Victor Davis Hanson

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition.

Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than 2,000 years, The Peloponnesian War is a mine of military, moral, political, and philosophical wisdom.

However, this classic book has long presented obstacles to the uninitiated reader. Written centuries before the rise of modern historiography, Thucydides' narrative is not continuous or linear. His authoritative chronicle of what he considered the greatest war of all time is rigorous and meticulous, yet omits the many aids to comprehension modern readers take for granted--such as brief biographies of the story's main characters, maps and other visual enhancements, and background on the military, cultural, and political traditions of ancient Greece.

Robert Strassler's new edition amends these omissions, and not only provides a new coherence to the narrative overall but effectively reconstructs the lost cultural context that Thucydides shared with his original audience. Based on the venerable Richard Crawley translation, updated and revised for modern readers, The Landmark Thucydides includes a vast array of superbly designed and presented maps, brief informative appendices by outstanding classical scholars on subjects of special relevance to the text, explanatory marginal notes on each page, an index of unprecedented subtlety and depth, and numerous other useful features. Readers will find that with this edition they can dip into the text at any point and be immediately oriented with regard to the geography, season, date, and stage of the conflict.

In any list of the Great Books of Western Civilization, The Peloponnesian War stands near the top. This handsome, elegant, and authoritative new edition will ensure that its greatness is appreciated by future generations.

The Landmark Thucydides

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Rare book other then a home library sticker it's perfect. Slip cover is a little rough. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Kansas

Persian Adventure

Four Jewish cuisine cookbooks including the sought after “The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews”. #jewish #judaism #cookbook #classic #traditional #cuisine #culture #machlin 

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Missouri

Jewish cookbook bundle

The Complete International Jewish Cookbook, The Jewish Festival Cookbook, Jewish Cookery from Boston to Baghdad, The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews

Samuel Delany

William Gibson

Oregon

Describes life after the cataclysm in the American city of Bellona, where the skyies are darkened from burning buildings, the population consists of youth gangs and drifters, and a charismatic poet leads them to a better life

Dhalgren

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Arthur Miller

Christopher W. E. Bigsby

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community A Penguin Classic "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition...is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Crucible

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Dairy of a Wimpy Kid the Deep End 

Kathleen Winsor

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Vintage 1944 Book Club Edition of ‘Forever Amber’ by Kathleen Winsor. 
Good condition with some damage to the cover jacket as pictured. The actual book is in good shape. 

The adventures of Amber St. Clare, the willful and beautiful illegitimate daughter of noble parents who was raised on a farm by people she knew as her aunt and uncle.

Forever Amber

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New York

Norton Critical Edition

The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a Second Edition. Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and Mary Shelley's finest work. This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author. The text is that of the 1818 first edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones. It is accompanied by an expansive new preface, explanatory annotations, a map of Geneva and its environs, and seven illustrations, five of them new to the Second Edition. Context is provided in three supporting sections: "Circumstance, Influence, Composition, Revision," "Reception, Impact, Adaptation," and "Sources, Influences, Analogues." Among the Second Edition's new inclusions are historical-cultural studies by Susan Tyler Hitchcock, William St. Clair, and Elizabeth Young; Chris Baldrick on the novel's reception; and David Pirie on the novel's many film adaptations. Related excerpts from the Bible and from John Milton's Paradise Lost are now included, as is Charles Lamb's poem "The Old Familiar Faces." "Criticism" collects sixteen major interpretations of Frankenstein, nine of them new to the Second Edition. The new contributors are Peter Brooks, Bette London, Garrett Stewart, James. A. W. Heffernan, Patrick Brantlinger, Jonathan Bate, Anne Mellor, Jane Goodall, and Christa Knellwolf. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Frankenstein

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Michael Crichton

Extremely rare signed first edition in fine condition. Back dust jacket has a slight mark. Inscribed. Highly collectible. 

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING."
--People
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public.
There are rumors that something has survived. . . .
"ACTION-PACKED."
--New York Daily News
"FAST AND GRIPPING."
--The Washington Post Book World
"A VERY SCARY READ."
--Entertainment Weekly
"AN EDGE-OF-THE-SEAT TALE."
--St. Petersburg Times


From the Paperback edition.

The Lost World—Signed

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Dorothy Allison

Very rare like new first edition of this groundbreaking classic in very fine condition. Highly collectible. 

