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New York:: SOHO Press,, (2001.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First US printing. The 11th mystery featuring Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florence police force - Nabb has lived in Florence, Italy since 1975. Small format, 252 pp.

New York:: Margaret K. McElderry / Macmillan,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with the usual markings, missing front endpaper but overall tight and clean in a very good unmarked dust jacket (price-clipped, crease on dj flap) . First US printing. A beginning chapter book for very early readers - three short stories featuring Josie and her friend Eileen, illustrated with drawings b Pirkko Vainio. Winner of the Smarties Book Prize in England. Nabb is best known for her series of mysteries featuring Marshal Guarnaccia and set in Florence, Italy. 88 pp.

New York:: SOHO Press,, (2013). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder dot).. First US printing. Policier featuring Marshal Guarnaccia of the carabinieri based on a true crime - a serial killer who targeted couples and terrorized the area for two decades. 345 pp.

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, (1982.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (crease to dj flap.). First US printing. The uncommon second mystery in the highly praised series featuring Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florence police force - Nabb had lived in Florence, Italy since 1975, and knew the area well. 216 pp.

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, (1990.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. The 7th mystery in the highly praised series featuring Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florence police force - Nabb has lived in Florence, Italy since 1975, and knows the area well. 175 pp.

New York:: SOHO Press,, (2001.). Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Trade paperback. The first mystery featuring Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florence police force, originally published in 1981. 185 pp plus an excerpt from 'Death of a Dutchman.'

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, (1982.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (crease to dj flap.). First US printing. The uncommon second mystery in the highly praised series featuring Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florence police force - Nabb had lived in Florence, Italy since 1975, and knew the area well. Review copy with "not for resale" stamped on title page. 216 pp.

London:: Collins Crime Club,, (1990). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in red boards with gilt lettering on the spine in a like dustjacket. Original price of 11.95 net on dust jacket flap. . First printing. The eighth novel in the Marshal Guarnaccia series, set in Florence, Italy. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 175 pp.

London:: Heinemann,, (2004.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First UK printing. The 11th mystery featuring Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florence police force - Nabb has lived in Florence, Italy since 1975. 248 pp. Map endpapers.

New York:: Bloomsbury,, (2015). SIGNED first edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to edges of textblock). Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A portrait of Vladimir Nabokov told through the lens of the years he spent in America - where he and Vera arrived in 1943, fleeing the Nazis. Roper discusses Nabokov's friendship with Edmund Wilson, his time at Cornell, but focuses on the journeys - 200,000 miles of them - which he took in the West, with his wife, Vera, and son Dmitri, in search of butterflies - on the two-lane highways and the roadside motels that he brings to life in Lolita. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs/ Bibliography, notes. 333 pp.

New York:: Bloomsbury,, (2015). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A portrait of Vladimir Nabokov told through the lens of the years he spent in America - where he and Vera arrived in 1943, fleeing the Nazis. Roper discusses Nabokov's friendship with Edmund Wilson, his time at Cornell, but focuses on the journeys - 200,000 miles of them - which he took in the West, with his wife, Vera, and son Dmitri, in search of butterflies - on the two-lane highways and the roadside motels that he brings to life in Lolita. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs/ Bibliography, notes. 333 pp.

Stanford, CA:: Stanford University Press,, 1950.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a somewhat worn, but still good, dust jacket (general edgewear to dj, some small chips, and several closed tears.). First US printing. A biography of the Brazilian statesman, a leader in the campaign for the abolition of slavery in Brazil, and the first Brazilian ambassador to the US, by his daughter. Ronald Hilton, the translator, also provided a historical introduction. Issued in conjunction with the centenary of Nabuco's birth. Frontispiece, map endpapers, bibliographical note, index. 373 pages.

Stanford, CA:: Stanford University Press,, 1950.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a somewhat worn, very good- overall, dust jacket (general light edgewear to dj, closed tear to back cover.). First US printing. A biography of the Brazilian statesman, a leader in the campaign for the abolition of slavery in Brazil, and the first Brazilian ambassador to the US, by his daughter. This copy is INSCRIBED by Hilton, who translated it, and also provided a historical introduction. Issued in conjunction with the centenary of Nabuco's birth. Frontispiece, map endpapers, bibliographical note, index. 373 pages.

Urbana, IL:: University of Illinois Press,, (1977). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very good dust jacket(tear to upper edge).. First printing. The first appearance in translation of this passionate denunciation of slavery and the evils it spawned, written by Nabuco in 1883 and sent to his countrymen from exile. This work triggered a renewal of interest in abolition, and just a few years later, in 1888, slavery was ended. Introduction and extensive footnotes by Robert Conrad, the translator and editor. Map. Illustrated with photographs. Annotated suggestions for further reading. A title in the Blacks in the New World Series, edited by August Meier. xxv, 186 pp.

New York:: Grove Press,, (1969). Good overall - underlining noted on just a couple of pages.. 1st trade paperback printing. A comprehensive survey from the war dead novelists, to the themes of war, surrealism, the new novel and the future of the novel. Among the authors discussed are Saint-Exupery, Beckett, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Duras, Genet and many more. Translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. 193 pp plus a list of American translations of books mentioned in the text and index.

London:: Headline (Hodder), , (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some light toning to the pages).. First printing. The sixth novel in a series of unusual police procedurals set in Istanbul,Turkey - a series which brings the melting pot that is Istanbul to life. SIGNED on the title page. 246 pp.

San Francisco:: City Lights Books,, (2016). First edition -. Fine in glossy white printed wrappers.. Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) A book written shortly before Trump's Electoral College victory, and more urgent and important now than ever. Author Chris Hedges calls this "a brilliant analysis of corporate power and the popular mechanisms that can be used to wrest back our democracy. No one has been fighting corporate domination longer, or understands it better, than Nader, who will go down in history not only as a prophet but an example of what it means to live the moral life. We disregard his wisdom and his courage at our peril." Endnotes. 153 pp.

New York:: Random House,, (2007.). Hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some pencilled notations on rear endpaper, erasable.). Later printing. For two years, before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered together 7 young women, former students of hers at the university, and together they read and discussed forbidden works of Western literature. 347 pp.

New York:: Four Walls Eight Windows, , (1985). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark) . First printing. The author's first novel, a black comedy and a novel of redemption set in modern day Florida. A former college football star, now a middle-aged architect with a wandering eye and a penchant for the bottle, who finds his whole life in a downward spiral when his wife files for divorce, and everyone turns against him. Cover praise from Harry Crews. 181 pp.

Stanford, CA:: Stanford Alumni Association,, 1985.. Hardcover -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Revised edition. Stanford's life and work in founding the University named after her only son, as revealed through her letters. This revised edition contains many more photographs, interspersed throughout the text, than the original edition - oblong format, 224 pgs.