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Hotel Splendide

By: Bemelmans, Ludwig

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Viking Press: 1941

Seller ID: 2302626

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed, two surface tears on jacket spine, one inch tear along top edge of rear jacket panel. Spine slightly cocked. 1941 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 192 pp. An affectionate novel about behind-the-scenes working at the fictional Hotel Splendide with Bemelmans' own charming illustrations.
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Willful Creatures: Stories

By: Bender, Aimee

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Doubleday: 2005

Seller ID: 2270999

ISBN: 0385501137

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2005 Hard Cover. 208 pp. Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt emotion, Bender once again proves herself to be a masterful chronicler of the human condition.
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Arnold Bennett's Letters to His Nephew

By: Bennett, Arnold; Swinnerton, Frank

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1935

Seller ID: 2304458

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Spine lightly toned, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1935 Hard Cover. xxi, 352 pp. With a Preface by Frank Swinnerton. Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist. He was a prolific writer: between the start of his career in 1898 and his death he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal of more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 different newspapers and periodicals, worked in, and brief...
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Robbery on the Highway

By: Bennett, Paul L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London / New York / Toronto, Abelard-Schuman: 1961

Seller ID: 2195673

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('To Jane Abbott with best wishes -- Paul L. Bennett'). Edges lightly foxed, 1/4 inch closed tear to top jacket edge.1961 Hard Cover. 191 pp. Two boys resolve to set aside their differences after a tragedy and play an important role in solving a mystery. A story of suspense, danger, fun, and hard work.
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Out of Order

By: Benoit, Charles

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press: 2006

Seller ID: 2197675

ISBN: 1590582527

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2006 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 234 pp. 8vo. At 27, Jason Talley of Corning, New York, leads an orderly life, precisely processing loans for a mortgage company. Its warmest spot is his friendship with Sriram Sundaram and his lively wife Vidya. One night Sriram secretly confides he's planning a trip home to India to visit his mother and asks Jason to hold her gift, a gorgeous red silk sari. The very next evening Jason arrives home to sirens and cops--Sriram and Vidya are dead. The cops call it a mu...
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Range of Motion

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: 1995

Seller ID: 2270889

ISBN: 0679437452

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 217 pp. After a freak accident--ice fell on him as he walked in the street--a man lies in a coma in a hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. Lainey, his wife, is the only one who believes he will recover. She visits him every day, bringing family objects and talking of home, becoming ever more aware of the wonder and richness of daily life.
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Say When

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Atria Books: 2003

Seller ID: 2270890

ISBN: 0743411366

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 262 pp. A searing, evocative novel of a family in turmoil focuses on a family whose ordinary life has been shattered by unexpected revelations, in a story told from the perspective of a husband who must work through denial and anguish to redemption and personal responsibility after he overnight goes from lover to roommate.
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The Art of Mending: A Novel

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: 2004

Seller ID: 2270891

ISBN: 1400061598

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 237 pp. It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets—secrets that have shaped the personalities and fates of three siblings, and now threaten to tear them apart. In renowned author Elizabeth Berg’s moving new novel, unearthed truths force one seemingly ordinary family to reexamine their disparate lives and to ask themselves: Is it too late to mend the hurts of the past? Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture...
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What We Keep

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: 1998

Seller ID: 2270892

ISBN: 0375500995

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 272 pp. Do you ever really know your mother, your daughter, the people in your family? In this rich and rewarding new novel by the beloved bestselling author of Talk Before Sleep and The Pull of the Moon, a reunion between two sisters and their mother reveals how the secrets and complexities of the past have shaped the lives of the women in a family. Ginny Young is on a plane, en route to see her mother, whom she hasn't seen or spoken to for thirty-five years. S...
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The Pull of the Moon

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: 1996

Seller ID: 2270894

ISBN: 0679449728

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 193 pp. Uncomfortable with the fit of her life, now that she's in the middle of it, Nan gets into her car and just goes--driving across the country on back roads, following the moon; and stopping to talk to people. Through conversations with women, men, with her husband through letters, and with herself through her diary, Nan confronts topics long overdue for her attention. She writes to her husband and says things she's never admitted before; and she discovers how t...
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Joy School: A Novel

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: 1997

Seller ID: 2270895

ISBN: 0679449434

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 208 pp. In this exquisite new novel by bestselling writer Elizabeth Berg, a young woman falls in love -- and learns how sorrow can lead to an understanding of joy. Katie, the narrator, has relocated to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father, and she feels very much alone: her much-loved mother is dead; her new school is unaccepting of her; and her only friends fall far short of being ideal companions. When she accidentally falls through the ice while ...
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Ordinary Life: Stories

