Search Results: Titles starting with I from Zeno's

New York. 1950. Dell Publishing Company. Dell Paperback Edition. Good in Worn Wrappers With a Piece Coming Off Near The Bottom Spine. 256 pages. paperback. 722. Cover art by Carl Bobertz. keywords: Mystery Vintage Paperbacks. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Death takes a honeymoon. VIOLENCE . INTRIGUE . DEATH . A grotesque, diabolical old doctor with a terrifying hypodermic needle that packs a special wallop . A barrel-shaped man of mystery with dark glasses and darker motives, involving the fate of nations . A beautiful brunette with soft, creamy skin and a lovely pearl-handled revolver, out to ‘get her man' in an unlovely way . You'll meet them all in A SHOT OF MURDER by Jack Iams. A tale of mystery and mayhem which begins in Paris and ends in a strange mountain sanitorium where weird experiments are tried on human minds. inventory #37152

Boston. 1984. Godine. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0879235209. Translated from the Spanish by Asa Zatz. 201 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Teresa Fasolino. Jacket calligraphy by Richard Lipton. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer . keywords: Literature Translated Mexico Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘The story I am going to tell begins on a night the police violated the Constitution . ‘ From this opening sentence, it is clear we are in Ibarguengoitia country, a world of seduction, repression, deception, and, surprisingly, humor. Marcos, a Mexico City radical, is on the run, escaping the anti-terrorist net. He heads for the provincial town of MuErdago and the home of his rich invalid uncle, Ramon Tarragona. To the intense suspicion of his cousins, all of whom are counting on the riches the old man's death will bring, Marcos is welcomed with open arms by Ramon. And there are other arms in the household even more welcoming. So begins a game of bluff and… Read More

London. 1986. Chatto & Windus. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0701139501. Translated from the Spanish by Irene Del Corral. 117 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by John Clementson. keywords: Literature Translated Mexico Latin America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - THE UNEXPURGATED MEMOIRS OF A TRUTHFUL MAN . Major General Lupe Arroyo prided himself on being a man of integrity. Not above stealing or killing or extortion or betrayal. But truthful about it, because all he did was for the glory of the revolution (or, when necessary, to save his own neck). The year is 1928; the country is Mexico; and the revolution about to take place becomes, in the general's account, an uproarious farce of allegiances changing paces as fast as musical chairs, of battles won by bumbling, of power grabbed at any cost. But as his tale begins to reflect an unmistakable reality, our laughter at Jorge Ibarguengoitia's masterful mock epic suddenly catches in the throat-for this is political truth that… Read More

London. 1980. Faber & Faber. 1st Paperback Edition of This Translation. Very Good in Wrappers. 0571116019. Translated from the Norwegian by Christopher Hampton. 120 pages. paperback. Cover by Zoe Dominic. keywords: Literature Norway Drama Translated Scandinavia. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The idealistic son of a corrupt merchant exposes his father's duplicity, but in the process destroys the very people he wishes to save. Gregers Werle forces his friends, the Ekdals, to confront the truth about their lives - but the truth only serves to wound them further. inventory #31357 ISBN: 0571116019.

New York. 1964. March 1964. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. Newly Translated From The Norwegian & With A Foreword by Rolf Fjelde. 253 pages. paperback. CP215. Cover: Seymour Chwast. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback Norway Scandinavia Drama Translated Literature 19th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The central theme of this epic drama is the search for self amid moral chaos. Opportunistic and unscrupulous, Peer Gynt wanders the earth, from the supernatural kingdom of the trolls to the desert wastes of Africa. In the roles of son, lover, businessman, prophet, and philosopher, he deceives, betrays, and exploits - only to be duped and victimized in turn. Yet, as he passes from youth to maturity to old age, the mercurial fluctuations of his fortunes yield only an inner emptiness and desperate fear of a final reckoning. Rooted in folklore, transformed by poetic imagination, illumined throughout by the clear northern light of… Read More

New York. 0. Modern Library. Hardcover Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Red Boards.No Dustjacket. Introduction by H. L. Mencken. hardcover. keywords: Modern Library Literature Translated Drama Norway Scandinavia. FROM THE PUBLISHER - INCLUDES THE PLAYS: The Master Builder; Pillars of Society; Hedda Gabler; Ghosts; An Enemy of the People; A Doll's House; John Gabriel Borkman; The Wild Duck; The League of Youth; Rosmersholm; Peer Gynt. inventory #29533

