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New York. 1987. March 1986. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 039455597x. 211 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Douglas Fraser. Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Wabash is a town on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, across from St. Louis. Wabash is also the name of the steel mill, which is the main industry here in the summer of 1932. This is the setting for Butler's novel about the Coles, Deborah and Jeremy. inventory #7721 ISBN: 039455597x.

New York. 2000. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0375402098. 304 pages. hardcover. keywords: History England Biography Crime. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In a time rich in unlikely characters, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794-1847) was one of the strangest of all. A painter, writer, well-known London dandy and friend of most of the major figures of the Romantic era (from Blake to Byron, from John Clare to John Keats, Lamb, De Quincey and Hazlitt), he was also almost certainly a murderer, possibly several times over. Arrested and convicted of forgery - evidence was lacking to prove the murders - he was transported for life to the barbarous penal colony of Tasmania, where, years later, he died in obscurity. Behind him he left only rumors and fragments of documents, and a legend of evil that fascinated such writers as Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. With a brilliant blend of creative imagination and scholarly sleuthing, Andrew Motion evokes Wainewright's double life in a tour de… Read More

New York. 1995. April 1995. Grove Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjackete. 0802115748. 235 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Bjorn Keller. keywords: Literature Eastern Europe Czech Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Ivan Klima was in the United States when Russian tanks entered Prague in 1968 but, against the advice of friends, he returned home. He became a dissident, writing books (never published) that were invariably inspired by Czechoslovakia's repressive regime. But what happens to a rebel artist when there is nothing left to rebel against? This question informs Klima's powerful novel, WAITING FOR THE DARK, WAITING FOR THE LIGHT, which describes life before, during, and after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. It is the story of Pavel, a middle-aged television cameraman working uneasily within the boundaries set by the regime, who dreams of one day making a film - a searing portrait of his times - that the authorities will never allow. But after the collapse of… Read More

New York. 1990. July 1990. Harper & Row. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0060163704. 292 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Peter Thorpe. keywords: Mystery American Indian . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez, a bullet did. Officer Jim Chee's good friend Del lies dead, and a whiskey-soaked Navajo shaman is found with the murder weapon. The old man is Ashie Pinto. He's quickly arrested for homicide and defended by a woman Chee could either love or loathe. But when Pinto won't utter a word of confession or denial, Lt. Joe Leaphorn begins an investigation. Soon, Leaphorn and Chee unravel a complex plot of death involving an historical find, a lost fortune . and the mythical Coyote, who is always waiting, and always hungry. inventory #14333 ISBN: 0060163704.

New York. 1983. October 1983. Dodd Mead. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0396081894. 213 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Australia Aborigine. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The author is this haunting novel, born of mixed aboriginal-European heritage, has lived in the tradition of tribal poetry, much of it taught to him by his late tribal wife, Djumala, the heroine of his tale. According to the fertility cult of the aborigines, the land is an extension of man's body and soul, a unity with nature that ensures regeneration cycles. If it is disturbed, life would cease. Here, it is the white man, the balandas, who are the disturbance as they ravage the earth in their lustful search for uranium wealth, even as they rape and mutilate the tribal girls whose destruction will extinguish the tribe and vacate the mineral-rich territory for the whites. In this story we follow Djumala, carrying her unborn child, as she journeys with her dog, Muru, across the familiar Australian bush away from the land of… Read More

New York. 1995. May 1995. Touchstone/ Simon & Schuster. 1st Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0684802007. Paperback Original . 240 pages. paperback. keywords: American Indian Women . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Walking in the Sacred Manner is an exploration of the myths and culture of the Plains Indians, for whom the everyday and the spiritual are intertwined and women play a strong and important role in the spiritual and religious life of the community. Based on extensive first-person interviews by an established expert on Plains Indian women, Walking in the Sacred Manner is a singular and authentic record of the participation of women in the sacred traditions of Northern Plains tribes, including Lakota, Cheyenne, Crow, and Assiniboine. Through interviews with holy women and the families of women healers, Mark St. Pierre and Tilda Long Soldier paint a rich and varied portrait of a society and its traditions. Stereotypical images of the Native American drop away as the voices, dreams, and experiences of… Read More

New York. 1962. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Scuffed & Price-Clipped Dustjacket. 256 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Chermayeff & Geismar Associates. keywords: Literature America Anthropology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu. Matthiessen joined the Harvard-Peabody Expedition of 1961which set out to study the tribe as unobtrusively as possible, living among the Kurelu for two seasons. The result was this classic account, not of the expedition but of a lost culture; the Kurelu's timeless rhythms of work and play, of warriorship, feasting and funerals. In Under the Mountain Wall Matthiessen illuminates the lives of the Kurelu's with respect and sympathy, capturing a culture untouched by civilisation and vanishing along with the wilderness lying beneath the dramatic peaks of the Snow Mountains. inventory #5577

