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Pete Pack Rat's Christmas Eve Surpriseby: Quackenbush, Robert

Pete Pack Rat's Christmas Eve Surprise
by: Quackenbush, Robert

New York, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Color illustrations by Robert Quackenbush. 32 pages. No dust jacket. Pete Pack Rat must act quickly to save Pebble Junction's Christmas Eve celebrations when the Gila Monster Gang escapes from jail and steals the Christmas pinata. Owner's name on title page, otherwise clean.

Record # 203879

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Pick-Up by: Charles Willeford

Pick-Up
by: Charles Willeford

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 166 pages. Pick-Up is really two different books contained within a single cover. The first half describes in raw, realistic detail the hopeless, despairing and desperate, lives of a man and a woman, both alcoholics, barely surviving in post World War II San Francisco. The second half of the book consists of one man's account of his first hand experience with the criminal justice system. Clean copy.

Record # 374743

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Pig in the Spigotby: Wilbur, Richard

Pig in the Spigot
by: Wilbur, Richard

New York , Harcourt, 2nd pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by J. Otto Seibold. A PIG in a spigot? An AX in a taxi? An ELF in a belfry? It can mean only one thing. . . . Richard Wilbur has been playing with his words again! Aided and abetted by illustrator J.otto Seibold, Richard Wilbur reveals that words must be used carefully--because you never know what you'll find in them!

Record # 176764

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Pig Plantagenet, Theby: Allen Andrews/Michael Foreman

Pig Plantagenet, The
by: Allen Andrews/Michael Foreman

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 199 pages, illustrated in b&w by Michael Foreman. "Set in medieval France, the hero is - yes - a pig, a small but highly intelligent pig with a little boar blood lurking in his veins . . . When the feudal lords of Pitou decide with the farmers to rid the nearby forest of wild animals, it is Plantagenet (beloved of the farmer's daughter, Adele) who warns his cousin, the wild boar Grondin, of what is afoot . . . "

Record # 378014

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Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poemsby: Yusef Komunyakaa

Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems
by: Yusef Komunyakaa

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 445 pages. Clean.

Record # 374475

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Poems of Attila Jozsefby: Nyerges Anton N.; (transl.)Ertavy Barath Joseph M (Ed.)

Poems of Attila Jozsef
by: Nyerges Anton N.; (transl.)Ertavy Barath Joseph M (Ed.)

Softcover. Buffalo NY, Hungarian Cultural Foundation, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, First US translated printing (1973( of Jozsef's poems. Sun-fading to spine. 224 pages clean, unmarked. Several pages of b&w plates. There is a repaired paper slice to the first 3 pages, including cover. Otherwise very good.

Record # 374504

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Pop. 1280by: Thompson, Jim

Pop. 1280
by: Thompson, Jim

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages. A chilling and brutally funny romp through the American South. As high sheriff of Potts County, Nick Corey spends most of his time eating, sleeping and avoiding trouble. If only people--especially some troublesome pimps, his foul-tempered wife, and his half-witted brother-in-law--would stop pushing him around. Because when Nick is pushed, he begins to kill . . . or to make others do his killing for him!The basis for an aclaimed French film noir, Coup de Torchon. Clean copy.

Record # 374738

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Popeye Goes On a Picnicby: Newell, Crosby

Popeye Goes On a Picnic
by: Newell, Crosby

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, Reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial cardboard covers. Originally published in 1958. Color illustrations by Bud Sagendorf.

Record # 65822

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Punch in New Yorkby: Alice Provensen / Martin Provensen

Punch in New York
by: Alice Provensen / Martin Provensen

NY, Viking, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In Provensen's talented hands, the unlovable Punch is skillfully resurrected for a generation perhaps unfamiliar with his dastardly deeds. Brought to New York City in the suitcase of Il Professore Tucci-Piccini, Punch is immediately stolen by a thief hoping to snatch a valise full of money. The worthless bag is soon discarded, and Mr. Punch finds himself alone on the streets of the Big Apple. True to form, the conniving marionette outsmarts policemen, muggers and a chauffeur to land himself a job with "the Richest Man in the World" before reuniting with Judy, the Baby, the Hangman and the others. The jaunty text brims with mischief and Provensen's distinctively detailed illustrations are rendered in the bright, buoyant colors of puppetry. Her Manhattan is a suitably kinetic metropolis of limos, hot dog stands and countless skyscrapers, many of which bear the au courant designation Helmstrump. Clean copy.

