Search Results: Titles starting with C from Zeno's

New York. 1986. February 1986. Harper & Row. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0060154322. 329 pages. hardcover. Photograph by Ted Allan, the Kobal Collection. Jacket design by Pentagram . keywords: Literature Translated Latin America Cuba Cigars. FROM THE PUBLISHER - When Columbus first came across tobacco in Cuba he was unimpressed. He was looking for gold, not smoke. How could he know that tobacco would become the multimillion-dollar business that it is today? And that the island of Cuba was destined to produce the best cigars in the world (although so-called Havanas were never actually cultivated in Havana!). HOLY SMOKE, by the author of THREE TRAPPED TIGERS and INFANTE'S INFERNO, is the outrageous and informative story of the cigar and of those who have smoked it - in all walks of life, in literature, and in film. Cabrera Infante tells the story of cigars and cigar smoking from Columbus to Castro (who used to mooch cigars off the author) with many delightful detours along the… Read More

London. 1988. Faber & Faber. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0571151868. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine & Revised by The Author. 163 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Latin America Cuba Caribbean Translated South America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Cabrera Infante's first novel THREE TRAPPED TIGERS, was hailed as ‘Remarkable. I doubt a funnier novel has been written in Spanish since Don Quixote' (New York Times). And Time magazine said: ‘Can stand on the same shelf with Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges' His new work of fiction is a series of vignettes or episodes about Cuban history from the first inhabitants to the present, But mainly they are contemporary - vivid and sharp, sometimes cruel and violent, sometimes witty, sometimes sad, frequently deeply ironical. The book is, in the author's words, ‘a personal statement of the strategies of history.' inventory #14753 ISBN: 0571151868.

New York. 1996. March 1996. Signet/New American Library. 1st Printing of This Signet Classic Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451526244. Introduction by Gordon Hutner. 254 pages. paperback. CE2624. Cover: Jozef Israels-'A Jewish Wedding, 1903'. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback Literature America Jewish Immigrant. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Abraham Cahan, one of the first and foremost of Jewish-American writers, found the inspiration for his passionate, timeless short fiction in the tenements and sweatshops of New York City's Lower east Side at the turn of the twentieth century. Like the characters in these affectionate, bittersweet tales, Cahan came to America with nothing, seeking a Promised Land of opportunity and equality. Instead, the immigrants found a bitter life of grinding poverty, sixteen-hour workdays, and challenges to their Jewish faith and traditional way of life. In these moving stories, garment workers and potato peddlers, Talmudic scholars and trade unionists, landladies and… Read More

New York. 1981. Holt Rinehart Winston. 1st Trade Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket W/Wrinkled Front Flap. 0030585015. 312 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration & design by Irving Freeman. keywords: Mystery America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is the first book to collect the best of his shorter work - selected short stories and sketches together with one of his finest serials, the novella published at different times under the titles ‘Money and the Woman' and ‘The Embezzler.' As taut and brilliant in its way as Cain's most famous serial, Double Indemnity, this ingenious example of Cain's ‘love rack' fiction has been out of print for many years, but reads as immediately today as when first written more than three decades ago. Equally fascinating, especially when seen within Roy Hoopes's tracings of the development of Cain's work, are the entertaining sketches and dialogues Cain originally wrote for journalistic publication - beautiful models of efficiency… Read More

Lincoln. 2016. November 2016. University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780803255753. 8 images. 344 pages. hardcover. keywords: History Biography Women's Studies. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Rose Elizabeth Bird was forty years old when in 1977 Governor Edmund G. Jerry Brown chose her to become California's first female supreme court chief justice. Appointed to a court with a stellar reputation for being the nation's most progressive, Bird became a lightning rod for the opposition due to her liberalism, inexperience, and gender. Over the next decade, her name became a rallying cry as critics mounted a relentless effort to get her off the court. Bird survived three unsuccessful recall efforts, but her opponents eventually succeeded in bringing about her defeat in 1986, making her the first chief justice to be removed from the California Supreme Court. The Case of Rose Bird provides a fascinating look at this important and complex woman and the… Read More

London. 1989. Faber & Faber. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0571153593. 188 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Michael Bennallack-Hart. keywords: Literature Translated Latin America Anthology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Latin American short stories of the sixties and seventies were considered to be among the best in the world. Writers such as Borges, Rulfo, Carpentier, and Garcia Marquez produced remarkable and exhilarating work that found a receptive audience in Britain and North America. In FABER BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN SHORT STORIES Nick Caistor sets out to explore the wealth of fiction produced since this so-called boom. With stories from Isabel Allende, Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro and other, as yet unfamiliar names, this exciting and diverse collection demonstrates that the creative upsurge continues to flourish. The twenty stories represent work from the whole continent, including the United States. Many are published here in English for the firs time. They are exciting… Read More

