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Princeton U, 1980. 6th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, price sticker on rear cover.Translated by Edmund Kelley and Philip Sherrard, editied by George Savidis.C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as one the most important figures in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature.Here is a revised edition of the acclaimed translations of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, which capture Cavafy's mixture of formal and idiomatic use of language and preserve the immediacy of his frank treatment of homosexual themes, his brilliant re-creation of history, and his astute political ironies.

Make Believe Ideas Ltd, UK, 2007. Presumed first edition. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge and corner wear, light nicks. NO writing or markings.A picture hunt for little detectives. Age 3+ years, stimulates observation skills and promotes hand-eye coordination.

Phoenix, London, 2011. 5th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.In this wonderful blend of adventure and travel writing, Michael Palin of Monty Python fame, journeys to the battlefields in Italy and the sites of the Spanish Civil War. He encounters the running of the bulls in Pamplona and the Fallas festival in Venice, as bar-hopping in Cuba, marlin fishing and daiquiris helps unravel some of the myths surrounding Hemingway's life.

English Universities Press, London, 1963. 2nd printing. Condition: Very good book in fair dust jacket, book has light bumps at corners, light fading and gift inscription on title page, dust jacket has tearing and creasing, price clipped.From the Teach Yourself series of books.

Condition: Near fine, very light spine crease.

A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer.
Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy–or–hüzün–that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.
With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters–both Turkish and foreign–who would shape his consciousness of his city.
Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.

Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed, numbered, and limited edition; number 766 of 1000 copies.A goddess has to do what a goddess has to do.And in World Fantasy Award winner K.J. Parker's sharply inventive new novella Downfall of the Gods that means everything from soothing supernatural egos to accompanying the argumentative Lord Achias on an epic quest to save his soul...and get her own way.

Pocket Essentials, 2009. First printing in this new edition. Condition: Very good plus, light scuff mark on front cover, price sticker on rear cover.A useful, if general, overview of Moore's career up to the mid-2000's. Creator of Watchmen, V For Vendetta, From Hell, and more.

Simon & Schuster, New York, 2015. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine creasing.Set in a seaside village on the Italian Riviera, this irresistible new novel by PEN/Hemingway Award-winner Brigid Pasulka tells the story of a widowed butcher and his son whose losses are transformed into love.After losing his brother and mother within a year, twenty-two-year-old Etto finds himself adrift in his hometown, where every man's life revolves around soccer, except for his. Frustrated and lonely, Etto is faced with the seemingly impossible prospect of cobbling together the remaining pieces of his life, including his mostly nonexistent relationship with his father, the town butcher.Things begin to change for Etto when Yuri Fil, a scandal-ridden Ukrainian soccer star and his tough-love sister, Zhuki, arrive in town, and sweep him into their universe of soccer, celebrity, laughter, and fierce loyalty. Under their influence, Etto begins to reconstruct his relationship… Read More

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2007. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge wear on dust jacket. Signed, numbered. and limited edition; number 36 of 750 copies.Described by Publisher's Weekly as "a newcomer worth watching" Bram Stoker Award winner Burke welcomes you to Eddie's Tavern where tonight, for the patrons, nothing will go according to plan.

Vintage, New York, 1985. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Poor, cover is unglued. A reading or research copy only.A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world. This book details one of the most profoundly influential writers of the 20th century.

New Directions, New York. 5th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, faint yellowing of white areas of cover due to age.1990 Nobel laureate.Paz's native Mexico has been the center of a global mandala, a cultural configuration that, in his life and work, he has traced to its furthest reaches. A great synthesizer, the rich diversity of Paz's thought is shown here in all its astonishing complexity. Among the sixty-seven selections in this volume, a gathering in English of his most essential poems drawn from nearly fifty years' work, are Muriel Rukeyser's now classic version of "Sun Stone" and new translations by editor Weinberger of "Blanco" and "Maithuna."

Harper, New York, 1995. 12th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.In this expanded edition of the bestselling classic The Hero Within, Carol S. Pearson gives us a unique vocabulary to explore the link between ancient archetypes and our contemporary lives.Works like Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces have introduced readers to the significance of myth and archetype in our lives. Carol Pearson's bestselling The Hero Within takes us further by combining literature, anthropology, and psychology to clearly define, with insight and understanding, the six heroic archetypes that exist in all of us: the Innocent, the Orphan, the Wanderer, the Warrior, the Martyr, and the Magician. This expanded edition features new chapters that illuminate these archetypes, showing how to reach our fullest potential by achieving a balance between work, family, and the self.

Minotaur/St. Martins, 2020. Condition: New.Inspector Gamache series
The 16th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. When his billionaire godfather is attacked, Gamache uncovers secrets hidden throughout Paris.

Standishbooks, Orlando, 1994. First edition. Condition: Near fine, light bumping to corners. No dust jacket except for clear acetate, as issued. First trade edition.The only thing we are missing is Angels. In this vast world there is no place for them. And anyway, would our eyes recognize them? Perhaps we are surrounded by Angels without knowing it. Henry Miller.Contributors include Wambly Bald, Lawrence Durell, Wallace Fowlie, Michael Fraenkel, Hilaire hiler, Erica Jong, Helen Kazantzakis, Philip Lamantia, James Laughlin, John Lennon, Norman mailer, Anais Nin, Alfred Perles, John Perry, Bern Porter, John Cowper Powys, Emil Schellock, Karl Shapiro, William Webb, Kenneth White, George Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Colin Wilson.

Augener, London, no date noted. 14th hardcover printing. Condition: Very good minus, light edge wear and corner bumps, spine nicks at ends, slight rubbing on front cover, musical notations on interior pages, inside front cover has a short note from previous owner, no dust jacket.Book presents the elements of music in a way that is pedagogically clear and comprehensible in an antiquarian way.

Condition: Very good, light edge nicks and corner bumps, faint crease along bottom corner of front cover, no interior writing or markings. 2 stories, back to back.

Clio Editions, no edition noted. Condition: Good plus, light edge and corner wear, spine has slight tears and nicks.Guide to the great panhellenic sanctuary. It includes 62 photographs of of the monuments and the art objects exhibited in its museum.

Bantam, New York. 13th paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, spine creases.He set his star by a simple motto: duty, honor, country. Only rarely does history grant a single individual the ability, personal charisma, moral force, and intelligence to command the respect, admiration, and affection of an entire nation. But such a man is General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the Allied Forces in the Gulf War. In this refreshingly candid and typically outspoken autobiography, General Schwarzkopf reviews his remarkable life and career: the events, the adventures, and the emotions that molded the character and shaped the beliefs of this uniquely distinguished American leader.

No edition noted. Condition: Good plus, edge and corner wear, nicks and slight tears at spine ends.

Longmans, London, 1960. 6th edition. Condition: Good, blue cloth with gold lettering, lacking the dust jacket, edge wear and corner bumps, slightly bowed, scuffing along spine, previous owner's inscription on inside front cover.An outline of the law and practice of the constitution, including central and local government and the constitutional relations of the British Commonwealth. The classic guide.