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The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebearby Walter Moers, John BrownjohnISBN 1585678449 (1-58567-844-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear'Book summary:"A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen and half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest..." says the narrator of Walter Moer's epic adventure. "...Mine is a tale of mortal danger and eternal love, of hair's breadth, last minute escapes."
Welcome to the fantastic and wondrous world of Zamonia, populated by all manners of extraodinary characters and created by author and illustrator Walter Moers. It's a land of imaginative lunacy and supreme adventure, wicked satire and epic fantasy, all mixed together, turned on its head, and lavishly illustrated. [via]
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7 Years in Tibetby Heinrich HarrerISBN 0708908543 (0-7089-0854-3)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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The Adventures of Tintin: The Blue Lotusby HergeISBN 0867199067 (0-86719-906-7)
Hardcover, Last Gasp of San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tintin: The Blue Lotus'Book summary:Picking up where he left off in the Egyptian adventure Cigars of the Pharaoh, Tintin travels to China in The Blue Lotus, a tale which is generally considered Herge's first masterpiece. It's also Tintin's only foray into actual history, specifically the Sino-Japanese conflicts of the early 1930s. The political tensions combined with the chilling threats of drugs give the story an especially high and realistic sense of danger. Herge's interest in China was spurred by a friendship with a young Chinese student named Chang Chong-chen, a relationship that Tintin mirrors with a Chinese boy also named Chang Chong-chen. Herge paints a vivid picture of China and takes the opportunity to denounce ethnic prejudices (though ironically his artistic depiction of the Japanese businessman Mitsuhirato is quite grotesque). Years later, Tintin's relationship with Chang would become the basis of Tintin in Tibet. --David Horiuchi [via]
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Area 7by Matthew ReillyISBN 0732910854 (0-7329-1085-4)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan Australia
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A Bibliography of Russian Literature and Patents on Loose Abrasive Finishingby L.K. Gillespie, A. P. BabichevISBN 0965607658 (0-9656076-5-8)
Hardcover, Deburring Technology International, Inc.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Bibliography of Russian Literature and Patents on Loose Abrasive Finishing'Book summary:mystery novel [via]
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Call It Courageby Armstrong SperryISBN 0689713916 (0-689-71391-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Call It Courage'Book summary:CALL IT COURAGE
Mafatu's name means "Stout Heart," but his people call him a coward. Ever since the sea took his mother's life and spared his own, he has lived with deep fear. And even though his father is the Great Chief of Hikueru -- an island whose seafaring people worship courage -- he is terrified, and so scorned.
By the time he is fifteen years old, Mafatu can bear it no longer. He must conquer his fear alone...even if it means certain death.
This classic tale of a young boy's hidden strength has been a favorite of readers of all ages since its 1940 publication -- and this handsome new edition preserves its original illustrations in all their beauty. [via] -
The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0812504321 (0-8125-0432-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:Savage struggles and timeless bonds between man, dog, and wilderness are played to their heart-rending extremes. 2 cassettes. [via]
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The Call of the Wild and White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 1593080026 (1-59308-002-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild and White Fang'Book summary:[via]The Call of the Wild and White Fang, by Jack London, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Jack Londons two greatest novels, The Call of the Wild and White Fangoriginally intended as companionsare here compiled in one volume. The Call of the Wild centers on a domesticated dog, Buck, who is kidnapped and sold to Klondike gold hunters. To survive Buck must listen to the Call and learn the ways of his wolf-ancestors, who guide him from within.
White Fang tells the story of a half-wolf, half-dog nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men. Brought to the very brink of his existence, White Fang is lucky enough to experience the one thing that can save himhuman love.
Adventurer and activist, philosopher and alcoholic, Jack London was a man of great contradictions and greater talent. Both of these novels are written in a simple, direct, and powerful style that decades of readers have admired and that writers have imitated.Tina Gianquitto holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Columbia University and currently teaches at The College of the Mines in Colorado.
