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Jellybean [Jelly Bean]

By: Carson, Robert

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: 1974

Seller ID: 2303232

ISBN: 0316130265

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. William Morris Agency bookplate on front endpaper from estate of Hollywood executive Leonard Goldberg. Quarter inch by quarter inch along top edge of rear jacket panel. 1974 Hard Cover. 212 pp. ...an old-fashioned, rip-roaring adventure story set in the American West following the Civil War. Fast-shooting, fast-shuffling John Paul Valentine (called Jellybean for his smoth gloss) is the terror of the gambling tables in Mt. Holly, Kansas, a settlement so dull that even the Indians are bored by the idea of raiding it. He is also an embarrassing thorn in the side of his foster-fathe...
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The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln: A Novel

By: Carter, Stephen L.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2012

Seller ID: 2272871

ISBN: 030727263X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Remainder mark. 2012 Hard Cover. 515 pp. Stephen L. Carter’s thrilling new novel takes as its starting point an alternate history: President Abraham Lincoln survives the assassination attempt at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865. Two years later he is charged with overstepping his constitutional authority, both during and after the Civil War, and faces an impeachment trial... Twenty-one-year-old Abigail Canner is a young black woman with a degree from Oberlin, a letter of employment from the law firm that has undertaken Lincoln’s defense, and the iron-strong conviction, lea...
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Napoleon: A Biography

By: Castelot, Andre

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers: 1971

Seller ID: 2285510

ISBN: 0060106786

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor tears, front jacket flap creased, jacket faintly toned. 1971 Hard Cover. vii, 627 pp. André Castelot was a French writer born in Belgium who wrote 65 biographies of famous persons in the History of France. He is perhaps best known for his biography of Josephine. His biography of Napoleon emphasizes not only his military campaigns, but his many love affairs and his many mistresses. It shows how his tumultuous relationship with Josephine influenced and affected his Napoleonic Code. It was because of Josephine's fickleness and unfaithfulness to...
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Watercolor Women / Opaque Men: A Novel in Verse

By: Castillo, Ana

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Curbstone Press: 2005

Seller ID: 2270629

ISBN: 1931896208

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. A very nice copy. 2005 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 269 pp. Watercolor Women / Opaque Men is a wild and raucous narrative of a single, working mother, the daughter of Chicano migrant workers, and her struggles for upward mobility. With a remarkable combination of tenderness, wicked humor, and biting satire, the main character, Ella-or She-moves toward establishing her sexual identity (she has affairs with both men and women) and finding her rightful place in the world while simultaneously raising her son to be independent ...
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I Ask the Impossible: Poems (An Anchor Book Original)

By: Castillo, Ana

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Anchor Books: 2001

Seller ID: 2270630

ISBN: 0385720734

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2001 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xvii, 121 pp. Cherished for her passionate fiction and exuberant essays, the author hailed by Julia Alvarez as una storyteller de primera, and by Barbara Kingsolver in The Los Angeles Times as impossible to resist, returns to her first love--poetry--to reveal an unwavering commitment to social justice, and a fervent embrace of the sensual world. With the poems in I Ask the Impossible, Castillo celebrates the strength that is a woman.....
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Carmen la Coja: Una Novela (Spanish Text)

By: Castillo, Ana

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Vintage Espanol: 2000

Seller ID: 2270631

ISBN: 0375724680

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2000 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xix, 216 pp. Spanish text. Published to coincide with the Anchor Books edition of Peel My Love Like an Onion, this Spanish translation is a major addition to the Vintage Español list. Equal parts soap opera, tragicomedy, and rhapsody, Carmen la coja is Ana Castillo's imaginative variation on the themes of Bizet's Carmen, set in the Latin community of Chicago and the seductive world of flamenco. Carmen La Coja Santos is a renowned loc...
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So Far from God: A Novel

By: Castillo, Ana

Price: $15.00

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1993

Seller ID: 2270634

ISBN: 0393034909

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very minimally toned. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 251 pp. Sofia and her daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love in the sleepy New Mexico hamlet of Tome, where the comic and the horrific, the real and the supernatural, reside.
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Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel

By: Castillo, Ana

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Doubleday: 1999

Seller ID: 2270635

ISBN: 0385496761

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!. xix, 213 pp. Peel My Love Like an Onion is the breakthrough novel from Ana Castillo, author of the wildly praised So Far from God--a lyrical, steamy, and moving story of a love triangle set in the colorful world of flamenco dancing. Carmen La Coja (the cripple) Santos is a flamenco dancer of local renown in Chicago, despite the obstacle of a handicapped leg, the legacy of a childhood attack of polio. From the beginning of her professional career, she has carried...
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Sapogonia: An Anti-Romance in 3/8 Meter

By: Castillo, Ana

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue: 1990

Seller ID: 2270636

ISBN: 0916950956

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. No jacket. A nice copy. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 312 pp. English text. A powerful, complex novel from the author of So Far From God. In the mythological land of Sapogonia--a metaphorical country where all mestizos (those of mixed European/Native Central or South American blood) come from--Maximo Madrigal becomes obsessed with a woman he can never control.
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My Father Was a Toltec, and Selected Poems

