Dick King-Smith

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Dakota

"Martin, a kitten, is branded a `wimp' by his siblings for his friendly interest in mice.nbsp;nbsp;He loves caring for them and can't understand their desire for freedom.nbsp;nbsp;Only when he becomes the pet of a big city apartment dweller does he realize why his pets deserted him.nbsp;nbsp;An engaging animal fantasy with plenty of humorous insight into the human condition, King-Smith's story has humor and a fast pace which will appeal to younger readers."--School Library Journal (starred review)nbsp;nbsp;

Martin's Mice

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 Brown bonded leather with gilt lettering on spine and front board. All edges gilt. Lovely marbled front and end pages. First edition thus, published in 1984, Amaranth Press. Four of Melville’s best known and best loved stories. Please see photos. #classics #Melville #leather #hardcover #fiction #decorative #collections #anthology #collectible #gift (Shelf 1F)

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

The Confidence Man: The Piazza Tales: Billy Budd

Moby Dick

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Seamus Heaney

Like new condition other than inscription inside front cover 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition

A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate.

Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the end of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface.

Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.

Beowulf

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William Behr Mueller

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

Ahab's Revenge

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Herman. Melville

Donna Carlson

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

Young readers will be eager to sample the literary genius in the Treasury of Illustrated Classics series. Short, concise chapters in each of the 12 1-c illustrated titles will keep them in anticipation of the adventure built into every beloved tale. Each must-have title is as engaging for first-time readers as those revisiting their favorite stories! Hardcover editions and charmingly illustrated covers add to their appeal.

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