Record # 374910

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Race Problems in the New Africa A Study of the Relation of Bantu and Britons in Those Parts of Bantu Africa Which Are under British Controlby: Willoughby, Rev. W. C.

Race Problems in the New Africa A Study of the Relation of Bantu and Britons in Those Parts of Bantu Africa Which Are under British Control
by: Willoughby, Rev. W. C.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth, 296 pages. Gilt title on spine. Folding maps in rear. Contents: Relation of Bantu to other African races: Africa & Africans - Study of Bantu life & thought: Spirits of things; Spirits of people; Tribal law & politics; Woman & marriage; Training of Bantu youths - Europeanization of Bantu Africa: Discovery of Bantu; White man's burden & how he got it; Some problems of government in Bantu areas; Native labour; Colour bar; Task of Church. Newsp. clippings re author laid in, leaving tan mark.

Record # 374707

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Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables Populist Protest Colonial Encounters Algeria and Tunisia 1800-1904 by: Julia A. Clancy Smith

Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables Populist Protest Colonial Encounters Algeria and Tunisia 1800-1904
by: Julia A. Clancy Smith

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 370 pages. Focuses on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria and Tunisia. In this study the author provides a detailed analysis of resistance and accommodation to colonial rule. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374700

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Rejoicing: New and Collected Poems by: Stanley Moss

Rejoicing: New and Collected Poems
by: Stanley Moss

Softcover. London, Anvil Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 300 pages. Bright, clean copy. "Stanley Moss is American poetry's best-kept secret, better known as the innovative publisher of other poets than for his own highly charged, stingingly beautiful lyrics. That should change with the publication of his long-awaited and gorgeous new poems. " --John Ashbery.

Record # 374481

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Return of Eva Peron with The Killings in Trinidadby: Naipaul, V. S.

Return of Eva Peron with The Killings in Trinidad
by: Naipaul, V. S.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 227 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, else a clean, tight copy. Naipaul presents here four essays about the "half-made" societies, those still suffering from the profound deprivations of colonialism and prey to corruption." He examines the role of Eva Peron as the catalyst for violence in Argentina, with its yearning for a European culture and the physical, historical, cultural reality of the land in which the native Indians were wiped out and the colonialists took over. He writes of the infamous Michael X in Trinidad whose pretensions to power and destiny led to the man's insanity and execution following two pointless murders. Shorter essays address nihilism in the Congo and Naipaul's take on Joseph Conrad and the Heart of Darkness.

Record # 461492

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Revolution For The Hell Of Itby: Abbie Hoffman

Revolution For The Hell Of It
by: Abbie Hoffman

Softcover. NY, Thunder's Mouth Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 259 pages. While the supremely popular Steal This Book is a guide to living outside the establishment, Revolution for the Hell of It is a chronicle of Abbie Hoffman's radical escapades that doubles as a guidebook for today's social and political activist. Hoffman pioneered the use of humour, theatre, and shock value to drive home his points, and in Revolution for the Hell of It he gives firsthand accounts of his legendary adventures, from the activism that led to the founding of the Youth International Party,or Yippies!, to the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests ("a Perfect Mess") that resulted in his conviction as part of the Chicago Seven. Clean. bright copy.

Record # 374701

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Roughneckby: Jim Thompson

Roughneck
by: Jim Thompson

Softcover. NY, Mysterious Press, reprint, 1989, Softcover, mass market paperback, 163 pages. By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive. A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction's most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir--or wildly entertaining tall tale--as only Thompson could tell it. Hard times have never sounded so good. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374758

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Sadakoby: Coerr/Ed Young, Eleanor

Sadako
by: Coerr/Ed Young, Eleanor

NY, Putnam, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ed Young. Delamination, edgewear, soil, and tape residue to dust jacket. Small pen markings on title-page. In this reinvention of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, images by Caldecott medalist Ed Young and new text by Eleanor Coerr come together to inspire children of all ages. In her novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr told the moving story of Sadako and her brave struggle against leukemia, the "atom-bomb disease," which she developed when she was twelve, just ten years after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The novel became a classic, and when Sadako's story was to be made into a film, Caldecott medalist Ed Young was asked to do the illustrations. With love and commitment, he created hauntingly beautiful pastels which bring to life the spirit of Sadako, her courage and her strength.

