Edward Gorey

Extensive collection of Gorey interviews and ephemera, a must have for fans

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

Presents a selection of twenty-one interviews conducted over the course of twenty-five years with the popular American writer and illustrator.

Ascending Peculiarity

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Daniel M. Pinkwater

Rollicking modern adventure about a boy, his friends, and a fateful turtle

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization

When shoelace heir Neddie Wentworthstein and his family take the train from Chicago to Los Angeles in the 1940s, he winds up in possession of a valuable Indian turtle artifact whose owner is supposed to be able to prevent the impending destruction of the world, but he is not sure exactly how. Reprint.

The Neddiad

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Anne Balsamo

Some smudging on top edge, otherwise fine and readable. Notes and underlining throughout.

Reading Cyborg Women

This book looks at the representation of the body in culture from a feminist perspective. Subjects covered include bodybuilding, cosmetic surgery, and cyberculture.

Technologies of the Gendered Body

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Norman Maurer

Dynamic and dense comics that are worth a look for cartooning fans in general, as well as Stooges fans.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Presenting the classic Three Stooges comics for an all new audience. Originally published in the 50's, 60's, and 70's, these comics find Moe, Larry, and Curly (and sometimes Shemp) in a variety of zany situations that are just as funny today as they were when they first appeared.

The Best of the Three Stooges Comicbooks, vol. 2

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Jerzy Kosinski

Classic 1970 novel, not a movie tie-in despite image from Sellers film

A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner - Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a media icon. Truly "a man without qualities," Chance's straightforward responses to popular concerns are heralded as visionary. But though everyone is quoting him, no one is sure what he's really saying. And filling in the blanks in his background proves impossible. Being There is a brilliantly satiric look at the unreality of American media culture that is, if anything, more trenchant now than ever.

Being There

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David Rhodes

Handsome edition of classic 1975 small town novel.

Devastated by the deaths of his parents, privileged Iowa youth July Montgomery haunts an underground train station in Philadelphia until a young woman encourages him to return home. By the author of The Last Fair Deal Gowning Down. Reprint.

Rock Island Line

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Arthur Laurents

Terrence McNally

Gabriel Miller

Anthology of New York playwright's work from 1945 to 2003

If he had done nothing more than write the book for the musicalsWest Side StoryandGypsy, Arthur Laurents would be assured a place in the pantheon of American theater. But he has done much more, including directing, screenwriting, and playwriting. Here, for the first time, is an anthology of seven of Laurents' most acclaimed and challenging plays. It begins withHome of the Brave, the play that launched Laurents' career. This wartime drama known for its frank treatment of anti-Semitism and war trauma remains as potent today as it was when it opened on Broadway in 1945. The anthology continues through some of Laurents' most recent work, including2 Lives, a witty, frequently poignant portrait of an elderly gay couple confronting mortality and coming to terms with their lives. Also included areThe Enclave,Jolson Sings Again,My Good Name,Closing Bell, andAttacks on the Heart. Spanning nearly 60 years and covering a wide variety of topical and emotional terrain, this is an important book from an American theater legend. Includes: •Home of the Brave • The Enclave • Jolson Sings Again • My Good Name • Closing Bell • 2 Lives, and • Attacks on the Heart • The first-ever anthology of plays by a giant of American theater • Each play features a new introduction by the author • Laurents' recent memoir was the most highly accliamed theater memoir in years • A revival ofGypsy, starring Bernadette Peters, is playing to sold-out audiences on Broadway • Author Laurents speaks widely on American theater, always to a packed house • Advertising inBack Stagemagazine

Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents

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Anthony Powell

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Question of Upbringing / A Buyer's Market / The Acceptance World

Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. Four very different young men on the threshold of manhood dominate this opening volume of A Dance to the Music of Time. The narrator, Jenkins—a budding writer—shares a room with Templer, already a passionate womanizer, and Stringham, aristocratic and reckless. Widermerpool, as hopelessly awkward as he is intensely ambitious, lurks on the periphery of their world. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, these four gain their initiations into sex, society, business, and art. Considered a masterpiece of modern fiction, Powell's epic creates a rich panorama of life in England between the wars. Includes these novels: A Question of Upbringing A Buyer's Market The Acceptance World "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."—Chicago Tribune "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's."—Elizabeth Janeway, New York Times "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."—Naomi Bliven, New Yorker

A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

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At Lady Molly's / Casanova's Chinese Restaurant / The Kindly Ones

Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses.

In the background of this second volume of A Dance to the Music of Time, the rumble of distant events in Germany and Spain presages the storm of World War II. In England, even as the whirl of marriages and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures gathers speed, men and women find themselves on the brink of fateful choices.

Includes these novels:
At Lady Molly's
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
The Kindly Ones

"Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."--Chicago Tribune

"A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's."--Elizabeth Janeway, New York Times

"One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."--Naomi Bliven, New Yorker


A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement

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The Valley of Bones / The Soldier's Art / The Military Philosophers

Powell's monumental 12-part series traces the lives of a wide variety of characters in London from World War I until the 1960s.

A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement

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Sid Greene

Bill Everett

Carl Burgos

Marvel Masterworks

The Marvel Masterworks proudly present the debut of the Human Torch, that fiery chart-topper of the Golden Age, in his own comic series! Leaping from the pages of Marvel Mystery Comics, the Torch was hotter than hotcakes in 1940. And now you can experience his series from the very beginning, which just so happens to be issue #2! Starting off with the first appearance of Torch's kid sidekick, Toro the Flaming Kid, Carl Burgos and company present page after page of action and adventure in incomparable 64-page, jam-packed issues. See the Torch and Toro fight side-byside with Bill Everett's Sub-Mariner, as he once again terrorizes New York City! Also featuring the adventures of Microman, Mantor the Magician, the Fiery Mask and the Patriot. COLLECTING: Human Torch (1940) 2-5a

Golden Age Human Torch, vol.1

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Delightful selection from the 50's and 60's, great art, glossy magazine paper

Presenting the classic Three Stooges comics for an all-new audience. Originally published in the 50's, 60's, and 70's, these comics find Moe, Larry, and Curly (and sometimes Shemp) in a variety of zany situations that are just as funny today as they were when they first appeared.

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The Best of the Three Stooges Comicbooks, vol. 2

Jerzy Kosinski

Being There

David Rhodes

Rock Island Line

Arthur Laurents; Terrence McNally; Gabriel Miller

Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents

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A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement

Anthony Powell

A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement

Bill Everett; Carl Burgos

Golden Age Human Torch, vol.1

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The Best of the Three Stooges Comicbooks, vol. 1

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Norman Maurer, Joe Messerli, Pete Alvarado

The Best of the Three Stooges Comicbooks, vol. 2

Jerzy Kosinski

Being There

David Rhodes

Rock Island Line

Arthur Laurents; Terrence McNally; Gabriel Miller

Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents

Anthony Powell

A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

Anthony Powell

A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement

Anthony Powell

A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement

Bill Everett; Carl Burgos

Golden Age Human Torch, vol.1

Norman Maurer, Pete Alvarado

The Best of the Three Stooges Comicbooks, vol. 1

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