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Farrar Straus Giroux, NY , 1979. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "[The] tour de force by the Nobel laureate that is "a vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes" (The New York Times Book Review). It opens during the London blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire... [and] becomes a wanderer and a seeker. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. In a final conflagration, William Golding's book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time." [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST US EDITION.

Folio Society, London, 1st thus. Hardcover. Fine. "In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there... Less preoccupied with abstract concepts of morality or religion than with earthly values, the tales range from the bawdy Peronella hiding her lover in a tub to Ser Cepperello, who, despite his unholy effrontery, becomes a Saint. 100 tales with a framework story written in 1349. Revised by Boccaccio in 1370-1. The result is a towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative."" [Pub. Info] Slipcase is in Fine condition. 1ST THUS. Beautifully produced book.1ST THUS. Deluxe Edition.

Doubleday, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Owner's signaure. There is some chipping to the dust jacket. There is a protective mylar cover.

Sleepy Hollow Press, NY, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Diedrich Knickerbocker was created in 1809 by a young Washington Irving, who used the character to narrate his classic satire, 'A History of New York.' According to Irving's partisan narrator, everything good and distinctive, proud and powerful, about New York City - from the doughnuts to the twisting streets of lower Manhattan - could be traced back to New Amsterdam. Terrific general interest, cultural history of a city with a rich and lively literary past. First-ever book on the eponymous myth that has informed New York City culture since the early 1800s." [Pub. Info] 1ST THUS

National Georgraphic Society, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "We British are a strange lot; we don't have a noun to describe ourselves in the singular. Someone from the United States can say that he or she is an American, whether from Honolula or Hackensack. But in these islands no one calls himself a Briton or a Britisher. We say we're English, Scottish, Welsh....this book will lead you to a better understanding of us and of the lands that helped ot shape us....if there's one thing the English, Welsh, Scots, and Irish enjoy, it is showing off their countries to foreigners, to those people whom Shakespeare...described as the inhabitants of 'less happier lands.'"" [Pub Info] Sumptuously illustrated.

[Dura Europos] was founded in 303BC... [at the intersection of trade routes on the Euphates. [It] was abandoned in he 3rd century AD... The Parthian Temple, the painted Christian Chapel, and the standing Jewish Synagogue with its four walls covered with paintings from the Old Testament [were] vital sources for the understanding of pagan religions, Judaism in the early centuries of the Christian Era, and early Christianity. The chance discovery of Dura by British troops in 1920 and its subsequent study [by] French and American archaeologists resulted in one of the most famous archaeological recoveries in the twentieth century, [But in the 21st century] ISIS [initiated massive looting of the site turning] the illicit aniquities trade into a multimillion dollar transnational business..."" [PARALLELS] ""Satellite imagery shows a cratered landscape inside the mud-brick walls, evidence of widespread destruction..."" [National Geographic] There is a protective mylar cover. Out-of-print. 1ST EDITION.