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UPD, Scarsdale, 1978. First edition. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, previous price sticker on front cover, scuffing on front and back covers, small triangular tear at rear cover, slight yellowing of interior pages, well read magazine.Includes The Faded Sun: Kesrith" (part 1 of 4) by C. J. Cherryh; The Courts of Chaos (part 3 of 3) by Roger Zelazny; Writer's Block by Nicholas Yermakov; The Nothing Spot by Dian Girard; Death's Dimensions by Victor Koman.Features: Showcase: Amy Harlib; "Editorial: Imagination and Evolution" by J. J. Pierce; A Step Further Out: Rapping Out the Space Industries by Jerry Pournelle; Galaxy Bookshelf by Paul Walker; Directions. Illustrations by Woods, Valenza, Harlib, and Mueller.

UPD, Scarsdale, 1977. First edition. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, previous price sticker residue on front cover, light scuffing on front and back covers, slight yellowing of interior pages, well read magazine.Includes The Courts of Chaos (part 1 of 3) by Roger Zelazny; The Holy Temple by Herbert Gerjuoy; The Long Chance by Charles Sheffield; The Timeless Spy by Glenn T. Wilson; Jogging Up Main Street by Thomas Wylde; My Friend's Last Show by Rex Anderson.Features: Showcase by James Mueller, A Step Farther Out by Jerry Pournelle, Forecast, Bookshelf by Paul Walker, Editorial by John J. Pierce. Interior illustrations by Odbert, Woods, and Harlib.

Spectra, New York. 13th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, spine creasing and nocks, slightly bowed.In A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin has created a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill the pages of this first volume in an epic series sure to delight fantasy fans everywhere. Plots and counterplots and winter is coming.

Scribner, New York. 18th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman.

Vintage, New York, 1989. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light nicks at spine ends.From the bestselling author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the legendary Hunter S. Thompson's second volume of the "Gonzo Papers" is back. Generation of Swine collects hundreds of columns from the infamous journalist's 1980s tenure at the San Francisco Examiner.Here, against a backdrop of late-night tattoo sessions and soldier-of-fortune trade shows, Dr. Thompson is at his apocalyptic best―covering emblematic events such as the 1987-88 presidential campaign, with Vice President George Bush, Sr., fighting for his life against Republican competitors like Alexander Haig, Pat Buchanan, and Pat Robertson; detailing the GOP's obsession with drugs and drug abuse; while at the same time capturing momentous social phenomena as they occurred, like the rise of cable, satellite TV, and CNN―24 hours of mainline news. Showcasing his inimitable talent for social and… Read More

Knopf, New York, 1993. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. Book has a little bowing, dust jacket has some light edge creasing near spine.In this revelatory biography of Jean Genet, we have the first full scale life of one of the great and controversial figures of twentieth century literature. Edmund White shows us the writer in all his permutations: poet, dandy, homosexual, thief; a "thug of genius", as Simone de Beauvoir called him.

Vintage, New York. 3rd trade paperbark printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First published in 1965, it was immediately labeled a masterpiece reminiscent of the works of J.G. Ballard and H.G. WellsIn this harrowing novel, the world's cities have been reduced to cinder and ash and alien plants have overtaken the earth. The plants, able to grow the size of maples in only a month and eventually reach six hundred feet, have commandeered the world's soil and are sucking even the Great Lakes dry. In northern Minnesota, Anderson, an aging farmer armed with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other, desperately leads the reduced citizenry of a small town in a daily struggle for meager existence. Throw into this fray Jeremiah Orville, a marauding outsider bent on a bizarre and private revenge, and the fight to live becomes a daunting task.

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Condition: Fine book in near fine dust jacket, very light edge wear on dust jacket.

Poet, essayist, diarist, novelist, and diplomat, George Seferis brought about a revolution in the way people viewed his native Greece. Acclaimed for his thought-provoking lyric poetry, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. At the same time, he rose in the diplomatic corps to the position of Ambassador to Britain.

This elegantly written book-the first full biography of Seferis-provides insights into his work, life, and country. Roderick Beaton, an acknowledged authority on modern Greek literature and culture, draws on previously unknown sources to tell Seferis's story. He describes how Seferis occupied key diplomatic positions during periods of historic crisis before, during, and after World War II. He explores Seferis's service as Ambassador to London at a time when Greece and Great Britain were disputing the future of Cyprus, noting that some of Seferis's finest poetry was written… Read More

Scholastic, Toronto. 2nd softcover printing. Condition: Very good, light edge wear, spine has small tear at top and bottom edge. NO writing or interior markings.