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The Call of the Wild and White Fangby Scott McKowenISBN 1402714556 (1-4027-1455-6)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild and White Fang'Book summary:The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.[via]
Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.
Two of Jack Londons best-loved masterpieces, in their entirety. Call of the Wild tells a compelling tale of adventure during the Yukon Gold Rush, and fully captures the unquenchable spirit of Buck, a kidnapped dog trying to survive in the harshest of environments. Also set in Alaska, the powerful White Fang follows the often savage life of the magnificent title character, a mix of wolf and dog.More editions of The Call of the Wild and White Fang:
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The Chessmen of Marsby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 1592244912 (1-59224-491-2)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chessmen of Mars'Book summary:1922. After a rambunctious youth and series of short-lived jobs including door-to-door salesman, accountant, a peddler for a quack alcoholism cure and finally pencil sharpener wholesaler, Burroughs found his calling as writer. As the story goes, one of Burroughs' duties was to verify the placement of advertisements for his sharpeners in various magazines. These were all-fiction pulp magazines, a prime source of escapist reading material for the expanding middle class. Burroughs spent time reading those magazines and decided he could write those stories just as well. He was lucky his first time out and sold Under the Moon of Mars. The Tarzan series followed this and Burroughs was now a full-fledged writer. In this volume of the Mars series, Helium, a spoiled princess and John Carter's daughter, rejects Gahan, Jed of Gathol, as a suitor and foolishly flies off into a great storm. Gahan gives chase. By the time he finally catches up to Tara, she has forgotten who he is, and he assumes the name Turjun, a panthan mercenary. Together they challenge the power of O-Tar, Jeddak of Manator, whose barbaric nation of Red Men have preyed upon Gathol for centuries. The Manatorians have elevated Jetan, Martian chess, to an unprecedented level of skill and excitement: they use live chessmen who fight for live princesses. Gahan finds himself fighting for Tara on the chessboard of Manator, and haunting O-Tar's palace. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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The Clan of the Cave Bearby Jean M. AuelISBN 0896214389 (0-89621-438-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clan of the Cave Bear'Book summary:When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.
Although Jean Auel obviously takes certain liberties with the actions and motivations of all our ancestors, her extensive research into the Ice Age does shine through--especially in the detailed knowledge of plants and natural remedies used by the medicine woman and passed down to Ayla. Mostly, though, this first in the series of four is a wonderful story of survival. Ayla's personal evolution is a compelling and relevant tale. --Sara Nickerson [via]
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The Far Side of the Worldby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0754091759 (0-7540-9175-9)
Softcover, Chivers
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The Fortune of Warby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0786219270 (0-7862-1927-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fortune of War'Book summary:Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Royal Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel, but the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephens past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance. [via]
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The Gods of Marsby Edgar Rice Burroughs, Amy Sterling CasilISBN 1587156199 (1-58715-619-9)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gods of Mars'Book summary:Second book in Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars series. [via]
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- The Gods of Mars: ISBN 1576466167 (1-57646-616-7)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub - The Gods of Mars: ISBN 1576465004 (1-57646-500-4)
Hardcover, Quiet Vision Pub - Gods of Mars: ISBN 0957886810 (0-9578868-1-0)
Softcover, Deodand Publishing - The Gods of Mars: ISBN 1587156199 (1-58715-619-9)
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- The Gods of Mars: ISBN 1576466167 (1-57646-616-7)
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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Placesby David Breashears, Jon KrakauerISBN 0684865459 (0-684-86545-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places'Book summary:David Breashears has climbed Mt. Everest four times. For this, he is known as a world-class mountaineer. A lengthy career in documentary filmmaking--including the Imax film, Everest--has earned him wide acclaim and four Emmy awards. For this, he is known as one of the elite cinematographers in his field. But his new autobiography, High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Other High Places, proves he is more than a climber and a filmmaker; he is also an able writer.
