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New York. 1984. April 1984. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374169829. Translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley. 250 pages. hardcover. Photo (c) 1984 by Joyce Ravid. Jacket design (c) 1984 by Fred Marcellino. keywords: Literature Translated Cuba Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Heberto Padilla's frankly autobiographical novel is the story of a writer who refuses to give over to the revolutionary state the power of his art. In the process, Heroes Are Grazing in My Garden paints an astonishingly realistic portrait of an idealist movement gone sour, and the lives of the men and women lost in the somber turn of the tide. A web of people-writers and writers manquë, sociologists and philosophers, bureaucrats and spiritualists-struggle to maintain some semblance of individualism in a system that is everywhere resistant to the individual. Nostalgic, erotic, political, and literary dreams form a counterplot, especially for the two central characters, Julio and… Read More

New York. 2003. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374261903. Translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush & Anne McLean. 195 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Lynn Buckley. Jacket photograph of Adolf Eichmann (c) Bettmann/Corbis. Author photograph (c) Jerry Bauer . keywords: Literature Latin America Mexico Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The winner of Spain's prestigious Premio Primavera Award. In 1916, on a train heading to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's disastrous Eastern Front, Viktor Kretzschmar and Thadeus Dreyer face each other over a chessboard. It is a game to the death: the winner will take Kretzschmar's identity as a railway signalman and live Out the war in safety. The loser will go to the Front. When the game ends, a sequence of events that will span decades as well as continents has been set in motion. In 1943, the decorated World War I hero and influential Nazi General Thadeus Dreyer is in charge of training doubles to stand in for… Read More

New York. 1990. January 1990. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0374260869. Translated from the Spanish by Alexander Coleman. 247 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph (c) 1990 by Lee Lockwood/Black Star. Author photograph (c) 1990 by Vasco Szinetar. keywords: Literature Translated Autobiography Cuba Latin America Caribbean. FROM THE PUBLISHER - HEBERTO PADILLA, Cuba's foremost living poet as well as one of the finest twentieth-century writers in the Spanish language, is a man whose personal and political destiny has been viewed as a cautionary tale of the Cuba of Fidel Castro. Many myths have been created around Padilla-he has been extravagantly admired and bitterly vilified - but, even after his immigration to the United States in 1980, the poet has guarded his silence. Now, in SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE OTHER, his long- awaited autobiography, Padilla breaks that silence, telling the story of his life and times, in his own words and, artistically and intellectually,… Read More

New York. 1984. April 1984. Farrar Straus Giroux. Proof Copy. Very Good in Wrappers. 0374169829. Translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley. 250 pages. paperback. Photo (c) 1984 by Joyce Ravid. Jacket design (c) 1984 by Fred Marcellino. keywords: Literature Translated Latin America Cuba . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Heberto Padilla's frankly autobiographical novel is the story of a writer who refuses to give over to the revolutionary state the power of his art. In the process, Heroes Are Grazing in My Garden paints an astonishingly realistic portrait of an idealist movement gone sour, and the lives of the men and women lost in the somber turn of the tide. A web of people-writers and writers manquë, sociologists and philosophers, bureaucrats and spiritualists-struggle to maintain some semblance of individualism in a system that is everywhere resistant to the individual. Nostalgic, erotic, political, and literary dreams form a counterplot, especially for the two central characters, Julio and… Read More

New York. 1991. Farrar Straus Giroux. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 0374157812. Bilingual. Translated from the Spanish by Alastair Reid & Alexander Coleman. 109 pages. paperback. keywords: Cuba Translated Latin America Caribbean Poetry Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A Fountain, a House of Stone is a bilingual collection of poems by Cuba's foremost living poet, Herbert Padilla, who now lives in exile in the United States. Padilla's poems constitute a subtle but powerful poetry of domesticity in exile, in which his characteristically questioning, critical poetics have been not so much abandoned as subsumed. His lyricism here finds its inspiration largely in the quotidian, but the same meditative lyric intelligence infuses his homages to a host of poetic muses-to Jose Lezama Lima, Octavio Paz, Heinrich Heine, Luis Cernuda, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Wallace Stevens, among others. These poems give fierce and stirring testimony to a poet finding a new being in the recreation of a… Read More

