Jean-Patrick Manchette

James Sallis

Donald Nicholson-Smith

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident. Peter is his orphaned nephew—a spoiled brat. Julie is in an insane asylum. Thompson is a hired gunman with a serious ulcer. Michel hires Julie to look after Peter. And he hires Thompson to kill them. Julie and Peter escape. Thompson pursues. Bullets fly. Bodies accumulate. The craziness is just getting started. Like Jean-Patrick Manchette’s celebrated Fatale, The Mad and the Bad is a clear-eyed, cold-blooded, pitch-perfect work of creative destruction.

The Mad and the Bad

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Simon Sebag Montefiore

Slight stiffness in the spine, bought used 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Court of the Red Tsar

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This widely acclaimed biography of a Soviet dictator and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of the Marxist leader and Russian tsar. • From the bestselling author of The Romanovs. “The first intimate portrait of a man who had more lives on his conscience than Hitler.... Disturbing and perplexing.” —The New York Times Book Review Based on groundbreaking research, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals the fear and betrayal, privilege and debauchery, family life and murderous cruelty of this secret world. Written with bracing narrative verve, this feat of scholarly research has become a classic of modern history writing. Showing how Stalin's triumphs and crimes were the product of his fanatical Marxism and his gifted but flawed character, this is an intimate portrait of a man as complicated and human as he was brutal and chilling.

Stalin

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Henri Bosco

Joyce Zonana

Book is in great condition, no highlights or tears to pages or the cover. Lesser known French classic by Bosco. 

A new translation of an evocative, Huckleberry Finn-esque French bestseller about a young farmboy, the river where he is forbidden to play, and the adventures that ensue when he disobeys his family's wishes.

The story of Henri Bosco's The Child and the River is straightforward yet haunting Pascalet, a boy growing up on a farm in France, is told he can play anywhere he likes-except by the river. Of course he dreams of going to the river, and one day he does.

He falls asleep in a small boat tied to an old dock, then wakes up to find himself drifting . . . Onto an island where some gypsies are camping. There, he sees another young boy, perhaps also a gypsy, tied up and beaten. Stealthily, he frees him, and the two escape in a boat, then spend an idyllic-beautifully described-week living freely on the river.

Eventually, Gatzo, the other child, is somewhat magically reunited with his family. Pascalet returns home, desperately missing his friend and the wild life they shared . . . Some time later, Gatzo, orphaned, appears at Pascalet's doorstep the two "brothers," one light-skinned, the other darker, are reunited. (And that's material for another story, as the narrator, the grown-up Pascalet, tells us.)

A sort of French Huckleberry Finn, The Child and the River is also considered a "crossover" book, appealing as much to adults as to children. It has sold more than three million copies in France.

The Child and the River

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Small press publishing of Paradise Lost by John Milton, pages are free of highlights and no tears in the pages.

Paradise Lost

Oscar. Wilde

Angus Fletcher

Collection of Wilde’s most popular works, including poetry, plays, essays, fiction, lectures, and journalism. No highlights, pages perfectly in tact.

The Collected Oscar Wilde, by Oscar Wilde, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:



    -New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars

    -Biographies of the authors

    -Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events

    -Footnotes and endnotes

    -Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work

    -Comments by other famous authors

    -Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations

    -Bibliographies for further reading

    -Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate



All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

 

A renowned eccentric, dandy, and man-about-town, Oscar Wilde was foremost a dazzling wit and dramatic genius whose plays, poems, essays, and fiction contain some of the most frequently quoted quips and passages in the English language.

 

This volume features a wide selection of Wilde's literary output, including the comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest, an immensely popular play filled with satiric epigrams that mercilessly expose Victorian hypocrisy; The Portrait of Mr. W. H., a story proposing that Shakespeare's sonnets were inspired by the poet's love for a young man; The House of Pomegranates, the author's collection of fairy tales; lectures Wilde delivered, first in the United States, where he exhorted his audiences to love beauty and art, and then in England, where he presented his impressions of America; his two major literary-theoretical works, "The Decay of Lying" and "The Critic as Artist"; and a selection of verse, including his great poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol, in which Wilde famously declared that "each man kills the thing he loves."

 

A testament to Wilde's incredible versatility, this collection displays his legendary wit, brilliant use of language, and penetrating insight into the human condition.

The Collected Oscar Wilde

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James Joyce

Kevin J. H. Dettmar

Book is brand new no creasing even on the spine, dual edition of both Portrait of the Artist and Dubliners by James Joyce.

In "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," follows rebellious artist Stephen Dedalus as he challenges the conventions of his upbringing; and in "Dubliners," presents stories that evoke the character, atmosphere, and people of Dublin at the turn of thecentury.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners

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Paul Bowles

Book has typical used wear and tear and some residual glue on the backside but no writing or tears on any of the pages. 

Three Americans drifting through postwar North Africa encounter the limits of human existence in the form of a land and a people utterly alien to them

The Sheltering Sky

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John Steinbeck

Books in decent condition, aged more than anything, the pages are still fine and it is pocket/travel sized.

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.

Travels with Charley in Search of America

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Ben H. Winters

Books is in great condition no marks or tears anywhere.

After Susan and Alex Wendt find their dream apartment, Susan wakes up with small welts believing it to be bedbugs until an exterminator turns up nothing and further investigation points towards something sinister.

Bedbugs

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Aristotle Aristotle

F. H. Peters

Hye-Kyung Kim

Not on the inside cover pictured in image four, otherwise books is in great condition.

In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself.

Nicomachean Ethics

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Some wear and tear to the cover but not major damage. All the pages are in perfect condition with no writing or highlights.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California.

East of Eden

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James Vance Marshall

Lee Siegel

Book is in great condition not tears or writing on pages.

A plane crashes in the vast Northern Territory of Australia, and the only survivors are two children from Charleston, South Carolina, on their way to visit their uncle in Adelaide. Mary and her younger brother, Peter, set out on foot, lost in the vast, hot Australian outback. They are saved by a chance meeting with an unnamed Aboriginal boy on walkabout. He looks after the two strange white children and shows them how to find food and water in the wilderness, and yet, for all that, Mary is filled with distrust.

On the surface Walkabout is an adventure story, but darker themes lie beneath. Peter's innocent friendship with the boy met in the desert throws into relief Mary's half-adult anxieties, and the book as a whole raises questions about what is lost--and may be saved--when different worlds meet. And in reading Marshall's extraordinary evocations of the beautiful yet forbidding landscape of the Australian desert, perhaps the most striking presence of all in this small, perfect book, we realize that this tale--a deep yet disturbing story in the spirit of Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal and Richard Hughes's A High Wind in Jamaica--is also a reckoning with the mysteriously regenerative powers of death.

Walkabout

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Max Porter

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Novel

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’re not alone This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. You mustn’t do that to yourself Shy. You mustn’t hurt yourself like that. He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him. Got your special meds, nutcase? He is escaping Last Chance, a home for “very disturbed young men,” and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past, and the heavy question of his future. The night is huge and it hurts. In Shy, Max Porter extends the excavation of boyhood that began with Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and continued with Lanny. But here he asks: How does mischievous wonder and anarchic energy curdle into something more disturbing and violent? Shy is a bravura, lyric, music-besotted performance by one of the great writers of his generation.

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