New York. 1980. Penguin Books. Reprinted Penguin Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0140441468. Translated from the Norwegian & With An Introduction by Peter Watts. 336 pages. paperback. Cover shows a detail from Munch's 'Agony'. keywords: Penguin Classic Norway Scandinavia Translated Paperback Literature Drama. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Includes the plays - The League Of Youth, A Doll's House, & The Lady From The Sea. This volume contains three plays representative of different stages in Ibsen's development. The political comedy, THE LEAGUE OF YOUTH (1869), is among the earliest of his realistic social plays and a forerunner of the great dramas of his maturity, of which A DOLL'S HOUSE (1879) is one of the most famous. THE LADY FROM THE SEA (1888), which, like A DOLL'S HOUSE, is a play about women and freedom, is a later work in which the symbolism and poetry which are latent in most of Ibsen's plays come nearest to the surface. inventory #33973 ISBN: 0140441468.

New York. 0. Grosset and Dunlap. Grosset’s Universal Library Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. 432 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Drama Norway Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - An Enemy of the People . The Wild Duck . Hedda Gabler . The Lady from the Sea. Each of these plays is a magnificent example of Ibsen, the master dramatist. They are powerful tales in which the characters are alive with a vivid realism that is as rare in the theater of today, as it was when it broke like a storm over Ibsen's audience. Over the years so much emphasis has been placed on Ibsen as a social commentator that Ibsen the storyteller has been woefully neglected. Yet his plays have certainly proved to be more than just vehicles for the challenging of 19th century social rigidity. Yesteryear's issues have perhaps lost much of their sensationalism or have long since been resolved. Yet Ibsen's plays still retain all of their urgency and importance, and continue… Read More

London. 1971. Secker & Warburg. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0436217767. Translated from the Japanese by John Bester. 247 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The ten stories in this volume cover a wide range of moods and subjects, from cattle breeding to tomb robbery, from satire to fable. The title story tells of a local eccentric, a demented martinet who returns from the war with symptoms of brain damage. Is it shell shock, the villagers wonder, or - a more exciting possibility - congenital syphilis? The truth which emerges is more squalid, yet curiously moving. This bathetic figure, a scruffy clown, becomes a symbol for the higher lunacy of war. ‘Pilgrim's Inn' is a sharply etched vignette of society's callousness towards the individual, while ‘Old Ushitora', a story about the delicate sensibility of the son of a stud-farmer, is bucolic comedy with a cutting edge. Through concentration on the patterns of… Read More

New York. 2016. October 2016. Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780316267724. 323 pages. paperback. keywords: Mystery America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch. They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which might be a set of tires or a homemade casserole. To get by, he's forced to take on clients that can pay. This time, it's a rap mogul whose life is in danger. As Isaiah investigates, he encounters a vengeful ex-wife,… Read More

Tokyo. 2001. Kodansha. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 4770026862. Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum. 240 pages. hardcover. Cover: Lester C. Pancoast. keywords: Literature Japan Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - An intelligent, cosmopolitan novel set in the exotic surroundings of Bali and alive with suspense, drug intrigue, courtroom drama, and political tension, A BURDEN OF FLOWERS is based on a true story of the 1980s. The action centers on Asia-traveling Japanese artist ‘Tez' Nishijima and his Europhile sister Kaoru. When Tez is arrested in Bali on charges of heroin trafficking and faces the death penalty, his parents are paralyzed with shame, leaving his Paris-based sister to come to the rescue. She enlists the help of an old expert on Indonesia and two of his friends, and - ‘like Dorothy with the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, and Scarecrow' - sets off to challenge a shadowy and, to her, very alien situation. Her brother, languishing in Jail, thinks back… Read More

Tokyo. 1997. Kodansha. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 4770021852. Translated from the Japanese by Dennis Keene. 227 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Ikezawa has been described as one of the best short story writers in the world today. he won his country's highest literary award ten years ago, readers hailed the arrival of a new voice in Japanese fiction: clear, unerring, and resonant. As the title itself suggests, all four of the stories in this collection are in some way about people moving away from ordinary life, seeing things from a distance, as though looking at their world through the window of a spaceship moving into orbit. In the last and most daring piece of all, an international team is sent to explore a ruined site in northern Afghanistan. A helicopter crash reduces their number to two, a Japanese and a French- man, who decide to press on. Watched by a high, circling eagle, they find what appears to be a ruined citadel,… Read More

New York. 1992. Abbeville Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 1558593217. 191 pages. hardcover. keywords: Photography Coffee Food. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A lavishly illustrated guide to coffee. (original title: Nog Pas Gisteren - Holland). inventory #3533 ISBN: 1558593217.

