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London. 2017. February 2018. Eland. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781780601106. 288 pages . paperback . keywords: TRAVEL WRITING. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The personal journal of a young American woman who lived for six months amongst the Dodoth cattle-herdsmen in Northern Uganda, while they were caught up in an escalating cycle of violence with their age-old rivals, the Turkana tribe. The tension of this feud was the tradition of cattle raiding, but it escalated to unprecedented levels of violence when the then new states of Uganda and Kenya were drawn in to police these ancient clan frontiers. Thomas's total immersion in the life of this tribe in 1961 takes us with her, as with clarity and a lyrical eye for detail she brings their whole culture alive. Though not an academic, she had spent much time in the field with her mother, who was the world's leading authority on the Bushman of the Kalahari. So it was natural for her to take her own young children on this adventure,… Read More

New York. 2003. September 2003. Dafina/Kensington Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1575669129. 311 pages. hardcover. Cover illustration by Gary Kelley. Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature Black Women America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this haunting and powerful novel, national bestselling author Mary Monroe revisits Annette Goode, Rhoda Nelson, and the other unforgettable characters she introduced in God Still Don't Like Ugly. After five years, Annette is ready to reach out - cautiously - to her troubled girlhood companion, Rhoda. It is a necessary reunion - and one that will change Annette's life forever. God Still Don't Like Ugly. Growing up, Annette Goode thought all men were as low-down as the father who abandoned her. There was Mr. Boatwright, the boarder who abused her for years - until her best friend Rhoda murdered him. And what about the men she slept with to earn the money she needed to run away from her life? None of them was exactly the picture of… Read More

Richmond. 2015. October 2015. Omnidawn Publishing . Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781632430106. 6 x 9 . 96 pages. paperback. keywords: poetry . FROM THE PUBLISHER - A debut poetry collection that meditates on imagination and existence. u&i is a meditation on the imaginary - what exists and what doesn't, how does something exist when it knows it is imaginary, how is it to be reckoned with. u&i asks what are the can and can't of existence, as well as the cant of existence - the domestic and repeating cant, as things circle themselves until they think they exist a little more. There is, in u&i, cant as incantation. Cassandra Smith creates a work that is of rare singular focus reminiscent of Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse. I am elated, grateful and perhaps even stricken for having read, for having received the gift of u&i. Beautifully written and contemplative, I cannot help but feel a sense of devastation upon arriving as a reader. Truong Tran,… Read More

New York. 1989. August 1989. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374123349. Translated by Alfred Mac Adam & The Author. 531 pages. hardcover. JACKET DESIGN (c) 1989 BY DRENTTEL DonE PARTNERS. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CRESCENT EARTH, TAKEN IN 1969 BY ALAN L. BEAN, APOLLO 12. COURTESY OF NASA. AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPH (c) 1989 BY CARLOS FUENTES,JR. keywords: Literature Translated Mexico Latin America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Conceived exactly nine months before the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World, the narrator of Christopher Unborn spends the novel waiting to be born. But what kind of world will he be delivered into? Makesicko City, as the punning narrator calls it, is not doing well in this alternate, worst-case-scenario 1992. Politicians are selling pieces of their country to the United States. A black, acid rain falls relentlessly, forewarning of the even worse ecological catastrophes to come. Gangs of children, confined to the… Read More

New York. 1965. October 1965. Hill & Wang. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears. 180 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Saul Lambert. keywords: Literature African American America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this new collection of forty-six stories, all of them appearing in book form for the first time, Jesse B. Semple of Harlem, U.S.A., comments wisely and wittily on American life today as seen through his eyes. Typical of the delightful insight with with which Langston Hughes has endowed his creation, Simple wryly remarks: ‘Uncle Sam. if you is really my blood uncle, prove it. Are we is or are we ain't related? If so, how come you are so white and I am so black?' Simple discusses the law: ‘When it is not on the side of civil rights, then the law is not right, it is white'; haircuts: ‘If white Americans can learn how to fly past Venus, go into orbit and make Telestar, it looks to me like white barbers in Ohio could learn how to cut… Read More

New York. 1998. New Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1565844661. 360 pages. hardcover. keywords: History Jazz Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This engaging collection features twenty-six Hobsbawm essays covering the history of working men and women between the late eighteenth century and today, bringing back into print Hobsbawm's pioneering studies in labor history along with more recent, previously unpublished pieces. Uncommon People shows the range of Hobsbawm's work, on such subjects as the formation of the British working class, revolution and sex, and socialism and the avant garde. From essays on Mario Puzo and the mafia, to the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano and the cultural consequences of Christopher Columbus, Hobsbawm's passionate concern for the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women shines through. inventory #25806 ISBN: 1565844661.

