Robert Lawson’s “Great Wheel” (1957, 1st Ed.)

Author Name: LAWSON, Robert. Title: Great Wheel. Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Publisher: NY: Viking, 1957 Illustrated by the author. First edition. Very good in a very good (minor edge wear and age toning) dust jacket. ; 188 pages Price = 100.00 USD

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A Travel Story: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Author Name: MURPHY, Dervla. Title: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle. Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Publisher: NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1965 Black and white photographs. First edition. Light foxing to edges, else very good in a very good (age toning along the spine) dust jacket. ; 235 pages Price = 125.00 USD

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New Titles (08/13/09)

Imperiled Heritage: Tradition, History, and Utopia in Early Modern German Literature: Selected Essays. GARBER, Klaus.	Belonging in the Two Berlins: Kin, State, Nation. BORNEMAN, John.
Labour Standards and International Competitiveness: A Comparative Analysis of Developing and Industrialized Countries. RAYNAULD, Andre and VIDAL, Jean-Pierre.	Productivity, Competitiveness and Incomes in Asia: An Evolutionary Theory of International Trade. BRUNNER, Hans-Peter and ALLEN, Peter M.
Developments in Organizational Politics: How Political Dynamics Affect Employee Performance in Modern Work Sites. VIGODA, Eran.	Orchards: Stories. CHEKHOV, Anton.
Children of Noah: Jewish Seafaring in Ancient Times. PATAI, Raphael.	Population, Law, and the Environment. HARDAWAY, Robert M.
Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis. BEAMISH, Thomas D.	Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology. BRYSON, Michael A.
Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries: The Role of Scientists in the U.S. Acid Rain Debate. ALM, Leslie R.	American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation: Third, Revised and Expanded, Edition. REIGER, John F.
Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken (1630-1714). TUCKER, Mary Evelyn.	Microlivestock: Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future. NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL.
Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey (Revised Edition). RICHTER, Gisela M. A.	Fifty Contemporary Choreographers. BREMSER, Martha (editor).
African Queen: Indlovukazi yaseAfrika. FERRINI, Jenny and HERMAN, Jennifer.	Adventurous Idealism – the Philosophy of Alfred Lloyd. SHIRK, Evelyn Urban.
Mr. Weston’s Good Wine. POWYS, T. F.	Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp: The Tanforan Journals of Charles Kikuchi. MODELL, John (editor).
Plant Facts and Fancies. WOODS, Sylvia.	Development and Transfer of Pollution Prevention Technology. RAPPAPORT, Ann.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. FRANK, Anne.	Church Mice at Bay. OAKLEY, Graham.
Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon: Four Magical Stories. JOHNSON, Crockett.	Play It Again, Sam. ALLEN, Woody.
Baron Von Mabel’s Backpacking. ANDERSON, Sheridan.	Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful. WALKER, Alice.
Makioka Sisters. TANIZAKI, Junichiro.	Thirst: Poems. OLIVER, Mary.
Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction. VONNEGUT, Kurt.	On Interest Rates and Asset Prices in Europe: The Selected Essays of Martin M. G. Fase. FASE, Martin M. G.
Microeconomics of Transformation and Growth. BREZINSKI, Horst, and FRANCK, Egon and FRITSCH, Michael (editors).	Capsule of the Mind: Chapters in the Life of Emily Dickinson. WARD, Theodora.
Structural Change in the UK Economy. DRIVER, Ciaran and DUNNE, Paul (editors).	Pollution, Property & Prices: An Essay in Policy-Making and Economics. DALES, J. H.
Drama Dictionary. HODGSON, Terry.	Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era: Essays on the History of the 1920’s. HAYNES, John Earl (editor).
Journals of Lewis and Clark. BERGON, Frank (editor).	Children, Youth, and Families: The Action-Research Relationship. RAPOPORT, Robert N. (editor).
Freudian Slip: Psychoanalysis and Textual Criticism. TIMPANARO, Sebastiano.	Victory: How a Progressive Democratic Party Can Win and Govern. SANDERS, Arthur.
New Democratic Federalism for Europe: Functional, Overlapping and Competing Jurisdictions. FREY, Bruno S. and EICHENBERGER, Reiner.	Dorothy’s Playmates. BROOKS, Amy.
Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man. MCLUHAN, Marshall.	Applications of Neural Networks to Telecommunications 3. ALSPECTOR, Joshua, et al (editors).