Fayetteville. 2019. March 2019. University of Arkansas Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781682260944. Miller Williams Poetry Series. 5 ½ × 8 ½. 60 pages. paperback. keywords: Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Winner, Miller Williams Poetry Prize. We are the happy riders on the stream of Padua's consciousness . a smart, sympathetic mind at work. - Billy Collins. Drawing on the spirit of New York City in decades past, A Short History of Monsters presents the sins and obsessions of a poet nimble in the beat and slam traditions. In this first full-length collection, Jose Padua wrestles with an American dream interrupted by failure, excess, and other nightmares. Often brash and unruly, these poems range from recollections of lost, drunken days to unadorned manifestations of hope. Throughout, the speaker redefines his relationship to pop culture, praising it, skewering it, and mourning it by turns. The poems that make up A Short History of Monsters tend toward both… Read More

Fayetteville. 2019. March 2019. University of Arkansas Press. Uncorrected Galley. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781682260944. Miller Williams Poetry Series. 5 ½ × 8 ½. 60 pages. paperback. keywords: Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Winner, Miller Williams Poetry Prize. We are the happy riders on the stream of Padua's consciousness . a smart, sympathetic mind at work. - Billy Collins. Drawing on the spirit of New York City in decades past, A Short History of Monsters presents the sins and obsessions of a poet nimble in the beat and slam traditions. In this first full-length collection, Jose Padua wrestles with an American dream interrupted by failure, excess, and other nightmares. Often brash and unruly, these poems range from recollections of lost, drunken days to unadorned manifestations of hope. Throughout, the speaker redefines his relationship to pop culture, praising it, skewering it, and mourning it by turns. The poems that make up A Short History of Monsters tend toward both dark… Read More

New York. 1953. March 1953. Pocket Books. 1st Pocket Books Paperback Printing. Good in Worn Wrappers With a Piece Coming Off Near The Bottom Spine. 211 pages. paperback. 931. Cover illustration by Verne Tossey. keywords: Mystery Vintage Paperbacks. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Murder and passion crack the art world wide open! ART, LOVE . and MURDER! Paul Weldon could paint like a streak. But he had his troubles. One was Molly Dann, his lusty, hard-swearing model. Paul needed Molly badly, but she had no use for a drunken painter who cried for love. Molly liked her men fast, tough and strong. Paul's other trouble was a Reclining Figure. It was supposed to be a Renoir worth thousands of dollars. Paul had it first. Then a vicious pack of characters came after him - and Molly. They wanted that Reclining Figure . bad enough to kill for it! inventory #37205

New York. 1984. September 1984. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 039453283x. 191 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Dave Calver. Jacket design by Louise Fili. keywords: Mystery England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Paris, 1911. The impossible has occurred: somehow, someone has stolen the Mona Lisa. The theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre remains one of the century's most extraordinary crimes (exceeding both the Great Train Robbery and the Brink's Job in its skill and the value of what was taken). Now in The Man Who Sole the Mona Lisa, Martin Page has written a captivating thriller about the theft as ingenious as the crime itself. Beginning in the private railway car of John Pierpont Morgan (whose one last unfinished piece of business on earth is to procure the Mona Lisa), Page introduces us to the twentieth century's most accomplished and audacious thief, Adam Worth. Worth - whose past is an enigma and who possesses the remarkable ability to alter not only… Read More

Cambridge. 1979. Harvard University Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket with a Torn Piece On The Top Front. 0674601106. 400 pages. hardcover. keywords: Black History Biography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Born into a Georgia sharecropper family in 1898, Hosea Hudson moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to work in the steel mills in the turbulent 1930s and 1940s and became an active member of the Communist Party as well as president of a CIO union local. It was a hard, dangerous life, to be black and communist and pro-union, and Hudson talked about that life to Nell Painter, who brilliantly recreates it in this collaborative oral autobiography. inventory #24652 ISBN: 0674601106.

