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Truants: A Novel

By: Carlson, Ron

Price: $25.00

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1981

Seller ID: 2281549

ISBN: 0393013839

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author with inscription, For Esta and Bob from their friend, Ron Carlson. Front jacket panel clipped with price intact. Very faint odor of smoke. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 255 pp. Collin Elder and Louisa Berg, having trouble with their fathers, quit their home situations for life on the road and meet eighty-four-year-old Will Clare while searching for a future in the streets of Utah and Nevada.
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The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Vol. I: South Mountain

By: Carman, Ezra A.; Clemens, Thomas G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Savas Beatie: 2010

Seller ID: 2302564

ISBN: 1932714812

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 2010 Hard Cover. xx, 521 pp. When Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland in early September 1862, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan moved his reorganized and revitalized Army of the Potomac to meet him. The campaign included some of the bloodiest, most dramatic, and influential combat of the entire Civil War. Combined with Southern failures in the Western Theater, the fighting dashed the Confederacy’s best hope for independence, convinced President Abraham Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation, and left America with what is still...
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Wildcat Furs to China: The Cruise of the Sloop Experiment

By: Carmer, Carl

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1945

Seller ID: 2297521

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Spine lightly toned, boards soiled, ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1945 Hard Cover. 76 pp. Story based on Hudson River history, with color illustrations by Elizabeth Black Carmer.
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Dark Trees to the Wind: A Cycle of York State Years

By: Carmer, Carl

Price: $10.00

Publisher: William Sloane Associates: 1949

Seller ID: 2301081

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A few minor chips to jacket edges, jacket very lightly toned. 1949 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 370 pp. Decorations by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II. Carl Carmer weaves the pattern of his narrative out of people--people of an almost infinite variety and richness. Here are Lon Whiteman, America's greatest embezzler with a knack of victimizing bank presidents; Major Noah, who tried to establish Israel on American soil a hundred years ago; a girl named Lavender from the Ramapo mountains frozen to death in a sequin evening dress and--perhaps--returning t...
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The Blocking of Zeebrugge

By: Carpenter, Captain Alfred F. B.; Beatty, Admiral Earl

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin and Company: 1922

Seller ID: 2303656

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Minor general wear to jacket, a few faint smudges on jacket. 1922 Hard Cover. xxiv, 276 pp. The true story of one of the most thrilling naval exploits in all history. The Zeebrugge Raid (Dutch: Aanval op de haven van Zeebrugge; French: Raid sur Zeebruges) on 23 April 1918, was an attempt by the Royal Navy to block the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge. The British intended to sink obsolete ships in the canal entrance, to prevent German vessels from leaving port. The port was used by the Imperial German Navy as a base for U-boats and light shipping, which were a threat to Allied c...
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Tyrannosaur Faire

By: Carper, Steve

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Planet Lactose: 2008

Seller ID: 2300983

ISBN: 0979856507

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author with inscription, Nancy, for words of wisdom and inspiration when I needed them. 4/25/08. A fine copy. 2008 Trade Paperback. vi, 192 pp. Local author. Bold ideas combined with down-to-earth characters mark this collection from one of the unsung innovators of the sf short story. Set in both the near and far reaches of time and space, Steve Carper’s stories defy conventional classification. Read them as part science fiction, part fantasy, part mainstream and slipstream. They gambol easily among the classic themes of the field from dinosaurs to space travel to wi...
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The Letters of Lewis Carroll, in Two Volumes

By: Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]; Cohen, Morton N.; Green, Roger Lancelyn

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Clarkson N. Potter: 1979

Seller ID: 2262843

ISBN: 019520090X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Includes publisher's slipcase. Books are in exceptional condition. Three small surface tears on front slipcase panel. 1979 Hard Cover. xxxviii; viii, 1245 pp. (numbered pages paginated continuously). A collection of letters by the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to various individuals, edited with a preface, biographical chronology, Dodgson family tree, documentation of the letters' ownership, etc., by Morton N. Cohen, with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs and facsimiles of documents.
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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 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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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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