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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 256 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with silver lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Xenia Smith and Leslie Wetzon are the best executive search consultants on Wall Street. Wetzon, the more trusting, naive partner, meets very edgy client Barry Stark for drinks at the Four Seasons--where she later finds him stabbed to death in a phone booth, herself stuck with his briefcase, and soon hopelessly attracted to homicide cop Silvestri, who seems smitten by man-trap Smith. Can the headhunters hunt down a killer? Condition: Remainder mark at heal end pages, heal corners gently bumped else near fine in a fine jacket.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $8.95, near fine, appears unused. CONWAY, JILL KER. The Road from Coorain. New York: Vintage Books, 1990, First Vintage books edition, August 1990, 238pp., . Cover design by Pamela Scheier. 9780679724360 ISBN 0679724362 7.80.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 221 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with silver lettering to spine over beige boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Reuben Frost is presiding over a New York National Ballet board meeting when the company's artistic director is stabbed at the stage door. It is up to Frost, his wife and Luis Bautista, their old partner in detection, to pool their investigative resources to find the killer. Condition: Remainder mark at heal end pages else a near fine copy in like jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Tunnel Tigers is a colourful portrait of the off-beat characters who worked on Scottish hydro projects, and of the tensions that were created when men of various religious and ethnic groups shared the same space. Tunnel tigers are an elite group of construction workers who specialise in a highly paid but dangerous profession: driving tunnels through mountains or underneath rivers or other large bodies of water, in locations as far apart as Sydney and San Francisco. At the turn of the last century they tunnelled out the subways under New York and London; in the 1940s and 1950s they were involved in a score of huge hydroelectric tunnels in Pitlochry and the Highlands of Scotland. They continue with their dangerous craft today in various locations all over the world. Many of these daring men were born in north west Donegal, Ireland, where the tunnel tigers were viewed as local folk heroes because they had the bravado to work in dangerous conditions that few other working men could endure. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, appears unused, but old price label residue on rear cover. remainder dot on top foredge. ENQUIST, PER OLOV. The wandering pine: life as a novel. Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner. London: MacLehose Press, 2015, 1st printing of this edition number line ending in 1, 391pp., . What was it about Hjoggbole, a farming village in the northernmost part of Sweden, that created so many idiots - and writers? There was nothing to indicate that P.O. Enquist would be stricken by an addiction to writing. Nothing in his family - honest, hardworking people. Not a trace of poetry. And yet he worked his way, via journalism, novels and plays, to the centre of Swedish politics and cultural life. His books garnered prize after prize. His plays ran for decades and premiered on Broadway. Why then, living with a new wife in Paris, does he hole up in their palatial Champes-Elysees apartment, talking only to his cat? How is it that he wakes to find himself in an uncoupled carriage on a railway siding in Hamburg, two - or was it three? - days after the first-night party finished? And what is it that drives him to run shoeless through the deep January snow of an Icelandic plain, leaving the lights of the drying out clinic far behind? Narrating in the third person, as if he were merely a character in the eventful, perplexing and ultimately triumphantly redemptive drama of his own life, P.O. Enquist is as elliptical as Karl Ove Knausgaard is exhaustive. Clear-eyed, rueful, written with elegance and humour, this is the singular story of a remarkable man. ISBN 9781780870199 10.00.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $13.00, near fine. BERRY, WENDELL. Another turn of the crank: essays. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1995, 3d printing number line ending in 3, xii, 109pp., . Wendell Berry proposes, and earnestly hopes, that people will learn once more to care for their local communities, and so begin a restoration that might spread over our entire nation and beyond. The renewed development of local economies would help preserve rural diversity despite the burgeoning global economy that threatens to homogenize and compromise communities all over the world. From modern health care to the practice of forestry, from local focus to national resolve, Berry argues, there can never be a separation between global ecosystems and human communities - the two are intricately connected; the health and survival of one depends upon the other. Another Turn of the Crank reaches to the heart of Berry's concern and vision for the future, for America and for the world. - CONTENTS: Farming and the global economy -- Conserving communities -- Conserving forest communities -- Private property and the Common Wealth -- The conservation of nature and the preservation of humanity -- Health is membership. 9781887178280 ISBN 1887178287 5.30.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover, no dust cover. The text is unmarked. Covers have rubbed edges and corners along with some scuffing. Binding loosening slightly but still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. unpaginated with illustrations. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 7 1/2") bound in original publisher's illustrated boards. First American edition. With this full-color, die-cut clock book, children follow one day and one night in the life of James and his beloved Snowman--and they learn how to tell time by moving the clock's hands to match the time given in the text. Based on Briggs' popular book The Snowman. Condition: Light edge wear else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. xiv+149 with diagrams and index. Quarto (10 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial boards.Second edition. This book has been revised and expanded to take account of the immense amount of serious competitive play in the decade since the first edition was completed in 1966. During this period the Petroff has gained a new supporter in the person of the former world champion Petrosian. Some commentators even attribute the loss of the title in 1969 to his failure to carry on playing the Petroff after it had brought him two comfortable draws late in the match against Spassky. Meanwhile, older supporters of the defence such as Smyslov and Bronstein have not lost faith in it. Even the former world title holder Karpov has adopted it occasionally. Condition: Corners and spine ends gently bumped, front end paper clipped else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xii+252 pagers with maps, illustrations, glossary and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with brown lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. To map the shifting interplay of state with federal politics in Brazil over the turbulent period from 1930 to 1964 is a task of no mean proportion or value. Carlos Cortés attempts that and more. By arguing that Rio Grande do Sul deliberately and decisively circumscribed the actions of national political figures, most dramatically those of Getúlio Vargas between 1930 and 1937, but also those of João Goulart in the 1960s, Cortés gives bold interpretive shape to that mapping. Condition: Head page ends soiled. Jacket price clipped, darkening to spine and edges, spine ends and corners chipped else very good in like jacket.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, small ink check marks in the margins of the bibliography, otherwise very good. CLENDINNEN, INGA. Reading the Holocaust. Cambridge University Press, 1999, ix, 227pp., . The events of the Holocaust remain 'unthinkable' to many men and women, as morally and intellectually baffling as they were half a century ago. Inga Clendinnen challenges our bewilderment., She seeks to dispel what she calls the Gorgon effect: the sickening of the imagination and the draining of the will that afflict so many of us when we try to confront the horrors of this history., Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' point of view., She discusses the remarkable survivor testimonies of writers such as Primo Levi and Charlotte Delbo, the vexed issue of 'resistance' in the camps, and strategies for understanding the motivations of the Nazi leadership. She focuses an., Anthropologist's precise gaze on the actions of the murderers in the police battalions and among the SS in the camps., And she considers how the Holocaust has been portrayed in poetry, fiction, and film. - CONTENTS: Beginning -- Impediments -- Part I. Victims: Witnessing -- Resisting -- Part II. Perpetrators: Defining: inside the grey zone: the Auschwitz Sonderkommando -- Leaders -- The men in the green tunics: the order police in Poland -- The Auschwitz SS -- Representing the Holocaust. 9780521645973 ISBN 0521645972.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price 7.99 pounds, near fine, appears unused. CONWAY, JILL KER. A woman's education: the road from Coorain leads to Smith College. London: Vintage, 2003, with number line ending in 1, vii, 143pp., . Offers an assessment of the author's life, passions, possibilities and the making of her decision to leave Canada and return to the United States to become Smith's first woman president. 9780099579915 ISBN 009957991X 4.00.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear and tears. Clipped.

hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: near fine dust-jacket, attractive copy, near fine blue cloth, a couple of tiny flecks on right foredge, top foredge has decorative robin's egg blue flecks but this is part of the design. MCDONOUGH, JAMES L. Chattanooga : a death grip on the Confederacy. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984, stated First Edition, xviii, 298pp., . The trust of events in McDougall's highly charged narrative brings alive the key figures on this stage. The Unions four most successful generals served together in only this one campaign, which was the last for the controversial Braxton Bragg. - CONTENTS: The dead lie so thickly -- War between the generals -- Stunned, like a duck hit on the head -- Rebels all around -- Brown's Ferry and Wauhatchie -- Our position, it strikes me, is objectionable -- The perfect order of a holiday parade -- Tell Cleburne we are to fight -- This feat will be celebrated -- Whiskey was not enough -- All hell can't stop them -- We will carry the line! -- The whole army is in retreat -- I fear we both erred. 9780870494253 ISBN 0870494252.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. DETAILS: sewn PAPERBACK, attractive copy, near fine and appears unused. SCHADE, WERNER. Joseph Beuys : Early watercolors. With an introductory essay by Werner Schade. Translation from the German by Paul Kremmel. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991, no indication of printing number, 106pp., . Series: Schirmer's visuelle Bibliothek. English A Schirmer/Mosel Production - Beuys, Joseph, 1921-1986. Introduction in ENGLISH, reproductions in color. 9780393307672 ISBN 0393307670 8.40.

Paperback. Condition: Good. A copy that's been read with wear and creases to the book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. With owner's bookplate, else fine.

Steinmetz, Horst, 1934-. Die Komödie der Aufklärung. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1966, 79pp., small PAPERBACK, neat but quite heavy pencil underlining on 16 pages. Metzler Realienbücher, M47.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Despite the worlds insecurities, the most common drama of all is not of apocalypse now, but of apocalypse deferred; the pain of living is having to wait it out. In Apocalypse Then, DeMariniss characters try alcohol, they try travel, and (most of all) they try off-limits love.This copy is an EX-LIB first printing with the usual markings, labels but with very little wear and with a tight, straight binding and with a very good dustjacket in clear mylar covering. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Parts of a body are found on farms which are leased as hunting lands by a local hunting club.It's not long before Balzic has figured out the identity of the victim, but pinning the murder on the killer is another matter in this second Balzic mystery. This copy is in good condition as an EX-LIB copy with the usual markings, a first printing with the bright, price-intact dustjacket is in clear, mylar covering.The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Tunnel Tigers is a colourful portrait of the off-beat characters who worked on Scottish hydro projects, and of the tensions that were created when men of various religious and ethnic groups shared the same space. Tunnel tigers are an elite group of construction workers who specialise in a highly paid but dangerous profession: driving tunnels through mountains or underneath rivers or other large bodies of water, in locations as far apart as Sydney and San Francisco. At the turn of the last century they tunnelled out the subways under New York and London; in the 1940s and 1950s they were involved in a score of huge hydroelectric tunnels in Pitlochry and the Highlands of Scotland. They continue with their dangerous craft today in various locations all over the world. Many of these daring men were born in north west Donegal, Ireland, where the tunnel tigers were viewed as local folk heroes because they had the bravado to work in dangerous conditions that few other working men could endure. This is a natural companion to The Hydro Boys (1 84282 047 8 Luath Press) Of interest to: Anyone interested in environmentalism and conservation Anyone who was involved in the Hydro, or whose family was - and anyone curious about those massive dams and the Highlands Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Condition: New. pp. 13.