Charlene Spretnak

Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths by Charlene Spretnak. Published by Beacon Press, Boston 1992. 

Very good condition copy. Only damage is an old price tag on first inside leaf and a small indent through cover and few pages. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maine

A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths

Lost Goddesses of Early Greece

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Robert A. Heinlein

Paperback published by Ballantine Books 1991. Check out the pics for a synopsis. This one sounds like a real banger!

Very good condition. Small to cover near crown of spine. Light rolling near outer lower corner. 

ISBN: 0345342445

SLAVE: Brought to Sargon in chains as a child -- unwanted by all save a one-legged beggar -- Thorby learned well the wiles of the street people and the mysterious ways of his crippled master . . . OUTLAW: Hunted by the police for some unknown treasonous acts committed by his beloved owner, Thorby risked his life to deliver a dead man's message and found himself both guest and prisoner aboard an alien spaceship . . . CITIZEN: Unaware of his role in an ongoing intrigue, Thorby became one of the freest of the free in the entire galaxy as the adopted son of a noble space captain . . . until he became a captive in an interstellar prison that offered everything but the hope of escape!

Citizen of the Galaxy

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Paperback first Ballantine Books edition 1986. Some great vintage paperback sci-fi!

Good+ condition. Some scuffing on fold of spine near its crown and on cover and back cover. Unmarked. Very solid condition with tight binding. 

ISBN: 0345330137

One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake -- failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe's own life was on the line -- for if he wasn't assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever!

Double Star

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T. Boone Pickens

Boone by T. Boone Pickens, Jr. Inscribed hardcover first edition published by Houghton Mifflin Co. 1987. 

Good/fair condition copy. Scuffing and sticker residue on jacket. Dirt on base of spine. Inscribed, “John, I hope you find my book good reading.” Boone’s iconic signature beneath. 

Honestly, if you have a friend named John, I really can’t think of a better gift for a holiday or their birthday. 

ISBN: 0395414334

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Boone (Inscribed, 1st ed)

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Timothy Good

Lord Hill-Norton

Alien Contact: Top-Secret UFO Files Revealed by Timothy Good. Hardcover first US edition published by William Morrow and Company 1993. 

Near fine/fine condition copy. Only damage present is some light rubbing to jacket and a small indent to jacket near spine. 

ISBN: 068812223X

Top Secret UFO Files Revealed

In his first book, Above Top Secret, Good offered persuasive evidence that the governments of Great Britain, the United States, and Canada, among others, have channeled millions of dollars from secret black budgets into UFO research. Now, in Alien Contact, Good exposes documents which reveal that the U.S. military has dissected alien bodies and test-flown alien aircraft. 26 photos.

Alien Contact (1st US ed., HC)

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Craig S. Gardner

Batman: The Novelization by Craig Shaw Gardiner. Paperback first edition first printing Warner Books 1989. 

Very good condition copy. Some small scuffs and edge damage but otherwise in lovely condition, with tight binding. 

ISBN: 0446354872

Batman (1st Warner Books Printing)

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John Kennedy Toole

Walker Percy

Excellent condition paperback from Grove Press 1987. Would be like new except for a small ding on cover. 

Toole writes in such a singular voice, it’s such a shame we didn’t get much else from him. A true classic! 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

An obese New Orleans misanthrope who constantly rebukes society, Ignatius Reilly gets a job at his mother's urging but ends up leading a workers' revolt, in a twentieth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Reprint.

A Confederacy of Dunces

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Roberto Bolano

Chris Andrews

A fantastic collection of stories written by Roberto Bolaño, translated from Spanish by Chris Andrews. Published by New Direction Books 2007. In very good condition. Some light scuffing and old penciled price. Otherwise a very tightly bound copy. 

I cannot recommend this collection enough! Bolaño was truly one of our most gifted modern authors. 

"The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bolano's narrators are usually writers grappling with private (and generally unlucky) quests, who typically speak in the first person, as if giving a deposition, like witnesses to a crime. These protagonists tend to take detours and to narrate unresolved efforts. They are characters living in the margins, often coming to pieces, and sometimes, as in a nightmare, in constant flight from something horrid.



In the short story "Silva the Eye," Bolano writes in the opening sentence: "It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as The Eye, always tried to escape violence, even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around 20 years old when Salvador Allende died."



Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled by Bolano's beloved "failed generation," the stories ofLast Evenings on Earth have appeared inThe New Yorker andGrand Street.

Last Evenings on Earth

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Mack Reynolds

Michael Banks

Very good condition paperback first printing published by Baen Books 1986. Some minor scuffing to spine face and penciled initials on one page but otherwise a beautiful vintage paperback edition. What a beautiful and vibrant cover on this one! 