London. 2002. Pluto Press. Reprinted Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0745318460. Forewords by Joe Conason & Will Hutton. 211 pages. hardcover. Jacket design: www.anu-design.ie . keywords: Journalism Politics Corruption England America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From Tallahassee to Karachi, Houston to Santiago, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation, globally. His uncanny investigative skills as well as his acerbic wit and no-holds-barred style have made him an anathema among magnates on four continents and a legend among his colleagues and his devoted readership worldwide. Palast is the investigative reporter who first revealed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush removed thousands of Democrats from voter rolls before the Presidential election. The… Read More

New York. 2000. Pocket Books. 1st Pocket Book Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0671042203. 370 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 'Does it have a name?' Vivian asked Walter. What would be the proper question to ask her husband of nearly twenty years, when he brings home his illegitimate baby as casually as a bag of groceries? Although Walter's frequent infidelities became increasingly obvious to Vivian, she struggled to accept them. After all, she reasoned, they came with the Mercedes, the beautiful house, and the prestige of being Mrs. Carlson, the Texas state representative's better half. Having long since abandoned her attempts at motherhood, Vivian resigned herself to her law studies and a lonely existence as the perfect political wife in suburban Austin. But Vivian draws the line at her husband's unexpected arrival. And once one line is drawn, she discovers that she can draw others. Left alone with this tiny, helpless bundle that disgusts and… Read More

Baltimore. 1956. Pelican Books. Reprinted Pelican Paperback Edition. Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 295 pages. paperback. A310. keywords: Etruscans Ancient Greece Classical Studies. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Before the Romans could establish their empire they had first to conquer and unify the other cities and peoples in Italy. The most powerful and highly civilized of these other peoples were the Etruscans. In this study Professor Pallottino discusses the origins, culture, religion, and language of this ancient and little known civilization which flourished so brilliantly 2,500 years ago, and whose history has been neglected for so long. This translation by J. A. Cremona of the third Italian Edition contains maps and diagrams and an inset of thirty-two plates, showing some of the wonderful objects that have survived the neglect of succeeding generations. 'This is an admirable introduction to the study of a subject little known to the general reader.' - The Times Literary Supplement. 'The… Read More

New York. 1994. Monthly Review Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 085345910x. 180 pages. paperback. Cover design by Goodness Graphics. keywords: Politics Business America Rural Takeover. FROM THE PUBLISHER - What happens when a ‘runaway shop' runs away? The abandoned area suffers economic collapse, unemployment, and social decay - but what about the place the company moves to? Bryan D. Palmer, a leading social historian, chronicles the Goodyear Corporation's building of the ‘world's most modern tire plant' in Napanee, a backcountry town in Ontario desperate for jobs. He explores the human dimensions of plant relocation as Napanee's leaders are bought off by the giant rubber company's sordid business practices, and the town's cultural life is reduced to corporate boosterism. Leaving behind a unionized workforce of 1,500 in its old plant in Toronto, Goodyear set up shop in rural Napanee with a nonunion workforce of only 550. Along the way, the company… Read More

New York. 1997. Soho Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1569471053. 260 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by James Reyman Studio. keywords: Literature America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - New Orleans in the 1950s shelters a number of strangers who will meet in Karen Palmer's novel of redemptive love. A Cajun named Harlan Dessonier is languishing in the Quarter, longing for home but reluctant to go, because it means having to face the pain of his wife's infidelity. Another is Glory Wiltz, a white nurse with a young biracial child who will soon be old enough to experience segregation. ALL SAINTS is about the spiritual centers of people and the critical epiphanies that determine destiny. inventory #24756 ISBN: 1569471053.

