Lawrence M. Krauss

HC w/ DJ - Mild damage to DJ includes tears and holes along edges and general wear, mild foxing. The book overall is in good condition except for the binding compromised on page 16 (see photos) black marker on bottom book block and some tears (looks like cat bite marks) on top edge of front cover (see photos). Clean text

DESCRIPTION

"Assume the cow is a sphere." So begins this lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling water to cutting-edge research at the observable limits of the universe. Rich with anecdotes and accessible examples, Fear of Physics nimbly ranges over the tools and thought behind the world of modern physics, taking the mystery out of what is essentially a very human intellectual endeavour.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Rhode Island

Lawrence Krauss--a professor of theoretical physics at Yale--does for physics what Innumeracy did for mathematics: teach the scientifically illiterate to think like physicists. Six fun-filled chapters include ideas of various "thinkers", from Plato to Marshall McLuhan to Stephen Hawking.

Fear of Physics: A Guide for the Perplexed 1993 Basic Books

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Good-  Some creases, bends, and general shelf wear. Slight lean to spine. Tight binding, clean text

Good (G): Describes the average used worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects should be noted by the seller.

DESCRIPTION

A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago. The author's conclusions are persuasive: at the core is not material riches but a secret - a secret of explosive and controversial proportions, which radiates out from the little Pyrenees village all the way to contemporary politics and the entire edifice of the Christian faith. It involves nothing less than... the Holy Grail.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Holy Blood, Holy Grail 1985 Dell Publishing, 3rd printing

Good - some tearing and rubbing on spine, covers and along edges. Slight lean to spine. Tight binding, clean text

Good (G): Describes the average used worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects should be noted by the seller.

DESCRIPTION

Only one person could have been on the lunar surface... Her name is Naomi Mitchison. She's the most beautiful woman on the moon; she was also the only person who was outside on the lunar surface at the right moment to send a near-fatal laser beam into the chest of the Fourth Speaker for the Asteroids. But she's not a murderer, that much A.R.M. investigator Gil "The Arm" Hamilton is sure of, even though all the evidence seems to point straight at her. Trials these days are short, and sentencing for capital crimes is always the same: the organ banks, where felons wait in huge tanks to "repay society" with bits and pieces of their bodies. Gil has got to move fast to keep Naomi in one piece, or the most beautiful woman on Luna is going to be a nicely arranged sack of spare parts.

The Patchwork Girl 1980 ACE Book (Illustrated)

Barry Hughart

Cover art by Mary Meitzefeld

VG/Excellent- 2 pages dog eared. Spine not cracked, tight binding, clean text.

Very Good (VG): Describes a book that shows some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Any defects should be noted by the seller. Find examples

DESCRIPTION

When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox sought a wiseman to save them. He found master Li Kao, a scholar with a slight flaw in his character. Together they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure. 

The quest led them to a host of truly memorable characters, multiple wonders, incredible adventures--and strange coincidences which were really not coincidences at all. And it involved them in an ancient crime that still perturbed the serenity of Heaven. Simply and charmingly told, this is a wry tale, a sly tale, and a story of wisdom delightfully askew. Once read, its marvels and beauty will not easily fade from the mind.

A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was

"Li Kao may have a slight flaw in his character but the book has none. I recommend it unconditionally and I predict Barry Hughart has quite a future as a fantasy writer."--Anne McCaffrey

When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox sought a wiseman to save them. He found master Li Kao, a scholar with a slight flaw in his character. Together they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure.

The quest led them to a host of truly memorable characters, multiple wonders, incredible adventures--and strange coincidences which were really not coincidences at all. And it involved them in an ancient crime that still perturbed the serenity of Heaven. Simply and charmingly told, this is a wry tale, a sly tale, and a story of wisdom delightfully askew. Once read, its marvels and beauty will not easily fade from the mind.

The author claims that this is a novel of an ancient China that never was. But, oh . . . it should have been!




Bridge of Birds

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Cover art by Walter Velez

Good (G): Describes the average used worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects should be noted by the seller.

General wear includes rubbing along edges, minor foxing, stamp on bottom book block. Tight binding, clean text.

