Mayor: Notes on the Sixties
Simon & Schuster, June 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Inked note on front free endpaper. Jacket clipped but wrapped to preserve. More
Simon & Schuster, June 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Inked note on front free endpaper. Jacket clipped but wrapped to preserve. More
Akashic Books, Ltd., April 2024. Hardcover. BULLIED AS CHILD FOR BEING OVERWEIGHT and an orphan, the serial killer in I Disappeared Them hides in plain sight. By day, he is an affable family man with a disarming smile, surrounded by his children and loving wife. At night he punches the..... More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, October 1970. Reprint. Cloth. 1970 'enlarged edition' in very good jacket. Flap is not clipped. Carolina blue cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Previous reader's name written in ink on ffep. [146 pages]. More
Minotaur Books, March 2024. Paper Back. From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster. In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters..... More
Minotaur Books, April 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster. In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing..... More
Minotaur Books, April 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress. Pay Dirt Road is the mesmerizing debut from the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Samantha Jayne Allen. Annie McIntyre has a love/hate..... More
Minotaur Books, March 2023. Paper Back. Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress. Pay Dirt Road is the mesmerizing debut from the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Samantha Jayne Allen. Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, September 2023. Paper Back. Includes a brand new bonus story of how Mallow Island came to be! The New York Times Bestseller From the acclaimed author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale of lost souls, lonely strangers, secrets that shape us, and how the right flock..... More
E.P. Dutton and Co., January 1954. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with sun bleached spine. Previous reader's name in green pencil half title page. [454 pages]. More
Harper Perennial, September 2000. Trade Paperback. From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is..... More
Harper Perennial, March 1994. Trade Paperback. Selling more than 65,000 copies and topping bestseller lists around the world--including Spain, Germany, Italy, and Latin America--this novel tells the engrossing story of one man's quest for love and for his soul."Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin..... More
Harper Perennial, April 1996. Trade Paperback. One of the most popular and acclaimed Latin American authors of our century presents this unforgettable memoir, an exquisitely rendered, deeply moving mother-daughter story that doubles as her autobiography. "Paula" is a soul-baring memoir one reads without drawing a breath, like a novel of..... More
Flamingo, October 2001. Trade Paperback. As is. Foxing/tanning on the edges of the print block. More
Ballantine Books, June 2023. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration" (People), from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta "Timely..... More
Walker & Company, August 1998. Hardcover. In October 1826 a ship arrived at Marseille carrying the first giraffe ever seen in France. A royal offering from Muhammad Ali, Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, to King Charles X, she had already traveled 2,000 miles down the Nile to Alexandria, from where she..... More
Pearson P T R, 1999-01-01. Trade Paperback. One of the most influental political science works written in the post World War II era, the original edition of Essence of Decision is a unique and fascinating examination of the pivotal event of the cold Cold War. Not simply revised, but completely..... More
Oxford University Press, July 2015. Paper Back. Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1958. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild shelfwear. {498 pp.]. More
Cambridge University Press, 1979. Paper Back. An elementary introduction to formal logic, particularly intended for linguists and others interested in languages. Concepts and theories developed within formal logic for the study of artificial languages have for some time been fruitfully applied to the study of natural languages and some knowledge..... More
Crippen & Landru Publishers, May 1999. Limited. Cloth. Bound in heavy green cloth, lettered in yellow along the spine. Includes a stapled card panflet with a bonus story. Limited editon 4/200. Signed and numbered by the author. Mylar wrapped to preserve. More
Old Farmer's Almanac, April 2024. Paper Back. You can grow almost anything in a container--and do it almost anywhere! Whether you're tight for space, time, money, or other resources or just want to keep things satisfyingly simple, container gardening is the perfect way not only to explore your love of..... More