Sao Paulo. 1968. Edicoes Melhoramentos. Brazilian Edition. Very Good in Hardcover. In Portuguese. 78 pages. hardcover. keywords: Children's Books Portuguese. FROM THE PUBLISHER - MICKEY E O TAL - Mickey, o engraqado ratinho, sua amiga Minnie, tia Matilde e os sobrinhos, vEm nestas påginas para diverter a garotada. THIS IS MICKEY - Mickey, Minnie, Aunt Mathilde and the nephews, come alive on these pages to amuse the children.� inventory #6064

Berkeley. 2012. April 2012. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520266445. California Natural History Guides, 105. 188 color illustrations, 51 line illustrations, 13 maps, 2 tables. 416 pages. paperback. keywords: Water. FROM THE PUBLISHER - With illustrations by William E. Avery. Award-winning author, naturalist, and conservationist Tim Palmer presents the world of California rivers in this practical and inspiring f ield guide. Loaded with tips on where to hike, fish, canoe, kayak, and raft, it offers an interpretive approach that reveals geology, plant and wild life, hydrologic processes, and other natural phenomena. Palmer reports on conservation with a perspective from decades of personal engagement. More than 150 streams are featured, 50 riparian species are illustrated, and 180 photos show the essence of California's rivers. Palmer brings a natural history guide, a recreation guide, and an introduction to river ecology together in one illuminating… Read More

Edinburgh. 1975. Southside Publishers. 1st Edition. Previous Owner's Name in Front,Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 0900025182. Translated from the Icelandic by Hermann Palsson. 139 pages. paperback. keywords: Translated Iceland Scandinavia Literature Mythology History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This third volume in the New Saga Library presents a slightly more sophisticated and cynical view of the world than the earlier volumes. The society depicted is rather more civilized, but now corruption is fought with corruption, and heroes succeed by trading rather than by killing. In THE CONFEDERATES the story is named after eight avaricious chieftains who form a league among themselves, for the sole purpose of lining their pockets by unethical, if not illegal, means. Their attempt is foiled by an impecunious old farmer, who, ironically, uses bribery to defeat corruption and secure his son's rights. One of the essential themes of HEN-THORIR is epitomized in the saying ‘Evil comes of… Read More

Manitoba. 1972. University of Manitoba Press. 1st Canadian Edition. Previous Owner’s stamp in Front and Back and a Tiny Stain Mark on the Very Upper corner of the Front Free Endpaper, otherwise Very Good. No Dustjacket. 0887551122. 159 pages with fold-out maps in back. hardcover. keywords: Iceland Literature Saga Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Icelandic Landnamabok, or Book of Settlements is a unique document in world literature. First compiled early in the twelfth century and later expanded, it describes the birth of the Icelandic nation in the Viking Age, some two centuries earlier. The book is not only an important source for the history of the period, but also contains many stories of literary value, where antiquarian views of the past are seen with an unerring eye for humanising detail. A nineteenth century Icelandic scholar once said that the loss of this work alone in some respects have weighed more heavily for the history of his country than the loss of all the sagas together. The… Read More

Madison. 1966. University Of Wisconsin Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Translated from the Danish by Carl Malmberg. 724 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Denmark Scandinavia. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘I'll soon be thirty years old, but I don't think I've ever held the present moment in my hand, like a smooth, warm stone, and not wanted something else.' As he reflected on the past fifteen years, Jorgen Stein saw an endless struggle to formulate a philosophy of life which could sustain him as he grew older. Misled by the false optimism of a materialistic society, young Jorgen abandoned his conservative values and stable family heritage, stumbled through a series of unsatisfying jobs and disillusioning personal experiences, and finally turned to simple farm life in the desperate hope of finding some meaning for his restless life. Like all of Danish society-particularly ‘the generation that stumbled at the start' so strikingly… Read More