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Knopf, New York, 2015. 6th printing. Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Slight edge creases. 6th printing.Inscribed and signed by the author "Hope to see you on board soon - Mark Vanhoenacker".A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys -and reawakens our capacity to be amazed.

Griffin House, Toronto, 1970. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, foxing and discoloration, crease on front cover, gift inscription from 1970 on inside front cover.Poetry from controversial figure Jean Vanier.

Condition: Good, edge wear and corner bumps, creasing along corners and at spine, a well read magazine from his British fan club.

Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear, light corner bumps, magazine format, scuffing on rear cover where original price sticker was removed.Freshen the look of any room, find the ideas you need to transform your home. A decorating guide for every room.

CAA/Reader's Digest, 1978. Might be revised edition but ISBN on jacket indicates first. Condition: Near fin in very good dust jacket, book has light bumping at corners, gift inscription on inside front cover, dust jacket has small tear at bottom edge and slight nicks along other edges. Heavy book, might require additional shipping cost.Coffee table book about Canada's storied past and where to find it. Illustrated with maps and pictures.

Condition: Very good minus, light edge wear and corner bumps, scuffing along covers, spine creasing, well read complete magazine.Includes 36 covers of other Elvis magazines in small format and a couple of pin up pages.

Condition: Good, magazine has edge wear and creasing at corners, spine has nicks at staples. a complete but well read magazine.

Anchor/Doubleday, New York, 1999. First printing. Condition: Near fine, light edge wear and spine nicks, price sticker on rear cover.A selection of the some of the best writing to appear in 'Transition', one of the most important literary magazines of the 1920s in Paris. For its time, 'Transition' was a mouthpiece of high modernism unmatched by any other journal in Europe; featured here are most of the great avant-garde writers of that era, such as Gide, Joyce, Jung, Kafka, Miro, Rilke, Picasso and Gertrude Stein.

Condition: Good, edge wear and corner creasing, spine has nicks along staples, rear cover has creasing and light scuffing. A well read magazine.16 pages of super-color, action photos of Elvis in concert. Pictures on Elvis' cars. gold Cadillac limo, Stutz Blackhawk, and his custom tour bus.

Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, spine has light nicks, cover has slight scuffing. No interior writing and crossword is clean.Published by and for Elvis' British fans and friends.

Condition: Good minus, edge wear and corner creasing, tears at staples on spine, creasing at edges, a very well read magazine. Includes a full color poster as indicated on the cover but I am not sure if it is the original poster from this issue.300 exclusive pictures and stories from the files of Movieland and TV Time magazine and a pull-out 4 color poster.

McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1999. First edition. Condition: Book has light corner bumps and edge wear, dust jacket has light creasing and edge wear, especially along spine.Amriika is a novel of betrayal, disillusionment, and discovery set in America during three highly charged decades in the nation's history. In the late sixties, Ramji, a student from Dar es Salaam, East Africa, arrives in an America far different from the one he dreamed about, one caught up in anti-war demonstrations, revolutionary lifestyles, and spiritual quests. As Ramji finds himself pulled by the tumultuous currents of those troubled times, he is swept up in events whose consequences will haunt him for years to come. Decades later in a changed America, having recently left a marriage and a suburban existence, an older Ramji, passionately in love, finds himself drawn into a set of circumstances which hold terrifying reminders of the past and its unanswered questions.

UC Press, Berkeley. 7th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Poems selected from Verlaine's first six books of verse are presented in the original French as well as in English translation.

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957. First edition. Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. Book has slight yellowing and and very small book plate on first page.Dust jacket has nicks and tears along edges and fading. Slight discoloration. More pictures available upon request.Translated and introduced by Brian Hill.

Condition: Near fine minus, very light edge wear and nicks at ends of spine.Standalone art magazine. reprinted from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Bulletin, Winter 1986/87. Artists include de Kooning, Krassner, Kline, Pollock, Rothko, Motherwell, Newman, and others.

Editions Albin Michel, Paris, 2013. First printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps, NO writing or interior markings.

Editions Albin Michel, Paris, 2013. First printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps.

Alan Wingate, London, 1946. First edition. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Some age-toning to the pages and page-edges, previous booksellers markings in pencil on inside front page, very light wrinkling of top corner of pages, dust shadow and several tears and nicks on dust jacket.Poems selected by Andre Deutsch and Mervyn Savill. Limited to 5000 copies.

Tor, New York. 7th paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine crease and slight nicks at spine ends.After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep for their strange star to relight and for their planet to reawaken, as it does every two hundred and fifty years....Then, following terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by the Qeng Ho and Emergents alike.More than just a great science fiction adventure, A Deepness in the Sky is a universal drama of courage, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of love.… Read More

Tor, New York, 2011. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and slight bottom front corner crease, light nicks at spine ends.A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh… Read More