San Francisco. 1991. Aunt Lute. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 1879960001. Translated from the Spanish by Gina Kaufer. 214 pages. paperback. Cover art by Chris Tandy. keywords: Literature Latin America Mexico Women Translated Lesbian. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is the English translation of the extraordinarily popular Mexican novel that remained on Mexico's Top Ten Best Sellers list long after its initial publication. The protagonist of the novel, Valeria, is a member of a well-to-do Jewish family in Mexico City. She is married and has two sons. Intelligent and sensitive, she realizes that the traditional conventions of her culture and subculture have made her unable to be a whole person, acting as a relatively free agent in the world. Then she falls passionately in love with a woman, and, against tremendous family pressure, finds the courage to leave her conventional life to become the writer she has wanted to be. All the elements of a true romance written with fine literary… Read More

New York. 1996. September 1996. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0393039471. 366 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Bruce Forrester Photography. keywords: Women Autobiography Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Raised in Australia, Helen Caldicott trained as a physician and devoted herself to the treatment of children afflicted with cystic fibrosis. But it was in the political turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s that she found her true calling. Resigning from the faculty of Harvard Medical School, she helped to found and was the first president of the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND), two organizations at the forefront of the nuclear-freeze movement. Over the next ten years Caldicott brought her message to world leaders, to the media, and to audiences of thousands whom she roused to action with singular eloquence. In 1985, PSR's umbrella affiliate, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, was… Read More

Westfield. 1991. October 1991. Open Magazine Pamphlet Series. 2nd Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 16 pages. paperback. Pamphlet # 4. keywords: Politics . FROM THE PUBLISHER - From This Lecture: ‘. It's a pretense to think that the government is run of the people, by the people and for the people. Now therefore you need another revolution. And that doesn't mean sitting on your bottoms writing letters. It's doesn't mean lobbying Senator Hatfield and whoever else. It means actually getting out there and putting your bodies on the line like Gandhi did. It means the equivalent of salt marches. It means taking over the Department of Energy in Washington and staying there, like the students did in the 1960s, taking over the administrations. It means taking over the Pentagon, getting in there. It's your Pentagon. Take it over. inventory #31282

New York. 1947. February 1947. Pocket Books. 1st Pocket Books Paperback Printing. Some Water Staining Along Side Edge, Otherwise Good in Worn Wrappers. 312 pages. paperback. 392. keywords: Literature America Vintage Paperbacks. FROM THE PUBLISHER - SALT HUMOR AND EARTHY PASSION. These stories by Erskine Caldwell, author of TOBACCO ROAD and GOD'S LITTEL ACRE, are a series of short, hard, well-timed punches. Sometimes his blows land on the funnybone; often they land on the point of the chin - always with irresistible force. Here is ‘Maud Island,' here raw physical passion is the only enjoyment left in the degenerate life of a backwoods Southern community. Here is the driving power of ‘Saturday Afternoon' and ‘Kneel to the Rising Sun,' classics of terror and brutality. And here are stories like ‘Grassfire' and ‘Midwinter Guest,' about stubborn eccentrics of Maine whose laughter is taken in strong doses. Rich in humor and violent in emotion. Caldwell's… Read More

New York. 1999. July 1999. Picador. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0312204329. 274 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Simon Lee. keywords: History Rudeness America Etiquette. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In his thought-provoking new book, literary/social critic Mark Caldwell gives us a history of the demise of manners and charts the triumphant progress of rudeness in America. Touching on aspects of both our public and private lives, including work, family, and sex, he examines how the rules of behavior inevitably change and explains why, no matter how hard we try, we can never return to a golden era of civilized manners and mores. inventory #27068 ISBN: 0312204329.