Record # 203040

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Selected Poems of Carl Sandburgby: Sandburg, Carl (Edited by Rebecca West)

Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg
by: Sandburg, Carl (Edited by Rebecca West)

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with yellow lettering on spine, 289 pages. Collects poems from four of Sandburg's works. "A collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln." Clean, tight copy.

Record # 374464

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Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichaiby: Amichai, Yehuda; Bloch, Chana & Mitchell, Stephen (edited & newly translated by)

Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
by: Amichai, Yehuda; Bloch, Chana & Mitchell, Stephen (edited & newly translated by)

Softcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 173 pages. Stated First Edition, The hardcover edition was also published concurrently. Wonderful work by the great Israeli poet and war veteran; all poems were originally published and written in Hebrew and newly translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell. Clean copy.

Record # 374480

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Seraphina Toddby: Hubbard, Margaret Ann

Seraphina Todd
by: Hubbard, Margaret Ann

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound in green cloth with dark blue design and lettering, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Light soiling to endpapers, covers. Blue top edge. Clean copy.

Record # 500657

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Shatteredby: Richard Neely

Shattered
by: Richard Neely

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 245 pages. Eight months after being horribly disfigured in a car accident, Dan Marriott has his face rebuilt by plastic surgery, but he must still struggle with an amnesia that could mean his death as he is stalked by an unknown killer. Originally titled "The Plastic Nightmare". Clean copy.

Record # 374746

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Shelley II: The Middle of My Centuryby: Winters, Shelley

Shelley II: The Middle of My Century
by: Winters, Shelley

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 494 pages. B&w photos. Clean copy.

Record # 374679

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Shoot the Piano Playerby: David Goodis

Shoot the Piano Player
by: David Goodis

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past.Clean copy.

Record # 374747

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Son of Columbusby: Hans Baumann/William Stobbs

Son of Columbus
by: Hans Baumann/William Stobbs

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press , 3rd pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket that has light edgewear. Illustrated with b&w drawings by William Stobbs. 248 pages transl. from German by Isabel and Florence McHugh. Clean copy. Against the dramatic background of hardship and adventure of his fourth voyage of discover to the West Indies the author has set the enigmatic character of Columbus himself, and the moving story of his son Fernan's friendship with the Red Indian boy Tahaka. Clean copy.

Record # 378018

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Specimens of Exposition and Argumentby: Percival, Milton and Jelliffe, R. A., (editors)

Specimens of Exposition and Argument
by: Percival, Milton and Jelliffe, R. A., (editors)

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 362 pages. How to present an argument in a logical and convincing manner in written form. Compiled by two professors at Oberlin College.

Record # 374676

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Squire's Bride, Theby: Asbjornsen/Marcia Sewall, P.C.

Squire's Bride, The
by: Asbjornsen/Marcia Sewall, P.C.

NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Marcia Sewall. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Tape and tape residue on covers. Dust jacket with edgewear, small tears and spine sun fade.

Record # 202828

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Stay, Fangby: Hazen/Leslie Morrill, Barbara Shook

Stay, Fang
by: Hazen/Leslie Morrill, Barbara Shook

NY, Atheneum, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket that is price-clipped. Color illustrations by Leslie Holt Morrill. Clean copy.

Record # 502449

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Steinbeck and Covici - The Story of a Friendshipby: Fensch, Thomas

Steinbeck and Covici - The Story of a Friendship
by: Fensch, Thomas

Hardcover. Middlebury, VT, Paul Eriksson, 1st collected ed., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket. The relationship between the novelist and his editor Pascal Covici. Some fade, light wear to dj. Steinbeck and Covici is a major contribution to the literature about John Steinbeck. "Steinbeck Quarterly" magazine wrote, "Thomas Fensch offers the first comprehensive account of one of John Steinbeck's most enduring, intimate, and important relationships: his association with his editor, Pascal Covici. The results are revealing, and broaden the dimension of Steinbeck studies." This book was first published in l979 and received not one, but two separate reviews in "The New York Times." It was also widely reviewed elsewhere and won the Book of the Year Award in Biogaphy from the Ohioana Library Association, in l980.

