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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Publisher Metrobooks by arrangement with Saraband, First Thus, 2001. CR Saraband (Scotland) Limited. Hardcover quarto book and jacket in Very Good Condition. Black cloth with silver titles, some edges and corners slightly rubbed, else Fine. Tight, solid and square swen binding. Internals As New. Glossy, bright, illustrated jacket has slight wear to edges, else Fine. Dozens of castles lavishly illustrated in full color with three panoramic fold-outs featuring all the key elements of the medieval castle, with lively narrative by a leading military strategist. A fascinating history of fortified structures from prehistoric times onward. Glossay with some color pictures of selected items. 208 pages wiith Glossary, Index, and Bibliography. 4to. 2001, Metrobooks.

Seller Inventory # 028842

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. American Master Products, Inc., Fourth Printing, 2008. 1,046 Quick-and-Easy Ways to make your yard and garden absolutely irresistible to birds. Hardcover Book with bright and colorful illustrated cover, no jacket, in Near Fine Condition. Slight wear to front lower corner. Illustrated by Elayne Sears. Section pp 329-360: The Best Birdscaping Plants, on glossy full color pages, inclues a full color portrait of each plant and several photos of common birds that are attracted to it. 376 pages, inc. USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map and index. 8vo. 2008, American Master Products, Inc. ISBN10: 0922433887, ISBN13: 9780922433889.

Seller Inventory # 028839

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hamlyn Publishing Group, Second Impression, 1988. First published 1987. Hardcover Quarto in Very Good Condition. Internals in Fine Condition. No Jacket. Lavishly illustrated with colour and monotone illustrations on nearly every page. Laminated illustrated cover is clean and bright, slight wear to front edge of spine head and heel; corners bumped, lightly scuffed; light imperfection to upper front corner of cover. Front cover illus: The Jack-in-the-green, a May Day custom of English city sweeps in the 18th & 19th centuries. Back cover illus: Corn dolly from Montenegro Horniman Museum. Here are the persistently recurring thought-patterns, beliefs and stories, which for centuries shaped the European peasant's outlook--from Britain, France, Greece and Germany to Russia and Scandinavia. This folklore is "mythology" in that it is concerned with supernatural forces as real entities in the everyday world. Printed in Yugoslavia. 144 pages. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. 1988, Hamlyn Publishing Group, London, UK.

Seller Inventory # 028840

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First Fall River Press Edition, 2010, As New. In an illustrated book box. Originally published in 2004 as "Know Your Bird Sounds, Volume 1". Includes a handcrafted birchwood Audubon bird call; Illustrated Guide--"The Handy Book of Bird Calls" with color photographs, to the Songs and Calls of 35 Common Birds; and a CD of Bird Call Field Recordings of the birds discussed in the book. Fall River Press, 2010.

Seller Inventory # 028841

Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Vintage Books, 2012. Trade Paperback in As New Condition. Clean, unmarked, solid book. Ilustations by the author. ISBN10: 0345804376, ISBN13: 9780345804372.

Seller Inventory # 028833

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Vintage Books, 2010. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Clean, unmarked, solid book, looks unused, no defects. A clear explanation of how the United States went from the prosperous years of 1947-1975 to the Great Recession. . ISBN10: 0345807227, ISBN13: 9780345807229.

Seller Inventory # 028832

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Penguin Books, 2017, Third Printing. Softcover Book in Near Fine Condition. Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America, including Richard Russo, Joyce Carol Oates, Eula Biss, Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, and many more. 330 pp. 8vo. 2017, Penguin Books, NY. ISBN 10: 0143131036 ISBN 13: 9780143131038 [US].

Seller Inventory # 028835

Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. Trade Paperback As New. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Epilogue, Notes, Index. 306 pages. 8vo. 2017, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN10: 0374537445, ISBN13: 9780374537449,

Seller Inventory # 028834

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Signet Classics, 2005. First published 1935, Paperback in Very Good Condition. With a new Introduction by Michael Meyer. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, written during the Great Depression a prescient novel that remains as contemporary as today's news. Slight waviness to some pages. Rear upper corner creased. Clean and unmarked, solid book. 384 pages. 7.5 x 4.25". 2005, Signet Classics. ISBN10: 0451529294, ISBN13: 9780451529299.

Seller Inventory # 028836

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Good Condition, Clean, unmarked, gently used book, with lower corner of the cover front and around back scuffed off. . Part social history and part memoir, of immigrant Jewish life in the early 20th century in New York. During this time, between 1880 and the outbreak of World War i in 1914, nearly 3 million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe, to escape all sorts of atrocities, and to bring to New York the vitality of the streets, of schools, markets, synagogues, and tenement halls, and their energy and many-faceted talents and gifts. 310 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 2001, W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London.

Seller Inventory # 028838

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Alfred A. Knopf, 2019, First Edition Hardcover Book and Dust Jcket As New. A savagely funny satire of the United States in the throes of insanity Illustrations and Jacket design by Nathaniel Russell. 114 pages. 8vo. 2019, Alfred A. Knopf. 0525659080 9780525659082.

