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New York. 2004. Henry Holt. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0805075410. Translated from the Danish by The Author. 235 pages. hardcover. keywords: Children Denmark. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Dina has unwillingly inherited her mother's gift: the ability to elicit shamed confessions simply by looking into someone's eyes. To Dina, however, these powers are not a gift but a curse. Surrounded by hostility and fear, she longs for simple friendship. But when her mother is called to Dunark Castle to uncover the truth about a bloody triple murder, Dina must come to terms with her Shamer's eyes-or let her mother fall prey to the vicious and revolting dragons of Dunark. And one of those dragons is human. inventory #34385 ISBN: 0805075410.

New York. 1987. Walker & Company. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0802709524. 224 pages. hardcover. keywords: Mystery England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Charles Winterton is a brash and intrepid, though broke, archaeologist. His twin appetites for fame and fortune grow prodigiously when he unexpectedly makes the discovery of a lifetime, indeed a millennia, certain to establish his name and blow the lid off two thousand years of religious history. Winterton has found the last will and testament of the architect of the early Christian church, the founder of the apostolic line leading to the papacy, and the locator of the young movement in the heart of the Roman Empire: none other than Saint Peter, long presumed buried in Vatican City. Compounding the enormity of the find, the words on the weathered scroll (which was not even excavated, but found nestled among the holy books of a Coptic monastery in the Egyptian desert) promise to turn Roman Christianity on its head, validating the Coptic… Read More

Toronto. 2021. 10/12/2021. Second Story Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781772602050. A Holocaust Rembrance Book for Young Readers. 216 pages. paperback. keywords: Children's Books YA. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It's 1938 in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Paul is feeling pressured to join the Hitler Youth. The last thing he wants to do is march around with a bunch of bullies, supporting the Gestapo and abusing the city's Jews, but even Paul's parents think he should go along with his classmates in order to keep himself safe. Just when he's starting to despair, Paul meets the Edelweiss Pirates, a group of teenage boys and girls who are working to undermine the growing power of the Nazis. When he joins the rebel organization, he finds out just how hair-raising and dangerous it is to sabotage the Third Reich and rescue Jews wherever they can. But choices have consequences, and during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, Paul must step out of the shadows and make a life-changing… Read More

New York. 1993. Morrow. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0688111831. Written In Albanian & Translated from the French Of Jusuf Vrioni by Barbara Bray. 205 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Albania Eastern Europe . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In a profound and unsettling novel set in the Balkan peninsula, Ismail Kadare depicts an insidious and highly effective empire. At the heart of the Sultan's vast but fragile empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams: the most secret, powerful, macabre ministry ever invented. Its task is to scour every town, village, and hamlet to collect the citizens' dreams, then to sift, sort, and classify them, and ultimately to interpret them, in order to identify the Master-Dreams that will provide clues to the empire's destiny and that of its monarch. An entire nation's unconscious is thus tapped and meticulously laid bare in the form of images and symbols of the dreaming mind. The people employed by the ministry work in… Read More

Norman. 1991. Autumn 1991. University of Oklahoma Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Volume 65, Number 4. 215 pages. paperback. keywords: World Literature Journal Magazine. FROM THE PUBLISHER - CONTENTS - THE POSTHUMOUS CAREER OF MANUEL PUIG - Moving On: By Way of Introduction of Our New Editor - Ivar Ivask; On Moving: By Way of Valediction for Our Former Editor - Djelal Kadir; With and Without Puig - Djelal Kadir; From ‘The New Latin American Novel' - Emir Rodriguez Monegal; A Last interview with Manuel Puig - Ronald Christ; Chronology; Manuel Puig: Beyond Identity - Roberto Echavarren; Manuel Among the Stars (Exit Laughing) - Suzanne Jill Levine; The Fantastic in Puig - Jorgelina Corbatta; Odd Coupling: A Posthumous View - Jonathan Tittler; Narration under Discussion - Lisa Block de Behar; Reading Between the Lines, Reading Between the Lies: Manuel Puig's Maldicion eterna a quien lea estas páginas - Lucille Kerr; Note to the Notes to the Notes . A Propos of… Read More

Norman. 1992. Winter 1992. University of Oklahoma Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Volume 66, Number 1. 216 pages. paperback. keywords: World Literature Journal Magazine. FROM THE PUBLISHER - CONTENTS - ARTICLES - Nadine Gordimer: Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1991 - Barbara J. Eckstein; Paul Celan and the Cult of Personality - Edouard Roditi; Borges, Postcolonial Precursor - Edna Aizenberg; Soyinka's Smoking Shotgun: The Later Satires - Derek Wright; Someone Smashed in the Door and Gave Me My Freedom: On the Writings of Jean Arasanayagam - Anders Sjöbohm; The Quince-Orange Tree, or Iranian Writers in Exile - Nasrin Rahimieh; Women Writers in Exile - Vytautas Kavolis; Dun Karm, the National Poet of Malta: A Lyric Interpretation of Life and Citizenship - Oliver Friggieri; A Tribute to the fa'a Samoa: Albert Wendt's Birth and Death of the Miracle Man - Valerie O'Rourke; Co-Wanderers Kogawa and Mukherjee: New Immigrant Writers - B. A. St. Andrews; COMMENTARIES -… Read More

