Kerry Mark Joels

Dear, Astronaut. Don’t let anyone know that you lost your manual for the shuttle. You can just buy this one, and no one will ever know! 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Tennessee

The Space Shuttle Operator's Manual

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Small tears around the edge of the dust jacket, and foxing on the top of outer pages. Small owners plate on the FEP, all the other pages are nice and crisp.


No Heaven for Gunga Din; consisting of The British and American Officer's Book, is a fable by Ali Mirdrekvandi (who "preferred to be called 'Gunga Din'"), edited by John Hemming, who also wrote the introduction. Published in 1965 by Victor Gollancz Ltd (London) and E. P. Dutton & Company (New York), and in six other languages.

In the foreword Professor R. C. Zaehner (of All Souls College, Oxford) says Ali Mirdrekvandi was an Iranian peasant who had taught himself to read and write Persian, and then English when British and American troops arrived during World War II. The book's author is the subject of a 2013 documentary by Gholamreza Nematpour.

The story is told in somewhat broken English with an often curious choice of words (such as "steepy" for a steep place). Mirdrekvandi's English has been described as "often very comic, ... almost always felicitous." The story lacks the sophisticated style of modern writing, being more like the narrative style of ancient ballads.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Consisting of the British and American Officers’ Book

No Heaven for Gunga Din

Mark Haddon

Minor dings to the corners, and some discoloration to the top of the outer pages. But otherwise this book is in great shape!

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road in his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his finds a whole world upside down.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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Nevil Shute returns to an old love in this unusual book--the great Icelandic and American legend of Lief Ericson and Eric the Red and the voyages to Massachusetts Bay . . . He rediscovers one of the sturdiest and most romantic stories in history and brings to it both the freshness of a new form and the sweep and majesty of the sagas.
Mr. Shute tells the story of fiery Eric and his more level-headed son from the vantage point of a young English history master, and he casts his narrative in the form of a movie script-a form more closely related to the ancient sagas in feeling than many readers would sus-pect.

Those who know and love the vibrant characters Mr. Shute has created in, his novels will find much to delight them here. Eric, a great fighting, beering and wenching man, marches through the book with compelling vigor. His son Lief, who made the voyage after a tragic love affair in the Orkneys, is fully realized as a great man and a great explorer.
And the court scenes in Norway are strange and half-lit, marvelously evoca-
tive.

Vinland the Good (first American edition)

Kei Lum Chan

Diora Fong Chan

This is probably one of the most beautiful cookbooks I’ve ever seen! Wonderful photography, illustrations, and the gold ink around the outside pages is worthy of a chefs kiss! Oh yeah, and it’s got mind blowing, authentic Chinese recipes in it! 

The book is in great shape. Some minor scuffs to the cover, and there’s a very stubborn sticker on the back bottom left hand side that I gave up on taking off (hope you have better luck than I did) 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The Cookbook

The definitive cookbook bible of the world’s most popular and oldest cuisine "China The Cookbook is a magnificent insight into the history of Chinese cuisine. I will treasure it in my collection and it will be no doubt be used as valuable reference for many years to come." —Ken Hom OBE,Chef, author and tv presenter In the tradition of bestsellers including Mexico and The Nordic Cookbook comes the next title in the multimillion-selling national cuisine series, China: The Cookbook. Featuring more than 650 recipes for delicious and authentic Chinese dishes for the home kitchen, this impressive and authoritative book showcases the culinary diversity of the world’s richest and oldest cuisines with recipes from the 33 regions and sub-regions. China: The Cookbook celebrates popular staples such as Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs and Dim Sum, as well as lesser-known regional classics like Fujian Fried Rice and Jiangsu’s Drunken Chicken, and features additional selected recipes from star chefs from around the world.

China

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Laura Dakin

Very slight damage to the corners. But as far as used cookbooks go, this one is in great shape (no splatter on the recipes)! 

Sea Stories and Vegan Recipes from Sea Shepherd's Anti-Whaling Campaigns

Cookin' up a Storm

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Bianca Phillips

Very slight damage to the corners. But as far as used cookbooks go, this one is in really good shape (no splatter on the recipes) 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Eating Vegan in the Dirty South

