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$12.50 Description: New York. 1988. June 1988. Random House. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394534689. 223 pages. hardcover. June 1988. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The highly controversial study of J.D. Salinger which sparked a landmark Supreme Court ruling on questions of fair use and the right of privacy. inventory #10085. Read More
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$20.00 Description: New York. 1988. May 1988. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 155584166x. Translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam. 311 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Reg Perry. Jacket painting: The House of Mystery by William Degouve de Nunques. Collection: State Museum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands. Author's photograph by Sophie Bassouls/Sygma. FROM THE PUBLISHER-CURFEW takes place during one twenty-four-hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow ... Read More
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The Unicorn Expedition and Other Fantastic Tales of India $12.50 Description: New York. 1987. Dutton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Wrinkled Dustjacket. 0525245448. 190 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Earl Tidwell. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Satyajit Ray created two very popular characters in Bengali children's literature—Feluda, a sleuth, and Professor Shonku, a scientist. He was a prominent writer of science fiction in Bengali or any Indian language for that matter. He also wrote short stories which were published as volumes of 12 stories, always with names ... Read More
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On Power and Ideology: the Managua Lectures $20.00 Description: Boston. 1987. South End Press. 1st American Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 089608289x. 140 pages. paperback. Cover by Lydia Sargent. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In March 1986, Noam Chomskv had the opportunity to visit Managua and lecture at the Universidad Centroamericana. These lectures consisted of a morning series, devoted to the problems of language and knowledge (published by MIT Press), and an afternoon series, devoted to contemporary political issues, from which this book is ... Read More
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$20.00 Description: Lincoln. 1988. University Of Nebraska Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0803233159. Translated from the Norwegian by Bibbi Lee. hardcover. FROM THE PUBLISHER-As the rumble of World War I grows louder in Norway, a girl named Herdis trembles on the brink of adolescence. Home has been wrecked by divorce, and the world is collapsing around her. Amid the general turmoil she strains to hear another sound-the strange music rising from a forbidden well, echoing her own ... Read More
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$7.50 Description: New York. 1985. Dutton. 3rd Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0525441654. 119 pages. hardcover. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Part of the BANANA BOOKS series, now available in a new format with a sewn binding designed for use in the classroom, a ghost story suitable for Key Stages 3 and 4. Illustrated by Frank Rodgers. inventory #10177. Read More
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$25.00 Description: Lincoln. 1988. University Of Nebraska Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0803219741. Translated from the Norwegian by Sverre Lyngstad. 246 pages. hardcover. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Set in Oslo, Norway, Adam's Diary (Adams Dagbok) transcends geographical boundaries in its depiction of lovers victimized by social roles and sexual stereotypes. It was recognized as a major novel on publication in Norway in 1978, and its translation into English will raise Knut Faldbakken to the rank ... Read More
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$17.50 Description: New York. 1988. St Martin's Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0312018088. 1st Suspense Novel by Australian Poet & Critic. 254 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by James Victore. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Aussie foreign correspondent Tom Caxton lands in Bangkok in time to see a couple roughly pulled off a departing plane by a Thai policeman. Caxton snaps some photos, and Carmody, a suave Bangkok resident, helps get the film through customs. Later, Caxton and Carmody are attacked, and ... Read More
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$12.50 Description: Boston. 1986. January 1986. Houghton Mifflin. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 039538401x. Illustrated by Kyffin Williams. 62 apges. hardcover. Jacket design by Humphrey Stone. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Since its discovery by Magellan in 1520, Patagonia was known as a country of black fogs and whirlwinds at the end of the inhabited world. It immediately lodged itself in the imagination as a metaphor for 'the ultimate', the point beyond which one could not go. In this book, Chatwin and ... Read More
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