Norman. 1991. Winter 1991. University of Oklahoma Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Volume 65, Number 1. 215 pages. paperback. keywords: World Literature Journal Magazine. FROM THE PUBLISHER -  CONTENTS - ARTICLES - Octavio Paz: Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1990-Manuel Durán; A. B. Yehoshua and the Sephardic Experience - Gila Ramras-Rauch; The Fiction of Hanan Al-Shaykh - Charles R. Larson; In Memoriam Mehdi Akhavan Saless - Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak; The Two Cultures in West Indian Literature - Manfred Wolf; Tchicaya U Tam'Si - Betty O'Grady; The Fictional Works of Caryl Phillips: An Introduction - Charles P. Sarvan & Hasan Marhama; Villy Sørensen; Mythologist, Philosopher, Writer - Sven H. Rossel; Spaces of Dream, Protection, and Imprisonment in the Theater of Paul Willems - Donald Flanell Friedman; The Twilight Years: A Japanese View of Aging, Time, and Identity - Celeste Loughman; Gabriel Garcia Márquez: Labyrinths of Love and History - Michael… Read More

Norman. 1991. Summer 1991. University of Oklahoma Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Volume 65, Number 3. 178 pages. paperback. keywords: World Literature Journal Magazine. FROM THE PUBLISHER - CONTENTS - CONTEMPORARY CHINESE LITERATURE - Introduction-Wil1iam Riggan; Chinese Literature in Books Abroad/World Literature Today, 1939 - 1990; PRC Politics and Literature in the Nineties - John Marney; Walking Toward the World: A Turning Point in Contemporary Chinese Fiction - Michael S. Duke; Chinese Fiction in Transformation - Jie Min; The Continuity of Modern Chinese Poetry in Taiwan - Dominic Cheung; Nature's Child and the Frustrated Urbanite: Expressions of the Self in Contemporary Chinese Poetry - Michelle Yeh; Modernism and Socialist Realism: The Case of Wang Meng - William Tay; Yu Hua: Fiction as Subversion - Y. H. Zhao; The Postmodern (?) Misquote in the Poetry and Painting of Lo Ch'ing - Joseph R. Allen; From a Dead End to a New Road of Life: Xiao Sa's Abandoned Women -… Read More

New York. 1989. Viking Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670826804. 1st Novel. 196 pages. hardcover. Cover: Karen Katz. Inscribed by the Author. keywords: Literature America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Olivia, the young narrator of this beautiful novel, and her Japanese-American family are constantly on the road, looking for a home in the 1950s. Then traveling becomes a kind of home, a place for her parents to work out their difficulties, in towns that barely linger in memory, hanging in the air among them as the part of a family history that reaches further back than they care to recall, but can't help remembering. inventory #16656 ISBN: 0670826804.

New York. 1989. Viking Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0670826804. 196 pages. hardcover. Cover: Karen Katz. keywords: Literature America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Olivia, the young narrator of this beautiful novel, and her Japanese-American family are constantly on the road, looking for a home in the 1950s. Then traveling becomes a kind of home, a place for her parents to work out their difficulties, in towns that barely linger in memory, hanging in the air among them as the part of a family history that reaches further back than they care to recall, but can't help remembering. inventory #23708 ISBN: 0670826804.

Princeton. 2009. October 2009. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691031361. 312 pages. hardcover. keywords: Film. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Shell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the trauma of Germany's humiliating defeat. In this exciting new book, Anton Kaes argues that masterworks such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The Nibelungen, and Metropolis, even though they do not depict battle scenes or soldiers in combat, engaged the war and registered its tragic aftermath. These films reveal a wounded nation in post-traumatic shock, reeling from a devastating defeat that it never officially acknowledged, let alone accepted. Kaes uses the term 'shell shock'--coined during World War I to describe soldiers suffering from nervous breakdowns--as a metaphor for the psychological wounds that found expression in Weimar cinema. Directors like Robert Wiene, F. W.… Read More

Berkeley. 1994. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With A Few Small Tears. 0520067746. 806 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Sandy Drooker. keywords: Germany Weimar Republic History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth century. Its political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our age. THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC SOURCEBOOK represents the most comprehensive documentation of Weimar culture, history, and politics assembled in any language. It invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the turbulent years in Germany before Hitler's rise to power. Drawing from such primary sources as magazines, newspapers, manifestoes, and official documents (many unknown even to specialists and most never before available in English), this… Read More

New York. 1969. Vintage Books. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0394704843. Revised & With Additional Materials. Translated by E. M. Butler. Illustrated by George Salter. Translated from the German by Willa & Edwin Muir. 343 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Translated Czech Eastern Europe Germany Paperback. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Written in 1914, THE TRIAL is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, Kafka's nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers. inventory #30834 ISBN: 0394704843.

