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Harper, New York. 2nd paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, spine creasing.

Condition: Near fine advance uncorrected proof, for review purposes. Softcover.A novel by the author of The Commitments continues to trace the up and down life of the Rabbitte family in working class Dublin.

Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket, light corner bumps and spine nicks, dust jacket has light edge wear, scuffing from price sticker removal. This is a large book and will require additional postage.In this stunningly illustrated volume, art historian Frank Milner introduces 60 of Van Gogh's most characteristic works.

Berkley, New York, 1983. First paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge and corner wear, light wrinkling at spine ends, very small nick at bottom edge, light age toning to inside pages.The Eternal Champion. The Gateway. Elric, cursed and beloved of the Gods, follows his black hellblade Stormbringer into the Vanishing Tower, gateway to the myriad planes of Earth and Time - and to the countless hells that are his destiny.

Condition: NewThe lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine.

Random House, Toronto, 1996. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Clear acetate dust jacket slight edge wear and scuffing.From the publisher: For over forty years, Leonard Cohen endured the ups and downs of an international career that alternately identified him as the 'Prince of Bummers' and Canada's best known and most respected poet and performer.Given access to Cohen's private archive of unpublished letters, journals, notebooks, songs, and other writings, and incorporating interviews with Cohen and his closest friends and colleagues, Ira Nadel gives us a meticulously detailed and insightful portrait of this singular artist.

St Martin's, New York, 2014. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Light edge wear and creasing on spine and along top edge, price sticker on rear cover.1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague—and the Turkish Sultan has his revenge. But the ship also holds a secret stowaway—Feyra, a young and beautiful harem doctor fleeing a future as the Sultan's concubine. Only her wits and medical knowledge keep her alive as the plague ravages Venice. In despair the Doge commissions the architect Andrea Palladio to build the greatest church of his career—an offering to God so magnificent that Venice will be saved. But Palladio's own life is in danger too, and it will require all skills of medico Annibale… Read More

Vintage, New York. 2nd trade paperback printing. Condition: Good plus, edge wear and corner bumps, light nicks at edges and spine.Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East.

Little Brown & Co. Boston, 2000. Advance uncorrected proof. Condition: Very good minus, fading on the front cover, eight edge wear, light corner creases.From the publisher: Acompelling blend of science, history, politics, and biblical scholarship that explains how modern archaeology is challenging our understanding of the Bible and its accounts of ancient history, and reformulating the politics of the middle east.

Penguin, New York. 16th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge and corner wear, small crease at bottom front corner.First published in 1975, this book has established itself as an authentic source for those interested in Gurdjieff's ideas and his approach to practical "work on oneself". Recollections by his pupils of talks Gurdjieff gave in Moscow, Essentuki, Tiflis,Berlin, London, Paris, Chicago, and New York.

Bantam, New York. 20th paperback printing, signed by the author. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light spine creasing.Signed by Gibson on the title page.Berry Rydell, an ex-cop, signs on with IntenSecure Armed Response in Los Angeles. He finds himself on a collision course that results in a desperate romance, and a journey into the ecstasy and dread that mirror each other at the heart of the postmodern experience.

Penguin, New York, 1991. First trade paperback printing in this edition. Condition: Good plus, edge and corner wear, nicks and creasing at spine, price sticker on rear cover.Unique among Jack Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerard focuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood—the wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, evil, insight, suffering, delight, and shock—as they were revealed in the short tragic-happy life of his saintly brother, Gerard. Set in Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, it is an unsettling, beautiful, and sad exploration of the meaning and precariousness of existence.

McGraw, New York, c. 1990. 2nd trade paperback printing of the 2nd edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.Written before On The Road, this novel finds Kerouac finding his voice. Visions of Cody is a sprawling hymn to the America of rail yards, diners, highways, bars, and flophouses as experienced by Jack Duluoz, the narrator, and his restless fellow pilgrim Cody Pomeroy - barely disguised versions of Kerouac and Neal Cassady.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2007. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge crease. Signed and limited edition:number 182 of 500.Not sine the Odyssey by the Greek Poet Homer has there been such a rousing adventure on the high seas, not since the celebrated comic book and movie 300 such noble torsoes and dashing deeds, not since Scarlet O'Hara such an intrepid heroine as the Trojan princess and pythoness Cassandra. Abducted from her ravaged homeland by the cruel warlord Agamemnon, Cassandra needs all her beauty and guile to survive the perils of the Aegean Sea, but she is able to do so with the help of a modern-day Ulysses - the Author Himself, an aged writer transported back into an Age of Pagan Rites!

Grove Press, Black Cat Book B-133, New York, 1981. 13th paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light crease at rear cover.The winner of the Prix des Critiques from the French avant-garde author of Jealousy.Mathias, a timorous, ineffectual traveling salesman, returns to the island of his birth after a long absence. Two days later, a thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned and mutilated. With eerie precision, Robbe-Grillet puts us at the scene of the crime and takes us inside Mathias's mind, artfully enlisting us as detective hot on the trail of a homicidal maniac. A triumphant display of the techniques of the "new novel," The Voyeur achieves the impossible feat of keeping us utterly engrossed in the mystery of the child's murder while systematically raising doubts about whether it really occurred.