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The Adventures of Peter Panby J. M. BarrieISBN 1595400362 (1-59540-036-2)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Peter Pan'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this for ever!" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end. Of course they lived at 14 [their house number on their street], and until Wendy came her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there is was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner. [via]
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Any Human Heartby William BoydISBN 1400031001 (1-4000-3100-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Any Human Heart'Book summary:Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991, aged 85. William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart is his disjointed autobiography, a massive tome chronicling "my personal rollercoaster"--or rather, "not so much a rollercoaster", but a yo-yo, "a jerking spinning toy in the hands of a maladroit child." From his early childhood in Montevideo, son of an English corned beef executive and his Uraguayan secretary, through his years at a Norfolk public school and Oxford, Mountstuart traces his haphazard development as a writer. Early and easy success is succeeded by a long half-century of mediocrity, disappointments and setbacks, both personal and professional, leading him to multiple failed marriages, internment, alcoholism and abject poverty.
Mountstuart's sorry tale is also the story of a British way of life in inexorable decline, as his journey takes in the Bloomsbury set, the General Strike, the Spanish Civil War, 1930s Americans in Paris, wartime espionage, New York avant garde art, even the Baader-Meinhof gang--all with a stellar supporting cast. The most sustained and best moment comes mid-book, as Mountstuart gets caught up in one of Britain's murkier wartime secrets, in the company of the here truly despicable Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Elsewhere author William Boyd occasionally misplaces his tongue too obviously in his cheek--the Wall Street Crash is trailed with truly crashing inelegance--but overall Any Human Heart is a witty, inventive and ultimately moving novel. Boyd succeeds in conjuring not only a compelling 20th century but also, in the hapless Logan Mountstuart, an anti-hero who achieves something approaching passive greatness. --Alan Stewart, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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At The Villa Of Reduced Circumstancesby Alexander McCall Smith, Iain McIntoshISBN 1400095093 (1-4000-9509-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At The Villa Of Reduced Circumstances'Book summary:PORTUGUESE IRREGULAR VERBS - Book 3 The Portuguese Irregular Verbs series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffering colleagues at the Institute of Romantic Philology in Germany. Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due-a quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, Professor Dr. von Igelfeld gets caught up in a nasty case of academic intrigue while on sabbatical at Cambridge. When he returns to Regensburg he is confronted with the thrilling news that someone from a foreign embassy has actually checked his masterwork, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, out of the Institute's Library. As a result, he gets caught up in intrigue of a different sort on a visit to Bogota, Colombia. [via]
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Blind Harry's Wallace: William Hamilton of Gilbertfieldby William Hamilton, Owain Kirby, Elspeth KingISBN 0946487332 (0-946487-33-2)
Hardcover, Luath Press Limited
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The Book of Prefacesby Alasdair GrayISBN 1582340374 (1-58234-037-4)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Prefaces'Book summary:The preface usually contains one of four pleasures, says anthologist Alasdair Gray. There is the biographical snippet, full of gossipy details that "make us feel at home in earlier times." There is the author's attempt to forestall criticism (in first editions) or to answer it (in later ones). There is the report on the state of civilization, both favorable (see Walt Whitman) and unfavorable (see Karl Marx). And there is the attack on other writers or translators, sometimes bridging centuries and containing spears thrown at the long dead. All four pleasures are well represented in this 640-page treasury of English and American intros, which runs from an A.D. 675 translation of Genesis to the 1920 poems of Wilfred Owen. Why stop there? "The flow is stopped at 1920," admits Gray in his own disarmingly self-effacing preface, "by costs of using work still in copyright."
