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New York, NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1976. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. RARE Hard-to-find! Collectible. A collection of poetry, folklore, fantasy, short stories, biographies, and other non-fiction. Includes a history and discussion of children's literature and suggestions for using this literature with children. Features interesting photos and illustrations to enhance the text. Excellent source for study. Poignent research material for students and academics. Delves into this subject with fresh ideas and thoughts. The approximately 900 selections range from the Bible and Shakespeare through Mother Goose to such contemporaries as poet Nikki Giovanni; from Greek, Roman, and Norse myths to fantasy by modern masters like J.R.R. Tolkien and Richard Adams. Hundreds of selections appear in their entirety. This book is an excellent source for parents. teachers, librarians, and students of children's literature, as well as a delightful book for grownups… Read More

New York, NY: Doubleday Publishing, 2002. Trade Paperback. Fine. First U.S. Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam, has created a symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative combined with the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose. On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia's childhood friend. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives together with her precocious literary gifts forces a situation that will change the course of their lives. As it follows that event's repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a… Read More

New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "A book of stories, a book of prayer, a book to be read meditatively and well," DAKOTA offers a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and forgiving, steeped in history and myth. From the award-winning author of AMAZING GRACE, DAKOTA is Kathleen Norris at her most thoughtful, her most discerning, her best. She gives us, once again, a rare "gift of hope and balance, a place to begin" (Chicago Tribune) and assurance that wherever we go, we chart our own spiritual geography. She has portrayed the people of Lemmon, SD (the setting of Norris's memoir), as only an insider/outsider can -- seeing both the faults and the strengths of a small midwestern town. What is most touching more than anything, however, is her portrayal of the land. This beautiful, striking, and awe inspiring landscape is brought to life by… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1964. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 13th Edition. Translated and with an Introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. Winner of the Noble Prize for Literature. Camilo Jose' Cela is regarded as Spain's greatest living novelist; and The Family of Pascual Duarte is his masterpiece. Gaunt, hard, exciting, and strangely beautiful, this is the story of a multiple murderer. Pascual is an ignorant Castillian peasant, born into a brutal milieu of poverty, hatred, and depravity. Acting on savage impulses, he yet retains a groping intelligence, a will to challenge circumstance, and a curiously touching simplicity of heart. He must pay with his life for the crimes that are his revenge on fate - whose half-comprehending instrument he is."After Don Quixote, probably the most widely read novel in Spanish literature." - New York Times. 166 pages..

New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division, 1993. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. From the mean streets of the barrio to the house on Mango Street, from the Mambo Kings to the Garcia Girls, the authors who contribute to this volume transport us across geographies and through cultures in an attempt to articulate the joys, struggles, defeats, and triumphs of the Latino experience in the United States. Growing Up Latino offers, for the first time, a comprehensive collection of classic and recent Latino writing in English, converging in sometimes shocking, often funny, and always stirring memoirs and stories. Religion, sex, love, language, and family are some of the topics explored in this compelling anthology of fiction and nonfiction. With its laughter and tears, its beauty and power, it is a thoroughly enjoyable book and an unforgettable contribution to the Latino tradition of letters. This diverse collection shatters the myth of a… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1988. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the local people. Marlow's struggle to fathom his experience involves him in a radical questioning of not only his own nature and values but the nature and values of his society. 420 pages. The 4 outside corner tips are slightly curled up and rubbed..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Vintage International, 1990. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. My Traitor's Heart has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by readers around the world. Rian Malan is an Afrikaner, scion of a centuries-old clan and relative of the architect of apartheid, who fled South Africa after coming face-to-face with the atrocities and terrors of an undeclared civil war between the races. This book is the searing account of his return after eight years of uneasy exile. Armed with new insight and clarity, Malan explores apartheid's legacy of hatred and suffering, bearing witness to the extensive physical and emotional damage it has caused to generations of South Africans on both sides of the color line. Plumbing the darkest recesses of the white and black South African psyches, Malan ultimately finds his way toward the light of redemption and healing. My Traitor's Heart is an astonishing book, beautiful, horrifying, profound, and… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1991. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. On Doctoring is an extraordinary collection of stories, poems, and essays written by physicians and non-physicians alike -- works that eloquently record what it is like to be sick, to be cured, to lose, or to triumph. Drawing on the full spectrum of human emotions, the editors have included selections from such important and diverse writers as Anton Chekhov, W. H. Auden, William Carlos Williams, John Keats, John Donne, Robert Coles, Pablo Neruda, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, and Abraham Verghese. In this era of managed healthcare, when medicine is becoming more institutionalized and impersonal, this book recaptures the breadth and the wonder of the medical profession. Presenting the issues, concerns, and challenges facing doctors and patients alike, On Doctoring is at once illuminating and provocative, a compelling record of the… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday Publishing, 1997. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Stated as the New York Public Library Collector's Edition. Complete original text. This novel about the effects of America's repressive moral climate was controversial in its day, and its availability to the public was delayed 12 years because of the "immorality" in Dreiser's sordid, realistic portrayal of the downfall of an innocent young woman who leaves her country town for the big city. Theodore Dreiser had a hardscrabble youth and the years of newspaper work behind him when he began his first novel, Sister Carrie, the story of a beautiful Midwestern girl who makes it big in New York City. Published by Doubleday in 1900, it gained a reputation as a shocker, for Dreiser had dared to give the public a heroine whose "cosmopolitan standard of virtue" brings her from Wisconsin, with four dollars in her purse, to a suite at the Waldorf and… Read More