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McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1999. First edition. Condition: Book has light corner bumps and edge wear, dust jacket has light creasing and edge wear, especially along spine.Amriika is a novel of betrayal, disillusionment, and discovery set in America during three highly charged decades in the nation's history. In the late sixties, Ramji, a student from Dar es Salaam, East Africa, arrives in an America far different from the one he dreamed about, one caught up in anti-war demonstrations, revolutionary lifestyles, and spiritual quests. As Ramji finds himself pulled by the tumultuous currents of those troubled times, he is swept up in events whose consequences will haunt him for years to come. Decades later in a changed America, having recently left a marriage and a suburban existence, an older Ramji, passionately in love, finds himself drawn into a set of circumstances which hold terrifying reminders of the past and its unanswered questions.

Condition: Near fine minus, very light edge wear and nicks at ends of spine.Standalone art magazine. reprinted from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Bulletin, Winter 1986/87. Artists include de Kooning, Krassner, Kline, Pollock, Rothko, Motherwell, Newman, and others.

Picador, New York, 2003. First edition. Condition: Very good plus softcover, light edge nicks and creasing at spine.From the publisher: Born of god and king and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatest warrior at Troy. Into his story comes a cast of fascinating characters among them Hector, Helen, Penthiselaia the Amazon Queen, and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writings form the basis of a meditation on the nature of identity and shared experience. Achilles is an affirmation of the story's enduring power to reach across centuries and cultures to the core of our imagination.

Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, spine creasing and wear, nicks along edges, faint creasing at top edge. This a large book and may require additional postage.This book is a detailed description of the monuments of the Acropolis in Athens Greece.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2012. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Deluxe hardcover edition. From the publisher: In 1981, Joe R. Lansdale, then a noted short story writer, published his first novel, a paperback original entitled Act of Love. A ferocious account of the search for a killer known as the Houston Hacker, Lansdale's debut was written years before the Hannibal Lecter phenomenon left its mark on American popular culture, years before the 'serial killer novel' became a distinct--and highly marketable--publishing category. Thirty years after its initial... appearance, this pioneering novel continues to exert a raw but undeniable narrative force.Set in the vividly evoked urban squalor of Houston, Texas, Act of Love moves with great authority between the disordered mind of a compulsive killer and the increasingly desperate perspectives of the policemen who hunt him. In the process, it offers a detailed portrait of a complex murder investigation and anatomizes a city under… Read More

Condition: Very good, edge wear and corner bumps, spine creasing. corner crease at top rear cover, light scuffing.Poetry, short fiction, photography by Elaine Yau, Tony Esolen, Thomas Mackay, Hans Straub, Stephen Pender, Margraet Wigglesworth, Carol Ashton, Chris D'Iorio, Antonino Mazza, David K. Fujino and others, and an interview with John Reibetanz.

Condition: Very good, edge wear and corner bumps, spine creasing. slight sunning on white background, light scuffing on rear cover.Poetry, short fiction, photography by Chris D'Iorio, Jacques Servin, Gerry Stewart, Kate Manahan, Katie Jaimet, Louise Allin, Cornelia Hornosty, Robert Martin, David K. Fujino and others, and an interview with Robert Fulfod.

Arcade, New York, 1993. 5th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, price sticker on rear cover.Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as "possibly the only American writer of genius," William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes wittily and wisely about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes. He offers candid and not always flattering assessments of such diverse writers as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, and Marcel Proust. He ruminates on science and the often dubious paths into which it seems intent on leading us, whether into outer or inner space. He reviews his reviewers, explains his famous "cut-up" method, and discusses the role coincidence has played in his life and work. As a satirist and parodist, William Burroughs has no peer, as these varied works, written over three decades,… Read More

Gollancz, London, 2014. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.In the near future, Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed—annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces its target to a triangular patch of scorched earth. A century earlier, Tommy Trent, a stage magician, is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy.Present day. A theoretical physicist develops a new method of diverting matter, a discovery with devastating consequences that will resonate through time.

Sun Dial Press, New York. No edition stated. Condition: Good in fair dust jacket, green cloth with black raised lettering and illustration of prone figure in a field, reading. Book has light edge wear and corner bumps, slight fading. Dust jacket has multiple tears and wear.David Grayson, pseudonym of Ray Stannard Baker, American author, who began as a Chicago newspaper reporter, then joined the staff of McClure's Magazine for which he wrote some famous muckraking articles. A book of quiet country sketches.

Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear and corner bumps, price sticker on front cover, faint sun shadow near spine.Gypsy FolktalesIncludes an interview with Yannis Tsarouchis; essays by Jacques Bouchard, Frank J, Frost, Savas Patsalidis; fiction by John Bradley, Dimitris Nollas, Lawrence P. Spingarn; Poetry by Andreas Anghelakis, Raymond Carver, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Theodora Stylianidouu; photo essay y Diane Tong; and more.

Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear and corner bumps, price sticker on front cover, faint sun shadow near spine.Remembering Cafe NeonIncludes an interview with Olga Broumas; essays by Robin Magowan, Frank J, Frost, Fred A. Reed; fiction by Antonis Sourounis; Poetry by Olga Broumas, Kiki Dhimoula, Nikos Engonopoulos, Nicholas Samaras; photography by Hillary Liss; and more.

Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps, price sticker on front cover.Travelling WritersIncludes an interview with Vassilis Vassilakos; essays by David French, Robin Magowan; fiction by David Mason, Joseph Matthews, Thomas Parker, Ersi Sotiropolous; Poetry by Antonis Fostieris, Theresa Pappas; and more.

Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear and corner bumps, price sticker on front cover, 2 interior pages have slight tears at bottom edge.The Cypress IssueIncludes profiles of Kyriakos Charalambides, Panos Ioannides, Costas Montis; essays by Theoclis Kouyialis, Andriana Lozides; fiction by Chistakis Georgiou, Andriana Ierodiaconou, Niki Marangou; Poetry by Kypros Chrysanthis, Sophocles Lazarou, Popi Soteriou, Lefkios Zafiriou; photography by Andy Sotiriou; and more.

Gollancz, London, 2011. First trade paperback printing in this edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Peter Sinclair is tormented by bereavement and failure. In an attempt to conjure some meaning from his life, he embarks on an autobiography, but he finds himself writing the story of another man in another world whose insidious attraction draws him even further in...Author of The Prestige, filmed by Christopher Nolan, and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the World fantasy Award.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2008. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge crease. Signed by the author and limited to 1000 copies.Two novellas set in Tim Lebbon's signature word of Noreela.

Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa CA, 1995. 2nd trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.A critical review of the work of Charles Bukowski.

Pocket Essentials, 2009. First printing in this new edition. Condition: Very good plus, light scuff mark on front cover, price sticker on rear cover.A useful, if general, overview of Moore's career up to the mid-2000's. Creator of Watchmen, V For Vendetta, From Hell, and more.

Paraclete Press, MA, 2000. First trade paperback edition. Condition: very light edge and corner wear.Howard Mumma, a Methodist minister who served as a guest preacher at the American Church in Paris in the 1950s, reveals his uncommon friendship the renowned existentialist and Nobel Prize winner, Albert Camus. In a series of spirited and probing dialogues over the course of several years, as the two thinkers discussed the belief systems which had shaped their lives, Mumma attempted to guide Camus into an understanding of Christian theology. "Almost 50 years have passed since these conversations", says Mumma, "and they haunt me to this day".

Vintage, New York. 6th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, light nicks at spine ends.Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny.In his most personal novel to date, internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved "The Alchemist, " Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to begin again: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the landscapes around him.Some books are read. "Aleph "is lived.