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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Bound Galley Proof for the first edition, includes publisher's one page publicity ad and a single page of W. B. Yeats' poem, "The Stolen Child." Tiny crease to bottom corner of front cover, else book in fine, as new condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First US Edition. Type: Hardback First US Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Fine Condition. By the author of "Schindler's List". Keneally's novel tells of the Japanese threatening a seaside village with invasion during WWII, intertwined with a story of morality and faith. Clean, bright, unmarked, solid volume Binding of black half cloth w/gilt titles, purple paper-wrapped boards. Jacket fine, clean and unmarked, no evidence of wear, not price-clipped. 319 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Nan A. Talese/Random House, USA, 2003.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. Set in 1948, a young Japanese pearl diver has her life drastically altered when she finds out she has leprosy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated first printing of a fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. A modern day fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double. Nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Grey paper wrapped binding with gold print on the spine.Very sdouind and unmarked. 394 pages, Dust jackethas light weasr at spine ends. In mylar and no price present.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good with Good DJ, ex-library with stamps.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Original price of $21.95 printed on dust jacket front flap. This is the first state dustjacket WITHOUT the BOOK CLUB BUG on the front panel. Jacket now protected with paper backed polyester film. Book has no writing or marking. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jean Traina (Jacket Design); Terry Karydes (Book Design); Winnie Klotz/Metropolitan Opera (Jacket Photo) (illustrator). 1st Edition/ 1st Printing, Nov.2001. 393 pp. Written by the daughter of Arthur fiedler, the long time conductor of the Boston Pops, and has worked in the field of classical music for many years. Behind the curtains of the Metropolitan Opera House, amid the elborate sets, bejeweled costumes, and the labyrinth of administrative offices, the Met has traditionally operated in great secrecy, until now. The author was the met's general press representative for 15 years, draws upon her insider knowledge. A tale with an appropriately operatic cast of characters. Flawless copy with minimal wear to dj.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First American Edition. 158pp. Stated: "February 2006/ First Edition in the United Sates of America", with '1' present in number line. Cream boards with red spine and brilliant gilt-stamped lettering. Red, black and cream pictorial dustwrapper not price-clipped ($18.00): now in Brodart mylar. (No previous owner names.).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. MASTERPIECE: MAGNIFICENT: DEFINITIVE: IMAGINATIVE: VIVID: CAPACIOUS: INSIGHTFUL: IMMERSIVE: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2005) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected beautifully color-illus. jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $32.50 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ black linen wrapping spine & extending 1.50" onto front & back panels covered in EXCELLENT olive-gray paper w/ titles ELEGANTLY silver-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, IMPECCABLE burgundy card-stock end-papers, NEW durable perfect binding w/ b-w-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISITNE interior ELEGANTLY printed in Fournier on EXCELLENT unblemished paper * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.78", 1.04 kg, xvi+572+iv (592) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: In a MAGNIFICENT feat of re-creating 16th-century London & Stratford, bestselling biographer & novelist Peter Ackroyd brings William Shakespeare to life in the manner of a contemporary rather than a biographer. Following his magisterial & ingenious re-creations of the lives of Chaucer, Dickens, T. S. Eliot, William Blake, & Sir Thomas More, Ackroyd delivers his crowning achievement w/ this DEFINITVE & IMAGINATIVE biographical MASTERPIECE. Thousands of books have been written about Shakespeare, but none has borne Ackroyd's unique & accessible stamp. His method is to position the playwright in the context of his world, exploring everything from Stratford's humble town to its fields of wildflowers; discerning influences on the plays from unexpected quarters; & entering London w/ the playwright as modern theater, as we know it, is just beginning to emerge. Writing as though we are observing Shakespeare & his circle of friends, patrons, managers, & fellow actors & writers, Ackroyd is able to see Shakespeare's genius from within, so we feel that Ackroyd the writer merges with Shakespeare the writer, the poet, the man; & thus w/ great sympathy & clarity we experience the way in which Shakespeare worked. Ackroyd has used his skill, his extraordinary knowledge, & his historical intuition to craft this major full-scale book on one of the most towering figures of the English language. * HIGH PRAISE: "Ackroyd brings to his biographical reading the IMAGINATIVE INSIGHTS of a gifted poet & novelist, along w/ the passions of a scholar. VIVID & CAPACIOUS, a study worthy of its subject." -Bryce Christensen, Booklist (Starred Review) "The great strength of Acjkroyd's book is the depth of his IMMERSION in the culture of Shakespeare's age & the sense he gives of Shakespeare as the product of that extraordinary moment in time. His feeling for the role of theater in Elizabethan London, 'a city where dramatic spectacles became the primary means of understanding reality,' seems to come from an impressively wide reading of Shakespeare's dramatic & poetic contemporaries. His judgments about the work itself are sometimes ingenious, occasionally eccentric. Immersion in Ackroyd's biography gives one a feeling that one has lived for a brief time in Shakespeare's world." -Ron Rosenbaum, Publishers Weekly * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Protean scholar & man-of-letters, PETER ACKROYD is the author of "London: The Biography" & "Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination", acclaimed biographies of T.S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, & Sir Thomas More, & several successful novels. He has won the Whitbread Book Award for Biography, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, & the South Bank Award for Literature. He lives in London. * SHIPPING: We custom wrap & label & securely package this superb book for shipment via USPS Media Mail at no charge (or via USPS Priority Mail for a below cost $16.00 fee) within the United States or at our posted rates to international destinations via USPS First Class Airmail (recommended) or USPS Priority Airmail (rates on request).

