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Condition: Good minus, red leather binding, gold title on spine, corner bump and spine edge wear, slight ungluing of spine but book still holds together, no dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on inside front cover, writing and underlining on interior pages.An interesting edition from Woolworth's Library circa 1913 based on the previous owner's inscription.After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1988. First edition. Condition: Vey good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, slight wear on rear cover.Three hundred black-and-white and forty-four color strips bring fans up to date on current affairs in Bloom County: Opus dances in an all-female nightclub and discovers the social penalties for penguin lust and more.

Octopus Books, London, 1987. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps.Master of the macabre, creating haunting images of gothic horror unparalleled in sending shivers down the spine. This selection of his greatest tales includes such classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Murders in the rue Morgue, one of the first ever detective stories.

Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Nevèrÿon volumes in trade paperback.The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Nevèrÿon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission - or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and… Read More

Washington Square Pres/pocket Books, New York. 13th paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, spine creasing.Don Juan concludes the instruction of Castaneda with his most powerful and mysterious lesson in the sorcerer's art—a dazzling series of visions that are at once an initiation and a deeply moving farewell.

Del Rey, New York, 1994. First paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light nicks and creasing at spine, small scuff mark at rear cover.Although some of the goals to keep Shannara safe had been met, the work of Walker Boh, Wren, and Par was not yet done. For The Shadowen still swarmed over the Four Lands, poisoning all with their dark magic. Each Shannaran had a special death waiting for him- at the hands of The Shadowen-unless Par could find a way to free them all with the Sword of Shannara.

Condition: Advance uncorrected proof, very good in paperwraps, slight wear at top and bottom where labels have been removed (presumably by the critic who received this advance uncorrected proof before selling it on), light soiling on back as well crease line, slight edge nicks. Uncommon copy that is signed.Created by Eric Bogosian and Ted Savinat.Original New York production of Talk Radio by New York Shakespeare Festival produced by Joseph Papp. The original version of Talk Radio was produced in 1985 at the Portland Center for the Visual Arts through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Metropolitan Arts Commission.

TSR/Wizards of the Coast. 4th paperback edition. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, small triangular tear at top right corner, light nicks at spine ends, light crease at rear cover.Second novel in the Avatar Trilogy, TSR's epic saga based on the Forgotten Realms bestselling fantasy setting.

Tor, New York, 2002. First edition. Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket. Book has light wrinkling and water mark on back few pages. Dust jacket has light edge wear and small water mark at one corner.From the publisher: A collection of de Lint's stories set in and around Newford. Includes several pieces originally published under de Lint's own Triskell Press imprint - previously very difficult to find.

Plume/Penguin, New York, 1987. 14th trade paperback printing. Condition: Good plus, edge wear and slight corner creasing. spine has creasing and very small tears at bottom edge, well read.Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.

Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, New York, 1985. 21st paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner crease, light soiling on cover.The story of a remarkable spiritual journey, the first awesome steps on the road to becoming "a man of knowledge," the road that continues with A Separate Reality and Journey To ixtlan. Includes The Teachings and A Structural Analysis.

Riverhead Books, New York, 2006. First edition/Book Club Edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket, very light edge wear on dust jacket, light bumping at corners.The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history—Japan as it opens its doors to the West. It was a period when wearing a different color kimono could make a political statement, when women stopped blackening their teeth to profess an allegiance to Western ideas, and when Japan's most mysterious rite—the tea ceremony—became not just a sacramental meal, but a ritual battlefield.We see it all through the eyes of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by the Shin family, proprietors of a tea ceremony school, after their daughter, Yukako, finds her hiding on their grounds. Aurelia becomes Yukako's closest companion, and they, the Shin family, and all of Japan face a time of great challenges and… Read More

Griffin House, Toronto, 1970. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, foxing and discoloration, crease on front cover, gift inscription from 1970 on inside front cover.Poetry from controversial figure Jean Vanier.

W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2001. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps, dust jacket has lights wrinkling at ends.Although Ted Hughes's genius was recognized early and he ended his days as England's Poet Laureate, his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. His marriage to the poet Sylvia Plath marked his whole life, and he never entirely recovered from her suicide in 1963. Many people have held his adultery responsible for Plath's death; in this insightful book, Elaine Feinstein explores an altogether more complex situation, and throws a sad new light on his relationship with his lover Assia Wevill, who also killed herself along with their young daughter.Drawing on extensive archival material and interviews with childhood friends, fellow undergraduates, poets, and critics, Feinstein gives a portrait of a large-spirited, magnetic personality intrigued by the forms of magical experience that preoccupied Shakespeare and Yeats, but who was nevertheless a… Read More

Condition: Good minus, edge wear and corner creasing, tears at staples on spine, creasing at edges, a very well read magazine. Includes a full color poster as indicated on the cover but I am not sure if it is the original poster from this issue.300 exclusive pictures and stories from the files of Movieland and TV Time magazine and a pull-out 4 color poster.

Viking, Toronto, 1986. First edition. Signed. Condition: Very good plus in a near fine dust jacket. Book has some writing at top of first interior page, previous price sticker residue, other wise a near fine copy. Signed by Findley on the title page.From the publisher: Canadian author's Edgar Award Winning Mystery; People chatting, eating, napping, children digging, swimming, yelling. And then, as the sun begins to sink, the people and activity slowly recede, leaving an empty beach, once hidden by the crowds, now revealed to have been violently murdered.

Quill/William Morrow, New York. 5th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, remainder mark on bottom edges.It is 1965 in Philadelphia. Clarise, Finch, and their three adolescent daughters are living the dream life of the black financially privileged. Then everything changes with the suddenness of a violent summer thunderstorm. Finch's lucrative catering business falls on hard times. Finch is lost at sea, Clarise suffers an apparent nervous collapse, and the girls -- Shern, Bliss, and Victoria -- are discharged into the foster care of politically connected cardsharp Mae and her beautiful, dark-spirited daughter Ramona. A world rich in love, pride, and joy has been abruptly exchanged for another -- one coarser and meaner, suffused with an air of jealousy, malignity, and brutal secrets that permeate every room of Mae's unhappy home. But pain and cruelty cannot destroy a determination to survive -- and a driving need to recapture a wounded lost thing called family.

Bantam, New York, 3rd paperback printing. Condition: Very good, edge and corner wear, spine creasing, light scuffing.The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, Euripides shows people not as they ought to be, but as they actually are.

Scribner, New York. 14th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.

Nightwood, Gibsons BC., 2011. First edition. Condition: Near fine softcover. Very light edge nicks at spine.Tim Bowling's monumental decade-in-the-making sequence of poems. In Tenderman, Tim Bowling outlines the central tension that acts as a vital force in the collection - the dichotomy between sensitive poetic observer and the tough, working class subject.