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Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphic Books, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 327 pages in b&w. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950s, these eleven stories propel ace troubleshooter Buz Sawyer from Africa to South America to the Arctic Circle, from the heart of a hurricane to a plague of ravenous locusts. Meanwhile, back home, a femme fatale seduces Buz's C.O. to steal military secrets. Then, it's every parent's worst nightmare -- Buz and Christy's new baby is kidnapped right in the hospital! Roy Crane, dean of the golden age of adventure comic strips, peppers these rollicking tales with rapid-fire action, suspense, intrigue, humor, unforgettable characters, and brilliant art. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 212 pages. From the internationally acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a wonderful memoir that unfolds around the author's recollections, experiences, and imaginings of Dublin. As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's account is as layered, emotionally rich, witty, and unexpected as any of his novels. Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, Banville saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child, a birthday treat, the place where his beloved, eccentric aunt lived. And though, when he came of age and took up residence there, and the city became a frequent backdrop for his dissatisfactions (not playing an identifiable role in his work until the Quirke mystery series, penned as Benjamin Black), it remained in some part of his memory as fascinating as it had been to his seven-year-old self. And as he guides us around the city, delighting in its cultural, architectural, political, and social history, he interweaves the memories that are attached to particular places and moments. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 430 pages. A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative ability to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology. At the book's center, two men whom Wright brings vividly to life, showing how they have made Scientology what it is today: The darkly brilliant science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, whose restless, expansive mind invented a new religion. And his successor, David Miscavige--tough and driven, with the unenviable task of preserving the church after the death of Hubbard. In Going Clear, Wright examines what fundamentally makes a religion a religion, and whether Scientology is, in fact, deserving of this constitutional protection. Employing all his exceptional journalistic skills of observation, understanding, and shaping a story into a compelling narrative, Lawrence Wright has given us an evenhanded yet keenly incisive book that reveals the very essence of what makes Scientology the institution it is. Clean copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Red Hen Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 230 pages. "A true verse novel (real verse, real novel), David Mason's Ludlow revisits one of the cruelest, bloodiest chapters in the history of American labor and state and corporate injustice: the Ludlow coal field massacre of 1914, in which eighteen men, women, and children of coal mining families were killed by the Colorado National Guard. Within a driving narrative that never loses momentum, Mason's deftly drawn characters, both historical and fictional, take on the lineaments of Dorothea Lange's photographs. With Ludlow, reminiscent in its political and dramatic power of Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle, Mason confirms his reputation as one of America's finest poets and a master of narrative." (B.H. Fairchild).

Softcover. Brownsville OR, Story Line Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 95 pages. The award winning poet's first collection. INSCRIBED BY MASON on the front fly leaf and SIGNED again on the title page. Bright copy.

Softcover. Ashland OR, Story Line Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 79 pages. INSCRIBED BY MASON on the front fly leaf and SIGNED again on the title page. Bright copy.

Softcover. Ashland OR, Story Line Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 77 pages. INSCRIBED BY MASON on the front fly leaf and SIGNED again on the title page. Bright copy.

Softcover. Ashland OR, Story Line Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 203 pages. INSCRIBED BY MASON on the front fly leaf and SIGNED again on the title page. Mason writes about poetry in general, 19th-century American poetry, contemporary poetry, the New Formalism, and about poets like W.H. Auden, Tennyson, Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Louis Simpson, Anne Sexton, and J.V. Cunningham. Mason's critical position? "Though I have nothing against the personal in art, I do want it transformed, made into something beyond an advertisement for the self." In other words, the author, despite dislike of the term "New Formalism," very much admires craft. Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light gray wrappers, 221 pages. "The words appearing most often in the volumes of poetry in the bookstalls of the 1640's were these: 4 adjectives, fair, good, great, sweet; IO nouns, day, earth, eye, god, heart, heaven, love, man, soul, time; 11 verbs, bring, come, find, give, go, know, make, see, take, tell, think. They took logical shape in complex declarative or exclamatory sentences about relationship, and they took melodic form to the beat of the iambic and the couplet." University Publication, Vol.19, No.2, pages 161-382. Previous owner's name on title page, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Providence RI, Burning Deck, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 52 pages. One of 1,000 copies. As new, clean, tight and bright condition. With related bookmark laid in.