Soft cover. Condition: New. New condition color photographic softcover wraps. Includes Acclaim for Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea; Preliminary Pages entitled The Hinges of History by Thomas Cahill; Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Homer and William Butler Yeates; The Greek Alphabet; Pronouncing Glossary; Notes and Sources; Chronology; Acknowledgments; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, map, and front and rear double page color plate endpapers. "The best introduction to classical Greek culture yet written . Learned, stylish and inspiring . Well-informed, insightful and on the whole written in a sparkling style." - Los Angeles Times. "In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore "the hinges of history," Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining -- and historically unassailable -- journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience, and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation -- yet they kept slaves. The glorious verses of the Iliad recount a conflict in which rage and outrage spur men to action and suggest that their "bellicose society of gleaming metals and rattling weapons" is not so very distant from more recent campaigns of "shock and awe." And, centuries before Zorba, Greece was a land where music, dance, and freely flowing wine were essential to the high life. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview." - from the rear outer cover. "Astonishing . if anybody can get us reading about Homer, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Thucydides, Xenophon and more, Cahill will." - Chicago Tribune. "Fascinating . Commendable . Cahill has an impressive knowledge of the Greek world . HIs admirable skill at summing up movements of enormous complexity surfaces throughout the book." - The Seattle Times.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Quarter bound in publisher's yellow cloth over yellow boards, gilt lettering on spine, color photographic endpapers. Profusely illustrated with color maps, charts, and illustrations, as well as reproductions of artwork, decorative borders, illuminated letters and other period design elements. One small ding at the top of the front board and panel, else as new; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. . Hinges Of History Series. Vol. 5. Color maps, Charts, and Illustrations. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 368 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine+. 1st Edition. Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2002. First (1st) Printing (full number line to "1") of "First Edition in the United States of America April 2002" stated. Fine- in Near Fine+ Dust Jacket. Possibly Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind. The Binding is gray quarter cloth to black boards, with bright red title, etc., to spine, square corners, gray endpapers (rear endpaper has some black dye bleeding to small area at top), some diminution of black color to top of rear board, and mildly bumped head and heel of spine. The pictorial Dust Jacket is intact, bright and, on the outside, flawless, with the original price ($26.00) intact on the front flap, but with black dye bleeding on the inside of the rear panel. Please see photos accompanying this listing. 351 + iii pages. 6 1/2" x 8 1/2". Originally published in the UK in 2001, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction, shortlisted for the 2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2001 Whitbread Novel Award. It won the 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction, the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the 2002 WH Smith Literary Award, the 2002 Boeke Prize and the 2004 Santiago Prize for the European Novel. An engrossing meta-fictional novel, it explores the life-long guilt of a girl whose lie ruins lives. Initially set in an English country house in 1935, it moves to the Battle of Dunkirk, then to London during the Battle of Britain, and finally to 1999 England. Basis for the 2007 movie of the same name. ISBN 10: 0385503954 / ISBN 13: 9780385503952.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Ohne Umschlag; Leichte Rillen / Abschürfungen / Risse / Knicke.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Unangenehmer Geruch; Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Riss größer als 1 cm.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Rillen / Abschurfungen / Risse / Knicke; Farbtonanderung. The riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage includes the purchase by the author's great-grandfather of a peasant girl with whom he had fallen in love, the desperate sledge journey in the depths of winter made by her grandmother to intercede with Tsar Aleksandr II for her husband, the extraordinary courtship of her parents, and her Scottish granny being caught up in the abortive revolution of 1905. Brought up in Russia but taken on visits to Scotland, Eugenie Fraser marvelously evokes a child's reactions to two totally different environments, sets of customs, and family backgrounds. With the events of 1914 to 1920--the war with Germany, the Revolution, the murder of the Tsar, and the withdrawal of the Allied Intervention in the north--came the disintegration of Russia and of family life. The stark realities of hunger, deprivation, and fear are sharply contrasted with the adventures of childhood. The reader shares the family's suspense and concern about the fates of its members and relives with Eugenie her final escape to Scotland.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Beschriftungen / Markierungen bis 20 %; Farbtonänderung; Riss größer als 1 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Deutlicher Riss.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Gebrochener Buchrücken.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Gebrochener Buchrücken; Farbtonänderung; Riss größer als 1 cm.

