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Condition: Very Good, light edge wear, slight bumping at corners, slight scuffing on inside front cover.

A holiday story starring the classic teddy bear beloved by children for 50 yearsCelebrate Christmas with everyone's favorite bear and this charming lift-the-flap book. Join in all of Corduroy's holiday activities, from trimming the tree to baking Christmas cookies. Discover the magic of Christmas with Corduroy in this festive tale, perfect for even the youngest reader.

Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Slight edge nicks.From the publisher: Published in 1984, J.G Ballard's Empire of the Sun - an account of a boy's life in occupied Shanghai during World War 2 - has established itself as one of the most compelling British Novels of the last three decades. In its brilliant sequel, the author puts this earlier story, based on his own experiences, into the context of a lifetime.

St Martins Press, New York, 1996. First edition. Condition: Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket. Slight edge wear.Collected for the first time, these are the nonfiction writings of one of the most important voices in our time. Among Ballard's subjects are Dali and de Sade, Marilyn Monroe and Nancy Reagan, atom bombs and highways,s ex and science fiction...more than ninety pieces.

Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. A few slight edge nicks. First Canadian edition.An imaginative master's take on the heart of darkness.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2007. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed, limited, and numbered edition; number 530 of 750 copies.Eleven flights of fancy and one true story...but it can be hard to say where fancy ends and the truth begins.In this, his second collection of short fiction, award winning author and screenwriter Stephen Gallagher delivers his unique take on the weird, the wonderful, and the downright strange. These are tales in which the world is very much as we know it, but charged with a sense of the wonders that lie in wait just beneath the surface of our everyday reality.

Knopf, Toronto, 2014. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket; light edge wear and bumping at corners. Top edge has light creasing.From the beloved, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, a beautiful, suspense-filled novel that uses the life and sudden death of Harry Houdini to weave a magical tale of intrigue, love and illusion.The Confabulist weaves together the life, loves and murder of the world's greatest magician, Harry Houdini, with the story of the man who killed him (twice): Martin Strauss, an everyday man whose fate was tied to the magician's in unforeseen ways. A cast of memorable characters spins around Houdini's celebrity-driven life, as they did in his time: from the Romanov family soon to be assassinated, to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the powerful heads of Scotland Yard, and the Spiritualists who would use whoever they could to establish their religion. A brilliant novel about fame and ambition, reality and illusion, and the ways that… Read More

Knopf, Toronto, 1993. First Canadian edition. Condition: Fine in near fine jacket. Dust jacket has price sticker on back cover and is price clipped, else fine.From the publisher: These twelve extraordinary stories by South America's preeminent man of letters, the Nobel Prize inning author of renowned classic One Hundred Years of Solitude and the international best seller Love in the Time of Cholera, are set in contemporary Europe and recount the peculiar and amazing experiences that befall Latin Americans visiting or living abroad.

Penguin, New York. 7th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine nicks and creasing.One of the Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's triumphs, Love in the Time of Cholera is a masterwork of magical realism.

Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear.Build stronger relationships with customers through the OPEN Questioning technique.By asking four types of questions-Operational, Problem, Effect, and Nail Down-you can address customer needs, find connections, and build the kind of relationships that enable you to close more sales.This hands-on guide shows how to use OPEN Question Selling throughout the sales process, from getting in the door to handling objections to making the close. With more than 100 sample questions and end-of-chapter exercises, you'll soon be on your way to building winning customer relationships.

Grove/Evergreen, New York, 1988. First Evergreen printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, spine has creasing and light scuffing, rear cover has light scuffing.This is the third of Genet's prose works to be published in the United States, following Our Lady of the Flowers (1963) and The Thief's Journal (1964). It is, however, Genet's second novel, having been written in La Santé and Tourelles prisons in 1943, directly after Our Lady of the Flowers. Like that first work, Miracle of the Rose was written in the solitude of a prison cell, on the pieces of white paper the penal authorities furnish the convicts for making paper bags.The work is set in the State prison of Fontevrault. It is the height of the German Occupation and in the prisons of France the convicts, barely subsisting on near-starvation rations, spend their endless days weaving camouflage nets for their German conquerors. Miracle of the Rose is, first of all, an account of life at Fontevrault during that period. But Genet is no… Read More

Grove/Evergreen E-130, New York, 1958. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, creasing at corners, tape repair at interior corners, spine creases and light nicks, light soiling on white area of rear cover.The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined sensibilities and peculiar tastes. Here men from all walks of life don the garb of their fantasies and act them out: a man from the gas company wears the robe and mitre of a bishop; another customer becomes a flagellant judge, and still another a victorious general, while a bank clerk defiles the Virgin mary. These costumed diversions take place while outside a revolution rages on which has isolated the brothel from the rest of the rebel-controlled city. In a stunning series of macabre, climactic scenes, Genet presents his caustic view of man and society.

