| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “us”
books tagged “us”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
English
-
32 Stories : The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comicsby Adrian TomineISBN 1896597009 (1-896597-00-9)
Softcover, Drawn & Quarterly Publications
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: '32 Stories : The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics'Book summary:In 1991, Adrian Tomine self-published the first issue of Optic Nerve. Consisting of three xeroxed sheets of paper, and with a print run of twenty-five, it was a less-than-auspicious, largely unnoticed debut. In the following three years, though, Optic Nerve developed at a startlingly rapid pace: the artwork and writing evolved with each story, production quality improved, page counts increased, and by issue seven, sales had reached 6,000. In 1994, Drawn & Quarterly took over the publishing duties of Optic Nerve, and the original seven issues sold out and were left out of print. 32 stories presents these rare, early editions, collected for the first time in a single volume.[via]More editions of 32 Stories : The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics:
-
Alice in Wonderlandby Lewis CarrolISBN 193365208X (1-933652-08-X)
Softcover, Bed Book
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice in Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
More editions of Alice in Wonderland:
-
Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Iassen GhiuselevISBN 1894965000 (1-894965-00-0)
Hardcover, Simply Read Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
More editions of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland:
-
Always Runningby Luis RodriguezISBN 1880684063 (1-880684-06-3)
Hardcover, Curbstone Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Always Running'Book summary:[via]The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new cover.Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book, and read by hundreds of thousands, Always Running is the searing true story of one mans life in a Chicano gangand his heroic struggle to free himself from its grip.
By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East Los Angeles gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests and then watched with increasing fear as gang life claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and the power of words and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation.
Achieving success as an award-winning poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no moreuntil his young son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in Always Running, a vivid memoir that explores the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants.
At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the next generation.
More editions of Always Running:
American Genius: A Comedyby Lynne TillmanISBN 1933368446 (1-933368-44-6)
Softcover, Soft Skull Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'American Genius: A Comedy'More editions of American Genius: A Comedy:
Appalachian Mountain Club North Carolina Hiking Trails: the State's Most Comprehensive Trail Guideby Allen De HartISBN 1929173474 (1-929173-47-4)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Appalachian Mountain Club North Carolina Hiking Trails: the State's Most Comprehensive Trail Guide'More editions of Appalachian Mountain Club North Carolina Hiking Trails: the State's Most Comprehensive Trail Guide:
-
Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Cultureby Michael A. Bellesiles, Richard BernsteinISBN 1932360077 (1-932360-07-7)
Softcover, Soft Skull Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture'Book summary:While gun supporters use the nation's gun-toting history in defense of their way of life, and revolutionary enthusiasts replay skirmishes on historic battlefields, it now turns out that America has not always had a gun culture, and wide-scale gun ownership is much newer than we think. After a 10-year search for "a world that isn't there," professor and scholar Michael Bellesiles discovered that Americans not only rarely owned guns prior to the Civil War, they wouldn't even take them for free from a government that wanted to arm its reluctant public. No sharpshooters, no gun in every home, no children learning to hunt beside their fathers. Bellesiles exhaustively searched legal, probate, military, and business records; fiction and personal letters; hunting magazines; and legislation in his quest for the legendary gun-wielding frontiersman, only to discover that he is a myth. There are other revelations: gun ownership and storage was strictly legislated in colonial days, and frivolous shooting of a musket was backed by the death penalty; men rarely died in duels because the guns were far too inaccurate (duels were about honor, not murder); pioneers didn't hunt (they trapped and farmed); frontier folk loved books, not guns; and the militia never won a war (it was too inept). In fact, prior to the Civil War, when mass production of higher quality guns became a reality, the republic's greatest problem was a dearth of guns, and a public that was too peaceable to care about civil defense. As Bellesiles writes, "Probably the major reason why the American Revolution lasted eight years, longer than any war in American history before Vietnam, was that when that brave patriot reached above the mantel, he pulled down a rusty, decaying, unusable musket (not a rifle), or found no gun there at all." Strangely, the eagle-eye frontiersman was created by East Coast fiction writers, while the idea of a gun as a household necessity was an advertising ploy of gun maker Samuel Colt (both just prior to the Civil War). The former group fabricated a historic and heroic past while Colt preyed on overblown fears of Indians and blacks.
Bellesiles, who is highly knowledgeable about weapons and military history, never comes out against guns. He is more interested in discovering the truth than in taking sides. Nevertheless, his work shatters some time-honored myths and icons--including the usual reading of the Second Amendment--and will be hard to refute. This fascinating, eye-opening account is sure to both inform and inflame the already highly charged debate about guns in America. --Lesley Reed [via]
More editions of Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture:
-
Arrowsmithby Sinclair Lewis, Richard R. LingemanISBN 1931082081 (1-931082-08-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Arrowsmith'Book summary:Written at the height of his powers in the 1920s, the three novels in this volume continue the vigorous unmasking of American middle-class life begun by Sinclair Lewis in Main Street and Babbitt. In Arrowsmith (1925) Lewis portrays the medical career of Martin Arrowsmith, a physician who finds his commitment to the ideals of his profession tested by the cynicism and opportunism he encounters in private practice, public health work, and scientific research. The novel reaches its climax as its hero faces his greatest challenges amid a deadly outbreak of plague on a Caribbean island.
Elmer Gantry (1927) aroused intense controversy with its brutal depiction of a hypocritical preacher in relentless pursuit of worldly pleasure and power. Through his satiric exposé of American religion, Lewis captured the growing cultural and political tension in the 1920s between the forces of secularism and fundamentalism.
