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Zustand: Good. Original gilt lettered blue cloth, dust jacket, profusely illustrated with (full page and double page) b/w photographs, foldable colour map in front, 4to.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Turtle Point Press, New York, 2004. Soft Cover A BRAND NEW BOOK UNUSED. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch.

Wraps (Paperback). Zustand: Mildly Edgeworn. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. ISBN:1885983166, Hardback, 1st edition, presentation copy, inscribed, dated in year of publication, and signed by author, Fine in a Very Good Plus to Fine Minus DJ; middle of front panel of DJ has 1/16" (tiny) closed tear/hole adjacent to spine, trace of light wear to DJ edges , 8vo., 600 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0. Signed by Author.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. "A masterpiece of women's frontier experience!" -KATHY SCHULZ, author of The Underground Railroad in Ohio"This is an amazingbook, and I couldn't stop reading it." -JOAN SILBER, PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Secrets of Happiness and Improvement"An awesome account of female survival at a horrific time." -BOOKLISTAmost unusual portrait of early America based on a rare family document, in which a young mother's years in captivity with the Shawnee prove to be the best years of her life.It's 1779 and a young white woman named Margaret Erskine is venturing west from Virginia, on horseback, with her baby daughter and the rest of her family. She has no experience of Indians, and has absorbed most of the prejudices of her time, but she is open-minded, hardy, and mentally strong, a trait common to most of her female descendants-Sallie Bingham's ancestors.Bingham had heard Margaret's story since she was a child but didn't see the fifteen pages Margaret had dictated to her nephew a generation after her captivity until they turned up in her mother's blue box after her death. Devoid of most details, this restrained account inspired Bingham to research and imagine and fill the gaps in her story and to consider the tough questions it raises. How did Margaret, our narrator, bear witnessing the murder of her infant? How did she survive her near death at the hands of the Shawnee after the murder of the chief? Whose father was her baby John's, born nine months after her taking? And why did her former friends in Union, Virginia, turn against her when, ransomed after four years, she reluctantly returned?This is the seldom told story of the making of this country in the years of the Revolution, what it cost in lives and suffering, and how one woman among many not only survived extreme hardship, but flourished. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. AN OPRAH DAILYBEST NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY"Delaney['s] splendidfictional biography of Cary Grant . . . perfectly befits the glamour and fakeryof his subject."-Publishers Weekly(starred review)"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant," mused the world's most famous leading man. Even Iwant to be Cary Grant."It's 1959, and the 55-year-old man who calls himself CaryGrant is at the peakof a charmed career. He's also on a turbulent journey tofind the core of a selfhe hardly seems to know anymore. Introduced to the wonderdrug LSD as part ofhis therapy at The Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hills,he embarks on upward ofone hundred psychedelic trips-at times harrowing journeys.And on the way, herediscovers the long-ago boy who faced the world as ArchieLeach, the earnest,gap-toothed stilt walker and tumbler he once was, long ago. In The Acrobattrajectories of discovery, The Acrobatthat biographies tread, to offer a new perspective on acomplex Hollywood legend. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. "Coles is a true original." Tom SleighThe Stranger I Become probes the permeable boundary between inner life and outer, thought and action, science and experience. Poet Katharine Coles begins her lyric essays with a meditation on "the urge to move beyond, to understand myself as a stranger, estranged." The essays travel, always on foot, from Coles's home with its kept and wild birds, into the canyon her home overlooks, itself populated with creatures ranging from voles to owls, moose, bobcats, and coyotes. From there, always looking, always walking, in the company of the words that move her, they traverse her neighborhood and distant places in this country and the world. All along, they consider the poetry that inhabits her: the winged creatures of Dickinson, Ashbery's "reflections," Keats's "irritable reaching," Anne Carson's ever-unreachable apples, and more. Taken together, they make up what Lance Olsen calls "a poetics of the vivid." Where does science meet poetry? Where does the street become the canyon in the window? Katharine Coles searches out the links between the poetry, people, and places she love, and her past. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The only available source for the exact words of Joan of Arc, compiled from the transcript of her trials and rearranged as an autobiography by Willard Trask. "A strange, welcome surprise which reads like Beckett or modernist play.".Stacey D'Erasmo Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. Ravens in Berlin . . . Parakeets in Brooklyn . . . Chickensin Tel Aviv . . . Spiders in Cognac. City creatures spark the imagination andintellect in words and art by this father-daughter team. Odd Birds & Fat Cats (An Urban Bestiary)is anillustrated collection of brief observations on city creatures. Inspiredbythe tradition of the medieval bestiary, bestiarum vocabulum,a12th-century bestselling genrethat chronicled animals and beings bothreal and fantastical, the book features pithy impressions of birds and animalsthat delight, confound, and edify, writtenby Peter Wortsman, coupledwithdetailed naturalist artwork by his daughter, AurelieBernard Wortsman.Featured creatures include:Pigeons:"When, finally, it takes flight . . . thisasphalt-colored bird is like a piece of the pavement which by some fluke ofgravity broke loose and is foolishly falling upward by mistake."Seagulls:"Fallen splinters of eternity, they hangoverhead with the equanimity and mild disdain of angels in a medievalaltarpiece, and unlike pigeons, refuse any direct contact with man."Ants:"Micro-managers in three-piece bodies,antsparody human antics to a tee. Or is it the other way around?"Dust mites:"Every time you scratch yourself or combyour hair, you are feeding the tiny intruders with the detritus of self."With four-color images throughout, printed in a beautifulhardboundedition, this one-of-a-kind volume will please the discerning animal lover,traveler, art lover, iconoclast, and literati on your gift list-and, of course,also you! Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Signed by the author on the title page, dated November 8, 2001.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A daring collaborative celebrity autobiography by two of America's finest poets, D.A. Powell and David Trinidad A daring collaborative celebrity autobiography by two of America's finest poets, D.A. Powell and David Trinidad Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

PB. Zustand: very good+, wraps (softcover). 103pp ISBN 1885983468 A book about a special kind of bliss, the bliss of invention, and collecting, and above all valuing the bits and pieces of popular detritus that constitute our lives.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Told as much through images as through words, a young Nepalese man's globe-spanning relationship with "the father of American surrealism" changes the course of his life and gives him a new set of roots.In 1973, poet, photographer, collage artist, and sculptorCharles Henri Ford convinced ayoung Nepalese waiter at his hotel in Kathmandu to come work as his all-purposehelper. Nineteen-year-old Indra Tamang, who spoke minimal English, was soonenjoying an education and a life he could not have imagined. He quicklygraduated from cooking and running errands to attending social engagements withCharles, to accompanying the artist on his international travels, eventuallybecoming his collaborator, and more of a son than an employee.Charles was a magnet for creative people, and during the '70s,'80s, and '90s, Indra found himself at the center of seemingly every fantasticlittle universe in New York, Paris, Crete, and Kathmandu, often as a quietobserver taking photographs and making mental notes. There was Studio 54, AndyWarhol's Factory, the teas that Charles would host at the Dakota, attended byregulars such as Tennessee Williams, Quentin Crisp, Patti Smith, and HenryGeldzahler; there were special dinners at the United Nations; visits to MaryMcCarthy and Leonor Fini; and chats in the elevator with neighbors like Johnand Yoko and Lauren Bacall. Charles gave Indra a second upbringing, one thatIndra absorbed with tremendous curiosity and enthusiasm. In turn, Indra broughtCharles into his family's village in Nepal, introducing him to a world that notmany Westerners were privileged to see, especially then. Indra managed to shuttlebetween these two vastly different worlds, marrying and having children inNepal, though not revealing this to Charles for quite some years.In 2010, Indra Tamang became the object of globalfascination after inheriting two apartments from Charles's sister, the actressRuth Ford. The story in the Wall Street Journal described a Nepalese "butler"who "grew up in a mud hut" and ended up owning property in one of New York'smost famous buildings. The attention that followed inspired Indra to write thisricher and more accurate account of his life. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs and ephemera from the private collections of Charles and Indra,some never before shown, andgathered together for the first time,readers will discover that nothing about Indra's "curious years" with Charlesand his friends was ordinary or predictable in anyway. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Born to great riches, lord of vast feudal estates and many palaces, Felix Youssoupoff led the life of a Grand Lord in the days before the Russian Revolution. Married to a niece of Czar Nicholas II, he could observe at close range the rampant corruption and intrigues of the imperial court, which culminated in the rise to power of the sinister monk Rasputin. Finally, impelled by patriotism and his love for the Romanoff dynasty, which he felt was in danger of destroying itself and Russia, he killed Rasputin in 1916 with the help of the Grand Duke Dimitri and others. More than any other single event, this deed helped to bring about the cataclysmic upheaval which ended in the advent of the Soviet regime. Here is an unforgettable true story of intrigue, murder, and revenge. The autobiography of the man who killed Rasputin. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Majestic, playful, brainy, heart-wrenching, Katharine Coles's tenth collection of poems at once celebrates and elegizes: her teachers and parents-both dead at ninety-who still issue advice (some good, some not) from beyond the grave; the creatures who pass through her canyon quarter-acre; the moon as it rises and sets; even her Levi's shrink-to-fits, when she realizes she'll never wear out another pair. The poems "guide us with their empathy, sometimes yoked with a wry irony, around the physics of interactions." [John Kinsella]More than anything, this is a book about presence: haunted by the past yet firmly rooted in the also-haunting now, Coles keeps spinning, finding herself in words, in her body, in time. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. "[Delaney] cares about details and understands their importance to the larger themes of loss, desperation, and betrayed loyalties. His characters are . . . fully realized, familiar people, whose failures are heartbreakingly authentic." -The Boston GlobeA Bureau of Indian Affairs agent in a remote Wyoming reservation reckons with the clash of cultures, his own failings, and the attempted destruction of a people.Five teenagers take a joyride through the barren landscape of Wyoming's small Towuk Indian Reservation. Only four survive.It's 1958, and the horrific accident cracks open a heart of darkness tainted by years of betrayal and anger. Danny Hubbard, a Korean War vet and troubled agent from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, races to find the driver before the sheriff of nearby Suncreek can use the accident to bring a century-old tension to a violent head.The nomadic Towuk once lived on horseback and without property lines. That changed forcibly in the 1870s, as recorded in a series of dusty reports over which Hubbard pores. Now petroleum found on the reservation has brought in just enough money to change the Towuks' lives a little, but with the windfall comes dangerous resentment from the white residents of Suncreek. As the margin between reservation and town grows more rigid by the day, Hubbard witnesses both the last vestiges of the Towuk's way of life and the tribe's likely future.Book II looks back almost a century to Agent Dorrance, author of the reports in Hubbard's office. A protege of Horace Greeley and his Utopianism, Dorrance tries to persuade, then to force, the roaming tribe to give up their horses and settle down to farming-saving their lives at the expense of their culture.Morally complex and as relevant to today's issues of freedom and land occupation as ever, Hard Margins is about captive people and their desire to escape their fates, and the captors who desire equally to escape theirs. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Solitude, despair, fear of death and what alleviates it all: friendships that come of shared interests and the consolations of art. Dual language edition of mysterious last works greatest Italian poet of 20th century Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Continues Glancy's signature poetic investigation of suffering, identity, and Indigenous history, as in her 2020 work, Island of the Innocent: A Consideration of the Book of Job, and her 1998 novel, Pushing the Bear.Glancy's status as a mentor and teacher of generations of native writers working today.This is a story of Arctic exploration, of bravery, strength, will, and danger, told from the point of view of a woman and a mother.Published upon the 100th anniversary of the expedition.It is the story of an Indigenous Inuit woman.A meditation on history, memory, writing, and the archive, which includes a creative use of historical materials, including passages and facsimile pages from the real diary.Cover artwork by Anne Kingsbury, who cofounded and directs the Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. "As adept working with the sonnet and sestina as with loose-fitting lines, Howard produces poems of great immediacy that stir with emotional depth. . . . [His] vision of our post-9/11 culture is offbeat, yet 'wisdomtight.'"-David Trinidad Eric Howard's debut poetry collection reveals the secrets that bind office work to war, Gidget to the damned, the Bible to popular song, mythology to fact, and Los Angeles to Ovid. On a bicycle ride through heavy traffic, it versifies the last days of a failed pimp, gives a tarot reading to warplanes, and deciphers the hieroglyphics of lost empire.Eric Howard is an LA-based poet and editor. His work has appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review, Caveat Lector, Conduit, Gulf Stream Magazine, Hawaii Pacific Review, Plainsong, The Sun, and in the anthology Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond. Taliban Beach Party dances with the muse of history on the streets of Los Angeles, leaping from parody to prophecy. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