Breashears has no lack of good material. We follow him through the stunning backdrops of Yosemite, Europe, Nepal, and Tibet, brushing up against triumphs and tragedies along the way. And while the nuts and bolts of his adventures are entertainment enough, his knack for building suspense and employing understated drama makes his autobiography read like a novel: "The morning was sunny and calm, and Rob looked as though he'd lain down on his side and fallen asleep. Around him the undisturbed snow sparkled in the sun. I stared at his bare left hand ... I wondered what a mountaineer with Rob's experience was doing without a glove."
Breashears also likes to remind his audience of humble beginnings surmounted: his early climbing days when he was known as "the kid," and a winter he spent sleeping under a sheet of plywood during the Wyoming oil boom when he was called "the worm." But mostly he documents his filmmaking career and climbing passion, both of which he approaches with an obsessive fervor. Readers interested in either pursuit will find High Exposure a fascinating traverse across the spine of the world. --Ben Tiffany [via]
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas Adams, Steve Leialoha, John CarnellISBN 1563892715 (1-56389-271-5)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:How shall we begin?
This is the story of a book called The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxynot an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.
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This is the story of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to be a television spectacle on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
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This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, secnds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, with the words dont panic written on the front. ( A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. )
In their travels they meet:
"Zaphod Beeblebroxthe two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch President of the Galaxy
"TrillianZaphods girl friend, formerly Tricia McMillan, whom Arthur once tried to pick up at a cocktail party
"Marvina paranoid android, a brilliant but chronically depressed robot
"Veet Voojagigformer graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years
To find the answers to these burning questions: Why are we born? Why do we die? And why do we spend so much time in between wearing digital watches? read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. But remember . . . dont panic, and dont forget to bring a towel. [via]More editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
The Ice Masterby Jennifer NivenISBN 0786884460 (0-7868-8446-0)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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The Incredible Journeyby Sheila BurnfordISBN 0881032301 (0-88103-230-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Joseph Conrad's Lord Jimby Harold BloomISBN 155546016X (1-55546-016-X)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Land of Black Goldby HergeISBN 0828850488 (0-8288-5048-8)
Hardcover, French & European Pubns
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemanby Alan Moore, Kevin O'NeillISBN 1401201180 (1-4012-0118-0)
Softcover, DC Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'Book summary:Alan Moore and Kevin ONeills epic Victorian adventure continues in grand fashion as our intrepid band of heroesMina Murray, Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Mr. Edward Hyde, Dr. Thomas Jekyll and the Invisible Man (a.k.a. Hawley Griffin)once again must face a most dire threatbut this time its not just the fate of an empire that hangs in the balance, but that of the entire world! The first volume contains the thrilling graphic novel, complete with the Almanac of fantastic places, and the second contains Alan Moores entire script for the graphic novel, a rare and wonderful treat for any fan of sequential storytelling. This two-volume hardcover set is enclosed within an attractive slipcase. [via]
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemenby Kevin O'Neill, Alan MooreISBN 1563898586 (1-56389-858-6)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'Book summary:The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume II finds cocreators Alan Moore (writer) and Kevin O'Neill (artist) back on familiar ground, revisiting the classic Victorian-era characters that they used to such effect in the bestselling and rightfully acclaimed first volume. It's a superhero tale, but--as expected from Moore--a rather unconventional one. This League is drawn from some of the classic characters from English literature: Alan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Hawley Griffin (the Invisible Man), Mr Hyde and Miss Mina Murray (formerly Harker, the heroine of Dracula). And this tale is taken directly from HG Wells' classic War of the Worlds, as Martian invaders (complete with tripods and heat rays) begin to land in England, bent on conquest. They seem unstoppable as they rage across the countryside towards London, but they hadn't counted on the League, or the eccentric genius of Dr Alphonse Moreau.