Cookin' Crunk

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John M. Vine

An Indispensable Guide to Parkinson's Disease for Patients and Their Families

“John Vine says he wrote this book for people who have been newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Well, I was diagnosed 24 years ago, and I still learned something new on every page.”—Michael Kinsley, Vanity Fair columnist and author of Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide Here is the book that John Vine and his wife, Joanne, wish they could have consulted when John was first diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease—a nontechnical, personal guide written from the patient’s perspective. Relying on his experiences over the past 12 years, John writes knowledgeably about all aspects of the disease. John also interviewed other Parkinson’s patients and their partners, whose stories and advice he includes throughout the book. “I wish we’d had John Vine’s book when my brother-in-law was diagnosed. The book is highly informative, unflinchingly honest, and reassuringly optimistic. It’s just what the doctor should have ordered.”—Cokie Roberts, best-selling author and political commentator on ABC News and NPR “John Vine details, in a compelling and accessible way, his experience with Parkinson’s disease. His book is an extraordinary guide to living successfully with Parkinson’s, and a must read for all who want to better understand the condition. Although diagnosed with Parkinson’s, my father lived an active and productive life until his death at age 94. As the book makes clear, while each patient’s journey is unique, common approaches are indispensable in treating the symptoms of the disease.”—Eric H. Holder, Jr. served as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States from 2009 to 2015 “John Vine has written the best primer I’ve ever read for newly diagnosed Parkinson’s patients and their families. It helps them cope with the shock of diagnosis, gives them (jargon-free) the scientific basics they need to know, describes the symptoms they may experience (making clear that every case is different) and catalogs the resources available to navigate living with Parkinson’s. John humanizes the book by describing his own experience and that of 22 other patients and their partners. I’d urge every neurologist to have copies of Vine’s primer on hand to help new PD on their journey forward.”—Morton Kondracke, author of Saving Milly: Love, Politics and Parkinson’s Disease and a member of the Founders' Council of the Michael J. Fox Foundation “My husband has PD, and I devoured this book. It’s wise, wonderfully readable, and, above all, helpful. Since John Vine has PD, he speaks with great authority about the challenges, both physical and psychological. If you have Parkinson’s, live with someone who has it, or just know someone battling the disease, A Parkinson’s Primer is for you.”—Lesley Stahl, award-winning television journalist on the CBS News program 60 Minutes “This is a remarkable book describing the personal experiences of many individuals, including the author, living with Parkinson’s disease. It captures the fact that although there are many possible symptoms in this disease, each person experiences different symptoms and copes with them in various ways. The thoughtful and insightful comments and coping strategies should be helpful for persons with PD, and their partners, regardless of the stage of the disease.”—Stephen Grill, MD, PhD, Director of the Parkinson’s & Movement Disorders Center of Maryland

A Parkinson's Primer

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This book has been well loved (seen a lot of parties). Worn cover, and some water (alcohol) damage to inner cover (front and back), and to the outside of pages. However, the inner pages are in great shape! No damage to the descriptions, stories, recipes, or illustrations. I’ve seen this book sell for more than I have it listed, but considering the condition of the cover and absence of a dust jacket, I’m selling it for a lower price.

1956 edition with illustrations by Bill Charmatz

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Esquire Drink Book

William Faulkner

Book has certainly seen better days, but still completely readable 

With their mother's coffin in a wagon, a family struggles through the Mississippi countryside encountering flood and fire before they can lay the body to rest.

As I Lay Dying

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Mark Dredge

Very minor wear to the cover (such is the fate of a cook cookbook that’s spent any time in a kitchen), but otherwise the book is in great shape! No splatter from oil, sauces, or beer on the pages. 

Over 65 Recipes Made with Your Favorite Beers

Cooking with Beer

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The Way of All Flesh is a semi-autobiographical novel. The narrative follows the development and tribulations of Ernest Pontifex, a weak boy starved of familial affection, who grows up to reject the tenets of his formal education and his father’s authoritarian brand of Christianity. As Ernest struggles to make his own way in the world, he learns to recognise the foibles in human nature, and at the end of the book he becomes an author of controversial literature aimed at correcting a flawed society.

Although Butler wrote it between 1873 and 1884, the ferocity of his attack on the Victorian era generally and, by implication, his own parents, made Butler fearful of publishing the work while his relatives were still living. In 1903, a few months after Butler’s death, his literary executor R.A. Streatfeild arranged for the book’s publication, and it was soon acknowledged as one of the most important critiques of Victorianism of its time.

The Way of All Flesh

Ultra Violet

Some creases on the cover, marker streak on bottom, and slight yellowing around the pages. But other than that the book is in great shape! 

INCLUDES PHOTO SECTION 

My Years with Andy Warhol

Famous for Fifteen Minutes

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Michael S. Engel

Tom Baione

Some dents in the corners, and a small mark of the front cover. Otherwise the book is is great shape! 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth

A fascinating look at the world's most numerous inhabitants, illustrated with stunning images from the American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection. It is estimated that there are around five million insect species on Earth, and this magnificent volume tells their incredible story. It covers everything from insect evolution, metamorphosis, and camouflage to society, language, and pollination--plus tales of discovery by intrepid entomologists. More than 180 illustrations describe these fascinating animals down to their tiniest details, from butterflies' iridescent wings to beetles' vibrant colors.

Innumerable Insects

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Agatha Christie

A name has been stamped on the first page. But the book is it great condition besides that

Considered to be one of Agatha Christie’s most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. A widow’s suicide has stirred rumors of blackmail, and of a secret lover named Roger Ackroyd, who was found stabbed to death in his study. The case is so unconventional that not even crack detective Hercule Poirot has a clue as to how to solve it.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

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Some minor dents in the cover and a small tea stain has bled through the top of the first 22 pages (none of the text has been affected by it). Otherwise the book is in good shape! 

