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84, Charing Cross Roadby Helene HanffISBN 074517115X (0-7451-7115-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can't Anybody Spell?by Vivian CookISBN 0743270991 (0-7432-7099-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 076070015X (0-7607-0015-X)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]
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The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensionsby Ian Stewart, Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 0738205419 (0-7382-0541-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions'Book summary:The product of an agreeably dotty cleric named Edwin Abbott Abbott and first published in 1884, Flatland distills all that the Victorian era knew of higher mathematics--and then some--into a witty, complex novel of ideas.
Ian Stewart, the author of the equally witty sequel, Flatterland--which adds to Abbott's store of science the key discoveries made since--does a superb job of explaining the original book's enigmas, allusions, ironies, implausibilities, and what Douglas Hofstadter would call "metamagical themas." Among other things, Stewart comments on Abbott's comments on such things as the nature/nurture controversy, the fourth dimension and beyond, the role of multidimensional spaces in economic systems, infinite series and perfect squares, celestial mechanics, and other matters close to the hearts of cosmologists and science buffs alike.
Stewart's notes make an entertaining and learned addition to an already classic bit of writing--one that has never been out of print since its first publication. For both devoted Abbott fans and newcomers to his work, this is the edition to have. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Lawby Associated Press, Norm GoldsteinISBN 0738203084 (0-7382-0308-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law'Book summary:Whether you're a student struggling through Composition 101 or a professional writer on a quest for perfection, The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law is always ready to fill the role of trusted advisor to your creative genius. Revised and updated in 2000, this version contains a 40-page section on media law, guides for punctuation and bibliographies, and specialized glossaries for business and sports writing, all in addition to its 280-page generalized stylebook.
Within each section, entries are alphabetized, and searching for an answer is a fairly simple process. Tricky words--those that can be hyphenated (know-how) or not (jukebox), homonyms, nonstandard spellings (mo-ped)--are given their own short entries. Larger categories, such as religions, military titles, the Internet, and datelines, have multiple pages devoted to their explanations, but detail and clarity are brought nicely together in each listing. Many entries concern brand names and trademarks--never again will you question whetherpingpong or Ping-Pong should be used in the flier for your table-tennis tournament.
While a few sections of this book--the ones concerning media law, photo captions, filing the wire, and proofreading marks--will most likely be used by professional and student journalists and editors, the majority of this book is an excellent tool for anyone who ever has to write for the public. Whether it's a newsletter for your badminton league, a training manual for your employees, or a press release detailing your company's quarterly earnings, this stylebook will help you turn out well-written copy that gains the approval of every English teacher you've ever had. --Jill Lightner [via]
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The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law: With Internet Guide and Glossaryby Associated Press, Norm GoldsteinISBN 0738207403 (0-7382-0740-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law: With Internet Guide and Glossary'Book summary:More people write for the Associated Press than for any newspaper in the world, and more writers --over 1,750,000--have bought The AP Stylebook than any other journalism reference. It provides facts and references for reporters, and defines usage, spelling, and grammar for editors. There are separate sections for journalists specializing in sports and business, and complete guidelines for how to write photo captions, proofread text, file copy over the wire, handle copyrights, and avoid libel. This new edition of the Stylebook has been fully updated with fifty new entries and revisions to more than one hundred others in order to keep pace with world events, common usage, and Associated Press procedures. More than 1.7 million copies sold[via]More editions of The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law: With Internet Guide and Glossary:
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At the Back of the North Wind ; [and], the Princess and the Goblin ; [and], the Princess and Curdieby George MacDonaldISBN 0706410548 (0-7064-1054-8)
Hardcover, Octopus Books Limited