As with the first League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it's the meticulous sense of era and place that makes volume II a success. The minutia of Victorian England is set seamlessly alongside objects and ideas that never appeared outside of myth and legend, while references to other famous fictional characters and events are casually introduced, then quickly tossed aside. And, of course, it's a ripping yarn, in the classic Boys' Own style (right down to the cliff hanger-style, end of chapter narrations). However, unlike volume I, there are several scenes that aren't suitable for all readers (particularly "those of a delicate disposition"). It's almost as if Moore and O'Neill, anticipating the heightened interest that 2003's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film would bring, have willingly set out to shock and even alienate newer readers. So there's a fairly explicit sex scene, some rather brutal violence and, perhaps most unnerving, it's almost inevitable that no reader will ever look at Rupert the Bear in the same way again. --Robert Burrow [via]
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Lord Jimby Joseph ConradISBN 1419131214 (1-4191-3121-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim'Book summary:One of Joseph Conrad's greatest novels, Lord Jim brilliantly combines adventure and analysis. Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemnation by a Court of Inquiry. In the wake of his disgrace he travels to the exotic region of Patusan, and as the agent at this remote trading post comes to be revered as 'Tuan Jim.' Here he finds a measure of serenity and respect within himself. However, when a gang of thieves arrives on the island, the memory of his earlier disgrace comes again to the fore, and his relationship with the people of the island is jeopardized. This new Broadview edition is based on the first British edition of 1900, which provides the historical basis for the accompanying critical and contextual discussions. The appendices include a wide variety of Conrad's source material, documents concerning the scandal of the Jeddah, along with other materials such as a substantial selection of early critical comments. [via]
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- Lord Jim: ISBN 1551111721 (1-55111-172-1)
Softcover, Broadview Pr - Lord Jim: ISBN 1557425043 (1-55742-504-3)
Softcover, Wildside Pr - Lord Jim: ISBN 1593080840 (1-59308-084-0)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Lord Jim: ISBN 141771543X (1-4177-1543-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Lord Jim: ISBN 1557425124 (1-55742-512-4)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - Lord Jim: ISBN 1592246443 (1-59224-644-3)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - Lord Jim: ISBN 157840066X (1-57840-066-X)
Softcover, Acclaim Books - Lord Jim: ISBN 080490054X (0-8049-0054-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Lord Jim: ISBN 0808519301 (0-8085-1930-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Lord Jim: ISBN 0837604095 (0-8376-0409-5)
Hardcover, Bentley Pub - Lord Jim: ISBN 1419131214 (1-4191-3121-4)
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- Lord Jim: ISBN 1551111721 (1-55111-172-1)
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The Master of Ballantraeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 1417901160 (1-4179-0116-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master of Ballantrae'Book summary:collectible book from the Victorian Era [via]
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- The Master of Ballantrae: ISBN 1404317864 (1-4043-1786-4)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com - The Master of Ballantrae: ISBN 157840049X (1-57840-049-X)
Softcover, Acclaim Books - The Master of Ballantrae: ISBN 0804900477 (0-8049-0047-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The Master of Ballantrae: ISBN 0862414059 (0-86241-405-9)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd - The Master of Ballantrae: ISBN 0895776294 (0-89577-629-4)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association - The Master of Ballantrae: ISBN 1417901160 (1-4179-0116-0)
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- The Master of Ballantrae: ISBN 1404317864 (1-4043-1786-4)
Michael Strogoffby Jules VerneISBN 142182440X (1-4218-2440-X)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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- Michel Strogoff: ISBN 0685371352 (0-685-37135-2)
Softcover, French & European Pubns - Michael Strogoff: ISBN 0804900485 (0-8049-0048-5)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Michael Strogoff: ISBN 0689810970 (0-689-81097-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Michael Strogoff: ISBN 0689810962 (0-689-81096-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Michael Strogoff: ISBN 142182440X (1-4218-2440-X)
