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New York: Summit Books, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive book." Carol Easton's judicious and well ressearched biography.illuminating exploration and celebration of a musical personality loved by her public."--The Spectator

Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, 1959. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine collectible book. This is Mr. Eaton's first book of prose. A colleague of Robert Frost. Past winner of the Ridgely Torrence Memorial Award. Also once a runner up for the National Book Award.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1989. First Trade 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Text pages are clean and bright. DJ edges are worn and a closed teat, now taped, on front panel at spine. Slight foxing on edges. Translated by William Weaver. Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled?a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault's Pendulum. "Endlessly diverting . . . Even more intricate and absorbing than his international bestseller The Name of the Rose."TIME

New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2000. First U.S. Edition . Original Wraps. Fine. Wraps are Fine.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2005. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fascinating, abundant novel, wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart. "A head-spinning tour through the corridors of history and popular culture, and one of this sly entertainer's liveliest yet."--Kirkus Reviews

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1995. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Reminder mark, closed tear on one corner of DJ,small stain on botton edge. In this fascinating, lyrical tale, Umberto Eco tells of a young dreamer searching for love and meaning; and of a most amazing old Jesuit who, with his clocks and maps, has plumbed the secrets of longitudes, the four moons of Jupiter, and the Flood."A profound and ingenious story artfully told . . . Renaissance battles, love poems, and sea journeys in the age of exploration." The New York Times Book Review

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1995. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. A romance of navigation and science in the mid-seventeenth century. After a violent storm in the South Pacific in 1643, a young dreamer finds himself shipwrecked but saved by an abandoned ship anchored in the bay of a beautiful island.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1995. First English Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book that appears UNREAD. 248 pages containing 41 essays and short stories translated by William Weaver. "These essays, written in the late eighties and early nineties, are Eco's playful but unfailingly accurate takes on militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, art criticism, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, maniacal taxi New York."--HBC

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. A pristine UNREAD book. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Nineteenth-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to the notorious forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies both real and imagined, lay just one man? What if that evil genius created the most infamous document of all? "Intriguing, hilarious.a tale by a master." -- Publishers Weekly

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2007. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Fine.

New York: Ecco, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine book with a small faint stain on the Front free Endpaper, otherwise book is clean, bright and fresh. Publication date indicated on bottom of front flap as 1101 and copyright page.A captivating blend of philosophy, history, biography, and literary detection brings to life the meeting of two great philosophers--Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper on October 25, 1946 in Cambridge, England, who had an intense disagreement that erupted in much speculation.

Cape Canaveral, Fl: Blue Note Books, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book includes fourteen short stories and vignettes that capture a collection of significant monents in the lives of her characters. The stories are set in a variety of locations and present a wide spectrum of human experience from encounters with precocious kids to trysts with former lovers. This volume is enhanced by photographs taken by the author that relate to stories in this collection. A flawless book.

New York, NY: Scribners, 2017. 1st Edition Later Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. This pristine copy of "Manhattan Beach" has been SIGNED by Jennifer Egan on the title page (not on a tipped-in page). "Manhattan Beach is so rich in detail and atmosphere; such an exploration of underworlds of all kinds, filled with lessons on lifelines and buoyancy and how to bear life's weight by diving deep into it. Jennifer Egan has masterfully conjured an era we are on the cusp of losing. Her novel is an absorbing story, beautifully written. Its strands of subtle intrigue and quiet heroism make you reluctant to leave each page while eager to get to the next."-M.L. Stedman

San Francisco, CA: McSweeney's Books, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New. A Fine, PRISTINE, COLLECTIBLE book.Iissued by McSweeney's without a dust jacket. First Edition-First Printing with First Printing spelled out on the Publisher's page. A Hologram for the King takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - and a moving story of how we got here. A National Book Award Finalist. One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year. One of the Best Books of the Year from The Boston Globe and San Francisco Chronicle.

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Author's DEBUT book, a quasi-memoir, selected by the NYT as one of the 10 best books of 2000. Finalist for the National Book Award. Book is clean and tight. DJ has 2 closed tears at top corners with a minor cut a top of spine. Looks great in a archival cover.

San Francisco, CA: McSweeney's Books, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New. This silhouette 1st printing edition is a beautiful book. "Eggers, in this funny and touching novelization of Maurice Sendak's picture book, is brilliant at portraying the exuberance and chaos of a young boy's mind and heart."¿ San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco, CA: McSweeney's Books, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A Fine, PRISTINE, COLLECTIBLE book issued by McSweeney's without a dust jacket. First Edition-First Printing with First Printing spelled out on the Publisher's page. The true story of one family, caught between America's two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. "Eggers' tone is pitch-perfect-suspense blended with just enough information to stoke reader outrage and what is likely to be a typical response: How could this happen in America? ... It's the stuff of great narrative nonfiction." -The New York Times Book Review

Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book that takes the reader on Ehrlich's path to Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces in western China to climb Emei Shan, one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Eidson is a formidable talent. He has that rare something that makes readers want to keep turning pages. 'Dangerous Waters' is a high-speed chase over rough seas."--John Lutz, Mystery Writers of America. Book appears UNREAD.