BALLARD, J. G.

The Day of Creation

London, England: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1987. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0575041528. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories (or "condensed novels") , such as those collected in the controversial The Atrocity Exhibition (1970). In the mid 1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial Crash (1973) , a story about symphorophilia and car crash fetishism, and High-Rise (1975) , a depiction of a luxury apartment building's descent into violent chaos. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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BALLARD, J. G. (JAMES GRAHAM BALLARD )

The Kindness of Women

London: Harpercollins Publishers, 1991. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002237717. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. This book is Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "It has been supposed that Ballard's exposure to the atrocities of war at an impressionable age explains the apocalyptic and violent nature of much of his fiction. Martin Amis wrote that Empire of the Sun "gives shape to what shaped him". Ballard's own account of the experience was more nuanced: "I don't think you can go through the experience of war without one's perceptions of the world being forever changed. The reassuring stage set that everyday reality in the suburban west presents to us is torn down; you see the ragged scaffolding, and then you see the truth beyond that, and it can be a frightening experience." But also: "I have—I won't say happy—not unpleasant memories of the camp. [...] I remember a lot of the casual brutality and beatings-up that went on—but at the same time we children were playing a hundred and one games all the time!" Ballard later became an atheist. " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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BANKS, RUSSELL

Lost Memory of Skin a Novel

New York: Ecco, 2011. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0061857637. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "According to Robert Faggen in The Paris Review, Banks's debut novel, Family Life, "was not a critical success". His next volume, a collection of short stories called Searching for Survivors, won Banks an O. Henry Award. A second collection of short stories, The New World, published in 1978, "received acclaim for its blending of historical and semi-autobiographical material". Many have admired Russell Banks' realistic writing, which often explores American social dilemmas and moral struggles. Reviewers have appreciated his portrayal of the working-class people struggling to overcome destructive relationships, poverty, drug abuse, and spiritual confusion." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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BARBOUR, BARTON H. (COMPILED & EDITED BY) WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID J. WEBER

Tales of the Mountain Men

Santa Fe, NM: Press of the Palace of the Govrnors, 1984. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0890131481. Illustrated by Andrew Burns. B&W Illustrations; This edition is limited to 150 copies, signed by the author and all contributors. Printed by hand on Rives paper by Pamela Smith. Introduction by David J. Weber. Bound by Priscilla Spitler in maroon Centennial book cloth, with spine title in silver and a hand-printed paper vignette on the upper board. This is copy 103. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers. There is a small spot of discoloration to the spine right on the title. The text pages are clean and bright. "Dr. Barton H. Barbour is a leading reserach scholar of the North American Fur Trade. Barbour specializes in early American history at Boise State University, where he teaches courses on the American West, North American Exploration, Native American History and US Indian Policy, and Colonial America. He came to Boise State in 2001 with a Ph. D. In United States History from the University of New Mexico (1993) , following a number of years of work with local, state, and federal museums, and four years as a research historian at the National Park Service's regional offices at Santa Fe, New Mexico. His dissertation, entitled "Fort Union and the Fur Trade of the Upper Missouri, 1830-1867" was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2001, and he continues to explore the culture of fur traders and mountain men, and the varied affects of the fur trade on various “frontiers” of society, ethnicity, business, law, and politics. His biography of early 19th century explorer and trapper Jedediah Smith (University of Oklahoma Press, 2010) was the culmination of ten years of research and travel." (from Boise State University) ; Signed by Contributor. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 42372

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BARRIE, J. M. (JAMES MATTHEW)

The Greenwood Hat Being a Memoir of James Anon [1885-1887]

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and some spots of rubbing, and a couple of small chips. "Following a job advertisement found by his sister in The Scotsman, he worked for a year and a half as a staff journalist on the Nottingham Journal. Back in Kirriemuir, he submitted a piece to the St. James's Gazette, a London newspaper, using his mother's stories about the town where she grew up (renamed "Thrums"). The editor "liked that Scotch thing" so well that Barrie ended up writing a series of these stories. They served as the basis for his first novels: Auld Licht Idylls (1888) , A Window in Thrums (1890) , and The Little Minister (1891). The stories depicted the "Auld Lichts", a strict religious sect to which his grandfather had once belonged. Modern literary criticism of these early works has been unfavourable, tending to disparage them as sentimental and nostalgic depictions of a parochial Scotland, far from the realities of the industrialised nineteenth century, seen as characteristic of what became known as the Kailyard School. Despite, or perhaps because of, this, they were popular enough at the time to establish Barrie as a successful writer. Following that success, he published Better Dead (1888) privately and at his own expense, but it failed to sell. His two "Tommy" novels, Sentimental Tommy (1896) and Tommy and Grizel (1900) , were about a boy and young man who clings to childish fantasy, with an unhappy ending. The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing read the former in November 1896 and wrote that he "thoroughly dislike[d it]". " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 42812

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BARRIE, J. M. (JAMES MATTHEW)

