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New York. 1976. October 1976. Harper & Row. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Worn Dustjacket With Tears. 0060129492. 234 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by John Clarke. keywords: Mystery South Africa . FROM THE PUBLISHER - South Africa today-very possibly, even probably, about to explode! And against this highly explosive background a talented novelist has set his moving and exciting story. As this book goes to press young blacks are demonstrating in Soweto and the South African police are shooting and killing them. But a small ray of light on the horizon-leading South African industrialists are beginning to pressure the Government for important concessions to the majority black population. In this major new book the reader is given an extraordinary inside look at the secret forces working in South Africa-forces that could well affect our own lives now that West is meeting East in a dangerous confrontation on the Dark Continent. inventory #5189 ISBN: 0060129492.

London. 1999. Simon & Schuster. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0684870231. 328 pages. hardcover. Jacket image - Science Photo Library. keywords: UFOs England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - This text presents an examination of how and why the British Government has suppressed information about the discovery of UFOs that have crashed to Earth, revealing the truth about extra-terrestrial visitors, and the threat they pose. inventory #27756 ISBN: 0684870231.

Austin. 1990. University Of Texas Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0292720718. Translated from the Arabic by Desmond Stewart. 251 pages. hardcover. Cover illustration by Cathy Morley. Cover design by Sarah Dobinson/Artworkers London. keywords: Literature Translated Egypt Arabic. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A 12-year-old boy returns from his school in Cairo to find his village torn by feud and fear. A corrupt official has ordered the peasants to irrigate their fields in five days, instead of the customary ten ­ a demand which threatens to disrupt the whole life of the village. - A schoolmaster, Sheikh Hassouna, urges the villagers to rebel. But it takes many attempts, some disastrous, others comical and touching, before they join forces and stand against their oppressors. Set in the 1930s, Sharqawi's novel was first published as al-Ard [The Earth] in 1954 ­ two years after the Egyptian revolution ­ and appeared in Desmond Stewart's excellent translation in 1962. It has… Read More

New York. 1984. Facts On File. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears. 0871966476. 472 pages. hardcover. Jacket design: Edward Smith Design, Inc. keywords: History Travel . FROM THE PUBLISHER - TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH offers voyages on more than 45 of the principal travel and trade routes of history. Each of the 31 chapters traces one or more routes, tracking the course of each one over the landscape and following the history of the route in contemporary accounts gleaned from the writings of travelers from many centuries. The character of each route comes to life in these accounts, and each is fully illustrated not only with maps, but also with linecuts and photographs of the routes in past and present times. In all, over 50 maps, and 200 color and black-and-white illustrations complement the text. The routes have been selected from all parts of the world, based on their significance in history and their unique qualities. The result is a moving and vital story of the… Read More

New York. 1986. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0880010983. Translated from the Polish by The Author & Robert Hass. 141 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Poland Poetry Eastern Europe. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In his first collection of new poems since receiving the Nobel prize for Literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz, with a playfulness and passionate restlessness of mind that are entirely characteristic, has changed the very idea of what a book of poetry can be. In Unattainable Earth, verse, prose poems, prose jottings, pensees, quotations, translations and even fragments from personal letters have been gathered into the shape of a writer's notebook, where they form a sustained meditation on sexuality, language, the problems of belief, the life of the streets of cities and the mysterious annihilating power of time. And beneath all these motifs there is, finally, a single subject - the powerful desire to confront the ecstatic experience of life on… Read More

New York. 1990. March 1990. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394543602. 363 pages. hardcover. Jacket lithograph by Kakiuchi Seiyo. keywords: Tokyo History Japan. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Great Earthquake of 1923 left much of Tokyo desolate. Shitamachi, the Low City, heart of Tokyo's cultural life for centuries, was a smoking ruin-hundreds of blocks of wooden dwellings, teahouses, and entertainment quarters hone forever. Yet Tokyo was a city that would not die. inventory #13860 ISBN: 0394543602.