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- Michel Strogoff: ISBN 0685371352 (0-685-37135-2)
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The Old Man and the Seaby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684801221 (0-684-80122-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Man and the Sea'Book summary:Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work: "The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords." Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame:
Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: "The old man was dreaming about the lions." Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career. --James Marcus [via]More editions of The Old Man and the Sea:
- The Old Man and the Sea: ISBN 0684830493 (0-684-83049-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Old Man and the Sea: ISBN 0808519328 (0-8085-1932-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Old Man and the Sea: ISBN 0684718057 (0-684-71805-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Old Man and the Sea: ISBN 0684182270 (0-684-18227-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Old Man and the Sea: ISBN 0684801221 (0-684-80122-1)
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- The Old Man and the Sea: ISBN 0684830493 (0-684-83049-3)
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The Old Man And the Seaby HemingwayISBN 0684163268 (0-684-16326-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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On the Roadby Jack KerouacISBN 0899661343 (0-89966-134-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Road'Book summary:On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture. [via]
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Peter Duckby Arthur RansomeISBN 0879236604 (0-87923-660-4)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Duck'Book summary:The third book in Arthur Ransome's wonderful series for children, Peter Duck takes intrepid explorers John, Susan, Titty, and Roger Walker and fearsome Amazon pirates Nancy and Peggy Blackett onto the high seas. Under the command of the infamous Captain Flint (Nancy and Peggy's Uncle Jim), the children brave a real-life pirate and his cutthroat crew, fogy, sharks, and the ravenous crabs of Crab Island in the search of buried treasure. [via]
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Piratesby Celia ReesISBN 1582346658 (1-58234-665-8)
Softcover, Bloomsbury USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pirates'Book summary:Pirates! is a classy and welcome addition to Celia Rees's successful oeuvre, that of novels with a historical background, such as the phenomenally bestselling Witch Child and Sorceress. Swashbuckling in the tradition of every pirate tale, from Treasure Island to Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirates! is truly gripping from first page to last and never fails to be totally entertaining throughout.
Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharp are two young women from very different backgrounds who, in time, become united in a common, pirating cause. Nancy, the daughter of a successful Bristol ship owner, had her life all planned out. She lived in comfort and hoped to marry her childhood sweetheart William. But disaster strikes and she is aghast to experience her circumstances turning upside down when her father dies. Soon she finds herself shipped out to land they own in the West Indies to marry for the good of the remaining family.
Minerva is part of the staff at her new plantation home and they immediately become friends--despite the delicate nature of their differing positions as merchant's daughter and slave. But Minerva has complications of her own--particularly from an abusive overseer. Nancy is eventually driven to murder him, and together they become fugitives. Joining a pirate ship comes naturally to both of them and a wild, wild life of seafaring and adventure begins.
With detailed research that leaps from every page, Rees's narrative is atmospheric but never heavy. She moves the story along at a jaunty pace, making it impossible for the reader to get bogged down. Rich and exciting, Pirates! is another triumph and unlikely to be bested by another pirate novel for some years to come. (Recommended for ages 12 and over.) --John McLay [via]
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Red Storm Risingby Tom ClancyISBN 0896218856 (0-89621-885-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Storm Rising'Book summary:Using the latest advancements in military technology, the world's superpowers battle it out on land, sea, and air for the ultimate global control. A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as powerful as it is ambitious. It's a story you will never forget.
Hard-hitting, suspenseful, and frighteningly real.