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, June 1992. Trade Paperback. In a style that is both philosophically sophisticated and accessible to general readers, Robert Almeder introduces readers to the vigorous debate in the scientific community about the possibility of personal survival after death. He argues that belief in some form of personal..... More
Rowman and Littlefield, January 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Dust jacket mildly edge-worn/rubbed, jacket spine significantly sun-faded w/ title illegible; ; An excellent copy, despite jacket flaws. More
White Mane Pub, April 1989. Hardcover. A factual account of how Lincoln's lack of management skills, his vacillation over decisions of military justice, and his complete disregard for the Constitution caused the deaths of many Union soldiers off the battlefield. This book is not another biography of Lincoln, nor is..... More
Univ of Missouri Pr, January 1982. Paper Back. Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Previous seller price sticker present at front cover upper right corner; Previous owner initials present at half title; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Oxford University Press / Galaxy, January 1967. First Thus. Paper Back. First Oxford/Galaxy paperback edition. Octavo with moderate wear to edges and corners. Previous owner's name written in ink on half title page. Sticker residue on verso of front cover. [524 pages plus five page list of Oxford/Galaxy titles then..... More
Knopf, October 1990. Hardcover. More
Penguin, 1984. Paper Back. 12mo. with edgewear and dust stained edges. [214 pages plus eight pages of ads for Penguin books.]. More
McSweeney's, November 2013. Hardcover. White Girls, Hilton Als's first book since The Women fourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex..... More
Shanti Sadan, January 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. 2nd edition. Octavo in tattered, scarred DJ with foxing/darkening to verso. Front flap clipped. Blue faux leather with stamped gold foil lettering along spine and centered on front panel. Scattered through text, underlining and side notes, mostly in pencil. An uncommon title. [269 pages]..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2021. Trade Paperback. From one of America's most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, "splendid" (The Washington Post) biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2021. Trade Paperback. From one of America's most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, "splendid" (The Washington Post) biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man..... More
Touchstone Books, June 1990. Paper Back. A distinguished critic rescues literature from the ivory tower and reestablishes reading as a personal source of complex pleasure and insight. Octavo. Trade paperback with slight curl to textblock Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. Sticker residue back cover. [250 pages]. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), February 2009. First Thus. Paper Back. The bestselling author and Newsweek columnist takes a characteristically irreverent look at the rampant mistreatment of liberals and liberalism The most honest and incisive media critic writing today(National Catholic Reporter), Eric Alterman is committed to restoring the liberal tradition to its honored..... More
Bobbs-Merrill Company, January 1966. Paper Back. Octavo. Clean, sound. [202 pages]. More
Chronicle Books, October 2015. Hardcover. This refreshingly contemporary take on Tarot is equal parts gorgeous art book and thought-provoking spiritual touchstone. Each page represents one of the classic 78 Tarot cards, beautifully depicted in ethereal watercolors by Michelle Blade and eloquently explained in text by Jen Altman. The Circadian Tarot..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 1990. Trade Paperback. "Suicide, " writes the noted English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out." Although the aims of this compelling, compassionate book are broadly cultural and literary, the narrative is rooted in..... More
Faber and Faber, January 1992. Hardcover. Pages toned; jacket a little shelfworn; tape-repaired. More
Penguin Books, September 1973. Trade Paperback. 12mo. Mildly dog-eared pages. Some tick marks in pencil. [148 pages]. More
Chatto & Windus, 1961. Hardcover. 2nd printing, 1961; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy blue cloth boards w/ immaculate gilt lettering at spine, corners gently bumped; Mild foxing present at upper outer edge of text-block; Text free of markings; Dust jacket moderately worn w/ chipping and open tears present; Lower jacket spine..... More
Avon, March 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. One bright spring day in 1925, Gabriela arrives from the poverty-stricken backwoods of Brazil to the lively seaside port of Ilheus amid a flock of filthy migrant workers. Though wearing rags and covered in dirt, she attracts the attention of Nacib, a cafe owner..... More