New York. 1966. Ace Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 124 pages. paperback. F-392. keywords: Literature Science Fiction Paperback . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The greater the civilization, the more it was bait for the Eater of Minds. inventory #29698

Berkeley. 2011. January 2011. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520267022. Sather Classical Lectures, 69. A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature. 50 b/w photographs, 9 tables, 2 graphs . 192 pages. hardcover. keywords: Archaeology Ancient History Language . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world - that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution - has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues, however, that ordinary people - from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan - used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized. Marshalling new and little-known evidence, including remarkable graffiti recently discovered in Smyrna, Bagnall presents a fascinating analysis of writing in different segments of society. His book offers a new picture of literacy in the ancient world… Read More

New York. 1997. Miramax/Hyperion. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Hardcover. No Dustjacket As Issued. 078686267x. 400 pages. hardcover. Cover design by David Pearson. keywords: Hong Kong China Asia Film Reference. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Hong Kong's reunification with China has captured the world's attention, but for years this bustling little territory has fascinated filmgoers of all nations with its enormous output of movies. Like Hollywood, Hong Kong specializes in mass-appeal entertainment action films, ghost stories, comedies, and other popular genres - yet its movies possess an eye-popping, no-holds-barred exuberance, and a disregard for most taboos, that Hollywood cannot match. Even Hong Kong art films - Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express, for instance - pulse with energy. Small wonder, then, that Hollywood has begun to court Hong Kong talent, such as the director John Woo and the action stars Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh. In Hong Kong Babylon, the award-winning journalist Fredric… Read More

New York. 1992. Rabbit Ears/Simon & Schuster. Hardcover book with audio cassette . Very Good in Hardcover and Slipcase. 0887081932. Illustrated by Vivienne Flesher. Music by Lyle Mays. 4 - 8 years. 40 pages. hardcover with cassette. keywords: Children's Books Audio Cassette. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A poetic version of the beloved Norwegian folk tale traces the fortunes of a young girl sacrificed to a life of slavery by her peasant family in exchange for wealth. inventory #43717 ISBN: 0887081932.

Westfield. 1991. Open Magazine Pamphlet Series. 1st Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 16 pages. paperback. Pamphlet # 13. keywords: Politics Middle East. FROM THE PUBLISHER - From This Pamphlet: . My premise is that neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis have a military option against each other. Both peoples must learn to live in peace, and in mutual acknowledgment of each other's history and actuality. Yet we must also admit as a simple fact that today only one people, Israeli Jews, has sovereignty, has achieved self-determination, even as the other people, the Palestinian Arabs, live in a state of subordination and oppression. That the Palestinians struggle against and resist this state of affairs is a function of how injustice and sufferings do not defeat a people, nor compel it into submission, but rather drives that people to resist more, and to struggle further for political justice and rights. inventory #31271

New York. 2004. April 2004. Gotham Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1592400876. 209 pages. hardcover. Jacket design and illustrations bv James Nunn. Author photograph provided by The Daily Telegraph. keywords: Grammar Punctuation Reference Humor. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In 2002 Lynne Truss presented Gutting a Dash, a well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation (A sparkling series of essays-The Daily Telegraph), which led to the writing of EATS SHOOTS & LEAVES. The book became a runaway success in the UK, hitting number one on the bestseller lists and prompting extraordinary headlines such as Grammar Book Tops Bestseller List' (BBC News). With more than 500,000 copies of her book in print in her native England, Lynne Truss is ready to rally the troops on this side of the pond with her rousing cry, ‘Sticklers unite!' Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in e-mail, and now ‘txt msgs,' we have made proper punctuation an endangered… Read More

Pittsburgh. 1988. University Of Pittsburgh Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket W/A Small Tear On The Top Front Of The Dustjacket. 0822935899. 131 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Gary Gore. keywords: Literature America Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Winner of the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Margaret Atwood. Reginald McKnight's MOUSTAPHA'S ECLIPSE was chosen by Margaret Atwood as the winner of the eighth Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction. His collection of ten short stories was selected from over 300 manuscripts submitted by published writers to the contest. The stories of MOUSTAPHA'S ECLIPSE are spoken in a true host of voices, savvy guides to the worlds of West Africa and black America, through the minefields of adolescence, racism, found and failed beliefs. Idi, a Senegalese English translator, tells a number of these tales, transposing African myths into a language his friend, a visiting black American anthropologist, understands enough… Read More

New York. 2001. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0375411291. 224 pages. hardcover. Jacket art by Teun Hocks. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.�. keywords: Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In his first novel since The Untouchable, John Banville gives us the intensely emotional story of a man discovering for the first time who he has been and what he is becoming. Alexander Cleave - a famous actor who ‘took to the stage to give myself a cast of characters to inhabit who would be of more weight and moment than I could ever hope to be' - faces the almost certain collapse of his thirty-year career. In physical and psychological retreat, he returns to his abandoned childhood home, believing that, away from his wife and daughter, away from the world at large, alone, without an audience of any kind, he might finally stop performing, catch himself in the act of living, and simply be. But the house is unexpectedly populated. There are Cleave 's memories, which… Read More

