1997, ISBN: 0ebdcb93db24e553880ee9629186544e

Hardcover

Garden City Books. Good with no dust jacket; A little miscoloring to cover.. 1954. Hardcover. The Real Book About; 8vo; 223 pages; Contents include: Making things with wire and metal, In… More...

Garden City Books. Good with no dust jacket; A little miscoloring to cover.. 1954. Hardcover. The Real Book About; 8vo; 223 pages; Contents include: Making things with wire and metal, Indian moccasins and beadwork, Paper sculpture, Wood, Dioramas and Model Theaters, Building a model railroad pike, Miniature scenery and accessories, Relief maps, More books to read about crafts. ., Garden City Books, 1954, New York U. S. A.: Plume. As New 1992. Softcover. Marfree later prtg, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours. ; Plume Contemporary Fiction; 8 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches; 408 pages; \nFrom Publishers Weekly This richly textured, intelligent, emotionally involving novel will add to Marshall's ( Praisesong for the Widow ) stature both as a prose writer and as a sensitive chronicler of lives of people of color. Daughter of "the PM, " a charismatic politician on the West Indian island of Triunion, and the American-born woman he married, Ursa MacKenzie thinks her life is "a series of double exposures . . . The same things repeated everywhere she turns. " Ursa, a freelance consumer researcher living in Manhattan, is disillusioned when she returns to a city that had been the focus of a previous study and finds that the black politician she had admired has sold out to real estate developers. Meanwhile, back home in Triunion, her formerly incorruptible father is cooperating with white developers in plans for a glitzy resort that will despoil the environment and sacrifice the well-being of the poverty-stricken people of his district. Ursa is also anguished over her decision to have an abortion, especially as she herself was born only after her mother endured a series of miscarriages. Marshall is meticulous with details, whether building a scene or the texture of a life. A cast of secondary characters both in New York and in Triunion are as complexly nuanced, as fallible yet appealing as the protagonists. A subtext is the subtle racism that blacks endure, even those who seem solidly upper-middle-class. Though it grapples with tough questions, the novel gives no pat answers; the ambiguous ending reinforces Marshall's clear-sighted candor. Author tour. Copyright 1991 Reed. From Library Journal Like her previous works, Marshall's fourth novel intertwines the culture of blacks in the United States and in the West Indies. The book deftly shifts back and forth between New York City, home of Ursa Beatrice Mackenzie, and the Caribbean island Triunion, Ursa's birthplace and home of her father, a political reformer known simply as the PM, and her American-born mother Estelle. When the story opens, Ursa has just had an abortion and is about to end a stagnant relationship with her long-time boyfriend. She is called to Triunion by Estelle in an attempt to deter the PM from making a deal that could ruin his career. In this well-told story, Marshall, creator of such memorable characters as Selina Boyce in Brown Girl, Brownstones (Feminist Pr. , 1981) and Avey Johnson in Praisesong for the Widow ( LJ 1/83) , again provides numerous complex, engaging portraits, especially of the people of Triunion. Highly recommended. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/16/91. - Louis J. Parascandola, Long Island Univ. , Brooklyn Campus Copyright 1991 Reed. ., Plume, 1992, Garden City: Doubleday, 1955. First Edition. Very Good +/No DJ. 12mo = 7-9". Gray cloth covers are bumped on top/bottom of spine and corners. Illustrated endpapers. Front flap of dj has been pasted to front endpaper., Doubleday, 1955, Young Josiah Paddock, on the run from his past in St. Louis, didn't have much hope of survival.  Winter was coming to the Rockies, and if the cold cutting through his city clothes didn't kill him, grizzlies or Indians would.  Then his luck tumed.  He stumbled across the trail of Ol' Scratch, a solitary mountain man eager enough for company to take the brash youngster under his wing.  Pure chance brought Paddock to the old trapper's camp, but it was skill with a gun and a knife that kept them both alive as they rode deep into the majestic land of Blackfeet and Crow, bible-spouting pioneers and sensual woman where only the best and braves survived . . . and only the luckiest rode back again. Carry The Wind is a gripping historical saga set in the Grand Tetons during a time when the horizon never ended and a nation was being born. Edge wear. Bantam, 1997. Good/Not Applicable., Bantam, 1997<

2007, ISBN: 0ebdcb93db24e553880ee9629186544e

Hardcover

Scribner, 1991-02-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0684192381 VG/VG c. 1991, gray/blue bds. w/d.j., 264pp., (lt.wear to head+heel of spine+edges+corners bumped, spine slightly cocked, text cle… More...