Berkeley. 1970. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520016084. 270 pages. hardcover. keywords: Biography Brazil Literature Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Machado de Assis is among the most original creative minds in Brazil's rich, four-century-long literary tradition. Miss Caldwell's critical and biographical study explores Machado's purpose, meaning, and artistic method in each of his nine novels, published between 1872 and 1908. She traces the ideas and recurrent themes, and identifies his affinities with other authors. In tracing Machado's experimentation with narrative techniques, Miss Caldwell reveals the increasingly subtle use he made of point of view, sometimes indirect or reflected, sometimes multiple and ‘nested' like Chinese boxes. Miss Caldwell shows the increasing sureness with which he individualized his characters, and how, in advance of his time, he developed action, not by realistic detail, but by the boldest… Read More

New York. 1962. Farrar Straus Cudahy. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 216 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America Southern. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A novel about an interracial love affair in a small Northern town that culminates in a jealous wife's savage act of brutality. inventory #25605

Berkeley. 2008. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520254824. California Studies in 20th-Century Music, 9. 304 pages. hardcover. keywords: Music Opera Bertolt Brecht. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as decadent and irrelevant to modern society even as he continued to work on opera projects throughout his career. He completed three operas and attempted two dozen more with composers such as Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Hanns Eisler, and Paul Dessau. Joy H. Calico argues that Brecht's simultaneous work on opera and Lehrstück in the 1920s generated the new concept of audience experience that would come to define epic theater, and that his revisions to the theory of Gestus in the mid-1930s are reminiscent of nineteenth-century opera performance practices of mimesis. inventory #35890 ISBN: 9780520254824. Read More

Berkeley. 2009. April 2009. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520258525. 352 pages. paperback. keywords: California Studies Beaches. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Stretching from Malibu to the Mexican border, Southern California's coast is justifiably famous, yet, as this essential guide reveals, it offers more to see and do than even its greatest fans may realize. Easy-to-use, up-to-date, and comprehensive, Beaches and Parks in Southern California is the perfect companion for all visitors - sightseers, hikers, swimmers, surfers, campers, birders, boaters, and anglers - who want to explore this magnificent shoreline. In addition to well-known beaches of soft, golden sand, it describes rocky shores and tide pools, hidden pocket beaches, historic lighthouses, the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, and much more. inventory #37377 ISBN: 9780520258525.

San Francisco. 1937. Californians Inc. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. unpaginated. paperback. keywords: History Travel San Francisco. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A booklet published by the Californians, Inc. a non-profit organization of public-spirited individuals and institutions devoted to the sound upbuilding of their city. inventory #36627

Berkeley. 2012. March 2012. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520271579. 299 color illustrations, 53 maps. 320 pages. paperback. keywords: Water Earth. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Many of California's most alluring attractions are found along the coast from San Francisco Bay to Monterey Bay: Alcatraz Island, San Francisco's waterfront, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Point Lobos. This easyto- use, up-to-date, comprehensive guidebook is the essential companion for visitors - sightseers, hikers, swimmers, surfers, campers, birders, boaters, and anglers - who want to explore California's fabulous shoreline. The book describes some 350 shoreline destinations, including every known publicly accessible beach along the coast of Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties. It also lists wildlife reserves, marinas, and public parks, and includes descriptions of plants and… Read More

San Francisco. 1946. Californians Inc. 2nd Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. With Fold-Out Map In The Back. 112 pages. paperback. keywords: Travel San Francisco History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Vintage California guidebook produced by a non-profit group. Contains text and black-and-white photographs of San Francisco and surrounding country during the '30s. inventory #36626

Berkeley . 2005. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0520245407. 320 pages. paperback. keywords: Natural History California Coast. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The shoreline between California's Golden Gate and the Oregon border offers an endless variety of coastal attractions: soft white sand and coarse pebble beaches, forests of Sitka spruce and fields of California poppies, redwood glades and crashing surf, lighthouses and whales. This easy-to-use, up-to-date, comprehensive guidebook, packed with information on every page, tells you where to go in coastal northern California, how to get there, what facilities to expect, and what you can do at each location. The guide's gorgeous color photographs, topographical maps, and abundant information on natural history and the environment make it the perfect guide to pack along on any excursion to the coast of northern California for hikers, picnickers, campers, surfers, divers, wheelchair users, birders, boaters,… Read More

New York. 1970. May 1970. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket That Shows Some Internal Water-staining. Translated from the Portuguese by Barbara Shelby. 561 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by S. Neil Fujita . keywords: Literature Translated Brazil Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - QUARUP is the most important work to date of the distinguished and courageously outspoken Brazilian novelist-playwright-journalist whose reportage, especially his writing for one of the hemisphere's great newspapers, 0 Jornal do Brasil, ‘bears witness' in the words of the TLS ‘to qualities of intelligence and integrity and to exceptionally high standards in the gathering of information'-an integrity and authority that make his rich, crowded portrayal of a nation in turmoil as trustworthy as it is novelistically, poetically, and humanly brilliant. QUARUP is set in the recent past: from the Vargas years through the military coup of March 31, 1964. The protagonist is a… Read More