A political satire of 1950's France, this novella is about an amateur astronomer who is suddenly proclaimed the King of France.
The spine is scuffed, and a name is written inside the front cover. Otherwise, in good vintage condition.
 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

A Fabrication

The Short Reign of Pippin IV

A best-seller when it was written, this comic, yet bittersweet, novel is about the misadventures of a bachelor and 7 precocious children.
The Paramount Picture "The Marriage Playground" is a photoplay based on this story. Photos from the photoplay are included in the book.
The spine is scuffed, and the binding shows obvious signs of age. A name is written on the partially loose title page. No pages are missing.


The Children

This is a lot of 3 vintage 1940's books of poetry by Ogden Nash. There is scuffing on the spines and corners. Also, the pages are discolored due to the age of the books. Overall, the books are in good vintage condition.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

"Good Intentions," "Many Long Years Ago," and "Versus" 

Copyright 1938
No dust jacket
Pages are discolored due to the age of the book.
Good vintage condition 

Rebecca

Part tragi-comedy, part morality play, this novel is a reworking of the seven deadly sins.
Copyright 1949
No dust jacket.
In good vintage condition.

The Feast

Umberto. Eco

William Weaver

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

In these "impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" essays (Atlantic Monthly), "the Andy Rooney of academia" (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33-function watches, soccer fans, and more. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book


How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays

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Charles Dickens

Iain McCalman

Jon Mee

2003 edition
There are minor creases along spine from being read. Otherwise, in good condition.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain, 'Barnaby Rudge' explores the relationship between repression and liberation in private and public life. This edition includes an informative introduction, up-to-date bibliography and explanatory notes.

Barnaby Rudge

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Charles. Dickens

2006 edition
There is a black ink mark across the outer bottom of the pages (shown on photo). Otherwise, book is in excellent condition.

Penguin presents the companion book to the Masterpiece Theatre miniseries starring Gillian Anderson (The House of Mirth, The X-Files). This stunning production features a screenplay written by Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones's Diary). Part romance, part melodrama, part detective story, the novel spreads out among a web of relationships in every level of society from the simple-minded Sir Leicester Dedlock, to Jo the street sweeper.

Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A 'great Victorian novel', it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation.

Bleak House

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This edition copyright 1932
Book is in good condition. Dust jacket is in poor condition. A previous owner's name is written on one of the title pages. No other markings found.

The Carlyle-Wicksteed Translation Unabridged

The Divine Comedy

Mark Dunn

Copyright 2002
There is a red ink mark on back cover and a black ink mark on bottom edge of pages (shown in photos). Otherwise, book is in excellent condition.

A Novel

Following the national success of Ella Minnow Pea, this second novel from Mark Dunn brings the same charm and love of good language to a small town in the South. A Robert Altmanesque comedy, Welcome to Higby follows the hilarious goings-on in a small town in northern Mississippi over Labor Day weekend. From mousy Carmen Valentine, whose guardian angel, Arnetta, gives her penny-pinching shopping tips, to addled old Hank Grammar, who preaches Jesus to his neighbors' pets, Higby's townsfolk have a knack for getting into -- and trouble getting out of -- outrageous situations. Blessed with an unerring eye for dead-on details, Dunn lovingly traces the eccentric and touching lives of his characters, offering an intelligent yet heartwarming vision of life in small-town America. Welcome to Higby is a Southern comical tale about simple dreams both realized and thwarted by all the complexities of the human heart.

Welcome to Higby

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Robert Frost

The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged

Poetry of Robert Frost

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William Faulkner

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

"Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window." --William Faulkner
 
Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.

Light in August

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Katherine Mansfield

Bliss and Other Stories

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Norman Mailer

Gently used.
There is a red ink mark on lower left corner of front cover (shown in photos).
Otherwise, in good condition.

"The story of two interlacing love affairs. Sergius O'Shaughnessy is a young ex-Air Force pilot whose good looks and air of indifference launch his into the orbit of the radiant actress Lulu Meyers. Charles Eitel is a brilliant director wounded by accusations of communism--and whose liaison with the volatile Elena Esposito may supply the coup de grace to his career."--Cover.

The Deer Park

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Raymond Chandler

This volume is copyrighted 1995.
First printing The Library of America
Slipcased
The book is in like-new condition; the slipcase is in good condition.

The Lady in the Lake / the Little Sister / the Long Goodbye / Playback / Double Indemnity (screenplay) / Essays and Letters

The lady in the lade - The little sister - The long goodbye - Playback - Double indemnity - Selected essays and letters.

Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings (LOA #80)

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Copyright 1889
Published by Cassell & Company, New York; no publication date listed.
There are scuffs, stains, and small tears on the covers and spine, due to the book's age. The pages have discoloration, also due to age. All pages are intact.

Rambles Through American Society

Jonathan and His Continent

Slipcased
Ribbon marker
Includes insert telling about the volume.
Book is in like-new condition; slipcase is in excellent condition.

John Cheever: Complete Novels

John Cheever

Slipcased
Short fiction
Includes insert telling about the volume.
Book is in like-new condition; slipcase is in excellent condition.

This landmark volume combines the entire Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, "The Stories of John Cheever," with seven selections from Cheever's first book, "The Way Some People Live."

John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #188)

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Stephen R. Covey

Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

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John Steinbeck

Slipcased
Book is in like-new condition; slipcase is in good condition.
Includes insert which tells about the volume and its novels.
2001 edition

The Moon Is down / Cannery Row / the Pearl / East of Eden

This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling. The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders.In Cannery Row (1945) Steinbeck paid tribute to his closest friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, in the central character of Doc, proprietor of the Western Biological Laboratory and spiritual and financial mainstay of a cast of philosophical drifters and hangers-on. The comic and bawdy evocation of the main street of Monterey's sardine-canning district has made this one of the most popular of all Steinbeck's novels. Steinbeck's long involvement with Mexican culture is distilled in The Pearl (1947). Expanding on an anecdote he had heard about a boy who found a pearl of unusual size, Steinbeck turned it into an allegory of the corrupting influence of sudden wealth. The Pearl appears here with the original illustrations by José Clemente Orozco. Ambitious in scale and original in structure, East of Eden (1952) recounts the violent and emotionally turbulent history of a Salinas Valley family through several generations. Drawing on Biblical parallels, East of Eden is an epic that explores the writer's deepest and most anguished concerns within a landscape that for him had mythic resonance. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

John Steinbeck: Novels 1942-1952 (LOA #132)

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Eudora Welty

A Southern novel about two families who have a reunion to celebrage Grandma's ninetieth birthday.

Losing Battles

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1963 illustrated and slipcased edition
Book is in excellent condition; slipcase is in fair condition.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The Ambassadors

William Shakespeare

Samuel Coleridge

Samuel Johnson

Solomon J. Schepps

There is a small scuff at base of spine; otherwise excellent condition.

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

The Complete Works Annotated

The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare

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Ann Voskamp

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are





More than 1.5 million copies sold! In this beautiful tenth anniversary edition of her bestselling book, New York Times bestselling author Ann Voskamp invites you to embrace everyday blessings and embark on the transformative journey of chronicling God's gifts.

How can you find joy in the midst of deadlines, debt, drama, and even the death of loved ones What does the Christ-life really look like when your days are gritty, long, and sometimes even dark How is God even here

"It is in the dark that God is passing by . . . our lives shake not because God has abandoned but the exact opposite. God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us..."

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