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Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1933
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1842729
First edition. Includes original jacket. Page ridges faintly foxed, front jacket flap corners clipped (price still present), jacket lightly toned with minor wear to corners. 1933 Hard Cover. 343 pp. A 1933 comparative study of world religions and how the modern world affects them. Includes chapters on Hinduism, Japanese & Chinese religions, Islam, Russian religions, and Judaism. Also includes an appendix and suggestions for further reading. View more info
By: Bradley, David
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274256
First edition. Jacket edges very lightly rubbed. 1981 Hard Cover. x, 432 pp. The son of a moonshiner and the grandson of a slave, a brilliant but bitter Black historian wades through the dark secrets of his heritage to reconstruct and, finally, to accept his family's tragic history. View more info
By: Braverman, Kate
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Graywolf Press: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270797
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2006 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 217 pp. Kate Braverman grew up in Los Angeles in the late 1950s at the time when glitz was just beginning to be manufactured. Her Los Angeles was made up of stucco tenements, welfare, and the marginalized. It wasn't a destination city, it was the end of the line. Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles chronicl... View more info
By: Braverman, Kate
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270798
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A nice copy. 1980 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vii, 88 pp. A brilliant book of poetry by a legendary American author. View more info
By: Braverman, Kate
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270799
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket very faintly toned. 1979 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 251 pp. Author's first novel. In this startling, intense novel, Kate Braverman uses the language and sensibilities of a poet to create a portrait of a young woman on the brink of self-discovery. View more info
By: Braverman, Kate
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270800
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 241 pp. Single mothers, insolent daughters, blood sisters, and desperate friends people the tales in this twelve-story cycle, as they live out urban fairy tales and nightmares in the atmospheric landscape of Los Angeles. View more info
By: Braverman, Kate
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270801
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. Newly arrived at her brother's home in 1960s Los Angeles, teenager Jordan Lerner struggles to deal with her brother's terminal illness, her mother's dalliances with a string of men, and a school where she is considered an outcast. View more info
By: Braverman, Kate
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Seven Stories Press: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270802
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 235 pp. I was born in rain and I will die in rain, begins Kate Braverman’s The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred page... View more info
By: Braverman, Kate
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Linden Press / Simon & Schuster: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270803
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine head and spine base very lightly bumped, jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 384 pp. Tells the stories of Francisca Ramos, a prostitute, Gloria Hernandez, a young housewife, and Marta Ortega, an eldery half-breed, who live in the Los Angeles barrio. View more info
By: Brogaard, Berit; Marlow, Kristian
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Hudson Street Press: 2015
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267377
First edition. Jacket spine-head and spine-base lightly bumped. 2015 Hard Cover. xii, 273 pp. Berit Brogaard, PhD, and Kristian Marlow, MA, study people with astonishing talents—memory champions, human echolocators, musical virtuosos, math geniuses, and synesthetes who taste colors and hear faces. But as amazing as these abilities are, they are not mysterious. Our brains constantly process a huge amount of information below our awareness, and what these gifted individu... View more info
By: Bromfield, Louis
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265826
First edition. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, 1 inch chip from jacket spine base, with minor loss from other jacket corners, jacket toned. 1930 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 432 pp. A novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Green Bay Tree, Possession, and Early Autumn. Inspiration for the film starring Clive Brook and Kay Francis, directed by Marion Gering. Originally published serially as Shattered Glass; this edition released s... View more info
By: Brooke, Lindsay; Ford, Bill
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Motorbooks: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2272299
First edition. Faint smudge on top page ridge. 2008 Large Hardcover. 208 pp. The story of Ford Motor Company’s Model T is the story that launched the American automobile industry--and America’s love affair with the car. When he introduced the Model T in 1908, even an eternal optimist like Henry Ford could not have predicted the far-reaching changes he was setting in motion. One hundred years later, this illustrated history looks back at the beloved Tin Lizzie. The bo... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Viking: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200373
First edition. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. 8vo. March is a novel by Geraldine Brooks. It is a parallel novel that retells Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women from the point of view of Alcott's protagonists' absent father. Brooks has inserted the novel into the classic tale, revealing the events surrounding March's absence during the American Civil War in 1862. The novel won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. - Wikipedia View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Viking: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274239
First edition. Bottom corner lightly bumped. 2011 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 306 pp. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bet... View more info
By: Brooks, Terry
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Del Rey: 2014
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2280898
First editions, all three volumes. First volume signed by author without inscription. Jackets of all three volumes near fine. 2014 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305; 300; 334 pp. The Defenders of Shannara, in three volumes. THE HIGH DRUID'S BLADE: Legend has it that Paxon Leah is descended from the royals and warriors who once ruled the Highlands and waged war with magical weapons. But those kings, queens, and heroes are long gone, and there i... View more info
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By: Brown, Larry
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2199926
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 167 pp. 8vo. Facing the Music, Larry Brown’s first book, was originally published in 1988 to wide critical acclaim. As the St. Petersburg Times review pointed out, the central theme of these ten stories “is the ageless collision of man with woman, woman with man--with the frequent introduction of that o... View more info
By: Buchan, John
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press: 1929
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2261992
First American edition. Includes all three maps. Cover spine lightly soiled, jacket edges rubbed with a few creases and closed tears, and minor loss from corners. 1929 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 384 pp. 8vo. An early jacket design by Hubert Rogers, who became a renowned science fiction pulp illustrator in the 1940s, most notably for the cover art of Gray Lensman by E.E. Smith. He also contributed cover artwork for Astounding Science Fiction... View more info
By: Buck, Pearl S.