The Little Minister

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1897. Early Reprint. Hardcover. ISBN: 112515294X. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is a slight slant to the spine. The front cover inlcudes a small oval pastedown photo. The lettering on the spine of the book has mostly rubbed. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy includes numerous black and white photos of the play. "The Little Minister is set in Thrums, a Scottish weaving village based on Barrie’s birthplace, and concerns Gavin Dishart, a young impoverished minister with his first congregation. The weavers he serves soon riot in protest against reductions in their wages and harsh working conditions. Warned by Babbie, a beautiful and mysterious Gypsy, that Lord Rintoul, the local laird, has summoned the militia, the weavers prepare for a fight. During the ensuing melee, Dishart rescues Babbie from the soldiers. Dishart and Babbie fall in love, he never suspecting that she is really a well-born lady who is unwillingly betrothed to the old Lord Rintoul. After many trials, the two live happily ever after." (encyclopedia Britannica). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 38122

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BARTH, JOHN

Chimera

New York, NY: Random House, Inc, 1972. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394481399. Illustrated by George Giusti. Cover Art; First Trade Edition. First Edition stated on copyright page. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jackaet is clean and bright, but has a bit of light toning, especially to the corners and edges. The front flap of the dust jacket has two creases. This book is a National Book Award winner. Barth's work is characterized by a historical awareness of literary tradition[11] and by the practice of rewriting typical of postmodernism. He said, "I don't know what my view of history is, but insofar as it involves some allowance for repetition and recurrence, reorchestration, and reprise [...] I would always want it to be more in the form of a thing circling out and out and becoming more inclusive each time." In Barth's postmodern sensibility, parody is a central device. Around 1972, in an interview, Barth declared that "The process [of making a novel] is the content, more or less." Barth's fiction continues to maintain a precarious balance between postmodern self-consciousness and wordplay and the sympathetic characterization and "page-turning" plotting commonly associated with more traditional genres and subgenres of classic and contemporary storytelling." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 46175

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BATCHELOR, JOHN CALVIN

Gordon Liddy Is My Muse

New York, NY: Linden Press, 1990. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0671690787. Illustrated by Lawrence Ratzkin. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 47026

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BAUSCH, RICHARD

Violence

New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0395595096. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has one small semi-closed tear to the top front edge and some very beginning rubbing to the spine ends.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 46727

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BEARD, GARY

Mr Midshipman Fury

London, England: Century, 2006. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1846050529. Illustrated by Chris Collingwood. Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is one very small bump to the bottom spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 45562

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BEASLEY, JR. , CONGER

Hidalgo's Beard a California Fantasy

Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel, Inc, 1979. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0836261003. This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. " He returned to the Kansas City area to teach American Literature at Park University. In 1966, he married Betsy McCoy of Saint Joseph; the couple soon left for seven months in rural England, where Conger wrote his first novel, Hidalgo's Beard: A California Fantasy, an example of the literary and linguistic innovation that powered Conger Beasley's writing through dozens of books in multiple genres. Returning to Kansas City, he worked with Universal Press Syndicate, Andrews McMeel Publishers, as one of their first employees. During that time, he had steady book- review work with The National Catholic Reporter." (from his obituary). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 41706

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BECHDOLT, FREDERICK R.

Horse Thief Trail

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc, 1932. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There are several edge nicks / beginning tears to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. Both front and rear endpapers have noticeable generalized toning. "Author Frederick R. Bechdolt was born in Pennsylvania, and attended the universities of North Dakota and Washington. He worked on odd jobs in the west for several years, including gold mining in Alaska, driving sled dogs, and helping drill the Cascade tunnel, before becoming a journalist in California. He later wrote fiction and non-fiction with western themes and settings, including novels, stories, fact-based collections of tales, and articles. He settled in Carmel, California, where he was active in the community, and became known as one of the Carmel bunch." (from SNAC). Very Good .

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Book number: 42286

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BELL, LILIAN (PSEUDONYM OF MRS. ARTHUR HOYT BOGUE)

From a Girl's Point of View

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1897. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. There is rubbing, bumping, edge wear and some frayin to the spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers. There are spots of ground-in dirt to the covers. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There are occasional spots of foxing to the text pages. This is a book of short stories, including: The Untrained Man Under Thirty-Five, The Philosophy of Clothes, Woman's Rights in Love, Men are Lovers, Girls and Other Girls, The New Women, and more. "Her first book of fiction was "The Love Affairs of an Old Maid", which captured the reading world. Shortly after its appearance, she received by express a beautiful marquise ring, consisting of a gorgeous sapphire surrounded by diamonds. The only inscription upon it was " To the Author of 'The Love Affairs of an Old Maid.' " It had been sent to her publishers, and by them forwarded to her, and she never learned who was the generous donor. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

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Book number: 47116

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BELL, CATHERINE D.

Lily Gordon Or, the Young Housekeeper

London, England: Frederick Warne and Co, 1884. Reprint. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and edge wear. There are a couple of tiny nicks to the spine ends and a couple of spots of discoloration on both front and rear covers.. The book cover is decorated with black, blue, pink and green decorations.. Very Good .

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Book number: 45649

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BENNETT, JANICE

A Mysterious Miss

New York: Zebra, 1991. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0821734245. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners , and there are several light scratches and one spot of rubbing to the rear cover of the book. The text pages are clean and bright.. Very Good .

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Book number: 41488

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Keywords: 0821734245 Janice Bennett Regency Romance A Zebra Regency Romance England Modern Fiction