First edition SIGNED. A journey into the South American Rainforest on the tail of the world's largest gold rush. Very good and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Affectionately inscribed and signed by the author on the opening flyleaf.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine-. 1st Edition. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, New York, USA, 2009. First (1st) Printing (full number line to "1") of "First United States Edition" (stated). As New in Fine- Dust Jacket. Appears Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, tight, straight and square without any markings of any kind. The Binding is green quarter cloth to green boards, all of uniform color, with bright gilt title, etc., to spine, bright white, unmarked endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The pictorial Dust Jacket is bright, of uniform color, with original price ($26.95) intact on the front flap, and would be flawless but for a 1/2 inch tear to the top front panel, which is closed discreetly from behind with archival (pH neutral) materials. See photos. 434 + ii pages. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". This is the second novel in what is known alternatively as the MaddAddam Trilogy or her Dystopian Trilogy, which consists of Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam (2013), which collectively posit the possible future plight of humanity. The novel was longlisted for the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award, and shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award. ISBN 10: 0385528779 / ISBN 13: 9780385528771.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 384 pp, stated first edition , with full number line, a memoir autobiographical narrative. 6.4" x 9.5" black papered boards, silver spine letters, in blue unclipped DJ in polyester protector. Size: Large Octavo. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Rillen / Abschürfungen / Risse / Knicke.

Hardcover. Condition: As New.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Nan A. Talese, imprint of The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. , New York, New York, U.S.A., 2006. First (1st) Printing (full number line down to 1) of the First American Edition. First published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart on September 4, 2006. As New in an As New Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is red quarter cloth to red boards, colors uniform throughout, with bright silver title, etc., to the spine, unmarked white endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is bright with colors uniform throughout, and fully intact with the original price ($23.95) intact on the front flap. See the photos. 225, [iv] pages. 5 7/8" x 8 1/2". A collection of connected short stories about the troubles of a Canadian family over a period of 60 years. The last story is autobiographical.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Unterschrift / Widmung ohne Bezug; Beschriftungen / Markierungen bis 20 %; Farbtonänderung. Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas--business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others--struggle to make their ideas "stick." Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? Educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the "human scale principle," using the "Velcro Theory of Memory," and creating "curiosity gaps." In this fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures), we discover that sticky messages of all kinds--from the infamous "kidney theft ring" hoax to a coach's lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony--draw their power from the same six traits. This book that will transform the way you communicate ideas.--From publisher description.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Rillen / Abschurfungen / Risse / Knicke. A silly book with a serious purpose--to help children recognize, remember, and really enjoy using a basic vocabulary of 1350 words. Written and illustrated by P. D. Eastman--with help from the Cat (Dr. Seuss)--this decades-old dictionary pairs words with pictures that carry their meaning, making it simple enough even for nonreaders to understand. A wacky cast of characters reappears throughout the book, making this perhaps the only dictionary in the world that is actually fun to read! Beginner Books are fun, funny, and easy to read! Launched by Dr. Seuss in 1957 with the publication of The Cat in the Hat, this beloved early reader series motivates children to read on their own by using simple words with illustrations that give clues to their meaning. Featuring a combination of kid appeal, supportive vocabulary, and bright, cheerful art, Beginner Books will encourage a love of reading in children ages 3-7.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Spuren von Feuchtigkeit / Nässe; Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Rillen / Abschürfungen / Risse / Knicke.