St. Martin's Essentials, January 2020. Trade Paperback. "This book is a reflection of a warrior putting into practice all that she has learned, the moment when knowledge turns into wisdom, in order to heal a heart that is not afraid to love." -- Don Miguel Ruiz Jr, author of The..... More
Dutton Vista, January 1966. Paper Back. 12mo. Paperback with damp stained cover with light soiling. Darkened spine. A previous owner's name stamped in several interior places. Good reading copy with loads of art/photo reproductions. [168 pages]. More
Crown, June 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Set in the 1950s, Lady Be Good marks Amber Brock's mesmerizing return, sweeping readers into the world of the mischievous, status-obsessed daughter of a hotel magnate and the electric nightlife of three iconic cities: New York, Miami, and Havana. Kitty Tessler is the winsome..... More
Doubleday & Company, January 1968. First American. Cloth. Black cloth with gold lettering. In edgeworn jacket with darkening to spine & margins. Red end pages. Solid binding. Clean text without binding. More
Simon & Schuster, 1988-07-15. Trade Paperback. From acclaimed biographer Stephen E. Ambrose comes the life of one of the most elusive and intriguing American political figures, Richard M. Nixon. From his difficult boyhood and earnest youth to bis ruthless political campaigns for Congress and Senate to his defeats in '60..... More
University of Cincinnati, January 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Dustjacket is missing. Octavo {6' x 8 & 1/2'}; Spine is darkened/tanned and boards are likewise darkened/tanned at margins. Damp stains top right corner affecting first to leafs of text. Signed & inscribed by authors on front free end page: 'For the..... More
Bloomsbury USA, April 2010. Trade Paperback. Here is the beloved, bestselling compendium of Kingsley Amis's wisdom on the cherished subject of drinking. Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) the book includes Amis's musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man's Diet, The Mean..... More
St Martins Pr, August 1999. First Thus. Paper Back. A Parthian shot from one of the most important figures in post-war British fiction, "The King's English "is the late Kingsley Amis's last word on the state of the language. More frolicsome than" Fowler's Modern Usage, " lighter than the "Oxford..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1976. First American. Hardcover. First/first (U.S.) in spine-sunned dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $6.95 on flap. Quarter bound: Ochre cloth spine with silver lettering. Caerulean blue boards with fade to edges and a few grey spots with title in silver. Rose topstain. Sticker residue..... More
Knopf, January 2007. First American. Hardcover. An extraordinary novel that ratifies Martin Amis's standing as "a force unto himself," as "The Washington Post" has attested: "There is, quite simply, no one else like him." "House of Meetings" is a love story, gothic in timbre and triangular in shape. In 1946..... More
Random House Inc, April 1991. Trade Paperback. In Success Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude, " the other a "bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response"--in a single London flat. He binds them with ties of class hatred, sexual rivalry, and disappointed..... More
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., August 1990. Paper Back. This anthology of the central writings of the analytical tradition is widely regarded as the most useful such volume for teaching purposes. Clustered around issues in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, many of the pieces were written in..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. A final completed collection of poetic works by the late National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award-winning writer features a series of candid, alternately humorous and sobering ruminations on such topics as age, illness, and death. First/first in..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, May 1999. Oversize Softcover. Celebrating poet Robert Creeley's pathbreaking role as an artistic collaborator, this illustrated volume adds substantially to the documented history of contemporary multidisciplinary art. For more than forty years, Creeley has worked on collaborative projects with some of the best-known artists..... More
Consorci de museus de la comunitat Valencia, 1998. Hardcover. Pink boards in in cloth backstrip. Spine titles just a bit rubbed. More
Tarcher, September 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Restoring a sense of sacred significance to the act of lovemaking, the practice of sexual magic also enables couples to celebrate the highest form of erotic communication. Sexuality becomes a way to honor both physical instincts and spiritual yearnings. A world-renowned expert in the..... More
New Falcon Publications, April 1997. Trade Paperback. The first in a trilogy on the battle between a woman and her unconscious, starting with her dark side. This looks at social taboos as the author confronts the voices inside her head that will not be silenced. She eventually finds the road..... More
