McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1951. Hardcover. Solid binding, gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy boards, mildly edge-worn; Pages free of markings; An excellent reading copy, w/o jacket. More
Penguin Books, November 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Free Press, October 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and spiritual father of a democratic South Africa. Tutu understood that justice -- a genuine regard for..... 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
Grove Press / Evergreen, June 1962. First Thus. Paper Back. First paperback printing. Octavo. Mild edgewear and some scattered scuff marks. Foxing & marginal darkening. Heavy darkening at gutters between cover and first/last pages of textblock. [104 pages plus seven pages of photos from English production of play]. More
The Viking Press, October 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} In mildly edgeworn dustjacket with navy vlue cloth covered spine with silver lettering and blue paper covered boards. [97 pages]. More
University of Oklahoma, January 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Solid binding, gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy blue and black boards w/ gilt text at spine; Pages free of markings; Price-clipped dust jacket moderately worn w/ some tearing present at jacket rear; Jacket now housed in protective mylar to ensure further..... More
Image Books / Doubleday & Company, September 1960. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn mass market paperback. Darkened/dust stained. Stated, First Edition. [429 pages plus ten page list of Image Books available at the time of this publication]. More
Oxford Univ Pr, September 2003. Trade Paperback. Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings..... More
Smithsonian Books (DC), October 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Award-winning geneticist John C. Avise guides this delightful voyage around the planet in search of answers to nature's mysteries. He demonstrates how scientists directly examine DNA to address long-standing questions about wild animals, plants, and microbes. Through dozens of stories that span..... More
Arcade Publishing, November 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Hanover Square Press, May 2023. Hardcover. Booker Prize winner and "Irish master" (New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and..... More
Vintage, October 2018. Trade Paperback. In Mrs. Osmond, John Banville continues the story of Isabel Archer, the young protagonist of Henry James's beloved The Portrait of a Lady. Eager but naïve, in James's novel Isabel comes into a large, unforeseen inheritance and marries the charming, penniless, and--as Isabel finds out..... More
Vintage, August 2006. Trade Paperback. BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An "extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife. In this luminous novel, John Banville introduces us..... More
Cambridge University Press, March 1987. Paper Back. This book offers a revaluation of Keats' major poetry. It reveals how Keats' work is both an oblique criticism of the dominant attitudes to literature, sexuality, religion and politics in his period, and a powerful critique of the claims of the imagination. For..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 2005. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history."--Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."--Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in..... More
Simon & Schuster, April 1998. Trade Paperback. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, "Rising Tide" tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known-- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes..... More
Random House Inc, April 1988. Trade Paperback. "The Floating Opera" and "The End Of The Road" are John Barth's first two novels. Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the narratives. Both concern..... More
Little Brown and Company, August 1995. First American. Hardcover. First/first, Blue spine with gold lettering & green boards. In very good dust jacket. Clean,, sound, without markings. Complete number line. More
Little Brown & Co (T), May 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards, mild corner bump present at upper rear; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
G. P. Putnam, June 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. In slightly edgeworn, marginally darkened dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $14.95 on flap. 3/4 cloth with gold lettering on spine. Tan paper covered boards. Foxing to textblock edges. Tightly bound. Signed by Barth on half-title page. More
The MIT Press, January 1985. Paper Back. In this provocative book, Barwise and Perry tackle the slippery subject of "meaning," a subject that has long vexed linguists, language philosophers, and logicians. Meaning, they propose, does not exist solely within words and sentences but resides largely in the situation and the..... More
Dover Publications, 1974. Paper Back. Octavo. Mildly darkened spine and textblock top edge. Shelf worn. [315 pages]. More
The Viking Press, November 1968. Trade Paperback. One lightly bumped corner, rubbing, shelf wear. More