Price: $22.00
Publisher: John Day Company: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266362
First edition. Two small chips to jacket spine-head, jacket edges lightly rubbed, front jacket flap price-clipped. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 1963 Hard Cover. 478 pp. The Living Reed is an historical novel by Pearl S. Buck in which life in Korea, from the latter part of the nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War, is described through the viewpoints and lives of several members of four generations of a prominent aristocratic family. View more info
By: Buck, Pearl S.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: John Day Company: 1956
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269486
First edition. No jacket, spine very slightly cocked, spine head and spine base lightly rubbed. 1956 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 346 pp. When Pearl S. Buck finished writing her autobiographical work, My Several Worlds, she found that the most vivid character memory of her childhood life was Tzu Hsi, the last Empress of China. This is the woman usually known to Westerners as the Empress Dowager, or Old Buddha. But how little the West really k... View more info
By: Bulgakov, Mikhail; Glenny, Michael
Price: $500.00
Publisher: Harper & Row: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2280272
First U.S. edition (stated on copyright page). Jacket and boards lightly rubbed, jacket price clipped, light crease down rear jacket panel. 1967 Hard Cover. vi, 394 pp. 8vo. Somewhat of a publishing oddity, in that two U.S. editions were released in the same year: the Harper & Row edition translated by Michael Glenny (offered here) and a Grove Press edition translated by Mirra Ginsburg. Both are still in print in paperback editions, which indicates that each has its own ... View more info
By: Burgess, Anthony
Price: $20.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203556
First American edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed, jacket lightly toned, bottom corner of front jacket flap clipped. 1968 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 412 pp. 8vo. A comic novel by the author of the controversial A Clockwork Orange, which inspired the film that was perhaps even more controversial. Burgess first released a novel entitled Inside Mr. Enderby, written pseudonymously as Joseph Kell, which was suppressed in the United States. Eve... View more info
By: Burgess, Anthony
Price: $20.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2271311
First American edition. Page ridges foxed, a bit smoky. 1968 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 272, [4] pp. 8vo. This two-part response to 1984 minutely analyzes the original novel, and, after Burgess decides that 1984 will not resemble Orwell's fantasy, creates a comic counter-novel of future Britain. View more info
By: Burgess, Anthony
Price: $10.00
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1983
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274250
First edition. Jacket faintly toned. Top page ridge lightly foxed, very faint odor of smoke. 1983 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 388 pp. The End of the World News is a 1982 novel by British author Anthony Burgess. Presented without chapter breaks, the plot weaves together three storylines. One follows Leon Trotsky on a journey to New York City shortly before the Russian Revolution of 1917. This story is written as the libretto of an Off-Broa... View more info
By: Burgess, Anthony
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274380
First edition. Jacket front bumped, jacket lightly toned. Page ridges lightly foxed, faint odor of smoke. 1980 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 607 pp. An exploration of the very essence of power centers on two men who represent different types of earthly power--one an eminent novelist and well-known homosexual, the other a man of God who rises through the Vatican hierarchy. View more info
By: Burgess, Anthony
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Random House: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2281630
First edition. Jacket spine head and spine base lightly bumped. Page ridges lightly foxed. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 290 pp. Stories imagine a meeting between Shakespeare and Cervantes, Attila the Hun's thoughts on civilization, Claude Debussy's musical discovery, and a man who becomes a permanent traveler. View more info
By: Burness, Tad
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1983
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2278446
First edition. Page ridges lightly foxed. 1983 Soft Cover. xiii, 174 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Antique Era (To 1909): 1894, Electrobat - 1903, White Steam Car - 1907, Thomas Flyer - 1908, Rapid Bus; A Time of Change (The 1910s): 1910, Ford Model T - 1911, Reeves Octoauto - 1912, Alldays & Onions - 1913, Garford - 1914, Packard - 1914, Richmond - 1915, Chevrolet Royal Mail Roadster - 1916, Dunn Cyclecar - 1916 1/2, Milburn Lig... View more info
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2092565
First edition. Lacks jacket. Spine & fore-edge faded, ink name on front endpaper. 1938 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 315, [1] pp. 8vo. Color frontispiece and four black & white plates by John Coleman Burroughs. Heins FC-1: 'The search for a man and a huge diamond brings Tarzan to two cities hidden in an extinct volcano... FC-1 has the unique distinction of being the one and only Burroughs book to have a frontispiece in full color. This was the... View more info
Price: $500.00
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262019
First edition (Heins FC-1). Fine in near fine jacket. 1938 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 315, [1] pp. 8vo. Color frontispiece and four black & white plates by John Coleman Burroughs. The twenty-fourth in the Tarzan series. 'The search for a man and a huge diamond brings Tarzan to two cities hidden in an extinct volcano... FC-1 has the unique distinction of being the one and only Burroughs book to have a frontispiece in full color. This was the... View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262022
First edition (Heins FL-1). Fine in very good jacket. 1/4 inch jacket tear, top edge of front jacket panel a bit foxed. 1947 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 314 pp. 8vo. Frontispiece and four black & white plates by John Coleman Burroughs. The twenty-ninth in the Tarzan series. 'Tarzan and his friends join the Dutch guerrillas in Japanese-held Sumatra during World War II.' View more info
Price: $425.00
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.: 1940
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262045
First edition (Heins SMM-1). Fine in very good jacket. Two 1 jacket tears, jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 315 pp. 8vo. Jacket illustration, frontispiece, and four plates by John Coleman Burroughs. The sixth book in the Mars series. 'The Warlord and Vor Daj struggle against an ancient doctor's indestructible synthetic human life.' View more info
