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Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and creasing at spine, light corner bumps.Catalogue published in conjunction with the Mallarme, Debussy, Nijinski exhibition at the Musee dOrsay in 1989.

University Of California Press, Berkeley, 1995. First edition. Condition: Fine books in near fine dust jacket, dust jacket has light edge wear. This is a large, heavy book and may require additional postage."It begins with a stone falling, in the silence, vertically, immobile. It is falling from a great height, a meteor, a massive, compact, oblong block of rock, like a giant egg with a pocked, uneven surface."The opening sentence of "La Belle Captive" introduces a dreamworld where the conventions of the traditional novel have been overthrown. Objects move through space without regard to laws of nature, characters move through the text in a maddening complex of events.Originally published in 1975, Alain Robbe-Grillet's "nouveau roman" is illustrated with 77 paintings by Rene Magritte. Robbe-Grillet uses Magritte's paintings as pretexts for the novel, letting them generate themes for an imaginary discourse that parallels their imagery, glosses them, contradicts them. Simultaneously, he comments on… Read More

Penguin, London, 1987. 8th paperback printing in this edition. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, slight creasing and nicks at spine.Translated and with an introduction by Leonard Tancock.One of Zola's most violent and pessimistic novels, La Bete Humaine is haunted by the idea that "love and death, possessing and killing, are dark foundations of the human soul".La Bete Humaine illuminates Zola's skill as a compelling storyteller, and in it he creates unforgettable scenes, rich in detail and atmosphere, painted with an artist's eye for light, shade, and colour.

Condition: Good plus, edge wear and corner bumps, spine creasing and light nicks, previous owner's notes and underling on first 3 pages only.

Condition: Good, slight staining on front and back covers, one wrinkle on front, a few bumps on spine and corners. Softcover. Advance, uncorrected proof, for review purposes. Signed and inscribed by Robinson "For ---- - assuming you've survived Clarion...Good luck! Yaws, Spider Robinson". More pictures available upon request.The person inscribed to could have been one of the instructors at Clarion Writer's workshop in 1992 as the first name is similar to one of the instructors. More information available upon request.Short stories by one of Canada' best-known science fiction authors.

Vintage V-96, New York, unknown printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on front cover.French writer, humanist, and moralist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. Gide's search for self, the underlying theme of his several works, remained essentially religious. Throughout his career Gide used his writings to examine moral questions. He is as well known for his influence as a moralist and a thinker as for his contributions to literature. Lafcadio Wluiki is one of the original creations in modern fiction. Gide's preoccupation with the gratuitous action, the unmotivated crime-it has a place in more than one of his books-here receives its most extended treatment, and Lafcadio is the instrument. With characteristic irony, Gide leads the police to a solution wherein the wrong man is apprehended and punished for the crime, while the charmingly perverse Lafcadio goes free. The action passes with cinematographic speed, chiefly in the capitals of Europe. The… Read More

First edition, illustrated.

Condition: Very good plus, light edge creases and very faint wear on covers.

A short history of Lake Champlain and the story of over 200 years of Lake Champlain ferry boats. Includes To Seize Control - The Conflicts Over Lake Champalin by Jerry P. Williams and Two Centuries of Ferry Boating on Lake Champlain by Ralph Nading Hill.

Tor Books, New York, 2009. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket, book has small remainder mark at bottom edge, dust jacket has light edge wear and slight scuffing at rear cover.An ancient weapon has destroyed the Androfrancine city of Windwir. From many miles away, Rudolfo, Lord of the Ninefold Forest Houses, sees the horrifying column of smoke rising. Nearer to the Desolation, a young apprentice is the only survivor of the city — Nebios sat waiting for his father outside the walls and was transformed as he watched everyone he knew die in an instant.And within sight of Windwir sits Sethbert, the Overseer the Entrolusian City States, gloating in triumph. At his side Lady Jin Li Tam — her father's pawn in the game of statecraft, but destined to become her own Queen on the board.Soon all the Kingdoms of the Named Lands will be at another's throats, as alliances are challenged and hidden plots are uncovered.