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Sailing Alone Around the Worldby Joshua SlocumISBN 1419145800 (1-4191-4580-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sailing Alone Around the World'Book summary:In the fair land of Nova Scotia, a maritime province, there is a ridge called North Mountain, overlooking the Bay of Fundy on one side and the fertile Annapolis valley on the other. On the northern slope of the range grows the hardy spruce-tree, well adapted for ship-timbers, of which many vessels of all classes have been built. [via]
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Softcover, Bibliobazaar - Sailing Alone Around the World: ISBN 1589760883 (1-58976-088-3)
Softcover, Narrative Pr - Sailing Alone Around the World: ISBN 1593083033 (1-59308-303-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Sailing Alone Around the World: ISBN 1590302664 (1-59030-266-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Sailing Alone Around the World: ISBN 1570624984 (1-57062-498-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Sailing Alone Around the World: ISBN 0713679352 (0-7136-7935-2)
Softcover, Adlard Coles Nautical - Sailing Alone Around the World: ISBN 0967482607 (0-9674826-0-7)
Hardcover, David Brown Book Co - Sailing Alone Around the World: ISBN 071366777X (0-7136-6777-X)
Softcover, Adlard Coles Nautical - Sailing Alone Around the World: ISBN 0792265564 (0-7922-6556-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Sailing Alone Around the World: ISBN 0870215825 (0-87021-582-5)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr - Sailing Alone Around the World: ISBN 1419145800 (1-4191-4580-0)
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Sailing Alone Around the World and Voyage of the Liberdadeby Joshua SlocumISBN 0911378200 (0-911378-20-0)
Hardcover, Sheridan House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sailing Alone Around the World and Voyage of the Liberdade'Book summary:Captain Joshua Slocum's solo voyage around the world in the 37-foot sloop the Spray in 1895 undoubtedly stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. His classic narrative of this 46,000 mile circumnavigation of the globe continues to enjoy immense popularity throughout the world. [via]
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Seven Years in Tibetby Heinrich Harrer, Dalai Lama XIVISBN 0874778883 (0-87477-888-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Years in Tibet'Book summary:In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as one of the first Europeans ever to enter Tibet. Harrer was traveling in India when the Second World War erupted. He was subsequently seized and imprisoned by British authorities. After several attempts, he escaped and crossed the rugged, frozen Himalayas, surviving by duping government officials and depending on the generosity of villagers for food and shelter. Harrer finally reached his ultimate destination-the Forbidden City of Lhasa-without money, or permission to be in Tibet. But Tibetan hospitality and his own curious appearance worked in Harrer?s favor, allowing him unprecedented acceptance among the upper classes. His intelligence and European ways also intrigued the young Dalai Lama, and Harrer soon became His Holiness?s tutor and trusted confidant. When the Chinese invaded Tibet in 1950, Harrer and the Dalai Lama fled the country together. This timeless story illuminates Eastern culture, as well as the childhood of His Holiness and the current plight of Tibetans. It is a must-read for lovers of travel, adventure, history, and culture. A motion picture, under the direction of Jean-Jacques Annaud, will feature Brad Pitt in the lead role of Heinrich Harrer. [via]
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 1417716908 (1-4177-1690-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silmarillion'Book summary:Although The Silmarillion takes place in the same imaginary world as J.J.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and was originally published four years after the author's death and over two decades after the former book, it is set much earlier, in the First Age of the World. The tales and the book which reads as a fusion between a story collection and historical chronicle, are a matter of legend even to the characters of The Lord of the Rings:
In the beginning Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Ilúvatar, made the Ainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him
Tolkien wrote the heart of this material very early in his career, and continued to work on it throughout his life. It fell to his son, Christopher Tolkien, to edit it into book form, and such proved the unquenchable public appetite that he subsequently oversaw 12 volumes of The History of Middle-Earth. This edition features 20 highly evocative colour plates by Ted Nasmith, themselves worth the price of admission, while reinforcing the sense of a historical work are genealogical tables, an extensive index, appendix and colour map. Far removed from the genial style of The Hobbit, this is Tolkien at his most formal, his prose austere, poetically beautiful, his storytelling capturing the epic scale, high drama and melancholy wonder of myth. These stories of elves and heroes and old gods are quite literally the foundation of the entire modern fantasy-publishing revival, and are therefore essential reading. --Gary S. Dalkin [via] -
The Thirteen Gun Saluteby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0786219378 (0-7862-1937-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thirteen Gun Salute'Book summary:"In length the series is unique; in qualityand there is not a weak link in the chainit cannot but be ranked with the best of twentieth century historical novels."T. J. Binyon, Independent
Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploits as a privateer, brilliantly chronicled in The Letter of Marque. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturinhis friend, ship's surgeon, and sometimes intelligence agenton a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes which would put English merchant shipping at risk.
