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By: Allende, Isabel; Peden (from the Spanish), Margaret Sayers
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 604511
Medium brown boards quarterbound in darker brown cloth with title and author imprinted in gold on spine. Genealogical table on endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Deckle-edged pages. 320 pages. Internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende has written a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile, a marvelous family saga that takes up and continues the story begun in her highly acclaimed Daughter of Fortune Rec... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Evanston, IL, Northwestern Univ Press: 1991
Edition: No Edition indicated
Our Product Number: 601401
Black remainder dot on bottom of book. . 197 pages. In Stories of an Imaginary Childhood Melvin Jules Bukiet inscribes the world that might have been his own if not for the catastrophe that destroyed most of Jewish life in eastern Europe during the 1940s. Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and the rites of manhood, as he fight... View more info
By: Carey, Peter
Price: $9.99
Publisher: New York, Vintage International: 2002
Edition: 1st Vintage International Edition
Our Product Number: 608842
No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 348 pages. In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the ... View more info
By: Cisneros, Sandra
Price: $17.95
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1994
Our Product Number: 608205
134 pages. In hardcover for the first time--on the tenth anniversary of its initial publication--the greatly admired and bestselling book about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through its multiple characters. View more info
By: Coelho, Paulo
Price: $12.45
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2014
Edition: First American Edition
Our Product Number: 608017
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By: Coelho, Paulo; Costa (Translator), Margaret Jull
Price: $11.95
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2011
Edition: First American Edition
Our Product Number: 606723
Deckle-edged pages. 288 pages View more info
By: Coelho, Paulo; Costa (Translator), Margaret Jull
Price: $9.95
Publisher: New York, Vintage International: 2012
Edition: First Edition Thus
Our Product Number: 607340
Light spine crease. 269 pages View more info
By: Coelho, Paulo; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Price: $24.95
Publisher: New York, HarperCollinsPublishers: 2004.
Edition: First US Edition
Our Product Number: 607885
Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Deckle-edged pages. 269 pages. A new, international bestseller by the author of The Alchemist tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, wher... View more info
By: Coelho, Paulo; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Price: $9.50
Publisher: New York, HarperCollinsPublishers: 2007.
Edition: First US Edition
Our Product Number: 608159
Small dent to front edge of front board . 268 pages View more info
Price: $84.95
Publisher: self-published: 2010
Our Product Number: 608803
283 pages. Death by Unknown Hands' is how a US coroner would officially record a death by lynch mob. The 1950s was a watershed period for such atrocities in the Deep South. It was still entirely possible for a colored person to be lynched, for colored houses to be burned down, and for colored workers to lose their jobs, but these were no longer automatic responses to an event which outraged the white community - they were certainly possible, there were even quite probabl... View more info
By: Dostoevsky, Fyodor; Magarshack (Translator), David
Price: $5.16
Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 2005
Edition: First Edition Thus
Our Product Number: 607960
318 pages. Modern Library Classics View more info
By: Eco,Umberto; Dixon (Translator), Richard
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 608135
Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover; Red boards quarterbound in black with title and author on in gilt; Red endpages; Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 444 pages View more info
Price: $15.95
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1993
Edition: First Edition Thus
Our Product Number: 605719
310 pages. William Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published The Sound and the Fury. They explore many of the themes found in the novels and feature characters of small-town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkner’s. In “A Rose for Emily,” the first of his stories to appear in a national magazine, a straightf... View more info
By: Gold, Glen David
Price: $6.20
Publisher: New York, Hyperion: 2002
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Our Product Number: 602542
A little corner curl.. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Debut novel. . 496 pages. In Carter Beats the Devil, Glen David Gold subjects the past to the same wondrous transformations as the rabbit in a skilled illusionist's hat. Gold's debut novel opens with real-life magician, Charles Carter, executing a particularly grisly trick, using President Warren G. Harding as a volunteer. Shortly afterwards, Harding dies mysteriously in his San Franc... View more info
By: Henry, O.
Price: $13.00
Our Product Number: 606212
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By: Irving, John
Price: $13.95
Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1999.
Our Product Number: 607828
1/8th inch closed tear on back of dust jacket . 571 pages View more info
By: King, Mary
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Lubbock, TX, Texas Tech University Press: (1941) 2001
Edition: First Edition Thus
Our Product Number: 608714
425 pages. Quincie, the motherless thirteen-year-old daughter of an itinerant muleskinner, is the captivating protagonist of this Depression-era novel set in the Texas oil patch. Her story's value resides not only in the viewpoint of a young girl who comes of age in the shadow of the derricks but also in the currency of her creators sensitivity to the natural world and environmental issues. Originally a 1941 Houghton-Mifflin Literary Fellowship Book, "Quincie Bollive... View more info
By: Landay, William
Price: $7.15
Publisher: New York, Delacorte Books: 2012
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 606654
Dent to front cover. Light Gray boards with light gray spine imprinted with title and author in red metallic. Full number line 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 421 pages View more info
By: Ligon, Samuel
Price: $11.95
Publisher: New York, Harpercollins: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Our Product Number: 602030
SIGNED by AUTHOR on half-title. 0.91 x 9.12 x 6.28 Inches. 256 pages. Signed by Author. Robert Elgin has checked out of his life, rendered himself irrelevant, and become invisible. After stumbling upon a secret slush fund his political bosses have been skimming off the public, Elgin takes the money and runs ...Runs from the corruption of machine politics.Runs from the corrupting of his daughter, molested by a twelve-year-old neighbor. View more info
By: McMillan, Terry
Price: $12.95
Publisher: New York, Viking: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 608160
Genealogical table (fictional); Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 431 pages View more info