Dodsworth (1929) follows Sam Dodsworth, a wealthy, retired Midwestern automobile manufacturer, as he travels through Europe with his increasingly restless wife, Fran. The novel intimately explores the unraveling of their marriage, while pitting the proud heritage of European culture against the rude vigor of American commercialism. [via]More editions of Arrowsmith:
Baseballby Nicholas DawidoffISBN 193108209X (1-931082-09-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Baseball'More editions of Baseball:
Better Than Working: A Memoirby Patrick Skene CatlingISBN 1905483066 (1-905483-06-6)
Softcover, Liberties Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Better Than Working: A Memoir'More editions of Better Than Working: A Memoir:
The Bottomsby Joe R. LansdaleISBN 189228460X (1-892284-60-X)
Hardcover, Subterranean
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bottoms'
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeysby Michael CollinsISBN 1885283148 (1-885283-14-8)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys'More editions of Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys:
-
Civil War Handbookby William H. PriceISBN 1879295008 (1-879295-00-8)
Softcover, L B Prince Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Civil War Handbook'Book summary:Trade Size Paperback with 72 pages. Color and Black and White Photographs, Illustrations, and Paintings throughout. [via]
More editions of Civil War Handbook:
Collected Travel Writingsby Henry James, Myra JehlenISBN 1931082308 (1-931082-30-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Travel Writings'More editions of Collected Travel Writings:
Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945by George H. NashISBN 188292620X (1-882926-20-X)
Softcover, Isi Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945'Book summary:When this book was first published in 1976, Ronald Reagan was a governor and Newt Gingrich a college professor. Today, it is the single best source of information on the intellectuals who built modern American conservatism. A new epilogue tries to bridge the gap of two decades, but this contemporary classic's real value lies in its thoughtful account of what happened in the 30 years following World War II. By combining history and political theory, it tells how a diverse group of thinkers that included William F. Buckley, Jr., Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Irving Kristol, Leo Strauss and others laid the philosophical groundwork for Reagan's presidency and Gingrich's speakership. [via]
More editions of Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945:
- Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945: ISBN 1933859121 (1-933859-12-1)
Softcover, Isi Books - Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945: ISBN 1882926129 (1-882926-12-9)
Hardcover, Isi Books - Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945: ISBN 188292620X (1-882926-20-X)
Softcover, Isi Books
- Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945: ISBN 1933859121 (1-933859-12-1)
Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborationsby Leigh Kennedy, Howard WaldropISBN 1930846134 (1-930846-13-4)
Hardcover, Golden Gryphon Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations'More editions of Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations:
Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You'Ve Never Heard ofby David CarlyonISBN 1891620576 (1-891620-57-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You'Ve Never Heard of'More editions of Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You'Ve Never Heard of:
-
The Day Dali Died: Poetry and Flash Fictionby Jeff VandermeerISBN 1894815920 (1-894815-92-0)
Softcover, Prime Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day Dali Died: Poetry and Flash Fiction'Book summary:In this new collection from World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer, car accidents, Angkor Wat, dead whales, flower vendors, dogcatchers, classic television shows, frogs, and the moon are transformed by the author's imagination into something unique and magical. Showcaseing his Rhysling Award-winning poem "Flight," reprinted in Nebula Awards 30, The Day Dali Died also provides a selection of short-short fictions- including "Bullets and Airplanes," "The County Fair," and "How Benjobi Song Came to Rule Iphagenia" (original to this collection). From lost books to mythic journeys into the surreal, The Day Dali Died showcases VanderMeer's talent for both epiphany and precise detail. [via]
More editions of The Day Dali Died: Poetry and Flash Fiction:
-
De LA Democratie En Ameriqueby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 2070323544 (2-07-032354-4)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'De LA Democratie En Amerique'Book summary:Théoricien du libéralisme, Tocqueville montre dans De la démocratie en Amérique comment la démocratie s'est accompagnée des progrès de l'individualisme. Cependant, les droits individuels une fois proclamés et reconnus, ce goût pour la liberté s'est corrompu en passion pour l'égalité, favorisant la diffusion d'un esprit majoritaire et conformiste.
En effet, à force de réclamer les mêmes droits pour tous, les individus se contentent de revendiquer une égalisation de leur condition sociale et de leur mode de vie. Or, la majorité ne se reconnaissant que dans ce qui lui ressemble, l'obsession égalitariste finit par nuire à la créativité, toute volonté de différenciation étant par avance condamnée ; elle finit aussi par menacer les institutions politiques elles-mêmes. Uniquement soucieux de défendre leurs acquis sociaux et matériels, les individus se désintéressent de la chose publique et se replient sur leur vie privée, au profit d'une administration toute puissante dont la douce tyrannie menace à terme leurs libertés.