DESCRIPTION

In the magic woods of Lyra, a noblewoman struggles to escape from a faceless man
Trouble is brewing in Alkyra. While the kingdom’s noblemen squabble, on their borders an ancient enemy, the Lithmern, raises an army. As the head of the Noble House of Brenn attempts to organize an alliance, the princess Alethia celebrates her twentieth birthday. She is a remarkable woman: quick-witted, beautiful, and handy with a throwing knife. But on the next night, she passes through a dark corridor on her way to the banquet hall, and never emerges from the shadows. The Lithmern have kidnapped the princess.
 
When Alethia regains consciousness, an evil Lithmern with a face made of shadows is carrying her through the forest. These are magic woods, home to fabled creatures whose existence she has always doubted. To find her way home, Alethia will have to learn to trust in the old tales, whose legends of magic and daring hold the only hope of saving her kingdom.


Shadow Magic 1984 Ace Fantasy 2nd printing

VG- General wear, slight bend to back cover, moderate foxing to pages, very slight bend to spine. Tight binding, clean text. Spine not cracked, Groovy green book block.

Very Good (VG): Describes a book that shows some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Any defects should be noted by the seller.

DESCRIPTION

 Hercule Poirot has been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters, so before he retires, he makes up his mind to accept just twelve more cases - his self-imposed "labours" 


The Labors of Hercules 1980 Dell 3rd printing

Printed in Canada

A well-worn paperback with lots of creases and rubbing. Front cover tapped on inside (see photo) First two pages very slightly loose (see photo) otherwise binding is text. Clean text.

Fair: A worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, jacket (if any), etc., may also be worn. All defects should be noted.

DESCRIPTION

The state police and FBI are baffled when an old man and a teenage girl are brutally murdered. The blind Navajo Listening Woman speaks of ghosts and of witches. But Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police knows his people as well as he knows cold-blooded killers. His incredible investigation carries him from a dead man's secret to a kidnap scheme, to a conspiracy that stretches back more than one hundred years. Leaphorn arrives at the threshold of a solution—and is greeted with the most violent confrontation of his career.


Listening Woman 1979 Avon Books

1963 Pocket Books Cardinal Edition 21st printing

Condition Good/fair- Good (G): Describes the average used worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects should be noted by the seller.

Mostly in good shape but there are a few holes near the spine, looks like it was caused by glue stuck to the pages (see photos) other defects include rubbing along edges and spine, creases and bending to cover. First few pages feel mildly loose otherwise binding is tight, clean text. 

DESCRIPTION

This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall.

Hard times come upon Wang Lung and his family when flood and drought force them to seek work in the city. The working people riot, breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee. When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded, he begins to rise in the world, even as the House of Hwang falls.

The Good Earth 1963 Pocket Books Cardinal Edition 21st printing

An Everyman Paperback, printed in Great Britain. Cover drawing by Charles Raymond. Potentially rare, I couldn’t find any information on this particular edition. 

Very Good (VG): Describes a book that shows some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Any defects should be noted by the seller.


Letters from the Underworld; The Gentle Maiden; The Landlady 1978 J. M. Dent & Sons

1960 Signet Classic 16th printing

Fair: A worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, jacket (if any), etc., may also be worn. All defects should be noted.

Well worn, significant lean to spine & moderate stains to cover, wear includes rubbing and creases, minor tear on front cover and spine, and a few bent edges, tight binding, clean text, wear does not affect readability.

DESCRIPTION

A searing novel of social realism, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle follows the fortunes of Jurgis Rudkus, an immigrant who finds in the stockyards of turn-of-the-century Chicago a ruthless system that degrades and impoverishes him, and an industry whose filthy practices contaminate the meat it processes. From the stench of the killing-beds to the horrors of the fertilizer-works, the appalling conditions in which Jurgis works are described in intense detail by an author bent on social reform. So powerful was the book's message that it caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt and led to changes to the food hygiene laws. In his Introduction to this new edition, Russ Castronovo highlights the aesthetic concerns that were central to Sinclair's aspirations, examining the relationship between history and historical fiction, and between the documentary impulse and literary narrative. As he examines the book's disputed status as novel (it is propaganda or literature?), he reveals why Sinclair's message-driven fiction has relevance to literary and historical matters today, now more than a hundred years after the novel first appeared in print.