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin Franklin, Lewis LearyISBN 0743255062 (0-7432-5506-2)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin'Book summary:"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" is one of the most important and influential works in American history. It tells the story of Franklin's life from his humble beginnings to his emergence as a leading figure in the American colonies. In the process, it creates a portrait of Franklin as the quintessential American. Because of the book, Franklin became a role model for future generations of Americans, who hoped to emulate his rags to riches story. "The Autobiography" has also become one of the central works not just for understanding Franklin but for understanding America. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was a man of many roles-printer, author, philosopher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and politician to name only a few. He lived a wide and varied life and found himself at the center of virtually every major event involving America during the second half of the eighteenth century. He was so successful as a businessman that he was able to retire at the age of 42. He proved equally adept at science, and his experiments in electricity made him the most famous American in the colonies. Politics and diplomacy occupied him for most of the latter half of his life. [via]
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The Ball and the Crossby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0755100131 (0-7551-0013-1)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eightyby Charles DickensISBN 0749307641 (0-7493-0764-1)
Softcover, Heinemann
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The Biographer's Taleby A. S. ByattISBN 0701169451 (0-7011-6945-1)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Biographer's Tale'Book summary:A.S. Byatt chronicles the life of the mind with the immediacy other novelists bring to the physical world. So when the graduate-student hero of The Biographer's Tale announces that he needs "a life full of things," we take his words with a grain of salt. Yes, Phineas G. Nanson has renounced the "cross-referenced abstractions" of life as a postmodern literary theorist, and vows to ground himself in what he warily calls the "facts" (the quotation marks are definitely in order). Yet he first forays into empiricism by reading a three-volume life of the Victorian traveler, writer, and diplomat Elmer Bole--then immediately undertakes a biography of Bole's biographer, Scholes Destry-Scholes.
Things, as Nanson discovers, can prove just as slippery as ideas. His research quickly leapfrogs beyond the biographer to his other subjects: scientist Carl Linnaeus, playwright Henrik Ibsen, and eugenicist Francis Galton, all of whom Destry-Scholes chronicled in three unpublished, unfinished, and, as it turns out, well-embroidered accounts. Meanwhile, our hero continues his forays into the real world. He takes a part-time job with a pair of gay travel agents, who arrange some very specialized vacations, and meets up with a Swedish bee taxonomist named Fulla, who wants to save the world. He also unearths a perplexing series of Destry-Scholes's index cards, full of sketches, facts, quotations, and unattributed lines of verse. These he attempts to shuffle into some kind of order, even as the enigmatic figure of the biographer himself seems to appear and disappear from view.
There are echoes here of Byatt's Booker Prize-winning Possession, another detective story for the MLA set. Yet The Biographer's Tale is an altogether odder--and chillier--sort of book. It is, in fact, almost terrifyingly learned, and wears its research about as lightly as a pair of Fulla's Ecco sandals. The mystery here is nothing less than the nature of mind, so it's no criticism to say that her characters have little life outside the ideas they represent. What's surprising is that the result is so readable, even beautiful at times. Here, for instance, is Nanson on truth and beauty:
There are a very few human truths and infinite variations on them. I was about to write that there are very few truths about the world, but the truth about that is that we don't know what we are not biologically fitted to know, it may be full of all sorts of shining and tearing things, geometries, chemistries, physics we have no access to and never can have. Reading and writing extend--not infinitely, but violently, but giddily--the variations we can perceive on the truths we thus discover.
The index cards themselves can be painful to read (remember the ersatz Victorian poetry in Possession?). But persevere, dear reader--meaning emerges through the play of one esoteric piece of information against another, just as it does in real life. Byatt extends her philosophical variations as far as she giddily can, and in The Biographer's Tale, she has constructed an elaborate, glittering labyrinth at the center of which lie surprisingly simple truths. --Mary Park [via]More editions of The Biographer's Tale:
The Black Towerby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219619 (0-7432-1961-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 075533437X (0-7553-3437-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:'Mr Sherlock Holmes, the well-known private detective, was the victim of a murderous assault this morning which has left him in a precarious position'. Dr Watson stops dead in his tracks when he reads of the attempt on his friend's life. The forces of nature turn against man, love breeds hatred and cowardice, mothers appear to attack their own children, and Sherlock Holmes, the one man who can redress the balance, seemingly lies at death's door ...When an assassination attempt is made on the great detective's life it seems that no one can escape the death and dread which blights Britain... [via]
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Christina Rossetti: Selected Poemsby Christina Rossetti, Jan MarshISBN 0753814072 (0-7538-1407-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems'Book summary:My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickest fruit.
