Search Results: Authors starting with I from Zeno's

Aspen. 1995. Macmurray & Beck. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1878448668. 267 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America Women African American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘Love stories tell of strange things', she says. ‘A woman passes. A man speaks to her in a friendly way. They chat together. They lay together. They live together. They enjoy many pleasures. But with all that, they are yet strangers. In their minds they think, if I could only enter the spirit of this one and remove all this strangeness. But there is nothing left to do but to live with the strangeness. To Papa Job, this woman was quite strange. You know their eyes, they didn't see in the same way. Two people. Two different spirits. Yah. Two different worlds'. inventory #21996 ISBN: 1878448668.

Berkeley. 1994. University Of California Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0520081986. With an Introduction by James N. Gregory. 249 pages. paperback. keywords: California Politics History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Here, reprinted for the first time since its original publication, is muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair's lively, caustic account of the 1934 election campaign that turned California upside down and almost won him the governor's mansion. Using his ‘End Poverty in California' movement (more commonly called EPIC) as a springboard, Sinclair ran for governor as a Democrat, equipped with a bold plan to end the Depression in California by taking over idle land and factories and turning them into cooperative ventures for the unemployed. To his surprise, thousands rallied to the idea, converting what he had assumed would be another of his utopian schemes into a mass political movement of extraordinary dimensions. With a loosely knit organization of hundreds… Read More

Berkeley. 1974. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Mark On Bottom Edge. 0520027817. 479 pages. hardcover. keywords: History England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Though in his own time Edward IV was popularly seen as an able and successful king who rescued England from the miseries of civil war and provided the country with firm, judicious and popular government, later historians cast doubt on his achievement. This classic study - now reissued with a substantial new foreword by R. A. Griffiths - places the reign firmly in the context of late-medieval power politics, assessing the king's relations with the politically-active classes, and evaluating the many innovations in government on which Edward's reputation rests. Revealing the king as an enigmatic character intelligent, active and forceful, but also pleasure-loving and, in his later years, increasingly arbitrary and avaricious, Ross endorses Edward as a ruler of substantial accomplishment,… Read More

New York. 1979. Knopf. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394501160. 132 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Four inter-connected short stories from the Houghton Mifflin Literary Award-winning author of THE SLIGHTEST DISTANCE. inventory #1791 ISBN: 0394501160.

New York. 1986. Morrow. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket . 068805384x. 480 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by One Plus One Studio. keywords: CIA History Presidents America Covert Action. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Here, for the first time, is an overview of the abilities of the President, the CIA, and the Pentagon to mount secret wars - operations aimed at altering the destinies of nations and the course of global politics. In reality, the National Security Act of 1947, which created the CIA, nowhere mentions covert operations, but merely ‘such other function and duties. affecting the national security as the National Security Council may from time to time direct.' In Presidents' Secret Wars, we see how ‘such other functions' has come to include a range of paramilitary techniques astonishing in both its size and scope. We see how, in the early days after World War II, the CIA mounted extensive operations involving partisans in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of… Read More

New York. 1963. Signet/New American Library. 4th Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451501632. Edited by Kenneth Muir. paperback. CD163. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback Shakespeare Drama England Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, commonly called Richard II, is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's successors: Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V. inventory #29560 ISBN: 0451501632.

New York. 2008. August 2008. Continuum. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 0826428578. 236 pages. paperback. keywords: Music. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘Death music' is not merely a byword for bookish solemnity, or the glorification of murder, drugs and guns. Over the course of the last hundred years it has also been about teenage girls weeping over their high school boyfriend's fatal car wreck; natural disasters sweeping whole communities away; the ever-evolving threat of disease: changing attitudes to old age; exhortations to suicide; the perfect playlist for a funeral; and the thorny question of what happens after the fat lady ceases to sing. Which means that for every `Black Angel's Death Song' there is a ‘Candle In the Wind,' and for every ‘Cop Killer' there is ‘The Living Years.' Death, like music, is a unifying force. There is something for every taste and inclination, from murderous vengeance to camp sentimentality and… Read More

