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Aesop's Fablesby AesopISBN 0890093504 (0-89009-350-4)
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Aesop's Fablesby Lisbeth Zwerger, AesopISBN 0887081088 (0-88708-108-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Aesop's Fablesby Walt SturrockISBN 0881010863 (0-88101-086-3)
Hardcover, Unicorn Pub House
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Aesop's Fables for Modern Readersby AesopISBN 0880880228 (0-88088-022-8)
Hardcover, Peter Pauper Pr
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Alice in WonderlandISBN 0881011096 (0-88101-109-6)
Hardcover, Unicorn Pub House
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis CarrollISBN 0880889020 (0-88088-902-0)
Hardcover, Peter Pauper Pr
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Ancient Astronomy and Civilizationby Norriss S. Hetherington, V.A. MannISBN 0881262250 (0-88126-225-0)
Softcover, Pachart Pub House
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Ancient Engineers: Technology and Invention from the Earliest Times to the Renaissanceby L. Sprague de CampISBN 0880294566 (0-88029-456-6)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
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Ancient Lawby Henry Sumner MaineISBN 088029101X (0-88029-101-X)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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And Then There Were Noneby Agatha ChristieISBN 0881032565 (0-88103-256-5)
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Anemurium: The Roman and Early Byzantine Potteryby Caroline WilliamsISBN 088844365X (0-88844-365-X)
Softcover, Pontifical Inst of Medieval
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Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Armyby G. L. CheesmanISBN 0890050961 (0-89005-096-1)
Softcover, Ares Pub
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Better Than Lifeby Daniel Pennac, David HomelISBN 0889104840 (0-88910-484-0)
Hardcover, Coach House Press
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Billy Budd, Foretopmanby Herman MelvilleISBN 0891908919 (0-89190-891-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Blott on the Landscapeby Tom SharpeISBN 0879519274 (0-87951-927-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Bride of Newgateby John Dickson CarrISBN 0881842192 (0-88184-219-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Canterville Ghostby Oscar Wilde, Lisbeth ZwergerISBN 0887080278 (0-88708-027-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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City of Golden Shadowby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777100 (0-88677-710-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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A Coloring Book of RomeISBN 088388061X (0-88388-061-X)
Softcover, Bellerophon Books
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Cujoby Stephen KingISBN 0881037273 (0-88103-727-3)
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Currency and Inflation in Fourth Century Egyptby Roger S. BagnallISBN 0891307907 (0-89130-790-7)
Softcover, David Brown Book Co
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Death of Ivan Ilychby TolstoyISBN 088238547X (0-88238-547-X)
Softcover, Center for Thanatology Research &
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The Diary of a Country Priestby George BernanosISBN 0881840130 (0-88184-013-0)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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The Dice Manby Luke RhinehartISBN 0879518642 (0-87951-864-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 0882950282 (0-88295-028-2)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0884119947 (0-88411-994-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Enchiridionby Epictetus, George LongISBN 0879757035 (0-87975-703-5)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Eroticism in Pompeiiby Antonio VaroneISBN 0892366281 (0-89236-628-1)
Hardcover, J Paul Getty Museum Pubns
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Everyday Life in Roman and Anglo-Saxon Timesby Marjorie Ouennell, C. H. OuennellISBN 0880291257 (0-88029-125-7)
Softcover, Dorset Press
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Fanny Hillby John ClelandISBN 0881846023 (0-88184-602-3)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnantby TremblayISBN 0889221901 (0-88922-190-1)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant'Book summary:The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant, the first volume of Michel Tremblay's immense Chroniques du plateau Mont-Royal, finds him abandoning much of the bleakness and anger that sustain his plays in favour of a more benevolent mode of storytelling. Without relinquishing his favourite themes--the social and spiritual poverty of working-class Quebec--Tremblay brings a lovingly comic approach to the inhabitants of la rue Fabre. The result is a rarity, a novel that realistically and (almost) unsentimentally portrays the family life of the working poor without drowning in misery.
Misery is, of course, everywhere on the plateau Mont-Royal. The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant will be immediately recognizable to followers of Tremblay's plays, in which many of the same characters and stories appear. The women of la rue Fabre (with the exception of two prostitutes, Mercedes and Béatrice) are trapped in their marriages, families, and religion; the men (again, with the exception of the half-mad fiddler Josaphat-le-Violon and the homosexual Uncle Edouard) work at uninspiring jobs and lead uninspired lives. Children are granted a slight reprieve from this fate, but their coming adulthood is a looming menace.