--From A Birthday[via]
From the sensuous, deliciously scary, and popular Goblin Market to the delicate and musical Sing-Song, Christina Rossetti's verses feature earthy, almost tactile images. As the sole woman among the Pre-Raphaelites, her work has a unique feminine perspective. Among the selections by Jan Marsh, author of an acclaimed biography of Christina and her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, are At Home, Confluents, Maude Clare, and Songs for Strangers and Pilgrims.More editions of Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems:
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Crome Yellowby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0760760500 (0-7607-6050-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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A Dictionary of the Underworld: British & American, Being the Vocabularies of Crooks, Criminals, Racketeers, Beggars and Tramps, Convicts, the Commercial Underworld, the Drug Traffic, the White Slave Traffic, Spivsby Eric PartridgeISBN 0710019335 (0-7100-1933-5)
Hardcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Storiesby A. S. ByattISBN 0701162783 (0-7011-6278-3)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories'Book summary:"Once upon a time," A.S. Byatt's title fairy story begins, "when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins ... there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy. Her business was storytelling..." But this is no backward looking, quaint fairy time. The time is the present, and the protagonist is a sensible scholar who is given the not-at-all sensible gift of a genie. How will Gillian, an expert in fairy stories and well versed in all that can go wrong with wishes, use hers?
Distinguished British author and Booker Prize-winner A.S. Byatt creates fairy tales for adults, each a blend of the magical and the modern, and readers of Angels & Insects and Possession will recognize the role of Victorian fairy tales in her fiction. This handsome little book includes reproductions of woodcuts that evoke our childhood wonder for dragons and princesses, glass coffins and netherworldly things. [via]
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Edward the Secondby Christopher MarloweISBN 0713666692 (0-7136-6669-2)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Empire of the Sunby J.G. BallardISBN 0743265238 (0-7432-6523-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire of the Sun'Book summary:The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.
Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world.
Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint. [via]
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Encarta World English DictionaryISBN 0747548064 (0-7475-4806-4)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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English Bread and Yeast Cookeryby Elizabeth DavidISBN 0713910267 (0-7139-1026-7)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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An Essay Concerning Human Understandingby John Locke, Alexander Campbell FraserISBN 0760760497 (0-7607-6049-7)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 0760755876 (0-7607-5587-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension. Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. [via]
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The Ghost Stories of M.R. Jamesby Montague R. JamesISBN 0713157577 (0-7131-5757-7)
Hardcover, E. Arnold
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Hercule Poirot's Christmasby Agatha ChristieISBN 0708917240 (0-7089-1724-0)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Highgate Riseby Anne PerryISBN 0708930131 (0-7089-3013-1)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, David WomersleyISBN 0713991240 (0-7139-9124-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0743217179 (0-7432-1717-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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How Right You Are, Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0743203593 (0-7432-0359-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Jeeves is infallible. Jeeves is indispensable. Unfortunately, in How Right You Are, Jeeves, he is also in absentia. In this wonderful slice of Woosterian mayhem, Bertie has sent that prince among gentlemen's gentlemen off on his annual vacation. Soon, drowning dachshunds, broken engagements, and inextricable complications lead to the only possible conclusion: "We must put our trust in a higher power. Go and fetch Jeeves!" [via]
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How to Say It: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situationby Rosalie MaggioISBN 0735202346 (0-7352-0234-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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How to Say It: Style Guideby Rosalie MaggioISBN 073520313X (0-7352-0313-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Innocent Bloodby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219635 (0-7432-1963-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Innocent Blood'Book summary:Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir.
"As a crime novel," wrote the London Times, Innocent Blood is "the peak of the art." "Flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving," Cosmopolitan concurred. [via]
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Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. WellsISBN 0760755841 (0-7607-5584-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Island of Dr Moreau'Book summary:A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
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Le Morte Darthur 1898by Thomas MaloryISBN 0766165167 (0-7661-6516-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Malcolm CowleyISBN 076070550X (0-7607-0550-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.
Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1845, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. Whitman, reading the essay, consciously set out to answer Emerson's call as he began work on the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman, however, downplayed Emerson's influence, stating, "I was simmering, simmering, simmering; Emerson brought me to a boil".
On May 15, 1855, Whitman registered the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and received its copyright. The first edition was published in Brooklyn at the Fulton Street printing shop of two Scottish immigrants, James and Andrew Rome, whom Whitman had known since the 1840s, on July 4, 1855. Whitman paid for and did much of the typesetting for the first edition himself. The book did not include the author's name, instead offering an engraving by Samuel Hollyer depicting the poet in work clothes and a jaunty hat, arms at his side. Early advertisements for the first edition appealed to "lovers of literary curiosities" as an oddity. Sales on the book were few but Whitman was not discouraged.
The first edition was very small, collecting only twelve unnamed poems in 95 pages. Whitman once said he intended the book to be small enough to be carried in a pocket. "That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air. "About 800 were printed, though only 200 were bound in its trademark green cloth cover. The only American library known to have purchased a copy of the first edition was in Philadelphia. The poems of the first edition, which were given titles in later issues, were "Song of Myself," "A Song For Occupations," "To Think of Time," "The Sleepers," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Faces," "Song of the Answerer," "Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States," "A Boston Ballad," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?", and "Great Are the Myths."
The title Leaves of Grass was a pun. "Grass" was a term given by publishers to works of minor value and "leaves" is another name for the pages on which they were printed.
Whitman sent a copy of the first edition of Leaves of Grass to Emerson, the man who had inspired its creation. In a letter to Whitman, Emerson said "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." He went on, "I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy." [via]More editions of Leaves of Grass:
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The Little Drummer Girlby John Le CarreISBN 0743464656 (0-7434-6465-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Drummer Girl'Book summary:John le Carré has earned worldwide acclaim with novels that navigate the shadow worlds of espionage. In The Little Drummer Girl, one of his most enduring works, le Carré took leave of the Circus, George Smiley, and all his people, and presented instead an original canvas that remains, two decades later, stunningly fresh and topical. It was then, and is now, a thrilling, moving, and courageous novel of Middle Eastern intrigue.
Charlie is a promiscuous, unsuccessful, English actress in her twenties. Vacationing on the Greek island of Mykonos with friends, she longs for commitment. But to what? To whom? Intrigued by a handsome, solitary bather, Charlie finds herself lured into the "theatre of the real." For the mysterious man is Kurtz, an embattled Israeli intelligence officer out to stop the bombing of Jews in Europe. Forced to play her most challenging role, Charlie is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist...and soon proves herself a double agent of the highest order. [via]
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0766607615 (0-7666-0761-5)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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The Longest Journeyby E. M. ForsterISBN 0735100683 (0-7351-0068-3)
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Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur GoldenISBN 0739326872 (0-7393-2687-2)
Softcover, Random House Large Print
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We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. She is nine years old. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and Scarlett O'Hara. And Memoirs of a Geisha is a triumphant work - suspenseful, and utterly persuasive.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroydby Agatha ChristieISBN 0735105855 (0-7351-0585-5)
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My Uncle Oswaldby Roald DahlISBN 0718118162 (0-7181-1816-2)
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The Naked Chefby Jamie OliverISBN 0718143604 (0-7181-4360-4)
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The Odysseyby Homer, Martin HammondISBN 0715629581 (0-7156-2958-1)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc
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The Physicianby Noah GordonISBN 0751503894 (0-7515-0389-4)
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Praise of Follyby John Wilson, Desiderius Erasmus, Hans HolbeinISBN 0760757607 (0-7607-5760-7)
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Roxana the Fortunate Mistress 1931by Daniel Defoe, John Alan MaxwellISBN 0766141608 (0-7661-4160-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby John Heath-Stubbs, Peter Avery, Omar KhayyamISBN 0713911344 (0-7139-1134-4)
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1899by Edward FitzgeraldISBN 0766176673 (0-7661-7667-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godotby Samuel BeckettISBN 071451053X (0-7145-1053-X)
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The School for Scandalby David Crane, Richard Brinsley Butler SheridanISBN 0713642599 (0-7136-4259-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The School for Scandal'Book summary:[via]This classic comedy of manners portrays intrigue, gossip, and social climbing among the leisure class of 1770s London and explores the deceptive guises of society and fickle nature of reputations.