Cette analyse de la pensée unique et du conformisme démocratique fait de Tocqueville un auteur résolument moderne, dont l'oeuvre a eu une influence considérable et mérite plus que jamais qu'on la découvre. --Paul Klein [via]
More editions of De LA Democratie En Amerique:
-
The Disuniting of Americaby Arthur M. SchlesingerISBN 1879736004 (1-879736-00-4)
Hardcover, Whittle Direct Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Disuniting of America'Book summary:What does it mean to be an American? Is the republic a unified whole or a collection of disparate ethnic groups? In this book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, examines the changing face of American history and shows how an increasing focus on ethnicity has affected life both in academic circles and on the street. America has always been a nation of immigrants striving towards the common goal of a better life than they had known in the old country. But the melting pot no longer seems an apt metaphor for the American experience: racial and ethnic minorities are drifting apart, focusing on individual heritage and becoming more bitterly divided. However, Professor Schlesinger ultimately believes that the old ideals of "e pluribus unum" are still strong enough to bind the United States together. [via]
More editions of The Disuniting of America:
Drawn & Quarterly Showcase 3by Chris OliverosISBN 1896597882 (1-896597-88-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Drawn & Quarterly Showcase 3'More editions of Drawn & Quarterly Showcase 3:
Eachtrai Eilise I DTir Na NIontasby Lewis Carroll, Nicholas Williams, John TennielISBN 1904808018 (1-904808-01-8)
Softcover, Coisceim
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Eachtrai Eilise I DTir Na NIontas'More editions of Eachtrai Eilise I DTir Na NIontas:
The Empire of Ice Creamby Jeffrey FordISBN 1930846398 (1-930846-39-8)
Hardcover, Golden Gryphon Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Empire of Ice Cream'More editions of The Empire of Ice Cream:
The Encyclopedia Of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Thing You Hate To Loveby Lou Harry, Julia SpaldingISBN 1931686548 (1-931686-54-8)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Encyclopedia Of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Thing You Hate To Love'More editions of The Encyclopedia Of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Thing You Hate To Love:
End of Iby Stephen DixonISBN 1932416536 (1-932416-53-6)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'End of I'More editions of End of I:
Endless Things: A part of Aegyptby Not AvailableISBN 1931520224 (1-931520-22-4)
Hardcover, Small Beer Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Endless Things: A part of Aegypt'More editions of Endless Things: A part of Aegypt:
-
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthologyby James Patrick Kelly, John KesselISBN 189239135X (1-892391-35-X)
Softcover, Tachyon Pubns
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology'Book summary:Intending to establish a canon for the controversial slipstream science-fiction subgenre, the editors of this anthology have brought together a group of convention-defying tales set in vivid and disorienting dreamscapes that offer no distinction between reality and hallucination. A cross between the literary surrealism of Franz Kafka and escapist-popular-fiction, this ambitious new speciessometimes also called interstitial fictionis exemplified here in stories by Carol Emshwiller, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, and George Saunders.[via]More editions of Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology:
Generation Lossby Not AvailableISBN 1931520216 (1-931520-21-6)
Hardcover, Small Beer Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Generation Loss'More editions of Generation Loss:
The Good, the Bad & the Mad: Weird People in American Historyby E. Randall FloydISBN 1891799150 (1-891799-15-0)
Softcover, Harbor House
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good, the Bad & the Mad: Weird People in American History'More editions of The Good, the Bad & the Mad: Weird People in American History:
-
A Guide to Biltmore Estateby Rachel CarleyISBN 1885378017 (1-885378-01-7)
Softcover, Biltmore Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Guide to Biltmore Estate'Book summary:A comprehensive guide with text and illustrations that celebrate one of the most enduring homes in America. [via]
More editions of A Guide to Biltmore Estate:
Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Lettersby Hart CraneISBN 1931082995 (1-931082-99-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters'More editions of Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters:
-
Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hateby Neil BaldwinISBN 1891620525 (1-891620-52-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate'Book summary:Henry Ford was not only one of America's great industrialists, he was also one of America's great haters. With "his rambling mouth" and his "volatile passions and budgetless financial resources," Ford became famous around the country and the world for his rabid anti-Semitism. "He did not like the Jews because he believed they were warmongering, manipulative, and alien," writes Neil Baldwin. A pacifist, Ford blamed the First World War on "German-Jewish bankers." In the 1920s, he published The Dearborn Independent, which featured notorious articles such as "The International Jew: The World's Problem." In 1938, he became the first American recipient of a Nazi award bestowed upon non-Germans. Baldwin details Ford's views and activities and also describes the phenomenon of anti-Semitism in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Henry Ford once declared, infamously, "History is more or less the bunk." His descendents seem to disagree. "Beginning with Henry Ford II," writes Baldwin, "succeeding generations of Fords have sought to put an end to Henry Ford's dark legacy" by supporting Israel and Jewish charities. Their actions bear out what one Jewish newspaper said in response to Ford in 1920: "We are firm in our belief that stupidity cannot triumph." --John Miller [via]
More editions of Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate:
-
Her Smoke Rose Up Foreverby James TiptreeISBN 1892391201 (1-892391-20-1)
Softcover, Tachyon Pubns
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Her Smoke Rose Up Forever'Book summary:These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind. Revisions from the author's notes are included, allowing a deeper view into her world and a better understanding of her work. The Nebula Awardwinning short story Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death, the Hugo Awardwinning novella The Girl Who Was Plugged In, and the Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning novella Houston, Houston, Do You Read? are included.[via]More editions of Her Smoke Rose Up Forever:
Here: A Biography of the New American Continentby Anthony DepalmaISBN 1891620835 (1-891620-83-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Here: A Biography of the New American Continent'More editions of Here: A Biography of the New American Continent:
-