Chinese Painting. CAHILL, James.	Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson. MENIN, Sarah and KITE, Stephen.
Functional Programming and Input / Output. GORDON, Andrew D.	Global Financial Centres: London, New York, Tokyo. ROBERTS, Richard (editor).
Companion to American Indian History. DELORIA, Philip J. and SALISBURY, Neal (editors).	Companion to Economic Forecasting. CLEMENTS, Michael P. and HENDRY, David F. (editors).
Neurological Complications of Cancer. WILEY, Ronald G. (editor).	Economic Emergence of Modern Japan. YAMAMURA, Kozo (editor).
Barrett’s Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma. SHARMA, Prateek and SAMPLINER, Richard E. (editors).	Skilful Soccer for Young Players. FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION.
Cardiology Rotation. TAYLOR, George J.	Blackwell’s Primary Care Essentials: Sports Medicine. HOWARD, Thomas M. and BUTCHER, Janus D.
Blackwell’s Primary Care Essentials: Psychiatry (Second Edition). MOORE, David P.	Institutio Oratoria of Quintilian: Volume IV, Books X-XII (Loeb Classical Library). QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius,
Carotid Endarterectomy: Principles and Technique. LOFTUS, Christopher M.	Haematology at a Glance. MEHTA, Atul B. and HOFFBRAND, A. Victor.
Genius of Industrial England: Edward Wadsworth, 1889-1949. LEWISON, Jeremy (editor).	Portal Hypertension III: Proceedings of the Third Baverno International Consensus Workshop on Definitions, Methodology and Therapeutic Strategies. DE FRANCHIS, Roberto (editor).
Dialogues on Women: Images of Women in the History of Philosophy. DERKSEN, L. D.	Participative Strategies for Science-Based Innovations: The Case of Biotechnology for Small-Scale Farmers in Developing Countries. BUNDERS, Joske F. G.
Gender and Organizations-Changing Perspectives: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Findings. DE BRUIJN, Jeanne and CYBA, Eva (editors).	International Relations and the New Inequality. PASHA, Mustapha Kamal and MURPHY, Craig N. (editors).
Statistical Physics – “Statphys 13:” Part 2, Contributed Papers. CABIB, Dario, et al (editors).	World Shakespeare Bibliography, 1990-1993 (on CD-ROM). HARNER, James L. (editor).
Promising Practices to Connect Schools with the Community. HIATT-MICHAEL, Diana B. (editor).	Studying Teachers in Early Childhood Settings. SARACHO, Olivia N. and SPODEK, Bernard.
Mystery on the Fourteenth Floor. ALLAN, Mabel Esther.	In the Echoey Tunnel. REID, Christopher.
Philosophical Perspectives, Volume 13: Epistemology, 1999. TOMBERLIN, James E. (editor).	Changing Times: Challenges to Identity: 12 Year-Olds in Belfast, 1981 and 1992. WHYTE, Jean.
New Democracies in Eastern Europe: Party Systems and Political Cleavages: Second Edition. BERGLUND, Sten and DELLENBRANT, Jan Ake (editors).	Vital Questions to Ask in the ER. SPRUILL, Theresa and LIPPE, Michael S.
Guide to Charter Schools: Research and Practical Advice for Educators. KAYES, Myron S. and MARANTO, Robert (editors).	WCDMA: Towards IP Mobility and Mobile Internet. OJANPERA, Tero and PRASAD, Ramjee (editors).
Observing Interaction: An Introduction to Sequential Analysis: Second Edition. BAKEMAN, Roger and GOTTMAN, John M.	Rethinking Neural Networks: Quantum Fields and Biological Data. PRIBRAM, Karl H. (editor).
Handbook of Epilepsy Treatment. SHORVON, Simon.	Adjusting to Globalization. GREENAWAY, David (editor).
International Law Reports: Volume 108. LAUTERPACHT, E., GREENWOOD, C. J., and OPPENHEIMER, A. G. (editors).	International Law Reports: Volume 59. LAUTERPACHT, E. with GREENWOOD, C. J. (editors).
International Law Reports: Volume 64. LAUTERPACHT, E. with GREENWOOD, C. J. (editors).	Florey: The Man Who Made Penicillin. BICKEL, Lennard.
I’ll Be You and You Be Me. KRAUSS, Ruth.	How to Wrap Five More Eggs: Traditional Japanese Packaging. OKA, Hideyuki.
Mots d’Heures: Gousses, Rames: The d’Antin Manuscript. ROOTEN, Luis d’Antin van.	Story of Ferdinand. LEAF, Munro.
Ideas of Difference. HETHERINGTON, Kevin and MUNRO, Rolland (editors).	Yeats in Holland: The Reception of the Work of W. B. Yeats in the Netherlands Before World War Two. SUPHEERT, Roselinde.
Vietnam in a Changing World. NORLUND, Irene, et al (editors).	Word Choice and Narration: Artisitc Language Use in Academic Lectures. STRODT-LOPEZ, Barbara.
Presence of Thought: Introspective Accounts of Reading and Writing. STERNGLASS, Marilyn S.	Journalism After September 11. ZELIZER, Barbie and ALLAN, Stuart (editors).
Science without Myth: On Constructions, Reality, and Social Knowledge. SISMONDO, Sergio.	Acute Coronary Syndromes: A Handbook for Clinical Practice. BERTRAND, Michel E. and KING III, Spencer B. (editors).