Dell 4648, New York, 1975. First paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine has creasing.Jandar The Lost Alien...in the mysterious and treacherous domain of the insidious Mind Wizards. Searching for him is a fearless armada of his loyal friends, and a stranger who knows him better than anyone on Callisto. The stranger, Lankar, is none other than Lin Carter, accidentally transported through the Gate Between the Worlds to the land of the Thanatorians. Aware of Jandar's plight, Lankar joins the search beyond the world's edge and suddenly finds himself battling for his own existence against the most nightmarish creatures on the planet - the gruesome flesh robots of Kuur and the fiendish Mind Wizards of Callisto themselves...

Penguin, New York. 24th paperback printing in this edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Because of the absence of writings by Socrates, we only know of his philosophical beliefs through the writings of his students. Fortunately many of these have survived through to today and provide an excellent primary source for the understanding of this great philosopher. Of all the students' writings none are more comprehensive and informative with regard to Socrates than those of Plato. Contained in this volume are some of the most important of those writings by Plato.In "Euthyphro" we find a dialogue between Socrates and Euthyphro, a religious expert, concerning the definition of piety or holiness. This dialogue is important for it examines the injustice of the charge against Socrates of not believing in the gods in whom the city believed.In the "Apology" we find Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates in his defense at his trial.In "Crito" we find a conversation between… Read More

Grove Press Evergreen edition, New York. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, spine nicks, price sticker on rear cover.Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn.Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation; and Harry, the strike leader who hides his true desires behind a boorish masculinity, are unforgettable creations. Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned by British courts in 1967, a decision that was reversed the following year with the help of a number of writers and critics including Anthony Burgess and Frank Kermode.Hubert Selby, Jr. (1928-2004) was… Read More

Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge nicks at corners. Deluxe hardcover edition.In a transformed mid-nineteenth century America dominated by plantation owners and kept in line by Southern military forces, a mild-mannered academic from Main, Professor Joshua Chamberlain, stands accused of crimes against the nation. In court alongside him is Abraham Lincoln, whose fiery rhetoric brands him a "threat to the security of the United States of America." Convicted, Chamberlain is sentenced to forty years hard labor, while Lincoln's fate is indefinite detention at Fortress Monroe. But Professor Chamberlain then encounters military minds who understand the true ideals upon which the country was founded and who want to foment revolution. To succeed, they need a leader, someone to inspire the people to take up the cause of liberty: Lincoln. All they have to do is flawlessly execute a daring plan to rescue him from the darkest federal prison.

Arsenal, Vancouver, 2010. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear."A beautiful book, painting the dark side of Jean Genet: those moments that are the most fascinating about a writer."—Bernard-Henri Levy, Le Point

Condition: Near fine, very light spine crease.

A woman searching for the truth about her husband's disappearance…at any cost.
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.
As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered; as the FBI arrests Owen's boss; as a US Marshal and FBI agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn't who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen's true identity—and why he really disappeared.
Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth, together. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen's past, they soon realize they are also building a new future. One neither Hannah… Read More

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2014. 3rd printing. Condition: Near fine softcover, very slight edge nicks.From the publisher: Over a decade ago, Paul Theroux's best-selling Dark Star Safari chronicled his epic overland voyage from Cairo to Cape Town, providing an insider's look at modern Africa. Now, with The Last Train to Zona Verde, he returns to discover how both he and Africa have changed in the ensuing years...

Penguin, London, 1999. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, faint spine crease, price sticker on rear cover."Lawrence of Arabia" began World War I as a map clerk and ended it as one of the great figures of the war. He altered the face of the Middle East, and almost single-handedly formulated many of the precepts of modern guerrilla warfare. Yet he refused any honors for his achievements and spent much of the rest of his life in the ranks of the army and the Royal Air Force, in near obscurity. Lawrence deliberately turned his life into a conundrum and set out to mystify those who came after him-beginning with his own account of the Arab Revolt, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in 1926- thereby assuring his place as a mythical cult-figure for posterity. He saw himself as an intellectual rather than a soldier, and a wanderer after sensations rather than a man of action. He wore an endless series of masks. But who was the real man behind these disguises?… Read More

Condition: Very good minus, edge wear and light corner bumps, creasing and tiny nicks at spine, previous owners notes and underlining.

Condition: Good, edge wear and corner bumps, light tear at bottom spine edge.

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.