Record # 54186

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Stigmata: Escaping Texts by: Cixous, Helene

Stigmata: Escaping Texts
by: Cixous, Helene

Softcover. NY/London, Routledge, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 198 pages. Stigmata collects some of Helene Cixous' most intriguing meditations. A unique book, it is a testimony to an extraordinary writer. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 374702

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Story Hour: A Second Look at Cinderella, Bluebeard, and Companyby: Hay/James McMullan, Sara Henderson

Story Hour: A Second Look at Cinderella, Bluebeard, and Company
by: Hay/James McMullan, Sara Henderson

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 71 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jim McMullan, his first book. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped. Creases, large tears, light soiling. Clear plastic protective cover.

Record # 501981

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Streetcar Advertising in Americaby: Woodson J. Savage III

Streetcar Advertising in America
by: Woodson J. Savage III

Hardcover. Croydon UK, Fonthill Media, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 160 pages. You might be surprised to learn that many of the consumer brands and products we enjoy today exist because of streetcar advertising. The Industrial Revolution of the early 1900's and a massive consumer audience riding over 50,000 streetcars in nearly 3,000 cities and towns in every state of the union provided a great opportunity for Barron Collier, a native of Memphis, Tennessee. He simply used streetcar advertising to bring these two forces together and created the largest streetcar advertising empire in the world. By age twenty-six, he was a millionaire and at one time had business offices in 70 cities with business interests in more than a thousand cities. Most of these advertising cards have remarkable color graphics; over 250 of them are included in this book for your viewing pleasure. While streetcar advertising is definitely not a major advertising medium today, the advertising community might be surprised to learn that the basic principles of consumer advertising have not changed that much in the last one hundred years. Investors might do well to review this book to see which companies are still producing these popular products and brands as they represent some of the most successful businesses in America today.

Record # 374908

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Surprise in the Wardrobe, Theby: Willis, Val

Surprise in the Wardrobe, The
by: Willis, Val

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price- clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by John Shelley. All the kids at school have amazing things--from a rabbit munching lettuce in a box, to a birthday cake hidden inside a desk--but no one can match Bobby Bell and the extraordinary surprise in his wardrobe.

Record # 6627412712

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Thanatos: A Modern Symposiumby: Richardson, Maurice and Toynbee, Philip

Thanatos: A Modern Symposium
by: Richardson, Maurice and Toynbee, Philip

Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright yellow dust jacket with light edgewear. Nine fictional characters argue/debate philosophical questions and offer opinions on history and literature. Clean copy.

Record # 378190

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The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for Godby: Bernard Shaw/ Farleigh John

The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
by: Bernard Shaw/ Farleigh John

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in white, 84 pages. Decorative woodcut on endpapers. Internally bright and clean. Illustrated throughout with beautiful woodcut engravings by John Farleigh. Designed by Farleigh. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Record # 375151

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The Black Angelby: Cornell Woolrich

The Black Angel
by: Cornell Woolrich

Softcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 2nd pr., 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 300 pages. In this classic crime novel, a panic-stricken young wife races against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress. Writing in first person from the wife?s viewpoint, Woolrich evokes her love and anguish and, finally, desperation as she becomes an avenging angel in her attempt to rescue her husband from execution. Clean copy.

Record # 374750

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The Black Angelby: Woolrich, Cornell

The Black Angel
by: Woolrich, Cornell

Softcover. NY, Ballantine Books, reprint, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 238 pages. When her husband is arrested for the murder of his supposed girl friend, a young woman struggles to prove him innocent and bring the true killer to justice. Name inside front cover, light wear to covers.

Record # 374772

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The Black Mass of Brother Springerby: Charles Willeford

The Black Mass of Brother Springer
by: Charles Willeford

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard Books, reprint, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 171 pages. "No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford" Elmore Leonard THE BLACK MASS OF BROTHER SPRINGER tells the story of Sam Springer, a drifter novelist who meets Jack Dover, the retiring Abbot of the Church of God's Flock. Dover's final official act is to ordain Springer and send him off to serve as pastor of an all-Black church in Jacksonville, Florida. Springer soon becomes entangled in the city's growing civil rights movement . . . and with the church deacon's earthy young wife, Merita. The Washington post calls this darkly humorous novel by Charles Willeford, one of the great crime writers of the 20th century, "his masterpiece." Light wear, book store stamp, price on first page, crease to rear cover. Otherwise clean.