Imre Kertész was awarded the Jean Améry Prize

Imre Kertész was awarded the Jean Améry Prize

Saints of the Holocaust

The 2009 Jean Améry Prize for essay writing was awarded to Imre Kertész, the Stuttgart publisher Klett-Cotta announced on Thursday.

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New Titles (08/03/09)

Canoe Rig: The Essence and the Art: Sailpower for Antique and Traditional Canoes. BRADSHAW, Todd E.	Stories By Juliana Horatia Ewing. EWING, Juliana Horatia.
Hokusai Sketchbooks: Selections from the Manga. MICHENER, James A.	Story of the Three Kings: Melchior, Balthasar and Jaspar. (John of Hildesheim) FREEMAN, Margaret B. (retold by).
Masques d’Afrique: Dans les Collections du Musee Barbier-Muller. FAGG, William.	Site Reconnaissance and Engineering: An Introduction for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Planners. LANDPHAIR, Harlow C. and MOTLOCH, John L.
Ekistics: An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlement. DOXIADIS, Constantinos A.	In the Troll Wood. BAUER, John (illustrator).
Why the Chicken Crossed the Road. MACAULAY, David.	Vanishing Africa. RICCIARDI, Mirella.
Selfish Giant. WILDE, Oscar.	Pooh Get-Well Book: Recipes and Activities to Help You Recover from Wheezles and Sneezles. (A. A. Milne) ELLISON, Virginia H.
Ice Opinion: Who Gives a Fuck? ICE T.	On Growth and Form (two volumes). THOMPSON, D’Arcy Wentworth.
Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Marketing. LEWIS, Barbara R. and LITTLER, Dale (editors).	International Politics Since 1945: Key Issues in the Making of the Modern World. BARSTON, Ronald (editor).
Grendel: Devil by the Deed. WAGNER, Matt.	Know Nothing. SETTLE, Mary Lee.
State and the Economic Process. NAASTEPAD, C. W. M. and STORM, Servaas (editors).	Victorian Spinster and Colonial Emigration: Contested Subjects. KRANIDIS, Rita S.
Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations. GILLOCH, Graeme.	Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama. FINDLAY, Alison.
Batman: Fortunate Son. JONES, Gerard, and HA, Gene with VASQUEZ, Gloria.	Manhattan Tales, 1920-1945. BUTTERFIELD, Isabel K.
Birds of Lebanon and the Jordan Area. BENSON, S. Vere.	Foxwood Treasure. PATERSON, Cynthia and Brian.
Time Enough to Win. STAUBACH, Roger with LUKSA, Frank.	Spirit Mediumship and Society in Africa. BEATTIE, John and MIDDLETON, John (editors).
Challenges in Acute Coronary Syndromes. DE BONO, David and SOBEL, Burton E. (editors).	ABC-CLIO World History Companion to the Industrial Revolution. STEARNS, Peter N. and HINSHAW, John H.
Economics of Price Discrimination. NORMAN, George (editor).	Law in Social Theory. COTTERRELL, Roger (editor).
Basic Ideas and Concepts in Nuclear Physics: An Introductory Approach (Second Edition). HEYDE, K.	Emotions and the Family: For Better or for Worse. BLECHMAN, Elaine A. (editor).
How Asia Got Rich: Japan, China, and the Asian Miracle. TERRY, Edith.	Cognitively Diagnostic Assessment. NICHOLS, Paul D., et al (editors)
Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Operations Management. SLACK, Nigel (editor).	Assessing Communication Education: A Handbook for Media, Speech, and Theatre Educators. CHRIST, William G. (editor).
Philosophy and Pluralism. ARCHARD, David (editor).	Russia Under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion, 1894-1917. GEIFMAN, Anna (editor).
Illicit Drugs: Use and Control. BARTON, Adrian.	Security Interests in Mobile Equipment. DAVIES, Iwan (editor).
Political Philosophers of the Twentieth Century. LESSNOFF, Michael H.	Mechatronics and Machine Vision 2003: Future Trends. BILLINGSLEY, John (editor).
Readings in the Theory of Economic Development. MOOKHERJEE, Dilip and RAY, Debraj (editors).	Gastrointestinal Emergencies. THAM, Tony CK and COLLINS, John SA.
Judges (Blackwell Bible Commentaries). GUNN, David M.	Civil Society: The Conservative Meaning of Liberal Politics. CAHOONE, Lawrence E.
Democracy, Law and National Security in Israel. HOFNUNG, Menachem.	Turks in European Cities: Housing and Urban Segregation. OZUEKREN, Sule and VAN KEMPEN, Ronald (editors).