The Historic Shops & Restaurants of New York: A Guide to Century-Old Establishments in the Cityby Ellen Williams, Steve RadlauerISBN 1892145154 (1-892145-15-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Historic Shops & Restaurants of New York: A Guide to Century-Old Establishments in the City'Book summary:Discover the bygone city of Mark Twain and Stanford White, Harry Houdini and Edith Wharton in the venerable shops and restaurants that have served discriminating New Yorkers for generations. In Old World dining rooms, gaslit saloons, at jewelers, tobacconists, apothecaries, and more, these are the establishments that have endured by offering highly desirable goods and dining experiences. Visit the tavern where George Washington bade farewell to his troops, the haberdashery where Abe Lincoln traded in his backwoods cap for a more distinguished stovepipe hat, the Lower East Side delis, the coffee merchants of Greenwich Village, the purveyors of riding boots, andirons, brass beds, and nautical charts. From world-famous department stores to humble pasta-makers, this volume is a charming and useful guide to the living landmarks of New York. [via]
More editions of The Historic Shops & Restaurants of New York: A Guide to Century-Old Establishments in the City:
The History Of Martha's Vineyardby Arthur RailtonISBN 1933212004 (1-933212-00-4)
Hardcover, Memoirs Unlimited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The History Of Martha's Vineyard'More editions of The History Of Martha's Vineyard:
-
How It Came to Beby Bobby LovettISBN 1890436275 (1-890436-27-5)
Hardcover, Boyd Pubns
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'How It Came to Be'Book summary:This book serves as a continuation of how the Boyd family contributed to the development of religious publishing in the African-American context. It is a sequel to A Black Man's Dream and covers essential details from R.H. Boyd's seminal dream up to the present generation of Boyd leadership in the industry of religious publishing. In his keynote address to the 2004 National Baptist Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Congress, Dr. Gardner Taylor described the Boyd family as ""four generations of prominence."" How It Came To Be is the intriguing story of that development. This book is useful as a text book for seminaries and Bible Colleges, as well as for all who are interested in the development of religious publishing and Christian education. [via]
More editions of How It Came to Be:
-
How We Are Hungryby Dave EggersISBN 1932416137 (1-932416-13-7)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Are Hungry'Book summary:How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical, and always intensely soulful group of stories written over the past four years. Though they range from a doomed Irish setter's tales of running and jumping ("After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned") to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship ("Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance"), the stories share a haunting and haunted sense of mortality. Though full of bursts of levity and humor, the book is deeply informed by the troubled times in which it was written. How We Are Hungry includes many never-before-published stories, along with a number of pieces that first appeared in magazines, both well known (Zoetrope, The New Yorker) and small and independent (h2s04, Ninth Letter). All previously published stories have been significantly revised. The urgency and experimentalism of Eggers's earlier work are still present, but are brought to a new level of precision and craft, injecting fresh life into traditional forms. Narratives are often linear, told by distinct and varied voices, and settings stretch from Egypt to Interstate 5.[via]More editions of How We Are Hungry:
Ibid: A Lifeby Mark DunnISBN 1931561656 (1-931561-65-6)
Hardcover, Macadam Cage Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ibid: A Life'More editions of Ibid: A Life:
Iron Scouts of Confederacyby Lee Mc GiffinISBN 1930092199 (1-930092-19-9)
Softcover, Psi
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Iron Scouts of Confederacy'More editions of Iron Scouts of Confederacy:
Islands of Boston Harborby Jeremy D'Entremont, Edward Rowe SnowISBN 1889833436 (1-889833-43-6)
Hardcover, Commonwealth Editions
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Islands of Boston Harbor'More editions of Islands of Boston Harbor:
-
John Steinbeckby John SteinbeckISBN 1883011159 (1-883011-15-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'John Steinbeck'Book summary:This second volume in the authoritative edition of John Steinbeck (with "Novels and Stories, 1932-1937") features the Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece "The Grapes of Wrath" in a newly corrected text based on the author's manuscript, typescript, and galleys. "The Harvest Gypsies is Steinbeck's investigative report on migrant farm workers which laid the groundwork for the novel. "The Long Valley" displays his brilliance with short stories, including such classics as "The Chrysanthemums," "Flight," and "The Red Pony." "The Log from the Sea of Cortez," about a marine biological expedition, combines science, philosophy, and adventure. [via]
More editions of John Steinbeck:
-
LA Pesteby Albert CamusISBN 2070360423 (2-07-036042-3)
Softcover, Gallimard
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Peste'Book summary:" c'est moi qui remplace la peste ", s'écriait caligula, l'empereur dément. Bientôt, la " peste brune " déferlait sur l'europe dans un grand bruit de bottes. france déchirée aux coutures de somme et de loire, troupeaux de prisonniers, esclaves voués par millions aux barbelés et aux crématoires, sur le monde symbolique de melville ou de daniel def?, la peste éternise ces jours de ténèbres, cette " passion collective " d'une europe en folie, détournée comme oran de la mer et de sa mesure. Sans doute la guerre accentue-t-elle la séparation, la maladie, l'insécurité. mais ne sommes-nous pas toujours plus ou moins séparés, menacés, exilés, rongés comme le fruit par le ver ? face aux souffrances comme à la mort, à l'ennui des recommencements - orphée cent fois repris - la peste recense les conduites, elle nous impose la vision d'un univers sans avenir, ni finalité, un monde de la répétition et de l'étouffante monotonie, oú le drame même cesse de paraître dramatique et s'imprègne d'humour macabre, oú les hommes se définissent moins par leur démarche, leur langage et leur poids de chair que par leurs silences, leurs secrètes blessures, leurs ombres portées et leurs réactions aux défis de l'existence. La peste sera donc, au gré des interprétations, la " chronique de la résistance " ou un roman de la permanence, le prolongement de l'etranger ou " un progrès " sur l'etranger, le livre des " damnés " et des solitaires ou le manuel du relatif et de la solidarité - en tout cas, une oeuvre pudique et calculée qu'albert camus douta parfois de mener à bien au cours de sept années de gestation, de maturation et de rédaction difficiles, entrecoupées de combats du résistant et du journaliste. [via]
More editions of LA Peste:
-
A LA Recherche Du Temps Perduby Marcel Proust, Jean-Yves TadieISBN 2070111261 (2-07-011126-1)
Hardcover, Gallimard
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
More editions of A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu:
-
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Familiesby Walker Evans, James AgeeISBN 1900828154 (1-900828-15-4)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families'Book summary:Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to a survey from the Partisan Review; exhaustive catalogs of furniture, clothing, objects, and smells. And then there are Walker Evans's famously stark portraits of depression-era sharecroppers--photographs that both stand apart from and reinforce James Agee's words.
Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.
Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park [via]
More editions of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families:
Letters From New Orleansby Rob WalkerISBN 1891053019 (1-891053-01-9)
Softcover, Garrett County Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters From New Orleans'More editions of Letters From New Orleans:
-
Limekillerby Avram Davidson, Grania Davis, Henry Wessells, Ethan Davidson, Peter S. Beagle, Lucius ShepardISBN 1882968263 (1-882968-26-3)
Hardcover, Pathway Book Service
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Limekiller'More editions of Limekiller:
The Making of America: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of A Nation How 13 Fragile Colonies United to Defy an Empire and Create the World's First great Democracyby Time MagazineISBN 1932994084 (1-932994-08-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of America: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of A Nation How 13 Fragile Colonies United to Defy an Empire and Create the World's First great Democracy'More editions of The Making of America: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of A Nation How 13 Fragile Colonies United to Defy an Empire and Create the World's First great Democracy:
-
Maltese Falconby Dashiell HammettISBN 1883402158 (1-883402-15-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Maltese Falcon'Book summary:Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (including The Dain Curse and The Glass Key), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the police, risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for his help, while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the next moment.
Spade's partner is murdered on a stakeout; the cops blame him for the killing; a beautiful redhead with a heartbreaking story appears and disappears; grotesque villains demand a payoff he can't provide; and everyone wants a fabulously valuable gold statuette of a falcon, created as tribute for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Who has it? And what will it take to get it back? Spade's solution is as complicated as the motives of the seekers assembled in his hotel room, but the truth can be a cold comfort indeed.
Spade is bigger (and blonder) in the book than in the movie, and his Mephistophelean countenance is by turns seductive and volcanic. Sam knows how to fight, whom to call, how to rifle drawers and secrets without leaving a trace, and just the right way to call a woman "Angel" and convince her that she is. He is the quintessence of intelligent cool, with a wise guy's perfect pitch. If you only know the movie, read the book. If you're riveted by Chinatown or wonder where Robert B. Parker's Spenser gets his comebacks, read the master. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
More editions of Maltese Falcon:
The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives: The Greenbrier Ghost and the Famous Murder Mystery of 1897by Katie Letcher LyleISBN 1891852051 (1-891852-05-1)
Hardcover, Quarrier Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives: The Greenbrier Ghost and the Famous Murder Mystery of 1897'More editions of The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives: The Greenbrier Ghost and the Famous Murder Mystery of 1897:
-
McSweeney's Issue 12by Dave EggersISBN 1932416064 (1-932416-06-4)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'McSweeney's Issue 12'Book summary:Issue 12 is made up of three parts. The first and largest section consists entirely of new writers -- new to us, probably new to you, and not even well-known by their own families.Part two is a new story from Roddy Doyle, featuring Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments.Part three is a collection of twenty-minute stories, by which we mean stories written in twenty minutes, from all sorts of people that you know and do not know.[via]More editions of McSweeney's Issue 12:
-
Mcsweeney's Issue 20by Dave EggersISBN 1932416528 (1-932416-52-8)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mcsweeney's Issue 20'Book summary:Every fourth page is a full-color figurative painting, each one by an excellent artist. The other pages have fiction on them, with only one color but lots of words including punched, pants, and Puerto that's actually just the first page. After that, there are stories exploring animal-plant romances, psycho librarians, and passive-agressive ventriloquism. No fewer than two dictators appear as protagonists. And after all that, loosely glued to the inside back cover, there¹s a fifty-page booklet containing a harrowing excerpt from Chris Adrian¹s The Children¹s Hospital..[via]
This is a handsome, handsome issue, brimming with fulfilling things.More editions of Mcsweeney's Issue 20:
Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern: 15by McSweeney'sISBN 1932416145 (1-932416-14-5)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern: 15'More editions of Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern: 15:
-
Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue Number 13by Chris Ware, Eli HorowitzISBN 1932416080 (1-932416-08-0)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue Number 13'Book summary:McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13 is all comics. It is edited by Chris Ware (author of Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth), and features so many artists to know and love: R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Lynda Barry, Los Bros Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, Julie Doucet, and on and on. The issue also includes essays from Michael Chabon, Ira Glass, John Updike, Chip Kidd, and others. A hardcover, clothbound edition, this quarterly comes with an enormous dust jacket that does much more than guard against dust. This one makes our throats go tight.[via]More editions of Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue Number 13:
-
Moi, Tituba, Sorciereby Maryse CondeISBN 2070379299 (2-07-037929-9)
Softcover, Gallimard
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Moi, Tituba, Sorciere'Book summary:Gallimard, 17.5*11 cm, 272 pages [via]
More editions of Moi, Tituba, Sorciere:
Mr. Pipes & Psalms & Hymns of the Reformationby Douglas BondISBN 193036752X (1-930367-52-X)