This is anything but anthology-on-the-cheap, however. Gray (Lanark and A History Maker) poured 16 years of research into The Book of Prefaces, and adds considerable value with his own running commentary, which straggles down the margins in brash red ink. Gray on the God of Genesis: "This God, with revenge in mind, first makes earth ugly as hell." Among God's anthologized fellows are Mark Twain, who defends his use of Southern dialect in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Lewis Carroll, who anticipates his critics' charges of writing nonsense in The Hunting of the Snark and proceeds to prove their case; and Charles Darwin, who recalls how the seeds of The Origin of Species were sown aboard the HMS Beagle. Gray mixes scholarly research with playful eccentricities: When was the last time you saw a book's typesetter, typist, and publisher memorialized in pen-and-ink drawings? And "with this in their lavatory," writes the cheeky author, "everyone else can read nothing but newspaper supplements and still seem educated." He may be right. --Claire Dederer [via]
Breakheart Passby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0816149828 (0-8161-4982-8)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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A Celtic Miscellanyby Kenneth H. JacksonISBN 0880290951 (0-88029-095-1)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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Cloud Howeby Lewis Grassic GibbonISBN 0862412277 (0-86241-227-7)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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The Complete Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Kyle FreemanISBN 1593080344 (1-59308-034-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I'Book summary:[via]The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the worlds most popular and influential fictional detectivethe eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmess comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to combine detailed observation and vast knowledge with brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.
Volume II of The Complete Sherlock Holmes begins with The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tired of writing about Holmes, had killed him off at the end of The Final Problem, the last tale in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (found in Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes). Public demand for new Holmes stories was so great, however, that Conan Doyle eventually resurrected him. The first story in The Return, The Adventure of the Empty House, features Conan Doyles infamously inventive explanation of how Holmes escaped what seemed like certain death.
This volume also includes two other collections of Holmes stories, His Last Bow and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes; Conan Doyles final full-length Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear; a pair of parodies, The Field Bazaar and How Watson Learned the Trick ; and two essays about the private life of the beloved sleuth.Kyle Freeman, a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast for many years, earned two graduate degrees in English literature from Columbia University, where his major was twentieth-century British literature.More editions of The Complete Sherlock Holmes:
The Daughter of Timeby Josephine TeyISBN 0816136882 (0-8161-3688-2)
Softcover, G.K. Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Daughter of Time'Book summary:Josephine Tey is often referred to as the mystery writer for people who don't like mysteries. Her skills at character development and mood setting, and her tendency to focus on themes not usually touched upon by mystery writers, have earned her a vast and appreciative audience. In Daughter of Time, Tey focuses on the legend of Richard III, the evil hunchback of British history accused of murdering his young nephews. While at a London hospital recuperating from a fall, Inspector Alan Grant becomes fascinated by a portrait of King Richard. A student of human faces, Grant cannot believe that the man in the picture would kill his own nephews. With an American researcher's help, Grant delves into his country's history to discover just what kind of man Richard Plantagenet was and who really killed the little princes. [via]
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Death of a Dreamer: A Hamish Macbeth Mysteryby M. C. BeatonISBN 0892967897 (0-89296-789-7)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Everyday Gaelicby M. MacNeillISBN 0901771732 (0-901771-73-2)
Softcover, Down East Books
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The Finishing Schoolby Muriel SparkISBN 1400077397 (1-4000-7739-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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Force 10 from Navaroneby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0854563458 (0-85456-345-8)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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From Wood to Ridge: Collected Poems in Gaelic and Englishby Sorley MacLeanISBN 0856358444 (0-85635-844-4)
Hardcover, Carcanet Press, Limited
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The Gododdin:the Oldest Scottish Poem: The Oldest Scottish Poemby Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, AneirinISBN 085224049X (0-85224-049-X)
Hardcover, Edinburgh U.P.