New York. 2012. September 2012. Minotaur/St Martin’s. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780312659110. Translated from the Icelandic by Anna Yates. 281 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Keith Hayes. keywords: Mystery Iceland Literature Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Arnaldur Indridason has proven himself to be a master of the mystery genre with his critically acclaimed Inspector Erlendur series, which has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. Now, in Outrage, this superlative crime writer author has written his best book to date, with exceptional prose, heart pounding suspense, and a mystery that is not solved until the last page. Haunted by personal demons, Detective Erlendur decides to take a short leave of absence, putting a female detective, Elínborg, in charge while he is gone. When a troubling case lands on Elínborg's desk, she's quickly thrust into a violent and volatile situation with extremely high stakes. Soon, her investigation uncovers a… Read More

New York. 2008. September 2008. St. Martin's Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780312358730. Translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder. 320 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein. keywords: Literature Iceland Scandinavia Mystery Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy communication device is attached to it, possibly some sort of radio transmitter, bearing inscriptions in Russian. The police are called in and Erlendur, Elinborg and Sigurdur Oli begin their investigation, which gradually leads them back to the time of the Cold War when bright, left-wing students would be sent from Iceland to study in the ' heavenly State ' of Communist East Germany. The Draining Lake is another… Read More

New York. 2007. October 2007. St Martin's/Minotaur. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780312358716. Translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder. 313 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein. keywords: Literature Translated Iceland Mystery. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘A commanding new voice . puts Iceland on the map as a major destination for enthusiasts of Nordic crime fiction.' - Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review on Silence of the Grave. ARNALDUR INDRIDASON took the international crime fiction scene by storm after winning England's CWA Gold Dagger Award for Silence of the Grave. Now, with the highly anticipated Voices, this world-clan sensation treats American readers to another extraordinary Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson thriller. The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand Reykjavik hotel when Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is called in to investigate a murder. The hotel Santa has been stabbed, and Erlendur and his detective colleagues… Read More

New York. 2006. October 2006. St Martin's/Minotaur. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0312340710. Translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder. 280 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph of birds and sky by Eugene Kuo. keywords: Literature Iceland Scandinavia Mystery Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Downtrodden Detective Erlendur and his team must once again investigate Reykjavik's hidden past to unravel a case of human nastiness. Construction work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has lain peacefully buried for decades. But things are never that simple. While Erlendur struggles to hold together the crumbling fragments of his own family, his case unearths many other tales of family pain. The hills have more than one tragic story to tell: tales of failed relationships and heartbreak;… Read More

New York. 2017. November 2017. Minotaur Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9781250124029. Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. 341 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Iceland Scandinavia Mystery Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series by internationally bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason. THE PAST: In wartime Reykjavik, Iceland, a young woman is found strangled in 'the shadow district', a rough and dangerous area of the city. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer. THE PRESENT: A 90-year-old man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrad, a former detective now bored with retirement, finds newspaper cuttings reporting the WWII shadow district murder in the dead man's home. It's a crime that Konrad remembers, having grown up in the same… Read More

New York. 2005. October 2005. St Martin's Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0312340702. Translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder. 275 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Michael Trevillion. keywords: Literature Iceland Scandinavia Mystery Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Jar City introduces American readers to a new crime writer from Iceland whose work has created an international sensation. Arnaldur Indridason has been compared to such luminaries in the field as Henning Mankell, Georges Simenon, Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall; everyone agrees that here is a world-class writer. When a lonely old man is found murdered in his Reykjavík flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Inspector Erlendur, who heads the investigation team, discovers that many years ago the victim was accused, though not convicted, of an unsolved crime. Did the old man's past come back to haunt him? As the team of detectives… Read More

New York. 2009. September 2009. St. Martin's Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780312381035. Translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder & Victoria Cribb. 352 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Ervin Serrano. keywords: Literature Iceland Scandinavia Mystery Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body of the young boy has been found in the garden, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. Erlendur and his team embark on an investigation but have little to go on. In this new extraordinary thriller from Gold Dagger Award winner Arnaldur Indridason, the Reykjavik police are called on an icy January day to a garden where a body has been found: a young, dark-skinned boy is frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation and soon unearth tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland's outwardly liberal, multicultural society.… Read More