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321 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with silver lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Romance is the name of a new play opening uptown--a play about an actress who gets stabbed. But when the lead actress really does get knifed, the spotlight turns to the guys from the 87th. It's up to Detective Bert Kling, involved in a budding romance of his own, to get to the bottom of it all. Condition: Some of the corners dogeared, head corners gently bumped else very good in a fine jacket.

xvi+153 pages with double page pictorial title, photographs, maps, site plans, charts, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial to cover in original pictorial jacket. Photographs by Lee Boltin. First edition. Gorenstein has written an orderly factual account of Mexico s entire prehistory, with occasional forays into other places like Copan and Tikal. However, Gorenstein took the delicate gossamer iridescent hummingbird wings of Mesoamerican history and cast them in drab concrete. The book is most distinguished for a pedestrian style, such as: Ceramic vessels of many forms were produced to serve different purposes Condition: Previous owner's name on front end paper else very good in like jacket.

Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology. Pages clean except for previous owner's initials at upper right of first page. Binding tight. Moderate shelf wear to cover.

306 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with gilt red lettering to spine over red boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Debut thriller about a serial killer on Santa Barbara's Laredo Beach. Jones's is a stylelessly routine crime novel featuring a pleasant if not very snappy hero. Female bodies are turning up on Laredo Beach and Detective Eustes Tully (a nameplay--for no clear reason--on The New Yorker's emblematic Eustace Tilly) discovers that the victims have had their vaginas savaged by a policeman's nightstick studded with nails. The victims also were divorced or separated mothers and are clothed in Fifties swimgear and have been given dark glasses. With these clues to go on, Tully--who is unmarried, going to fat, and something of a neuter--hopes to crack the case and get a promotion. He's known for his brilliant ``lateral thinking,'' but as the case heats up, Tully is yanked from Homicide, temporarily reassigned to Narcotics, and his… Read More

475 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine over blue boards in original jacket. First edition. It's been 11 years since seven-year-old Melissa Dickinson found help in therapy with Alex Delaware. Now the young heiress desperately calls for help once more. Only this time it looks like her deepest childhood nightmare is coming true. Condition: Light shelf wear else a near fine copy in like jacket.

39 pp. Overall condition quite good with the exception of lots of underlining and marginal notes. [Will discount shipping due to small size.]

xv+588 pages with photographs, film clips, drawings, illustrations and bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 7 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. This immense text of double-column pages is nothingness than an attempt to encompass the whole of film history, including documentary, animation and experimental work. Inevitably, the effect is somewhat overwhelming, but capsule filmographies, detailed indexes and copious illustrations help organize the approach accessible to students with various kinds of interests. While most of the book is occupied with summarizing important films, it also includes a fascinating and original account of primordial film form-pre-Griffith evolution of film syntax. Condition: Lightly soiled, light wear to hinges, corners bumped else very good.

xxvi+386 pages with bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with silver lettering to spine over red boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. In this fresh and provocative approach to the reading of autobiography, Herbert Leibowitz explores the self-portraits of eight Americans whose lives span almost two centuries and encompass a stunning range of personality and circumstances: Benjamin Franklin, Louis Sullivan, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, and Edward Dahlberg. In pursuit of clues to both the human essence and the literary artifice of each, he examines their styles (Franklin s plain talk and possum s wit, Sullivan s gilded abstractions, Stein s gossipy ventriloquism, Williams s grumpy clowning and foxy innocence), their metaphors, and their choices of incident, looking beyond their visions of themselves to their true identities. Condition: Near fine in like jacket.

vi+66 pages with map, illustrations and drawings. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. First edition. The aim of this publication is to provide those interested with a few facts about the more commonly seen mammals of Yellowstone. It provides the locations where certain species are most apt to be seen, and the illustrations and descriptions of the various species are intended to aid in the identification of animals.Condition: Wrappers stained, edge wear, corners bumped, rubbed and creased, soiled else good.

227 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black paper with red gilt to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Beck takes a break from her overgalvanized Jane da Silva series (Cold Smoked, 1995, etc.) for a plunge into the even more frenetic world of KLEG-AM, Seattle's dying also-ran classical radio station. New advertising account executive Alice Jordan, who's cadged the job from Caroline Payne Parker, the station's much-married co-owner and nominal manager, arrives on the scene to discover that the program director is a militant vinyl Luddite, the receptionist a megalomaniac, the evening announcer a has-been romeo, the overnight announcer (``Teresa, Queen of the Night'') an audiotaped misterioso nobody's ever laid eyes on, and the other owner, Caroline's brother Franklin, a resentful hothead who's ready to sell the whole kit and caboodle to the first psycho who comes up with half a million dollars. About the only person around with any business sense is ad sales… Read More

