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First edition. Red cloth with gold embossed lettering. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, spine has wear and nicks, o interior writing or markings, no dust jacket.

Random House, New York, 1991. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Slight edge wear.The name has always struck a chord in the avant-garde: Bukowski, celebrated underground poet, hard-drinking racetrack devotee, late blooming Don Juan, best selling cult hero in Germany. The autobiographical movie Barfly catapulted him to national attention. Now, in the first biography written with Bukowski's full cooperation, acclaimed poet and author Neeli Cherkovski reveals the real Charles Bukowski.

Putnam, New York, 1992. First edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Slight nicks at edges of dust jacket, previous booksellers markings in pencil on inside page. Advance review copy and first thus. Review slip laid in.

Bantam, New York. 14th paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, small crease at top corner, spine has very light crease, price sticker and light creases on rear cover."My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else," proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel. Published in 1854, the story concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a "fanatic of the demonstrable fact," who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a stifling and arid atmosphere of grim practicality.Without a moral compass to guide them, the children sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim background of Coketown, a wretched community shadowed by an industrial behemoth. Louisa falls into a loveless marriage with Josiah Bouderby, a vulgar banker, while the unscrupulous Tom, totally lacking in principle, becomes a thief who frames an innocent man for his crime. Witnessing the degradation and downfall of his children, Gradgrind realizes… Read More

Wisdom Publications, Sommerville MA. Later edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.This is not your typical Zen book. Brad Warner, a young punk who grew up to be a Zen master, spares no one. This bold new approach to the "Why?" of Zen Buddhism is as strongly grounded in the tradition of Zen as it is utterly revolutionary. Warner's voice is hilarious, and he calls on the wisdom of everyone from punk and pop culture icons to the Buddha himself to make sure his points come through loud and clear. As it prods readers to question everything, Hardcore Zen is both an approach and a departure, leaving behind the soft and lyrical for the gritty and stark perspective of a new generation.

Berkley Books, New York, 1983. First paperback edition. Condition: Good minus, edge and corner wear, spine has creasing and wear, rear cover has small triangular tear at top left corner.A dark and powerful fantasy from the bestselling author of Ender's Shadow.Enter the city of Hart's Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent, riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city was captured by a rebellious lord, Palicrovol, who overthrew the cruel king, Nasilee, hated by his people.Palicrovol, too, was cruel, as befitted a king. He took the true mantle of kinghood by forcing Asineth, now Queen by her father's death, to marry him, raping her to consummate the marriage. [But he was not cruel enough to rule.] He let her live after her humiliation; live to bear a daughter; live to return from exile and retake the throne of Hart's Hope.But she, in turn, sent Palicrovol into exile to breed a son who would, in the name of the God, take back the kingdom from its cruel Queen.

Thomas Dunne / St. Martin's Press, New York, 2009. ARC, first edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear. Advance uncorrected proof, for review purposes.From the publisher: One day you're heading to work, playing with the kids, kissing the wife goodnight, the next day you're a killer. In the tradition of H.G. Wells, Anthony Burgess, and Richard Matheson, Hater is one man's story of his place in a world gone mad - a world infected with fear, violence, and hate...

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2006. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. DJ has slight creasing at spine edges. Deluxe hardcover edition. From the publisher: A collection of 13 horror short stories. Author Peter Straub said of this collection, "Here, all of Schow's glittering weapons are sharper than ever before".

Harper Collins, Toronto, 1993. First edition. Condition: Near Fine in very good dust jacket. A few bumps along edges.From the publisher: It all starts when Lilah Kemp, one-time librarian and sometime spiritualist, inadvertently lets Kurtz out of page 92 of Heart of Darkness and is unable to get him back in. While Kurtz is stalking the streets of Toronto, Lilah frantically begins her search for a Marlow to help her deal with this literary villain...

Eclipse Comics, 1988. First edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear, slight wear on rear cover visible on black background.By the creator of Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman.

Tor Books, New York, 1998. First edition thus. Condition: Near fine softcover, slight nicks at corners, light sunning at spine. Advance, uncorrected proof, for review purposes. More pictures available upon request.From the publisher: In this new episode of the Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin's wife Peggy, whose knack is to read the heartfire of other people and know their futures, makes a perilous journey to the court of the exiled king of England...

Metropolitan Books, New York, 2004. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, else fine.Chomsky tracks the U.S. government's aggressive pursuit of "full spectrum dominance" and lays out how the most recent manifestations of the politics of global control - from unilateralism to the dismantling of international agreements to state terrorism - cohere in a drive for hegemony that ultimately could threaten our existence. Featuring a new afterword by the author.

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. 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.

Cardinal, London, 1989. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Poor, edge and corner wear, corner and spine creases, back cover is unfortunately detached.Ernest Hemingway was a mythic figure of overt masculinity and vibrant literary genius. He lived life on an epic scale, presenting to the world a character as compelling as the fiction he created. But behind it all lurked an insecure, troubled man. In this immensely powerful and revealing study, Kenneth S. Lynn explores the many tragic facets that both nurtured Hemingway's work and eroded his life. Masterfully written, Hemingway brings to life the writer whose desperate struggle to exorcise his demons produced some of the greatest American fiction of this century.

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).

Overlook, Woodstock, 2004. First edition. Condition: Fine in very good dust Jacket. DJ has some bumps and creasing along edges. First edition.From the publisher: With broad insight into one of the themes that defined Hemingway's career, Hemingway In Africa provides a compelling look into the life of the author for whom dangerous exploits were, as Ondaatje writes, "in the final analysis an effort to relive the intensity of existing at the edge."

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.

Signet, New York, 1988. 14th paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine nicks and creasing, light crease at top left rear cover.The work of the world's greatest dramatist in authoritative texts edited and with commentary by outstanding scholars.

Signet, New York, 1987. 21st paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, slight spine nicks and crease, crease at top left rear cover corner.The work of the world's greatest dramatist in authoritative texts edited and with commentary by outstanding scholars.