The journey of the Diane encompasses a great and satisfying diversity of adventures. Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans; a killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef; and in the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds: the French envoys, well entrenched in the Sultan's good graces, against the savage cunning of Stephen Maturin. [via]More editions of The Thirteen Gun Salute:
A Walk Across Americaby Peter JenkinsISBN 0688034276 (0-688-03427-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Warlord of Marsby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 159194063X (1-59194-063-X)
Softcover, Cosimo Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Warlord of Mars'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In the shadows of the forest that flanks the crimson plain by the side of the Lost Sea of Korus in the Valley Dor, beneath the hurtling moons of Mars, speeding their meteoric way close above the bosom of the dying planet, I crept stealthily along the trail of a shadowy form that hugged the darker places with a persistency that proclaimed the sinister nature of its errand. For six long Martian months I had haunted the vicinity of the hateful Temple of the Sun, within whose slow-revolving shaft, far beneath the surface of Mars, my princess lay entombed - but whether alive or dead I knew not. Had Phaidor's slim blade found that beloved heart? Time only would reveal the truth. Six hundred and eighty-seven Martian days must come and go before the cell's door would again come opposite the tunnel's end where last I had seen my ever-beautiful Dejah Thoris. [via]
The Whipping Boyby Sid Fleischman, Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress), Peter SisISBN 0688062164 (0-688-06216-4)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Whipping Boy'Book summary:For kids to get their dose of action and thrills, they need not always go to the local multiplex for the latest bang 'em up film. They could try such books as The Whipping Boy, which relies not on exploding spaceships and demonic robots but mythic story, humorous characters and, ready or not, a moral. The plot involves the orphan Jemmy, who must take the whippings for the royal heir, Prince Brat. Jemmy plans to flee this arrangement until Prince Brat beats him to it, and takes Jemmy along. Jemmy then hears he's charged with the Prince's abduction as this Newbery Medal winning book turns toward a surprising close. [via]
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White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 1566195500 (1-56619-550-0)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Imports
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Fang'Book summary:The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adventure stories featuring the author's unique knowledge of the Yukon and the behavior of humans and animals facing nature at its cruelest. [via]
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White Fang and The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0765198797 (0-7651-9879-7)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Fang and The Call of the Wild'Book summary:The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adventure stories featuring the author's unique knowledge of the Yukon and the behavior of humans and animals facing nature at its cruelest. [via]
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The Wine Dark Seaby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0786201339 (0-7862-0133-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wine Dark Sea'Book summary:In this installment of O'Brian's maritime epic, Captain Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise are pursuing an American privateer through the Great South Sea. As is his custom, O'Brian grabs your attention with the first, beautifully memorable sentence: "A purple ocean, vast under the sky and devoid of all visible life apart from two minute ships racing across its immensity." And he doesn't relinquish it until 260 pages later, by which point Jack Aubrey is delighted at the mere fact of being alive. [via]
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El Clan Del Oso Cavernarioby Jean M. AuelISBN 0743233581 (0-7432-3358-1)
Softcover, Fireside
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Clan Del Oso Cavernario'Book summary:Esta novela de gran vigor y asombrosa belleza es una conmovedora saga acerca de los seres humanos, sus relaciones y los límites del amor. A través de la magnifica narrativa de Jean M. Auel, regresamos a los albores de la civilización moderna, y en compañía de una nina Ilamada Ayla, penetramos en la cruda y a la vez hermosa Edad de Hielo y en el mundo que los hombres y mujeres de esa época compartieron con quienes se Ilamaban a si mismos, el Clan del oso cavernario. Un desastre natural deja a la niña errando sola por una tierra desconocida y peligrosa, hasta que la encuentra una mujer que pertenece al Clan, un grupo de gente muy distinta de la suya. A medida que Ayla aprende acerca del modo de vida del Clan y sobre los métodos curativos de Iza, la mayoría acaba por aceptarla y hasta Iza y Creb, el viejo Mog-ur, llegan a quererla. Es el brutal y orgulloso joven, destinado a ser su próximo líder, quien percibe en su manera de ser diferente, una amenaza en contra de su autoridad. Entonces, desarrolla hacia la extraña chica que vive entre ellos y que pertenece a los Otros, un odio constante y profundo, y está decidido a vengarse. [via]
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