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MacMillan and Co., New York, 1958. Condition: Very good, edge wear and corner bumps, spine has wrinkling at top and bottom edges, previous owners name and inscription on inside front cover, underlining and notes. Green boards with gold lettering on spine, No dust jacket.Includes essays by E.M. Forster, Stephen Spender, John Betjeman, Charles Darwin, Julian Huxley, and Virginia Woolf.

Condition: Near fine, light edge wear and corner bumps. Large book that may require additional postage.Bead Style features more than 45 original designs for fabulous chunky jewelry, using beads of ever description - from intensely coloured crystals and luminous pearls, to unique gold charms and glossy beads. Full colour photos, easy to follow instructions, a stand-up format that allows hands-free crafting.

Condition: Good, edge wear, scuffing and creasing at spine, sun fading.This book is intended as a reference-companion to the personalities and ideas of the years 1789 to 1945.

Twayne, Boston, 1990. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear.Patrick A. McCarthy's Ulysses: Portals of Discovery focuses on the ways in which James Joyce's complex modern masterpiece revolves around the reader's encounter with the text. By examining narrative technique and the issues of error, rumour, and truth in the novel, McCarthy shows how Joyce's text invites readers to make their own discoveries.

Fawcett Gold Medal edition, New York, 1982, First paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, light bumps at corners, spine creasing and nicks, light creases at back corners.When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakably cerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies -- and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller coaster ride of adventure and danger, ecstasy and peril.

Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, spine has nicks and creasing, rear cover has multiple creases.A pictorial biography of the popular singer who became "the quintessence of American popular music".

Scholastic. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, no interior writing or markings.Freddy's class is competing in a read-a-thon, and the student who reads for the most minutes will win five free books -- and the class will win an author visit, too! Freddy plans to win this contest . . . even if it means staying up all night!

Gollancz, London. 9th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.Springtime in Styria. And that means war. Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge.There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king.War may be hell but for Monza Murcatto, the Snake of Talins, the most feared and famous mercenary in Duke Orso's employ, it's a damn good way of making money too. Her victories have made her popular - a shade too popular for her employer's taste. Betrayed, thrown down a mountain and left for dead, Murcatto's reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance. Whatever the cost, seven men must die.Her allies include Styria's least reliable… Read More

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. The slightest of edge nicks on dust jacket else fine.From the publisher: When a private envoy of the queen and member of Lord Carmichael's discreet service goes missing, Balfour and Meriwether are asked to look into the affair. They will find a labyrinth of dreams, horrors from hell, prophecy, sexual perversion and an abandoned farmhouse on the moors outside Harrowmoor Sanitarium. The Earth itself will bare its secrets, and the Empire will tremble in the face of the hidden dangers they uncover, but the greatest peril is the one they brought with them. This is the first novella length work in the Balfour and Meriwether stories by Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominated author Daniel Abraham.

Norton, New York, 1952. First edition. Condition: Book is very good, with slight toning but no markings or writing, slight indentation at lower front cover, Dust jacket is torn with edge wear and creasing, price clipped.For classical and contemporary classical (till the 1950's) music lovers.

Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, dust shadow and light soiling on covers, wear at spine, NO outlining or writing, a well read book.A Glossary of Literary Terms covers the terminology of literature - from literary history to theory to criticism - making it a valuable addition to any literary theory or literature course.

Random House, New York. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, no interior writing or markings.

Eclipse, 1988. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and nicks at spine, else fine.Introduction by Ramsey Campbell, from the creator of Conan.

Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, 1975. First edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and fading of covers.Terry Mosher's (Aislin) third collection of political cartoons and caricatures.

Mcclelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1986. First edition. Condition: Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Dj has slight edge wear. More pictures available upon request.

Mcclelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1977. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Dust jacket has light edge wear and light bumping at corners, Very light soiling on covers.Signed and inscribed by Purdy, to Bruce Whitman.Al Purdy loved this country and travelled it extensively, by freight train, by airplane, driving a camper and on foot. His paternal line traces back to two brothers who were United Empire Loyalists and left Ulster County in New York in the 1830s to settle in the Belleville, Ontario area. Purdy explored his own heritage and that of Canada in his poetry. Here the same yard-spinning tone is used to explore the country and its people in prose. In other parts of the world, Purdy had felt like a stranger. But wherever he went in Canada, including Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island where the book begins, he always felt at home. No Other Country takes a "long and leisurely gander at Canada and the people who make it what it is..."

Morrow, New York, 1991. First edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge wear.No writer has been the subject of more passionate study or exercised a greater influence on modern poetry that Arthur Rimbaud - and paramount to the legends that surround the author is his mysterious disappearance into Abyssinia (known today as Ethiopia) for the final decade of his life...

Penguin, London, 2003. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge amd corner wear.Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything from a seascape in Barbados to the takeoffs at Heathrow.Even as de Botton takes the reader along on his own peregrinations, he also cites such distinguished fellow-travelers as Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Van Gogh, the biologist Alexander von Humboldt, and the 18th-century eccentric Xavier de Maistre, who catalogued the wonders of his bedroom. The Art of Travel is a wise and utterly original book. Don't leave home without it.

Grove Press, Black Cat Book B 69, New York, 1987. 17th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, small crease at top rear cover.Here, in one volume, are two remarkable novels by the chief spokesman of the then-called "new novel". "Jealousy is a technical masterpiece, impeccably contrived." - New York Times Book Review

Northwestern University Press, 1992. First printing in this new edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Alain Robbe-Grillet, one of the leaders of the new French literary movement of the sixties, has long been regarded as the outstanding writer of the nouveau roman, as well as its major spokesman. For a New Novel reevaluates the techniques, ethos, and limits of contemporary fiction. This is a work of immense importance for any discussions of the history of the novel, and for contemporary thinking about the future of fiction.