Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world, has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for literature. Read more from the BBC News
Check out the titles by Mario Vargas Llosa we have to offer HERE. Be sure to check back to see titles we add to this list.
The 49th Annual Conway, Massachusetts’ Festival of the Hills, an annual fall festival that has been recognized as a Library of Congress “Local Legacy” in Western Massachusetts, will take place Sunday, October 3rd from 10am-4pm.
ABOUT CONWAY AND THE FESTIVAL OF THE HILLS
Conway, Massachusetts, is located on Route 116 in Massachusetts, 5 miles north of I-91. Conway, Massachusetts. The Conway Festival of the Hills fall festival was originally a July 1915 pageant to celebrate 100 years of peace between the United States and England. In 1962, the festival was revived to raise funds for the town’s 1967 bicentennial celebration. Since then, the annual Festival of the Hills is an all-volunteer event that raises scholarship money for the town’s high school graduates.
Conway, located in the foothills of the Berkshires just west of the Connecticut River Valley, was originally settled in 1762, and the town was incorporated in 1775. Conway was named for General Henry Seymour Conway, a leader in the English House of Commons. Conway’s landmarks include the Field Memorial Library, a library funded by Marshall Field, the legendary retailer who grew up on a farm in Conway in the 1800s before eventually moving to Chicago, and the Burkeville Covered Bridge. Originally built in 1870, the historic covered bridge over the South River was added to the Historic Register in 1988. The Burkeville Covered Bridge was completely restored and renovated and reopened to pedestrian access in 2007.
Notable Conway residents, past and present, include John Crowley, critically acclaimed American fantasist and author of the World Fantasy Award winning novel Little, Big; Jill Ker Conway, renowned memoirist and Smith College’s first female president; and Archibald MacLeish, a three-time Pulitzer winner.
One of the most popular events at the Festival year after year is the book signing with local authors. This year Conway resident Holly Hobbie, creator of the much-loved Holly Hobbie character and the Toot and Puddle children’s book series, will be on hand to sign copies of her books. Another Conway resident signing books will be Peter Jeswald, a builder who has written a practical and engaging how-to guide for creating paths, steps, and footbridges in the garden. Other notable authors signing at this year’s book signing, include John Crowley, Heidi Stemple, Jane Yolen, Eve Brown-Waite, Ellen Watson, and Amy Dryanksy.
2010 Hugo Award Winners are announced. Since 1955, the Hugo Awards are given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements. Find out the winners at www.thehugoawards.org.
Frank Herbert’s book Dune (1965) was a Hugo Award and Nebula Award winner.We have an early printing of the first (mass market) paperback edition of this science fiction classic. This copy is from the personal library of automation pioneer John Diebold and bears his ownership stamp on the front and rear endpages.
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Title: Tremor: Selected Poems. Binding: Hardcover With a preface by Czeslaw Milosz. Translated from the Polish by Renata Gorczynski. First American edition. INSCRIBED by the author. Near fine in a near fine (light age toning to flaps) dust jacket. Price = 150.00 USD |
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Title: Vessel of Sadness. Binding: Hardcover True first edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Near fine in a near fine (light rubbing on rear panel) dust jacket.; 152 pages Price = 200.00 USD |
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Title: Time and a Ticket. Binding: Hardcover The author’s second book. First printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. A bright, clean, and well preserved copy. ; 239 pages Price = 200.00 USD |
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Title: Kentucky Rifle. Binding: Hardcover Color photographs by Bruce Pendleton throughout. First edition. Previous owner’s book-plate on front paste-down, else very good in a very good dust jacket. Price = 95.00 USD |
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Title: Phantom Tollbooth. Binding: Hardcover First edition (no later printing indicated on copyright page). SIGNED on the title page by the author and illustrator. Octavo, bound in blue cloth with white lettering and illustration, map endpapers. Very good in a good (large chip – about one square inch – at the crown of the spine and several smaller chips at the corners and along the top edge of the front panel, two long closed edge tears on rear panel, age toning) dust jacket. The first issue dust jacket has the original $3.95 price on the front flap and the author’s photograph on the rear panel. ; 256 pages Price = 4000.00 USD |
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Author Name: ZAGAJEWSKI, Adam.
Author Name: WOODRUFF, William.
Author Name: BENCHLEY, Peter.
Author Name: LINDSAY, Merrill.
Author Name: JUSTER, Norton.