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: 2002

Seller ID: 2271022

ISBN: 0679437460

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Author trading card laid in. A very nice copy. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 192 pp. In this superb collection of short stories, the bestselling author of Open House and Talk Before Sleep takes us into the times in women’s lives when memories and events cohere to create a sense of wholeness, understanding, and change. In Ordinary Life, Mavis McPherson locks herself in the bathroom for a week, and no, she isn’t contemplating getting a divorce—she just needs some time to think, to take stock of her life, ...
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The Year of Pleasures: A Novel

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: 2005

Seller ID: 2271023

ISBN: 1400061601

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 206 pp. In this rich and deeply satisfying novel by the beloved author of The Art of Mending, and Open House, a resilient woman embarks upon an unforgettable journey of adventure, self-discovery, and renewal. Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew. Pursuing a dream of a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simply daily routines. Among those who help her in both expected and unexpected wa...
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Never Change

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Pocket Books: 2001

Seller ID: 2271025

ISBN: 0743411323

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 214 pp. Resigned to her life alone, fifty-one-year-old spinster Myra Lipinsky endures her isolation by immersing herself in her career as a visiting nurse, in which role she is reunited with Chip Reardon, the onetime golden boy she adored from afar in high school, who has returned to his New England hometown to live while he deals with an incurable illness.
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Until the Real Thing Comes Along: A Novel

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: 1999

Seller ID: 2271026

ISBN: 0679457224

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 241 pp. What do you do when your life isn't living up to your dreams? When the man you love is unavailable, and yet you long for a family, a home? What is the cost of compromising until the real thing comes along? Reading Elizabeth Berg is like having a friend sit down and talk with you about the deepest truths and most perplexing issues in life, and in this exquisite new novel the bestselling author of Talk Before Sleep and The Pull of the Moon once again gives...
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True to Form: A Novel

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Atria Books: 2002

Seller ID: 2271027

ISBN: 074341134X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 214 pp. Living with her stern, unapproachable father and his new wife after the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Katie finds herself lonely and forges an alliance with Cynthia, a fellow misfit, but when she tries to become part of the in-crowd, she loses her best friend and learns some valuable lessons about herself, her dreams, and her past.
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Open House: A Novel

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: 2000

Seller ID: 2271028

ISBN: 0375501002

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 241 pp. In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along, a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart. Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more p...
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Escaping into the Open: The Art of Writing True

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $20.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: 1999

Seller ID: 2271029

ISBN: 0060191791

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 223 pp. Bestselling, award-winning novelist Elizabeth Berg knows a thing or two about writing, having graced the world with wonderful works of fiction including Talk Before Sleep, The Year of Pleasures, and the acclaimed Oprah Book Club Selection, Open House. With Escaping Into the Open, she offers an inspiring, eminently entertaining, and delightfully practical handbook on the joys, challenges, and creative possibilities inherent in the writing life...
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The Dragon's Triangle

By: Berlitz, Charles

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Wynwood Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2296325

ISBN: 0922066191

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped. 1989 Hard Cover. 208 pp. The Devil's Sea, also known as the Dragon's Triangle, the Formosa Triangle and the Pacific Bermuda Triangle, is a region of the Pacific around Miyake Island, about 100 km south of Tokyo. The size and area varies with the report (the only reports stem from the 1950s), with various reports placing it 70 miles from an unspecified part of Japan's east coast, 300 miles from the coast, and even near Iwo Jima, 750 miles from the coast. The story is apparently based on a few articles published in Japanese newspapers in January 1955 o...
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Instinct: A Study in Social Psychology

By: Bernard, L.L.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Henry, Holt and Company: 1924

Seller ID: 2305195

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket. Whale stamp (similar to those used in whaling journals) on front free endpaper, pencil note on front endpaper states 'H.A. Murray's copy' but we located no ownership marks to corroborate this. If it is in fact the case, though, the association is interesting: Henry Alexander Murray was an American psychologist at Harvard University, where from 1959 to 1962 he conducted a series of psychologically-damaging experiments on undergraduate students, one of whom was Ted Kaczynski, later known as the Unabomber.. 1924 Hard Cover. ix, 550 pp. Blue cloth boards. CONTENTS: Introd...
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Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories

By: Berriault, Gina

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Counterpoint: 1996

Seller ID: 2281558

ISBN: 1887178104

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine head and spine base lightly bumped. Very faint odor of smoke. 1996 Hard Cover. viii, 342 pp. What moves us? What dictates our behavior? What alters us? A collection of thirty-five stories examining people's behavior and what motivates them. Nine new stories are included in this collection of thirty-five.
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The Aden Effect (A Connor Stark Novel)