New York. 1979. Taplinger. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0800882431. Translated from the Japanese by Van C. Gessel. 273 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - When I Whistle' is a rich and absorbing novel set in two worlds- the world of pre-War Japan and the contemporary one of a big hospital with its professional rivalries. Ozu, a middle-aged businessman, has a chance encounter which brings back haunting memories. As Ozu recaptures the past, the reader is caught in the spell of a simpler and more humane time. In perfect couterpoint the story unfolds as Ozu relives the past while his son Eichi, a young house surgeon, pursues his ambitious and materialistic machinations to unseat his rivals. Gradually, the past and the present converge in a powerful and moving climax. inventory #3080 ISBN: 0800882431.

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. 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

New York. 1998. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374115303. 418 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature India Film. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A dazzling novel of murder and monsoons, of poison and seduction, of long-buried secrets and lethal betrayals. Rosalind Benegal is a BBC correspondent who has spent years distancing herself from surreal memories of a childhood spent in India. But lately, her long-lost sister, Miranda, has taken to sending Rosalind cryptic postcards all the way from Bombay. In swirling script, Miranda claims she's being followed by a eunuch. She alludes to her childhood fear of water. She hints that her husband may have murdered his first wife. Miranda's dizzying missives compel Rosalind to do what she would never do on her own. return to the land of her birth, to the country that still haunts her after twenty years abroad. Part literary thriller, part eloquent meditation on everything from the secret art of alchemy to the hidden lives of… Read More

Great Barrington. 1987. The Figures. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0935724230. 98 pages. paperback. Cover: Walter Robinson-'His Black Ambition'. keywords: Poetry America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - IDEA won the 1987 Carl Sandburg Award. Paul Hoover is an important sustainer of the comic tradition and one of our linguistic champions. He presents such a fresh and heightened choice of language, it makes reading feel like wind-surfing. He comes replete; he has as many parts of speech as there are events in the world. Always drama, always the shock of encounter. Phrases of equal brilliance glare at each other (it's we who are speechless). This volumes containes the best movie poem ('Tribal Item') since Frank O'Hara's 'To the Film Industry in Crisis' or 'Ave Maria, ' only written for a VCR generation. 'Heart of Darkness' and 'After Cotton Mather' are among the most vigorous reexaminations of language we've got. There is the affirmative… Read More

New York. 1989. Viking Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670826057. 112 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Jacket illustration by Marilyn Montgomery. keywords: Literature England Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘Science after all is only relative,' says the Heretic, throwing a honey-colored pear up into the air and noticing that it doesn't fall down. ‘First we must locate the vision, the imagination that helps us to see.' Throughout Deborah Levy's extraordinary first collection of stories, knowledge and intuition, science and love ore vividly juxtaposed as conflicting Sources of motivation. Each character embodies a dilemma and enacts his or her drama in settings that vary from Ibiza to London, from rural Spain to a precarious rowboat. Connie and Owen envelop themselves in a ‘cream-cake' house, filled with birds and orange trees, unaware that an agent of destruction is prowling within; having just sneezed out her soul in the form of a white… Read More

New York. 2012. Little Brown. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780316200905. Art by Jane Mount. 226 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Jane Mount. keywords: Art Books Reading. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The books that we choose to keep --let alone read-- can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In MY IDEAL BOOKSHELF, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most; books that define their dreams and ambitions and in many cases helped them find their way in the world. Contributors include Malcolm Gladwell, Thomas Keller, Michael Chabon, Alice Waters, James Patterson, Maira Kalman, Judd Apatow, Chuck Klosterman, Miranda July, Alex Ross, Nancy Pearl, David Chang, Patti Smith, Jennifer Egan, and Dave Eggers, among many others. With colorful and endearingly hand-rendered images of book spines by Jane Mount, and first-person commentary from all the contributors, this is a perfect gift for avid readers, writers, and all who have known the influence of a great… Read More

