books tagged “Eccentrics”

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  American Traveler: The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man Who Dreamed of Walking the World
  by James Zug
  Hardcover, Basic Books, ISBN 0465094058 (0-465-09405-8)
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  AMOK Journal : Senssurround Edition, a Compendium of Physio-Psychological Investigations
  by Stuart Swezey
  Hardcover, Amok Books, ISBN 187892303X (1-878923-03-X)
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  The Aztec Treasure House: Selected Essays
  by Evan S. Connell
  Softcover, Counterpoint, ISBN 1582432538 (1-58243-253-8)

  More editions of The Aztec Treasure House: Selected Essays:

  • The Aztec Treasure House: Selected Essays: Hardcover, Counterpoint, ISBN 1582431620 (1-58243-162-0)
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  Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World
  by Paul Collins
  Softcover, St Martins Pr, ISBN 0312300336 (0-312-30033-6)
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  Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck
  by Paul Collins
  Hardcover, St Martins Pr, ISBN 0312268866 (0-312-26886-6)
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  Beckford Of Fonthill
  by Brian Fothergill
  Softcover, Trafalgar Square, ISBN 1845880854 (1-84588-085-4)
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  Bizarre Books
  by Russell Ash, Brian Lake
  Softcover, Trafalgar Square, ISBN 186205102X (1-86205-102-X)
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  Black Bart Boulevardier Bandit: The Saga of California's Most Mysterious Stagecoach Robber and the Men Who Sought to Capture Him
  by George Hoeper
  Softcover, Word Dancer Press, ISBN 1884995055 (1-884995-05-5)
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  The Book of Snobs
  by William Makepeace Thackeray
  Hardcover, Konemann, ISBN 3829031025 (3-8290-3102-5)
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  Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics: An A-Z of Roguish Britons Through the Ages
  by William Donaldson
  Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited, ISBN 0753817918 (0-7538-1791-8)

  More editions of Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics: An A-Z of Roguish Britons Through the Ages:

  • Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics: An A-Z of Roguish Britons Through the Ages: Hardcover, Cassell P L C, ISBN 0304357286 (0-304-35728-6)
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  The British Eccentric
  by Elizabeth Drury, Harriet Bridgeman
  Hardcover, ISBN 0517524996 (0-517-52499-6)
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  A Budget of Paradoxes
  by Augustus De Morgan
  Softcover, Hesperides Pr, ISBN 140672243X (1-4067-2243-X)
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  Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
  by Tony Horwitz
  Softcover, Random House Inc, ISBN 067975833X (0-679-75833-X)

  More editions of Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War:

  • Confederates in the Attic : Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War: Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group, ISBN 0679439781 (0-679-43978-1)
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  Conspiracies, Cover-Ups and Crimes
  by Jonathan Vankin
  Softcover, Illuminet Pr, ISBN 1881532097 (1-881532-09-7)
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  Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions
  by John Michell
  Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, ISBN 1579122280 (1-57912-228-0)

  More editions of Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions:

  • Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions: Softcover, Adventures Unlimited Pr, ISBN 0932813674 (0-932813-67-4)
  • Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions: Softcover, Carol Pub Group, ISBN 0806510315 (0-8065-1031-5)
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  Eccentrics
  by David Weeks, Jamie Weeks
  Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing, ISBN 0517195062 (0-517-19506-2)
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  Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness
  by David Weeks, Jamie James
  Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc, ISBN 1568361564 (1-56836-156-4)

  More editions of Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness:

  • Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness: Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group, ISBN 0394565657 (0-394-56565-7)
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  Eccentrics and Villains, Hauntings and Heroes: Tales from Four Shires Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & Hertfordshire
  by John C. Houghton
  Softcover, Book Castle, ISBN 1871199379 (1-871199-37-9)
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  El Mundo Segun Garp / The World According to Garp
  by John Irving
  Softcover, Ediciones Urano, ISBN 847223746X (84-7223-746-X)
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  Emperor of USA and Other Magnificent Eccentrics
  by Catherine Caufield
  Hardcover, St Martins Pr, ISBN 0312244398 (0-312-24439-8)
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  The English Eccentrics
  by Edith Sitwell, Richard Ingrams
  Softcover, Pallas Athene Pub, ISBN 1873429738 (1-873429-73-8)
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  First Cuckoo: Letters to the Times, 1900-1980
  by Kenneth Gregory, Bernard Levin
  Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited, ISBN 0048080403 (0-04-808040-3)

  More editions of First Cuckoo: Letters to the Times, 1900-1980:

  • The First Cuckoo: A Selection of the Most Witty, Amusing and Memorable Letters to The Times, 1900-1975: Hardcover, Times Books : Allen and Unwin, ISBN 004808025X (0-04-808025-X)
  • First Cuckoo: Letters to the Times, 1900-1980: Hardcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0048080314 (0-04-808031-4)
  • The Second Cuckoo: A Further Selection of Witty, Amusing, and Memorable Letters to The Times: Hardcover, G. Allen & Unwin, ISBN 0048080365 (0-04-808036-5)
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  Frontier Lawmen
  by Lee Paul
  Softcover, Jona Books, ISBN 0965792951 (0-9657929-5-1)
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  The Ghost of Scootertrash Past
  by Mark Tiger Edmonds
  Softcover, Livingston Pr, ISBN 193198204X (1-931982-04-X)
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  Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders An Urban Historical
  by Franz Lidz
  Hardcover, St Martins Pr, ISBN 158234311X (1-58234-311-X)
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  The Glass Castle: A Memoir
  by Jeannette Walls
  Softcover, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 074324754X (0-7432-4754-X)