There is very little plot in The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant. It simply takes the community of the plateau Mont-Royal through a single eventful day, and even as it rambles from story to story it remains compulsively readable. Every character, from the tomcat Duplessis to the foul-mouthed but impeccably skilful streetcar driver Mastaï Jodoin, to the three knitting Graces on the porch next door (who are only visible to cats and crazy people), is rendered with great compassion and understanding. The remaining five volumes of the Chroniques du plateau Mont-Royal will look extremely tempting to anyone lucky enough to become involved with the tenants of la rue Fabre. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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The Final Chapter of Chance McCallby Stephen A. BlyISBN 0891079033 (0-89107-903-3)
Softcover, Good News Pub
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The Forty Days of Musa Daghby Franz WerfelISBN 0881846686 (0-88184-668-6)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forty Days of Musa Dagh'Book summary:This stirring, poignant novel, based on real historical events that made of actual people true heroes, unfolds the tragedy that befell the Armenian people in the dark year of 1915. The Great War is raging through Europe, and in the ancient, mountainous lands southwest of the Caspian Sea the Turks have begun systematically to exterminate their Christian subjects. Unable to deny his birthright or his people, one man, Gabriel Bagradianborn an Armenian, educated in Paris, married to a Frenchwoman, and an officer doing his duty as a Turkish subject in the Ottoman armywill strive to resist death at the hands of his blood enemy by leading 5,000 Armenian villagers to the top of Musa Dagh, the mountain of Moses. There, for forty days, in the face of almost certain death, they will suffer the siege of a Turkish army hell-bent on genocide. A passionate warning against the dangers of racism and scapegoating, and prefiguring the ethnic horrors of World War II, this important novel from the early 1930s remains the only significant treatment, in fiction or nonfiction, of the first genocide in the twentieth centurys long series of inhumanities. It also continues to be today what the New York Times deemed it in 1933 a true and thrilling novel ... a story which must rouse the emotions of all human beings. Musa Dagh gives us a lasting sense of participation in a stirring episode of history.... Magnificent. The New York Times Book Review A novel full of the breath, the flesh and blood and bone and spirit of life. Saturday Review[via]More editions of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh:
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A Glastonbury Romanceby John Cowper PowysISBN 087951681X (0-87951-681-X)
Softcover, Overlook Press, The
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God Emperor of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0881036358 (0-88103-635-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0890845042 (0-89084-504-2)
Softcover, Bob Jones Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
Greyhavenby Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0879978155 (0-87997-815-5)
Hardcover, Daw Books
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Greyhavenby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0879979852 (0-87997-985-2)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Hallucinating Foucaultby Patricia DunckerISBN 0880014997 (0-88001-499-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 0881030244 (0-88103-024-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:This edition of "Hard Times" contains an introduction by Peter Ackroyd. The novel tells the tragic story of Louisa, starved of the graces of the imagination so essential to emotional well-being, and trapped in a loveless marriage. [via]
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The Heart of the Matterby Graham GreeneISBN 0884116549 (0-88411-654-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of the Matter'Book summary:In this widely acclaimed modern classic, Graham Greene delves deep into character to tell the dramatic, suspenseful story of a good man's conflict between passion and faith. The Heart of the Matter is one of Graham Greene's most enduring and tragic novels.
A police commissioner in a British-governed, war-torn West African state, Scobie is bound by the strictest integrity and sense of duty both for his colonial responsibilities and for his wife, whom he deeply pities but no longer loves. Passed over for a promotion, he is forced to borrow money in order to send his despairing wife away on a holiday. When in her absence he develops a passion for a young widow, the scrupulously honest Catholic finds himself giving way to deceit and dishonor. Enmeshed in love and intrigue, he will betray everything he believes in, with tragic consequences. [via]More editions of The Heart of the Matter:
Herculaneum: Italy's Buried Treasureby Joseph J. DeissISBN 0892361646 (0-89236-164-6)
Softcover, J Paul Getty Museum Pubns
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The History of the Church from Christ to Constantineby EusebiusISBN 0880290226 (0-88029-022-6)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine'Book summary:[via]"Could I do better than start from the beginning of the dispensation of our Saviour and Lord, Jesus the Christ of God?"
Bishop Eusebius (c. AD 260339), a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the History and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians. In tracing the history of the Church from the time of Christ to the Great Persecution at the beginning of the fourth century and ending with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine, his aim was to show the purity and continuity of the doctrinal tradition of Christianity and its struggle against persecutors and heretics, and he supported his account by extensive quotations from original sources.
This edition of G. A. Williamsons clear, fluid translation is accompanied by an introduction by Andrew Louth discussing the life and works of Eusebius, together with notes, bibliography, map of the world of Eusebius and brief biographies of the figures who appear in the work.