Princeton. 1995. Princeton University Press. 1st American Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0691034257. Translated from the French by Carol Cosman. 176 pages. hardcover. keywords: Philosophy Psychology Freud. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Offering a critical view of all the texts in which Wittgenstein mentions Freud, Bouveresse immerses us in the intellectual climate of Vienna in the early part of the twentieth century. Although we come to see why Wittgenstein did not view psychoanalysis as a science proper, we are nonetheless made to feel the philosopher's sense of wonder and respect for the cultural task Freud took on as he found new ways meaningfully to discuss human concerns. Intertwined in this story of Wittgenstein's grappling with the theory of the unconscious is the story of how he came to question the authority of science and of philosophy itself. While aiming primarily at the clarification of Wittgenstein's opinion of Freud, Bouveresse's book can be read as a challenge to the French… Read More

New York. 2001. New Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1565846273. Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale. 115 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Hall Smyth, BAD. keywords: Literature Translated France Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A mesmerizing new tour de force from the internationally acclaimed author of PIG TALES-the writer The New Yorker hailed as France's ‘best young novelist.' Ever since PIG TALES (described by Booklist as ‘ANIMAL FARM meets THE METAMORPHOSIS') became an immediate bestseller in France and was optioned by the great filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, Marie Darrieussecq has been an international literary superstar. With her stunning follow-up novel, MY PHANTOM HUSBAND-an immediate #1 bestseller-Darrieussecq continued to earn critical acclaim. UNDERCURRENTS is her greatest triumph to date. A mother and daughter mysteriously disappear to a deserted seaside town in Spain, but the main character emerges as the sea itself, as Darrieussecq evokes… Read More

New York. 1997. Scribner. Special Signed Edition. 1 of 1000 Copies. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0684842696. 827 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Andre Kertesz.Jacket design by Carol Carson. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Don DeLillo's novel opens with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. The glorious outcome - the home run that wins the game is called the ‘Shot Heard Round the World' - shades into the grim news that the Soviet Union has just tested an atomic bomb. The baseball itself, fought over and scuffed, generates the narrative that follows. It takes the reader deeply into the lives of Nick and Klara and into modern memory and the soul of American culture - from Bronx tenements to grand ballrooms to a B-52 bombing raid over Vietnam. A generation's master spirits come and go. Lenny Bruce cracking desperate jokes, Mick Jagger with his devil strut, J. Edgar Hoover in a sexy leather mask. And flashing in the margins of ordinary life are the… Read More

London. 2003. Verso. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1859845452. 385 pages. hardcover. Front illustration - Dirk Coetzee, Pretoria, 26th February 1997. Photograph by Jillian Edelstein. Jacket design by Ann Weinstock. keywords: South Africa Apartheid History Politics Racism. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The first of a series of class-action legal claims against banks and companies that profited from apartheid was launched to a burst of media frenzy in 2002. Triggered by the publication in South Africa of the first edition of this book, the cases will open up again important questions about what the system of apartheid was about, how and by whom it was run, and to whose benefit- all vital questions concerning the country's unfinished business. Unfinished business abounds in South Africa, largely because its past has still not been properly confronted. Corruption and pockets of poisonous racism remain embedded deep within society. Many of apartheid's most senior agents - within the army, the… Read More

London. 2004. British Film Institute. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 1844570339. 96 pages. paperback. keywords: Film. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Unforgiven is dedicated to Don Siegel and Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood's two cinematic mentors, who represent respectively the legacy of the classic Hollywood Western, and the radical updating which Italian Westerns forced upon it in the 1960s. Unforgiven offers a revision of a traditional format, in which an ageing gunfighter comes out of retirement for one last job. Not for the first time an Eastwood hero is given an awkward time by women; reformed from his youthful viciousness by his saintly but now deceased wife, he is engaged by a group of prostitutes to avenge the ill-treatment of one of their number. William Munny, wonderfully played by Eastwood himself, finds himself confronted not only by the formidable sheriff Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman) but by his own inner demons and the awful realities of violence and death. Edward Buscombe… Read More

New York. 1992. November 1992. Pantheon Books. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0679406255. 228 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration and design by Royce Becker. keywords: Literature Black America Women Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Distinguished African-American poet, activist, essayist, and teacher, June Jordan gives us an extraordinary new collection of essays on a rich variety of contemporary American themes, like Barbara Ehrenreich's THE WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES or Angela Davis's WOMEN, RACE, AND CLASS, TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES offers a bracing account of life as it is lived in America today. Whether she is discoursing on growing up in Brooklyn with immigrant parents searching for the American dream; the myths of race and class so pervasive in the American psyche; her formation as a writer confronting the romance of the individual artist; Martin Luther King. Jr. and Jesse Jackson; the poverty of American education; the fall of Mike Tyson; or Anita Hill's testimony before the… Read More

