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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. First edition & printing in this form. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $17.95, very good gently used copy, with previous owner's notation in ink on rear endpaper. LAID IN: a bookmark with reader's notes on it. LEBEDEV, SERGEI. The Goose Fritz. Translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis. New York: New Vessel Press, 2019, 319pp., . A man obsessively investigates the mysteries of his family's past in this "brave and unflinching" novel by the acclaimed Russian author of Oblivion (The Financial Times). Sergei Lebedev's first two novels, The Year of the Comet and Oblivion, established him as one of Russia's most important contemporary novelists. Now he reaffirms that status with this third work of fiction. The Goose Fritz tells the story of a young Russian named Kirill, the sole survivor of a once numerous clan of German origin, who delves relentlessly into the unresolved past. When Krill's ancestor, Balthasar Schwerdt, migrated to the Russian Empire in the early 1800s, he brought with him the practice of alternative medicine. He was then taken captive by an erratic nobleman who supplied entertainment to Catherine the Great in the form of dwarves, hunchbacks, and magicians. S earches archives and cemeteries across Europe, Kirill's investigation takes us through centuries of turmoil during which none of Schwert's descendants can escape their adoptive country's cruel fate. Illuminating both personal and political history, "Lebedev muses in Tolstoyan fashion about [how] the actions of distant ancestors can fix the destinies of people hundreds of years later" (The Wall Street Journal). ISBN 9781939931641.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $15.95, very good with light wear: note that this book has a very tight glued binding made to read not to save in pristine condition. YOKOMIZO, SEISHI. The devil's flute murders. London: Pushkin Vertigo, 2023, later printing number line ending in 2, 348pp., . Series: Detective Kindaichi Mysteries ; bk. 4 In 1947, Kindaichi is consulted by 20-something Mineko Tsubaki. Her father, Hidesuke, a flautist and composer, disappeared the previous spring, and his corpse was found six weeks later. The official verdict was that Hidesuke poisoned himself, but Mineko and her mother, who believe the corpse was misidentified, suspect he may still be alive. Kindaichi agrees to attend a divination session intended to summon the musician's spirit and confirm his demise, during which another member of the Tsubaki household is murdered. Now saddled with two cases, Kindaichi must suss out Tsubaki family secrets to prevent even more carnage. ISBN 9781782278849.

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

hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: very good dust-jacket, cover price $23.95, attractive copy, near fine hardcover with illustrated and printed covers. PATTEN, LEWIS B. Ride the red trail: a Western trio. Waterville, Maine: Five Star, 2001, 1st. Edition, 214pp., . Series: Five Star first edition western series Three stories of Western justice, including the title story in which Lew Harvey returns home to help his parents save their ranch, but his father still has not forgiven him for a past shooting incident - Summer kill - Ride the red trail - Rustler's run. 9780786227648 ISBN 0786227648 14.00.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $18.00, attractive copy, near fine with only slightest ding to one corner. THURMAN, HOWARD. Howard Thurman: essential writings. Selected with an Introduction by Luther E. Smith, Jr. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2006, later digital reprint printed August 2022, 174pp., . Series: Modern spiritual masters series CONTENTS: Introduction: the call to prophetic spirituality -- Religious experience : encountering God -- Deep calls unto deep -- Spiritual disciplines -- The exemplary Jesus -- The church's challenge -- Reason for hope -- The hunger for community -- The nature of nature -- Community as crucible -- The hounds of hell -- Race as crisis -- Jesus and the love-ethic -- Nonviolence and reconciling community -- The authentic self -- Centered in God -- The meaning of self -- Living as a free person -- At home in community -- Near journey's end -- Renewal of the self. ISBN 9781570756702.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $22.95, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. PLA, JOSEP. The Gray Notebook. Translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush ; introduction by Valentí Puig. New York: New York Review Books, 2013, 2d printing number line, xii, 638pp., . New York Review Books classics - The first part of the book, which begins on March 8, 1918, is a story of family life on the Costa Brava and the coming-of-age story of a young man torn between an old-fashioned ideal of a life of quiet dedication to work and family and the intellectual seductions of European culture. Pla's enthusiasms and uncertainties, friendships and crushes, his reading, the drama and politics and absurdity of family life-we are drawn into all these as we also follow Pla in his wanderings through town, scrutinizing his fellow citizens, or out under the magnificent skies of the still-unspoiled countryside of the coast. In January 1919, Pla returns to Barcelona to complete his studies, and the book's second part paints a hilariously revealing picture of student life. He learns next to nothing from his teachers, a good deal more from the writers and artists he meets in cafés and salons, and most of all from Barcelona itself, with its night life and ramblas, the city of Gaudi and Modernisme, where just outside the city limits the seemingly timeless life of the country still went on as before. ISBN 9781590176719 23.20.

Hardcover. HARDCOVER; no dustjacket; owner's bookplate; minor shelfwear; o/w in very good condition.