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Grampian Quartetby Nan ShepherdISBN 0862415896 (0-86241-589-6)
Softcover, Canongate Books
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Grey Graniteby Lewis Grassic GibbonISBN 0862413125 (0-86241-312-5)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 142645547X (1-4264-5547-X)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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- The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 1404309721 (1-4043-0972-1)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 1417619627 (1-4176-1962-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 1555045154 (1-55504-515-4)
Softcover, J. Curley - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 082220536X (0-8222-0536-X)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 088301727X (0-88301-727-X)
Softcover, Xs Books - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0977769429 (0-9777694-2-9)
Softcover, Neptune Media Group - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0848812867 (0-8488-1286-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0899662293 (0-89966-229-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0865472645 (0-86547-264-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0874066980 (0-87406-698-0)
Softcover, Lerner Pub Group - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0883012642 (0-88301-264-2)
Softcover, Ags Pub - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0893754102 (0-89375-410-2)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0831745851 (0-8317-4585-1)
Hardcover, Gallery Books - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0865472637 (0-86547-263-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0964878836 (0-9648788-3-6)
Hardcover, Baker Street Irregulars in cooperation with the New York Public Libaray-Berg Collection - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 142645547X (1-4264-5547-X)
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Hound of the Baskervillesby Alexander DumasISBN 1562542893 (1-56254-289-3)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:Written at a point of crisis in his life, A Tale of Two Cities is the embodiment of Dickens' own passions and fears: the revolution which engulfs the characters symbolizes his own psychological revolution, and the three main characters become projections of Dickens himself. [via]
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The Hound Of The Baskervillesby Arthur Doyle ConanISBN 0974607878 (0-9746078-7-8)
Softcover, Melville Pub House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound Of The Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes With, the Adventure of the Speckled Bandby Arthur Conan Doyle, Francis O'GormanISBN 1551117223 (1-55111-722-3)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes With, the Adventure of the Speckled Band'Book summary:The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-02) is Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Sherlock Holmes adventure. At the end of the yew tree path of his ancestral home, Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead. Close by are the footprints of a gigantic hound. Called to investigate, Holmes seems to face a supernatural foe. In the tense narration of the detective's efforts to solve the crime, Conan Doyle meditates on late Victorian and early twentieth-century ideas of ancestry and atavism, the possible biological determination of criminals, the stability of the British landed classes, and the place of the supernatural. Historical documents included with this fully-annotated Broadview edition help contextualize the novel's debates and reveal its cultural and literary significance as a supreme instance of early detective fiction. Also included is the Conan Doyle short story The Adventure of the Speckled Band. [via]
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John Macnabby John BuchanISBN 1406501298 (1-4065-0129-8)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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Lady of the Lakeby Walter ScottISBN 1596054727 (1-59605-472-7)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady of the Lake'Book summary:Sir Walter Scott said this poem of the Scottish Highlands was a labor of love, and its extraordinary success justified his expectations. [via]
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The Lady of the Lakeby Scott, Walter, Sr.ISBN 1404313664 (1-4043-1366-4)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady of the Lake'Book summary:Sir Walter Scott said this poem of the Scottish Highlands was a labor of love, and its extraordinary success justified his expectations. [via]
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A Life of Johnsonby James BoswellISBN 1404313966 (1-4043-1396-6)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Life of Johnson'Book summary:James Boswell is for some the ideal scribe, for others a sycophantic toady. Edmund Wilson, for example, memorably labeled him "a vain and pushing diarist." Boswell can even be seen as someone unconsciously intent on undermining his idol in sonorous, balanced sentences. Early on in his massive Life, he puts all manner of ideas into our heads with his boobish attempts to clear the youthful Johnson of potential impropriety: "His juvenile attachments to the fair sex were, however, very transient; and it is certain that he formed no criminal connection whatsoever." And while it's often tempting to ignore Boswell's more personal intrusions and delight solely in the melancholic master's words and deeds, there are suchdelightful admissions as, "I was at this time so occupied, shall I call it? or so dissipated, by the amusements of London that our next meeting was not till Saturday, June 25..."
