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New York, New York, USA: Vintage Books, 1972. BX2 - A mass market paperback book in very good condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated black wraps with minor overall shelf wear plus some light rubbing overall. A collection of three plays by one of the greatest modern American playwrights that deal with the metaphysical misery of man. In each play the central character is one of the insulted and injured. One is an African American, another a stoker, and the third a prostitute. 232p.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 4.25"x7.25".

Dallas, TX, U.S.A.: Southern Methodist University Press, 1996. I5 - A collection of eleven stories continue the adventures of Silas Ermineskin and his sidekick Frank DJ is mylar protected. Fencepost as Kinsella returns to the Cree Indian reserve in Hobbema, Alberta, where his cast of zany characters, last seen in "The Fencepost Chronicles" and "The Hobbema Pageant", ist at its wry best. "Clever, entertaining stories, often tender, skillfully written... Edmonton Journal. Published the first time in the United States by SMU.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Munich, Germany: Bertelsmann Verlag GmbH, 1979. A2 - A German language edition hard cover book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in red cloth covered boards with very minor overall shelf wear with some light foxing of the outside paper edges plus the book is very slightly shelf cocked. The dust jacket has very minor overall shelf wear. In the Thirty Years War, while Wallenstein, Tilly and Gustav Adolf were devastating Germany, many thousands of innocent women and girls died at the stake. A man becomes the conscience of his time: the priest and poet Friedrich Spee. In 'Der Hexenawalt' (The Witches Bar) the setting is 1629 and Germany is a land of the burning pyre. War atrocities, famine and pestilence have depopulated towns and villages. God cannot be blamed for this misery! Who else could be guilty but the devil and his wicked assistants: Satan's brides, the witches. All evil is believed to come from these women. Thousands of confessions were forced under torture during… Read More

Barcelona, Spain: Planeta, 1990. CE2 - A mass market paperback Spanish language text withdrawn ex-library book in good+ to very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated white with minor overall shelf wear with a heavy clear palstic lamination applied to the covers plus there is some very light yellowing of the paper edges and endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps and labels on the back cover, the top outside paper edges, the front endpaper, the title page. Edited and with notes by Carlos Alvar and Pilar Palanco. This is one of the earliest works of prose ficition. It was originally produced in 1335 and is a collection of 50 stories that follow the model of Aesop's fables. Each story is about a specific problem that Count Lucanor has and his advisor providing each solution. Edición y notas de Carlos Alvar y Pilar Palanco. La gran originalidad de don Juan Manuel ha sido la de tejer unos materiales tradicionales con un estilo completamente nuevo,… Read More

New York, New York, USA: Carlton Press, Inc., 1975. F6 - DJ is mylar protected. DJ has half inch tear with wrinkling and crease on the front top right corner, some wrinkling, chipping, crease, tear, and open tear on the lower spine and its corner, some chipping on the corners, moderate discoloration, and light shelf wear otherwise good. Book has crease on the top right corner on a few inside pages, moderate discoloration (browning), and light shelf wear otherwise very good. The stories cover a wide range of human situations and emotions, readers will find no rejection of hope, no authorial despondency, no neo-nihilism; for the author conveys the vibrancy and vitality of the human spirit, a spirit that bears up under terrible stress, or carries itself lightly in the face of petty adversity.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 2006. A5 - A German language edition hardcover book SIGNED by Nicole Krauss on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some light discoloration and shelf wear. Text in German. This is the author's first novel. The story begins when a thirty-six year old popular Columbia University English professor is found wandering in the Nevada desert. His wife comes to bring him home they discover that he has a small brain tumor. The tumor is removed in order to save his life but the result is that he seems to remember nothing of his life beyond the age of twelve. He has permanently lost most of his life's memories. The professor, a keenly intelligent and sensitive man returns to a life in which he finds everything strange and new to him. His alienation from his own life leads him to accept the invitation of charismatic scientist to participate in a bold and sinister-sounding memory experiment in which the memories of… Read More

New York, New York, USA: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1950. BU6 - A trade paperback book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in green illustrated white wraps with only very minor overall wear plus some very light soiling and foxing of the cover overall plus the original owner's name in ink marked out with black marker on the front endpaper plus some yellowing of the paper edges. This is one of the critical early works of realism and naturalism in American literature. The book was first published in 1899. It book made a sensation as a lurid literary retelling of a true-life crime in San Francisco in which a dentist murders his wife. 324p.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Editora Rocco Ltda., 1994. A3 - A Portuguese language edition trade paperback book in good+ to very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated wraps with minor overall shelf wear with some light overall rubbing of covers, some light creasing along the front spine edge and the front and back covers, and some light edge wear of the covers. The Piano. Coming from Scotland, Ada arrives at the 'the end of the world' accompanied by her daughter and her piano to begin a new life with Stewart - the husband who does not know - and whom she married by proxy. The inhospitable forests of 19th century New Zealand serve as background to one of the most beautiful and unique love stories published in the 1990s. Jane Campion (who also directed the film and which won some of the most prestigious film awards worldwide) and Kate Pullinger created in this book more than a twin of the film. It is a literary work perfectly autonomous from the film and one of the most… Read More

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara, SA, 2000. A1 - A Spanish language edition trade paperback ex-library book in good+ to very good- condition with no dust jacket as issued. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor overall shelf wear with the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges and the copyright page. Manfredo Kempff Suárez was born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, in 1945. Most of his professional life has been devoted to diplomacy and journalism. He has been minister of state and ambassador to Argentina, Uruguay and Spain. 'Sandiablo' is his third novel after the success of 'Crazy Moon (1994) and 'Margarita Hesse '(1997). 'Crazy Moon' has been translated into Polish and published in several Spanish speaking countries. The novel begins in Santa Cruz, Bolivia between the 1930s and 1940s when it is only the size of a village. The main character Luciano Salvatierra is a time wasting, cynical, sexually… Read More

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001. BF6 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with the dust jacket mylar sleeve endflaps glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps and pocket on the top outside paper edges, the front and back free endpapers, and the title page. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. Illustrated with black and white as well as color reproductions of artwork. A novel set in 2057 about the first genetically engineered visual artist who has been murdered at the age of nineteen. This novel is his biography, organized around a retrospective of his work mounted at the Virtual Museum of Manual Art about ten years after his death. By the author of "A Pile of Stones," "Notes from the Frontier," "In the Reign of Peace," "My Own Ground," "The Tree of Life," and "The Elephant and… Read More

New York, New York, USA: Pantheon Books, 1982. BI6 - A trade paperback withdrawn ex-library book in good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with some browning of the paper edges and yellowing of the paper plus there are the usual library stamps, marks, labels, and pocket on the spine, the copyright page, and the inside surface of the back cover plus there is a clear plastic lamination applied to the covers. Translated from the German by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser. A novel about human corruption, and the interconnections between the will to power and the urge to submit. The story is set among a group of students at a military boarding school in Austria before the fFirst World War. The main character is a somewhat detached youth who, along with two other students, systematically persecute one of their fellow schoolmates, an essentially passive boy whose effeminate manner and complaisant behavior attract his tormentors' inclinations to debase… Read More