Softcover, Christian Liberty Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Pipes & Psalms & Hymns of the Reformation'More editions of Mr. Pipes & Psalms & Hymns of the Reformation:
Mr. Pipes & the British Hymn Makersby Douglas BondISBN 1930092121 (1-930092-12-1)
Softcover, Christian Liberty Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Pipes & the British Hymn Makers'More editions of Mr. Pipes & the British Hymn Makers:
Mr. Pipes Comes to Americaby Douglas BondISBN 1930367538 (1-930367-53-8)
Softcover, Psi
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Pipes Comes to America'More editions of Mr. Pipes Comes to America:
-
Nine Hundred Grandmothersby R.A. LaffertyISBN 1880448971 (1-880448-97-1)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Nine Hundred Grandmothers'More editions of Nine Hundred Grandmothers:
-
The Odysseyby Homer, Samuel ButlerISBN 1930142226 (1-930142-22-6)
Hardcover, Sun Hill Rose & Briar Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'More editions of The Odyssey:
Patty Jane's House of Curlby Lorna LandvikISBN 188259312X (1-882593-12-X)
Hardcover, Bridge Works Publishing Company, Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Patty Jane's House of Curl'More editions of Patty Jane's House of Curl:
-
The Polysyllabic Spreeby Nick HornbyISBN 1932416242 (1-932416-24-2)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Polysyllabic Spree'Book summary:In his monthly column "Stuff I've Been Reading," Hornby lists the books he's purchased that month, and briefly discusses the books he's actually read.[via]
NIck Hornby's Polysyllabic Spree Includes selected passages from the novels, biographies, collections of poetry, and comics discussed in the column.More editions of The Polysyllabic Spree:
-
Power and the Presidencyby Robert A. WilsonISBN 1891620436 (1-891620-43-6)
Hardcover, Public Affairs
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Power and the Presidency'Book summary:This little gem of a book offers seven essays by noted presidential biographers, historians, and journalists on the way 20th-century presidents have dealt with power in the Oval Office. The lineup is impressive: David McCullough discusses how the more notable presidents have shaped the presidency; Doris Kearns Goodwin relates Franklin Roosevelt's ability to lead the nation through the Great Depression and World War II; Michael Beschloss contrasts the governing styles of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy; and Robert Caro covers the intricacies of Lyndon Johnson's political life. Each writer is perfectly suited to the task, filling this brief book with lively anecdotes and information, backed by prodigious research and experience. For example, former Washington Post editor Benjamin Bradlee, who covered Nixon's unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1960 and oversaw his paper's Watergate coverage as editor a decade later, uses many first-person experiences and conversations to bring Richard Nixon to life. Edmund Morris, author of Dutch, the controversial biography of Ronald Reagan, and David Maraniss, author of a biography of Bill Clinton, both contribute essays on their subjects as only gifted writers with unlimited access could produce. Anyone who is interested in politics, the presidency, or U.S. history will find much to enjoy here. --Linda Killian [via]
More editions of Power and the Presidency:
Quin's Shanghai Circusby Edward WhittemoreISBN 1882968212 (1-882968-21-2)
Softcover, Pathway Book Service
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Quin's Shanghai Circus'More editions of Quin's Shanghai Circus:
Red Harvestby Dashiell HammetISBN 1883402956 (1-883402-95-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Harvest'More editions of Red Harvest:
-
Reveille in Washington, 1860 - 1865by Margaret LeechISBN 1931313237 (1-931313-23-7)
Softcover, Simon Pubns
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Reveille in Washington, 1860 - 1865'Book summary:Winner of the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in History, it is an authentic, scholarly description of life in Washington during the Civil War, written in a highly readable style. In 2001 a Reader's Catalog Selection, "one of the 40,000+ best books in print." [via]
More editions of Reveille in Washington, 1860 - 1865:
-
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom, and Urgent Meansby William T. VollmannISBN 1932416021 (1-932416-02-1)
Hardcover, McSweeney's Publishing
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom, and Urgent Means'Book summary:A labor of seventeen years, Vollmann's first book of nonfiction since 1992's An Afghanistan Picture Show is a gravely urgent invitation to look back at the world's long, bloody path and find some threads of meaning, wisdom, and guidance to plot a moral course. From the street violence of prostitutes and junkies to the centuries-long battles between the Native Americans and European colonists,Vollmann's mesmerizing imagery and compelling logic is presented with authority born of astounding research and personal experience.[via]More editions of Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom, and Urgent Means:
The Road to the Gunpowder Houseby Neil CurryISBN 1900564289 (1-900564-28-9)
Softcover, Dufour Editions
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road to the Gunpowder House'More editions of The Road to the Gunpowder House:
Secret Lifeby Jeff Vandermeer, Jeffrey FordISBN 1930846274 (1-930846-27-4)
Hardcover, Golden Gryphon Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Life'More editions of Secret Life:
-
The Sheltering Skyby Paul Bowles, Daniel HalpernISBN 1931082197 (1-931082-19-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sheltering Sky'Book summary:Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important composer when at age 39 he published The Sheltering Sky and became recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. From his base in Tangier he produced globally ranging novels, stories, and travel writings that set exquisite surfaces over violent undercurrents. His elegantly spare novels chart the unpredictable collisions between "civilized" exiles and a Morocco they never grasp, achieving effects of extreme horror and dislocation.
