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The Pillars of Eternity (Daw Books, No. 474)

By: Bayley, Barrington J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Daw: 1982

Seller ID: 2299788

ISBN: 0879977175

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. 1982 Mass Market Paperback. 159 pp. When the Colonnaders plucked him from a life of misery and their surgeons rebuilt his twisted body with silicon bones, Joachim Boaz renamed himself after THE PILLARS OF ETERNITY. Now he seeks Meirjaihn the Wanderer, a planet that plots its own course between stars: for on its surface lies a gem that offers mastery over time itself . . .
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Maps of War

By: Baynton-Williams, Ashley & Miles

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Quercus: 2007

Seller ID: 2283153

ISBN: 1847242073

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Bottom edge of rear board bumped. 2007 Large Hardcover. 223 pp. A lavish collection of 150 contemporary maps of the world's greatest battles. Gaze across history's bloodiest battlefields, as beautifully realized by the cartographers of the time. From the depiction of the battle of Pinkie Cleugh between England and Scotland in 1547the earliest map printed in the British Islesto chartings of the American War of Independence, and from plans of the advance of the British fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar to the trench maps of World War I, this unique collection highlights the extraor...
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The Ne'er-Do-Well

By: Beach, Rex; Christy, Howard Chandler

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1911

Seller ID: 2202223

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, edges rubbed, quarter-inch tear to cloth along rear board edge, ink name to front paste-down endpaper, pages lightly toned. 1911 Hard Cover. 401 pp. Disgusted with his spendthrift son, Kirk Anthony's father has Kirk shanghaied and taken to Panama, where he attracts the attention of Mrs. Edith Cortlandt and falls in love with Chiquita, the daughter of a Panamanian general. He is able to get a railroad job through Edith's husband Stephen Cortlandt and decides to make something of himself when he meets Allen Allan, a Negro soldier of fortune. When the sudden death of Ste...
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L.A. Rex

By: Beall, Will

Price: $7.00

Publisher: ., Riverhead Books: 2006

Seller ID: 2206241

ISBN: 1594489262

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2006 Hard Cover. As far as everyone in the squad room knows, Ben Halloran is completely fresh to the streets of the 77th Division, a soft kid from the West Side who's decided to become a cop and just happened to draw the hardest neighborhood in L.A. But demons from Ben's complicated past catch up with him-and his tough, oddly principled Daryl Gates-era partner, Miguel Marquez-all too quickly. From the moment Ben and Marquez hit the streets together, they're pulled into a web of ultraviolent corruption and retribution involving hardcore Crip gangbangers and t...
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Birds of the Niagara Frontier Region: An Annotated Check-List (Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Volume 22)

By: Beardslee, Clark S.; Mitchell, Harold D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Buffalo, New York, Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences: 1965

Seller ID: 2263679

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by Harold D. Mitchell with inscription, To Fred and Elsie Webb with my very best wishes. No jacket, ink note on second blank. 1965 Hard Cover. xix, 478 pp. CONTENTS: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Ornithological History of the Region: Observers, Previous Works; Territorial Outline and Life Zones: Territory Boundaries, Life Zones and Bird Distribution, Territorial Zonal Divisions--Sub-Carolinian Zone, Typical Alleghanian Zone, Sub-Canadian Zone; Territorial Localities of Special Ornithological Interest: Ontario, Huron and Erie Plains, Covering the Niagara River and Western Ne...
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Death of a Poison Pen (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery)

By: Beaton, M. C.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press: 2004

Seller ID: 2299482

ISBN: 0892967889

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Ink note on front free endpaper, page base bumped. 2004 Hard Cover. 244 pp. As a series of poison pen letters sweeps through the town of Lochdubh, Hamish Macbeth begins to suspect a sinister motive, a suspicion that is justified when the local postmistress is found hanged, a supposed suicide, but Hamish's investigation is complicated by the arrival of the distracting Jenny Ogilvie.
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Perfect Recall: New Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner: 2001

