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

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

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..."

In One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp invites you to discover a way of seeing that opens your eyes to ordinary amazing grace, a way of living that is fully alive, and a way of becoming present to God that brings deep and lasting joy. It's only in the expression of gratitude for the life we already have, we discover the life we've always wanted . . . a life we can take, give thanks for, and break for others. Come to feel and know the impossible right down in your bones: you are wildly loved by God.

A new introduction and ribbon marker enhances this beautiful tenth anniversary edition. As Ann invites you into her own beautiful, heart-aching moments of amazing grace, she gently teaches you how to:

 * Biblically lament loss and turn pain into poetry
 * Intentionally embrace a lifestyle of radical gratitude
 * Slow down and catch God in the moment

Not a book merely to read, One Thousand Gifts is an invitation to engage with truths that will serve up the depths of God's joy and transform your life forever. Leave pride, fear, and control behind, and abandon yourself to the God who overflows your cup.

One Thousand Gifts 10th Anniversary Edition

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John O'Hara

Lorin Stein

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

BUtterfield 8

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Mark. Twain

The humorist reflects on his scuffling years -- silver mining in Nevada, working at a Virginia City newspaper, down and out in San Francisco, reporting for a newspaper from Hawaii, and more.

Roughing It

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Mary S. Laurence

Cherished Poems and Favorite Poets

A collection of familiar, favorite poems by well-known poets, expressing the emotions that are a vital part of life.

Treasured Poems That Touch the Heart

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Oscar Wilde

Minor crease along spine from being read; otherwise, in excellent condition.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Works of Oscar Wilde

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W. Somerset Maugham

Missing dust jacket. Top of binding is scuffed (visible in photos).

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

This compilation contains three complete novels and eight major short stories from the canon of one of the twentieth century's most enduringly popular fiction writers.

From London to Hong Kong, from Paris to Pago Pago, in Samoa or Malaya or on a Tahitian tropical isle, the men and women in this collection of masterfully crafted tales inhabit exotic, mysterious worlds--and at their own peril invade the dark territory of the human heart.

Somerset Maugham, a noted English novelist, playwright, and author of masterly short stories, spent several months in the Pacific in 1916 and 1917 during an interlude in his service in British intelligence during World War I. Several of his works have been made into movies and plays, including Razor's Edge, Of Human Bondage, Cakes and Ale, Rain, and The Moon and Sixpence.

Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

The Great Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham

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Two-volune boxed set
First published in London in 1749, this comic novel tells the story of Tom Jones' formative years against the backdrop of 18th century England. Features social, political, and moral commentary of that era.
Books are in like-new condition; box is in good condition.

A Foundling

The History of Tom Jones

Terry L. Ommen

Outlaws, Rogues and Rebels

In the 1800s, Tulare County, California, was a hotbed of desperate characters whose deadly gunplay and murderous inclinations left a trail of bodies across the region. Although the Central Valley now makes its name in agriculture, Tulare County was once a bastion of the Wild West with a lineup of hardened criminals that has scarcely been equaled in the annals of crime. Train bandits, coldblooded murderers and callous outlaws armed with shotguns and butcher knives plagued Visalia, Porterville and other sleepy central California towns. Join historian and retired Visalia Police captain Terry Ommen as he relates the transgressions of Tulare County's roughest characters, including thrilling tales of the pistol-packing Mason-Henry Gang, a deadly duel between politically divided journalists and vigilante justice exacted by angry mobs.

Wild Tulare County

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Suze Orman

Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny

Women and Money

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Zane Grey novels: "The Vanishing American," "The Border Legion," "Robbers' Roost," "Majesty's Rancho," "Desert Gold," "Last of the Duanes," "Shadow on the Trail," & "George Washington, Frontiersman."
Loren Zane Grey novel: "Lassiter."
Mostly 1990s editions; 1 1985 edition & 1 2001 edition.
Fair condition, with normal wear; no marks, odors, or missing pages 


Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Vintage Lot of 8 Zane Grey Novels + 1 Loren Zane Grey Novel

Charles. Dickens

Stephen Wall

Helen Small

Coming to PBS in March 2009-a MasterpieceTM Classic production of Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens 's great satire on poverty, riches, and imprisonment, Little Dorrit is the story of Arthur Clennam, a man whose kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, assures him nothing but trouble. Her father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, has long been imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is a supreme work of Dickens's maturity.