This Library of America Bowles set, the first annotated edition, offers the full range of his achievement: the portrait of an outsider who was one of the essential American writers of the last century. In addition to his novels-The Sheltering Sky (1949), Let It Come Down (1952), The Spider's House (1955), Up Above the World (1966)-and his collected stories-including such classics as "A Distant Episode" and "Pages from Cold Point"-they contain his masterpiece of travel writing, Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963). Throughout, Bowles shows himself a master of gothic terror and a diabolically funny observer of manners as well as a prescient guide to everything from the roots of Islamist politics to the world of Moghrebi music. With a hallucinatory clarity as dry and unforgiving as the desert air, Bowles sends his characters toward encounters with unknown and terrifying forces both outside them and within them. [via]More editions of The Sheltering Sky:
Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead: Storiesby Alan DeNiroISBN 1931520178 (1-931520-17-8)
Softcover, Small Beer Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead: Stories'More editions of Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead: Stories:
-
Slave Narrativesby Henry Louis Gates, William L. AndrewsISBN 1883011760 (1-883011-76-0)
Hardcover, Library of America
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Slave Narratives'Book summary:The prestigious Library of America series now includes a volume featuring 10 of the most important slave narratives in African American history. Edited by English professor William L. Andrews of the University of North Carolina and Harvard University's Henry Louis Gates Jr., Slave Narratives tells the true story of American slavery and freedom through the voices of the slaves themselves. These voices, which span from 1772 to 1864, portray an astonishing unity in diversity: from the African-born accents of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and Olaudah Equiano to the deadpan humor exhibited by J.D. Green on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1865. "The Narrative of Frederick Douglass" illuminates what life was like for fugitive slaves, while "The Confessions of Nat Turner" rekindles the flames of the slave revolt. Sojourner Truth's story reflects the revolutionary Christianity that fueled the abolitionist movement and Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" documents the black woman's dual fight against sexual and racial conquest. All told, these works of literature are as important to the American principles of freedom and democracy as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
More editions of Slave Narratives:
The Sleeping Father: A Novelby Matthew SharpeISBN 193236000X (1-932360-00-X)
Softcover, Soft Skull Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sleeping Father: A Novel'More editions of The Sleeping Father: A Novel:
-
Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937by John Steinbeck, Robert Demott, Elaine A. SteinbeckISBN 1883011019 (1-883011-01-9)
Hardcover, Library of America
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937'Book summary:For the first time in one volume, the early California writings of one of America's greatest novelists have been collected, including the seminal works, Tortilla Flat and Of Mice and Men, tracing his early growth and evolution. 20,000 first printing. [via]
More editions of Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937:
Terrorism Lawby Jeffrey F. AddicottISBN 193326411X (1-933264-11-X)
Hardcover, Lawyers & Judges Pub Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Terrorism Law'More editions of Terrorism Law:
-
Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseasesby Jeff VanderMeer, Mark Roberts, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Alan MooreISBN 1892389541 (1-892389-54-1)
Hardcover, Night Shade Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases'Book summary:From Delusions of Universal Grandeur to Twentieth Century Chronoshock, this amusing pocket guide to concocted diseases - designed and illustrated by John Coulthart - features an anthology of slightly morbid, darkly humorous ailments and prognosis srved up by such renowned luminaries as Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock, Gahan Wilson, Brian Stableford, and Michael Bishop. [via]
More editions of Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases:
-
Those Devils in Baggy Pantsby Ross S. CarlerISBN 1886681201 (1-886681-20-1)
Hardcover, Precision Shooting Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Those Devils in Baggy Pants'Book summary:A limited edition reprint of the World War II classic tale of the 82nd Airborne Divisions fight across North Africa and culminated in the Battle of the Bulge. The author was one of three men who survived the suicide stands of his platoon of paratroopers. First published in 1951, over one millon sold. A Reader's Digest condensed book selection. [via]
More editions of Those Devils in Baggy Pants:
Time Millennium: Last Issue of the 20st Century First Issue of the 21st Centuryby Time MagazineISBN 1883013976 (1-883013-97-6)
Hardcover, Time Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Millennium: Last Issue of the 20st Century First Issue of the 21st Century'More editions of Time Millennium: Last Issue of the 20st Century First Issue of the 21st Century:
Timothy Mcsweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been so Scaredby Dave EggersISBN 1932416129 (1-932416-12-9)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Timothy Mcsweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been so Scared'More editions of Timothy Mcsweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been so Scared:
-
U. S. A.by John DOS Passos, Daniel Aaron, Townsend LudingtonISBN 1883011140 (1-883011-14-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'U. S. A.'Book summary:Unique for its epic scale and panoramic social sweep, Dos Passos' masterpiece comprises three novels--"The 42nd Parallel," "1919," and "The Big Money"--which create an unforgettable collective portrait of modern America. This one-volume edition includes detailed notes and a chronicle of the world events which serve as a backdrop. [via]
More editions of U. S. A.:
Unconditional Surrender: The Capture of Forts Henry and Donelsonby Spencer TuckerISBN 1893114112 (1-893114-11-2)
Hardcover, Texas A & M Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Unconditional Surrender: The Capture of Forts Henry and Donelson'More editions of Unconditional Surrender: The Capture of Forts Henry and Donelson:
-
United States of America Rights for AllISBN 1887204156 (1-887204-15-6)
Softcover, Amnesty Intl USA
Find This BookMore editions of United States of America Rights for All:
Waging Modern Warby Wesley K. ClarkISBN 1903985552 (1-903985-55-2)
Softcover, Public Affairs
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Waging Modern War'Book summary:General Wesley K Clark was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe between 1997 and 2000, and in Waging Modern War he recounts how he masterminded "Operation Allied Force", the ultimately successful war against Serbia in Kosovo throughout the early months of 1999. However, this is no simple-minded military memoir. As a West Point graduate and Rhodes Scholar, Clark was regarded as both an intellectual and a hawk, a difficult position that led to a series of awkward political encounters throughout the military campaign. One of the most absorbing dimensions of the book is Clark's description of how he
...was torn between the guidance and perspective I gained from NATO, heavily influenced by the Department of State, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Downing Street, and the White House, and what I would hear in my US military chain reporting to the Pentagon.
