Sharon Olds

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Nevada

Selected Poems, 1980-2002

From one of our most gifted and widely read poets—the winner of the Pulitzter Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize—comes a powerful collection of 117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes. Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss.” This rich selection exhibits those qualities in poem after poem, reflecting, moreover, an exciting experimentation with rhythm and language and a movement toward an embrace beyond the personal. Subjects are revisited–the pain of childhood, adolescent sexual stirrings, the fulfillment of marriage, the wonder of children–but each recasting penetrates ever more deeply, enriched by new perceptions and conceits. Strike Sparks is a testament to this remarkable poet’s continuing and amazing growth.

(Signed) Strike Sparks

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R. L. Stine

Signed. Very light wear, includes flyer from event Stine was at

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A collection of tales featuring such terrors as an evil baby sister, a remote control that can control more than just the television set, and a boarding school that is turning kids into robots.

(Signed) 30 Tales to Give You Goosebumps

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Margaret Thatcher

Signed 10 Downing St. bookplate attached to front endpaper. Light wear on dust jacket. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The first volume of memoirs by Margaret Thatcher frankly recalls the former British prime minister's dealings with U.S. presidents, the Falkland War, and her election victories in 1983 and 1987. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. Tour.

(Signed) The Downing Street Years

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Carroll Baker

Signed, includes note from the person book is dedicated to

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

An Autobiography

(Signed) Baby Doll

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Beena Kamlani

A Novel

A young Indian man is tapped to help his country’s fight for freedom—but his heart engages him in a different war. “Grand, sweeping, mesmerizing . . . a richly detailed, politically profound story of love, of migration, of individuals caught up in the great convulsions of history.”—Joseph O’Neill, PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author of Godwin Shiv Advani is an eighteen-year-old growing up in India. But he is no ordinary young man. Shiv has been personally chosen by Mahatma Gandhi to come to England, learn their laws, and then return home and help drive the British out of India. Before he leaves, his family insists he fulfill his arranged marriage, and he is hastily betrothed to a young woman he hardly knows. He arrives in London and soon discovers a world he is both repelled by and drawn to. Shiv knows his duty: get in, learn the letter of the law, get out. But as anyone who has ever lived in a British colony can tell you, “the English Problem” is multifaceted. The racist colonialism of “the empire on which the sun never sets” seeps into everything—not just landed territories, but territories of the mind: literature, language, religion, sexuality, self-identity. Soon the people Shiv sought to be liberated from will be the people he desperately wants to be a part of. In the end, Shiv must fight not only for his country’s liberation but also his own. Set against the backdrop of the Indian independence movement, with appearances by historical figures such as Virginia and Leonard Woolf and Mahatma Gandhi, The English Problem is so self-assured and ambitious, it is hard to believe it is a debut.

The English Problem (ARC)

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Dr. Chi’s Herbal Formulas, Second Edition

Poker Protection: Cheating… and the World of Poker

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Designing Casinos to Dominate the Competition: The Friedman International Standards of Casino Design

Serge Klarsfeld

A Memorial

Features biographical information about 11,400 French children who were deported from France to the Nazi death camps, including their names, faces, and addresses.

French Children of the Holocaust

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Richard M. Garvin

The Story of the Mystery, Myth and Magic of the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull Discovered in a Lost Mayan City During a Search for Atlantis

The story of the mystery, myth and magic of the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull discovered in a lost Mayan city during a search for Atlantis.

The Crystal Skull (First edition)

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John Boys

The Works of John Boys: An Exposition of the Several Offices

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Robert Bitzer

(Signed) Collected Essays of Robert Bitzer

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Stephen Birmingham

Certain People: America's Black Elite (First edition)

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Alchemy & Mysticism

Mickey Hart

Fredric Lieberman

Flat signed by Mickey Hart, very light wear

The Magic of Music

Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart presents his singular collection of quotes and commentary on the transformative power of music. 30 color illustrations.

(Signed) Spirit into Sound

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Sid Smith

The rapturous highs and acrimonious lows of life in the Court of King Crimson.

In the Court of King Crimson

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Gail Crowther

An expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker’s life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the “fascinating” (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz. The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy Parker—from leaving New York City to work on numerous classic screenplays such as the 1937 A Star Is Born to the devastation of alcoholism, a miscarriage, and her husband’s suicide. Parker’s involvement with anti-fascist and anti-racist groups, which led to her ultimate blacklisting, and her early work in the civil rights movement that inspired her to leave her entire estate to the NAACP are also explored as never before. Just as she did with her “deliriously fast-paced and erudite” (Library Journal) dual biography of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, Gail Crowther brings Parker back to life on the page in all her wit, grit, and brilliance.

Dorothy Parker in Hollywood (ARC)

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Brian Sibley

Includes four posters depicting Tolkien's world of Middle-Earth with maps from The Hobbit, Beleriand, and Numenor, accompanied by a manual describing the signicance of geographical evolution in the author's works.

The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-Earth

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Earthquake Dynamics of Structures: A Primer, 2nd Edition

Tom Cole

The Last Paradise

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Brian Connolly

Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America

Although it is commonly thought that incest has been taboo throughout history, nineteenth-century Americans evinced a great cultural anxiety that the prohibition was failing. Theologians debated the meaning and limits of biblical proscription, while jurists abandoned such injunctions and invented a new prohibition organized around the nuclear family. Novelists crafted fictional tales of accidental incest resulting from the severed ties between public and private life, while antislavery writers lamented the ramifications of breaking apart enslaved families. Phrenologists and physiologists established reproduction as the primary motivation of the incest prohibition while naturalizing the incestuous eroticism of sentimental family affection. Ethnographers imagined incest as the norm in so-called primitive societies in contrast to modern civilization. In the absence of clear biological or religious limitations, the young republic developed numerous, varied, and contradictory incest prohibitions. Domestic Intimacies offers a wide-ranging, critical history of incest and its various prohibitions as they were defined throughout the nineteenth century. Historian Brian Connolly argues that at the center of these convergent anxieties and debates lay the idea of the liberal subject: an autonomous individual who acted on his own desires yet was tempered by reason, who enjoyed a life in public yet was expected to find his greatest satisfaction in family and home. Always lurking was the need to exercise personal freedom with restraint; indeed, the valorization of the affectionate family was rooted in its capacity to act as a bulwark against licentiousness. However it was defined, incest was thus not only perceived as a threat to social stability; it also functioned to regulate social relations—within families and between classes as well as among women and men, slaves and free citizens, strangers and friends. Domestic Intimacies overturns conventional histories of American liberalism by placing the fear of incest at the heart of nineteenth-century conflicts over public life and privacy, kinship and individualism, social contracts and personal freedom.

Domestic Intimacies

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Ai Yazawa

Shirley Kubo

When Yukari is asked to be the runway model for the clothing label Paradise Kiss, her life is turned upside down as she juggles college and career.

Paradise Kiss, vol. 5 

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(Signed) The Foods of Georgia’s Barrier Islands: A Gourmet Food Guide of Native American, Geechee and European Influences on the Golden Isles 

Jim Harrison

Novellas

A collection of novellas explores the line between civilization and the "wild men."

(Signed) The Beast God Forgot to Invent

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