Seller Inventory # 028837

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. First Vintage Printing. Paperback in Very Good Consition. Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway. Clean, unmarked, solid book with crease to lower corner of a few pages, pencil line to lower edge of text block. A novel as an allegory of post-Holocaust Germany, about a family ravaged by regret at the loss of their first-born son. 136 pages. 8vo. 1999, Vintage, New York.

Seller Inventory # 028830

Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. First Munsey's Printing. 2008. First Published 1938. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. Clean, bright, unmarked red wraps, tight & solid sewn binding, square; internals also as new. R. Austin Freeman, 1862-1943, was a British writer of detective stories, the Father of forensic crime fiction. 239 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 2008, Munsey's, Vancouver, BC.

Seller Inventory # 028823

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Navy quarter cloth with gilt titles, blue boards. Tan spot to upper edge of text block, light wear to corners and spine edges. 184 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 1990, St. Martin's Press, New York.

Seller Inventory # 028825

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback [publisher: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937, 6th printing May 1937] , 435pp Hardcover Book in Good Condition in blue full cloth, gilt titles to spine; light wear/bumping to corners, light wear to spine head and heel. Sewn binding tight and solid, square. Rough cut. Pages lightly and evenly toned, quite clean, no markings of any kind. A story of how the Pargiters, a middle-class London family, adjust to a move from their Victorian home of the 1880s to their home in the 1930s. "The Years", written in 1937, was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime. 435 pp. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 1937, Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York.

Seller Inventory # 028828

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, glossy, unmarked, pictorial wrappers. no wear to extremities; tiny flecks in upper left corner. Internals as new. Pages like new. Sound, tight, square binding. A postapocalyptic novel. 287 pages. 5.2 x 8 inches. Vintage International/Random House, New York, 2006.

Seller Inventory # 028821

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked gently used book. Faint wear to some cover edges, soundly bound, square, pages toned, completely unmarked, nio creases. A classic study of international relations. 367 pages w/Notes and Index. 8" x 5". 2002, Simon & Schuster UK, London, UK.

Seller Inventory # 028829

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback First published in 1947- No date stated for this reprint. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Bound in navy cloth with author's initials imprinted on front, red panels on spine, gold titles within, gold design. Very clean, binding tight and solid; front panel has a scratch on the lower right, not discolored. Spine head lightly frayed. Upper edge tinted red. Fore edge and bottom edge rough cut. Interior very clean and unmarked, no writing, no tears, pages toned. Set in mid-20th century America. 348 pages. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. 1947, Random House, New York and Toronto.

Seller Inventory # 028819

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Pages toned, moderately so along edges, otherwise very clean and completely unmarked book, cover white with ilustration, no creases. An account of life in mid-19th century Cannery Row, U.S.A. 206 pages. 4.4 x 7 inches. 1971, Pan Books, London, UK.

Seller Inventory # 028826

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Type: Hardback 1957 Hardcover BCE Book in Very Good Condition with an Acceptable Vintage Dust Jacket protected in archival sleeve. Black cloth over spine with red titles, green cloth wrapped boards, very clean and unmarked, lower fron corner bumped; tight, solid and square binding; rough cut on fore edge and lower edge. Bookplate on inside of front cover-humorous war bookplate. b/w drawings. Pages quite clean and completely unmarked, no creasing. This is a journal kept by a twenty-one-year old marine recruit during training, and then combat in Korea. 333 pages. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. 1957, Rinehart & Company, New York Toronto.

Seller Inventory # 028824

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Printing of First Edition, 1968. Trade Paperback bound in publisher's illustrated stiff paper covers, in Good Condition. Gold cover with green titles and green/gold illustration is clean and unmarked, rubbed all along fore edge of front and back cover; rubbed on upper part of front hinge and spine head and heel. Solid, tight binding, square & solid volume, Internals are quite clean, no markings of any kind, no creasing--internals are in near fine condition. This volume is a collection of contemporary documents, accounts, and essays on main movements in Europe from the times of the Romans to 1300, and closing the book at the end of the thirteenth century. An example of the organization and contents included is Chapter One: The Reorganization of the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century: Sources: The Theodosian Code, Diocletians Edict on Maximum Prices, Ammianus Marcellinus. In other chapters there are documents relating to The Germans and the Decline of Rome; The Christian Antique; Merovingian and Carolingian Gaul; Feudalism and Manorialism; The Investiture Controversy; The Crusades; The Twelfth Century Awakening; The Church in the High Middle Ages; The Triumph of Scholasticism. 575 pages. 6 x 9 inches. The Dorset Press, Homewood, Illinois, 1968.

Seller Inventory # 028822

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback A Treasury of Adventure Stories! Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Jack London lived only forty years but he experienced in those years all the color and excitement that he put into his stories. Bound in green and gray cloth w/ gilt titles, illustration of snowshoes on spine and on front, Clean, no marks, front upper corner and rear bottom corner scuffed and gently bumped, other corners gently bumped; spine head chipped. Edges rubbed, esp. rear upper edge. Inner hinge cracked. Sewn binding tight and solid with endband. Pages clean, no marks, not toned. 528 pages. Platt & Munk, Publishers, New York, New York, USA 1960.