Joe Mauser, Mercenary from Tomorrow

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Jake Adelstein

Near fine condition copy paperback copy. Slight bend to a page or two shown in picture but otherwise in beautiful condition. 

A fun true story of investigative journalism!

An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist who "pulls the curtain back on ... [an] element of Japanese society that few Westerners ever see" (San Francisco Examiner). Now a Max Original Series on HBO Max
 
Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the yakuza. But when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated all the way from the neon soaked streets of Tokyo to the polished Halls of the FBI and resulted in a death threat for him and his family, Adelstein decided to step down. Then, he fought back.

In Tokyo Vice he delivers an unprecedented look at Japanese culture and searing memoir about his rise from cub reporter to seasoned journalist with a price on his head.

Tokyo Vice

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Bret Easton Ellis

Very good condition copy of The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis. Published by Penguin Books 1988. Some light wear around corners and edges, old penciled price, but otherwise a really great condition classic paperback edition. 

A classic Bret Easton Ellis tale of rich kids at a New England arts school on their worst behavior. By all accounts it’s quite an autobiographical story inspired by his own college experience with classmate Donna Tartt at Bennington College. 

Laureen, Paul, and Sean, three wealthy, aimless students involved in a loveless sexual triangle, search for an approximation of love amidst the decadence and boredom of their lives

The Rules of Attraction

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Small cut to upper right cover, general scuffing, slight roll and old price marked in pencil. Otherwise in very good shape, with tight binding. 

Bret Easton Ellis delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, one of the most singular novels of the last thirty years.
 
Returning to Los Angeles from New York, Clay, now a successful screenwriter, is casting his new movie. Soon he is running with his old circle of friends through L.A.'s seedy side. His ex-girlfriend, Blair, is married to Trent, a bisexual philanderer and influential manager. Then there's Julian, a recovering addict, and Rip, a former dealer. Then when Clay meets a gorgeous young actress who will stop at nothing to be in his movie, his own dark past begins to shine through, and he has no choice but to dive into the recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal.

Look for Bret Easton Ellis's new novel, The Shards, coming in January.

Imperial Bedrooms

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The Second Coming: A Novel by Walker Percy. Hardcover, first edition published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1980. 

Good/very good condition. Jacket has bend on front jacket flap and rolling at top edges, otherwise very good. Volume is ex-library, but one of the cleanest I’ve seen. A single stamp and some glue spots on inside of rear cover board from library card pocket. Light fixing as well. 

ISBN: 0374256748

A Novel

The Second Coming (1st ed., HC)

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Alice Munro

Open Secrets: Stories by Alice Munro. Hardcover, first edition published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1994. 

Near fine/good condition. Jacket is near fine condition, if not fine. Wrapped in Mylar seemingly the instant it was published. Volume shows some foxing on top, old price in pencil, and two bent pages. Otherwise a very lovely copy. 

ISBN: 0679435751

Stories

A collection of short stories in which women take the center stage includes the tale of a heart patient who experiences a revelation about an old love and that of a young woman struggling with a long-hidden secret. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Open Secrets (1st ed., HC)

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James Van Praagh

The Ghosts Among Us by James Van Praagh. Published by Harper One 2008. 

Look at that beautiful man on the reverse jacket flap! How could you not trust him! 

Hammer the “add to cart” button on this one before it’s gone!

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Uncovering the Truth about the Other Side

Everyone loves a good ghost story. Perhaps the human fascination with the supernatural stems from the fact that most of us, at some point in our lives, have experienced something we couldn't quite explain. From a very young age James Van Praagh was aware of a dimension that most of us cannot see, and he has dedicated his life to explaining it to the rest of us. Ghosts Among Us takes us on an incredible journey into the spirit world that brings to light one of our greatest mysteries--what happens to us after we die?

Van Praagh, the New York Times bestselling author and co-executive producer of the CBS series The Ghost Whisperer, shares his knowledge and life experience about ghosts, a subject that can seem to many of us both bizarre and terrifying. But when the world beyond is explained fully by an experienced guide, dismissal and apprehension can be turned into knowledge and inspiration. With incredible true ghost stories and surprising details about how ghosts actively participate in our lives, Van Praagh challenges us to question our perceptions and shows us how we can live more fully through understanding the world of spirits. Including eerily accurate readings, the author's development as a medium, and detailed how-to information, Ghosts Among Us is an all-encompassing guide to the supernatural.

Ghosts among Us

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Paul Radin

The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology by Paul Radin. First paperback edition, second printing, published by Shocken Books 1973. 