Record # 374755

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THE BURNT ORANGE HERESYby: Charles Willeford

THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY
by: Charles Willeford

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. Clean copy. A new paperback edition of the neo-noir novel book critics have called Willeford's best. Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing art critic Jacques Figueras will do anything - blackmail, burglary, fencing, assassination - to further his career. Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford expands his noir palette to include hues of sunny Florida and weird tints of Surrealism when Figueras takes a job for an art collector who doesn't care how his art is collected, even if it involves murder. Clean copy.

Record # 374742

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The Complete Crepax: American Stories: Volume 5by: Guido Crepax

The Complete Crepax: American Stories: Volume 5
by: Guido Crepax

Hardcover. Seattle, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, mostly b&w, some color, 472 pages. These erotic comics stories span 1968-1986. "The Man from Harlem" is Crepax's ode to boxer Joe Louis and jazz. In other tales, Valentina attempts to balance new relationships with lovers Bruno and Effi alongside the domestic life she shares with Phil. Bonnie and Clyde, Louise Brooks, and the globetrotting photographer Valentina (a movie and TV star herself!) take center stage in this collection of erotic comics stories.

Record # 374542

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The Complete Crepax: Dangerous Liaisons: Volume 6by: Guido Crepax

The Complete Crepax: Dangerous Liaisons: Volume 6
by: Guido Crepax

Hardcover. Seattle, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, mostly b&w, some color, 472 pages. The Venus in Furs, Casanova, and Milanese photographer Valentina embark on erotic adventures in this collection of classic Italian comics which spans 1977-1989. The character Valentina, a music, art, and fashion-loving Milanese photographer, ages in "real time." First, she saves Effi, a German heiress, from kidnappers, and they become lovers. Valentina also has an affair with Bruno, a young cellist. Dangerous Liaisons follows our heroine into middle-aged home life with her longtime partner, Phil, with whom she has a grown son, Mattia. Two of Crepax's lauded graphic adaptations: "Venus in Furs" and "The Memoirs of Casanova" are featured in this volume. Black & white illustrations. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 374540

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The Complete Crepax: Evil Spells: Volume 3by: Guido Crepax

The Complete Crepax: Evil Spells: Volume 3
by: Guido Crepax

Hardcover. Seattle, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, mostly b&w, some color. In this collection of erotic comics, Valentina encounters the baddest witch of them all: Baba Yaga! The third volume of Fantagraphics' monumental collection of Guido Crepax's comics collects the "Baba Yaga" storyline, which recasts the witch of folklore (it was adapted for the screen in 1973 starring Carroll Baker as the middle-aged, lesbian villainess). Under Baba Yaga's influence, a doll, Annette, comes to life; Valentina and her lover, Philip, are forced to act out the fairy tale Bluebeard; and Philip must fight the witch in her lair. Evil Spells also features the famed Italian cartoonist's sinuous adaptations of several literary masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, and a giallo genre take on Edgar Allan Poe. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 374539

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The Complete Crepax: Private Life: Volume 4by: Guido Crepax

The Complete Crepax: Private Life: Volume 4
by: Guido Crepax

Hardcover. Seattle, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, mostly b&w, some color, 424 pages. Collecting the work of an international icon in the fields of comics, advertising, and erotica. Most of the comics in this volume, spanning 1965 to 1985, have never before been published in English. Crepax's first foray into comics magazines - "The Curve of Lesmo"-introduces our proto-feminist heroine, Valentina, the globe-trotting Milanese photographer. In other stories, she becomes a mother, outwits a gang of jewel thieves, flashes back to her childhood and adolescence, encounters a mysterious cello, and much more. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 374541

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The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Expanded Edition (Second Edition.) by: Reeder, Roberta (Editor)/ Hemschemeyer, Judith (Translator)