Soft cover. Reprint; softcovers; minor shelfwear w/ light creasing of corners of wraps and leaves; o/w in good condition.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article; no covers; light creasing of pages; tears at staples of last leaf; o/w good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, no covers; owner's catalog number; o/w in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

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

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

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, no covers; owner's catalog number; o/w in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; Softcovers; ex-corporate library; in very good condition.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; Softcovers; ex-corporate library; in very good condition.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; Softcovers; ex-corporate library; very good condition.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, no covers; in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; Softcovers; ex-corporate library; very good condition.

, Wilson, Richard, 1905-1981, ed. The President's trip to China; a pictorial record of the historic journey to the People's Republic of China with text by members of the American Press Corps. New York, Bantam Books 1972, 159pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, illustrated with color photos throughout. A Bantam extra.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; Softcovers; ex-corporate library; in very good condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Kohut, Heinz, 1913-1981. Die Heilung des Selbst. Übersetzt vom Elke vom Scheidt. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1981, 350pp., small PAPERBACK, good used copy but with some ink underlining or check marks in margins on about 5 pages. 9783518079737 ISBN 3518079735.

Paperback. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. 1st Edition. Very Good: corners rubbed, solid straight and unmarked, contents fine. Ships in cardboard & wrapping. Trade paperback, 80 pp.

Soft Cover. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; Softcovers; ex-library; lightly soiled wraps; o/w in good condition.

, Lotz, Wolfgang, 1912-1981. Studies in Italian Renaissance architecture. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1977, 1983, second printing, xxiv, 220pp., PAPERBACK, good copy lightly scuffed around edges. CONTENTS: The rendering of the interior in architectural drawings of the Renaissance -- Notes on the centralized church of the Renaissance -- Sixteenth-century Italian squares -- The Piazza Ducale in Vigevano: a princely forum of the late fifteenth century -- The Roman legacy in Sansovino's Venetian buildings -- Italian architecture in the later sixteenth century -- Three essay on Palladio: Observations on Palladio's drawings ; Reflections on Palladio as town planner ; The rotonda: a secular building with a dome. 9780262620369 ISBN 0262620367.

hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: near fine dust-jacket, cover price $3.50, attractive copy, near fine yellow cloth. LAWRENCE, ROBERT. The world of opera. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1956, no additional printings noted on copyright page, , . "Here is a sprightly guide to the whole world of opera: the repertoire, singers and conductors; the managers, audiences and critics; the opera houses here and the changing scene abroad--all of this splendid, glamorous world is here in The World of Opera. Robert Lawrence, well-known as a conductor, writer and critics, begins his tour of this world with a discussion of the old, old question: 'In opera which comes first, the words or the music?' His answer--and he is most convincing--is that singing comes first. The world of opera is filled with marvelous music and libretti, and there will be more to come; but only the human voice, perfectly trained, can bring these works to fulfillment and make them live for us. Having taken this stand, his estimates of the greatest singers of the immediate past are of especial interest, and he has provided a gallery of appreciations of singers who have particularly impressed and interested him. His remarks on the talent and art of Rosa Ponselle, Lucrezia Bori, and Grace Moore, of Beniamino Gigli, Giovanni Martinelli, and Ezio Pinza--and scores of others--should stir up hours of heated discussion among opera lovers throughout the country. Himself a conductor, Lawrence knows much about the temperament of conductors, their training, and the differences in interest and merit between their concert and opera performances; and his chapter on them, with sketches of Sir Thomas Beecham, Bodanzky, Reiner, Serafin, Stokowski, Bruno Walter, and Toscanini, is vivid and revealing. The complicated problems of management are sympathetically discussed and a great deal of light is thrown on the backstage sub-world of the opera. For audiences, Lawrence has both good and bad words. He even finds some good in the modern claque! Winding up with a discussion of the professional versus the amateur musician and of the future of opera in this country and throughout the world, Lawrence leaves us with a new and deeper understanding of all phases of one of the most popular arts of today." - CONTENTS: Part one. The essence of opera: its basic material -- The repertoire: operas before the public and works that stand on the shelf -- The traditions: unwritten rules of performance, and how they work -- The departures: radio, phonograph and television -- Part two. The singers: their preparation, responsibilities, and foibles. Some outstanding performers of the past twenty-five years -- A prima donna writes her memoirs -- The conductors: their background, duties, working relationship with singers -- The producers: stage directors, scenic designers, choreographers, with a glance at current trends -- Part three. The management: the impresario, his powers and problems, the workings of his general staff -- The audience: a study of operatic listeners, from boxes to standing room -- The press: a round for the critics -- Part four. Toward a national opera: the rise of university workshops and local companies -- The international scene: a brief sketch of foreign activities in opera -- The finale: theories, crises, explosions.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: very good dust-jacket with only light wear to front flap and top edge, cover price $18.95, very good dark blue half-cloth with white boards, minor ink blob in margin of pages 104-105 appears to be a production error not a reader mark. SHABTAI, YAAKOV. Past perfect. Translated by Dalya Bilu ; with an afterword by Edna Shabtai. New York: Viking, 1987, "First Published in 1987 by Viking Penguin", 291pp., . Originally in Hebrew, 1984. 9780670813087 ISBN 0670813087.