Search Results: Authors starting with S from Blacks Bookshop

NY: Frances Foster Books, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Vladimir Radunsky. 5.75"x8.5" 233 pgs. Eight printing. Purple boards w/title blind stamped on front. Red spine w/red metallic letters. Designed by Filomena Tuosto. John Newberry Medal sticker on front. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean & bright. Not x-library, unclipped. GI inside front board. Made into a Disney film. Minimal shelf wear to DJ. Holes is a 1998 young adult novel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book centers on Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a correctional boot camp in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft. The plot explores the history of the area and how the actions of several characters in the past have affected Stanley's life in the present. These interconnecting stories touch on themes such as racism, homelessness, illiteracy, and arranged marriage. The book was both a critical and commercial success. Much of… Read More

NY: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 1st Edition. Paperback. Collectible - Near Fine. 7.5"x9.5". 469 pgs. 2nd Printing. Cover design Jeff Weeks. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unmarked, & unclipped. GIFT QUALITY. "Your one-stop guide to Adobe Acrobat 9 Create and publish feature-rich electronic documents that retain the look and feel of the originals. How to Do Everything: Adobe Acrobat 9 explains how to edit PDFs, collaborate with other users, and optimize PDFs for print or the web. You'll also learn how to secure your PDFs and maintain document integrity. With coverage of the Adobe Acrobat Standard, Pro, and Pro Extended editions, this book helps you maximize all the new and improved features of this versatile program right away.Open, view, and search PDFs Convert virtually any document to PDF Capture PDFs from a scanner or web page Create navigation devices including bookmarks, thumbnails, and links Review, edit, and annotate PDFs Add digital signatures and apply document… Read More

Cumberland, RI: Harvard Univeristy Press, 2023. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. New. FIRST PRINTING. Physical Info: 1.37" H x 8.97" L x 6.11" W (1.87 lbs) 560 pages. Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents. Secure ship w/track #. Mao Zedong and the twelve young men who founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 could hardly have imagined that less than thirty years later, they would rule China. Over a century later the party remains in command, leading a nation primed for global dominance. From Rebel to Ruler is a landmark history of the Chinese Communist Party--its rise against incredible odds, its struggle to consolidate power and overcome self-inflicted disasters, and its ability to thrive long after the collapse of the Soviet Union and dissolution of other communist parties. Leninist systems are thought to be rigid, yet the Chinese Communist Party has proved adaptable. Tony Saich shows that the party owes its endurance to its flexibility. But is it nimble enough to realize Xi Jinping's… Read More

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. 1st Edition. Hardcover_pictorial boards. New/New. 5TH PRINTING. Physical Info: 0.5" H x 10.2" L x 9.2" W (1.05 lbs) 40 pages. Features: Ikids , Price on Product , Table of Contents. Target Age Group: 04 to 08. Secure ship w/track #. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews - New York Public Library "An utter joy from beginning to end!" --Sophie Blackall, two-time Caldecott Medal winner. This hot dog has had enough of summer in the city! Enough of sizzling sidewalks, enough of wailing sirens, enough of people's feet right in his face. When he plops down in the middle of a crosswalk, his owner endeavors to get him the breath of fresh air he needs. She hails a taxi, hops a train, and ferries out to the beach. Here, a pup can run! With fluid art and lyrical text that have the soothing effect of waves on sand, award-winning author Doug Salati shows us how to find calm and carry it back with us so we can appreciate the… Read More

NY: Little, Brown & Co, 2014. 1st edition thus. Paperback. New. 4.25"x6.75"x.5". 234 pgs. 117th printing. "Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them." His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of… Read More

Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, Inc, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. Near Fine-Collectible/VeryGood. SECOND PRINTING. 6"X8.75" 316 numbered pages. Black cloth boards w/gold ink to spine. Map of Mithril Hall for paste downs. Cover painting by Jeff Easley. Cartography by Karen Wynn Fonstad. spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped ($15.95), unmarked. Separtion of laminate from DJ along front bottom w/mild edge & shelf wear. Secure ship w/track #. Minor shelf wear to DJ. Clean edges, no bumps. Secure ship w/track #. Having found a measure of peace among the dwarves in the reclaimed Mithral Hall, Drizzt begins to know contentment for perhaps the first time in his tumultuous life. But for a dark elf renegade from a city ruled by priestesses of a demon goddess, no peace can long last. It is Lolth herself, the dreaded Queen of the Demonweb Pits, who musters her followers to pour up from the black depths of the Underdark to reclaim for their goddess the one soul that had… Read More

Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, Inc, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine-Collectible. FIRST PRINTING. 6"x8.75" 313 pgs. Blue denim cloth boards w/gilt letters on the spine. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unmarked, no dj. 120,000 first printing. Secure ship w/tracking #. In the subterranean city of Menzoberranzan, Drizzt Do'Urden faces his ultimate challenge, as the matron of a powerful ruling house prepares an assault on Mithril Hall and Lloth, the Spider Queen, is unleashed on the metropolis. The conflict between the drow of the Underdark and the dwarves of Mithral Hall comes to a head—and Drizzt Do'Urden and Bruenor find themselves on the frontlines. While Mithral Hall teems with whispers of the war to come, chaos erupts both above and below ground. On the surface of Faerûn, the first signs of the Time of Troubles make themselves known, forcing deities to assume their mortal forms. Beneath them in the Underdark, all but one drow house has lost their… Read More

NY: Vantage, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - Fine/VeryGood. 5.5"x8" 80 pp. Black cloth w/lavender letters on spine. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Light soiling to DJ w/minimal edge and shelf wear. 72 poems total divided into three sections. Voice of the Hills includes: Muddy Waters, Rain Songs, Roadside Trees, Appalachia, Sorghum Making... Bygones includes: The Peddler, The Old School Ground, Summer Storm, At the Paw-paw Patch, October Snake... Fact and Fantasy includes: The Companions, Bunker Hill, Dreamer.

NY: Stein and Day, 1976. 1st Edition. Paperback. Good-Collectible. 6"x9" 773 indexed pages. Second printing. Crease to spine, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Moderage edge wear. Secure ship w/track #. Sampson gives a picture of Britain today ardly available from any other source, and certainly not from the media in this country. A valuable guid to the political and economic antaomy of modern Britain.

NY: Viking Press, 2022. 1st Edition. Hardcover_card stock spine. New/New. FIRST PRINTING W/DJ WRAPPED IN MYLAR. Physical Info: 1.6" H x 9.1" L x 6.3" W (1.45 lbs) 432 pages. Features: Price on Product, Bibliography, Table of Contents. Secure ship w/track #. "On May 25, 2020, George Floyd [died] at the hands of the police, murdered outside of a Minneapolis convenience store by white officer Derek Chauvin. The video recording of his death set off a series of protests in the United States and around the world, awakening millions to the ... need for reimagining this country's broken systems of policing. But behind a face that would be graffitied onto countless murals, and a name that has become synonymous with civil rights, there is the reality of one man's stolen life: a life beset by suffocating systemic pressures that ultimately proved inescapable. This biography of George Floyd shows the athletic young boy raised in the projects of Houston's Third Ward who would become a father, a partner, a friend,… Read More

Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc, 2008. Hardcover_pictorial boards. Fine/Near Fine. 11"x7.75" 256 indexed pgs. Front Cover: Javy Lopez #8 of the Atlanta Braves @ Turner Field. Photo by Jamie Squire. Back Cover: Night falls over Baltimore and Oriole Park in 2003 photo by Roger Miller. DJ mirrors pictorial boards. Edition and printing not stated. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Blemish from factory to ffep. Take a picture-packed look at what makes Major League ballparks so special. This beautiful book details every Major League team's home turf-both the National and American League ballparks are covered. You'll - The address - The capacity - Opening day statistics - Dimensions - Defining features - The venue's most memorable moments - And more! With engaging, informative text, and breathtaking photographs including aerial views and historical snapshots to capture the ever-changing cityscapes and the sport itself, this… Read More

NY: Harcort, Brace and Company, 1929. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_cloth. Near Fine-Collectible. 6.5"x9.5" 604 indexed pages. Abridged Edtion. Grass green cloth boards. Gilt letters to front and spine (faded). Gift inscription on ffed (depradation). Preface and Note by author. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library. No DJ. 43 photos, cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters. Pencil notes in margins. Secure ship w/track #. Pulitzer Prize for History; National Book Award for Nonfiction.

NY: Putnam, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Used - VeryGood/Near Fine. 6.25"x9.25". 340 pp. X-library w/graphics. 1st Printing. Bright blue boards w/gilt title on front. Cloth spine w/gilt letters. Algea green paste downs. Book design by Julie Duquet. A-FP. Jacket design by Ann Spinelli. DJacket illustration c 2000 Don Grautigam. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Lightly soiled edges. Unclipped DJ. South Florida's premier sleuth-about-town strikes again in a deliciously daffy caper that takes a decidedly deadly turn. In a production of Arsenic and Old Lace, a play filled with murderers, only Archy McNally can separate the actors from the real killers.

Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - Near Fine/No Jacket.

NY: Putnam, 2001. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 312 pgs. Black boards w/silver foil letters on spine. Book design Julie Duquet. DJ design #38792 by Ann Spinelli. Cover illustration by Don Brautigam. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Family ties ensnare Lawrence Sanders's Archy McNally, "a raffish combination of Dashiell Hammett's Nick Charles and P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster" (The New York Times Book Review). Bestselling author Sabrina Wright wants dapper detective Archy McNally to find her husband, who vanished while looking for her MIA daughter—it may seem like a simple case, but McNally knows it's never that easy. Thirty-year-old Gillian Wright ran off to find her birth father, opening a Pandora's box of scandalous revelations the tabloids can't resist. It seems that Sabrina's life was a bigger fiction than her bodice-ripping romances. Before her story is over, three powerful men… Read More

NY: Putnam, 1988. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_buckram spine. Fine/Near Fine. Don Brautigam. 5.75"x 8.5" 346 pgs. Black boards w/gold letters on buckram spine. DJ #13724. Photo of author by Pamela J. Smith. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Minimal edge & shelf wear to DJ. Residue on front of DJ from another DJ. Secure ship w/track #. Timothy Cone, the unforgettable detective introduced in The Timothy Files, is back in action. The place is New York city -- deep in the underworld of big business. The game is greed -- a high-powered hotbed of scandals, scams, and gangland massacres. And Timothy Cone is the player who plans to blow it all wide open...Source: Goodreads.

NY: Putnam, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Near Fine-Collectible/VeryGood. Don Brautigam. FIFTH PRINTING w/DJ wrapped in mylar. 23.5 cm. 380 numbered pgs. Black cloth spine w/gold foil letters over gun steel boards. Gray paste downs. Spine straight, sewn binding tight w/flexible boards, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (price), & unmarked. Mended tears to DJ edges w/shelf & edge wear. Secure ship w/track #. When a Manhattan psychiatrist is murdered, a retired detective returns to the job, in a thriller by the #1 New York Times-bestselling "master of suspense" (The Washington Post). On a rainy November night, Dr. Simon Ellerbee stares out the window of his Upper East Side psychiatry office, miserably wishing he could seek counseling for the problems in his seemingly perfect life. He hears the door buzzer and goes to answer it, but flinches when he sees his unexpected guest. Minutes later, he's dead, his skull crushed by repeated blows from a ball-peen hammer. Once the… Read More

Ny: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x8.5". 307 pgs . Black boards w/gold foil letters on spine. Book Design: Julie Duquet. Author photo: Pamela J. Smith. Jacket design: Ann Spinelli. Jacket illustration: Don Brautigam. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Archy McNally lives a life most people only dream about. As Chief of Discreet Inquiries at his father's white-shoe law firm, Archy keeps tabs on the rich and famous while keeping hours only a barfly could love. When well-to-do widow Edythe Westmore is urged to buy a Faberge Imperial egg, her adult offspring violently oppose the investment and enlist Archy's services to put the kibosh on the deal. As he investigates the bona fides of the bejeweled trinket, the mysterious machinations of the siblings, family advisors, and an aged antiques dealer are revealed, and Archy is thrust into a whirling vortex of greed, passion, and… Read More

LaVergne, TN: Self-Published, 2010. Paperback. Fine. 5.5"x8.5" 86 indexed pages. Foreword by Macself. 8 full page B&W plates. 26 B&W illustrations in text. Enlarged and mondernized by A. J. Macself. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, no DJ. Secure ship w/track #. 8 full page B&W plates. 26 B&W illustrations in text. Enlarged and mondernized by A. J. Macself.

Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, 2011. MP3CD. Used - LikeNew. 1 MP3 CD = 11.5 listening hours. Narrated by Richard Ferrone. Unabridged. Cover art by Will Lee. X-library with no graphics. Minor shelf wear to container but CD untouched. MP3-compatible CD or DVD player required for playback in your car, computer, or home. GIFT QUALITY. A senseless slaughter leads Lucas Davenport down a twisted path in this thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the Minnesota town of Wayzata, an entire family has been killed—husband, wife, two kids, dogs. On the wall, in blood: "Were coming." No apostrophe. There's something about the scene that tugs at Lucas's cop instincts—it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen from Mexican drug gangs. But this is a seriously upscale town, the husband ran a modest software company, the wife dabbled in local politics. None of it seems to fit.… Read More