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Published by Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff, New York, NY, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394519930ISBN 13: 9780394519937
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hard Cover/Flexible. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Stated First Printing. Chanticleer Edition.BRAND NEW Copy. Black, faux-leather, flexible boards/Fine. Guide to 666 species of 18 phyla of seashore invertebrates of North Amerca. 690 full-color photos, depicting each creature; arranged by shape and color facilitating identification.
Published by Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff, New York, NY, 1994
ISBN 10: 0394574753ISBN 13: 9780394574752
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/trace soiling to lower leading text edges to pgs 19-58. 1994 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/discoloration to inner side. Upper text edge dyed red, also with trace discoloration. Historical novel of New Mexico and Mexico. Volume Two of Cormac McCarthy's (1933-2023) THE BORDER TRILOGY (sequel to All the Pretty Horses of 1992, and before Cities of the Plain of 1998). Set in the 1930's when Billy & Boyd are but boys, and World War II is yet to be. 16 year-old Billy Parham captures a pregnant she-wolf --- of the variety attacking New Mexico cattle --- Billy journeys across the border to re-settle her back to Mexican mountains. In the 2nd "crossing", Billy & younger brother Boyd travel south to recover horses stolen from their family's farm --- Boyd is shot, nursed to health, and disappears w/a girl. "Crossing" 3 tells of Billy's attempt to track down his lost brother. 426 pgs in 4 parts.
Published by Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff, New York, NY, 1977
ISBN 10: 0394490339ISBN 13: 9780394490335
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Collectible - Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Thus. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF; strong & sound w/nips, rubs & faint creasings to edges. A colorful chronicle of early American naturalists, from 1750 to 1850, by journalist and nature writer Joseph Kastner (- 1997); volume nominated for Nat'l Book Award. All the men appearing in this volume are distinguished by having "the subjects of their science --- the flowers, birds, even frogs that they found, classified and brought into the world of naturalists" bear their names. 15 chapters: 1, The Master of Coldengham; 2, An Adam & His Apostle; 3, The Curious Quaker (John Bartram); 4. The Frustrated Physician; 5, Puc Puggy in Xanadu; 6, President of the West; 7, The Natural Showman; 8, A Peddler of Birds; 9, A Chaos of Knowledge; 10, The American Woodsman; 11, The Gullible Geneius; 12, The Inocent Traveler; 13, The Closet Botanists; 14, The Last Adventure; and, 15, A Species of Enternity.
Published by Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff, New York, NY, 1972
ISBN 10: 0394482905ISBN 13: 9780394482903
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition, First Printing. Text/As New & Bright. Gilt embossed orange linen boards. DJ/NF; w/scratches to lower back & creasings to inner flaps. PO stamp to lower text edge. A collection of narratives, some previously published, from novelist & historian V. S. Naipaul (1932 - 2018), a Trinidad British writer who wrote more 30 books. Known for his novel "Mr. Biwas" (1961), Naipaul was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad & Tobago's highest nat'l honour in 1989, knighthood in Britain in 1990, and, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. His grandparents left India to work in Trinidad's plantations as indentured servants and his father became a journalist. 286 pgs. Anthology of essays, linked thematically, of self-exiled people & the perplexities of displacement. The essays in four groups. I, An Unlikely Colonial; II, India; III, Looking Westward; and IV, Columbus and Crusoe. The final essay --- from which the title is derived --- is of Maurtius. A "barracoon" is an enclosure or barracks for temporary confinement of slaves & convicts. A deep, sensitive & powerful volume of trails of economic migration.
Published by Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff, New York, NY, 1994
ISBN 10: 0394574753ISBN 13: 9780394574752
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1994 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/a whisper of surface wear. Upper text block dyed red. To front cover verso a tidy note suggesting this was in possession of an university, or, meant to be. Historical novel of New Mexico and Mexico. Volume Two of THE BORDER TRILOGY by Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023), (following ALL THE PRETTY HORSES of 1992, and before CITIES OF THE PLAIN of 1998). Narrative of the 1930's in which Billy & Boyd are but boys, and World War II is yet to be. 16 year-old Billy Parham captures a pregnant she-wolf --- of the variety attacking New Mexico cattle --- Billy journeys across the borders to re-settle her back to Mexican mountains. In the 2nd "crossing", Billy & younger brother Boyd go south to recover horses stolen from their family's farm --- Boyd is shot, nursed to health, disappears w/a girl. "Crossing" 3 narrates Billy's attempt to track down his lost brother. 426 pgs in 4 parts.
Published by Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff, New York, NY, 1994
ISBN 10: 0394574753ISBN 13: 9780394574752
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1994 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/a whisper of discoloration & faint creasing to front inner flap. Trace brown spotting (acidic paper reaction to front & rear endpapers. Upper text edge dyed red. Historical novel of New Mexico and Mexico. Volume Two of Cormac McCarthy's (1933-2023) THE BORDER TRILOGY (following All the Pretty Horses of 1992, and before Cities of the Plain of 1998) in which Billy & Boyd are but boys, and World War II is yet to be. 16 year-old Billy Parham captures a pregnant she-wolf --- of the variety attacking New Mexico cattle; the two journey to re-settle her back Mexican mountains. In the 2nd "crossing", Billy & younger brother Boyd travel south to recover horses stolen from their family's farm --- Boyd is shot, nursed to health, to disappear w/a girl. "Crossing" 3 narrates Billy's attempt to track down his lost brother. 426 pgs in 4 parts.