Scribner, 1991-02-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0684192381 VG/VG c. 1991, gray/blue bds. w/d.j., 264pp., (lt.wear to head+heel of spine+edges+corners bumped, spine slightly cocked, text clean, d.j.: lt.chipped, lt.rubbing). From Publishers Weekly At one point in Putre's (A Small and Incidental Murder ) second extraordinary private eye procedural, a character says to the sleuth, ''I hope . . . you're fighting this one on the side of the angels, Mr. Doll.'' But to Doll, it appears that the oddly assorted group of people linked to a murder represent nothing but a sleazy level of hell. Doll is lured to the Florida coast to help out his former lover, Diane Raney, being held for a grisly murder. Although Doll himself has been linked to a past murder and insists on keeping his own identity under wraps, Diana trusts him implicitly, even 10 years after their affair has ended. Diana's belief in Doll and Doll's steadfast faith in her, even though she gives him absolutely no aid in his dogged quest to establish her innocence, keep the reader engrossed. As Doll plays his luck and instinct against well-drawn, gritty characters, Putre captures the barflies who get a buzz on at the Pina Colada, a pirate ship-theme bar, and also evokes the atmosphere of third-rate motels, a sprawling car dealership and the posh oceanfront, high rise apartment that is the murder locale., Scribner, 1991-02-01, Canongate, 2007. not 1st printing. When conjurer William Wilson gets booked for a string of cabaret gigs in Berlin, he's hoping his luck's on the turn - there were certain spectators from his last show who he'd rather forget.. Paperback. fine b-format paperback., Canongate, 2007, Young Josiah Paddock, on the run from his past in St. Louis, didn't have much hope of survival.  Winter was coming to the Rockies, and if the cold cutting through his city clothes didn't kill him, grizzlies or Indians would.  Then his luck tumed.  He stumbled across the trail of Ol' Scratch, a solitary mountain man eager enough for company to take the brash youngster under his wing.  Pure chance brought Paddock to the old trapper's camp, but it was skill with a gun and a knife that kept them both alive as they rode deep into the majestic land of Blackfeet and Crow, bible-spouting pioneers and sensual woman where only the best and braves survived . . . and only the luckiest rode back again. Carry The Wind is a gripping historical saga set in the Grand Tetons during a time when the horizon never ended and a nation was being born. Edge wear. Bantam, 1997. Good/Not Applicable., Bantam, 1997<

1997, ISBN: 0ebdcb93db24e553880ee9629186544e

Valley Forge: The Judson Press, 1965. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Yellow cloth, lightly bumped and rubbed, clean pages, strong hinges, very nice reading copy., The … More...

Valley Forge: The Judson Press, 1965. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Yellow cloth, lightly bumped and rubbed, clean pages, strong hinges, very nice reading copy., The Judson Press, 1965, Victor Gollancz. The Dragon Wakes: Vol.3 Land Fit for Heroes. In this world Rome never fell to the Barbarians, the legions never left Britain and now, in the late twentieth century, Rome is the capital of a vast global civilization....which, like all great civilizations, is a hotbed of political conspiracy and intrigue. But with Europe's agriculture paralysed by disease, Britannia, immune on its island, comes to the attention of the Emperor. The third in a series set in an alternative modern Britain that is still ruled by the Roman Empire, except for the forests where the ancient Britons survive. Coll, Angus and Miranda must defeat the madness and destruction brought about by the Emperor, who intends to burn down all the forests. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine, slightly bumped in very good condition. Unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, 1" tear to top corner of spine, illustrated by Adrian Chesterman, in nr very good condition. . Very Good. Cloth Green. 1995., Victor Gollancz, 1995, Young Josiah Paddock, on the run from his past in St. Louis, didn't have much hope of survival.  Winter was coming to the Rockies, and if the cold cutting through his city clothes didn't kill him, grizzlies or Indians would.  Then his luck tumed.  He stumbled across the trail of Ol' Scratch, a solitary mountain man eager enough for company to take the brash youngster under his wing.  Pure chance brought Paddock to the old trapper's camp, but it was skill with a gun and a knife that kept them both alive as they rode deep into the majestic land of Blackfeet and Crow, bible-spouting pioneers and sensual woman where only the best and braves survived . . . and only the luckiest rode back again. Carry The Wind is a gripping historical saga set in the Grand Tetons during a time when the horizon never ended and a nation was being born. Edge wear. Bantam, 1997. Good/Not Applicable., Bantam, 1997<

1997, ISBN: 0ebdcb93db24e553880ee9629186544e

Young Josiah Paddock, on the run from his past in St. Louis, didn't have much hope of survival.  Winter was coming to the Rockies, and if the cold cutting through his city clothes didn't … More...

Young Josiah Paddock, on the run from his past in St. Louis, didn't have much hope of survival.  Winter was coming to the Rockies, and if the cold cutting through his city clothes didn't kill him, grizzlies or Indians would.  Then his luck tumed.  He stumbled across the trail of Ol' Scratch, a solitary mountain man eager enough for company to take the brash youngster under his wing.  Pure chance brought Paddock to the old trapper's camp, but it was skill with a gun and a knife that kept them both alive as they rode deep into the majestic land of Blackfeet and Crow, bible-spouting pioneers and sensual woman where only the best and braves survived . . . and only the luckiest rode back again. Carry The Wind is a gripping historical saga set in the Grand Tetons during a time when the horizon never ended and a nation was being born. Edge wear. Bantam, 1997. Good/Not Applicable., Bantam, 1997<