The Complete Short Stories

This collection of twenty stories features Miss Jane Marple, the famous amateur sleuth who bases her solutions to crimes on past experiences and on an insistence that human nature is the same everywhere

Miss Marple

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Dee Dee Ramone

Great condition except for some smudges on the outside of the pages. Text inside is fine!

Dee Dee Ramone doesn't quite know what he's getting himself into when he and his wife Barbara move into the squalid Chelsea Hotel with their dog Banfield. He spends most of his time trying to score drugs and walking Banfield, with whom he can magically communicate. Meanwhile, he can't stand his neighbors and shies away from violence, but wishes everyone were six feet under. He also thinks that the room he's staying in is the very room where his old friend Sid Vicious stabbed Nancy Spungen, and begins having nightmares of Nancy emerging from the bathroom with a knife wound. After one of his nightmares, an evil force enters his hotel room and hurls him against a wall. Dee Dee also gets involved with the transvestite lover of one of his gay fellow addicts. When his wife finds out, the two fight it out and become seriously wounded. During all this, Dee Dee is tormented by the living and dead demons that plague the hotel, along with the ghosts of his old dead punk rock friends Sid Vicious, Johnny Thunders and Stiv Bators. And that's when the Devil himself decides to join the party…

Chelsea Horror Hotel

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Douglas Adams

A small stain on the back of the dust jacket, as well as some wrinkling on the top of the dust jacket. Otherwise I’m great shape!

First edition

For Dirk Gently, private detective, a simple search for a missing cat uncovers a bewildered ghost, a secret time traveller, and a devastating secret that threatens the future of humanity

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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This former resident of the Glen Ellyn Public Library in Illinois has certainly seen better days. It’s covered in library stamps and stickers, as well as slight damage on the OU of Douglas Adams, but otherwise in great shape with no damage to the text inside.

DON’T PANIC
*towel not included*

A Novel

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Early printing of J. D. Salinger’s classic novel The Catcher in the Rye. Bookclub Edition from Little, Brown and Company • Boston - 1951. Damage to dust jacket including tears, worn spots, and aged staining. Pages are deckled, and there’s a set of initials on the bottom righthand side of the first page written in pencil.

The Catcher in the Rye

Hillary Jordan

Besides some very minor damage to the dust jacket, the book is in great shape

In the future, abortion has become a crime as a series of events threatens the existence of the United States. One woman wakes up to discover that her skin color has been changed to red as punishment for having the procedure done. Now she must embark on a dangerous journey in order to find refuge from a hostile and threatening society.

When She Woke

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Emma Donoghue

Some damage to the dust jacket in the form of dents and staining. But the pages are in good shape, and it was a great read!

Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. Inspiration for the MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Academy Award winner Brie Larson To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer. Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating--a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

Room

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Elizabeth Macneal

Small creases on cover, but otherwise in great shape!

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the "lush, evocative Gothic" (The New York Times Book Review) The Doll Factory comes an atmospheric and spectacular novel about a woman transformed by the arrival of a Victorian circus of wonders--"as moving as it is deeply entertaining" (Daniel Mason, New York Times bestselling author).

Step up, step up! In 1860s England, circus mania is sweeping the nation. Crowds jostle for a glimpse of the lion-tamers, the dazzling trapeze artists and, most thrilling of all, the so-called "human wonders."

When Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders pitches its tent in a poor coastal town, the life of one young girl changes forever. Sold to the ringmaster as a "leopard girl" because of the birthmarks that cover her body, Nell is utterly devastated. But as she grows close to the other performers, she finds herself enchanted by the glittering freedom of the circus, and by her own role as the Queen of the Moon and Stars.

Before long, Nell's fame spreads across the world--and with it, a chance for Jasper Jupiter to grow his own name and fortune. But what happens when her fame begins to eclipse his own, when even Jasper's loyal brother Toby becomes captivated by Nell? No longer the quiet flower-picker, Nell knows her own place in the world, and she will fight for it.

Circus of Wonders is a beautiful story about the "complex dance between exploitation and empowerment, and the question of what it really means to have control over your own life" (Naomi Ishiguro, author of Escape Routes).

Circus of Wonders

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Josh Malerman

Very slightly worn around the edges, but otherwise in great shape!

Now a Netflix film starring Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, Rosa Salazar and John Malkovich! Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future world—a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Malerman. Something is out there . . . Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now, that the boy and girl are four, it is time to go. But the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat—blindfolded—with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children’s trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them. But is it man, animal, or monster? Engulfed in darkness, surrounded by sounds both familiar and frightening, Malorie embarks on a harrowing odyssey—a trip that takes her into an unseen world and back into the past, to the companions who once saved her. Under the guidance of the stalwart Tom, a motely group of strangers banded together against the unseen terror, creating order from the chaos. But when supplies ran low, they were forced to venture outside—and confront the ultimate question: in a world gone mad, who can really be trusted? Interweaving past and present, Josh Malerman’s breathtaking debut is a horrific and gripping snapshot of a world unraveled that will have you racing to the final page.

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Vinland the Good (first American edition)

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Cookin' Crunk

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