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Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $9.95, near fine copy, probably unused, tiniest ding to corner. CHATWIN, BRUCE. The Songlines. New York: Penguin Books, 1988, later printing, 294pp., . 9780140094299 ISBN 0140094296 9.60.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $14.95, near fine, light wear. ERNAUX, ANNIE. Happening. Translated from the French by Tanya Leslie. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2019, 3d printing number line of the May 2019 paperback edition, 95pp., . The author recalls her traumatic experience with abortion as a young literature student in the early 1960s--an event that left her hemorrhaging in a Paris dormitory. ISBN 9781609809485 4.30.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. Advance Reading Copy (ARC). This is an Advance Reading Copy, or ARC (similar to, but not the same as an "Uncorrected Proof" or an "Unedited, Uncorrected Page Proof") a publishing state fast becoming an attractive "collectible", as it precedes the First Edition. We have here Quinnell's riveting tale of the old-guard Soviet Premiere's plot to assassinate the Pope and the Vatican's counterplot to assassinate the Premiere, tempered with a powerful love story. 324 pages. CONDITION: a bright, solid, square, unmarked, uncreased copy with light edge- and corner-wear - now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $15.00, near fine copy, corners lightly bumped. previous owner's gift inscription on top corner of title page. LE CLÉZIO, J.-M. G. Wandering star. Translated by C. Dickson. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2008, 2d printing, 316pp., . While both Esther and Nejma want peace, each has a different experience during the founding of Israel; Esther is a Jewish girl who participtes in the founding, and Nejma is a Palestinian who becomes a refugee. ISBN 9781931896115 12.30.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $18.00, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. CHATWIN, BRUCE. The songlines. Introduction by Rory Stewart. New York: Penguin Books, 2012, xxiv, 294pp., . Series: Penguin classics A story of ideas in which two companions, traveling and talking together, explore the hopes and dreams that animate both them and the people they encounter in Central Australia's almost uninhabitable regions. ISBN 9780142422571 7.60.

paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. DETAILS: sewn PAPERBACK, HEAVILY MARKED in red underlining in last 15 pages of epilogue by a reader who couldn't bother with the rest of the book, I guess, which is clean. JACKSON, MICHAEL. At home in the world : COPY WITH MARKINGS. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000, x, 188pp., . "Ours is a century of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At such a time, in such a world, what does it mean to be "at home?" Perhaps among a nomadic people, for whom dwelling is not synonymous with being housed and settled, the search for an answer to this question might lead to a new way of thinking about home and homelessness, exile and belonging. At Home in the World is the story of just such a search. Intermittently, over a period of three years, Michael Jackson lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Central Australia. This book chronicles his experience among the Warlpiri of the Tanami Desert." "Something of a nomad himself, having lived in New Zealand, Sierra Leone, England, France, Australia, and the United States, Jackson is deft at capturing the ambiguities of home as a lived experience among the Warlpiri. Blending narrative ethnography, empirical research, philosophy, and poetry, he focuses on the existential meaning of being at home in the world. Here home becomes a metaphor for the intimate relationship between the part of the world a person calls "self" and the part of the world called "other." To speak of "at-homeness," Jackson suggests, implies that people everywhere try to strike a balance between closure and openness, between acting and being acted upon, between acquiescing in the given and choosing their own fate. His book is an exhilarating journey into this existential struggle, responsive at every turn to the political questions of equity and justice that such a struggle entails. A moving depiction of an aboriginal culture at once at home and in exile, and a personal meditation on the practice of ethnography and the meaning of home in our increasingly rootless age, At Home in the World is a timely reflection on how, in defining home, we continue to define ourselves.". 9790822325382 ISBN 0822325381.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $18.95, near fine copy, appears unused. ERNAUX, ANNIE. Getting Lost. Translated by Alison L. Strayer. New York, Oakland: Seven Stories Press, 2022, 1st printing number line ending with 1, 239pp., . First published in French in 2001. - "'Getting lost' is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, 'Simple passion,' was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters, saying 'his desire for me is the only thing I can be sure of.' She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives only to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death. Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. 'Getting lost' is as strong a book as any that she has written, a haunting, desperate view of strong and successful woman who seduces a man only to lose herself in love and desire.". ISBN 9781644212196 8.80.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $9.95, fresh attractive copy, near fine, probably unused, lamination a bit uneven across covers. HAINING, PETER, ed. . Pulp fictions : hardboiled stories. Edited and introduced by Peter Haining. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2004, 1st printing of this edition with number line ending in 1, 331pp., . Nice introductions by Haining to each section, with 20 stories by classic pulp fiction authors, many known for the film-noir adapatations of their work. - CONTENTS: Torch Number, by James Ellroy - The Egyptian Lure, by Carroll John Daly - Arson Plus, by Dashiell Hammett - The Man Who Liked Dogs, by Raymond Chandler - Dead Man's Head, by Robert Leslie Bellem - The Singing Pigeon, by Ross Macdonald - The Hunting of Hemingway, by MacKinlay Kantor - Dead on Her Feet, by Cornell Woolrich - Nice Work, by Peter Cheyney - The Lady Says Die!, by Mickey Spillane - Accident Report, by Ed McBain - Freaky Deaky, by Elmore Leonard - Travelling Light, by W. R. Burnett - Pastorale, by James M. Cain - The Deadly Circle, by Samuel Fuller - Get a Load of This, by James Hadley Chase - It's a Wise Cadaver, by David Goodis - The Frightening Frammis, by Jim Thompson - The Fifth Quarter, by Stephen King - The Watch, by Quentin Tarantino. 9780760757246 ISBN 0760757240 13.50.

hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: very good dust-jacket, light wear, near fine black half-cloth. ZUCCOTTI, SUSAN. Under his very windows. The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, 408pp., . CONTENTS: The Vatican and Anti-Semitism -- The Vatican and Anti-Semitism in Italy -- Italian Anti-Jewish Laws During the Papacy of Pius XI -- Italian Anti-Jewish Laws During the Papacy of Pius XII -- Refugees and Emigration, 1939-1942 -- Foreign Jews in Italian Internment Camps, 1940-1943 -- What the Pope Knew About the Holocaust -- Italian-Occupied Croatia, April 1941-July 1943 -- Italy and Italian-Occupied France, November 1942-July 1943 -- The Forty-Five Days: The Vatican, Badoglio, and the Jews -- Under the Pope's Very Windows: The Rome Roundup, October 16, 1943 -- Hiding Before the Roundup, September 8-October 16, 1943 -- Hiding After the Roundup: Roman Convents, Monasteries, Catholic Hospitals and Schools, October 16-December 1943 -- Hiding After the Roundup: Vatican Properties, October 16-December 1943 -- Raids and Reconsideration, December 1943-June 1944 -- The Vatican and Rescue in the North: Genoa, Turin, and Milan -- The Vatican and Rescue in Central Italy: Florence and Assisi -- The Vatican, the Patriarch, and the Jews in Venice -- The Vatican, the Bishop, and the Jews in Trieste -- The Vatican and Jews Arrested in Italy, December 1943-May 1945. 9780300084870 ISBN 0300084870 27.80.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. DETAILS: small PAPERBACK, very good copy with some light wear to cover, old label residue on rear cover. LE CLÉZIO, J.-M. G. Mondo et autres histoires. Paris: Gallimard, 2012, 310pp., . 2008 Nobel Prize winner - CONTENTS: Mondo - Lullaby - La montagne du dieu vivant - La roue d'eau - Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer - Hazaran - Peuple du ciel - Les bergers. ISBN 9782070373659.

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Damm, Sigrid, 1940-. Christiane und Goethe: eine Recherche - DAMAGED COPY. Frankfurt am Main: Insel-Verlag, 2001, Erste Auflage, 531pp., PAPERBACK, worn used copy with large old moisture stain in large lower corner of last third of book, still quite usable reading copy. Insel-Taschenbuch, 2800. - quite adequate if you just want to read the book. 9783458345008 ISBN 3458345000.

Chatwin, Bruce, 1940-1989. The Viceroy of Ouidah. New York: Penguin Books, 1988, 155pp., PAPERBACK, original price $6.95, good worn used copy but covers are worn at spine and edges. ISBN 9780140112900.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 2010). 2010 1st first edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxii,211,ad. B/w photographs, sketch maps, brief bibliography, photograph end-papers. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Corner rather bumped but very good in very slightly spine-faded dust-wrapper. A very good introduction to wildfowling for duck. "Wildfowling is a sport for the dedicated: it takes place at dawn and dusk, often in the depths of winter; it is a largely solitary pursuit (a working dog is often the only companion) and it requires knowledge of each species (for identification purposes) often in poor light and bad weather. This is the first book for many years to focus exclusively on duck shooting and it will appeal to ornithologists, conservationists and those who shoot duck." Douglas Butler is a Tipperary farmer, zoologist and avid wildfowler who gives the reader the benefit of a lifetime's experience and study. Chapters include: About ducks; Residents, migrants, and the numbers game; Times past; Populations, hunting and mortality; Lead shot, non-toxic shot and crippling losses; Regulations; Walking ducks up; Flighting; Flighting at dawn; Flighting at dusk; Moonlight; Stubble time; Punt gunning; The future. .

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940. This side of paradise. Preface and notes by James L. West and Lynn Setzer. Scribner, 2003, , PAPERBACK, very good lightly used copy, one corner dinged. This classic novel, first published in 1920, tells the story of Amory Blaine's moral education and sexual awakening, brilliantly capturing the rhythms of postwar America and the spirit of a generation dedicated to the pursuit of excitement, sophistication. 9780684843780 ISBN 0684843781.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940. Bernice bobs her hair: and other stories. Mineola, N.Y: Dover Publications, 2015, 172pp., PAPERBACK, very good, light wear to corners. ISBN 9780486470498.