Middle-aged and a wealthy bachelor, Sir Peter Teazle marries a young and beautiful daughter of a country squire. The School for Scandal socialites fill their days with the dissemination of malicious gossip with the consequences of destroyed reputations and marriages held out as pure entertainment. Lady Teazle is welcomed to their circle by becoming the object of nasty rumors and suggestions of an adulterous affair.
Playwright Sheridan skewers the London elite in this clever farce as he reveals the hypocrisy behind the human tendency to gossip and deceive.
The play was an enormous success during its first staging in 1777 and credited as a "real comedy" in contrast to the sentimental dramas that dominated the stage at the time.
Sheridans witty dialogue rivals that of the Restorations best playwrights, and his character names are aptly outrageous: Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Candour, Benjamin Backbite and Mrs. Malaprop.
This edition also includes an article by Dr. David Cross on The School of Scandals original staging and performance requirements.
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Second Treatise of Governmentby John LockeISBN 0760760950 (0-7607-6095-0)
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Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages 1337-1485by John Julius NorwichISBN 0743200314 (0-7432-0031-4)
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozenby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0753703769 (0-7537-0376-9)
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Shroud for a Nightingaleby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219600 (0-7432-1960-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shroud for a Nightingale'Book summary:The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.
The New York Times called Shroud for a Nightingale "mystery at its best." [via]
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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day Peopleby Charles DickensISBN 0749308699 (0-7493-0869-9)
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The Skull Beneath the Skinby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219562 (0-7432-1956-2)
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Take a Girl Like Youby Kingsley AmisISBN 0708929273 (0-7089-2927-3)
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That Hideous Strengthby C. S. LewisISBN 0743234928 (0-7432-3492-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'That Hideous Strength'Book summary:The final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to "recondition" society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close. [via]
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Three Guineasby Virginia WoolfISBN 0701207019 (0-7012-0701-9)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyby John Le CarreISBN 0743457900 (0-7434-5790-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'Book summary:John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.
A modern masterpiece in which le Carre expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart.
It is now beyond doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed. [via]
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Tono Bungay 1926by H. G. WellsISBN 0766169766 (0-7661-6976-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tono Bungay 1926'Book summary:Volume VII in the collected Essex Edition of the works of H.G. Wells. Tono Bungay, what is it? It is a marketable commodity and in the hands of purchasers and vendors everywhere. You see, it is nice because of the flavoring matter and aromatic spirit, it is stimulating because of its vivid tonics, and a couple other ingredients make it pretty intoxicating, just as this work of fiction is intoxicating. [via]
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The Tragediesby William ShakespeareISBN 0765116936 (0-7651-1693-6)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedies'Book summary:Here are the most treasured works in all of literature: William Shakespeare's timeless plays. This handsome collectible volume contains the complete, unabridged versions of all of Shakespeare's tragedies, including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Othello. [via]
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Trainspottingby Irvine WelshISBN 0749396067 (0-7493-9606-7)
Hardcover, Minerva
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trainspotting'Book summary:Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only "mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect--essential, since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision sung as musical comedy. [via]
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Truckers: Bromeliad Trilogyby Terry PratchettISBN 0745114695 (0-7451-1469-5)
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Turning Thirtyby Mike GayleISBN 0743477650 (0-7434-7765-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turning Thirty'Book summary:Mike Gayle's previous novels My Legendary Girlfriend and Mr Commitment have already wittily chronicled living and loving among the twentysomethings at the end of the 20th century. As time marches on, Gayle's latest novel Turning Thirty deals with what happens when his characters reach that most dreaded of moments--the big three-o. Matt Beckford is reaching that time of life. At the age of 29 he thinks he has answered those two crucial questions you ask yourself as a teenager: "What am I going to do with my life?" and "Will I ever get a girlfriend?" Living as a computer expert in New York with the lovely Elaine, Matt thinks he's cracked life. But then both he and Elaine suddenly realise that their relationship isn't working. They split up amicably, realising that "biology is telling us there's no point in crying over spilt milk", and Matt heads back to his friends and parents in Birmingham. As his 30th birthday looms, Matt meets Ginny Pascoe, an old flame, or more accurately "a girl who was also a friend who I sometimes snogged", and things get more complicated as he realises that he's falling for Ginny--again. The transatlantic love triangle that develops between Matt, Ginny and Elaine is funny and refreshing, and lacks the usual angst you would expect from such a situation. As Matt enjoys the nostalgia of going out with old friends and loves, he also realises he needs to sort out his life, as 30 beckons. Turning Thirty is another sharp, funny and astute offering from Gayle, that won't disappoint his growing army of fans. (This review refers to the hardcover edition of this title.) --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Unnatural Causesby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219597 (0-7432-1959-7)
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An Unsuitable Job for a Womanby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219554 (0-7432-1955-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Unsuitable Job for a Woman'Book summary:Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder.
