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Bantam Books/Spectra, New York, 2007. First edition. Condition: Near fine, dust jacket has light edge wear and price sticker on rear cover.From the publisher: Dubbed the American Tolkien by Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. Now he delivers a rare treat for readers: a compendium of his shorter works, collected into two stunning volumes, that offer fascinating insight into his journey from young writer to award-winning master.Gathered here in Volume I are the very best of George R.R. Martin's early works, including never-before-published fan pieces, his Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker Award-winning stories plus the original novella The Ice Dragon, from which Martin's New York Times bestselling children's book of the same title originated. A dazzling array that features extensive author commentary, Dreamsongs, Volume I, is the perfect collection for both Martin devotees… Read More

Bantam Books/Spectra, New York, 2007. First Edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge wear and price sticker on rear cover.From the publisher: Dubbed the American Tolkien by Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. Now he delivers a rare treat for readers: a compendium of his shorter works, all collected into two stunning volumes, that offer fascinating insight into his journey from young writer to award-winning master.Whether writing about werewolves, wizards, or outer space, George R.R. Martin is renowned for his versatility and expansive talent, highlighted in this dazzling collection. Included here, in Volume II, are acclaimed stories such as the World Fantasy Award-winner The Skin Trade; as well as the first novella in the Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones universe, The Hedge Knight;, plus two never-before-published screenplays. Featuring extensive author commentary,… Read More

Harper Collins, London, 1995. First printing in this movie tie-in edition. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, slightly bowed, small crease at corners. This a heavy book and may require additional postage.Movie tie-in edition of Tolkien's fantasy epic.One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared,… Read More

Condition: Very good, light edge wear and slight scuffing on covers, light crease at rear cover, previous owner's and price on inside front cover.In french, with notes, analyses, and commentary by Denise-P. Cogny and Pierre Cogny.

36th paperback printing.

Condition: Near fine, very light spine crease.

This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha's teachings. "For years," says the Journal of the Buddhist Society, "the newcomer to Buddhism has lacked a simple and reliable introduction to the complexities of the subject. Dr. Rahula's What the Buddha Taught fills the need as only could be done by one having a firm grasp of the vast material to be sifted. It is a model of what a book should be that is addressed first of all to 'the educated and intelligent reader'. Authoritative and clear, logical and sober, this study is as comprehensive as it is masterly."

This edition contains a selection of illustrative texts from the Suttas and the Dhammapada (specially translated by the author), sixteen illustrations, and a bibliography, glossary and index.

Tor, New York, 2011. First edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Very light edge wear on dust jacket, price sticker on rear cover. Remainder mark at top edge.Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him first. Just another day in the Dilemma Prison.The Quantum Thief is a breathtaking joyride through the solar system several centuries hence, a world of marching cities, ubiquitous public-key encryption, people who communicate via shared memory, and a race of hyper-advanced humans who originated as an MMORPG guild. But for all its wonders, The Quantum Thief is also a story powered by very human motives of betrayal, jealousy, and revenge.

Signed, first edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and slight bowing. Inscribed by the author.The Holocaust–six million Jews murdered. Then the war is over, a remnant is saved, and all drift back into the normal world. But for those who survived and their children, it is never over. Duvid's sons, born in Israel, raised in Montreal, grow up haunted by their father's memories. They overhear whispered secret stories from that war in disconnected bits and pieces. These simply add to their confusion.September 1939. Duvid sees his family carried off by the Nazis, and can do nothing. His life takes many turns–he survives the death camps, becomes a partisan, and settles in Israel, and finally Canada, silent about the past. On his death, his sons follow the clues their father has left–a packet of written fragments secreted away in a suitcase for close to 40 years–and find the impossible.Gravitational Fields is a lyrical story, an epic tale of family, adventure, survival, and especially, love.

Key Porter Books, Toronto, 2012. 4th hardback printing. Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket, light edge wear and creasing on cover, slight wear on rear cover, No writing or underlining. This is a heavy book and may require additional postage.Tons of recipes for quick, everyday cooking. Illustrated with pictures and clear, easy to follow instructions.