Tired of being labeled white trash, Ruth Anne Boatwright--a South Carolina bastard who is attached to the indomitable women in her mother's family--longs to escape from her hometown, and especially from Daddy Glen and his mean-spirited jealousy. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.

Bastard Out Lf Carolina—Signed

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Homer

Robert Fagles

Bernard Knox

Two volume set. Paperback. Books in VG+ condition. No tears, folds, or writing

Florida

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.


about The Odyssey

The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set

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A Hercule Poirot Mystery

"The murderer is with us–on the train now . . ." Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again . . .

Murder on the Orient Express

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Alaska

Under the Sea-Wind / the Sea Around Us / the Edge of the Sea

Pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson explores the wonders of the Earth's oceans in these classics of American science and nature writing. Rachel Carson is perhaps most famous as the author of Silent Spring, but she was first and foremost a "poet of the sea" and the three books collected in this deluxe Library of America volume are classics of American science and nature writing. Under the Sea-Wind (1941), Carson's lyrical debut, offers an intimate account of maritime ecology through the eyes of three of the ocean's denizens, the individual lives of sanderling, mackerel, and eel dramatically intertwined in the enduring ebb and flow of the tides. The Sea Around Us (1951)--a winner of the National Book Award--draws on a wealth of oceanographic, meteorological, biological, and historical research to present its subject on a grand, biospheric scale, revealing not only many mysteries of the still-unfathomed depths, but a reverence for the sea as a source of global climate and of life itself. Concluding Carson's "sea trilogy," The Edge of the Sea (1955) explores the habits of the many small creatures that live on shorelines and in tidepools accessible to any beachcomber: part identification guide, part hymn to ecological complexity, it is a book that conveys the "sense of wonder" in nature for which Carson is justly celebrated. At a moment when overfishing, pollution, and global warming are causing catastrophic changes to marine environments worldwide, Carson's lyrically detailed accounts of these environments offer a timely reminder of their beauty, fragility, and immense consequence for human life.

Rachel Carson: the Sea Trilogy (LOA #352)

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#hardcover #fiction #youngadult #historicalfiction #retelling #ya #classic #signed 

Rhode Island

As the abandoned son of a lascar sailor, Heathcliff has spent most of his young life maligned as an "outsider." Now he's been flung into an alien life in the Yorkshire moors, where he clings to his birth father's language even though it makes the servants claim he speaks gibberish. Catherine is the younger child of the estate's owner, a daughter with light skin and brown curls and a mother that nobody talks about. Her father is grooming her for a place in proper society, and that's all that matters. Catherine knows she must mold herself into someone pretty and marriageable, even though it might destroy her spirit.Deep in their souls, Catherine and Heathcliff can feel they are the same. But how can they ever be together, when loving each other--and loving themselves--is as good as death?

What Souls Are Made of: a Wuthering Heights Remix

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Stephen King

Extremely rare advance reader’s copy in very fine condition. Highly collectible. 

Ralph Roberts, a widower suffering from insomnia, begins to experience strange visual phenomena and is unable to believe that they are merely hallucinations

Insomnia

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#hardcover #objectivism #philosophy #classic

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Louisiana

The Fountainhead

#paperback #fiction #hardcover #adult #aliceinwonderland #authorscollection #classic #fairytale 

Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have entertained readers young and old for more than a century. Their magical worlds, amusing characters, and playfully logical illogic epitomize the wit and whimsy of Carroll's writing. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Classic Works collects both of the Alice novels, each featuring the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. In addition, this volume features the novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, the classic nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark, and the full contents of the poetry collection Phantasmagoria--all timeless works that reflect the cleverness and ingenuity that were Carroll's unique gifts.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Classic Works

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Toni Morrison

The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted.

The Bluest Eye

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Paradise Lost by John Milton, printed by The Easton Press in 1976. The following is from the listing on the Easton Press website:
- Fully bound in genuine leather.
- 22kt gold deeply inlaid on the “hubbed” spine.
- Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper that lasts for generations.
- Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books.
- Satin-ribbon page marker.
- Gilded page ends.
- Bound in the USA. Imported materials.
- Rigorous inspection at every stage ensures adherence to our exacting standards.
- Superb craftsmanship and commitment to quality.