Good condition title that’s right but shows its age a bit. Scuffing, staining, light crease on spine, and an old price. 

ISBN: 080520351

A Study in American Indian Mythology

The myth of the Trickster—ambiguous creator and destroyer, cheater and cheated, subhuman and superhuman—is one of the earliest and most universal expressions of mankind. Nowhere does it survive in more starkly archaic form than in the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebago Trickster Cycle, recorded here is full. Anthropological and psychological analyses by Radin, Kerényi, and Jung reveal with Trickster as filling a twofold role: on the one hand he is "an archetypal psychic structure" that harks back to "an absolutely undifferentiated human consciousness, corresponding to a psyche that has hardly left the animal level" (Jung); on the other hand, his myth is a present-day outlet for the most unashamed and liberating satire of the onerous obligation of social order, religion, and ritual. With commentaries by Karl Kerényi and C. G. Jung Introduction by Stanley Diamond

The Trickster

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Larry McMurtry

Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry. First edition, hardcover copy published by Simon and Schuster 1993. 

Very good/very good condition copy. Some slight warping, foxing and thin strip of old tape on back cover of jacket. 

Sequel to the Pulitzer Prize winning Lonesome Dove. Here we get an old, grizzled version of Call with his old friend Gus long dead, he’s turned to bounty hunting and finally maybe bitten off more than he can chew. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Captain Call, a bounty hunter hired to catch bandit Joey Garza, assembles a group of unlikely assistants and travels to Crowtown, Texas

Streets of Laredo (1st ed.)

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Jamaica Kincaid

Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid. First US edition, hardcover copy published by Farrah Straus Giroux 1990. 

Fine/fine condition copy. Old price tag on inside front flap of jacket and small mark to the top spine of the jacket are the only damage to speak of. 

Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to work as an au pair for a wealthy American couple, discovering the dark side behind their facade of happiness as she also awakens to her own sexuality

Lucy (1st ed.)

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Diane Stein

Casting the Circle: A Women’s Book of Ritual by Diane Stein. Paperback copy published by The Crossing Press 1990. 

Some creasing and wear to the front and back cover, along spine. Otherwise a tightly bound, very solid copy. 

A Woman's Book of Ritual

A comprehensive guide including 23 full ritual outlines for the waxing, full, and waning moons, the eight Sabbats, and rites of passage. It also contains a wealth of information on developing, planning, and leading personal and group rituals.

Casting the Circle

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Margo Anand

The Art of Sexual Magic: Cultivating Sexual Energy to Transform Your Life by Margo Anand. First edition, first printing hardcover copy, published by Tarcher/Putnam (1995). 

Very good/very good condition copy. Light rolling around top/bottom of jacket, faint foxing on first leaf. 

Cultivating Sexual Energy to Transform Your Life

Shows couples how to increase their physical and spiritual energy during sex and channel it into their professional lives, using a series of exercises based on ancient rituals. By the author of The Art of Sexual Ecstasy.

The Art of Sexual Magic (1st ed.)

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Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph. D. A near fine/fine, first edition, 16th printing hardcover copy published by Ballantine Books, New York. Some light rubbing to the front and back of jacket are the only wear to speak of. 

A Jungian analyst explores the feminine psyche through stories of "wild women"--the mythological archetype of the strong, primitive woman. 115,000 first printing.

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (1st ed, HC)

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Octavio Paz Lozano

Helen Lane

The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism by Octavio Paz, translated from Spanish by Helen Lane. Hardcover first edition, first US printing published by Harcourt Brace and Company 1995. 

Fair condition jacket, good condition volume. Rolling and wear to jacket at top of spine, old price tag on back, and some dirty browning to cover and along top of pages. 

ISBN: 9780151001033

A collection of essays examines the themes of love and sex in literature, from Plato to modern fiction

The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism (1st US ed.)

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Umberto. Eco

William Weaver

A really lovely near fine/near fine copy of Baudolino by Umberto Eco. Hardcover first US edition, first printing published by Harcourt 2002. Translated from Italian by William Wearver. Only wear to speak of is a very slight rolling at the top of the jacket. 

Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino narrates the story of his life, from his adoption by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his education in Paris to his arrival in Constantinople during the turmoil of the Fourth Crusade.

Baudolino (1st ed.)

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Sherlock Holmes The West End Horror by John H Watson (Edited by Nicholas Meyer). First book club edition published by H. P. Dutton and Co 1976. 

Very good jacket, very good+ volume.

Classic Holmesian pastiche by one of the best to write in the genre and packaged in a lovely looking hardcover edition!

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