As Clark increasingly pushed for a land invasion, US political interference ensured that the completion of the operation became even more difficult. Clark's clashes with both Slobodan Milosevic and US Secretary of Defence William Cohen are both fascinating insights into contemporary realpolitik, while President Clinton remains a remarkably shadowy, ambivalent figure on the political margins of Clarke's book.Waging Modern War is also an ambitious statement on the changing nature of warfare. Clark argues that Kosovo represented "modern war--limited, carefully constrained in geography, scope, weaponry and effects. Every measure of escalation was excruciatingly weighed". This is a timely reassessment of the political and military shape of the world in the aftermath of the Cold War by someone operating at its very heart. Clark emerges as a quiet but determined and ferociously competitive figure, who has written a formidably detailed account of Europe's first, and hopefully last "modern war". --Jerry Brotton [via]
-
What Is the Whatby Dave EggersISBN 1932416641 (1-932416-64-1)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'What Is the What'Book summary:In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where he finds safety for a time. Valentino's travels, truly Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with government soldiers, janjaweed-like militias, liberation rebels, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation and a string of unexpected romances. Ultimately, Valentino finds safety in Kenya and, just after the millennium, is finally resettled in the United States, from where this novel is narrated. In this book, written with expansive humanity and surprising humor, we come to understand the nature of the conflicts in Sudan, the refugee experience in America, the dreams of the Dinka people, and the challenge one indomitable man faces in a world collapsing around him.[via]More editions of What Is the What:
-
The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracyby Howard ZinnISBN 1888363541 (1-888363-54-1)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy'Book summary:No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each of his works serves as a reminder that to embrace one's subjectivity can mean embracing one's humanity, that heart and mind can speak with one voice. Here, in six sections, is the historian's own choice of his shorter essays on some of the most critical problems facing America throughout its history, and today. [via]
More editions of The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy:
French
-
American Psycho-Frenchby Bret Easton EllisISBN 2020253801 (2-02-025380-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'American Psycho-French'Book summary:Patrick Bateman est un jeune homme riche, beau et intelligent. Un golden boy de Wall Street à qui tout réussit. Il est par ailleurs parfaitement au fait des techniques de nettoyage et désincrustage de la peau les plus efficaces, il s'applique les meilleures crèmes pour le visage, ne porte que des vêtements de grands couturiers, utilise les derniers gadgets technologiques et passe ses soirées au Tunnel, la boîte branchée du moment. Bien sûr, tous ses amis sont comme lui.
La seule différence, c'est qu'en plus Patrick Bateman viole, torture et tue. Mais il ne ressent jamais rien. Juste une légère contrariété lorsque ses scénarii ne se déroulent pas exactement comme prévu. À sa sortie en 1991, le roman d'Ellis suscita une vive émotion, aussi bien à cause de ses scènes d'horreur décrites quasi cliniquement que de son principal personnage, Bateman, symbole de la réussite économique, enfant prodige travesti en tueur sadique et immoral. Il faut dire qu'Ellis s'attaque de front à tous les excès de superficialité de l'Occident contemporain : sexe, culte du corps, de la richesse et de la jeunesse. Une entreprise de destruction commencée très tôt avec son premier roman Moins que zéro écrit alors qu'il avait 22 ans et que l'on retrouve dans Glamorama. Bret Easton Ellis ou l'art de mettre de l'acide sur les plaies béantes de la société. --Stellio Paris [via]
More editions of American Psycho-French:
La Chuteby Albert CamusISBN 2070360105 (2-07-036010-5)
Softcover, Flammarion et Cie
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'La Chute'More editions of La Chute:
-
Du Cote De Chez Swannby Marcel ProustISBN 2070379248 (2-07-037924-8)
Softcover, Gallimard
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Du Cote De Chez Swann'Book summary:L'expression roman fleuve devrait, sans connotation péjorative, désigner une Suvre qui prend le temps de charrier mille petites particules d'impression pour les infuser dans l'esprit d'un lecteur captivé. En somme, elle devrait avoir été créée pour désigner La Recherche proustienne, qui s'ouvre Du côté de chez Swann et s'achève une fois Le Temps retrouvé.
Dans le premier tome de ce superbe travail sur la mémoire et la métaphore, Suvre à part entière mais aussi amorce dramatique d'un joyau de la langue française, le narrateur s'aperçoit fortuitement, à l'occasion d'un goûter composé d'une tasse de thé et d'une madeleine désormais célèbre, que les sens ont la faculté de faire ressurgir le souvenir. Grâce aux senteurs d'un buisson d'aubépines, il prend confusément conscience de la distinction entre le souvenir et la réminiscence, pour ensuite s'exercer à manier les mots comme de petits papiers japonais qui, touchés par la grâce de l'eau, se déploient en corolle pour faire place à tout un univers. Tout comme se déploie un roman fleuve à partir de cette toute petite phrase légendaire : "Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure". --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
More editions of Du Cote De Chez Swann:
-
Le Patient Anglais (L'Homme Flambe)/ The English Patientby Michael OndaatjeISBN 2020181614 (2-02-018161-4)
Softcover, Editions Du Seuil
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Patient Anglais (L'Homme Flambe)/ The English Patient'Book summary:C'est un étrange huis clos à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans une villa italienne transformée en hôpital de campagne. Hanna, une jeune infirmière, a refusé d'évacuer les lieux pour rester veiller sur son unique patient, un aviateur anglais grièvement brûlé. Pour toute compagnie, elle a une sorte d'aventurier qui a travaillé dans les renseignements et un jeune sikh, enrôlé dans l'armée britannique en qualité de démineur, et qui est venu planter sa tente dans le jardin. Dans cette atmosphère de fin du monde où la mort rôde omniprésente, chacun se raconte et lève le voile sur son passé. Mais le plus mystérieux de tous reste cet homme flambé, lié à son infirmière par une étrange relation et dont on ne sait pas très bien s'il est un véritable héros de l'aviation britannique, un simple aventurier ou un espion à la solde des Allemands. Michael Ondaatje, qui est né au Sri Lanka et a fait ses études en Angleterre avant de s'établir à Toronto, a obtenu le Booker Prize en 1992 pour ce roman qui a été adapté avec succès à l'écran par Anthony Minghella. --Gérard Meudal [via]
More editions of Le Patient Anglais (L'Homme Flambe)/ The English Patient:
Results page: PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101-119 NEXT
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}