Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Kansas

Four Greek Plays

E. H. Gombrich

Very good binding. Pages complete, but with some highlighting. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Presents a brief, narrative history of the world for young readers, from the Stone Age up to the end of World War II.

A Little History of the World

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Vintage (1956) copy of Huxley’s classic. Clean pages free of marks/marginalia, some tanning. Binding is fair, with slight shelf wear. 

Point Counter Point

Vintage (1964) copy of Sartre’s autobiography. Strong binding, pages complete and free of marks/marginalia. 

The Words

Vintage (1952) copy. Strong binding, pages complete, shows some light marginalia throughout. 

Penguin Classics, 1952 printing

The Canterbury Tales

1950 printing. Very good condition. Strong binding, all pages complete and free of marks/marginalia.

Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Medea, Alcestis, The Frogs

7 Famous Greek Plays

Writings of Bacon, Pascal, Hobbes, Galileo, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz. Vintage (1956) paperback. Binding slightly loose, all pages complete and free of marks/marginalia. Neat little copy.

17th century philosophers

The Age of Reason 

Vintage (1961) copy. Excellent binding and page condition. No marks/marginalia. 

The Sketch Book

Vintage (1958) volume, containing works by Shakespeare, Aristophanes, Machiavelli, Moliere, Gay, Chekhov, Wilde, Shaw. Good binding, pages free of marks/marginalia.

Eight Great Comedies

Vintage (1964) first printing of Hawthorne’s short story anthology collection by Signet Classics. Good binding, all pages in good condition. 

And other stories

The Celestial Railroad

Vintage (1959) Signet classic printing of Twain’s masterpiece. Good binding, pages free of marks/marginalia.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Vintage copy of Kipling’s short stories, and poems, including “Kim”, “Gunga Din”, and “If—“, as well as many others.

The Kipling Sampler

A neat vintage copy of Edith Hamilton’s seminal work on Ancient Greek mythology. Good binding, pages free of any marks/marginalia.

Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Mythology 

Carole Bugge

A HAUNTED HOUSE Sherlock Holmes receives a request for aid from Lord Cary, whose family home, Torre Abbey, is seemingly haunted. While skeptical, Holmes believes that the Carys are in danger, a belief that proves horrifyingly accurate when a household member dies mysteriously. As strange sightings and threatening apparitions become almost commonplace, Holmes and Watson must uncover the secrets of the abbey if they are to have any hope of protecting the living and avenging the dead.

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - the Haunting of Torre Abbey

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Great Illustrated Classics 

Toby Wilkinson

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Pharaohs, Queens, Courtiers and Commoners

100 biographies reveal the true character and diversity of the ancient world's greatest civilization

Lives of the Ancient Egyptians

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Helmut Walser Smith

Good condition. No marks or marginalia. Slight shelf wear. 

Murder and Anti Semitism in a German Town

In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood drained from his limbs. The Christians of the town quickly rose up in violent riots to accuse the Jews of ritual murder--the infamous blood-libel charge that has haunted Jews for centuries. In an absorbing narrative, Helmut Walser Smith reconstructs the murder and the ensuing storm of anti-Semitism that engulfed this otherwise peaceful town. Offering an instructive examination of hatred, bigotry, and mass hysteria, The Butcher's Tale is a modern parable that will be a classic for years to come.

Winner of the Fraenkel Award and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2002.

Butchers Tale

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Small (pocket sized) volume, containing thoughts, essays, poems, etc.

And Other Writings

Presenting some of the most memorable and influential expressions of American thought in a miniature format, these selected essays clearly reveal Emerson as the proponent of self-reliance and nature as manifestation of the divine spirit that has made him the hero to generations of naturalists and philosophers.

Nature

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Vintage (1991) book on Virtual Reality, and its implications. Good condition. Contains some light markings/highlights.

The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds-And How It Promises to Transform Society

Breaking the reality barrier ; the reality-industrial complex ; virtual reality and the future.

Virtual Reality

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"--

Ready Player Two (1st Edition)

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Good binding. Some wear to cover and pages show light marking/marginalia.

An Introduction to Moral Philosophy 

Living the Good Life

This copy was purchased at Hemingway’s Key West museum, and bears a badge on the front cover, as well as an impressed seal on the title page (see photos).

To Have and Have Not (special copy)

Slightly cocked spine, and some shelf wear to dust jacket. Tight binding, complete with all pages, and free of any marks/marginalia.


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