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Expanded Edition (Second Edition.)
by: Reeder, Roberta (Editor)/ Hemschemeyer, Judith (Translator)

Softcover. Boston, Zephyr Press , 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. One volume edition bound in stiff dull magenta wrappers, as issued. 908 pages. An authoritative edition containing all the poems, Edited by Roberta Reeder, with Introduction by Anatoly Naiman, and a memoir by Isaiah Berlin. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374477

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The Cows (Quarternote Chapbook Series)by: Davis, Lydia

The Cows (Quarternote Chapbook Series)
by: Davis, Lydia

Softcover. Louisville KY, Sarabande Books, 4th pr., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages, b&w photos. Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher, sculptor, jeweler, and scholar of the minute. Few writers map the process of thought as well as she, few perceive with such charged intelligence. The Cows is a close study of the three much-loved cows that live across the road from her. The piece, written with understated humor and empathy, is a series of detailed observations of the cows on different days and in different positions, moods, and times of the day. Clean copy.

Record # 374483

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The Criminalby: Jim Thompson

The Criminal
by: Jim Thompson

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard Books, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 125 pages. A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, everyone is guilty, and the worst crimes are unpunishable. Bookseller's stamp on inside front cover, price stamp on first page.

Record # 374757

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The Dream Songsby: Berryman, John

The Dream Songs
by: Berryman, John

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 427 pages. John Berryman's The Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry. Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and out of the hospital; he sings of joy and desire, and of beings at odds with the world. He is lustful; he is depressed. And while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again, Berryman is doing the same thing to the English language, Mild shelf wear, clean copy.

Record # 374478

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The Embroidered Sunsetby: Aiken, Joan

The Embroidered Sunset
by: Aiken, Joan

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Who died at High Beck Cottage? Two old ladies had lived there for so long that friends foundit difficult to tell them apart. One was murdered- the other one vanished. A young girl comes from America to unravel the plot. One of the ladies may be her aunt. Clean copy.

Record # 378208

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The Golden Age of DC Comics 1935-1956by: Paul Levitz

The Golden Age of DC Comics 1935-1956
by: Paul Levitz

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 416 pages in color. In June of 1938, Action Comics debuted with a new kind of comic book character on its cover: a costumed man with two identities, who possessed extraordinary strength and powers-a man able to protect the public when ordinary measures would not do. He was not the first super hero, but the Man of Steel would become the prototype for all super heroes thereafter. Superman's story, and those of Batman, Wonder Woman, and hundreds of other DC Comics characters, are all told in The Golden Age of DC Comics. The single most comprehensive book on the subject, this volume traces the company's first decades, from its pulp origins up to the comic book burnings of the McCarthy '50s in more than 400 pages bursting with comics, art, comics, photographs, and more comics. Also included is an exclusive interview with legendary artist Joe Kubert. Expanded from the Eisner Award-winning XL book, 75 Years of DC Comics, TASCHEN's series on DC Comics explores the origins of comics' most enduring legends and the behind-the-scenes, era by era. In a reader-friendly size, the books feature updated essays by author Paul Levitz and thousands of covers and interiors, original illustrations, photographs, film stills, and collectibles to bring the story lines, the characters, and their creators to vibrant life. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 374537

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The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992by: Jack Gilbert

The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992
by: Jack Gilbert

Softcover. NY, Knopf, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374467

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The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home (SIGNED COPY)by: Mosher, Howard Frank

The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home (SIGNED COPY)
by: Mosher, Howard Frank

NY, Crown, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY MOSHER on the title page. Documents the author's road trip across twenty-first-century America, where he shared personal encounters with homeless people, country performers, and readers and writers from all walks of life. Clean copy.

Record # 378145

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The Griftersby: Thompson, Jim

The Grifters
by: Thompson, Jim

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 189 pages. Roy DIllon seems too handsome and well-mannered to be a professional con man. Lilly Dillon looks too young--and loves Roy a little too intensely--to be taken for his mother. Moira Langtry is getting too old to keep on living off the kindness of male strangers. And Carol Roberg seems too innocent to be acquainted with suffering. This was filmed in 1990 by Stephen Frears, with a screenplay by Donald E. Westlake and starring Anjelica Huston, John Cusack and Annette Bening. Clean copy.

Record # 374741

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