The Bridge At Andau antique 1957
242 pages. In excellent condition for its age. Previous owners name written featured in photos

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

The Bridge At Andau antique 1957

A beautiful vintage collection of four books of the four parts of Wagner's opera "The Ring of the Nibelung" filled with the stories, operatic scores and lovely black-and-white and coloured illustrations by Alexandre Serebriakoff. In excellent vintage condition with minor folds and tears on the dustjackets and personalization on the inner first page of each book. They come in a beautiful old book box, as well, and are quite rare.

Every vividly coloured illustration on the dustjackets are the same on the hard covers of the books themselves.

An extraordinary addition to your collection for the avid old book lover!

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

In Story, Pictures and Musical Scores

The Four Books of Wagner's Ring

John Hersey

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Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty -- a gripping and visceral story, impossible to put down.

The Wall

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Kurt Vonnegut

A Novel

A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time), featuring a new introduction by Kevin Powers, author of the National Book Award finalist The Yellow Birds Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.” An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.” Fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut's portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties. “Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement.”—The Boston Globe

Slaughterhouse-Five

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Nina Rosenstand

Nina Rosenstand offers a remarkably effective way of helping students understand and evaluate moral issues.


Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Philosophy

An Introduction to Ethics

This popular text uses examples from fiction and film to show how ethical theories can be applied. By linking abstract theory to "real life" through storytelling and story analysis, Rosenstand offers a remarkably effective way of helping students understand and evaluate moral issues.

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The Bridge At Andau antique 1957

Adapted by Robert Lawrence

The Four Books of Wagner's Ring

John Hersey

The Wall

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

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Nina Rosenstand

The Moral of the Story

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James A. Michener

The Bridge At Andau antique 1957

Adapted by Robert Lawrence

The Four Books of Wagner's Ring

John Hersey

The Wall

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

Fairbanks

Fairbanks cards

Nina Rosenstand

The Moral of the Story