Samuel Johnson was born in 1709 and died in 1784--a long life, though one marred by depression and fear of death. On April 20, 1764, for example, he declared, "I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits." Many of the quotes Boswell includes are a sort of greatest hits: Johnson's definitions of oats and lexicographer, his love for his cat Hodge, as well as thousands of bon, and mal, mots. ("Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"; "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all.") But there are also many unfamiliar pleasures--Boswell's accounts of Johnson's literary industry, including the Dictionary, The Rambler, and Lives of the Poets; Johnson's singular loathing for Scotland and France; and the surprising hints of revelry. Awakened at 3 AM by friends, he greets them with, "What, is it you, you dogs! I'll have a frisk with you." This at age 42. Johnson's final years were marked by pain and loneliness but certainly no loss of wit. [via]
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Maclarens Gaelic Self Taughtby J. MacLarenISBN 0901771848 (0-901771-84-8)
Softcover, Colton Book Imports
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1404319115 (1-4043-1911-5)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:Stephen King started writing Storm of the Century as a novel, but it evolved into the teleplay of an ABC TV miniseries. Set in Maine's remote Little Tall Island, the tale is all about vivid small-town characters, feuds, infidelities, sordid secrets, kids in peril, and gory portents in scrambled letters. The calamitous snowstorm is nothing compared to the mysterious mind-reading stranger Linoge, who uses magic powers to turn people's guilt against them--when he's not simply braining them with his wolf-head-handled cane. Don't even glance at that cane--it can bring out the devil in you. Just as The Shining was concerned with marriage and alcoholism as much as it was with bad weather and worse spirits, Storm of the Century is more than a horror story. It's creepy because it's realistic.
But it's also unusually visual. Linoge's eyes ominously change color, wind and sea wreak havoc, a basketball leaves blood circles with each bounce. The 100-year storm no doubt hits harder onscreen than on the page, but the snow is a symbol of the more disturbing emotional maelstrom that words evoke perfectly. And the murders of folks we've gotten to know is entirely terrifying in print. The crisp discipline of the screenplay format makes this book better than lots of King's more sprawling novels--the end doesn't wander and the dialogue crackles. Here's the real test: It's impossible to read parts 1 and 2 and not read part 3, "The Reckoning." --Tim Appelo [via]
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Hardcover, 1st World Library - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 1582791902 (1-58279-190-2)
Hardcover, Trident Press International - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0891040242 (0-89104-024-2)
Hardcover, A & W Visual Library - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0895773201 (0-89577-320-1)
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The Missingby Andrew O'HaganISBN 1565843355 (1-56584-335-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Morality for Beautiful Girlsby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 1585473308 (1-58547-330-8)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morality for Beautiful Girls'Book summary:THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE took us further into this world, and now, continuing the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, MORALITY FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, finds her expanding her business to take in the world of car repair and a beauty pageant. Alexander McCall Smith's sense of humour and gentle charm have created a substantial cult following. MORALITY FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS will win him yet more fans. [via]
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Morality For Beautiful Girlsby R. A. McCall SmithISBN 1400031362 (1-4000-3136-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morality For Beautiful Girls'Book summary:THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 3
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswanas premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, and good humornot to mention help from her loyal assistant, Grace Makutsi, and the occasional cup of tea.
