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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.

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.

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… Leer más

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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...

Berkley Books, New York, 1983. First paperback edition. Condition: Good minus, edge and corner wear, spine has creasing and wear, rear cover has small triangular tear at top left corner.A dark and powerful fantasy from the bestselling author of Ender's Shadow.Enter the city of Hart's Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent, riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city was captured by a rebellious lord, Palicrovol, who overthrew the cruel king, Nasilee, hated by his people.Palicrovol, too, was cruel, as befitted a king. He took the true mantle of kinghood by forcing Asineth, now Queen by her father's death, to marry him, raping her to consummate the marriage. [But he was not cruel enough to rule.] He let her live after her humiliation; live to bear a daughter; live to return from exile and retake the throne of Hart's Hope.But she, in turn, sent Palicrovol into exile to breed a son who would, in the name of the God, take back the kingdom from its cruel Queen.

Vintage, New York, 1985. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Poor, cover is unglued. A reading or research copy only.A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world. This book details one of the most profoundly influential writers of the 20th century.

Del Rey, New York. 6th paperback printing. Condition: Very good minus, light edge wear, top right corner has creasing, spine creases and nicks.Captives of His Imperial Majesty.Zandramas had stolen King Garion's infant son and fled to use the child in some ritual that would make the Dark Destiny supreme. Garion and his friends had followed, but now they were captives of Zakath, Emperor of Mallorea, who, while friendly, stubbornly refused to let them leave.Meanwhile, a horde of demons was ravaging the cities through which they must travel. Zandramas was escaping further toward her goal. And the Seeress of Kell revealed that they must be at the ancient palace of Ashaba within a matter of days or Zandramas would win by default. Then a horrible, fatal plague struck the city of Mal Zeth. closing it against all traffic in or out.

Pocket, New York, 1990. First paperback printing in this edition. Condition: Good minus, light edge wear, slight corner creases, spine creasing, rear cover has a tear near bottom where price sticker was removed, scuffing on rear cover.French-born novelist, passionate eroticist and short story writer, who gained international fame with her journals. Spanning the years from 1931 to 1974, they give an account of one woman's voyage of self-discovery. "It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all." (from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. I, 1966)Anaïs Nin was largely ignored until the 1960s. Today she is regarded as one of the leading female writers of the 20th century and a source of inspiration for women challenging conventionally defined gender roles.

Little, Brown, New York, 2012. First hardcover edition. Condition: Good, edge wear and corner bumps, light scuffing, no dust jacket.A big novel about a small town...When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils ... Pagford is not what it first seems.And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?

Random House, New York. 3rd softcover printing. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear, no interior writing, cover is clean.

Bantam, New York. 42nd paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, slight tear at bottom edge of spine, price sticker on rear cover.Herman Hesse's classic novel has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. In this story of a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege to seek spiritual fulfillment. Hesse synthesizes disparate philosophies--Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism--into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man's search for true meaning.

Del Rey, New York, 1990. First paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Troubles and delays continued to mount as Garion, Belgarath, Polgara, and the company pursued Zandramas across the known world. Possessed by the Dark Destiny, she had stolen Garion's infant son for a ritual that would destroy all that men valued.She was always one step ahead, taunting and spying on them, flying over in the form of a great dragon. Her armies, led by a Demon Lord, threatened on one side; on the other were the forces of Emperor Zakath, seeking to capture them.Somehow, as the Seeress of Kell had warned, they had to be at the Place Which Is No More for the ritual at the same time as Zandramas, or face disaster. But where that might be they still had no clue.