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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First American Edition. DOCTOR FAUSTUS is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul--and the ability to love his fellow man.Leverkühn's life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of the Third Reich, of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and nihilism. It is also Mann's most profound meditation on the German genius--both national and individual--and the terrible responsibilities of the truly great artist. Fine (with previous owner's booplate affixed to front board inside uner flap), in black cloth boards, without dust cover. BUND.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new, first edition, first printing copy, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. *This copy comes with a temporary "Bad Monkey" tattoo (same image as on the book cover). {BUND}.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Presents the first in a series of novels featuring David Talbot, a fledgling vampire, who sets out to become a chronicler in Paris, where he meets PANDORA, a two-thousand-year-old vampire. Fine, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust cover. {Not remainder-mared or price-clipped} BUND.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First American Edition. LIONEL ASBO, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious Anti-Social Behaviour Order), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. He provides him with fatherly career advice (always carry a knife, for example) and is determined they should share the joys of pit bulls (fed with lots of Tabasco sauce), Internet porn, and all manner of more serious criminality. Des, on the other hand, desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love (and to protect a family secret that could be the death of him). But just as he begins to lead a gentler, healthier life, his uncle?once again in a London prison?wins £140 million in the lottery and upon his release hires a public relations firm and begins dating a cannily ambitious topless model and "poet." Strangely, however, Lionel's true nature remains uncompromised while his problems, and therefore also Desmond's, seem only to multiply.Author of THE INFORMATION, NIGHT TRAIN, VISITING MRS. NABOKOV AND OTHER EXCURSIONS, YELLOW DOG, and EXPERIENCE: A Memoir, among others. As new,first Americaqn edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} . L121.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This book, based on the Tanner Lectures on Human Values that Justice Stephen Breyer delivered at Harvard University in November, 2004, defines the term "active liberty" as a sharing of the nation's sovereign authority with its citizens. Regarding the Constitution as a guide for the application of basic American principles to a living and changing society rather than as an arsenal of rigid legal means for binding and restricting it, Justice Breyer argues that the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems. As new, first edition copy, in fine (albeit with one light abrasion to front cover) mylar-protected dust jacket. NF63.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF68.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Beginning with the Marx Brothers' family heritage and their youth in turn-of-the-century New York, we see Julius and his brothers Adolph and Leonard become Groucho, Harpo, and Chico. We go backstage as they develop their routines in vaudeville, on Broadway, and, finally, in Hollywood. Groucho's story unfolds against the backdrop of the changing world around him and his star-studded milieu, which includes other classic comic figures such as Charlie Chaplin and W. C. Fields, as well as great names like Ben Hecht, George Gershwin, and even T. S. Eliot. Kanfer delves into Groucho's complicated relationships with the people around him ? his failed marriages, his destructive behavior toward his children, his clashes with the self-indulgent Chico. The Brothers become the biggest movie stars in the world ? a success bitterly followed by slow decline as age, years of profligacy, and ego all catch up with them. Finally, we witness Groucho's extraordinary resurrection ? coming back from the career-dead to host the television quiz show You Bet Your Life, which cements his legendary status in American culture. Groucho Marx proved that comedy could be raucous, sophisticated, and wildly unexpected ? all at once. GROUCHO: raises the curtain on this icon of twentieth-century cynicism and irreverence in an authoritative, affectionate, and unsparingly honest look behind the cigar. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust cover. {Not remainder-marred or price-clipped} A100.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house, parks, bridges, piazzas, streets, stores, coffee bars. We follow her to the pool she frequents and to the train station that sometimes leads her to her mother, mired in a desperate solitude after her father's untimely death. In addition to colleagues at work, where she never quite feels at ease, she has girl friends, guy friends, and "him," a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. But in the arc of a year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's vital heat, her perspective will change. This is the first novel she has written in Italian and translated into English. It brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement. New,mint, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} A112.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. It's 2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty years in a blood feud against Adán Barrera, the head of El Federación, the world's most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller's partner. Finally putting Barrera away cost Keller dearly?the woman he loves, the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead. Then Barrera gets out, determined to rebuild the empire that Keller shattered. Unwilling to live in a world with Barrera in it, Keller goes on a ten-year odyssey to take him down. His obsession with justice?or is it revenge??becomes a ruthless struggle that stretches from the cities, mountains, and deserts of Mexico to Washington's corridors of power to the streets of Berlin and Barcelona. Keller fights his personal battle against the devastated backdrop of Mexico's drug war, a conflict of unprecedented scale and viciousness, as cartels vie for power and he comes to the final reckoning with Barrera?and himself?that he always knew must happen. THE CARTELis a story of revenge, honor, and sacrifice, as one man tries to face down the devil without losing his soul. It is the story of the war on drugs and the men?and women?who wage it. Fine, first edition, second printing, in very good (matte cover is completely intact but shows wear at spine top and on flap creases), mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First U.S. Edition. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price clipped} L151.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Basis of the 2016 Golden Globe-winning television miniseries directed by Susan Bier, and starring Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Debecki, and Olivia Colman in the story of the night manager of a Cairo hotel who is recruited to infiltrate an arms dealer's inner circle. Le Carre himself wrote six of the series episodes and served as Executive Producer, and Hiddeston won the award for Best Performance by an Actor, as did Laurie and Colman for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M79.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he'd left Washington politics behind: after working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happy in his role as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty. Now, in this unsparing memoir, meticulously fair in its assessments, he takes us behind the scenes of his nearly five years as a secretary at war: the battles with Congress, the two presidents he served, the military itself, and the vast Pentagon bureaucracy; his efforts to help Bush turn the tide in Iraq; his role as a guiding, and often dissenting, voice for Obama; the ardent devotion to and love for American soldiers?his "heroes"?he developed on the job. In relating his personal journey as secretary, Gates draws us into the innermost sanctums of government and military power during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, illuminating iconic figures, vital negotiations, and critical situations in revealing, intimate detail. Offering unvarnished appraisals of Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Presidents Bush and Obama among other key players, Gates exposes the full spectrum of behind-closed-doors politicking within both the Bush and Obama administrations. He discusses the great controversies of his tenure?surges in both Iraq and Afghanistan, how to deal with Iran and Syria, "Don't Ask Don't Tell," Guantánamo Bay, WikiLeaks?as they played out behind the television cameras. He brings to life the Situation Room during the Bin Laden raid. And, searingly, he shows how congressional debate and action or inaction on everything from equipment budgeting to troop withdrawals was often motivated, to his increasing despair and anger, more by party politics and media impact than by members' desires to protect our soldiers and ensure their success. However embroiled he became in the trials of Washington, Gates makes clear that his heart was always in the most important theater of his tenure as secretary: the front lines. We journey with him to both war zones as he meets with active-duty troops and their commanders, awed by their courage, and also witness him greet coffin after flag-draped coffin returned to U.S. soil, heartbreakingly aware that he signed every deployment order. In frank and poignant vignettes, Gates conveys the human cost of war, and his admiration for those brave enough to undertake it when necessary. Duty tells a powerful and deeply personal story that allows us an unprecedented look at two administrations and the wars that have defined them. New, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. 618 pp, with Index. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} *Packed careully and shipped in a box to insure arrival in excellent condition. NF73A91/A78.