Little Dorrit

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Treasury of Shorter Verse

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1988 edition
Retold by Graeme Kent
Illustrated by Eric Kincaid
Excellent used condition, no marks 

A Collection of Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables

No dust jacket
1998 Book-of-the-Month Club edition

The Old Curiosity Shop

Edna. Ferber

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The short stories in this collection take the reader from small-town Wisconsin to the bustling streets of New York and Chicago and back again. While they range greatly in length and tone, they all share the trademark wit and affectionate insight of Edna Ferber. Showcasing the facility with words that made her a mainstay at the Algonquin round table, Ferber explores some of her favorite themes: the role of women (especially strong or unconventional women) in modern society, the mores of the midwestern small town, and the changes over time in relationships between parents and children. In "The Maternal Feminine," a plain, overlooked child grows into a strong, resourceful businesswoman and forms a strong motherly bond with the children of her more attractive sister. In "April 25th, As Usual," an aging Wisconsin couple reluctantly join their successful daughter in New York, where they try to adjust to a very different lifestyle. "Old Lady Mandle" is a bittersweet tale about an elderly Chicago mother coming to terms with the fact that she is no longer the most important woman in the life of her grown son. "One Hundred Per Cent" features Ferber's celebrated heroine Emma McChesney, now re-married, seeing her husband off to war. The stories gathered here are beautifully observed chronicles of early twentieth-century life and are filled with characters who, despite their very human foibles, are all bestowed by Ferber with warmth and dignity. "All these stories and all these pages are thronged with real men and women, and in them Miss Ferber continues to display not merely her skill at storytelling, but also her greater skill at breathing into them the breath of life." -- Boston Transcript

Half Portions

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Charles Dickens

The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens' novels, Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in nineteenth-century England. Nicholas, a gentleman's son fallen upon hard times, must set out to make his way in the world. His journey is accompanied by some of the most swaggering scoundrels and unforgettable eccentrics in Dickens's pantheon. From the dungeon-like Yorkshire boys' boarding school run by the cruel Wackford Squeers to the high-spirited stage of Vincent Crummles's extraordinary acting troupe, Nicholas Nickleby is a triumph of the imagination, bursting with color, humor, and poignant social commentary.

Nicholas Nickleby

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Copyright 1946; original copyright 1928
Good vintage condition
Hardcover

On The Highroad to Adventure

Book Trails

R. D. Blackmore

A Romance of Exmoor

First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by curiosity and a sense of adventure, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones, where he is discovered by the beautiful Lorna. In time their childish fantasies blossom into mature love-a bond that will inspire John to rescue his beloved from the ravages of a stormy winter, rekindling a conflict with his archrival, Carver Doone, that climaxes in heartrending violence. Beloved for its portrait of star-crossed lovers and its surpassing descriptions of the English countryside, Lorna Doone is R. D. Blackmore's enduring masterpiece.

Lorna Doone

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Martin Chuzzlewit

Thomas Hardy

C. H. Sisson

Upon its first appearance in 1895, Thomas Hardy' s Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marriage, education, and religion, reportedly causing one Angli-can bishop to order the book publicly burned. The experience so exhausted Hardy that he never wrote a work of fiction again. Rich in symbolism, Jude the Obscure is the story of Jude Fawley and his struggle to rise from his station as a poor Wessex stonemason to that of a scholar at Christminster. It is also the story of Jude' s ill-fated relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead, and the ultimate tragedy that causes Jude' s undoing and Sue' s transformation. Jude the Obscure explores man' s essential loneliness and remains one of Hardy' s most widely read novels.

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Ann Voskamp

One Thousand Gifts 10th Anniversary Edition

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Treasured Poems That Touch the Heart

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Little Dorrit

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