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New York. 1990. June 1990. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394580184. 337 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Archie Ferguson. keywords: TV History America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Since commercial television emerged in the late 1940s, it has been on the cutting edge of social, political, economic, and cultural developments in the United States and the world. This book is a provocative history of how the major networks schemed to gain ratings and power, and to keep the FCC at bay. The result was the creation of limited and rigidly standardized television offerings. Professor MacDonald examines how the introduction of cable TV in the 1980s has weakened the power of the networks and reshaped the industry. inventory #14236 ISBN: 0394580184.

New York. 1991. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670836222. Illustrated by Lane Smith. 55 pages. hardcover. keywords: Children . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Everyone's favorite time-travelers are changing their style! The Time Warp Trio series now features a brand-new, eye-catching design, sure to appeal to longtime fans, and those new to Jon Scieszka's wacky brand of humor. inventory #13069 ISBN: 0670836222.

Pittsburgh. 1978. Slow Loris Press. 1st Edition. 1 of 1000 Copies. Very Good in Wrappers. 0918366070. 28 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature America Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - First publication in book form for a number of the poems. inventory #4370 ISBN: 0918366070.

New York. 1951. October 1951. Pocket Books. 1st Pocket Books Paperback Printing. Some Wear To Spine Particularly At The Bottom,Otherwise Good in Wrappers. 289 pages. paperback. 822. Front over illustration by Maurice Thomas. keywords: Mystery Vintage Paperbacks. FROM THE PUBLISHER - FEAR stole through the city of New York like a choking fog. Within five months, nine people had been strangled to death! And the unknown killer was still at large! Like a savage cat, the murderer pounced without warning, choosing his victims at random. No one was safe. The city was in a panic! ELLERY QUEEN, ordered on the case by the mayor, believed that there was an insane method to these murders. The facts were clearly laid out like nine neat corpses. But where did they connect? Queen knew that if he waited long enough a pattern of clues would emerge and point straight to the killer. But in the meantime, WHEN WOULD THE CAT STRIKE AGAIN? WHO WOULD BE THE NEXT VICTIM? inventory #41492

Baton Rogue. 1994. Louisiana State University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0807118257. 264 pages. hardcover. keywords: History America Texas Civil War. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In the early morning hours of October 1, 1862, state militia arrested more than two hundred alleged Unionists from five northern Texas counties and brought them to Gainesville, the seat of Cooke County. In the ensuing days at least forty-four prisoners were hanged, and several other men were lynched in neighboring communities. This event proved to be the grisly climax of a tradition of violence and vigilantism in North Texas that began before the Civil War and lasted long afterward. For this first full-scale history of the Great Hanging, Richard B. McCaslin has consulted a vast array of manuscript collections and government archives, assembling a trove of information on a remote corner of the Confederacy. He offers an account that is both rich in detail and illuminating of the broader contexts of this… Read More

New York. 1933. Scribners. 1st American Edition. Very Good.No Dustjacket. 244 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Ernest Hemingway's first new book of fiction since the publication of ‘A Farewell to Arms' in 1929 contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place' is about an old Spanish Beggar. ‘Homage to Switzerland' concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant. ‘The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio' is laid in the accident ward of a hospital in Western United States, and so on. Ernest Hemingway made his literary start as a short-story writer. He has always excelled in that medium, and this volume reveals him at his best. inventory #32069

Sao Paulo. 1968. Edicoes Melhoramentos. Brazilian Edition. Very Good in Hardcover. In Portuguese. 78 pages. hardcover. keywords: Children's Books Portuguese. FROM THE PUBLISHER - MICKEY E O TAL - Mickey, o engraqado ratinho, sua amiga Minnie, tia Matilde e os sobrinhos, vEm nestas påginas para diverter a garotada. THIS IS MICKEY - Mickey, Minnie, Aunt Mathilde and the nephews, come alive on these pages to amuse the children.� inventory #6064