In Morality for Beautiful Girls, Precious Ramotswe, founder and owner of the only detective agency for the concerns of both ladies and others, investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important Government Man, and the moral character of the four finalists of the Miss Beauty and Integrity Contest, the winner of which will almost certainly be a contestant for the title of Miss Botswana. Yet her business is having money problems, and when other difficulties arise at her fiancés Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, she discovers the reliable Mr J.L.B. Matekoni is more complicated then he seems. [via]More editions of Morality For Beautiful Girls:
Nalda Saidby Stuart DavidISBN 0953327523 (0-9533275-2-3)
Softcover, Independent Music Pr Ltd
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Niccolo Risingby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0899669638 (0-89966-963-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0890090572 (0-89009-057-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:1977 Castle Publishers HB. 356 illustrations by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine where the S. Holmes mysteries were originally published. Great gift for a Conan Doyle Fan!!! [via]
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Peter Panby J. M. Barrie, Amy BilloneISBN 1593082134 (1-59308-213-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:Recounts the adventures of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. [via]
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- Peter Pan: ISBN 1561563056 (1-56156-305-6)
Hardcover, Kidsbooks - Peter Pan: ISBN 1577595483 (1-57759-548-3)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press - Peter Pan: ISBN 1577658205 (1-57765-820-5)
Hardcover, Spotlight - Peter Pan: ISBN 0907785697 (0-907785-69-7)
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Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C. - Peter Pan: ISBN 0816725543 (0-8167-2554-3)
Hardcover, Watermill Pr - Peter Pan: ISBN 0861126483 (0-86112-648-3)
Hardcover, Byeway Books - Peter Pan: ISBN 0866119973 (0-86611-997-3)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co - Peter Pan: ISBN 0881010693 (0-88101-069-3)
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Hardcover, Unicorn Pub House - Peter Pan: ISBN 088101270X (0-88101-270-X)
Hardcover, Unicorn Pub House - Peter Pan: ISBN 1593082134 (1-59308-213-4)
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Peter Panby Greg HildebrandtISBN 0881011118 (0-88101-111-8)
Hardcover, Unicorn Pub House
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Peter Panby Moose CharlapISBN 0881881058 (0-88188-105-8)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:8 vocal selections from the 1954 Broadway version of the beloved story starring Mary Martin. Includes
Songs: I Won't Grow Up : I'm Flying : Tender Shepherd (count Your Sheep) : I've Gotta Crow : Distant Melody : Never Never Land : Captain Hook [via]More editions of Peter Pan:
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Peter Pan or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up: A Fantasy in Five Actsby John Caird, Trevor Nunn, J. M. BarrieISBN 0822213451 (0-8222-1345-1)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up: A Fantasy in Five Acts'Book summary:[via]Ever since Peter Pan flew in through Wendy Darling's nursery window and took her off to Never Land, Barrie's classic adventure story has thrilled and delighted generations of theatre-goers. J M Barrie wrote Peter Pan first as a work of prose and then adapted it for the stage. John Caird and Trevor Nunn first adapted Barrie's book and play in the 1980s for the Royal Shakespeare Company and then in 1997 for the Royal National Theatre.
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Poor Thingsby Alasdair GrayISBN 1564783073 (1-56478-307-3)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poor Things'Book summary:"The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott."Anthony Burgess
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxtera beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of Bella, but his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for Baxter's creation.
The hilarious tale of love and scandal that ensues would be "the whole story" in the hands of a lesser author (which in fact it is, for this account is actually written by Dr. McCandless). For Gray, though, this is only half the story, after which Bella (a.k.a. Victoria McCandless) has her own say in the matter.
Satirizing the classic Victorian novel, Poor Things is a hilarious political allegory and a thought-provoking duel between the desires of men and the independence of women, from one of Scotland's most accomplished authors.