The Jungle 1960 Signet Classic

1982 Ballantine Books 4th printing

Good (G): Describes the average used worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects should be noted by the seller.
— defects include moderate wear includes rubbing and creases, a few minor tears to front cover. Tight binding, clean text.

DESCRIPTION

A humor classic by one of the funniest writers today, SIDE EFFECTS is a treat for all those who know his work and those just discovering how gifted he is. Included here are such classics as REMEMBERING NEEDLEMAN, THE KUGELMASS EPISODE, a new story called CONFESSIONS OF A BUGLAR, and more.

Side Effects 1982 Ballantine Books 4th printing

Mild general wear, tight binding, clean text. faint stamp mark on first page. includes 32 pages of photographs.

DESCRIPTION

During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes each of the participants during the sometimes hour-to-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. In a new foreword, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light, especially from the Soviet Union.

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis 1969 Signet Classic

HC w/o DJ - This beautiful antique edition of The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is in good condition considering it’s age. 

Significant foxing and discoloration, rubbing along edges, spine slightly loose from book block but still secure, some water marks along edges, small hole on spine, tears on a few pages (see photos).  Pages unmarked and only a little tanned. Cloth cover with pastedown title/illustration still in good shape. Illustration is clear. Title on spine is faded though still legible. This book is readable, but more suited as a collectible.

DESCRIPTION

A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a “rich boy.” Yet through the novel’s humorous escapades—from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe—Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1910 Harper & Brothers

Very good condition. Some minor shelf wear and rubbing along edges, slight crease to top left corner. Crisp pages, tight binding, clean text.

DESCRIPTION

The two best essays by Henry David Thoreau Walden and Civil Disobedience, which is also known as "Resistance to Civil Government" and "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience."

Walden and “Civil Disobedience” 1960 Signet Classic

First paperback edition 

Good condition- moderate general wear includes creases and rubbing along edges. Tight binding, clean text. 

DESCRIPTION

"Nonstop and fast-paced. Every paragraph has a big bang-up adventure."—Kevin J. Anderson

Suspense, thrills, action and adventure. Earth has been dominated for 1,000 years by an alien invader—and man is an endangered species. From the handful of surviving humans a courageous leader emerges—Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, who challenges the invincible might of the alien Psychlo empire in a battle of epic scale, danger and intrigue with the fate of the Earth and of the universe in the tenuous balance.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 1984 Bridge Publication 

First time in paperback 
Published by Ballantine Books 
Good condition- general wear, slight lean to spine, creases and rubbing along edges, tight binding, clean text.

DESCRIPTION

Renowned novelist, poet, and short story writer Margaret Atwood has a gift unique among writers. In this marvelous collection of twelve short stories, Ms. Atwood writes of a woman who remembers her mother's favorite stories; a potter who tries to come to terms with the poets she lives with; a girl who agrees to go on a perilous raft trip because she is flattered to be invited, but knows herself unequal to the task. An extraordinary collection by an incomparable writer, Margaret Atwood is a writer to be read and savored and remembered.

Bluebeard’s Egg 1987 Fawcett Crest

General wear, tight binding, clean text.

DESCRIPTION

America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: insects.

When the Agency discovered that Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40 was a cover for a secret laboratory, a special team of agents was immediately dispatched to discover its true purpose and its weaknesses--it could not be allowed to continue. What they discovered was a nightmare more horrific and hideous than even their paranoid government minds could devise.
First published in Galaxy magazine in 1973 as Project 40, Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction.

Hellstrom’a Hive 1974 Bantam Books

Vladimir Vukovic

Good condition, some mild shelf wear, slight bend and creasing to front cover and pages. Tight binding, clean text. 


DESCRIPTION

One of the finest chess books ever written, the Art of Attack has been transcribed into algebraic notation for the first time. In this revised edition of the great classic, the author expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king. A study of this masterpiece will add power and brilliance to any chess enthusiast's play. 