New York. 2000. March 2000. Dutton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 052594530x. 273 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Tom McKeveny. keywords: Literature America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A remarkable debut novel, evoking the harsh beauty of the Alaskan wilderness and the passions of its maverick inhabitants. True North is a literary adventure novel-lean and elegantly lyrical-that showcases Kimberly Kafka's intimate knowledge of life in Alaska. Bailey Lockhart flees a tragedy in Maine to become a bush pilot in Alaska, where she buys the only piece of land not owned by the Native American Ingalik tribe among thousands of acres in the area. The tribe's center and the home of Bailey's closest neighbors is a village eighty miles downriver, governed by fellow bush pilot and Dartmouth-educated Ingalik activist Kash. Kash and Bailey are inexorably drawn to each other, but are kept apart by habits of solitude and a political hornets' nest of racial division. Racial mistrust… Read More

New York. 1995. New Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1565842448. 318 pages. hardcover. keywords: Indonesia Asia History America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Based on access to secret documents and interviews with many of the participants, Subversion as Foreign Policy is an extraordinary account of civil war in Indonesia provoked by President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and resulting in the killing of thousands of Indonesians and the destruction of much of the country's air force and navy. This startling new book reveals a covert intervention by the United States in Indonesia in the late 1950s involving, among other things, the supply of thousands of weapons, the creation and deployment of a secret CIA air force and logistical support from the Seventh Fleet. The intervention occurred on such a massive scale that it is difficult to believe it has been kept almost totally secret from the American public for nearly 40 years. And this CIA operation proved to be even more… Read More

New York. 1983. Macmillan. 1st Edition. Foxing To Top Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0025606409. 343 pages. hardcover. keywords: Code Espionage . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In Kahn on Codes, David Kahn, America's foremost authority on codes, ciphers, and spies, gives us a far-ranging look at the new cryptology - from its standard use in warfare to its growing impact on industry. 'Cryptology has gone public,' Kahn writes. 'A field that was once the exclusive domain of governments has become a concern of businesses and individuals.' In this absorbing and eclectic collection, Kahn expertly explores the crytographer's world, leading us into and through its dark labyrinths. We learn about the legendary Herbert O. Yardley's 'lost manuscript,' investigate the origins of polyalphabetic substitution, and follow the adventures of Hans-Thilo Schmidt- whom Kahn calls the greates spy of World War II. Among the other fascinating sections in Kahn on Codes: * Codebreaking in… Read More

New York. 1987. Dodd Mead. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0396091083. Translated from the Japanese by Cecelia Segawa Seigle. 191 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Elissa Ichiyasu. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - A collection of eight short stories from the winner of Japan's highest literary awards, this covers twenty years of Kaiko's career from 1959 to 1979. Set in Vietnam, in the South China Sea, and in the cities and mountains of Japan, the stories introduce a variety of fascinating, obsessive characters strangely different yet immediately familiar. Kaiko is a sensual writer, capturing the smell, taste, sound, and touch of all he describes. inventory #9304 ISBN: 0396091083.

Tokyo. 1977. University Of Tokyo Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0860081966. Translated from the Japanese by Charles Dunn. 122 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Available for the first time in English translation are two best-selling stories by Takeshi Kaiko, a popular contemporary Japanese writer. The stories presented here deal with a theme often found in Kaiko's work - the plight of the individual struggling against the overwhelming pressures of the system. ‘Panic,' written in 1957, relates the story of Shunsuke, a hardworking young bureaucrat, as he tries to steer his own course through a corrupt world of officialdom. An employee of the forestry department of a local government, Shunsuke predicts a plague of rats and submits a detailed report outlining countermeasures against the pending disaster. First the report is snubbed; then, when the plague becomes reality and the town begins to panic, Shunsuke's superiors… Read More

New York. 1987. Dodd Mead. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket . 0396091083. Translated from the Japanese by Cecelia Segawa Seigle. 191 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Elissa Ichiyasu. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - A collection of eight short stories from the winner of Japan's highest literary awards, this covers twenty years of Kaiko's career from 1959 to 1979. Set in Vietnam, in the South China Sea, and in the cities and mountains of Japan, the stories introduce a variety of fascinating, obsessive characters strangely different yet immediately familiar. Kaiko is a sensual writer, capturing the smell, taste, sound, and touch of all he describes. inventory #28530 ISBN: 0396091083.

New York. 1973. January 1974. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Some Foxing On Bottom Edge,Otherwise Very Good in Worn Dustjacket with some tears. 039448441x. Translated from the Japanese by Cecilia Segawa Seigle. 212 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Elias Dominguez. Jacket design by Lidia Ferrara. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - DARKNESS IN SUMMER is the first work of a major new Japanese writer to be translated into English-Kaiko is ranked by Japanese critics, with Kobo Abe, as one of the country's two most important novelists of the generation since Mishima. It is, as well, the first serious work of Japanese fiction to focus on the Japanese experience in the West. A man and a woman-separated for ten years -meet again, traveling together in Germany. They had been lovers long ago, in Tokyo; now, incapable of love, they are brought together again by sexual desire and by their mutual desperation. No new passion, but their old obsession, may give them back the… Read More