Global Social Problems. GEORGE, Vic and PAGE, Robert M. (editors).	Science, Technology and National Socialism. RENNEBERG, Monika and WALKER, Mark (editors).
Annotated Catalog, South Texas College of Law. ANGLIM, Christopher.	Language Development: The Essential Readings. TOMASELLO, Michael and BATES, Elizabeth (editors).
Theodore Dreiser: Beyond Naturalism. GOGOL, Miriam (editor).	Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350-1750. TRACY, James D. (editor).
Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1905-21: Based on the Diary of Amar Singh of Jaipur. ELLINWOOD, Jr., DeWitt C.	Restructuring South Africa. BREWER, John D. (editor).
Textbooks for Learning: Nurturing Children’s Minds. CHAMBLISS, Marilyn J. and CALFEE, Robert C.	Understanding Philosophy of Science. LADYMAN, James.
Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar (Second Edition). KING, Gareth.	Psychiatric Justice. SZASZ, Thomas S.
East-Central European Economies in Transition. HARDT, John P. and KAUFMAN, Richard F. (editors).	Law of Defamation in Commonwealth Africa. COTTRELL, Jill.
Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo. SHOSHAN, Boaz.	Evidence-Guided Prescribing of the Pill. HANNAFORD, P. C. and WEBB, A. M. C. (editors).
Early Political Writings. COMTE, Auguste.	Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Volume I: Indian Currency and Finance. KEYNES, John Maynard.
Fashioning the Feminine in the Greek Novel. HAYNES, Katharine.	Macroeconomics Model and Stabilisation Policies for the OPEC Countries: With Special Reference to the Iraqi Economy. SALMAN, A. Khalik.
Federico da Montefeltro & Sigismondo Malatesta: The Eagle and the Elephant. PERNIS, Maria Grazia and ADAMS, Laurie Schneider.	Palestinian Diaspora: Formation of Identities and Politics of Homeland. SCHULZ, Helena Lindholm with HAMMER, Juliane.
Touched by the Dragon: Experiences of Vietnam Veterans From Newport County, Rhode Island. GRZYB, Frank L. (editor).	Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Formation of the Modern World. HOWARD, Thomas C. and PEDERSON, William D. (editors).
For Capital Punishment: Crime and the Morality of the Death Penalty. BERNS, Walter.	Developing the Manager as a Helper. HAYES, John.
Theology of the Letters of James, Peter, and Jude. CHESTER, Andrew and MARTIN, Ralph P.	Human Sexuality: The Societal and Interpersonal Context. MCKINNEY, Kathleen and SPRECHER, Susan (editors).
Anaphora: A Reference Guide. BARSS, Andrew (editor).	Political Economy of Privatization and Deregulation. BAILEY, Elizabeth E. and PACK, Janet Rothenberg (editor).
Technology Transfer and Business Enterprise. JEREMY, David J. (editor).	Perspectives on Korean Dance. VAN ZILE, Judy.
Economics of Technological Diffusion. STONEMAN, Paul.	Blackwell Companion to Philosophy: Second Edition. BUNNIN, Nicholas and TSUI-JAMES, E. P. (editors).
Soil Chemistry and Its Applications. CRESSER, Malcolm, et al.	Extragalactic Distance Scale. LIVIO, Mario, et al (editors).
Geography of the ‘New’ Education Market: Secondary School Choice in England and Wales. TAYLOR, Chris.	Security Communities. ADLER, Emanuel and BARNETT, Michael (editors).
Introduction to Contemporary Fiction: International Writing in English Since 1970. MENGHAM, Rod (editor).	Applications of Lasers and Laser Systems. BEACH, David P., et al
Serbs and Their Leaders in the Twentieth Century. RADAN, Peter and PAVKOVIC, Aleksandar (editors).	Nonparametric Econometrics. PAGAN, Adrian and ULLAH, Aman.
Carcinogenicity: Testing, Predicting, and Interpreting Chemical Effects. KITCHIN, Kirk T. (editor).	Global Challenge to Industrial Districts: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Italy and Taiwan. GUERRIERI, Paolo, et al (editors).
Miscarriage: Women’s Experiences and Needs (Revised Edition). MOULDER, Christine.	Europe and America: The Prospects for Partnership (Second Edition). PETERSON, John.
Science Fiction. LUCKHURST, Roger.	Dispersion of Ventricular Repolarization: State of the Art. OLSSON, S. Bertil, et al (editors).
Ezra Pound’s Epic Variations: The Cantos and Major Long Poems. JOSEPH, Terri Brint.	Linear Analysis: An Introductory Course. BOLLOBAS, Bela.