University Press Of Florida, Gainesville, 1999. First edition. Condition: Fine in very good plus dust jacket. DJ has light edge creases at edges and spine.Original price sticker on back cover.From the blurb on the back: Harry Crews cannot refrain from storytelling. These conversations are blessed with countless insights into the creative process, fresh takes on old questions, and always, Crews's stories: modern-day parables that tell us how it is to live, to work, and to hurt.--Jeff Baker, Oxford American.

Penguin, New York. 43rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options, and uses objective criteria to help two parties reach an agreement.Since its original publication nearly thirty years ago, Getting to Yes has helped millions of people learn a better way to negotiate. One of the primary business texts of the modern era, it is based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution.

Penguin, New York, 1987. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light corner bumps, else fine.The second book in the acclaimed New York Trilogy--an apparent detective story that becomes a haunting and eerie exploration of identity and deception. It is a story of hidden violence that culminates in an inevitable but unexpectedly shattering climax.

Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2013. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, tiny crease at top right corner.GFFs Rochelle, Robecca, and Venus begin to settle in at Monster High and are having a fangtastic time getting involved in the student body. Rochelle is tutoring the trolls, Robecca is blasting onto the Skulltimate Roller Maze team, and Venus is starting a compost pile with Lagoona Blue! The ghoulfriends are even recruited to help Toralei and Cleo plan the Hex Factor Talent Show.But during Mr. Mummy's Catacombing class, the ghouls find hints of a new threat to the school. And when white cats start showing up around the Creepateria-a bad omen for monsters!-the GFFs begin to wonder if their fun is over. Is Toralei playing pranks? Or is something more sinister haunting the halls of Monster High?

Harper, New York, 1990. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, light micks at spine ends, light soiling on rear cover.Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant, enduring position in American literature. Following his death in '97, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet & on Ginsberg's journals & correspondence to produce an immensely readable account of one of the 20th century's most extraordinary poets.

Black Moss, Press, Windsor, 1990. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Crad Kilodney was the pen name of Lou Trifon, an American-born Canadian writer who lived in Toronto, Ontario. He was best known for selling his self-published books (often with outrageous titles such as Bloodsucking Monkeys from North Tonawanda, Suburban Chicken-strangling Stories and Putrid Scum) on the streets of the city between about 1978 and 1995.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2013. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge nicks at corners. Deluxe hardcover edition."The conscious extraction of meaning from a procession of words is not, after all, the only way of interacting with a text, or with anything else in the world". A dealer in old books, lost books - books no-one knows even exist. A man who works for him, prizing meaning from places where it is deeply hidden. A book, at first unintelligible, but which begins to reveal its secrets in ways the translator could never have guessed. This is the story of The Gist, but that's only the beginning of the journey. Michael Marshall Smith's original novelette was then translated into French by Benoît Domis, before being rendered back into English by Nicholas Royle, who had no access to the original text or author during the process. All three versions are presented in this edition. The idea is to discover what happened during the process, how much the story changed… Read More

Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, dust shadow and light soiling on covers, wear at spine, NO outlining or writing, a well read book.A Glossary of Literary Terms covers the terminology of literature - from literary history to theory to criticism - making it a valuable addition to any literary theory or literature course.

Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 1988. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear, very light wear at spine.Published 5 years before On the Road, this candid and perceptive roman à clef chronicles the adventures of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neal Cassady before they became literary icons. In dive bars and all-night diners, cabs racing across Manhattan and squalid apartments sticky with "tea" smoke, these would-be artists pursue the ecstatic experiences that shape their work and satisfy their restless desire to live beyond the limits of convention.At the heart of Go is Paul Hobbes, the alter ego of John Clellon Holmes. An aspiring novelist who shares the same creative interests as his friends, Paul frequently participates in their reckless, self-indulgent behavior. Yet his innate solemnness makes him an outsider, as does his commitment to his marriage. As Paul seeks to strike the right balance between experimentation and orthodoxy, freedom and obligation, he… Read More

Evans, London, 1975. First edition. Condition: Very good minus, light edge and corner wear, blank price sticker on front cover, previous owners inscription on inside front cover.

Mariner, Boston, 2008. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, very light scuffing on silver reflective cover.A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of belief in God, and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament, to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion, and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence.The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong, but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not… Read More