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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ 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.

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.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Book has general wear from handling. Pages are tanned.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ 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. …

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss at the forced labor camp of Pechorlag in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle. Only twenty-two years old, he had but a vague idea of the true nature of the Gulag. What he discovered was a world of unimaginable suffering and death, a world where men were starved, beaten, worked to death, or simply executed. Mochulsky details the horrific conditions in the camps and the challenges facing all those involved, from prisoners to guards. He depicts the power struggles within the camps between the secret police and the communist party, between the political prisoners (most of whom had been arrested for the generic crime of "counter-revolutionary activities") and the criminal convicts. And because Mochulsky writes of what he witnessed with the detachment of the engineer that he was, readers can easily understand how a system that destroyed millions of lives could be run by ordinary Soviet citizens who believed they were advancing the cause of socialism. Mochulsky remained a communist party member his entire life-he would later become a diplomat-but was deeply troubled by the gap between socialist theory and the Soviet reality of slave labor and mass murder. This unprecedented memoir takes readers into that reality and sheds new light on one of the most harrowing tragedies of the 20th century.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss at the forced labor camp of Pechorlag in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle. Only twenty-two years old, he had but a vague idea of the true nature of the Gulag. What he discovered was a world of unimaginable suffering and death, a world where men were starved, beaten, worked to death, or simply executed. Mochulsky details the horrific conditions in the camps and the challenges facing all those involved, from prisoners to guards. He depicts the power struggles within the camps between the secret police and the communist party, between the political prisoners (most of whom had been arrested for the generic crime of "counter-revolutionary activities") and the criminal convicts. And because Mochulsky writes of what he witnessed with the detachment of the engineer that he was, readers can easily understand how a system that destroyed millions of lives could be run by ordinary Soviet citizens who believed they were advancing the cause of socialism. Mochulsky remained a communist party member his entire life-he would later become a diplomat-but was deeply troubled by the gap between socialist theory and the Soviet reality of slave labor and mass murder. This unprecedented memoir takes readers into that reality and sheds new light on one of the most harrowing tragedies of the 20th century.…

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: Very Good. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, some light pencil underlining or marks in margins on about 6 pages, not bad, book looks otherwise very good. HOLLIS, JAMES. Hauntings: dispelling the ghosts who run our lives. Asheville, North Carolina: Chiron Publications, 2013, xix, 154pp., . Hollis considers how we are all governed by the presence of invisible forms spirits, ghosts, ancestral and parental influences, inner voices, dreams, impulses, untold stories, complexes, synchronicities, and mysteries which move through us, and through history. He examines the persistence of the past in influencing our present, conscious lives and noting that engagement with mystery is what life asks of each of us. - CONTENTS: The haunting of untold stories -- On synchronicity and quantum physics -- The ghosts of our parents -- Hauntings as complexes -- Our danse macabre: relational ghosts, relational hauntings -- Guilt ghosts, shame ghosts -- Ghosts, and things that go bump in the night -- Betrayal's lingering ghosts -- The sailor cannot see the north: the haunted soul of modernism -- Dispelling ghosts by "going through" -- The haunting of the unlived life. ISBN 9781888602623. …

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

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.…

Paperback. Zustand: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Damaged cover. The cover of is slightly damaged for instance a torn or bent corner.…

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, attractive copy, near fine with mild fold mark on rear outer corner; Lightning Source printing colophon on last page. TAMMSAARE, ANTON HANSEN. The misadventures of the new Satan. Translated from the Estonian by Olga Shartze and Christopher Moseley. London, United Kingdom: Norvik Press, 2018, 255pp., . Norvik Press Series B, no. 43. ISBN 9781909408432. …

hardcover. Zustand: Good. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: good dust-jacket, worn and scuffed, front endpaper has been neatly cut out, and some very light pencil erasures, otherwise still very good light purple cloth for reading and study. MARTIN, PETER. Pursuing innocent pleasures: the gardening world of Alexander Pope. Hamden, Conn: Archon Books, 1984, xxiv, 309pp., . CONTENTS: Introduction -- A Master Key to Popery in Gardens -- Chiswick and Twickenham: The Beginnings Along the Thames -- The Great Patriarch: Lord Bathurst and His Parks -- Sherborne Castle: A "Situation of so uncommon a kind" -- Bolingbroke: The Tory Farmer at Dawley Farm -- Pope, Mrs. Howard, and Friends at Marble Hall -- Lord Peterborough's "little Amoret" at Bevis Mount -- The Closing Scenes at Bath: Mr. Allen's Prior Park -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 9780208020116 ISBN 020802011X.…

hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 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. …

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. .…

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.

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

hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

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.…