Martin Amis

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most noxiously believable -- and curiously touching -- adolescents ever to sniffle and lust his way through the pages of contemporary fiction. On the brink of twenty, Charles High-way preps desultorily for Oxford, cheerfully loathes his father, and meticulously plots the seduction of a girl named Rachel -- a girl who sorely tests the mettle of his cynicism when he finds himself falling in love with her.

The Rachel Papers

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First printing. Vintage 1975. See photos for condition.

In Five Chapters and a Prologue

VINTAGE Pierre: A Cautionary Tale • 1st Printing

This listing is for a set of 2 books as shown in photos above. See photos for condition. Vintage. Vintage 1973 & 1974 First American Editions.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Paddington Picture Book

VINTAGE Paddington’s Garden & Paddington At The Circus (Set of 2) • 1st American Editions

Acid mottling on top (see photo). Otherwise excellent condition.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Encyclopaedia of The Viking Age

James Malcolm Rymer

Dick Collins

David Stuart Davies

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Bannerworth Hall, Hampshire. Midnight. The night is woken by screams, from the bedroom of the beautiful and noble-hearted Flora. To their horror, her family discover that she has been the victim of a murderous attack. The Bannerworths are about to lose their home, to pay the debts of their dead father. The hunt is for his missing gold on, but then they begin to have doubts about their repulsive, hissing new neighbour, Sir Francis Varney, who is so eager to purchase the hall - and to marry the fair Flora!Their quest will take them from hall to charnel-house, and from village inn to deserted chancel. Can the Bannerworths - aided by Flora's fiance Charles Holland, Charles's uncle Admiral Bell, and the indomitable British Tar, Jack Pringle - defeat their terrible foe? and can they decipher the strange letter left by old Marmaduke Bannerworth, that seems to promise so much?Varney, the Vampyre, is one of the greatest of the Victorian penny romances, by one of its finest exponents -- the inimitable James Malcolm Rymer. First serialised between 1845 and 1847, it is one of the world's most enjoyable reads. It is also one of the major sources for Stoker's later masterpiece, Dracula.

Varney, the Vampyre

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A Golden Book

VINTAGE Walt Disney’s Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs

Gerda Muller

When Goldilocks goes to collect flowers in the wood she gets lost and stumbles upon a pretty house in a clearing. She looks inside and sees a table with three chairs: a big chair, a medium chair and a little chair, and in front of each chair is a steaming bowl of porridge... This is a beautiful interpretation of a classic story. Gerda Muller's timeless, intricate illustrations offer wonderful extra detail for children to enjoy. From the very first page, she includes big, medium, and little versions of birds, squirrels, mice, plates, umbrellas, slippers, and more. Children and parents will notice new things each time. (Ages 3-6)

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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Antique 1906 printing. Illustrated B&W. See photos for condition.

VINTAGE The Live Dolls’ House Party

Harold Darling

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Children's Book Covers, 1860-1960

Sure to spark fond memories, this treasury of children's book covers from the late-1800s to the mid-1900s highlights the marvellous cover art of the period, from the brilliantly illustrated fairy tales to early editions of favourite classics. Captions offer notes and details about each book, artist, and era. A delightful book for bibliophiles, artists, illustrators, and designers and those who just love books.

From Mother Goose to Dr. Seuss

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Sarah Moss

A Novel

A taut, gripping tale of a young woman and an Iron Age reenactment trip that unearths frightening behavior The light blinds you; there’s a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside. In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age. For two weeks, the length of her father’s vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. They are surrounded by forests of birch and rowan; they make stew from foraged roots and hunted rabbit. The students are fulfilling their coursework; Silvie’s father is fulfilling his lifelong obsession. He has raised her on stories of early man, taken her to witness rare artifacts, recounted time and again their rituals and beliefs—particularly their sacrifices to the bog. Mixing with the students, Silvie begins to see, hear, and imagine another kind of life, one that might include going to university, traveling beyond England, choosing her own clothes and food, speaking her mind. The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of their own, they find a spiritual connection to the past. What comes next but human sacrifice? A story at once mythic and strikingly timely, Sarah Moss’s Ghost Wall urges us to wonder how far we have come from the “primitive minds” of our ancestors.

Ghost Wall • 1st US Ed

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Time-Life Books Editors

The Enchanted World: Fabled Lands

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Illustrated by Garth Williams

Little House On The Prairie

With an Introduction by Stephen King

Signet Classics: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Dracula by Bram Stoker; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Leigh Bardugo

First US Edition. Some wear to dust jacket edges.

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!

The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League elite

Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most prestigious universities on a full ride. What's the catch, and why her?

Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret societies. Their eight windowless "tombs" are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street's biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living.

Ninth House

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Uriah Derick D'Arcy

Chapbook from 1819. Valuable piece of Gothic horror / vampire folklore.

A Legend of St. Domingo 1819

The Black Vampyre

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Jennifer Tseng

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Finalist for the 2016 PEN AWARD for Debut Fiction

Books may be Mayumi Saito's greatest love and her one source of true pleasure. Forty-one years old, disenchanted wife and dutiful mother, Mayumi's work as a librarian on a small island off the coast of New England feeds her passion for reading and provides her with many occasions for wry observations on human nature, but it does little to remedy the mundanity of her days. That is, until the day she issues a library card to a shy seventeen-year-old boy and swiftly succumbs to a sexual obsession that subverts the way she sees the library, her family, the island she lives on, and ultimately herself.
 
