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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. A fascinating, definitive, and very personal rumination on the history, science, philosophy, art, and literature of walking, by a skilled cultural commentator. Geoff Nicholson, author of BLEEDING LONDON and SEX COLLECTORS, turns his eye to the intellectual and cultural history of that most common of activitiesawalking. This simple, omnipresent activity has inspired numerous subcultures, literary and artistic legacies, sporting events, personal memories, epic journeys, mystical revelations, and scandals. Itas a rich tradition that embraces such novelists as Charles Dickens and Paul Auster, musicians like Robert Johnson and Bob Dylan, and moviemakers from Buster Keaton to Werner Herzog. But itas also a tradition that includes obsessives and eccentrics, such as the artist Mudman, who coats his body in mud and then walks the city streets; competitive pedestrians such as Captain Barclay, who walked one mile an hour for a thousand successive hours; and gang members who use the hidden language of the aCrip Walka to spell out messages in the dirt with their scuffing. How we walk, where we walk, why we walk announces who and what we are. Geoff Nicholson is a master chronicler of the hidden subversive twists on a seemingly normal activity. He analyzes the hows, wheres, and whys of walking through the ages. He finds people who walk only at night, or naked, or for thousands of miles at a time, in costume, for causes, or for no reason whatsoever. Here, he brings curiosity and genuine insight to a subject that often walks right past us. Author of r of BEDLAM BURNING, SEX COLLECORS, HUNTERS AND GATHERERS, THE FOOD CHAIN, and BLEEDING LONDON, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize, among many others. New, unread first edition, first printing copy, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. N62.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn?t exactly a welcoming town, but it does have the virtue of being the last stop on the bus route she took from New York. Flax Hill is also the hometown of Arturo Whitman?craftsman, widower, and father of Snow. SNOW is mild-mannered, radiant and deeply cherished?exactly the sort of little girl Boy never was, and Boy is utterly beguiled by her. If Snow displays a certain inscrutability at times, that?s simply a characteristic she shares with her father, harmless until Boy gives birth to Snow?s sister, Bird. When BIRD is born Boy is forced to re-evaluate the image Arturo?s family have presented to her, and Boy, Snow and Bird are broken apart. Sparkling with wit and vibrancy, Boy, Snow, Bird is a deeply moving novel about three women and the strange connection between them. It confirms Helen Oyeyemi?s place as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of her generation. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} OFC 2F.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. The economy has hit the private-investigator business hard, even for Leonid McGill. Lately, he is getting job offers only from the criminals he's worked so hard to leave behind. Meanwhile, his personal life grows ever more complicated: his favorite stepson, Twill, drops out of school for mysteriously lucrative pursuits; his best friend, Gordo, has been diagnosed with cancer and is living on his couch; his wife has taken a new lover, and seems to be endangering the McGill family; and his girlfriend, Aura, is back in his life but intent on some serious conversations. So how can McGill say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? She's an artist, she says, who escaped from poverty via a marriage to a rich art collector who keeps her on a stipend. But she tells McGill that she fears for her life, and that she needs his help to make sure she doesn?t meet the fate of her husband?s first two wives. McGill knows better than to believe every word a potential client says, but this isn't a job he can afford to turn away, even as he senses that?if his family's misadventures don't kill him first?sorting out the truth in her story will propel him to confront some surprising, even shocking, truths.As he did in his first two Leonid McGill mysteries, the bestselling THE LONG FALLl and KNOWN TO EVIL, Walter Mosley creates the vivid and engrossing world of a New York where motives are always suspect and nothing is as it seems. Author is the winner of the 2016 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected diust jacket. M80. Signed by Author(s).