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A collection of gorgeous photos celebrating 500 years of firearms technology, from the early flintlocks to today's high-tech weaponry, this book shows the history, artistry, and evolving technology of the gun.

Guns. For centuries, these beautiful, controversial, essential, and sometimes fearful machines have been an integral part of our lives. From the hand cannons and matchlock muskets of the 1500s to the latest military technology, this book celebrates the artistry, technology, cultural significance, and power of 100 iconic guns. Firearms enthusiasts, history buffs, and shooters of every stripe will find something to marvel at in this gorgeous full-color coffee-table book.

2021 FIRST EDITION
"When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in her apartment, she wishes she didn't keep her gun in the cookie jar in her kitchen. And when she finds out the intruder is fellow apprehension agent Diesel, six feet of hard muscle and bad attitude who she hasn't seen in more than two years, she still thinks the gun might come in handy. Turns out Diesel and Stephanie are on the trail of the same fugitive: Oswald Wednesday, an international computer hacker as brilliant as he is ruthless. Stephanie may not be the most technologically savvy sleuth, but she more than makes up for that with her dogged determination, her understanding of human nature, and her willingness to do just about anything to bring a fugitive to justice. Unsure if Diesel is her partner or her competition in this case, she'll need to watch her back every step of the way as she sets the stage to draw Wednesday out from behind his computer and into the real world"

In this revelatory biography of Jean Genet, we have the first full-scale life of one of the great -- and controversial -- figures of twentieth-century literature. Edmund White shows us the writer in all his permutations: poet, dandy, homosexual, thief; a 'thug of genius', as Simone de Beauvoir called him.Moving from Genet's illegitimate birth in 1910 to his foster childhood in a farming village in central France, Edmund White explores the early milieu that transformed an inherently theatrical child into a petty criminal and prodigiously original writer, whose most startling creation may have been his invention of himself. Accused of stealing and running away, Genet was sent to reform school at Mettray, where his imagination flourished under the spell of an all-male communal life and his first homosexual experiences. In the 1930s, he deserted from the army and travelled in Europe as a vagabond, prostitute and thief, always on the lam from the police and the military. In 1942, he emerged from one of… Read More

Iliana attends college away from her New York home to gain some independence from her religious parents, but family problems and her feelings of being caught between her Dominican heritage and her personal goals call her home

"SO THIS GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR... ...and when she walks out there's a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. On her way out, she cleans out his wallet. She keeps moving, and has a new name for each change of address. She's been doing this for a while, and she's good at it.And then a chance remark gets her thinking of the men who got away, the lucky ones who survived a night with her. She starts writing down names. And now she's a girl with a mission. Picking up their trails. Hunting them down. Crossing them off her list..." Book Finder

"The have-nots lie bleeding along the road, and the haves are passing them by on their way to church." - book cover

SIGNED on the title page FIRST EDITION not remainderA Bill Smith & Lydia Chin Novel

SIGNED by the author on the FFEP
From Senator Al Franken - #1 bestselling author and beloved SNL alum -- comes the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that.

"Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." -- Louise Erdrich, The New York Times This is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it. It's a book about our deeply polarized, frequently depressing, occasionally inspiring political culture, written from… Read More

1965 - 1st ed stated - "A Gift of Laughter... it is brave and honest and relentlessly unsparing of everything - including Allan Sherman." - book: very good - clean, tight, unmarked - spine ever so slightly cocked - dj: very good - edge wear with a small section rubbed off at front bottom right - a few tears repaired with archival tape - not price clipped - cover and back are the same (you can laugh at this ;) - dj in protective mylar sleeve

SIGNED Matt Love tells his story as a free-spriited teacher, writer and accidental caretaker of a wildlife refuge on the Oregon coast.

"When 65-year-old Francis Chichester set sail on his solitary, eastward journey around the world in 1966, many believed he wouldnt return alive. But when the old man returned in his 53-foot ketch Gypsy Moth IV nine months later, he had made historyas the fastest circum navigation. Gipsy Moth Circles the World was an international best-seller when it appeared in 1967.It inspired the first solo around-the-world race and remains a timeless testament to the spirit of adventure.The Sailors Classics presents the best writing about the sea as observed from the perspective of a small boat under sail. The stories range from pensive cruises in sheltered waters to tales of endurance and high adventure and each one features an introduction from Jonathan Raban, whom The Guardian has called the finest writer afloat since Conrad." - bookfinder

2011 - SIGNEDby the author - "...capturing the interest and imagination of young readers with its youthful voice, colorful descriptions, historical photographs and exciting recount of actual events."