Free Press, September 2001. Hardcover. The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words."..... More
Little, Brown and Company, March 2024. Hardcover. From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, a breathtaking new history of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, showing how their strivings in and beyond New York exemplify the astonishing tenacity..... More
Gallery Books, November 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Andersen comes a vivid and unsparing yet sympathetic portrait of one of the most complex and enigmatic figures of our time: Charles, who has taken his place on the throne after being the oldest and..... More
Doubleday. Hardcover. Octavo. In clean, sound jacket with lightly tanned spine, Front flap is not clipped. Red end papers. Black fabric covered spine with gold lettering. Grey paper covered boards. Foxing/dust staining top textblock edge. [269 pages]. More
Rodopi, August 2003. Hardcover. Scholarly interest in the study of state borders and border regions is growing in Europe, keeping pace with the remarkable changes associated with the transformation of old borders and the creation of new ones in the European Union and beyond over the last fifteen years. Social..... More
Bloomsbury Publishing, September 2018. Hardcover. As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction An NPR Politics Podcast Book Club Choice Named one of the Best Books of the Year by..... More
Thames & Hudson, April 1986. Soft Cover. James Joyce remains a mysterious figure, and yet his books concern his own life: his friends, loves, and above all the city of Dublin. Professor Chester Anderson here examines Joyce as one of the greatest modern writers, but also explores his life, visiting..... More
Thames & Hudson, April 1986. Soft Cover. James Joyce remains a mysterious figure, and yet his books concern his own life: his friends, loves, and above all the city of Dublin. Professor Chester Anderson here examines Joyce as one of the greatest modern writers, but also explores his life, visiting..... More
Crown, January 2024. Hardcover. The bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED explores one of humankind's defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future--"an essential read to kick off the new year" (Forbes, "16 Must Have Books and Podcasts for Leaders..... More
Palgrave Macmillan, November 2009. Hardcover. Withan unconventional new perspective, Andersonidentifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as ajourney and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material. Beginning with Poe s earliest short stories through his last fragment of imaginative prose, this book shows the path that..... More
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, November 2012. Oversize Softcover. Kata has been an integral part of karate training since its inception. After 1900, much of the meaning of the applications has been lost to antiquity...until now. In this volume, Prof. Dan Anderson strips away the mysteries of the Pinan & Naihanchi..... More
University of Arizona Press, September 1996. Paper Back. Dry whiskey, Divine herb, Devil's root, Medicine of God, Peyote: for some people, to use it is to hear colors and see sounds. For many Native Americans, it brings an ability to reach out of their physical lives, to communicate with the..... More
Henry Regnery Company, 1969. Trade Paperback. Gateway Edition 6128. More
Gondwana Alive Society, January 1999. Paper Back. Clean, solid. With inscription by Anderson: '24 Sept. 1999 with compliments & thanks for your participation. J. Anderson.' Otherwise no markings. Quarto. More
Ecco Pr, October 1985. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear on the cover. A few notes on two pages else clean, tight copy. More
Doubleday, July 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in 1987, this is the first novel by Kent Anderson, whose Night Dogs was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998. The story of a college student who goes to war with a volume of Yeats in his pocket and discovers..... More
Square One, October 2007. Trade Paperback. There exists today a distinct threat to all of civilization as we know it. The unchecked proliferation of electromagnetic technology worldwide can wipe out all that we rely upon. Frequency saturation of the precious envelope of air surrounding our planet may today be affecting..... More
Ballantine Books, 1954. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Brain Wave was first serialized in Space Science Fiction magazine in 1953, before being issued in book format by Ballantine (1954) with this cover art by Richard Powers. Poul Anderston (1926 - 2001), like so many of his peers, published many stories..... More
Bantam Books, July, 1980. First Thus. Paper Back. 'First Time in paperback'. Spine incorrectly shows #6, should be #5. [208 pages]. More
