Hardcover, no dustjacket. Reading copy. "The chief thing is that they all need him, " is the way Dostoyevsky described Prince Myshkin, the hero of perhaps his most remarkable novel. As the still, radiant center of a plot whose turbulent action is extraordinary even for Dostoevsky, Myshkin succeeds in dominating through sheer force of personality a cast of characters who vividly and violently embody the passions and conflicts of 19th-century Russia. Translated into English from the Russian by ...
Softcover. Fair condition. Page discoloration. Dune is the source of brilliant survival techniques devised by the desert dwellers, the focus of political intrigues of exquisite subtlety, and the nexus of a centuries-old plot to create a superbeing.
Hardcover with dustjacket. Like New. Set in the 1850s, this novel speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice-the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of Lidie Harkness of Quincy, Illinois, a young woman of courage, good sense, and good heart. It carries us into an America so violently torn apart by the question of slavery that it makes our current political battlegrounds seem a peaceable kingdom. "An immensely appealing heroine, a historical setting conveyed with impressive fidelity, a charming and ...
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 2004
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Brings the thick backwoods and swamps of East Texas vividly to life, and paints a powerfully evocative picture of a time when Jim Crow and the Klan ruled virtually unopposed, when the oil boom was rolling into and over Texas, when any women who didn't know her place was considered a threat and a target. In Sunset, he gives us a woman who defies all expectations, wrestling a different place for herself with spirit and spit, cunning and courage. And ... read more
Edition: Sentry Edition. Fifth Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 1959
Description: Softcover in flexible cloth. Very good reading copy. Some pages are underlined with footnotes. An indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology and a study of three sharply contrasting cultures. Includes an Index. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harper & Row: New York
Date Published: 1936
Description: Softcover. Good reading copy. Pages are written on and underlined with a inscription from previos owner on front endpage. Stains at front and back. French Language text with English introduction. Rostand puts a premium not upon success, but upon courage and unselfishness, and tries to show that it is to devotion to a high ideal that makes for greatness. Includes a French to English glossary. read more
Edition: Seventh Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1955
Description: Softcover. Good condition. Tells the story of what happened to the little town of Goray in seventeenth-century Poland when they expected Sabbatai Zevi, alleged to be the Messiah, to appear. read more
Edition: Twenty-seventh Dell Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dell Publishing, New York
Date Published: 1985
Description: Softcover. Reading copy. From out of the wonderful world of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh comes A. A. Milne's delightful verse of childhood. Full of bubbling nonsense and rhythm, this bestselling poetry has found a secure place in the hearts of today's children and those who once were very young. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia
Date Published: 1950
Description: Hardcover, no dustjacket. Very good reading copy. Former owner's name inked on half-title page and small scrape to base of spine. Attractive blue ad yellow engraved and illustrated cover. When Hugh Lofting wrote and illustrated the story of Pippinella, the green canary, for the Herald Tribune Syndicate his intention was to publish it one day in book form. He used some of the material in Doctor Dolittle's Caravan in which the little canary opera appeared as the prima donna of the Doctor's canary ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York
Date Published: 1955
Description: Hardcover, no dustjacket. Very good reading copy. "It was Kate who, long after she was grown up, completed the story of the borrowers. She wrote it all out, many years later, for her four children, and compiled it as you compile a case-history or a biographical novel from all kinds of evidence-things she remembered, things she had been told and one or two things, we had better confess it, at which she just guessed. " And so begins this work. read more
Dune
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