Grove, New York, 1987. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, spine has creasing and slight scuffing, rear cover has light scuffing.Querelle of Brest was first published anonymously in 1947 and limited to 460 numbered copies. It is set in the midst of the port town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder. Its protagonist, Georges Querelle, is a bisexual thief, prostitute, and serial killer who manipulates and kills his lovers for thrills and profit. The novel formed the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's last film, Querelle (1982).

Traveler's Tales, Palo Alto. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear.Foreword by Pico Iyer.As a professional travel writer and editor for the past 40 years, Don George has been paid to explore the world. Through the decades, his articles have been published in magazines, newspapers, and websites around the globe and have won more awards than almost any other travel writer alive, yet his pieces have never been collected into one volume. The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George fills this void with a moving and inspiring collection of tales and reflections from one of America's most acclaimed and beloved travel writers.From his high-spirited account of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro on a whim when he was 22 years old to his heart-plucking description of a home-stay in a muddy compound in Cambodia as a 61-year-old, this collection ranges widely. As renowned for his insightful observations as for his poetic prose, George always absorbs the essence of… Read More

Story Press, Cincinnati, 1998. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear, slight bottom corner crease, price sticker on rear cover.Gerard covers everything from getting the assignment to conducting a stirring interview to working with an editor - including how to go "where the story lives" to experience the first-hand emotional facts - sights, smells, sounds - that will give your story immediacy; find the right form for the story you want to tell - essay, memoir, nature piece, political analysis, investigative exposes, personality profile; write an opening that catches the reader's attention and an ending that leaves a lasting impression; craft an engaging story by applying fiction elements such as dialogue, plot and conflict; find a voice readers can trust, and a writing style that "sings"; write other people's stories. (Gerard addresses such ethical and legal questions as libel, privacy, "off the record"); and revise your work in light of what you know now ...… Read More

Penguin Modern Classics, London, 1987. 3rd printing. Condition: Good plus, light edge and corner wear, long crease at top right front cover corner, spine has faint creasing, some underlining on first few pages.The surrealist movement was founded in France in 1924, brother of the anarchist Dada, heir of experiments in 19th century literature. In England, the movement arose as the logical evolution of 19th century literature's dominant concern - the psychopathology of the artist's mind. Being unconcerned with conventional morality, it had few affinities with the humanist tradition of literature and saw the classical tradition as antithetical to literature altogether. This book examines surrealist poetry in English literature. Includes poetry by David Gascoyne, Michael McClure, Randall Jarrell, John Ashbery, and others.

Ace, New York. 7th trade paperback printings. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, light spine crease.A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he's perfected—out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren't remotely human...

Berkley, New York. 21st paperback printing. Signed by the author. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear, very light spine crease.Signed by Gibson on the title page.From the author of Neuromancer comes a story that takes readers to 21st century Tokyo after the millennial quake, where something violently new is about to erupt.

Putnam, New York, 2007. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very god plus dust jacket. Slight edge wear.Spook: Specter, ghost, revenenant, slang for intelligence agent.Country: In the mind or in reality. The world. The United States of America, New Improved Edition. What lies before you. What lies behind you.Spook Country: The place where we all have landed, few by choice. The place where we are learning to live.A fascinating near future novel by Gibson.

Bantam, New York. 20th paperback printing, signed by the author. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light spine creasing.Signed by Gibson on the title page.Berry Rydell, an ex-cop, signs on with IntenSecure Armed Response in Los Angeles. He finds himself on a collision course that results in a desperate romance, and a journey into the ecstasy and dread that mirror each other at the heart of the postmodern experience.

Popular Library, Toronto, 1952. First Canadian edition. Condition: Good, corner creases and edge wear, bottom of spine has tears, spine has nicks, back cover has light soiling. Popular Library 421. She taught him all he knew - about her! Classic 50's titillating trash paperback about life on a college campus.