Picador, New York, 2008. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge and corner wear, spine has light wear.What was the essence of John Coltrane's achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What was it about his improvising, his bands, his compositions, his place within his era of jazz that left so many musicians and listeners so powerfully drawn to him? What would a John Coltrane look like now—or are we looking for the wrong signs?The acclaimed jazz writer Ben Ratliff addresses these questions in Coltrane. First Ratliff tells the story of Coltrane's development, from his first recordings as a no-name navy bandsman to his last recordings as a near-saint, paying special attention to the last ten years of his life, which contained a remarkable series of breakthroughs in a nearly religious search for deeper expression. In the book's second half, Ratliff traces another history: that of Coltrane's influence and legacy. This story begins in the mid-'50s… Read More

Condition: New, in shrink copy that includes the student access code card. This is a large, heavy book and may require additional postage based on the destination.The now standard university level biology text.

Condition: Good, edge wear and small corner creases, spine has creasing and nicks, scuffing on covers, well read, large magazine format.A picture-filled recounting of Elvis' last few concerts.

Greenwillow Books, New York, 1998. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps.Meet Little Clam, a very busy and unlikely hero who lives in his shell at the edge of the sea. The hungry sea star, the hungry conch, and the hungry gull are all looking for Little Clam. They want to eat him up. As the pages turn, endearing watercolor pictures and wise warnings from Little Clam's friends -- the whispering tide, the blue-eyed scallop, and a sideways crab -- add to the suspense and the fun. Is Little Clam listening? Will Little Clam escape? A classic bedtime book for those who live by the sea, visit the beach, dream of the ocean...and for every child.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2008. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge crease. Signed by the author in a limited editionTheodore Roosevelt: president, naturalist, explorer, author, cowboy, police commissioner, deputy marshal, soldier, taxidermist, ornithologist, and boxer. Everyone knows about that.But how about vampire hunter? Or African king? Or Jack the Ripper's nemesis? Or World War 1 doughboy?

Subterranean Press, Burton MI. 2012. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed, numbered, and limited edition; number 691 of 1000. From the publisher: "In his long and storied career, Mike Resnick has won all of science fiction's most prestigious awards. He has won the Nebula, the Hugo, and numerous readers' awards. He has won the Japanese Hugo, as well as major rewards in Spain, France, Poland and Croatia. The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures focuses on Mike's most recent award-winners and nominees with the exception of the heartbreaking 'The Last Dog', Mike's very first award-winning story and his multi-award-winning classic 'Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge'. From examinations of life and death to questions of eternity, Mike's short fiction explores the range of the human experience--even though his characters include dogs, robots and aliens. This collection has everything to appeal to the most devoted Mike Resnick fan, including a never-before-seen-in-print… Read More

Wynwood Press, New York, 1988. First edition. Condition: Near fine book in very good plus dust jacket. Dust jacket has light edge wear and book has light corner bumping.The World Cup Murder invites you behind the scenes of championship football (soccer) - the sights, smells, and sounds of the word's most popular sport, recreated by a man whose name is synonymous with the game: Pele.

Norton, New York. 4th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light nicks at rear cover.These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short stories, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and the writing of The Sun Also Rises. These are also the years of Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson, the birth of his first son, and his discovery of the bullfights at Pamplona.

Norton, New York. 4th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.In the years between A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway matured as a writer against the backdrop of Cuban revolutions, African game trails, Key West impoverishment, and the Spanish Civil War. He experimented in fiction and nonfiction, pushing his limits as a writer, in such works as Death in the Afternoon, Green Hills of Africa, and To Have and Have Not. In this "masterpiece in the making," Reynolds brings us so close to Hemingway that "you can all but smell Hemingway's whisky breath coming off the pages" (Library Journal).

Norton, New York, 2000. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Michael Reynolds discovered the truth about Hemingway's activities during the war years, which included running a supposed counterintelligence operation in Havana. The postwar period was the most productive, if least satisfying of Hemingway's writing life with the possible exception of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Old Man and the Sea and received the Nobel Prize. Even as Hemingway graced the cover of Life magazine, his physical and mental health deteriorated while his public image as hunter and sportsman continued to demand the strenuous life. In 1961 he committed suicide, leaving behind the stuff of which American myths are made.

Norton, New York. 2nd trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Hemingway: The Homecoming finds the writer in Paris in 1926 having just finished The Sun Also Rises, and follow him through the dissolution of his first marriage and the beginning of his second. We witness the emergence of the public image of Hemingway and his development into a mature and major literary talent.

Norton, New York. 2nd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, corner creasing at rear cover.Michael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America's greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway's persona: his father's self-destructive battle with depression and his mother's fierce independence and spiritualism. He brings Hemingway through World War I, where he was frustrated by being too far away from the action and glory, despite his being wounded and nursed to health by Agnes Von Kurowsky—the older woman with whom he fell terribly in love.