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The Bad Lands A Novel
Oakley Hall “An elegiac, incandescent 1880s Dakota badlands Western that bears comparison to the greats (Shane, Ox-Bow Incident) that it recalls. . . . A tale of tragic justice, of nightriders, of horse thieves fighting cattle thieves—the clearest call yet from the sensitive, slicing voice that rang through the west in Warlock.” —Kirkus 1978, 2016 376 p. 6 x 9 1 map 514 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-41261-0 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00
Uselessness A Novel
Eduardo Lalo “In this dreamy and succinct novel, Lalo takes readers on an intimate journey of companionship abroad. . . . Set between glowing, literary Paris, the deceptively dangerous Spanish coast, and various humble San Juan apartments, Uselessness is a novel of modern plight that’s brimming with hope and wisdom.” —Booklist 2017 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 515 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-20779-7 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00
Wallis’s War
A Novel of Diplomacy and Intrigue
Kate Auspitz Wallis’s War is a fictionalized memoir of Wallis Simpson, the infamous American divorcée who caused the abdication of the King of England. Was it love? Or was it also some behind-the-scenes engineering? A blend of diplomacy and dalliance, fashion and fascists, this richly researched satire offers witty and erudite entertainment and leaves us speculating. “An ingenious twist and just as plausible as the well-researched reality this fictional account deftly uses.”—Daily Mail 2010, 2011, 2015 220 p. 51/2 x 81/2 5 halftones 516 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-24038-1 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00
The Great Prince Died A Novel about the Assassination of Trotsky
Bernard Wolfe “Illuminating for its insight into the moment when a great struggle for human liberation became a tyranny that still threatens the world. . . . No one who reads The Great Prince Died . . . can fail to be gripped by a tale well told. Its message is one the free world will ignore at its peril.” —New York Times 1959, 2015 416 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing 517 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-26064-8 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00
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Catarina the Wise and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales
Collected by Giuseppe Pitrè Edited and Translated by Jack Zipes “The book is a classic, formed like a mosaic of precious small pieces, each one glinting with its own color and character, glassy and crystalline. . . . Zipes is on a lifelong mission, as ardent as the Grimms’, to bring fairy tales into circulation for the general increase of pleasure, mutual and ethical understanding. . . . His prodigious energy seems as inexhaustible as the fairy-tale purse that never empties.” —New York Review of Books 2017 304 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 518 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-46279-0 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00
Aristotle Detective An Aristotle Detective Novel
Margaret Doody “Doody brings the Athens of 322 BC to life with skill and verve and her story of the bloody murder, the shards of evidence, the drama of the trials, the odd twists and turns of motives and events is wonderfully plotted as she keeps everyone guessing, except the wily old philosopher who never tips his hand.” —Publishers Weekly 1978 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 map 519 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13170-2 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00
Afternoon Men A Novel
Anthony Powell “The funniest novel you’ve never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain kind of artist manqué on the brink of discovering that life is a more difficult business than he ever had reason to expect. . . . Indeed, if you’re looking for a funny, nonportentous Hemingway, then the early Powell is your man.”—Slate
Children’s Books from the Bodleian Library
What Is Round? Blossom Budney
2018 32 p. 7 3/4 x 91/2 illustrated in color throughout 522 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-481-2 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00
N Is for Nursery Blossom Budney
2018 32 p. 7 3/4 x 91/2 illustrated in color 523 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-482-9 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00
The March Wind Inez Rice
2017 32 p. 7 2 /3 x 9 Illustrated in color 524 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-461-4 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00
There was an Old Lady Abner Graboff
2018 48 p. 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 illustrated in color 525 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-494-2 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00
What Can Cats Do? Abner Graboff
2018 48 p. 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 illustrated in color 526 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-493-5 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00
The Rain Puddle Adelaide Holl
2017 36 p. 9 x 7 Illustrated in color 527 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-469-0 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00
Children’s Books from the University of Alaska Press
1931 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 520 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-18689-4 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00
What’s Become of Waring A Novel
Anthony Powell “A grand, glittering array of splendid comic characters doing funny things. Mr. Powell’s prose is beautiful and hilarious, and the whole nutty arrangement ends too soon.”—New Yorker “I do not see how anyone who is not an imbecile can fail to be amused and delighted with What’s Become of Waring.”—Observer
1939 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 521 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13718-6 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00
A Woolly Mammoth Journey Debbie S. Miller
2010 32 p. 10 x 8 15 color plates 528 Paper ISBN: 978-1-60223-098-9 $9.95 Your Price: $5.00
The Little Fox An Alaska Adventure
Ram Papish
2007 38 p. 81/2 x 11 529 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-889963-87-7 $15.95 Your Price: $5.00
Pup and Pokey Seth Kantner
2014 48 p. 7 x 81/2 illustrated in color 530 Paper ISBN: 978-1-60223-241-9 $14.95 Your Price: $5.00