By: Berube, Claude

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 2012

Seller ID: 2295912

ISBN: 1612511090

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 2012 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 260 pp. In this exciting contemporary thriller, pirates are capturing ships at will off the Horn of Africa and the navies of the world cannot protect the international shipping lanes. In response, the newly confirmed Ambassador to Yemen, C.J. Sumner, is assigned by the White House to negotiate access to the rich oil fields off the island of Socotra and to convince the Yemenis' to help deter the pirates. Meeting with resistance to her diplomatic overtures, Sumner becomes desperate as the White House ...
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The Agony Column

By: Biggers, Earl Derr

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1916

Seller ID: 2304509

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket. Pencil date on front free endpaper. 1916 Hard Cover. 193 pp. Brown boards, red titles. The Agony Column (also published as Second Floor Mystery) is a romantic suspense thriller, narrated in a series of seven letters between two prospective lovers.
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Pictures of Rochester in Verse

By: Bingeman, Melissa E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Melissa E. Bingeman: 1930

Seller ID: 2305546

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Boards very faintly toned, sticker on front free endpaper. 1930 Hard Cover. 35 pp. These poems appeared serially in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle from March to October, 1930. Places include the Port of Rochester, Oxford Street, Cob's Hill, Browncroft, Genesee, Durand-Eastman Park, Park Avenue, Irondequoit, Highland Park, Pinnacle Hill, East Avenue, and more.
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Lost City of the Incas: The Story of Machu Picchu and Its Builders

By: Bingham, Hiram

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce: 1948

Seller ID: 2305804

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A few small tears and small chips to jacket edges. 1948 Hard Cover. xviii, 263 pp. Hiram Bingham describes the Peruvian expedition to the Inca capitals of Vitcos and Vilcapampa, lost for three centuries under the shadow of Machu Picchu mountain. Here is all that is known about Machu Picchu, its origin, how it came to be lost, and how it was finally discovered.
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Great Railway Stations of Europe

By: Binney, Marcus; Hamm, Manfred; Foehl, Axel

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: 1985

Seller ID: 2295694

ISBN: 0500013462

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Top page ridge very faintly foxed. Minor general wear. 1985 Large Hardcover. 144 pp. Includes 107 illustrations, 50 in color. Briefly traces the history of railway stations, shows stations in Britain, Germany, Finland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, and Holland, and describes each terminal's background.
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Attack on Quebec: The American Invasion of Canada, 1775-1776

By: Bird, Harrison

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1968

Seller ID: 2294643

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Top edge of rear jacket panel very faintly foxed. 1968 Hard Cover. 255 pp. Endpapers illustrated with a map of British Canada after the Quebec Act, 1774, showing invasion routes taken by Brig. Gen. Montgomery and Col. Arnold, Sept.-Nov. 1775. For this dramatic re-creation of an American Revolutionary campaign, Harrison Bird has assembled his cast with a practiced hand. It includes Arnold's colorful captains, one of whom was the redoubtable Daniel Morgan from Virginia; Aaron Bur; the exquisite Lieutenant John Andre; George Washington; General Philip Schuyler; and Joseph Brant, th...
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VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health... For Good

By: Bittman, Mark; Ornish, Dean

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers: 2013

Seller ID: 2275575

ISBN: 0385344740

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Very minor general wear. 2013 Hard Cover. xi, 276 pp. Six years ago, an overweight, pre-diabetic Mark Bittman faced a medical directive: adopt a vegan diet or go on medication. He was no fan of a lifelong regimen of pills, but as a food writer he lived—and worked—to eat. So neither choice was appealing. His solution was a deal with himself. He would become a “flexitarian.” He adopted a diet heavy in vegetables, fruits, and grains by following a healthy vegan diet (no meat, dairy, or processed foods) all day. After 6:00 p.m. he’d eat however he wanted, though mostly in ...
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War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000

By: Black, Jeremy

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: 1998

Seller ID: 2294525

ISBN: 0300072023

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Page edges very faintly toned, otherwise in excellent condition. 1998 Large Hardcover. 334 pp. In this brilliant history of warfare, Jeremy Black is the first to approach the entire modern era from a comprehensive global perspective. He provides a wide-ranging account of the nature, purpose, and experience of war over the past half-millennium and argues the importance of viewing the rise of European power within a wider international context. Investigating both land and sea warfare, Black examines weaponry, tactics, strategy, and resources as well as the political, social, and c...
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The Beast Must Die

By: Blake, Nicholas (Lewis, Cecil Day)

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1938

Seller ID: 2202720

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Lacks jacket. Portion of front jacket flap mounted on front endpaper beneath dealer bookplate. Cover lightly smudged. 1938 Hard Cover. 255 pp. 8vo. A novel written pseudonymously by Irish author and British Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis, father of actor Daniel Day Lewis. The book was adapted into an Argentinian film entitled La Bestia debe morir in 1952.
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