Recent Arrivals from The Parnassus BookShop

Simon & Schuster, 2012. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Simon & Schuster Paperback in Very Good Condition. Maps of Paris, 1831 and 1870. Three 16-page section of full color historical photographic reproductions. Gently used book with slight wear to some edges and spot to upper and lower edge of text block;… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, 2014. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. In-text b/w photos. Clean and unmarked wraps, with light wear; pages clean, 8 pages with neat highlighted text. penciled note on last page of Index. An inspiring story of nine Depression-era athletes beating the odds and their inner demons to compete at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, as the University of Washington's rowing… Read more about this item

New York: Hyperion, 2008. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Maps by Paul J. Pugliese. A meticulously researched book, conjoining all of the factors of this tragic war: the military tactics and strategies of both sides; the international diplomacy; the internal politics; and the personalities of the various players. Halberstam's "The Best and the Brightest" was the defining work on… Read more about this item

Random House, 2002. First Edition Ex-Library Hardcover Book and Jacket in Good Condition. b/w illustrations. Introduction by Gloria Emerson. Jacket yellowing on fore edge under mylar cover. Minimal library marks. Tight and solid sewn binding. Pages completely clean and free from any markings. The experiences of women reporters who covered the Vietnam War from 1966 until the fall of Saigon,… Read more about this item

Little Brown & Co, 1989. Second Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. Handsome volume in burgundy half cloth with silver titles, forest green paper wrapped boards; tight and solid binding, corners square and sharp. Internals pristine. A stirring story of a stirring life of America's most famous reviled and admired judge. He served on… Read more about this item

Carlisle, Maine: Applewood Books, 2010. Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback As New. Originally published 1919. Frontis: Portrait of Roosevelt and His Children--same as on the front of the cover. Bright, spotless, attractive volume. 8vo. 262 pages. 2010, Applewood Books.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2011. First Edition Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Full color photographic illustrations. There is a slight forward lean (less than 10 degrees) to the spine, else Fine. Award-winning jolurnalistJonathan Franklin takes readers to the heart of this remarkable story of human endurance, survival, and heroism. Based on more than 100 interviews… Read more about this item

Macmillan Pub Co./Atheneum, 1985. First Atheneum Edition. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Foreword by Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Cover photograph of Lord Mountbatten, Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah, and the author. 8-page section of b/w historic illustrations. Maps. Clean, solid book, slight wear to corners, pages spotless, no markings of any kind. Alan Campbell-Johnson was Lord Mountbatten's Press Attache when Mountbatten… Read more about this item

First HarperFestival Edition 2003. First published 1940. This printing 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Bright, glossy, clean wrappers, small scuff mark on front, touch of wear to upper edge, inside of front cover has scuff marks; sound and tight binding; internals slightly toned, completely clean and free… Read more about this item

Grosset & Dunlap, 2013. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Paperback Rebound as Hardcover Ex-Library Book in Good Condition. Condition notes by library on top of endpaper. Based on the television series created by Craig Bartlett--Dinosaur Train. Bright and colorful illustrations. Cover clean with corner wear. Binding solid and tight. Pages quite clean with several… Read more about this item

Henry Holt and Co, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 5x0x9. First Edition Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Orange half cloth with gilt titles, yellow boards--four brownish smudges mar the yellow front--otherwise the book is in fine condition, tight, solid and square, with sharp corners, internals pristine. Living in San Antonio, Texas, eleven-year-old Alma… Read more about this item

Thorndike, Maine: Center Point, 2012. Large Print Hardcover Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Clean and unmarked except for usual library markings--otherwise in Very Good condition. Pages completely clean and free from any markings. How does a soldier adjust to domestic and family life after coming him from war? And how does the family? This is a deeply… Read more about this item

Thorndike Press, 1998. First English Language Edition. Large Print Hardcover Ex-Library Book in Good Condition, without Jacket. Pictorial brown and burgundy board, light wear to corners, clean, unmarked, tight & solid. Pages in Fine Condition. Rear endpapers have spot near bottom edge. Protagonist Hugh Mathews is a young foreign service officer in the Congo, coping with his embassy's ineptitude and… Read more about this item

Dover Publications, 1997. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Unabridged Dover (1997) republication of the text of "Twelfth Night" from Volume VI of "The Works of William Shakesp0eare" published by Caxton Publishing Company, London, n.d. A comic tale of mistaken identities. Gently used book with bright and colorful wrappers… Read more about this item

HarperTeen, 2004. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Bright, colorful, glossy, green and pink wrappers, a touch of wear to upper edge and spine heel, else fine. The adventures of Weetzie Bat and her Los Angeles friends, Dirk, Duck, and My Secret Agent Lover Man. 7.2 x 5". 128 pages. 2004, HarperCollins Publishers.

Scholastic, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. 7x5x0. Newbery Medal Award Paperback in Very Good Condition. Bright, clean, unmarked wrappers with a touch of wear to edges. Solid and tight binding. Pages lightly toned, completely clean and free from any markings. In fourteenth-century England, an orphaned peasant boy is falsely accused of theft and murder and flees his village; he meets… Read more about this item

Scholastic, 1991. Scholastic Apple Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, gently used book with faint wear to edges. A surprise on election day for class president, when Cricket, the most popular in the fifth grade classroom, was sure she would win. 7.5x5.25". 96 pages. 1991, Scholastic.

Dover Publications, 1992. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Unabridged Dover (1992) republication from "The Caxton Edition of the Complete Works of Shakespeare, Vol. III, published by the Caxton Publishing Company, London, n.d. Gently used book with bright and colorful wrappers clean and unmarked, as are the pages; pages… Read more about this item

Dover Publications, 1994. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Unabridged Dover (1994) republication of the text of "Much Ado About Nothing" from Volume II o f "The Works of William Shakespeare" published by Macmillan and Co., London, 1891. First presented in 1598, this play is one of Shakespeare's last… Read more about this item

Waltham, Massachusetts: Blaisdell Publishing Company, 1966. Kittredge Paperback in Good Condition. Second Edition 1966. First published 1941. Edited by George Lyman Kittredge; Revised by Irving Ribner. Clean and unmarked, toned pages, upper corner has light wear, binding tight and solid. A comidie of double identities--cover illustration depicting this. For half a century George Lyman Kittredge enjoyed world-wide fame as a… Read more about this item