Tor Books, July 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. Manse Everard is a man with a mission. As an Unattached Agent of the Time Patrol, he's to go anyplace - and anytime! - where humanity's transcendent future is threatened by the alteration of the past. This is Manse's profession, and his burden..... More
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, October 2015. Trade Paperback. Every martial art has common techniques, common moves used to defend yourself. There is an element which leads to superior or advanced martial arts application. We hear tales of it. We see evidence of it. But what actually is this element that..... More
Chelsea Green Pub Co, February 1999. Trade Paperback. Of value to business people, environmentalists, and educators alike, "Mid-Course Correction" is a business book about the environment that's written from a personal perspective. With passion and pride, Ray Anderson, founder, Chairman, and CEO of one of the world's largest interior furnishings..... More
Boni & Liveright, September 1925. First Edition. Cloth. First trade edition in scarce dust jacket. NOT price clipped. One & 1/2 inch chip top of spine. One inch deep damp stain across almost entire back jacket panel. Tape 'repair' to rear flap top edge tear visible jacket verso. Closed tear..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Reprinted by arrangement with G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., London. Mild shelf wear and slightly darkened spine. [266 pages plus four page list of Anchor titles then available.]. More
Lienart Editions, January 2015. Paper Back. In French. More
Arnold Herstand, N.Y., January 1984. Paper Back. More
Galarie Flax, 1992. Trade Paperback. Oblong octavo with French Folds. In French. Clean & solid. Ltd. edition of 103/1000. More
Blue Moon Gallery/Lerner-Heller Gallery, January 1975. Pamphlet. Stapled pamplet; 12mo. Previous owner's name inked front cover; scattered markings/notes in margins. More
Camillos Kouros Gallery, January 1986. Stapled Soft Cover. Stapled quarto with marginal markings. More
Springer, July 2008. Paper Back. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies for Speech-Based Systems, PIT 2008, held in Kloster Irsee, Germany, in June 2008. The 37 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited keynote lecture were..... More
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, 1994. Soft Cover. More
Vintage Books USA, February 2001. Trade Paperback. With House of Sand and Fog, his National Book Award-nominated novel, Andre Dubus III demonstrated his mastery of the complexities of character and desire. In this earlier novel he captures a roiling time in American history and the coming-of-age of a boy who..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2009. Trade Paperback. In his stunning follow-up to the #1 best-selling House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus draws us into the lives of three deeply flawed, driven people whose paths intersect on a September night in Florida. April, a stripper, has brought her..... More
Vintage Books USA, January 2000. Trade Paperback. "Elegant and powerful...an unusual and volatile...literary thriller." --"Washington Post Book World" In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a...... More
s.n, January 1975. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Black Sparrow Press, July 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Multimedia culture critic, novelist, poet, editor of the radical literary journal Exquisite Corpse, Andrei Codrescu proves also a candid, witty, iconoclastic and exuberant commentator on his own colorful life. The self-invented Codrescu was born Andrei Perlmutter in the medieval town of..... More
Picador, February 1995. Trade Paperback. Short, witty observations by a commentator for National Public Radio's program, All Things Considered, assesses the creeping inanity of American politics and culture and treats the birth of new nations, whales, food, and sundry other topics. Reprint. NYT. More
Ecco, March 2024. Hardcover. A vibrant celebration of the shared flavors and traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean Since Chef José Andrés opened the doors to his restaurant Zaytinya twenty years ago, food lovers have savored his creative adaptations of the classic dishes of Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon. Zaytinya's menu has..... More
Anthony Bourdain/Ecco, May 2019. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the endlessly inventive imaginations of star Spanish-American chef José Andrés and James Beard award-winning writer Matt Goulding, Vegetables Unleashed is a new cookbook that will transform how we think about--and eat--the vast universe of vegetables. Andrés is famous for..... More
Clarkson Potter, September 2023. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A captivating collection of stories and recipes from renowned chefs, local cooks, and celebrity friends of José Andrés's beloved nonprofit World Central Kitchen (WCK), which feeds communities impacted by natural disasters and humanitarian crises; with a foreword from Stephen Colbert..... More