Wary of the consequences of following through on her fantasies, Mayumi hesitates at first. But she cannot keep the young man from her thoughts. After a summer of overlong glances and nervous chitchat in the library, she finally accepts that their connection is undeniable. In a sprawling house emptied of its summer vacationers, their affair is consummated and soon consolidated thanks to an explosive charge of erotic energy. Mayumi's life is radically enriched by the few hours each week that she shares with the young man, and as their bond grows stronger thanks not only to their physical closeness but also to their long talks about the books they both love, those hours spent apart seem to Mayumi increasingly bleak and intolerable. As her obsession worsens, in a frantic attempt to become closer to the young man, Mayumi nervously befriends another librarian patron, the young man's mother. The two women forge a tenuous friendship that will prove vital to both in the most unexpected ways when catastrophe strikes.
 
Exquisitely written, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness is part wry confession, part serious meditation. At its most anxious, it's a book about time, at its most ecstatic, it's a deeply human story about pleasure.

Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness

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Andrew MacLean

& The Island or A Plague of Beasts

The Head Lopper, Norgal, and the nagging severed headof Agatha Blue Witch arrive on the Isle of Barra to find it overrun with beasts;minions of the Sorcerer of the Black Bog. When Queen Abigail hires Norgal andAgatha to slay the Sorcerer, our heroes trek across the island relieving thehorrors of their heads - and playing right into the hands of a mastermanipulator.

Collects issues 1 through4.



Head Lopper

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Issue 1 - 10 bundle of Craft: magazine. See photos for details.

Mammoth Paperback (8 to 10 lbs)

Issue 1 - 10 Craft: transforming traditional crafts BUNDLE

Mary K. Whittington

Sue Ellen Brown

1992. First edition. Former library book. See photos for condition.

1st ED VINTAGE Winter's Child

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This is for a bundle of 6 Breyer Stablemates books from Scholastic. These are all first edition. Some markings. Some of the breed cards still included. See photos for condition.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Scholastic

BUNDLE 1st ED RARE Breyer Stablemates - Snowflake / Fancy / Penny / Patch / Belle / Starlight

Black Sparrow Press 1990. Cover is torn on front cover. See photos for condition.

VINTAGE Hot Water Music

1967. Former library book. See photos for condition.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

VINTAGE The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden

James McBride

A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

From the New York Times bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and The Good Lord Bird, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction: The modern classic that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation and that launched James McBride’s literary career. More than two years on The New York Times bestseller list. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos" with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. "Mommy," a fiercely protective woman with "dark eyes full of pep and fire," herded her brood to Manhattan's free cultural events, sent them off on buses to the best (and mainly Jewish) schools, demanded good grades, and commanded respect. As a young man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry, and confusion—and reached thirty before he began to discover the truth about her early life and long-buried pain. In The Color of Water, McBride retraces his mother's footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April 1, 1921. Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated to America and ultimately settled in Suffolk, Virginia, a small town where anti-Semitism and racial tensions ran high. With candor and immediacy, Ruth describes her parents' loveless marriage; her fragile, handicapped mother; her cruel, sexually-abusive father; and the rest of the family and life she abandoned. At seventeen, after fleeing Virginia and settling in New York City, Ruth married a black minister and founded the all- black New Brown Memorial Baptist Church in her Red Hook living room. "God is the color of water," Ruth McBride taught her children, firmly convinced that life's blessings and life's values transcend race. Twice widowed, and continually confronting overwhelming adversity and racism, Ruth's determination, drive and discipline saw her dozen children through college—and most through graduate school. At age 65, she herself received a degree in social work from Temple University. Interspersed throughout his mother's compelling narrative, McBride shares candid recollections of his own experiences as a mixed-race child of poverty, his flirtations with drugs and violence, and his eventual self- realization and professional success. The Color of Water touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son. This book was recently reprinted with a new cover. You may receive one of the two covers shown.

The Color of Water

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Keith Gessen

"Hilarious. . . . To understand Russia, read A Terrible Country."
--Time

"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."
--Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year."
--Ann Levin, Associated Press

A New York Times Editors' Choice

Named a Best Book of 2018 by Bookforum, Nylon, Esquire, and Vulture

A literary triumph about Russia, family, love, and loyalty--from a founding editor of n+1 and the author of Raising Raffi

When Andrei Kaplan's older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother, Andrei must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his text messages. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. It's the summer of 2008, and his bank account is running dangerously low. Perhaps a few months in Moscow are just what he needs. So Andrei sublets his room in Brooklyn, packs up his hockey stuff, and moves into the apartment that Stalin himself had given his grandmother, a woman who has outlived her husband and most of her friends. She survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia's violent capitalist transformation, during which she lost her beloved dacha. She welcomes Andrei into her home, even if she can't always remember who he is.

Andrei learns to navigate Putin's Moscow, still the city of his birth, but with more expensive coffee. He looks after his elderly--but surprisingly sharp!--grandmother, finds a place to play hockey, a café to send emails, and eventually some friends, including a beautiful young activist named Yulia. Over the course of the year, his grandmother's health declines and his feelings of dislocation from both Russia and America deepen. Andrei knows he must reckon with his future and make choices that will determine his life and fate. When he becomes entangled with a group of leftists, Andrei's politics and his allegiances are tested, and he is forced to come to terms with the Russian society he was born into and the American one he has enjoyed since he was a kid.

A wise, sensitive novel about Russia, exile, family, love, history and fate, A Terrible County asks what you owe the place you were born, and what it owes you. Writing with grace and humor, Keith Gessen gives us a brilliant and mature novel that is sure to mark him as one of the most talented novelists of his generation.

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