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History of the English Church and Peopleby Bede the Venerable, Leo Sherley-PriceISBN 0880290420 (0-88029-042-0)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Domy Guitierez, Angel Trinidad, Naunerle C. FarrISBN 0883012650 (0-88301-265-0)
Hardcover, Ags Pub
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Interpretation of Dreams and Portentsby Naphtali LewisISBN 0888665717 (0-88866-571-7)
Hardcover, Edgar Kent Inc
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Kamouraska: A Novelby Anne HTbertISBN 088784653X (0-88784-653-X)
Softcover, House of Anansi Pr
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0883017172 (0-88301-717-2)
Softcover, Xs Books
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The Kill Fee of Cindy Lacosteby Stephen BlyISBN 0891079548 (0-89107-954-8)
Softcover, Good News Pub
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L'Immoralisteby Andre GideISBN 088133474X (0-88133-474-X)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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LA Chuteby Albert Camus, Germaine BreeISBN 0883324652 (0-88332-465-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0890090734 (0-89009-073-4)
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Les Miserables: Piano/Vocal Ward Best Musicalby Todd LowryISBN 0881885770 (0-88188-577-0)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Lily of the Valleyby Honore De Balzac, Lucienne HillISBN 0881844829 (0-88184-482-9)
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Ed MartinezISBN 0883632039 (0-88363-203-9)
Hardcover, Hugh Lauter Levin Assc
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Living in Roman Timesby Jane Chisholm, Rob McCaigISBN 0881101052 (0-88110-105-2)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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Loaves & Fishes: Foods from Bible Timesby Janet Crisler, Malvina C. KinardISBN 0879831103 (0-87983-110-3)
Hardcover, Keats Pub
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Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0882332287 (0-88233-228-7)
Softcover, Ardis
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The Long Year, A.D. 69by Kenneth WellesleyISBN 0891586091 (0-89158-609-1)
Hardcover, Westview Press
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Mistletoe and Swordby A. SetonISBN 0891904425 (0-89190-442-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 0881032514 (0-88103-251-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Neroby Grant MichaelISBN 088029311X (0-88029-311-X)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books
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The Nine Wrong Answersby John Dickson CarrISBN 0881842206 (0-88184-220-6)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nestby Ken KeseyISBN 088103715X (0-88103-715-X)
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The Original Illustrated Alice in Wonderlandby Lewis CarrollISBN 0890092567 (0-89009-256-7)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Original Illustrated Alice in Wonderland'Book summary:The Original Illustrated Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll with the original illustrations by John Tenniel, in color for this edition by Martina Selway, published by Castle Books copyright 1978, published in Yugoslavia September 1985. Oversize hardback 80 page book with glossy pictorial cover [via]
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Otherlandby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777631 (0-88677-763-1)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Otherland'Book summary:Best-selling fantasy author Tad Williams (Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series) begins a far-reaching cyberpunk saga with Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizing something is wrong on the network. Some of the younger kids, including her brother Stephen, have logged into the net, but they can't get back out. The clues point to a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but everyone who tries to find out what's going on ends up dead. Settle in for a long, enjoyable ride, because this 770-page monster is just the first of four projected novels. [via]
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Outer Darkby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0880010649 (0-88001-064-9)
Softcover, Ecco Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Outer Dark'Book summary:Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution. [via]
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The Pearlby John SteinbeckISBN 0881030406 (0-88103-040-6)
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Personal Aspects of Roman Theatreby Charles GartonISBN 0888665180 (0-88866-518-0)
Hardcover, Edgar Kent Inc
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Prince Caspian: Lucy's Journeyby C. S. LewisISBN 0881037710 (0-88103-771-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prince Caspian: Lucy's Journey'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Prince Caspian must battle the evil Telemarines to protect his right to Narnia's throne and gathers together an army of Talking Beasts to help him in his quest. [via]
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The Quiet Americanby Graham GreeneISBN 0884116573 (0-88411-657-3)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Quiet American'Book summary:Against the intrigue and violence of Vietnam during the French war with the Vietminh, Alden Pyle, an idealistic young American, is sent to promote democracy, as his friend, Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, looks on. Fowlers mistress, a beautiful native girl creates a catalyst for jealousy and competition between the men and a cultural clash resulting in bloodshed and deep misgivings. Written in 1955 prior to the Vietnam conflict, The Quiet American foreshadows the events leading up to the Vietnam conflict. Questions surrounding the moral ambiguity of the involvement of the United States in foreign countries are as relevant today as they were fifty years ago. [via]
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Remains of the Dayby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0886192196 (0-88619-219-6)
Hardcover, Lester & Orpen Dennys
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remains of the Day'Book summary:An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age. [via]
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Roman & Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum: A Catalogueby John W. Hayes, Royal Ontario MuseumISBN 0888540272 (0-88854-027-2)
Hardcover, Royal Ontario Museum
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The Roman Cookery of Apiciusby John EdwardsISBN 0881790087 (0-88179-008-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Salems Lotby Stephen KingISBN 0881037206 (0-88103-720-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salems Lot'Book summary:Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.
Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Sea of Silver Lightby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886779774 (0-88677-977-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sea of Silver Light'Book summary:With Sea of Silver Light, Tad Williams completes his massive Otherland quartet, one of SF's more intriguing explorations of the eroding boundaries of the human and the nonhuman, the living and the dead. Otherland is a sequence that contains many secrets, and Williams plays fair by unpacking all of them in the final book. A group of adventurers searching for a cure for comatose children find themselves trapped in a sequence of virtual worlds, the only opponents of a conspiracy of the rich to live forever in a dream. Now, they are forced to make an uneasy alliance with their only surviving former enemy against his treacherous sidekick Johnny Wulgaru, a serial killer with a chance to play God forever.
Williams manages a vast cast of emotionally involving characters with considerable panache, but the real strength of the book is its endlessly questing intelligence; it is, among other things, an enquiry into the nature of storytelling as a way for human beings to give structure to their perceptions of the universe around them. It is as story that Sea of Silver Light ultimately works so well--involving us in the grueling descent of a vast mountain, the siege of an underground fortress, gun battles in a nightmare Wild West. Williams never neglects to tell us how things feel. He efficiently ties up every plot strand and convincingly reveals every secret in this large, complex plot. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Selected Poems of Catullusby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carl SesarISBN 0884050858 (0-88405-085-8)
Hardcover, Mason & Lipscomb
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The Sheltering Skyby Paul BowlesISBN 0880015829 (0-88001-582-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sheltering Sky'Book summary:American novelist and short-story writer, poet, translator, classical music composer, and filmscorer Paul Bowles has lived as an expatriate for more than 40 years in the North African nation of Morocco, a country that reaches into the vast and inhospitable Sahara Desert. The desert is itself a character in The Sheltering Sky, the most famous of Bowles' books, which is about three young Americans of the postwar generation who go on a walkabout into Northern Africa's own arid heart of darkness. In the process, the veneer of their lives is peeled back under the author's psychological inquiry. [via]
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Shepherd of the Hillsby H. WrightISBN 0882898841 (0-88289-884-1)
Softcover, Pelican Pub Co Inc
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Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Romeby Zvi YavetzISBN 0887381286 (0-88738-128-6)
Hardcover, Transaction Pub
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Stone of Farewellby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886774802 (0-88677-480-2)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0883011344 (0-88301-134-4)
Softcover, Ags Pub
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Time Machineby H. G. WellsISBN 0883011026 (0-88301-102-6)
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To Green Angel Towerby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886776066 (0-88677-606-6)
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The Town of Herculesby Joseph Jay DeissISBN 0892362227 (0-89236-222-7)
Hardcover, J Paul Getty Museum Pubns
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The Ulysses Themeby W. B. StanfordISBN 0882143557 (0-88214-355-7)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Up above the Worldby Paul BowlesISBN 0880010088 (0-88001-008-8)
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Where Is That in the Bibleby Patrick MadridISBN 0879736933 (0-87973-693-3)
Softcover, Our Sunday Visitor
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where Is That in the Bible'Book summary:When non-Catholics start quoting Bible verses to "prove" that Catholic teachings arent biblical, reach for this powerful Bible-based explanation and defense of the Catholic Faith! Where Is That in the Bible? shows you how to deflate standard objections to Catholicism and how to use Scripture to bring people into (or back into) the Church. Veteran apologist and best-selling author Patrick Madrid gives you simple ways to:
" Show the true meaning of verses anti-Catholics twist to attack the Church
" Give Biblical answers to the most common questions that non-Catholics ask Catholics about the Church
" Explain exactly what the Bible teaches about the pope, priestly celibacy, the divinity of Christ, homosexuality, abortion, salvation, purgatory, the use of statues and icons, confession to a priest, baptism, and other issues often objected to by non-Catholics
" Interpret the Bible correctly, according to authentic Christian Tradition and steer clear of common mistakes many people make when reading Scripture
" Share the riches of the Catholic Faith more effectively, especially with those who consider Catholicism to be "unbiblical." [via]
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Why Are You Calling Me a Barbarian?by Mary Becker, Birgitta Petren, Elisabetta Putini, Lara Artone, Monica BarsottiISBN 0892365595 (0-89236-559-5)
Softcover, J Paul Getty Museum Pubns
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Wiltby Tom SharpeISBN 0879517344 (0-87951-734-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wilt'Book summary:Henry Wilt has for ten years been trying to teach English literature to his students at the Fenland College of Arts and Technology. He has become bored, frustrated and possibly murdereous, so Chief Inspector Flint suspects the worst when Henry's wife Eva goes missing. From the author of GRANTCHESTER GRIND. [via]
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Les Confitures De Coings Et Autres Textes, Suivi De Le Journal Des Confitures De Coingsby Jacques FerronISBN 0885121260 (0-88512-126-0)
Hardcover, Parti pris
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