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$12.80 Description: New York. 1988. May 1988. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 155584166x. Translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam. 311 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Reg Perry. Jacket painting: The House of Mystery by William Degouve de Nunques. Collection: State Museum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands. Author's photograph by Sophie Bassouls/Sygma. keywords: Literature Translated Chile Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-CURFEW takes place during one twenty ... Read More
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The Unicorn Expedition and Other Fantastic Tales of India $8.00 Description: New York. 1987. Dutton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Wrinkled Dustjacket. 0525245448. 190 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Earl Tidwell. keywords: Literature India. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Satyajit Ray created two very popular characters in Bengali children's literature-Feluda, a sleuth, and Professor Shonku, a scientist. He was a prominent writer of science fiction in Bengali or any Indian language for that matter. He also wrote short stories which were published as volumes of 12 ... Read More
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$32.00 Description: New York. 1988. April 1988. Knopf. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394550277. 378 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Kang Yi. Jacket design by Julie Duquet. keywords: Travel Asia. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Mohawk haircuts in Bali. In Guangzhou-in the New China-a Buffeteria serving dishes called ‘Yes, Sir, Cheese My Baby, ' ‘A Legitimate Beef, ' and ‘Ike and Tuna Turner. ' In Japan a madder-than-ever baseball madness (favorite team: Yomiuri Giants), while the Japanese enact their own ... Read More
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$16.00 Description: New York. 1988. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374289255. 273 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. Jacket photograph by Andreas Heumann. keywords: South Africa Literature Autobiography. FROM THE PUBLISHER-White Boy Running describes Christopher Hope's first return visit to South Africa in twelve years. Born in Johannesburg and raised there and in Pretoria, in an Irish Catholic family whose background inevitably set them apart from the ruling ... Read More
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On Power and Ideology: the Managua Lectures $12.80 Description: Boston. 1987. South End Press. 1st American Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 089608289x. 140 pages. paperback. Cover by Lydia Sargent. keywords: Politics America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In March 1986, Noam Chomskv had the opportunity to visit Managua and lecture at the Universidad Centroamericana. These lectures consisted of a morning series, devoted to the problems of language and knowledge (published by MIT Press), and an afternoon series, devoted to contemporary political issues, from ... Read More
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$12.80 Description: Lincoln. 1988. University Of Nebraska Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0803233159. Translated from the Norwegian by Bibbi Lee. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Norway Scandinavia Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER-As the rumble of World War I grows louder in Norway, a girl named Herdis trembles on the brink of adolescence. Home has been wrecked by divorce, and the world is collapsing around her. Amid the general turmoil she strains to hear another sound-the ... Read More
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$8.00 Description: New York. 1985. Dutton. 3rd Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0525441654. 119 pages. hardcover. keywords: Children's Books England Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Part of the BANANA BOOKS series, now available in a new format with a sewn binding designed for use in the classroom, a ghost story suitable for Key Stages 3 and 4. Illustrated by Frank Rodgers. inventory #10177. Read More
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$8.00 Description: London. 1974. Heinemann. Reprinted Edition. Previous Owner's Inscription in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears. 0434948942. Illustrated by Antony Maitland. 153 pages. hardcover. keywords: Children's Books England Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is a fantasy novel for children by Penelope Lively, first published by Heinemann in 1973 with illustrations by Anthony Maitland. Set in present-day Oxfordshire, it features a boy and his modern family who ... Read More
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$16.00 Description: Lincoln. 1988. University Of Nebraska Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0803219741. Translated from the Norwegian by Sverre Lyngstad. 246 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Norway Scandinavia. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Set in Oslo, Norway, Adam's Diary (Adams Dagbok) transcends geographical boundaries in its depiction of lovers victimized by social roles and sexual stereotypes. It was recognized as a major novel on publication in Norway in 1978, and its translation ... Read More
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