Gardiner. 1992. June 1992. Tilbury House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket With A Small Tear At The Bottom Spine. 0884481026. Illustrated by Anne Sibley O'Brien. unpaginated. hardcover. Cover art by Anne Sibley O'Brien. keywords: Childrens Walls. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Talking Walls introduces young readers to different cultures by exploring the stories of walls around the world and how they can separate or hold communities together. American Bookseller 'Pick of the Lists; ' Boston GLobe Top 25 Non-Fiction Children's Books, 1992; ALA Booklist, Starred Review; Horn Book, Noteworthy Book, 1993. Full-color illustrations. inventory #28697 ISBN: 0884481026.

New York. 1993. Bantam Books. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0553092057. 416 pages. hardcover. Signed by the Author. keywords: Mystery Los Angeles. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, the  terrifying disease that causes parents to induce  illness in their own children. Now, in his most  frightening case, Dr. Alex Delaware may have to prove  that a child's own mother or father is making her  sick. Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones  is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet  her parents rush her to the emergency room night  after night with medical symptoms no doctor can  explain. Cassie's parents seem sympathetic and  deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of  devotion. Yet when child psychologist Alex  Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him  that one of them may be a monster. Then  a… Read More

Berkeley. 2004. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520240898. 395 pages. hardcover. keywords: Tibet History Biography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phüntso Wangye (Phünwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phünwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He was expelled in 1940, and for the next nine years he worked to organize a guerrilla uprising against the Chinese who controlled his homeland. In 1949, he merged his Tibetan Communist Party with Mao's Chinese Communist Party. He played an important role in the party's administrative organization in Lhasa and was the translator for the young Dalai Lama during his famous 1954-55 meetings with Mao Zedong. In the 1950s, Phünwang was the highest-ranking Tibetan official within the Communist Party in Tibet. Though he was fluent in Chinese, comfortable… Read More

New York. 1998. January 1998. Simon & Schuster. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0684841363. 326 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Jackie Seow. keywords: Psychology Love . FROM THE PUBLISHER - You know where you want to be, but you have no clue how to get there. You know exactly what you want in life, but what you want is nowhere in sight. Perhaps your vision is unclear, your purpose still undefined. On top of it all, your relationships, particularly your romantic relationships, are failing. If these scenarios feel familiar way down in the deepest part of your gut, then you, my dear, are smack dab in the middle of the meantime. The bestselling author of Acts of Faith and The Value in the Valley -- whose books have empowered countless women -- now reaches out to anyone who yearns for love, in a book about relationships that can help them reach new levels of awareness, spiritual growth, and fulfillment. Your mother, bless her heart, and your father, with all of his good intentions, did not… Read More

New York. 2001. March 2001. Scribner. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0743201590. 291 pages. hardcover. Jacket design & photography by David J. High & Ralph C. Del Pozzo. keywords: Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Sean Hughes is an award-winning Irish comic turned bestselling writer whom the British Independent has compared to the likes of Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, and Will Self. Now, the popular comedian delivers IT'S WHAT HE WOULD'VE WANTED, a brutally funny, highly charged, and moving novel about a directionless thirty-year-old man's belated transition into adulthood. Our narrator and protagonist is Shea Hickson, a commitment-phobic just-turned-thirty-year-old with somewhat adolescent leanings. Shea lives off lottery winnings and spends his time blindly serving a secret organization whose stated duty is to ‘seek truth,' which, though Shea doesn't quite realize it, turns out to be a small-time terrorist gig. Shea's parents appear to be a… Read More

Princeton . 2007. Princeton University Press. 1st American Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780691130439. 15 halftones. 168 pages. paperback. keywords: History America Baseball Civil War Sports. FROM THE PUBLISHER - George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth and transformation of baseball during the Civil War. He shows that the game was a vital part of the lives of many a soldier and civilian - and that baseball's popularity had everything to do with surging American nationalism. By 1860, baseball was poised to emerge as the American sport. Clubs in northeastern and a few southern cities played various forms of the game. Newspapers published statistics, and governing bodies set rules. But the Civil War years proved crucial in securing the game's place in the American heart. Soldiers with bats in their rucksacks spread baseball to training camps, war prisons, and even front lines. As nationalist fervor heightened, baseball became patriotic. Fans honored it with the title… Read More

