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Perma Books, Montreal, 1956. 2nd printing. Condition: Good plus, slight corner creasing and edge nicks, spine has wear and nicks, back cover has bookstore stamps. 2nd printing.He fought for her virtue so he could have her for himself. Pirates and buccaneers oh my.

Harper, New York, 1991. Later printing. Condition: Poor to good, unfortunately has a tear at top right of the cover, creasing along spine and edge wear. See picture.From the publisher: With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.

Popular Library, Toronto, 1952. First Canadian edition. Condition: Good, corner creases and edge wear, bottom of spine has tears, spine has nicks, back cover has light soiling. Popular Library 421. She taught him all he knew - about her! Classic 50's titillating trash paperback about life on a college campus.

Bantam, New York, 1972, 33rd paperback printing. Condition: Good minus, edge and corner wear, front cover has been taped, previous bookstore's stamp on inside front cover. A well read book.The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain… Read More

Scholastic, New York, 2008. 2nd softcover printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, slight creasing at spine, NO writing or markings.

Playmore, Inc, New York. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear, no interior writing, cover has faint creasing.

Del Rey, New York, 1992. 9th paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, very small creases at corners, light nicks at spine.After a long spell of exile, Sparhawk, Pandion Knight and the Queen's champion returns to his native land to find it overrun with evil and intrigue - and his young queen grievously ill. Indeed, Ehlana lies magically entombed within a block of crystal, doomed to die unless a cure can be found within a year.

Scholastic, New York. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, spine and rear cover creasing, no interior writing or marking.

Arkana, London, 1991. First trade paperback printing in this edition. Condition: Fair, cover and spine creasing, small tears at spine, multiple creases at back cover. A very well read book.Incorporating two books, "The Urgency of Change" and "The Only Revolution", this book forms an accessible introduction to Krishnamurti's philosophy.

Golden Books, New York. 6th softcover printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, NO writing or markings.

Del Rey, New York, 1989. 10th paperback printing. Condition: Very good, edge and corner wear, spine creasing and slight bowing, price sticker on rear cover.Thomas Covenant knew that despite his failure on the Isle of The One Tree, he had to return to the Land and fight. After a long and arduous journey, fighting all the way, he readies himself for the final showdown with Lord Foul, the Despiser, and begins to understand things he had only just wondered about before...

Tor, New York, 1989. First paperback edition. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine has light creasing.The Tales of Alvin Maker series continues in volume three, Prentice Alvin. Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a blacksmith. But Alvin must also learn to control and use his own talent, that of a Maker, else his destiny will be unfulfilled.

Berkley, New York. 35th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.It is fall. Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets, historian, ex-Marine and CIA analyst Jack Ryan is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter, when a terrorist attack takes place before his eyes. Instinctively, he dives forward to break it up, and is shot. It is not until he wakes up in the hospital that he learns whose lives he has saved -- the Prince and Princess of Wales and their new young son -- and which enemies he has made -- the Ulster Liberation Army, an ultra-left-wing splinter of the IRA.By his impulsive act, he has gained both the gratitude of a nation and then enmity of hits most dangerous men -- men who do not sit on their hate. And in the weeks and months to come, it is Jack Ryan, and his family, who will become the targets of that hate.

Penguin, London, 1987. 17th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge wear, slight bottom corner crease, creasing at spine and slight bowing, price sticker on rear cover.One of the greatest shaggy-dog stories in English.No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and a wry demonstration of its limitations. This Penguin Classic contains Christopher Ricks' introductory essay.

DK, New York. 3rd printing. Condition: Very good, very light edge and corner wear, faint creasing at covers. No writing or markings.

Del Rey, New York, 1991. 8th paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge and corner wear, faint spine crease, small indentation on rear cover.In this second book of The Malloreon, Garion and Ce'nedra continue the quest begun in Guardians of the West. In their party travel the immortal Belgarath the Sorcerer, his daughter Polgara the Sorceress, and the little Drasnian, Silk.Garion knows that it is the mysterious figure Zandramas who is responsible for the abduction of his infant son, and he and his companions journey many miles and encounter many strange beings in their search for him.Their way leads through the foul swamps of Nyissa, ruled over by the Snake-Queen, and on into the dark kingdom of the Murgos, where human sacrifices are still made to the dead god Torak. Further on, however, even beyond those forbidding lands, they must face the ultimate danger - not only to themselves but to all mankind.

NCL/M & S, Toronto, 1983. First NCL edition. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, sun shadow on covers, creasing at spine, small crease at bottom right corner.The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days.Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine – human, compelling, full of poetry, irony and humour. In the telling of her life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in everyone's soul.

Bendon, Ashland, 2010. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and slight printing bleed, spine has light wear at edges. NO markings or writing.Sesame Street First Board Books series.

Tor, New York. 3rd paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, and a second xenocide seems inevitable...

Bantam Seal/M & S, Toronto, 1984. 13th paperback printing. Condition: Good plus, edge wear and slight corner bumps, slight scuffing on cover near spine, spine has wrinkling, slight scuffing on rear cover.The Diviners is the culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's Manawaka cycle.This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right – relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world – and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers.The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence's writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges… Read More