Seattle. 1991. Fjord Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 0940242028. Translated from the Danish by Frank Hugus. Illustrations by the author. 271 pages. paperback. Cover design by Jane Fleming & Art Chantry. keywords: Literature Denmark Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Two men have disappeared: bureaucrat Teodor Amsted and the eccentric Mikael Mogensen (classmates in Stolen Spring). A body is found blown to smithereens out on Amager Common. Who was it? And was it suicide or murder? The investigation of the case serves as a springboard for Hans Scherfig's rapier wit as he once again skewers middle-class life and values. The Missing Bureaucrat is a 20th-century classic from Denmark's greatest satirist. inventory #43533 ISBN: 0940242028.

New York. 1998. May 1998. Harper Flamingo. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0060175648. Translated from the French by Linda Asher. 168 pages. hardcover. Jacket painting by Kristjan Davidsson. keywords: Literature Translated Czech Eastern Europe . FROM THE PUBLISHER - There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. That also happens with couples - indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else ‘losing sight' of the loved one. With artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, Milan Kundera has made this situation - and the vague sense of panic it inspires - the very fabric of his new novel. Here brevity goes hand in hand with intensity, and a moment of bewilderment marks the start of a labyrinthine journey during which the reader repeatedly crosses the border between the real and the unreal, between… Read More

New York. 1988. Penguin Books. Reprinted Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Margin Notes and Underling/Highlighting Throughout the Book, Otherwise Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers With Crease Markings on the Spine. 0140442510. Translated from the French and with an introduction by Herbert J. Hunt. 682 pages. paperback. The cover shows a portrait of the painter P. Guerin by R. Lefevre. keywords: Literature France 19th Century Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Lucien Chardon, like all love children, had inherited his mother's beauty and little else, ‘a present which so often proves fatal when it goes with poverty.' Balzac's hero in LOST ILLUSIONS is a young provincial would-be poet, whose feminine grace belies his driving ambition. He is naïve, inexperienced and weak, but has genuine talent. Taken up by Madame de Bargeton, Lucien prepares to forge his way in the beau monde of Paris, a fickle and captivating society in which he rapidly discovers that simple confidence in his own… Read More

New York. 1985. August 1985. Harper & Row. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 006015425x. 600 pages. hardcover. Jacket painting by Robert Crawford. Inscribed by the Author. keywords: Literature Australia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character - especially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies. As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that include a genteel dowager who fends off madness with an electric belt and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts. Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd,… Read More

San Francisco. 1998. Jossey Bass. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0787941964. 290 pages. hardcover. keywords: Childcare Biracial African American Race. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Based on Dr. Marguerite A. Wright's research and clinical experience working as a child psychologist, I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla teaches us that the color-blindness of early childhood can, and must, be taken advantage of in order to guide the positive development of a child's self-esteem. I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla is filled with practical, positive, and creative ideas for handling common situations such as what to do when your child says she wants a white doll; how to deal with relatives and friends who compare your children's skin colors and hair textures; and how to discipline your children so that they can grow up with self respect. Teachers will gain valuable insights about how preconceptions can contribute to a child's success or failure and how to handle discipline… Read More

New York. 2000. October 2000. Simon & Schuster. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684870312. 317 pages. hardcover. Jacket design By Patti Ratchford. Jacket illustration By Peter Fiore. keywords: Literature America Civil War History African American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - WHERE I'M BOUND, a stunning and engaging Civil War novel, is the first work of fiction to focus solely on the soldiers of an African-American regiment. Throughout the war, more than 180,000 African-American men fought for the Union Army. Many were escaped slaves, others were freed men; yet all voluntarily enlisted for one cause: freedom. For the first time in fiction, their experiences are successfully portrayed in a manner befitting the grandeur and scope of their contributions. Inspired by the true story of a black cavalry unit in Mississippi, renowned African-American historian Allen Ballard weaves factual events with the fictional account of an escaped slave, Joe Duckett, who flees to join the Northern Arm.… Read More