368 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Advance Reading Copy. A literary chameleon, Stephen (60,000) 1st printing of hard back edition. is as well known for his poetry as he his for his taut and chilling mysteries. The two disciplines collide in The Church of Dead Girls, a lyrical novel that inspired Stephen King to comment, "If ever there was a tale for a moonless night, a high wind and a creaking floor. Aurelius is a drowsy bedroom community in upstate New York that is rocked by a vicious, seemingly random killing. A woman is found murdered in her bed, her left hand missing. Just when the grisly details begin to fade, a young girl vanishes. The only clue: a bag with the girl's washed and folded clothes and a mannequin's left hand. Soon two more girls disappear, and when clues remain elusive, conjecture and rumour take over. The town awakens to a nightmare of suspicion and vigilantism. As the killer spirals in to kill again, the town spins out of control, and… Read More

93 pages with photographs and bibliography. Square Royal octavo (9" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. Having spent three of the last thirteen years doing anthropological research among Zinacantecos, the knows that these and similiar things provide the for for daily life. The photographs depict that life. Condition: Corners bumped, wrappers lightly soiled, light edge wear, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.

vii+511 pages with maps, tables, charts, photographs, tables, plates, drawings, figures, bibliography and index. Small quarto (10 1/4" x 7") bound in original publisher half toned browns with dark brown lettering to cover and spine. Second edition. This work has been written for teacher, laymen and students for an organized framework upon which the individual interested in Southwestern archaeology many build. Condition: Some underlining of text, University of Arizona book store stamp with price on front end paper. Previous owner's name on half title, lightly soiled else a good to very good lacking dust jacket.

275 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. A Chicago police detective, perilously close to breakdown himself, must track down a crazed newspaper reporter who's taken to executing Mafiosi without a warrant. Police Lieutenant James Dela doesn't get much rest. A compulsive worker who sticks his nose into everything, Dela is also a compulsive walker who pounds out the miles on Chicago sidewalks, patrolling the city instead of sleeping. But Dela's just a harmless neurotic compared to fellow Chicagoan Vince Benedetto. When Benedetto was a lad, his pre-vatican II grandma, a religious maniac whose likes we are unlikely to see again, used to lock him in closets until he would confess to his basic corruption. As a result, he's rather badly scarred. Unable to be a normal husband, let alone a modern helpmate to his long-suffering wife, unsuitable as a father to his devoted son, unable to break out of… Read More

xxii+218 pages with frontispiece, plates, chart and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Translated by Bruce Benderson. First edition. An unexpectedly engrossing portrait of Fernand Lamaze and the road he took to make universal his method of painless childbirth, fashioned in novelistic style by his granddaughter Gutmann. Working from interviews, family documents, letters, diaries, and notebooks, Gutmann has drawn an intriguing picture of Lamaze, starting with his move from Nancy to Paris as a young medical student and following him through the absinthe-and-brothel nights that preceded his years in the army, his service in WWII, and his return to Paris and subsequent marriage to Louise. Penury forced Lamaze to abandon the study of neurology and take up obstetrics. Although he became a notorious philanderer, his heart was clearly in the right place as far as his work was concerned, and he financed his… Read More

362 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter orange cloth with black lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Haiti and New York may seem worlds apart, but in this tense and engrossing novel they're literally right next door to each other. When Brooklyn jeweler Moe Rosen plays the good Samaritan and saves his next-door neighbor, restaurant-owner Miz Ark, from a mugger, his impulsive act opens a door into a whole different world. The Haitian community that revolves around Miz Ark's restaurant embraces Moe as a wanga, a good-luck charm, and Moe's luck starts to change personally and professionally. Meanwhile, young Fabrice Lacroix flees Haiti on a raft when the family he works for is murdered by the evil Col. Hugo Ferray. The two plot lines begin their slow, tense advance toward each other as Fabrice makes his way from Haiti to New York, and Ferray is squeezed out of Haiti by the CIA. That both men are heading for Miz Ark should… Read More

174 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine over beige boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Ex-sheriff Hack Bohannon's beat is the rugged central California coast, where cattle graze the foothills between crashing surf and soaring cliffs. Bohannon's crew of grizzled rodeo riders, a young student-priest, and an attractive woman discover that death can be as unpredictable as the landscape. Condition: Remainder mark at heal end pages else a near fine copy in a fine jacket.

256 pp. Translated and with introduction by Ronald Latham. Some underlining and marginal notes, mostly in the first half of the book. Previous owners' names on first page and inside front cover. Binding tight. Cover in good condition, spine slightly creased.

Second edition. Pencil underlining on a number of pages. Binding tight. Previous owner's initials on upper right of first page. (Accompanying workbook/reader also available from same seller.)

357 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. Murther and Walking Spirits is, in a way, another ghost story, a genre Davies visited in his short story collection High Spirits (1982). In the very first sentence of the novel, "Gil" Gilmartin, the protagonist and narrator, is a film critic who comes home to find his attractive wife having an affair with a nerdy coworker, who strikes him with a walking stick in fear, causing his death. His ghost then attends a strange film festival. While the attendees see actual films, Gilmartin is shown "films" detailing the lives of his ancestors, such as one who was a Tory during the American Revolution or another who was a master carpenter who married a blue-blooded woman, only to have it end in a nasty divorce. The films, dealing as they do with more and more recent subjects, bring the novel to its modern-day conclusion.… Read More