New York. 1998. May 1998. Simon & Schuster. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684832941. 272 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Calvin Chu. keywords: Science Astronomy ET. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In OTHER WORLDS, Michael Lemonick introduces us to the pioneering researchers who are using brand-new technology to explore the universe, looking for elusive signs of life. OTHER WORLDS takes us inside the observatories, from the world's most powerful telescopes, situated at the top of a volcanic mountain in Hawaii, to the giant radio antennas in a bucolic West Virginia valley, used to listen for alien signals. It is in these places that scientists like Paul Butler and Geoff Marcy analyze the data that led to their discovery of new planets trillions of miles away, and where astronomer Seth Shostak helps run Project Phoenix for the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute. Even NASA has now begun its Origins Program, hoping the search for extraterrestrial life will do for the… Read More

New York. 2010. September 2010. Pantheon. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780307379207. 239 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Adam Simpson . keywords: Literature America Science Fiction. FROM THE PUBLISHER - National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . through quantum space–time. Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician - part counselor, part gadget repair man - steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he's not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu visits… Read More

New York. 1993. Scribners. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0684195305. 357 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Corsillo.Manzone. keywords: Mystery America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘Killing me won't kill the beast' are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can't explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell's fingerprints on another crime scene - after she'd performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and unusual. inventory #22000 ISBN: 0684195305.

New York. 1959. August 1959. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Previous Owner’s Name in Front. Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. Foreword By Carvel Collins. 192 pages. paperback. CD9. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback America Southern Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Set against the backdrop of the chaos of the Civil War, this is the magnificent story of the proud Sartoris family, who lived with violence in order to survive. But it is particularly the account of how young Bayard Sartoris, well tutored in killing, found the wisdom to decide that there had been enough bloodshed, and the courage to face the enemy alone - and unarmed. This is one of the most powerful works of America's Nobel Prize - winning author, one which lends insight into his other books and illuminates Faulkner's credo: 'Man is tough. Nothing - war, grief, hopelessness, despair - can last as long as man himself can last; man himself will prevail over all his anguishes, provided… Read More

New York. 1957. February 1957. Dell Publishing Company. Dell Paperback Edition. Good in Worn Wrappers. Edited by Charles Preston. unpaginated. paperback. A129. keywords: Mystery Vintage Paperbacks. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A good-to-the-last-drop cartoon guide through the mazes and hazes of Whiskeyland. inventory #37258

New York. 1998. Fireside/Simon & Schuster. 1st Printing. Fine in Cloth.Paper Over Boards.No Dustjacket As Issued. 0684841347. 317 pages. hardcover. Cover design by Francine Kass. keywords: Psychology Self Help . FROM THE PUBLISHER - We all know what it's like to be in a ‘valley'a deep, cold dark place in life where we may feel hopelessly trapped. On this two-tape set, Iyanla Vanzant, bestselling author of ONE DAY MY SOUL JUST OPENED UP: 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS TOWARDS SPIRITUAL GROWTH, IN THE MEANTIME: FINDING YOURSELF AND THE LOVE YOU WANT AND THE VALUE IN THE VALLEY: A BLACK WOMAN'S GUIDE THROUGH LIFE'S DILEMMAS, reminds us that ‘a valley is a low point between two mountains' and that each kind of valley holds its own treasures for teaching and strengthening us. In her discussion with Justine Toms of New Dimensions Radio, Vanzant points out that there is more to life than fleeting moments of pleasure, and she shows the way to that state of permanent internal… Read More

Mendocino. 2013. Bored Feet Press. 3rd Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780939431250. 304 pages. paperback. keywords: Nature Hiking Travel Yosemite. FROM THE PUBLISHER - One-of-a-kind guide leads you to more than 60 of the best walks and hikes among the spectacular scenery of Yosemite Park and the surrounding Sierra, an area larger than Maryland and Delaware combined. This comprehensive book features the less traveled trails as well as some popular classics. This guide takes you to the best Sequoia groves, hidden waterfalls, most gorgeous canyons, and wildflower blooms, most rewarding peaks to climb and other superb adventures. Whether you're an avid hiker or casual walker, you'll find the trails coming to live as Sharon Giacomazzi interweaves them with their historical context. She spins enthralling tales of native peoples, early explorers, Gold Rush mining, pioneer lumbering, early railroads, John Muir's adventures and more. inventory #46507 ISBN: 9780939431250.

Tors Cove. 2021. October 2021. Running the Goat . 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781927917435. Ages 12 And Up, Grades 8 to 12. 224 pages. paperback. keywords: Young Adult Fiction / Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural. FROM THE PUBLISHER - While questioning her gender identity, a young girl is pulled between the dark world of fairylore and the dynamic world of early 20th-century scientific experimentation as she struggles to save her missing mother. They say Dor's family is cursed. The house her great-great grandfather built on the south side of St. John's has never been at peace; the old people think it lies on a fairy path. Ever since electricity came to the island, things have worsened, and experiments in the brand-new technology of radio put her family in real peril. In December 1901, Marconi arrives in Newfoundland with a secret mission: to receive the first wireless trans-Atlantic radio signal. Disguised as a boy, Dor joins his team. Then the Little Strangers kidnap her mother.… Read More