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The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonaldISBN 1420925571 (1-4209-2557-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess and the Goblin'Book summary:"The Princess and the Goblin" is George MacDonald's classic children's tale of fantasy. It's the story of the young Princess Irene and her good friend Curdie, the son of a miner. Princess Irene finds a secret stairway in the castle and discovers that her great great grandmother lives in a secret chamber at the top of the castle stairs. When Curdie overhears a plot by the Goblins that live beneath the castle to kidnap the Princess and flood the mine he is challenged to foil the plot of the Goblins and save the Princess. [via]
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Provostby John GaltISBN 140432545X (1-4043-2545-X)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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Ringan Gilhaize, or the Covenantersby John GaltISBN 0862415527 (0-86241-552-7)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ringan Gilhaize, or the Covenanters'Book summary:In a story which lays bare the strengths and the horrors of the egalitarian Scottish Presbyterian spirit, Ringan Gilhaize looks across three generations to describe Scotlands most turbulent years, from his grandfathers support for the Reformation, to the harsher years of his own sufferings as a persecuted Covenanter in the killing times. Unique when it was published in 1823, and unique to this day, Ringan Gilhaize is an autobiography, a folk history of enormous scope, and a compelling psychological portrait of how idealism can turn to fanaticism. History tells us that John Graham of Claverhouse ("bluidy Clavers") was killed by a stray musket ball at the battle of Killiecrankie in 1689. This is the story of the bitter religious and political conflicts that led to that battle, from the mouth of the man who pulled the trigger. Galt shows the full range and power of his writing here and reinforces his claim to be in the very highest rank of Scottish writers. Introduced by Patricia J. Wilson.[via]More editions of Ringan Gilhaize, or the Covenanters:
The Rising Sunby Douglas GalbraithISBN 087113781X (0-87113-781-X)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Scotland: The Story of a Nationby Magnus MagnussonISBN 0871137984 (0-87113-798-4)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Scotland's Malt Whiskies: A Dram by Dram Guideby John WilsonISBN 0950194468 (0-9501944-6-8)
Hardcover, Famedram Publishers
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The Scottish Insurrection of 1820by P. Berresford Ellis, Seumas Mac A GhobhainnISBN 0859765199 (0-85976-519-9)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scottish Insurrection of 1820'Book summary:This title is an account of the Radical Rising, the last armed uprising on British soil, intent on severing the Union and establishing a radical Scottish republic. It reveals the desperation of the people and the savagery of their government. [via]
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Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebridesby Adam NicolsonISBN 0865476675 (0-86547-667-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides'Book summary:A riveting book for all readers who know and love a place where the sea meets the land.[via]
In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad -- "Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres . . . Puffins and seals. Apply . . . " -- and found the Shiants (the name means holy or enchanted islands). Adam inherited this almost indescribably beautiful property when he was twenty-one: Sea Room describes, and relives, his love affair with the three tiny islands, composed as he prepares to give them to his oldest son.
The Shiants lie east of the Isle of Lewis in a treacherous sea once known as the "stream of blue men," after the legendary water spirits who menaced sailors there. For millennia they were a haven for those seeking solitude -- an eighth-century hermit, the twentieth-century novelist Sir Compton Mackenzie -- but their rich, sometimes violent history of human habitation includes much more. The landscape is soaked in centuries-old tales of restless ghosts and Bronze Age gold, and it cradles the heritage of a once productive world of farmers and fishermen. In passionate, keenly precise prose, Nicolson evokes the paradoxes of island life: cut off from the mainland yet intricately bound to it, austere yet fertile, unforgiving yet bewitchingly beautiful.
Sea Room does more than celebrate this unique, profoundly isolated place. It shares with us the greatest gift an island bestows on its inhabitants, a deep, revelatory engagement with the natural world.More editions of Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides:
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozenby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1555045383 (1-55504-538-3)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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The State of the Artby Iain BanksISBN 0929480066 (0-929480-06-6)
Hardcover, Mark V Ziesing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The State of the Art'Book summary:The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks's staggering talent. [via]
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Sun Circleby Neil GunnISBN 086241587X (0-86241-587-X)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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The Talismanby Walter ScottISBN 1426405413 (1-4264-0541-3)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Talisman'Book summary:The Talisman is Sir Walter Scott's tale of the Crusades -- a tale of chivalry, of violence, of virtue, romance, and deceit. In Scott's own words: ".?.?.?the warlike character of Richard I, wild and generous, a pattern of chivalry, with all its extravagant virtues, and its no less absurd errors, was opposed to that of Saladin, in which the Christian and English monarch showed all the cruelty and violence of an Eastern sultan, and Saladin, on the other hand, displayed the deep policy and prudence of a European sovereign, whilst each contended which should excel the other in the knightly qualities of bravery and generosity. This singular contrast afforded, as the author conceived, materials for a work of fiction possessing peculiar interest." [via]
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The Whole Story and Other Storiesby Ali SmithISBN 140007567X (1-4000-7567-X)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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