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Hussein: An Entertainment
An early novel from the respected author of the Aubrey/Maturin series, HUSSEIN is the story of a young man who trains elephants in Iraq.
W.W Norton & Company, 2000. Hardback 1st printing of this edition Fine in Fine dust jacket. One of the late author's earliest works, originally published in 1938. An adventure set in India. ISBN: 0393049191 ... (more information)
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$20.00
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Finding Brendan
Summit Books, 1991. Hardback 1st Edition, 1st Printing Fine in Fine dust jacket. Novel of Brendan, a young, retarded man who escapes from an institution and learns about life, and Beatrice, the young retarded woman with whom he falls in love. ISBN: 0671731556 ... (more information)
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$10.00
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The Instrument
Random House, 1967. Hardback 1st Printing (stated) Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Book has a slight cock in spine, else fine. Dust jacket has mild fading on spine, some light soil on back, one 1-inch tear and a few small tears. ... (more information)
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$15.00
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The Speed Queen
A woman on death row tells her story: her experiences as a speed freak, the life of drug dealing and robbery she led with her husband and her lover, and the way drugs led to murder--all in the form of notes for a novel that is going to be written by Stephen King.
Doubleday, 1997. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on title page and dated 7 April 1997. Author's fourth work of fiction. Was originally to be titled 'Dear Stephen King' until Mr. King objected. Marjorie Standiford sits on Oklahoma's death row and recites her tale of drugs and crime and murder so the greatest horror writer in America can write a book about her. ISBN: 0385487010 ... (more information)
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$25.00
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Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut: 25 Years of P.J. O'Rourke
Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. Hardback 1st edition Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Previously uncollected essays from political satirist O'Rourke trace his development from bleeding heart raving pinko to suit and tie-wearing, cigar-smoking, middle-aged Republican ... (more information)
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$17.50
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National Lampoon: A Dirty Book
Signet, 1976. Mass Market PB 1st printing. Good condition Spine crease. General wear. Introduction by O'Rourke. Contributors include: Doug Kenny; Michael O'Donoghue; Terry Southern; Anne Beatts; Chris Miller and Marc Rubin; Theodore Sturgeon; Richard Armour; and Ed Subitsky. Cartoons by Christopher Browne, Bruce Cochran, Sam Gross, Sidney Harris, J. Kohl, Bill Lee, Lou Myers, Tom Saxe and Bill Woodman. ... (more information)
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$20.00
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The 26 Letters
Thomas Y. Crowell, [1948]. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Good dust jacket. Red cloth binding. Dust jacket has small chips, scratches, price clipped. Beautiful black and red illustrations. Calligrapher traces the history of written characters. Chapters include Before History, the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Small Letters, Caroline and Gothic Letters, The Invention of Type and Printing and the Alphabet. 254 pages. ... (more information)
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$16.50
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Dorit in Lesbos
Linden Press, 1990. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket One scratch on back of dust jacket, small closed tear on front. Remainder mark on top edge. Author's fifth novel. ISBN: 0671684868 ... (more information)
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$15.00
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A Nursery Companion
Oxford University Press, 1980. Hardback NF/VG Some edgewear. Some rubbing, small corner tears on DJ. A gathering of more than 20 children's booklets from the early 19th century with almost 400 color illustrations. Includes such classics as The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and The History of the House That Jack Built plus three metrical alphabets. ... (more information)
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$35.00
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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
Oxford University Press, 1960. Hardback reprint Near Fine in Good dust jacket. Heavy edgewear on dust jacket, spine faded. Light soil on bottom edge, else book is fine. Eight-year study of 5000 British schoolchildren, records their customs, rites, superstitions, rhymes, chants, catcalls, retorts, stock jokes, ruderies, riddles, slang-epithets, nicknames and the traditional juvenile argot. Includes full text of more than 800 rhymes and chants as well as a geographical index, index of first lines and gene... (more information)
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$17.50
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Structural Control of Uranium-Bearing Vein Deposits and Districts in the Conterminous United States: Geology of Uranium-Bearing Veins in the Conterminous United States: Geological Survey Professional Paper 455-G
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1965. Softcover Good condition Previous owner stamps, slight fading. ... (more information)
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$10.00
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The Puttermesser Papers
An updating of DON QUIXOTE that transforms the mad knight of la Mancha into the first woman mayor of New York. Ruth Puttermesser is a depressed and rather forlorn civil servant in Manhattan who plods through the boring routine of her days at work by daydreaming of a rich and lively future in which she emerges as a successful politician. Through an elaborate sequence of events her fantasies become realities, and she is elected and serves as the most successful mayor the city has ever seen. Her triumphs begin to sour nearly as quickly as they flourished, however, and eventually Ruth begins to see that the relations between success and happiness are more tenuous than she had imagined.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Remainder mark. Dust jacket has one small tear, scratch. Ruth Puttermesser is a female Don Quixote in Manhattan who turns out to be the best mayor New York City ever elected (with the most unusual campaign manager). But paradise found quickly turns to paradise lost. 'This book, with its waves of rapturous invention, presents a saddened vision of the world that yet leaves the reader in a trance of happiness. And with the lin... (more information)
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$8.00
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The Puttermesser Papers
An updating of DON QUIXOTE that transforms the mad knight of la Mancha into the first woman mayor of New York. Ruth Puttermesser is a depressed and rather forlorn civil servant in Manhattan who plods through the boring routine of her days at work by daydreaming of a rich and lively future in which she emerges as a successful politician. Through an elaborate sequence of events her fantasies become realities, and she is elected and serves as the most successful mayor the city has ever seen. Her triumphs begin to sour nearly as quickly as they flourished, however, and eventually Ruth begins to see that the relations between success and happiness are more tenuous than she had imagined.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Remainder mark, light edgewear on dust jacket, else fine. Ruth Puttermesser is a female Don Quixote in Manhattan who turns out to be the best mayor New York City ever elected (with the most unusual campaign manager). But paradise found quickly turns to paradise lost. 'This book, with its waves of rapturous invention, presents a saddened vision of the world that yet leaves the reader in a trance of happiness. And with the lin... (more information)
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$10.00
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