Seller Inventory # 028820

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Slight wear to cover edges, pages toned, otherwise quite clean and unmarked, tight and solid glued binding. Brian Moore's 18th novel is set in the sun drenched south of France, post-World War II. A portrait of the double-faced nature of loyalty and vengeance. Historical fiction that dims the barrier between fact and fiction. 250 pages. 8 x 5.25 inches. 1997, Plume/Penguin Group, New York.

Seller Inventory # 028827

Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hard Back Fifty-Second Printing, 1959, of the 1909 Original Edition. Hardcover Book in NEAR FINE Condition. Bound in forest green leather with gilt shield, decoration and titles on the spine; blind-stamped shield and ruffled lines on front. No jacket, as issued. Registered edition with Introduction and Notes. Very clean, no marks, tight, square, solid sewn binding. Frontis: Portrait of Thomas H. Huxley. Pages very clean and free from any markings, no creasing, faintly toned, fine condition. Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf of Books originally published in 1909 is a 50 volume anthology of classic works from world literature. This anthology originated from a challenge made by P. F. Collier to Dr. Eliot based on speeches he made stating that a good liberal education could be had by reading 15 minutes a day from a collection of books that could fit on a five foot shelf. Collier challenged him to make good on this statement by selecting such a collection of works--the Harvard Classics were the result. Includes Essays by William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, Thomas Henry Huxley, Edward Augustus Freeman, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Ellery Channing, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell. 470 pages. 8.6 x 5.7 inches. P.F.Collier & Son, New York, 1959.

Seller Inventory # 021164

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Vintage International, 1990. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Green and brown clean wrappers, light wear around edges, no creases. Soundly bound with all pages intact. Internals quite clean and free from any markings; moderately to heavily toned. The story of Thomas Sutpen who is born to a 'poor-white' family in the West Virginia mountains who runs away to Haiti at age 14. Later he appears in Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, with a band of Haitians, obtains 100 acres from the Chickaswa Indians, creates a plantation, builds a large house on 'Sutpen's Hundred'. He is obsessed with gaining status in the aristocracy of the South. He goes to great lengths, mostly sordid, to produce heirs for his 'dynasty'. Nobel Prize laureate Willima Faulkner was born 1897 in Mississippi and died 1962, 313 pages. 8vo. 1990, Vintage International, USA.

Seller Inventory # 028815

Paperback. Condition: Good. Nobel Prize Winning Classic American Author. Publisher: Vintage International/Random House, Inc., 2007. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Blue glossy wrappers clean, light indentations, front flares up. Binding tight and solid. Corners on first page of book folded. Internals in near fine condition. With her story of a young black girl, Pecola Breedlove, Toni Morrison brings us a brilliant examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity. She asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender. 206 pages. 8vo. 2007, Vintage International.

Seller Inventory # 028812

Paperback. Condition: Good. Two Chinese detective stories. Paperback in Good Condition, with eight illustrations drawn by the author in Chinese style. Clean green and black illustrated cover, wear around all edges, creases down front near spine; binding tight and solid. Pages very clean, no markings of any kind. Judge Dee novels are delightful and scrupulously in the classic Chinese manner. If you have not met Judge Dee yet, you are in for a treat. 141 pp. 12mo. 1965, Charles Scribner' Sons. New York.

Seller Inventory # 028809

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Vintage International, 1993. First published 1931 Trade Paperback in Fair Condition. Worn, clean volume with lots of reading left in it! William Faulkner, 1887-1962, was an American writer and Nobel Prize Laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. He is one of the most important American writers of literature generally and specifically of Southern literature. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1949 and 2 of his novels won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This novel, set in the South, is a sadistic horror story set in Mississippi--bootleggers, rape, degeneracy, murder, lynching. 326 pages. 8vo. 1993, Vintage International.

Seller Inventory # 028817

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Vintage International, 1990. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. This edition follows the text of "As I Lay Dying" as corrected in 1985. Good, clean, solid book with faint corner and edge wear, tight and solid, pages edges and pages clean, toned, no markings or creases. This Faulkner novel is a harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. It is told in turns by each family memeber, including Addie herself. The novel ranges from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. 267 pages. 5.2 x 8 inches.1990, Vintage International/Random House, USA.

Seller Inventory # 028816

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback in Good Condition. Considered a literary classic. Edited by Robert Wooster Stallman. Larger mass-market paperback with heavy glossy wrappers, with colorful thin stripes in orange, gray, white, and yellow on front, yellow back. Clean lightly browned pages. Page 105 has four spots. Twelve Stephen Crane (1871-1900) stories--novelettes, including Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and George's Mother; short stories and tales, including The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Open Boat, and The Blue Hotel. There are also examples of Crane's newspaper reporting's. The editor provides informative and critical information helpful in placing and understanding Crane as a writer. All Crane''s finest fiction are included except The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane died at age 28 and left an amazing writer's legacy behind. 350 pp with Bibliography. 7.25 x 4.5". 1955, Vintage Books/Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Seller Inventory # 028811