"An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" introduces P. D. James's courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a "top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way" ("The New York Times"). [via]
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Venetiaby Georgette HeyerISBN 0708902405 (0-7089-0240-5)
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The Virgin's Loverby Philippa GregoryISBN 0743269268 (0-7432-6926-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Virgin's Lover'Book summary:The National Bestseller In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young couple falls in love, a question hangs in the air: can he really set aside his wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival. Philippa Gregory's The Virgin's Lover answers the question about an unsolved crime that has fascinated detectives and historians for centuries. Intelligent, romantic, and compelling, The Virgin's Lover presents a young woman on the brink of greatness, a young man whose ambition exceeds his means, and the wife who cannot forgive them. [via]
Volponeby Ben Jonson, Robert N. WatsonISBN 0713654333 (0-7136-5433-3)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Volpone Or, the Foxby Ben Jonson, R.B. ParkerISBN 0719015294 (0-7190-1529-4)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Voyage of the Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 0760754969 (0-7607-5496-9)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Voyage of the Beagleby Charles Robert Darwin, Charles W. EliotISBN 0766182142 (0-7661-8214-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Walden And Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau, Alyssa HaradISBN 0743487729 (0-7434-8772-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden And Civil Disobedience'Book summary:ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
Naturalist and philosopher Thoreau's timeless essays on the role of humanity -- in the world of nature, and in society and government.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: " A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
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Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. [via]SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
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A Whistling Womanby A. S. ByattISBN 0701174110 (0-7011-7411-0)
Softcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Whistling Woman'Book summary:With A Whistling Woman, AS Byatt reaches the fourth and final instalment in her popular sequence of novels, after The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life and Babel Tower. It is now the summer of 1968. Newly divorced Frederica is living with Agatha and their children while pursuing a somewhat desultory affair with John Ottakar. But everything changes when John accepts a post at the University of North Yorkshire, while Frederica stumbles into a new career on television & A Whistling Woman is a busy, energetic novel, juggling its various plot strands--experimental scientists, psychiatric patients with nasty secrets, the upper echelons of university life--with the slick skill of a TV soap. Characters, familiar and new, are evoked with Byatt's customary easy vividness, but this time the exuberance is tempered by a noticeable sourness. One gets the distinct sense throughout the novel that by 1968 British society as we know it has started to spiral downhill. For Frederica, whereas "the carpet of the 50s was woven of many colours, in fine threads", the sixties were "like a fishing-net woven horribly loose and slack with only the odd very bright plastic object caught in its meshes, whilst everything else had rushed and flowed through, back into the undifferentiated ocean". Echoing Frederica's disillusion, Byatt's satire is more than usually acerbic towards various targets--in particular in her account of the newly politicised academy (which seems more a parody of 80s political correctness than of 60s activism). But for those dying to know what life brings to Frederica, then A Whistling Woman will be a welcome end to the years of waiting.--Alan Stewart [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Michael HagueISBN 0756762626 (0-7567-6262-6)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Greg HildebrandtISBN 0762416289 (0-7624-1628-9)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz : Centennial Editionby iBooks StaffISBN 0743412982 (0-7434-1298-2)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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