Seller ID: 2271515

ISBN: 0743211693

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 347 pp. Presents a new collection of short stories involving characters who are coming to terms with the legacies of long-believed family myths, describing how they confront new circumstances such as weakness or sudden success.
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The Burning House: Short Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1982

Seller ID: 2271516

ISBN: 0394524942

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket faintly toned, front jacket flap creased. Jacket ghosting on front board. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 256 pp. A collection of the author's most recent stories features their unnervingly sophisticated young people and older folks striving for wisdom and grace, all of whom are rendered by an acclaimed stylist.
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Secrets and Surprises: Short Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1978

Seller ID: 2271517

ISBN: 0394503147

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Minor pencil marginalia. 1978 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 307 pp. These fifteen stories by Ann Beattie garnered universal critical acclaim on their first publication, earning Beattie the reputation as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction.
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Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Linden Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2271518

ISBN: 067162220X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1986 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 191 pp. A collection of short fiction reflects on coping with life's inevitable sadness.
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The Doctor's House

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner: 2002

Seller ID: 2271519

ISBN: 0743212649

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 279 pp. A powerful and unsettling novel follows three unforgettable characters--Nina, a reclusive copyeditor, who, since her husband's death, has been obsessed with her brother Andrew's sexual exploits and indiscretions; Beattie, their mother, who spins her own tale of her children; and Andrew, who shares his own perspective on life--as they attempt to decipher, justify, and simply survive their lives.
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What Was Mine: Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1991

Seller ID: 2271577

ISBN: 067940077X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 237 pp. A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies--a remarkable and moving collage of contemporary lives.
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Picturing Will: A Novel

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1989

Seller ID: 2271578

ISBN: 0394569873

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps and edges of boards very faintly toned. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 230 pp. Picturing Will, the widely acclaimed new novel by Ann Beattie, unravels the complexities of a postmodern family. There's Will, a curious five-year-old who listens to the heartbeat of a plant through his toy stethoscope; Jody, his mother, a photographer poised on the threshold of celebrity; Mel, Jody's perfect -- perhaps too perfect -- lover; and Wayne, the rather who left Will without warning and now sees his infrequent...
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My Life, Starring Dara Falcon: A Novel

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1997

Seller ID: 2271579

ISBN: 0679455027

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 307 pp. Dara Falcon is brilliant, manipulative, a pathological liar. The novel's narrator, Jean Warner, is perfect prey for her. Suddenly Jean's life, her marriage--her idea of herself--are dramatically wrenched out of their seemingly comfortable, if unexamined, balance. And in the process, one of Ann Beattie's urgent themes--the sometimes subtle and sometimes startling difference between how things look and how things are--is compellingly explored.
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Falling in Place: A Novel

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1980

Seller ID: 2271580

ISBN: 0394503236

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very lightly toned. 1980 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 342 pp. High-school student John Joel and a group of sophisticated friends learn about love, friendship, and life as they grow up in the 70's.
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Another You: A Novel

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1995

Seller ID: 2271581

ISBN: 0679400788

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps faintly toned. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 323 pp. To her latest novel, Beattie brings the same documentary accuracy and Chekhovian wit and tenderness that have made her one of the most acclaimed portraitists of contemporary American life. Marshall Lockard, a professor at the local college, is contemplating adultery, unaware that his wife is already committing it.
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Love Always: A Novel

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1985

Seller ID: 2271582

ISBN: 0394539656

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps lightly toned. 1985 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 247 pp. Lucy Spenser, the Miss Lonelyhearts of a chic counter-cultural magazine, finds her unflappable Vermont life completely upended by her teenaged soap-opera-star niece, Nicole, and her hangers-on.
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Follies: New Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner: 2005

Seller ID: 2271583

ISBN: 0743269616

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!. 305 pp. Ann Beattie's Follies is a superb novella and collection of stories about adult children, aging parents, and the chance encounters that irrevocably alter lives. Beattie, winner of four O. Henry prizes, has been called one of our era's most vital masters of the short form (The Washington Post Book World). She is a masterful observer of domestic relations and the idiosyncratic logic that governs human lives. In Follies, her most resonant collection, she lo...
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Park City: New and Selected Stories