By: Castillo, Ana

Price: $25.00

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1995

Seller ID: 2270637

ISBN: 0393037185

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxi, 158 pp. Author's fullest collection of poetry in both English and Spanish. Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country’s most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of uncompromising commitment and passion. My Father Was a Toltec is the sassy and street-wise collection of poems that established and secured Castillo's...
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Death Comes for the Archbishop

By: Cather, Willa

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1929

Seller ID: 2102810

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First illustrated edition. Owner bookplate on front flyleaf, otherwise an exceptional copy. 1929 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 343 pp. 8vo. Closely following the original 1927 printing, this edition was designed by Elmer Adler and printed by the Plimpton Press of Norwood, Massachusetts, on paper manufactured by Curtis and Brother of Newark, Delaware. Art deco illustrations by Harold Von Schmidt appear throughout, which were photo-engraved by Federal Photo-Engraving Corporation of New York. Willa Cather’s story of the missionary priest Father Jean Marie Latour and ...
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The Secret of the Hittites: The Discovery of an Ancient Civilization

By: Ceram, C.W.; Winston, Richard and Clara

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1956

Seller ID: 2305648

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First American edition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few tears, jacket spine lightly toned. Ink name on front free endpaper. 1956 Hard Cover. xxi, 281, x pp. The author of the acclaimed Gods, Graves, and Scholars tells the dramatic tale of the Hittites, an Indo-European people who became a dominant power in the Middle East. Their struggle in Egypt with Ramses II for control of Syria led to one of the greatest battles of the ancient world. The fall of the Hittite empire was sudden, and historical records were scarce--until the discovery of cuneiform tablets yielded a rich store of information on ...
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union

By: Chabon, Michael

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins: 2007

Seller ID: 2200727

ISBN: 0007149824

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Minor wear to corners. 2007 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 432 pp. The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a multiple award-winning novel by American author Michael Chabon. The novel is a detective story set in an alternate history version of the present day, based on the premise that during World War II, a temporary settlement for Jewish refugees was established in Sitka, Alaska in 1941, and that the fledgling State of Israel was destroyed in 1948. The novel is set in Sitka, which it depicts as a large, Yiddish-speaking metropolis. The Yiddish Policemen's Un...
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Moonglow: A Novel

By: Chabon, Michael

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Harper: 2016

Seller ID: 2267380

ISBN: 0062225553

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Pencil marginalia. 2016 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 430 pp. Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by pow...
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Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son

By: Chabon, Michael

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper: 2009

Seller ID: 2302527

ISBN: 0061490180

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An excellent copy. 2009 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 306 pp. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author--an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)--offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction. A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insig...
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Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories

By: Chandler, Raymond

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The World Publishing Company: 1946

Seller ID: 2296933

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. No jacket. Small surface tear along bottom edge of rear board, pages toned. 1946 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 253 pp. A collection of short stories by the author of The Big Sleep, famous for his detective Philip Marlowe.
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Emerson and Other Essays

By: Chapman, John Jay

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons: 1898

Seller ID: 2304764

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. No jacket. Rear joint has been repaired. 1898 Hard Cover. 247 pp. CONTENTS: Emerson; Walt Whitman; A Study of Romeo; Michael Angelo's Sonnets; The Fourth Canto of the Inferno; Robert Browning; Robert Louis Stevenson.
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40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin, and Other Oddities On Trial In Pennsylvania

By: Chapman, Matthew

Price: $7.00

Publisher: HaperCollins: 2007

Seller ID: 2286300

ISBN: 0061179450

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Minor general wear. 2007 Hard Cover. xv, 272 pp. In this fascinating story of evolution, religion, politics, and personalities, Matthew Chapman captures the story behind the headlines in the debate over God and science in America. In Kitzmiller v. Dover Board of Education, decided in late 2005, a Republican judge rendered a surprising verdict in a case that pitted the teaching of intelligent design (sometimes known as creationism in a lab coat) against the teaching of evolution. Taking place in a small Pennsylvania school district, the case had national repercussions, all the wa...
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A New Pleiade: Selected Poems

By: Chappell, Fred; Cherry, Kelly; Dillard, R.H.W.; Galvin, Brendan; Garrett, George; Slavitt, David R.; Taylor, Henry

Price: $10.00

Publisher: LSU Press: 1998

Seller ID: 2117909

ISBN: 0807123293

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Inscribed & signed by one contributor (Kelly Cherry) on title page ('To Abe, I thought this might interest you. Hope so! Love and admiration forever. Kelly, 11/98'). Rear jacket flap lightly creased. Very Good. 1998 Hard Cover. A New Pleiade is a celebration of close literary friendships among seven eminent American poets -- Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, R. H. W. Dillard, Brendan Galvin, George Garrett, David R. Slavitt, and Henry Taylor. The affection, fun, and mutual respect of this happy association of poets have resulted in this anthology, in which the selection from the work...
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An Ear to the Ground

By: Chase, James Hadley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: 1968