New York. 1977. November 1977. Avon/Bard. Reprinted Avon Bard Paperback Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 0380017962. Translated from the Portuguese by Harriet de Onis. 523 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Latin America Brazil South America Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘POETICAL, COMIC, HUMAN!'- The Washington Post. In this extraordinary adventure by Brazil's foremost novelist, one wants Flor to have everything - including her roguish, passionate husband who died of his exertions; and her new husband, a considerate gentleman. In a country of many gods and even occasional miracles, Flor approaches the divine Exu and stirs up more than old memories. And only she knows she has two husbands - one living, one dead - each consummately skilled in his way in the infinite art of love. ‘Bawdy, brilliant, human and humorous, it is a novel full of unexpected delights. It is everything a modern novel should be . It would appear high time for Brazil's Jorge Amado to be… Read More

New York. 1979. Warne. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 072326158x. Illustrations by Diane Stanley Zuromskis. 31 pages. hardcover. Cover illustration by Diane Stanley Zuromskis. keywords: Children’s Books Africa Ashanti. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Half-a-Ball-of-Kenki rescues Fly from Leopard and, in the ensuing fray, Leopard receives a spotted coat forever. inventory #8779 ISBN: 072326158x.

Boston. 1984. Godine. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0879235152. 184 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Dede Cummings. keywords: Literature America Biography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - No American writer has a more assured claim to greatness, or is more widely read, than Nathaniel Hawthorne. Yet for all that's known about him, the essential mystery of his life and personality remains. This remote, usually silent man, this obsessive scanner of the Puritan psyche, did he conceal in his work a dark secret of his own life and ancestry? Yes, says Philip Young, who's no stranger to the problems of biographical disclosure, as students of Ernest Hemingway know. Young comes to Hawthorne soaked in his work, in the history of Hawthorne's (and his own) New England past. Not one to grub fiction for biographical scandal, and utterly unable to psychobabble, Young has been brought to see THE SCARLET LETTER, and crucial short stories, for the layered mysteries they are. His evidence, always from… Read More

New York. 2003. November 2003. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1400041341. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. 385 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph - Gabriel Garcia marquez, two years old. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. keywords: Literature Colombia Autobiography Latin America Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, LIVING TO TELL THE TALE is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader - a tale of people, places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his eccentric family members; the great influence of his… Read More

Bloomington. 1982. Indiana University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0253166071. 176 pages. hardcover. Jacket drawing by Sharon Sklar. keywords: Literature America Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Andrew Hawkins' birth is the result of a huge misunderstanding. His story begins on an evening in 1837. Jonathan Polkinghorne, master of the Cripplegate plantation, and his dutiful butler, George Hawkins, drink a bit too much and decide they can't go home to their own wives - so they go home to each others'. Disaster ensues. Their wives never quite recover, George is banished to the fields, and nine months later Anna Polkinghorne gives birth to the fated narrator of OXHERDING TALE. As a youth, Andrew is caught in the perpetual battle of the sexes; as he matures, he becomes a social chameleon, who tastes life fully in both the white and the black worlds, never truly belonging to either. Charles Johnson's comic philosophical novel takes the form of a picaresque, first-person… Read More

New York. 1988. February 1988. Poseidon Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket.Remainder Mark. 067164405x. 1st Book. 192 pages. hardcover. Jacket design & painting by Wendell Minor. Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature England Horror. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Patrick McGrath is a Poe for the ‘80s, the first postmodern-gothic storyteller. Drawn from the mind's most unruly nightmares and macabre alcoves, his elegantly bizarre short fiction is laden with shimmering images of sensuality: a doomed beauty rises from a warm tub surrounded by swirling clouds of vapor; a mysterious stranger strips naked, revealing the secret of his loneliness-his kinship with the angels. McGrath's fictional inquiries move from the bugaboos of Victorian superstition and Freudian psychology to the curse of human desire, from English estates to the dark, savage Congo to the downtown bohemia of Manhattan after midnight. In ‘The Black Hand of the Raj,' set against colonial India's… Read More