New York. 1995. Free Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 002914180x. 30 photos. 304 pages. hardcover. keywords: American Indian History America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In histories of Native Americans, until now, the Civil War has been considered at most an interruption in what otherwise was an unbroken, genocidal war by the U.S. government against the Indians. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, some 20,000 Indians enlisted, joining both sides of the conflict, serving as generals, infantrymen, sharpshooters, guides, guerrillas, and spies. They joined the war on every front. All told, several hundred thousand Indians were affected by the war, either as their lands were taken or lives destroyed, or afterwards, when the newly militarized and industrialized government turned its war machine against the Indians in the West. In Between Two Fires, Hauptman tells the Civil War stories of nine different tribal groups, in all parts of the country. He shows us that the tragic story of the… Read More

New York. 2010. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780374273316. 269 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Marina Drukman. keywords: Biography World War II Aviation Poetry History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Munster and disappeared. Widespread aerial bombardment was to the Second World War what the trenches were to the First: a shocking and new form of warfare, wretched and unexpected, and carried out at a terrible scale of loss. Just as the trenches produced the most remarkable poetry of the First World War, so too did the bombing campaigns foster a haunting set of poems during the Second. In researching the life of his grandfather, Daniel Swift became engrossed with the connections between air war and poetry. Ostensibly a narrative of the authors search for his lost grandfather through military and civilian archives and in interviews… Read More

New York. 1985. Avon/Bard. 1st Bard Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0380897091. Paperback Original. paperback. keywords: Poetry Vietnam America War Anthology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘. Nobody comes away in one piece.' Here is an anthology of the best poetry of the Vietnam generation - poems by combat soldiers and draft resisters, living-room observers and full-time activists, man and women, whites and blacks, Asian and Native Americans, young and old and in between. Ohio farm boys in faraway green jungles with unfamiliar names. children raising their voices in anger and protest against their parents and those in authority. a soldier meeting his Amerasian child for the first time. here are brilliantly evocative word pictures of America coming to terms with the kaleidoscope experience that was and is Vietnam. inventory #28733 ISBN: 0380897091.

Garden City. 1970. Anchor Books/Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Paperback Original. Foreword by Christopher Lasch. 150 pages. paperback. 664. Cover design by Keith Godard. keywords: Cold War History America Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Gar Alperovitz is one of the brightest of postwar revisionist historians. In Cold War Essays he presents his interpretation of American foreign policy and its place in American history, criticizing especially the accepted view of Cold War history. Using recently released documents, Alperovitz refutes the perhaps too simple notion that the Cold War began the day Soviet expansion was halted by American containment. The first three review essays show how American foreign policy was itself responsible, with its surrender to suspicion, military power, and diplomatic momentum. The fourth essay sets the Cold War into the context of American attitudes, as part of what the author calls ‘our deeply expansionist institutions and traditions'.… Read More

Berkeley. 2002. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Marking. 0520223241. 678 pages. hardcover. keywords: History Mexico America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Combining economic and historical analysis with personal memoirs and vivid descriptions of key episodes and players, Empire and Revolution is based on substantial amounts of previously unexplored source material. Hart excavated recently declassified documents in the archives of the United States government and traveled extensively in rural Mexico to uncover the rich sources for this gripping story of 135 years of intervention, cooperation, and corruption. Beginning just after the American Civil War, Hart traces the activities of an elite group of financiers and industrialists who, sensing opportunities for wealth to the south, began to develop Mexico's infrastructure. He charts their activities through the pivotal regime of Porfirio Díaz, when Americans began to gain ownership of… Read More

New York. 1981. Random House. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket W/A Very Small Tear Hole On The Front Near The Top Corner. 0394512693. 265 pages. hardcover. keywords: Vietnam History America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - EVERYTHING WE HAD is an oral history of the Vietnam War by thirty-three American soldiers who fought it, and a 1983 American Book Award nominee. From ordinary soldiers to commanding officers, thirty-three tours of duty are presented in rough chronological order, from December 1962, when John Kennedy was still alive, to April 1975, when Saigon fell. Robert Santos was officially regarded as a hero by the Army, but as a platoon leader he taught his men to do nothing by the book, and that if they did nothing stupid, they would all get home. inventory #26455 ISBN: 0394512693.

Lebanon. 2017. October 2017. ForeEdge. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9781512601725. 24 illus., 6 x 9. 302 pages. hardcover. keywords: world war ii history italy. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is the inside story of how Trieste found itself poised on a knife edge at the end of World War II. Situated near the boundaries of Italy, Austria, and Yugoslavia, this pivotal port city was caught in May 1945 between advancing Allied, Russian, and Yugoslav armies on the strategically vital front lines of the nascent Cold War. Germany lay defeated, and now there were new enemies-Russia and Communism. Told through the stories of twelve men and women from seven different countries, Flashpoint Trieste chronicles, on a human scale, the beginning of the Cold War. A British colonel from the Special Operations Executive, a Maori officer from a New Zealand infantry battalion and a young Yugoslav partisan captain race for the city on May 1, 1945, with the Allies determined to beat Tito's forces and the… Read More