1975 - 1st ed (no additional printings indicated on the copyright page) - "Don Townshend has created his own world and peopled it with fantastic figures who yet contrive to be startlingly alive and real. ...GLAND TIME will add to the sum of human happiness." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - all pages are clean and unmarked - dj: very good - notable sunning at spine otherwise slight bumps/chips to edge - bright yellow background with interesting/fun characters to the front/back cover - dj in protective mylar sleeve By feeding adrenal glands to their newly acquired greyhound, easy-going Runset slaughterhouse manager Burt and his nephew Muscles hope to give Pimples the Bookie a nasty surprise at the Launceston races.

2020 - 1st ed ("1" in number line) - SIGNED by author on the title page - "Godshot is the kind of book you find yourself thinking about incessantly." - Kristen Arnett - book: near fine - dj: near fine - dj in protective mylar sleeve"Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen–year–old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for.Lacey has no reason to doubt the pastor. But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. Abandoned and distraught, Lacey May moves in with her widowed grandma, Cherry, who is more concerned with… Read More

SIGNED Claire sketched an outline next to her signature of what looks like the state of California - FIRST EDITION Book is in Fine, unread condition. Dust jacket is Fine. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vanity Fair, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, The Atlantic, Refinery 29, Men's Journal, Ploughshares, Lit Hub, Book Riot, Los Angeles Magazine, Powells, BookPage and Kirkus Reviews The much-anticipated first novel from a Story Prize-winning "5 Under 35" fiction writer. In 2012, Claire Vaye Watkins's story collection, Battleborn, swept nearly every award for short fiction. Now this young writer, widely heralded as a once-in-a-generation talent, returns with a first novel that harnesses the sweeping vision and deep heart that made her debut so arresting to a love story set in a devastatingly imagined near future: Unrelenting drought has transfigured Southern California into a surreal, phantasmagoric landscape. With the Central Valley barren, underground… Read More

Comedy / Casting: 2m, 3f / Scenery: Var. settings
This Broadway hit is a composite of Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov. In one sketch a harridan storms a bank and upbraids the manager for his gout and lack of money. In another, a father takes his son to a house where he will be initiated into the mysteries of sex, only to relent at the last moment and leave the boy more perplexed than ever. In another sketch, a crafty seducer goes to work on a wedded woman, only to realize that the woman has been in command from the first overture. Let us not forget the classic tale of a man who offers to drown himself for three rubles. The stories are droll, the portraits affectionate, the humor infectious and the fun unending.
"A great deal of warmth and humor in his retelling of these Chekhovian tales."-Newhouse Newspapers
"There is much fun here. Mr. Simon's comic fancy is admirable."-The New York Times
Book: notes and yellow highlighting throughout

"Life as a single parent is good. Sure, Daria Fontina has hit some rough patches on her road to independence. But compared to the siuation she left..." back cover

1968 - Vintage/Collectable - A Disney Record and Book - SEE the pictures, HEAR the record - READ the book - book: very good - all pages are clean and unmarked - back cover missing the flap to hold the record in place - record: 7" 331/3 RPM looks to be in good condition for age

1977 - FIRST EDITION (no additional printings indicated) - Flintstones Hanna-Barbera Productions - VINTAGE/COLLECTABLE - corner flip movie book - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - all pages are clean and unmarked

SIGNED FIRST EDITION
In The Great Reset: Joe Biden and the Rise of Twenty-First-Century Fascism, New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck argues that the American way of life will not survive the Great Reset and warns us to stop it before it's too late to reverse course.

An international conspiracy between powerful bankers, business leaders, and government officials; closed-door meetings in the Swiss Alps; and calls for a radical transformation of every society on earth—the Great Reset sounds like it is one henchman-with-an-eyepatch away from being the plot for the next James Bond movie.

But the Great Reset is not a work of fiction. It is a highly influential movement among the world's elite to "reset" the global economy using banks, government programs, and environmental, social, and governance metrics. If they are successful and the Great Reset is finalized, it would put substantially more economic and social power in the hands of large corporations,… Read More