Stories By Juliana Horatia Ewing (Illustrated by Edna Cooke) 1935

Author Name: EWING, Juliana Horatia.

Title: Stories By Juliana Horatia Ewing.

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Publisher: NY: Dial Press, 1935
Illustrator: Illustrated by Edna Cooke

Eight color plates. First edition thus. Gift inscription (from 1935) on verso of front free endpaper that has imprinted a bit onto the half-title page, else very good in a very good (light age toning) dust jacket. Binding is solid. An attractive, well preserved copy. ; 426 pages

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All For a Crown by Alexandre Dumas (French Literature in Translation)

Author Name: DUMAS, Alexandre.

Title: All for a Crown; or, The Only Love of King Henry the Eighth (Catherine Howard).

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Publisher: NY: Street & Smith, 1902

Translated from the French by Henry L. Williams. First edition thus. Octavo, bound in green buckram, gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt. Previous owner’s name and date (1904) on front paste-down, some very light edge wear, else very good or better. Binding is solid. No dust jacket. An attractive, well preserved copy.; 276 pages

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On Death and Dying (First Book by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)

Author Name: KUBLER-ROSS, Elisabeth.

Title: On Death and Dying.

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Publisher: NY: Macmillan, 1969

The author’s first book. Stated first printing. Fading along the top edge, else near fine in a near fine (light corner crease to front flap) dust jacket. ; 260 pages

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Their Island Home: The Later Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson (Jules Verne)

Author Name: VERNE, Jules.

Title: Their Island Home: The Later Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson.

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Publisher: NY Grosset & Dunlap

Translated from the French by Cranston Metcalfe. A reprint of the 1924 G. Howard Watt edition. Half title page has been removed, else near fine in a very good (minor edge wear and fading) dust jacket.

CHILDREN’S French Literature Literature In Translation

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