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Ink Press, 2nd pr., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wrappers, 44 pages, SIGNED BY MAURER on front flap, also her name lettered in colophon at rear. Light tanning to covers at spine edge. First published in 1979. "Ms. Lily Jane Babbitt before the Ten O'Clock Bus from Memphis Ran Her Over" is a poetry book by Bonnie Maurer, published in 1979. It features themes of life and experiences, reflecting on personal and societal issues through poetry.

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 317 pages. An entertaining, never-before-told history of a residence for American women artists in Paris from 1893 to 1914. In Belle Epoque Paris, the Eiffel Tower was newly built, France was experiencing remarkable political stability, and American women were painting the town and gathering at a female-only Residence known as The American Girls' Club in Paris. Opened in 1893, The Club was the center of expatriate living and of dedication to a calling in the fine arts, and singularly harbored a generation of independent, talented, and driven American women. Now in The Club, curator, art historian, and podcast host Jennifer Dasal presents the never-before-told story of the Club, the philanthropists who created it, and the artists it housed. B&w and color illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 245 pages. In this fascinating book The Muslim Jesus, Tarif Khalidi brings together, from a vast range of sources, 303 stories, sayings and traditions of Jesus that can be found in Muslim literature, from the earliest centuries of Islamic history. These paint a picture of Christ not dissimilar to the Christ of the Gospels. The Muslim Jesus is the patron saint of asceticism, the lord of nature, a miracle worker, a healer, a moral, spiritual and social role model. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 358 pages. Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word 'robot' in his play "RUR", Capek was a vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of Czechoslovakia of the 1920s and 30s. But it is in his journalism - his brief, sparky and delightful columns - that Capek can be found at his most succinct, direct and appealing. This selection of Capek's writing, translated into English for the first time, contains his essential ideas. The pieces are animated by his passion for the ordinary and the everyday - from laundry to toothache, from cats to cleaning windows - his love of language, his lyrical observations of the world and above all his humanism, his belief in people. His letters to his wife Olga, also published here, are extraordinarily moving and beautifully distinct from his other writings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Verso, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 418 pages. In this bold and radical new book, Campling and Colas analyze sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. In successive chapters dealing with the political economy, ecology and geopolitics of the sea, the authors argue that the earth's geographical separation into land and sea has significant consequences for capitalist development. The distinctive features of this mode of production continuously seek to transcend the land-sea binary in an incessant quest for profit, engendering new alignments of sovereignty, exploitation and appropriation in the capture and coding of maritime spaces and resources. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 169 pages. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited, and often very funny defense of an anarchist way of seeing--one that provides a unique and powerful perspective on everything from everyday social and political interactions to mass protests and revolutions. Through a wide-ranging series of memorable anecdotes and examples, the book describes an anarchist sensibility that celebrates the local knowledge, common sense, and creativity of ordinary people. The result is a kind of handbook on constructive anarchism that challenges us to radically reconsider the value of hierarchy in public and private life, from schools and workplaces to retirement homes and government itself. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 438 pages. Professor Martin Daunton's major work of original synthesis explores the politics of taxation in the "long" nineteenth century. In 1799, income tax stood at 20% of national income; by the outbreak of the First World War, it was 10%. This equitable exercise in fiscal containment lent the government a high level of legitimacy, allowing it to fund war and welfare in the twentieth century. Combining new research with a comprehensive survey of existing knowledge, this book examines the complex financial relationship between the State and its citizens. Clean copy.