One of the finest chess books ever written Vukovic expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king. A study of this masterpiece will add new power and brilliance to any player's game.

Art of Attack in Chess 2010 Everyman Chess Series

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Very good condition. Some rubbing along edges and general wear. Tight binding, clean text. No crack to spine.

DESCRIPTION

Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry. Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations.

The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the twentieth century. "Fascinating...A surprisingly gripping account of people at work." --Wall Street Journal

The Soul of a New Machine 1990 Avon Books

Jerry Hopkins

Good- Excellent, mild shelf wear with rubbing along edges. Tight binding, clean text 

DESCRIPTION

Back in print, The Lizard King chronicles the life and death of one of the most irresistibly enigmatic figures in the history of rock: The Doors' infamous frontman Jim Morrison.

Poet, shaman, Dionysian drunk, and druggie, Doors lead singer Jim Morrison quickly achieved cult status after his death in 1971. In The Lizard King, Jerry Hopkins reassesses Jim Morrison's life and provides fresh insights into this powerful and troubled talent, considering him as a human being rather than the myth he has become. At the heart of the book is a series of interviews with Morrison by journalists Ben Fong-Torres, John Tobler, Richard Goldstein, and others. Published uncut, they present a previously unseen Morrison: articulate, intelligent, witty, even self-deprecating. Hopkins includes updates on the people the "erotic politician" left behind.

The Essential Jim Morrison

Hopkins, the coauthor of the five-million-copy bestseller No One Here Gets Out Alive, presents startling new material he has unearthed about Jim Morrison, notorious lead singer of The Doors. Hopkins now reassesses Morrison's life and death and provides insights on Morrison the human being. 36 photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Lizard King 1993 Collier Books

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1990 First Avon Books trading print. Mild general wear, tight binding, clean text. Marker on bottom book block.

DESCRIPTION

The Fool's Progress, the fat masterpiece as Edward Abbey labeled it, is his most important piece of writing: it reveals the complete Ed Abbey, from the green grass of his memory as a child in Appalachia to his approaching death in Tuscon at age sixty two. 

When his third wife abandons him in Tucson, boozing, misanthropic anarchist Henry Holyoak Lightcap shoots his refrigerator and sets off in a battered pick-up truck for his ancestral home in West Virginia. Accompanied only by his dying dog and his memories, the irascible warhorse (a stand-in for the real Abbey) begins a bizarre cross-country odyssey--determined to make peace with his past--and to wage one last war against the ravages of progress. 

A profane, wildly funny, brash, overbearing, exquisite tour de force. -- The Chicago Tribune

The Fool’s Progress: An Honest Novel 1990 Avon Books

Stephen King

Some mild foxing along the book block, otherwise  in excellent condition. Some water damage to DJ (see photo).

DESCRIPTION

Rosie Daniels flees from her husband, Norman after fourteen years in an abusive marriage. During one bout of violence, Norman caused Rosie to miscarry their only child. Escaping to a distant city, Rosie establishes a new life and forges new relationships. Norman Daniels, a police officer with a reputation for cruelty, uses his law-enforcement connections to track his wayward wife. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Rosie Daniels flees her nightmare marriage to find refuge in a strange city, far from her brutal husband, Norman, whose relentless savagery and mad obsessions follow her to her sanctuary and drive her to transform herself to survive. 1,750,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo. BOMC Main.

Rose Madder 1995 Penguin Group

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Five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. 

Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.

In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror.

In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast.

In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their own lives.

And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.

Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Five interconnected, sequential tales set in the years between 1960 and 1999 center around the Vietnam War and weave together innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery.

Hearts in Atlantis 1999 Scribner

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1997-2001 Del Rey Books

All books in good-excellent condition with minor general wear.

These thrilling adventures tell the story of Lyra and Will--two ordinary children on a perilous journey through shimmering haunted otherworlds. They will meet witches and armored bears, fallen angels and soul-eating specters. And in the end, the fate of both the living--and the dead--will rely on them.

Phillip Pullman's spellbinding His Dark Materials trilogy has captivated readers for over twenty years and won acclaim at every turn. It will have you questioning everything you know about your world and wondering what really lies just out of reach.


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