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KNOW-IT-ALL : ONE MAN'S HUMBLE QUEST TO

By: A.J. JACOBS

Price: $12.50

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER:

Seller ID: IM229676

ISBN: 0743250605

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

33,000 pages

44 million words

10 billion years of history

1 obsessed man

Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), "The Know-It-All" chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" from A to Z.

To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." His wife, Julie, tells him it's a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his father, a brillian...
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KNOW-IT-ALL : ONE MAN'S HUMBLE QUEST TO

By: A.J. JACOBS

Price: $7.00

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER:

Seller ID: IM229683

ISBN: 0743250621

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.

33,000 PAGES
44 MILLION WORDS
10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY
1 OBSESSED MAN

To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His wife, Julie, tells him it's a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his...
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READING PROMISE: My Father and the Books We Shared

By: ALICE OZMA

Price: $7.50

Publisher: GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING:

Seller ID: IM530426

ISBN: 1455512362

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: VERY Good Condition

READING PROMISE : MY FATHER AND THE B

By: ALICE OZMA

Price: $7.50

Publisher: WARNER BOOKS:

Seller ID: IM150099

ISBN: 0446583782

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

When Alice Ozma was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights. On the hundreth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither wanted to let go of their storytelling ritual. So they decided to continue what they called "The Streak." Alice's father read aloud to her every night without fail until the day she left for college.

Alice approaches her book as a series of vignettes about her relationship with her father and the life lessons learned from the books he read to her.

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COLLECTED BOOKS: THE GUIDE TO VALUES

By: ALLEN AHEARN

Price: $10.00

Publisher: PUTNAM PUBLISHING GROUP:

Seller ID: IM503117

ISBN: 0399136630

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Torn Cover/DJ

COLLECTED BOOKS: The Guidet to Values 1998 Edition

By: ALLEN AHEARN

Price: $10.00

Publisher: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS:

Seller ID: IM506151

ISBN: 0399142797

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: VERY Good Bent/Torn Cover

HOW READING CHANGED MY LIFE

By: ANNA QUINDLEN

Price: $4.50

Publisher: BALLANTINE/FAWCETT:

Seller ID: IM90736

ISBN: 0345422783

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

Reading lists of some of the author's favorite books accompany her thoughts on the role of books and
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EX LIBRIS : CONFESSIONS OF A COMMON READ

By: ANNE FADIMAN

Price: $5.00

Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX, INC.:

Seller ID: IM100492

ISBN: 0374527229

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice.

This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable ...
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AMERICAN PICTUREBOOKS FROM NOAH'S ARK TO

By: BARBARA BADER

Price: $25.00

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER:

Seller ID: IM1848

ISBN: 0027080803

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Fair Cover/DJ

AMERICAN PICTUREBOOKS FROM NOAH'S ARK TO

By: BARBARA BADER

Price: $15.00

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER:

Seller ID: IM1849

ISBN: 0027080803

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Torn Cover/DJ

QUOTABLE BOOK LOVER

By: BEN JACOBS

Price: $5.00

Publisher: LYONS PRESS:

Seller ID: IM509984

ISBN: 158574655X

Binding: PAPERBACK

Condition: GOOD Condition

This collection of more than five hundred quotations captures the wisdom and wit of the most insightful things ever said about books, spoken and written by such legendary figures as: Aeschylus; Ernest Hemingway; John Ruskin; Woody Allen; Thomas Jefferson; Charles Scribner; Maya Angelou; Franz Kafka; George Bernard Shaw; Jane Austen; Helen Keller; Wallace Stevens; Francis Bacon; Malcolm X; Robert Penn Warren; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Groucho Marx; William Carlos Williams; William Faulkner; John Milton; Oprah Winfrey; Robert Frost; George Orwell; and W.B. Yeats.
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SPEAK FICTION AND POETRY : BOMB MAGAZINE

By: BETSY SUSSLER

Price: $15.00

Publisher: GORDON & BREACH PUBLISHERS:

Seller ID: IM467220

ISBN: 9057013517

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

This text presents an anthology of BOMB magazine's interviews with writers. The writers featured include Walter Mosley, Russell Banks, Jeanette Winterson, Paul Auster, Michael Ondaatje, Graham Swift, Peter Carey, Caryl Phillips, Willem Dafoe, Sheila Bosworth and Padgett Powell.
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GROWING UP WITH DICK AND JANE : LEARNING

By: CAROLE KISMARIC

Price: $10.00

Publisher: COLLINS PUBLICATIONS:

Seller ID: IM332

ISBN: 0006492460

Binding: PB Large

Condition: GOOD Condition

They're back

Growing Up with Dick and Jane reunites us with two old friends, Dick and Jane, who, for forty years, taught so many of us to read. Here's the all American brother and sister team. Look It's Dick, in his striped polo shirts and shorts, always ready for an adventure. Look Look It's Jane, in her pretty dresses, eager to have fun and learn about life. There's silly, mischievous Baby Sally, and Spot, America's favorite spaniel. Growing Up with Dick and Jane brings to life the cast of characters who are emblems of the American Dream. And s...
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OWL AMONG COLOPHONS

By: CHARLES MADISON

Price: $10.00

Publisher: HOLT, RINEHART & WINSTON:

Seller ID: IM428371

ISBN: 11-99-12132-0

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

IN THE COMPANY OF WRITERS : A LIFE IN PU

By: CHARLES SCRIBNER

Price: $25.00

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER:

Seller ID: IM213965

ISBN: 0684192500

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: VERY Good Author Signed

signed by the author on the front endpage book and jacket with very minor shelfwear otherwise in near fine condition.
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HEAVY WORDS LIGHTLY THROWN : THE REASON

By: CHRIS ROBERTS

Price: $6.00

Publisher: PENGUIN:

Seller ID: IM386991

ISBN: 1592402178

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

Was Little Jack Horner a squatter? ?Baa Baa Black Sheep? a bleat about taxation? What did Jack and Jill do on that hill? Who was Mary? And why was she contrary?

This witty and ingenious book delves into the hidden meanings of forty of the most innocuous- sounding nursery rhymes, uncovering a seething subtext of sexual innuendo, religious hatred, and political subversion. "Heavy Words Lightly Thrown" provides a fascinating history lesson, teases out some alarming Freudian interpretations, and makes astonishing connections to contemporary popular culture. Striking and spooky silhouettes of n...
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SECRETS OF THE WIDOW'S SON The Real History Behind

By: DAVID A. SHUGARTS

Price: $6.50

Publisher: STERLING PUBLISHING:

Seller ID: IM338917

ISBN: 1402777299

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

Two author/researchers present a field guide to the key ideas, symbols, and historical issues that Dan Brown may employ in his upcoming sequel to The Da Vinci Code.
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BOOK BEFORE PRINTING: Ancient, Medieval and Orient

By: DAVID DIRINGER

Price: $8.00

Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC.:

Seller ID: IM526469

ISBN: 0486242439

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: VERY Good Condition

"A remarkable work. . . . For sheer weight of information there is no equal to it." -- The Spectator.
It is probable that the earliest "books" were written on wood or leaves as early as the fourth millennium B.C. These fragile materials, unfortunately, have not come down to us. In their absence, the earliest surviving books are the clay tablets of Mesopotamia, the oldest attributed to c. 3500 B.C. On these ancient clay shards, dense rows of cuneiform script record the seminal writings of mankind: the Gilgamesh epic, Sumerian literary catalogues, Babylonian astrology, Assyrian accoun...
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SEA OF WORDS

By: DEAN KING

Price: $7.00

Publisher: HENRY HOLT (MPS):

Seller ID: IM482874

ISBN: 0805038167

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

OXFORD ILLUSTRATED LITERARY GUIDE TO GREAT BRITAIN

By: DOROTHY EAGLE

Price: $14.00

Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS:

Seller ID: IM55723

ISBN: 0198691254

Binding: HARDCOVER

Condition: GOOD Condition

BOOK PRICES: Used and Rare, 1997

By: EDWARD N. ZEMPEL

Price: $20.00

Publisher: SPOON RIVER PRESS:

Seller ID: IM508152

ISBN: 0930358155

Binding: HC Large

Condition: VERY Good Condition

FIRST EDITIONS

By: EDWARD N. ZEMPEL

Price: $20.00

Publisher: SPOON RIVER PRESS:

Seller ID: IM473208

ISBN: 0930358139

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S BOOKS OF THE CENTURY

By: ELIZABETH DIEFENDORF

Price: $9.00

Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS:

Seller ID: IM54190

ISBN: 0195108973

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: VERY Good Condition

What are the books that helped shape and define the last hundred years? This was the question put to the librarians of The New York Public Library as part of the Library's 100th anniversary celebration. Which books had influenced the course of events for good or ill? Which interpreted new worlds? Or delighted millions of readers? Their answers to these questions formed "Books of the Century," a highly popular exhibit during the Library's centennial celebration (1895 to 1995), highlighting an exhilarating collection of important works by some of the greatest writers of our times.
Now, the c...
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