Woodstock. 2002. June 2002. Overlook Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Mark On Bottom Edge. 1585672106. 1st Novel. 252 pages. hardcover. Cover: Leander Eisenmann. keywords: Literature India. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Gopal - or Ram Das Baba, as his devotees refer to him - is the son of a devout Brahmin family who has spent a lifetime seeking the ultimate truth of spiritual knowledge. His journey as a mystic is filled with illuminating visions, severe tribulations, and an unwavering faith, and he fulfills his destiny as a highly evolved Sadhu through ordeals of manastic bliss, tantric awakening, madness, and transsexuality. As his life nears its end, Gopal meets a young man who belongs to a very different India. A profound relationship develops. inventory #33707 ISBN: 1585672106.

Berkeley . 2005. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520238869. 387 pages. hardcover. keywords: California. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This innovative history of California opens up new vistas on the interrelationship among culture, nature, and society by focusing on the state's signature export-the orange. From the 1870s onward, California oranges were packaged in crates bearing colorful images of an Edenic landscape. This book demystifies those lush images, revealing the orange as a manufactured product of the state's orange industry. Orange Empire brings together for the first time the full story of the orange industry-how growers, scientists, and workers transformed the natural and social landscape of California, turning it into a factory for the production of millions of oranges. That industry put up billboards in cities across the nation and placed enticing pictures of sun-kissed fruits into nearly every American's home. It convinced Americans… Read More

New York. 1994. Lectorum Publications. Spanish Language Edition. Very Good in Pictorial Hardcover Boards. No Dustjacket. 1880507064. Illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. 81 pages. hardcover. keywords: Spanish Language Edition. FROM THE PUBLISHER - IN SPANISH - Wanda's classmates make fun of her Polish last name and her one faded dress. She tells them she actually has 100 dresses, and enters drawings of them in the school s art contest before she moves away. Only after she is gone do the students discover her remarkable talent and realize how cruel they have been. inventory #43775 ISBN: 1880507064.

Bogata. 1987. Editorial Oveja Negra. 1st Columbian Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 9580602336. 241 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Chile Latin America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - IN SPANISH. In a very short time, Isabel Allende has won the allegiance and affection of readers and reviewers around the world-first with The House of the Spirits (praised by Alexander Coleman in The New York Tines Book Review as ‘a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present and future of Latin America'), followed closely by OF LOVE AND SHADOWS (of which Jonathan Yardley said in The Washington Post Book REVIEW, ‘The people . are so real, their triumphs and defeats are so faithful to the truth of human existence, that we see the world in miniature. This is precisely what fiction should do'). Now, in EVA LUNA, she has written her most ambitious and original work, a book that makes the foreign both familiar and welcoming, a book that confirms… Read More

Carson City. 2011. Trees By The River Publishing Trust. Revised Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780935174700. 8-½ x 11, 3-color cover, 98 black & white photographs, 2 maps, chronology of Twain’s Western years, bibliography, index. 136 pages. paperback. keywords: Travel California Nevada Mark Twain. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Although Americans usually associate Mark Twain with the Mississippi River, Samuel Clemens began his serious writing career as a reporter in Virginia City, Nevada in 1862, when he adopted his pen name. Two years later he moved to San Francisco to become a reporter for the Morning Call, lasting barely six months before he went broke and moved to Calaveras County. His report of the local jumping frog contest became his first book. This book details what is known of Twain's years in the West, providing details of his stay in each of more than two dozen towns he lived in and visited. Filled with fascinating details and rare photos, this book also tells… Read More

Bishop. 2014. Maximus Press. Paperback Edition. Very Good in Flex-Binding. 9780982498828. Eastern Sierra Climbing Guides Series Vol. 2. Foreword by Errett Allen. 5.5 x 8.5, 145 color photographs, 94 maps, 194 route diagrams, and 2 black & white photographs, Appendix includes Area Hot Springs, Routes by Rating, Boulder Problems by Rating, bibliography, guide services, index. 380 pages. paperback. keywords: Travel Nature Hiking. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The area around Mammoth Lakes, California is one of our planet's great playgrounds. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated rock climbing guide covers both roped climbs and bouldering on two types of rock –– granite and volcanic tuff. This definitive guide fully updates reports on the best rock climbing to be found around more than 100 different sites within a reasonable drive of Mammoth. Plan your trip to find quality volcanic crags, excellent granite, and outstanding bouldering, with route ranging from class 4 to 14a and bouldering… Read More