First edition. Softcover. A paperback original. A collection of poetry. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers. Signed and inscribed by Trinidad on the title page in 2006.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Selection"Grace Schulman makes me want to live to be four hundred years old, because she makes me feel there is so much out there, and it's unbearable to miss any of it."-Wallace ShawnGrace Schulman is an award-winning poet and the author of seven collections of poems. She has had long posts as Poetry Editor of the Nation magazine, Director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y, and Distinguished Professor at CUNY's Baruch College, where she still teaches. But her love for her scientist husband and her care for him through his long illness proved to be among her greatest inspirations. It called forth her deepest grief at his loss.How did Schulman maintain the independence, solitude, and freedom she required within the bounds of marriage? And what made her marriage endure through a decade of living apart? "In my experience, the phrase 'happy marriage' is a term of opposites, like 'friendly fire' or 'famous poet.' My marriage has been a feast of contradiction . . . " Strange Paradise looks at this, Schulman's remarkable career, her friendships with great writers, her work as an historic impresario at the Y, her religious and philosophical leanings, and her grand love affair with New York-all in her magical prose. The acclaimed poet mines the mystery of marriage. A stunningly brave memoir of profound love, pain, and loss. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. "Easily ranks among the best fiction I've read this year." -David Abrams"If you've come to look for America, it's here in The Big Impossible. Taut, urgent, emotionally powerful stories about the families, workers, and dreamers who are our neighbors, and Delaney's range and sense of history make him the perfect writer to illuminate their lives." -Christopher Castellani, author of Leading MenThe short fiction in Ted Delaney's new collection explores guilt and redemption, aspiration and failure, and the stubbornness of modest hopes. The usual mileposts are fading, and choice is in the context of institutions and assumptions that are no longer holding steady.In "Clean," a man waits for inevitable justice to come, as much as it will play against him. In "House of Sully," a working-class family navigates the tumultuous year that 1968 was, as new perceptions shake long-held and dependable, if sometimes misguided, beliefs. Other stories examine the inner life of a school shooter, the comical posturing of writers at a literary party, a British veteran of The Great War living at a Florida retirement home but haunted by his losses, and a man's bittersweet visits to past lives via Google Street View. In the sequence set in the West, an itinerant worker moves across the Great Plains, navigating stark landscapes, trying for foothold.The Atlantic's C. Michael Curtis praised Ted Delaney's debut collection for its "moral intensity . . . in the tradition of writers as varied as Ethan Canin and William Trevor." Two decades later Delaney returns to the short fiction form with utter mastery. In prairie towns and backwaters, and in the big cities, people search for themselves and their lost way. Is the American dream still possible in this big, harsh land? Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Essay by Ellen Handy. Black and white photographs throughout. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The year is 2024. Climate change has altered the world's wave patterns. Drones crisscross the sky, cars drive themselves, and surfing is a new Olympic sport. Mafuri Long, UCSD marine biology grad, champion surfer, and only female to dominate a record eighty-foot wave, still has something to prove. Having achieved Internet fame, along with sponsorship from Google and Nike, she's intent on winning Olympic gold. But when her father, a clinically depressed former Navy captain and widower, learns that his beloved supercarrier, the USS Hillary Rodham Clinton, is to be sunk, he draws Mafuri into a powerful undertow. Conflicts compound as Mafuri's personal life comes undone via social media, and a vicious Aussie competitor levels bogus doping charges against her. Mafuri forms an unlikely friendship with an awkward teen, a Ferrari-driving professional gamer who will prove to be her support and ballast. Authentic, brutal, and at times funny, Mafuri lays it all out in a sprightly, hot-wired voice. From San Diego to Sydney, Key West, and Manila, That Crazy Perfect Someday goes beyond the sports/surf cliche to explore the depths of sorrow and hope, yearning and family bonds, and the bootstrap power of a bold young woman climbing back into the light.Michael Mazza is a San Francisco-area fiction writer whose stories have appeared in Other Voices, WORDS, Blue Mesa Review, TINGE, and ZYZZYVA. He is also an internationally acclaimed art and creative director working in the advertising industry. That Crazy Perfect Someday is his first novel. A gutsy female surf pro pushes against wild odds for what she wants-with deep surprises about who she is. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. "Aquiver of eclogues, couplets, Zen epigrams, and you-name-it literary mischief. The fun is all ours."Foreword Reviews"Mott's whiplash insights are as provocative as coiled springs." -Douglas Crase"Mott's lyrical antics embody poetry at its most earnest and parodic, a deadly potion stolen from the fountain of imagination." -Yunte HuangGlenn Mott's Eclogues recast a classic pastoral form, making it uniquely suited to our times. He considers the inheritance of authority with a mixture of candor and humor in observations on social, natural, and metaphysical transactions. Inspired by China's Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden, these epigrams, poems, and prose meditations achieve a heightened perception, transcending the garden variety truths of both East and West. Transcendent, paradoxical, exuberant with contrariety, Glenn Mott's epigrams mix the sacred with the profane, humor with compassion, recasting pastoral verse for twenty-first century readers. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. In print for 16.95. Review copy.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A candid look at an extraordinary life of privilegeAn inside look at the family life of one of America's greatest business leadersOne woman's struggle for happiness and the techniques she found to help herNearly 80 illustrations: photos, private letters, and memorabilia, most of which have never before been published. by Lynne Tillman (Harcourt, 1999) can learn the "before" and "after" in this book. Jeannette many former colleagues from the bookselling community are sure to support the book. The favored granddaughter of IBM's Thomas J. Watson reveals a life of glamour, depressive battles, and hard-won joy and peace. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket New book large octavo 143pp., b/w pls., large folding map, Photographs of daily life in the tiny principality in the Pyrenees between 1930 & 1970.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This fullyupdated edition of James Schuyler's letters to three dozen intimates, publishedon the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth, offers unparalleled insightsinto the lives, friendships, and sensibilities that sprang from the influentialNew York School. JamesSchuyler's effervescent takes on people, nature, art, writing, and love are onjoyous display in his letters to John Ashbery, Ron Padgett, Barbara Guest, AlexKatz, Joe Brainard, Kenneth Koch, and many more. They paint an indeliblepicture of a charmingly self-deprecating gentleman with an expansive intellectand a deliciously wicked tongue. "Jimmy wrote letters for the most civilized ofreasons," a friend of his once said, "to inform and to entertain."And thatthey do, in inimitable style. Peppering his apercus with the occasional "toutde sweetie" and "pet noire," the PulitzerPrize-winning author ofThe Morning of thePoem. While histone ranges from the lightly graceful to the racily profane, each letter isexquisitely tuned to its recipient. Schuyler's voice changes over the years andthrough periods of elation and struggle, including stays with friends and inpsychiatric wards. Reading these letters, one becomes intimately connected tothe man and to his words, which have only grown more savory and valuable withtime. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. "Follow the Sun is just plain fantastic. Edward J. Delaney has orchestrated a tight, tense page-turner andPaul Harding"In this pungent, gritty novel, hardscrabble lives are rendered with utter realism, terrific dialogue, and a slow-burning tenderness for all concerned. Delaney's knowledge of this milieu is never in doubt, and his control of the material is masterful." -Phillip Lopate Quinn Boyle is a lobsterman afloat in a shambled vessel, haunted by his battles with lobsters and with heroin, and ever behind on his child support. Since Quinn lost a man off his boat and served time for possession, only nave beginners will work with him. On his final lobster run, Quinn's down to his last options. He hires on an old nemesis, Freddy Santoro, who's facing prison time of his own. Three days later, they're both gone, lost without a trace.Robbie Boyle, a small-time local sportswriter, looked after his younger brother as best he could. Now that Quinn has disappeared, Robbie reaches out to Quinn's estranged daughter, Christine, and assumes the fatherly role his brother never shouldered. A year later, as they admit they might be better off without Quinn's complicated presence in their lives, Robbie gets a strange tip: Santoro is apparently living in the Pacific Northwest. Telling no one and risking everything, Robbie sets out to find Santoro and determine what happened to Quinn. What he discovers will remap the course of their lives.Edward J. Delaney is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and author of three previous works of fiction. He has received the PEN/New England Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His short fiction has appeared in the Atlantic and Best American Short Stories, in anthologies, and on PRI's Selected Shorts program. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Delaney lives and teaches in Rhode Island. Robbie Boyle's always looked after his brother, Quinn. Will he uncover the real reasons Quinn was lost at sea? Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.