The cover is an orangey brown. There is fading on and around the spine from sun damage. It is very difficult to photograph, but the leather fades to a lighter brown near the spine and on the spine itself. There is some scratching on the gilded edge of the pages, and it has collected dust along the top pages near the ribbon from sitting on a shelf. I have not tried to clean it as I didn't want to damage the pages. There is a book plate stuck in the pages that has left a shadow (see photos). There are also a few pages that have staining near the spine. It almost looks like water damage but isn't consistent through the pages to be that. It is not perfect, but is still in really great shape and would be the perfect addition to any personal library! #eastonpress #classic #classics #hardback #fiction #vintage 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Paradise Lost 

#fiction #paperback #thekiterunner #classic #adventure #historicalfiction #adultfiction #afghanistan #bestseller 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Kite Runner

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L. M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery, one of literature's most beloved stories, is now available in a fine exclusive collector's edition featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Each collectible volume will be the perfect addition to any well-appointed library.

The Anne of Green Gables Seasons Edition--Fall:

 * Presents L.M. Montgomery's beloved novel, widely viewed as a shining example of the quintessential children's novel, though readers of all ages have fallen in love with Anne, the Cuthbert siblings, and all of their friends
 * Explores such important themes as imagination vs. reality, the pressures of social expectations, and the differences between true emotion and mere sentimentality
 * Is ideal for special-edition book collectors, fans of literary fiction and classic literature, and people who love both the book and the cinematic adaptations it inspired

Whether you're buying this as a gift or as a self-purchase, this remarkable limited edition features:

 * Beautiful hardcover with a distinctive one-of-a-kind, high-end/high-treatment laser-cut jacket, perfect for standing out on any discerning fiction-lover's bookshelf
 * Trim Size: 6 x 9
 * Beautiful decorative interior pages featuring pull quotes distributed throughout
 * An exquisite matching laser-cut bookmark
 * Part of a 4-volume Fall Seasons series including Sense and Sensibility, Dracula, and Shakespeare in Autumn: Select Plays and the Complete Sonnets.

When 11-year-old orphan Anne Shirley is mistakenly sent to live with siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert on their farm, she finds herself in a real home for the first time in her life. But fiery, spirited Anne certainly isn't the sturdy boy they had planned to adopt. Despite her mischief and affinity for finding trouble, the longer Anne stays at Green Gables, the harder it is for the Cuthberts to imagine life without her.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Seasons Edition--Fall) is one of four titles available in this collection. The Fall season set also will include Sense and Sensibility, Dracula, and Shakespeare in Autumn: Select Plays and the Complete Sonnets.

 

Anne of Green Gables (Seasons Edition -- Fall)

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Ohio

Gather,Darkness! 

Childhood's end 

Published by Grosset & Dunlap of New York. Early edition, undated. Deep red boards with title and author in blue on cover; title, author and publisher in blue on spine. No jacket. Book has moderate wear along cover edges. Former (juvenile) owners name written in ink on inside front cover. Separating at first title page showing threads but spine is intact and tight. Slight discoloration on inside covers. See photos for condition. 

A classic children’s story for anyone who loves horses. 

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Victor Davis Hanson

The Landmark Thucydides

Anne Sinclair Mehdevi

Persian Adventure

Evelyn Rose, Malvina Liebman, Fannie Engle and Gertrude Blair, and Edda Machlin

The Complete International Jewish Cookbook, The Jewish Festival Cookbook, Jewish Cookery from Boston to Baghdad, The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews

Samuel Delany; William Gibson

Dhalgren

Arthur Miller; Christopher W. E. Bigsby

The Crucible

Jeff Kinney

Dairy of a Wimpy Kid the Deep End

Kathleen Winsor; Barbara Taylor Bradford

Forever Amber

J. Paul Hunter (Editor); Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Michael Crichton

The Lost World—Signed

Dorothy Allison

Bastard Out Lf Carolina—Signed

Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox

The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set

Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express

Rachel Carson; Sandra Steingraber (Editor)

Rachel Carson: the Sea Trilogy (LOA #352)

Tasha Suri

What Souls Are Made of: a Wuthering Heights Remix

Stephen King

Insomnia

Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead

Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Classic Works

Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

John Milton

Paradise Lost

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner

L. M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables (Seasons Edition -- Fall)

Fritz Leiber

Gather,Darkness!

Arthur C. Clarke

Childhood's end

Anna Sewell

Black Beauty