Softcover. Melbourne AU, Scribe, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 346 pages, color photos. Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in 2016. In his first 18 months in office, 12,000 people were murdered on the streets, gunned down by police officers and vigilante citizens--all with his encouragement. Duterte is a serial womanizer and a self-confessed killer, who has called both Barack Obama and Pope Francis "sons of whores." He is on record as saying he does not "give a shit" about human rights. Yet he is beloved of the 16.6 million Filipinos who voted for him, seen as vulgar but honest, a breath of fresh air, and an iconoclastic, anti-imperialist rebel. Through interviews with Duterte himself, his sister, daughter and son, two former presidents, old friends, death squad hitmen, and relatives of his victims, Channel 4 News' Asia Correspondent Jonathan Miller shows that far from the media cartoon of The Godfather, John Wayne, Hugo Chavez, and Donald Trump rolled into one, Duterte is a sinister, dangerous man, who should not be taken lightly. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Zed Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 222 pages. Kinshasa is sub-Saharan Africa's second largest city. The seven million Congolese who live there have a rich reputation for the courageous and innovative ways in which they survive in a harsh urban environment. They have created new social institutions, practices, networks and ways of living to deal with the collapse of public provision and a malfunctioning political system. This book describes how ordinary people, in the absence of formal sector jobs, hustle for a modest living; the famous 'bargaining' system ordinary Kinois have developed; and how they access food, water supplies, health and education. The NGO-ization of service provision is analysed, as is the quite rare incidence of urban riots. The contributors also look at popular discourses, including street rumor, witchcraft, and attitudes to 'big men' such as musicians and preachers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Potomac Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 230 pages, b&w illustrations. Crucible of Fire describes how the practical knowledge gained from fighting nineteenth-century fires gave form and function to modern fire protection efforts. Changes in materials and building design resulted directly from tragedies such as fires in supposedly fireproof hotels. Thousands of buildings burned, millions of dollars were lost, the fire insurance industry faltered, and the nature of volunteerism changed radically before municipal authorities took the necessary actions. The great fires formed a crucible of learning for firefighters, engineers, architects, underwriters, and citizens. Veteran firefighter Bruce Hensler shows how the modern American fire service today is a direct result of the lessons of history and a rethinking of the efficacy of volunteerism in fighting fires. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 300 pages. This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation and communication foreshadowed in this lucid study of the origins, nature, and evolution of public opinion in democratic societies.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 262 pages. Looking back to the crisis of the Reformation and beyond, Unbelievers shows how, long before philosophers started to make the case for atheism, powerful cultural currents were challenging traditional faith. These tugged in different ways not only on celebrated thinkers such as Machiavelli, Montaigne, Hobbes, and Pascal, but on men and women at every level of society whose voices we hear through their diaries, letters, and court records. Ryrie traces the roots of atheism born of anger, a sentiment familiar to anyone who has ever cursed a corrupt priest, and of doubt born of anxiety, as Christians discovered their faith was flimsier than they had believed. As the Reformation eroded time-honored certainties, Protestant radicals defended their faith by redefining it in terms of ethics. In the process they set in motion secularizing forces that soon became transformational. Unbelievers tells a powerful emotional history of doubt with potent lessons for our own angry and anxious age. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Edward Arnold, 1st UK, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. Examines the roots of absolutism and the way in which it grew and faltered during the regime of Louis XIV. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 267 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1720, a new drink emerged as the overwhelming drug of choice among London's working poor; it was both affordable and many times stronger than traditional spirits. The beverage was gin, and the craze it initiated would become the 18th-century's equivalent of our crack cocaine epidemic. Craze is the first popular illustrated history to focus exclusively on the gin craze. Warner looks at the impact of "mother gin" from personal, political, and sexual perspectives. She draws on hundreds of primary sources, from Defoe to Dr. Johnson, guiding us through squalid back rooms, streets thronged with hawkers, raging mobs, and the halls of Parliament. The result is a timely, irreverent, utterly engrossing look at a city and a drug and a drug scare that helped shape our contemporary views of pleasure, consumption, and public morality. Clean copy.