By: Beattie, Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1998

Seller ID: 2271584

ISBN: 067945506X

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!. 477 pp. Thirty-six stories--eight appearing in a book for the first time and a generous selection from her earlier collections--give us Ann Beattie at stunning mid-career. Emotionally complex, edgy, and funny, the stories encompass a huge range of tone and feeling. The wife of a couple who have lost a child comforts her husband with an amazing act of tenderness. A man who's been shifting from place to place, always finding the same kind of people--sometimes the ...
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The Mysterious Toyshop: A Fairy Tale

By: Beaumont, Cyril W.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, C.W. Beaumont: 1924

Seller ID: 2307398

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Surface tear on front board, some pages lightly foxed. 1924 Hard Cover. 32 pp. Color illustrations by Wyndham Payne. A new toyshop, full of wonderful dolls and miniatures for both children and adults, is found to harbor an amazing secret.
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Pardoner's Tale

By: Beaver, Harold

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1966

Seller ID: 2204038

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Top page ridge lightly foxed. Very Good. 1966 Hard Cover. 200 pp. The place is Kenya after independence. The chief African characters are a taxi-driver, an occasional politician, and a not highly qualified schoolteacher. These three boon companions, sharing a tremendous zest for oratory and beer, find a box of bank-notes in the forest--a treasure which disrupts their happy relationship. Meanwhile, a group of five Europeans face their own problems with some wit and more uneasiness. They deplore the Congo, talk about books and witchcraft, attend a native funeral, become involved i...
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The Lost Vikings

By: Bechdolt, Jack

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation: 1931

Seller ID: 2261511

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, corners lightly bumped, ink note on front endpaper, pages faintly toned. 1931 Hard Cover. x, 267 pp. Features juveniles who discover a Lost Race of Vikings in Alaska. John Ernest Bechdolt (18841954) was an American short story writer, novelist and journalist. He wrote under the name Jack Bechdolt as well as his full name. He worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1909 to 1916, after which he moved to New York, where he worked for Munsey Publications for a year before freelancing. His first novel, The Torch, was serialized in the magazine Argosy in 1920. Severa...
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Bugs Bunny at the County Fair (A Little Golden Book)

By: Beecher, Elizabeth; Abranz, Fred; MacLaughlin, Don

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1953

Seller ID: 2298090

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

First edition. Santi 74. Stain along edge with associated transfer to front board. 1953 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Warner Bros Bugs Bunny goes to the county fair.
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Bugs Bunny at the County Fair (A Little Golden Book)

By: Beecher, Elizabeth; Abranz, Fred; MacLaughlin, Don

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1953

Seller ID: 2307569

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition (Santi 74). Boards rubbed with minor loss from corners. 1953 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Warner Bros Bugs Bunny goes to the county fair.
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Work and Its Discontents: The Cult of Efficiency in America

By: Bell, Daniel

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Beacon Press: 1956

Seller ID: 2306997

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 1956 Hard Cover. viii, 56 pp. In this slim but strong volume Daniel Bell, Labor Editor of Fortune Magazine, presents the thinking world with yet another aspect of the cyclical man versus machine struggle in a product minded society. His essay, cogent and well thought out, is subtitled The Cult of Efficiency in America and emphasizes this aspect of the problem rather than the broader complex of social and economic factors which brought it about. Classifying the American archtype of today as the factory worker set upon by the most unpleasant aspects of time, Mr. ...
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Napoleon: A Concise Biography

By: Bell, David A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2015

Seller ID: 2308423

ISBN: 0190262710

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket. 2015 Hard Cover. x, 139 pp. This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that Napoleon represented. By his late twenties, Napoleon was already one of the greatest generals in European history. At thirty, he had become absolute master of Europe's most powerful country. In his early forties, he ruled a European empire more powerful than any since Rome, fighting...
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Willful Creatures: Stories

By: Bender, Aimee

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, 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 Benders 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 womans 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 briefly ...
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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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