  More editions of The Glass Castle: A Memoir:

  • The Glass Castle: A Memoir: Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0743247531 (0-7432-4753-1)
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  Gods, Mongrels, and Demons: 101 Brief but Essential Lives
  by Angus Calder
  Hardcover, St Martins Pr, ISBN 1582344310 (1-58234-431-0)
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  Great Sporting Eccentrics: Weird and Wonderful Characters from the World of Sport
  by Geoff Tibballs
  Softcover, Hushion House Publishing, Limited, ISBN 1861051956 (1-86105-195-6)

  More editions of Great Sporting Eccentrics: Weird and Wonderful Characters from the World of Sport:

  • Great Sporting Eccentrics: Weird and Wonderful Characters from the World of Sport: Hardcover, Parkwest Pubns, ISBN 1861051220 (1-86105-122-0)
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  Holding on: Dreamers, Visionaries, Eccentrics, and Other American Heroes
  by Harvey Wang, David Isay
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc, ISBN 0393037541 (0-393-03754-1)
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  Irish Eccentrics: A Selection
  by Peter Somerville-Large
  Softcover, Lilliput Pr Ltd, ISBN 094664067X (0-946640-67-X)
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  Jay's Journal of Anomalies: Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxters, Pranksters, Jokesters, Impostors, Pretenders, Sideshow Showmen, Armless Calligraphers, Mechanical Marvels
  by Ricky Jay
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc, ISBN 1593720009 (1-59372-000-9)
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  Joe Gould's Secret
  by Joseph Mitchell
  Softcover, Random House Inc, ISBN 0375708049 (0-375-70804-9)

  More editions of Joe Gould's Secret:

  • Joe Gould's Secret: Hardcover, Random House Inc, ISBN 0679601848 (0-679-60184-8)
  • Joe Gould's Secret: Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group, ISBN 0679602585 (0-679-60258-5)
  • Joe Gould's Secret: Hardcover, Random House Inc, ISBN 0679603395 (0-679-60339-5)
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  Kooks: A Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Belief
  by Donna Kossy
  Softcover, Feral House, ISBN 0922915679 (0-922915-67-9)
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  Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women
  by Ricky Jay
  Softcover, Grand Central Publishing, ISBN 0446385905 (0-446-38590-5)

  More editions of Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women:

  • Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women: Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0374525706 (0-374-52570-6)
  • Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women: Hardcover, Random House Value Pub, ISBN 0394537505 (0-394-53750-5)
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  Legendary Connecticut/Traditional Tales from the Nutmeg State
  by David E. Philips
  Softcover, Curbstone Pr, ISBN 1880684055 (1-880684-05-5)
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  Magnificent Obsessions: Twenty Remarkable Collectors in Pursuit of Their Dreams
  by Mitch Tuchman, Peter Brenner
  Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc, ISBN 0811803600 (0-8118-0360-0)
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  The Mammoth Book of Oddballs and Eccentrics
  by Karl Shaw
  Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub, ISBN 0786707240 (0-7867-0724-0)
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  Masters of Atlantis
  by Charles Portis
  Softcover, Overlook Pr, ISBN 1585670219 (1-58567-021-9)
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  Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime
  by Francois Eugene Vidocq, Eugene Francois Vidocq
  Softcover, A K Pr Distribution, ISBN 1902593715 (1-902593-71-5)
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  My House, My Paradise: The Construction of the Ideal Domestic Universe
  by Gustau Gili Galfetti, Gustav Gili
  Hardcover, Gingko Pr Inc, ISBN 1584230150 (1-58423-015-0)
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  Not Even Wrong: A Father's Journey Into The Lost History Of Autism
  by Paul Collins
  Softcover, St Martins Pr, ISBN 1582344787 (1-58234-478-7)
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  Odd and Eccentric People
  by Time-Life Books
  Hardcover, Grand Central Pub, ISBN 0809477238 (0-8094-7723-8)
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  The Orchid Thief
  by Susan Orlean
  Softcover, Ballantine Books, ISBN 044900371X (0-449-00371-X)

  More editions of The Orchid Thief:

  • The Orchid Thief: Hardcover, Bt Bound, ISBN 0613280091 (0-613-28009-1)
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  The Orchid Thief : A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
  by Susan Orlean
  Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group, ISBN 0679447393 (0-679-44739-3)
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  Ordinary Jack
  by Helen Cresswell
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA, ISBN 0140311769 (0-14-031176-9)

  More editions of Ordinary Jack:

  • Ordinary Jack: Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &, ISBN 0027255409 (0-02-725540-9)
  • Ordinary Jack: Hardcover, Faber, ISBN 0571111149 (0-571-11114-9)
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  The Professor and the Madman
  by Simon Winchester
  Softcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0061030228 (0-06-103022-8)
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  Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
  by Simon Winchester
  Softcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0060839783 (0-06-083978-3)

  More editions of Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary:

  • Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary: Softcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 006099486X (0-06-099486-X)
  • Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary: Hardcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0060175966 (0-06-017596-6)
  • Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary: Hardcover, Thorndike Pr, ISBN 0783885008 (0-7838-8500-8)
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  Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Planet Eccentric!
  by Not Available
  Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services, ISBN 1893951103 (1-893951-10-3)
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  Ritualist on a Tricycle: Frederick Goldsmith, Church, Nationalism and Society in Western Australia 1880-1920
  by Colin Holden
  Hardcover, Univ of Western Australia Pr, ISBN 187556098X (1-875560-98-X)
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  Roadside America
  by Jack Barth
  Softcover, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0671606883 (0-671-60688-3)
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  Rodinsky's Room
  by Iain Sinclair, Rachel Lichtenstein
  Softcover, Trafalgar Square, ISBN 1862073295 (1-86207-329-5)

  More editions of Rodinsky's Room:

  • Rodinsky's Room: Hardcover, Granta Books, ISBN 1862072574 (1-86207-257-4)
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  Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
  by Paul Collins
  Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN 1582344043 (1-58234-404-3)
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  Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen
  by Clifford A. Pickover
  Softcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0688168949 (0-688-16894-9)

  More editions of Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen:

  • Strange Brains and Genius : The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen: Hardcover, Plenum Publishing Company Limited, ISBN 0306457849 (0-306-45784-9)
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  The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
  by Simon Winchester
  Softcover, Penguin, ISBN 0140271287 (0-14-027128-7)
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  Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1776-1847: A Bibliography
  by John Windle, Karma Pippin
  Hardcover, Oak Knoll Pr, ISBN 1884718663 (1-884718-66-3)
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  To Have and to Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting
  by Philipp Blom
  Softcover, Overlook Pr, ISBN 158567561X (1-58567-561-X)

  More editions of To Have and to Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting:

  • To Have and to Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting: Hardcover, Overlook Press, The, ISBN 1585673773 (1-58567-377-3)
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  The Towers of Trebizond
  by Rose Macaulay, Jan Morris
  Softcover, Random House Inc, ISBN 159017058X (1-59017-058-X)
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  Travels With My Aunt
  by Graham Greene
  Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books, ISBN 1850890366 (1-85089-036-6)
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  Up in the Old Hotel
  by Joseph Mitchell
  Softcover, Vintage Books, ISBN 0679746315 (0-679-74631-5)

  More editions of Up in the Old Hotel:

  • Up in the Old Hotel: Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group, ISBN 0679412638 (0-679-41263-8)
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  Who Got Einstein's Office: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study
  by Edward Regis
  Softcover, Perseus Books Group, ISBN 0201122782 (0-201-12278-2)

  More editions of Who Got Einstein's Office: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study:

  • Who Got Einstein's Office: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study: Hardcover, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201120658 (0-201-12065-8)
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  Wild Wheels
  by Harrod Blank
  Softcover, Pomegranate, ISBN 1566409810 (1-56640-981-0)

  More editions of Wild Wheels:

  • Wild Wheels: Hardcover, Pomegranate, ISBN 1566404533 (1-56640-453-3)
  • Wild Wheels: Softcover, Blank Books, ISBN 093362168X (0-933621-68-X)
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  Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
  by Stefan Fatsis
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA, ISBN 0142002267 (0-14-200226-7)

  More editions of Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players:

  • Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players: Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company, ISBN 0618015841 (0-618-01584-1)
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  Yo Necesito Amor
  by Klaus Kinski
  Softcover, Ediciones Urano, ISBN 8472239160 (84-7223-916-0)

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  La Conjura De Los Necios
  by T.j. Kennedy
  Softcover, Ld Books Inc, ISBN 8433920421 (84-339-2042-1)
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  La Conjura De Los Necios/a Confederacy of Dunces
  by John Kennedy Toole
  Softcover, Quinteto, ISBN 8496333604 (84-96333-60-4)
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  La Isla De Los Mapas Perdidos
  by Miles Harvey
  Hardcover, Debate Editorial, ISBN 8483064081 (84-8306-408-1)
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  El Mundo Segun Garp / The World According to Garp
  by John Irving
  Softcover, Ediciones Urano, ISBN 8472232271 (84-7223-227-1)
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  Viajes con mi tia/ Travels with my Aunt
  by Graham Greene
  Softcover, Debolsillo, ISBN 9875660191 (987-566-019-1)
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  Yo Necesito Amor
  by Klaus Kinski
  Softcover, Ediciones Urano, ISBN 8472234835 (84-7223-483-5)

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  Onnozele Kinderen: Lodewijk XVII, Victor Van Aveyron, Kasper Hauser
  by Wim Zaal
  Hardcover, De Arbeiderspers, ISBN 9029558326 (90-295-5832-6)