps, photos.

Georgetown, Guyana: David Chanderbali, 1994. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Published by author. Near Fine. Inscribed "Best Wishes" "July 1995" (no name) by author on first page. Text block unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Shelf and reading wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xiv + 277 pages.

Bangkok: Asia Books, 2000. Trade Paperback. Third Edition, second printing, 2001. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 476 pages.
The Ravens were fighter pilots working as Forward Air Controllers for the Central Intelligence Agency in Laos during the Vietnam War, though their existence was denied by both the United States and North Vietnam. The Ravens undertook observation missions and were also tasked with marking enemy targets with smoke rockets to direct air strikes onto them. These deniable mercenary pilots had units based in five locations in Laos: Long Tieng, Luang Prabang, Pakse, Vientiane, and Savannakhet. The Ravens wore no uniform, carried no identification, and flew unarmed light aircraft which they would sold for a dollar apiece so that they could be struck from the US Air Force records.

New York: Soho, December 2004 - August 2010. Hardcover set. No box, just a nice set of hardcover First Editions of Colin Cotterill's first seven Dr. Siri Paiboun mysteries set in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. All books have full number lines. All books Near Fine. Interiors pristine. Spines straight and tight. Some corners and spine ends bumped. All jackets Near Fine (clean and bright with light rubbing). No library markings. No remainder marks. Not clipped. 1902 total pages. Heavy item: additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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