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The Land God Gave to Cain
Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. Hardback 1st American Edition Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket has light soil, fading on spine and a few small edge tears. Adventure story set in the bleak wilderness of Labrador. ... (more information)
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$20.00
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Land of Cochise Southeastern Arizona: Twenty-ninth Field Conference November 9-11, 1978
New Mexico Geological Society, 1978. Hardback Near Fine condition. Edited by J.F. Callender, Jan C. Wilt, R.E. Clemons and H.L. James. Published in cooperation with the Arizona Geological Society. Previous owner stamps on edges. 372 pages. Pictorial endpapers. Contents include road logs, lexicon and articles about the region covering Stratigraphy, Geochronology, Paleontology and Petrology; Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geophysics; Economic Geology; and History and Flora. List of conference participa... (more information)
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$22.50
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The Lands of the Sea
Collins, 1988. Hardback Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Fourth novel from well-known British writer and broadcaster. Main character is a brilliant painter of portraits working in the fifteenth century who sees the darker realities in the life his patron, Philip, Duke of Burgundy and the political intrigues around him, including the capture of the warrior maid, Joan of Arc. ISBN: 0002231611 ... (more information)
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$15.00
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Language and Thought in Schizophrenia: Collected Papers
University of California, 1944. Hardback 1st Edition Very Good condition Papers 'Presented at the Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, May 12, 1939, Chicago, Illinois and Brought Up to Date.' Preface by Nolan D. C. Lewis. 133 pages. Light wear ... (more information)
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$17.50
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Last Puzzle & Testament
"Puzzle lady" Cora Felton, whose fondness for drink is as acute as her talent for solving crosswords, returns in LAST PUZZLE & TESTAMENT. Cora is named judge in a bizarre contest: an eccentric old lady has written a will in the form of a crossword puzzle, and decreed that whichever would-be heir solves it first will receive the loot from her estate.
Bantam, 2000. Hardback 1st Edition Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket is price-clipped, else fine. Crossword puzzle grid in front is unmarked. Author's second crossword puzzle mystery, featuring the chaotic 'Puzzle Lady' and her neice Sherry, the brain's behind the Puzzle Lady's popular puzzle column. ISBN: 055380099x ... (more information)
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$12.50
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The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universe
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995. Hardback 3rd Printing Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Cover scuffed, else fine. Part of the Science Masters series, this is the mother of all doomsday books. Will the universe go out with a bang or a whimper? Or will it continue forever? Fun and scientifically-sound speculation on the end of it all. ISBN: 0297815024 ... (more information)
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$8.00
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The Last Word
Sterling Publishing, [1979]. Hardback Very Good in Good dust jacket. Dust jacket soiled. Put-down, insults, squelches, compliments, rejoinders, epigrams and epitaphs of famous people. 192 pages, lots of great quotes. ISBN: 0806901721 ... (more information)
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$10.00
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Latency
Jason Aronson, [1976]. Hardback Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket Previous owner name on top edge and small tear where first free endpaper stuck to half-title (probably from a bit of glue spilled in the binding process), else fine. Describes the latency age period (six to 12) from the standpoint of cognitive and sexual maturation. ISBN: 0876682336 ... (more information)
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$20.00
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Laws of the Game: How the Principles of Nature Govern Chance
Princeton University Press, 1993. Trade Paperback Fine Translated from the German by Robert and Rita Kimber. Using game theory and examples of actual games people play, Nobel laureate Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler show how the elements of chance and rules underlie all that happens in the universe, from genetic behavior through economic growth to the composition of music. ... (more information)
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$10.00
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The Lazarus Rumba
Picador, 1999. Hardback 1st Edition, 1st Printing Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Novel set on Cuba in the wake of Castro's revolution. Author's first novel. ISBN: 0312199074 ... (more information)
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$17.50
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Left to Themselves
Random House, 1993. Hardback 1st edition Fine in Fine dust jacket. Short story writer's first novel. ISBN: 0679401016 ... (more information)
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$15.00
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Lettering: Modes of Writing in Western Europe from Antiquity to the End of the 18th Century
Pentalic Corporation, c. 1965. Trade Paperback Very Good condition One crease on front cover, some edgewear. ... (more information)
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$20.00
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Letters Written to Winifred Comstock Bowman 1923-63
Regency Press, 1975. Hardback Near Fine A small dent at top of spine. Pictorial boards (a reproduction of Doris Lee's Alma Mater of the old Rockford Campus). Collection of letters from teacher/scholar Potts. ... (more information)
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$14.95
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Little Altars Everywhere
Broken Moon Press, [1992]. Trade Paperback 1st edition Very Good condition Some curl on the cover and light wear on corners. True first edition of Wells' first novel and the precursor to her best-selling 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.' W.P. Kinsella says in a blurb on the rear the book 'displays very strong voices, and the energy fairly crackles off the page. Rebecca Wells is a writer to watch.' Winner of the Western States Book Award for Fiction. ISBN: 0913089257 ... (more information)
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$35.00
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The Little Rogue in our Flesh
Quartet Books, 1989. Hardback 1st UK Edition Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Some very small nicks on dust jacket, remainder marks on bottom edge of book, else fine. Translated from the French by Donald Watson. ISBN: 0704327252 ... (more information)
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$12.50
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Little Women
Grosset & Dunlap, 1977. Hardback VG/VG- Part of Illustrated Junior Library. Wear at spine. DJ price clipped, several small tears. Beautiful color plates ... (more information)
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$8.00
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A Little Yellow Dog
As a high school custodian, Easy Rawlins has been trying to live on the straight and narrow, and for two years he's been succeeding. Then he gets tangled up in the life of Idabell Turner--math teacher and femme fatale. When her husband and brother-in-law are murdered, Easy hits the streets to find the killer before the cops get a chance to pin the rap on him. A "New York Times" Notable Book of 1996.
Norton, 1996. Hardback 1st edition Near Fine book in Near Fine dustjacket Existentialist detective Easy Rawlins tries to escape the street life by taking a job as a high school custodian. All is peaceful until the corpses begin to appear. Light scuffing and edgewear. ISBN: 0393039242 ... (more information)
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$15.00
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Living Biographies of Famous Novelists
Garden City Publishing, 1943. Hardback 1st edition (stated) Very Good condition. Green cloth binding with some wear at corners. A pretty book with biographies of Boccaccio, Rabelais, Cervantes, Defoe, Swift, Sterne, Scott, Balzac, Dumas, Hugo, Flaubert, Hawthorne, Thackeray, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Maupassant, Zola, Mark Twain, and Hardy. Each includes a portrait of the author. ... (more information)
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$10.00
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The Lizard's Smile
Atheneum, 1994. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Remainder mark, small scratch on dust jacket. Translated from the Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers. Suspenseful, spirited and funny novel set on an island off the coast of Bahia in northeast Brazil. A disenchanted biologist and cast of other strange characters get caught up in a tale of genetic engineering. ISBN: 0689121253 ... (more information)
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven
Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993. Trade Paperback Advanced Reading Copy Near Fine condition. ARC. 22 intertwined stories of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, many of them angry, disturbing and darkly comic. Book was the basis for the film 'Smoke Signals' (Alexie wrote the screenplay). PEN/Hemingway Award: Best First Book of Fiction Citation Winner, Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, and Washington State Governor's Writers Award. ... (more information)
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$35.00
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