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In the Shape of a Boar
Norfolk, Lawrence
Book Number: 38850
ISBN: 0297647008
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2000
Trade paperback. 322pp. Very good. A mesmerizing novel of Love and betrayal, of ancient myths and modern horrors, In the Shape of a Boar begins in the pre-dawn of history and reverberates through the darkest events of the twentieth century. First hunted in ancient Greece, the Boar of Kalydon returns three thousand years later in human guise. The modern hunt leads from 1930's Romania to wartime Greece anf finally to Paris in the 1970's where the secret of the hunt is exposed.
Price: $8.00

Kit's Law
Morrissey, Donna
Book Number: 59533
ISBN: 0340769122
Publisher: Sceptre 1999
8vo. Softcover. 383pp. Good. In a wild gully beside a village on the rocky shores of Newfoundland lives 14-year old Kit. Her grandmother Lizzie is her anchor and her solace. Kit's mother Josie, mentally disabled, inarticulate, and child-like, is their burden. Kit's father is unknown - one of the numerous men in the town who have sexually used and abused Josie. Kit, stigmatized as the Gully Tramp's Girl, can fend off the town's cruel snobs and oily do-gooders, as long as Lizzie is alive. But when Lizzie dies suddenly, Kit's fragile world is shaken. She is determined to remain at home to care for Josie, but she has few allies - the villagers want to put Josie in an institution and send Kit to an orphanage. And there is another menace in Haire's Hollow - the violent rapist and killer known as Shine. It is he who sets in motion the train of events that lead to tragedy.
Price: $6.00

The Two-Star Pigeon
Wolfe, Michael
Book Number: 27642
ISBN: 0060147156
Publisher: Harper & Row 1974
8vo hardcover 244pp. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $8.00

Golem
Ludwig, Myles Eric
Book Number: 25171
ISBN:
Publisher: 1969 Weybright & Talley
8vo. hardcover. 277pp. very good. / very good d/w with faded spine.'
Price: $8.00

Daishi-San
Lund, Robert
Book Number: 25992
ISBN:
Publisher: London, Cassell, 1962. first UK edition.
8vo. hardcvoer. 350pp. very good. / good, clipped d/w. '
Price: $18.00

The Man Who Lost His Wife
Symons, Julian
Book Number: 25283
ISBN:
Publisher: NY: Harper and Row: 1970 first edition
8vo hardcover 214pp very good / very good, slightly sunned d/w.
Price: $8.00

The New Moon With the Old
Smith, Dodie
Book Number: 31979
ISBN:
Publisher: Heinemann London 1963. First edition.
8vo. hardcover. 374pp. very good, light foxing. / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

Something to Declare
Alvarez, Julia
Book Number: 50657
ISBN: 0452280672
Publisher: Plume September 1, 1999
8vo softcover 320pp very good. These 24 autobiographical essays are meant to answer various questions her readers have posed about her life and her writing. For Alvarez, these questions ultimately can be summed up in one line: "Do you have anything more to declare?" The first section of the book, "Customs," paints with vibrant, earthy clarity?in classic Alvarez style?the author's Dominican girlhood, surrounded by the rich cast of characters that made up her extended family and the constant menace of dictator Rafael Trujillo's police state. She also describes her escape to the U.S. with her parents and sisters, along with the assimilation that made her a "hyphenated American." The seeds of her writerly beginnings are picked out here and then further explored in the second part of her book, "Declarations." These essays examine the difficult balance between the writing life and "real life"; the joys of teaching; the daily process of writing; and an unsuccessful trip to Necedeh, Wis., to research a potential novel. Alvarez also includes her "ten commandments" for writing, which consist of some of the author's favorite quotes (beginning with a Zen saying and ending with Samuel Johnson's well-known credo, "If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!"). Taken together, the pieces are as open and lively as Alvarez's readers have come to expect from her work.
Price: $7.00

Young Phillip Maddison (Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, Vol 3)
Williamson, Henry
Book Number: 49013
ISBN: 0750909560
Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1997.
8vo. softcover. 416pp. Very good.
Price: $12.00

The King Must Die
Renault, Mary
Book Number: 43600
ISBN:
Publisher: Longmans, Green & The Book society. 1958
8vo. hardcover. 373pp. very good. / no d/w.
Price: $12.00

A Soldier's Embrace
Gordimer, Nadine
Book Number: 62037
ISBN: 0224017780
Publisher: Cape, London 1980
8vo. hardcover. 144pp. Very good / Very Good d/wbrowned on spine.
Price: $12.00

Truth About Unicorns
Reynolds, Bonnie Jones
Book Number: 32488
ISBN: 0855114614
Publisher: Garnstone P 1974
8vo hardcover 370pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $10.00

Poster Boy
Cope, Allen
Book Number: 52159
ISBN: 9780977569618
Publisher: Short Stop Press 2008
Trade paperback. 331pp. Fine. Poster Boy's fabulous life is a fabrication of gossip mags. The real story — he is intellectually impaired Wimmie, who becomes a supermodel for designer jeans through the camera lens of his lover, Zac. Wimmie's life is far more extraordinary than the crazy fiction of the Poster Boy — all the more remarkable for being real. Wimmie soars above his limitations, freeing others along his way from the shackles of convention.
Price: $10.00

Geography
Cunningham, Sophie
Book Number: 47828
ISBN: 192088503X
Publisher: Text Publishing January 1, 2004
8vo softcover 208pp very good. An evocation of a woman losing herself to the idea of love. It will remind you how easy it is to cross the line and how hard it can be to get back.
Price: $5.00