Buchan, Perdita, 1940-. Called Away. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980, stated First Edition, 315pp., good but worn black and red hardcover, heavy foxing on top foredge. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. 9780316114073 ISBN 0316114073.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2010). 2010 1st first edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxii,211,ad. B/w photographs, sketch maps, brief bibliography, photograph end-papers. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. A very good introduction to wildfowling for duck. "Wildfowling is a sport for the dedicated: it takes place at dawn and dusk, often in the depths of winter; it is a largely solitary pursuit (a working dog is often the only companion) and it requires knowledge of each species (for identification purposes) often in poor light and bad weather. This is the first book for many years to focus exclusively on duck shooting and it will appeal to ornithologists, conservationists and those who shoot duck." Douglas Butler is a Tipperary farmer, zoologist and avid wildfowler who gives the reader the benefit of a lifetime's experience and study. Chapters include: About ducks; Residents, migrants, and the numbers game; Times past; Populations, hunting and mortality; Lead shot, non-toxic shot and crippling losses; Regulations; Walking ducks up; Flighting; Flighting at dawn; Flighting at dusk; Moonlight; Stubble time; Punt gunning; The future. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 20.00.

Flynt, Wayne, 1940-. Mockingbird songs: My friendship with Harper Lee. HarperPerennial, 2018, 215pp., PAPERBACK, cover price $16.99, very good. A memoir of Wayne Flynt's friendship with Harper Lee, centered on a collection of letters between Harper Lee, her sisters, Wayne Flynt, and his wife. ISBN 9780062660091.

, Hirsch, Robin, 1940-. Last dance at the Hotel Kempinski. Creating a life in the shadow of history. Hanover : University Press of New England, 1995, later printing, x, 300pp., PAPERBACK, reading copy, top foredge soiled, book creaky when opened, otherwise good reading copy. 9780874517750 ISBN 0874517753.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, fresh attractive copy, near fine condition, with only a few small flecks of foxing on top foredge, appears unused. ROBINSON, PAUL A. Opera & ideas: from Mozart to Strauss. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1986, 4th paperback printing number line, 279pp., . CONTENTS: Enlightenment and reaction : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The marriage of Figaro and Gioacchino Rossini's The barber of Seville -- The self and nature : Franz Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise -- The idea of history : Hector Berlioz's The Trojans -- Realpolitik : Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo -- Art, psyche, and society : Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger and Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. 9780801494284 ISBN 0801494281.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $15.00, fresh attractive copy, near fine, probably unused. ZUCCOTTI, SUSAN. The Italians and the Holocaust: persecution, rescue, & survival. Introduction by Furio Colombo. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996, First Bison Books printing with number line ending in 1, xxviii, 334pp., . First published: New York : Basic Books, 1987 - "Eighty-five percent of Italy's Jews survived World War II. Nevertheless, more than six thousand Italian Jews were destroyed in the Holocaust and the lives of countless others were marked by terror: Susan Zuccotti relates hundreds of stories showing the resourcefulness of the Jews, the bravery of those who helped them, and the inhumanity and indifference of others.For Zuccotti, the Holocaust in Italy began when the first "black-shirted thug" poured a bottle of castor oil down the throat of his victim, or when the dignity of a single human being was violated. She writes: "We might examine again how most Italians behaved from the onset of fascism. Did they do as much as they could? Or should they, and the Jews as well, have recognized the danger sooner, with the first denial of liberty and free speech? We might also ask ourselves whether we, as creatures without prejudice, would act as well as most Italians did under similar pressures. Would we risk our lives for persecuted minorities? Would we be more sensitive to the first assaults upon our liberties, when the only ones really hurt in the beginning are Communists, Socialists, democratic anti-Fascists, and trade unionists? And finally, we might be more aware than we are of the horrors that a racist lunatic fringe can commit, even in the best of societies." - CONTENTS: 1. The Holocaust Comes to Italy -- 2. Italy's Jews -- 3. The Racial Laws -- 4. The War Years: June 1940-September 1943 -- 5. Italians and Jews Occupied Territories -- 6. Rome, 1943: October Roundup -- 7. Autumn 1943: The Nightmare Begins -- 8. Policy and Prisons -- 9. The Italian Phase -- 10. Survival in Italy -- 11. Switzerland -- 12. The Best of Their Generation: Italian Jews and Anti-fascism -- 13. Conclusion. 9780803299115 ISBN 0803299117.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. DETAILS: small PAPERBACK, fresh unused copy. LE CLÉZIO, J.-M. G. Le procès-verbal. Paris: Gallimard, 2008, 314pp., . Collection folio, 353. ISBN 9782070363537.