Reykjavik. 2002. Icelandic Review. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9979510447. Selected and translated with a foreword and notes by May and Hallberg Hallmundsson. Illustrations by Kjartan Gudjonsson. 123 pages. paperback. keywords: Iceland Scandinavia Mythology . FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘Nowhere does a nation bare its soul to the same extent as in its popular lore, its folktales,‘ say translators May and Hallberg Hallmundsson in their introduction to this selection of Icelandic folk and fairy tales. Spanning the rich folk tradition from ghosts and elves to sorcerers, saints and outlaws, the stories reflect everyday life in Iceland through the centuries, throwing a unique light on the Icelandic character in humorous as well as series circumstances. The Hallmundssons have selected and translated all the tales in this volume from the classic collection of 19th-century folklorist Jon Arnason, who devoted years of his life to recording stories preserved by oral tradition since… Read More

London. 1957. Putnam. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 405 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Owen Wood. keywords: Literature Translated Denmark Scandinavia Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - LAST TALES is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; ‘The Caryatids,' an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy's spell; and three tales of winter, including ‘Converse at Night in Copenhagen,' a drunken, all-night conversation between a boy-king, a prostitute, and a poor young poet. inventory #13732

New York. 1982. Holt Rinehart & Winston. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket W/ Tear Mark At The Top Front Corner. 0030595282. Illustrated by Michael Hague . 162 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Children Denmark Scandinavia. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A collection of tales including 'The Snow Queen,' 'The Little Mermaid,' 'The Little Match girl,' 'Thumbelina,' 'The Elfin Hill,' 'Little Ida's Flower,' 'The Ugly Duckling,' 'The Wild Swans,' and 'The Emperor's New Clothes.' inventory #980 ISBN: 0030595282.

London. 1982. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0710093462. 164 pages. hardcover. Jacket design: Logos Design. keywords: Literature South Africa . FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is an astonishingly subversive collection of tales about South Africa by the author of A Separate Development, the novel which was awarded the David Higham Memorial Prize for 1981. We meet Colonel Rocco ‘Window Jumpin' du Preez and Colonel Jake ‘Dancin' Mphalele, both top-flight security interrogators; and the theology-lecturing-dominie who has problems not only with grace, but with the private parts of Africans and his favourite student's alluringly short skirt. Then there is Hilton, the student radical who out-radicalizes them all including, eventually, himself in a surprising resurrection; and, most movingly, Ndbele, who has to create his own world in order to abide by the rules of a racially obsessed society. As in A Separate Development, Christopher Hope's… Read More

Los Angeles. 1975. November 1975. Black Sparrow Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. unpaginated. paperback. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Sparrow appeared monthly. It printed poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, commentaries and reviews. Each issue presents the work of a single author. inventory #1236

New York. 2001. March 2001. McElderry Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0689830157. Illustrated by Sophy Williams. 111 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Sophy Williams. keywords: Children's . FROM THE PUBLISHER - For thousands of years, all around the world, people have seen shapes and pictures in the night sky and created stories to account for them. What one culture sees as a plow, another sees as a saucepan, another as a bear; what to one is a circle of chiefs sitting at powwow, another calls a bride's crown of flowers. STARRY TALES brings together fifteen of these myths about the sun, the moon, and the stars from different cultures and countries. Here you can read about how night was created, about the Giant who stole the sun, and about the ‘saucepan' in the sky . One of today's most talented storytellers, Geraldine McCaughrean brings these myths to fresh life. With Sophy Williams's glowing illustrations, this is a book to enjoy, to share, and to treasure.… Read More

New York. 1964. January 1964. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451501985. Newly Translated From The French By Walter J. Cobb. Foreword By Henri Peyre. 127 pages. paperback. CP198. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback Literature France Translated 19th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 'Biographers and critics have generally hailed these three tales, Flaubert's last complete work, not only as his testament, but as the culmination and the summation of his literary career.' Thus writes Henri Peyre, who terms these classic stories 'the fittest initiation to the rest of Flaubert's works.' In them, the reader witnesses the astonishing scope of the author's creative imagination and the full range of his stylistic virtuosity. They deal with the life of a servant woman in nineteenth - century France, the terrible sins and atonement of a legendary medieval saint, and the violent conflict of races and religions during the first… Read More