Seller ID: 2274274

ISBN: 070910328X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Quarter inch by quarter inch chip to jacket spine base, jacket faintly toned. Ink gift note on front endpaper. 1968 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 191 pp. The Esmaldi necklace was worth about $350,000: one hundred matched diamonds the size of garden peas, set in platinum. The sort of necklace people would murder for... And Al Barney, beachcomber and layabout, knew its history - a tale of hate, jealousy and violence; of beautiful, wanton women and the most cunningly devised jewel robbery ever.
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The Wapshot Chronicle: A Novel

By: Cheever, John

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1957

Seller ID: 2281634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed, jacket lightly toned. Bookplate partially removed from front endpaper. 1957 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 307 pp. Based in part on Cheever’s adolescence in New England, the novel follows the destinies of the impecunious and wildly eccentric Wapshots of St. Botolphs, a quintessential Massachusetts fishing village. Here are the stories of Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea dog and would-be suicide; of his licentious older son, Moses; and of Moses’ adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald ...
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Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran

By: Chelkowski, Peter; Dabashi, Hamid

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York University Press: 1999

Seller ID: 2289209

ISBN: 0814715974

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket edges very lightly bumped. 1999 Large Hardcover. 312 pp. The Islamic Revolution in Iran was one of those remarkable historical events when the power of words and images successfully challenged the military might of an established state. From the fiery words of Ayatollah Khomeini, the charismatic leader of the Revolution, to revolutionary posters, banners, murals, graffiti, songs, and declamations, to the compelling symbols of its shared sacred history, an avalanche of public sentiments was mobilized by the leading figures of the revolutionary movement. In Staging a Revolu...
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The Lady and the Unicorn

By: Chevalier, Tracy

Price: $25.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: 2003

Seller ID: 2270473

ISBN: 0007140908

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages lightly to moderately toned. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 278 pp. The new novel from the author of the much-loved Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning. Tapestries give an appearance of order and continuity, as if designed and made by one person, belying the complicated process required to create them. Weavers, patrons, designers,...
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Falling Angels

By: Chevalier, Tracy

Price: $35.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: 2001

Seller ID: 2270474

ISBN: 0007108257

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages lightly to moderately toned. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 403 pp. A fashionable London cemetery, January 1901: Two graves stand side by side, one decorated with an oversize classical urn, the other with a sentimental marble angel. Two families, visiting their respective graves on the day after Queen Victoria's death, teeter on the brink of a new era. The Colemans and the Waterhouses are divided by social class as well as taste. They would certainly not have become acquainted had not their two girls, me...
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The Virgin Blue

By: Chevalier, Tracy

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 1997

Seller ID: 2270646

ISBN: 0140265023

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1997 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 255, [7] pp. Author's first novel. Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin--two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to ...
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Night School (A Jack Reacher Novel)

By: Child, Lee

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Delacorte Press: 2016

Seller ID: 2294800

ISBN: 0425286916

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. 2016 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 369, [7] pp. 8vo. It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he's off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. Two other men are in the classroom—an FBI agent and a CIA analyst. Each is a first-rate operator, each is fresh off a big win, and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there. Then they find out: A Jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has re...
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In Love, In Sorrow: The Complete Correspondence of Charles Olson and Edward Dahlberg

By: Christensen, Paul

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Paragon House: 1990

Seller ID: 2285114

ISBN: 1557782024

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Surface tears on rear jacket panel obscuring some text. Minor highlighting and underlining in Introduction. 1990 Hard Cover. xxiv, 231 pp. Begun in rapt affection in 1936, ending two decades later in bitter vituperation, the correspondence between Edward Dahlberg ( Can These Bones Live ) and Charles Olson ( The Maximus Poems ) presents an entertaining display of literary fireworks, edited and annotated by a professor at Texas A & M University. Both writers distrusted the Anglo-American literary tradition as a product of imperialism. Poet-essayist Olson found mythic inspiration i...
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The Discovery of America & Other Myths: A New World Reader

By: Christensen, Thomas

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Chronicle Books: 1992

Seller ID: 2281589

ISBN: 0811801861

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 1992 Trade Paperback. A collection of essays on the European contact with the original inhabitants of the western continents.
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The Untillable Hills

By: Christman, W.W.; Coffin, Robert P. Tristram

Price: $50.00

Publisher: The Driftwind Press: 1937

Seller ID: 1874861

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Three separate ink gift notes on front flyleaf, jacket price inked out. Jacket rubbed & toned. 1937 Hard Cover. xxii, 103 pp. The fourth and final book by the Catskills poet and transcendentalist, printed in the year of his death.
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The Inside of the Cup

By: Churchill, Winston

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1913

Seller ID: 2294702

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket. Publisher's catalog laid in. Ink stamp on front paste-down endpaper, ink name on front free endpaper. 1913 Hard Cover. vii, 513 pp. Maroon boards with gilt titles on spine and front board. The Reverend John Hodder, an Episcopal clergyman, who has spent the years since his ordination in a secluded English parish, is called to a fashionable church in a middle-western city. He knows singularly little of modern problems and in his theology is as orthodox as the rich men who control his church could desire. But his church is located on Dalton Street, a thoroughfare once fa...
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