San Francisco: City Lights, (1993). Translated from the Spanish by James Nolan. Softcover. 8vo.116 pp. Very good to fine.

"The poetry of Jaime Gil de Biedma, the most original and influential Spanish poet since the civil war, is finally, after years of censorship under Generalissimo Franco, reaching a huge audience in Spain. His poems capture the mood of post-civil-war Spain and of cosmopolitan Barcelona, where the poet belonged to a celebrated literary movement within the antifascist resistance. His poems are ironic and urban, satiric and sensually Mediterranean. The maudit poet profiled in his poetry - defiant, self-mocking, with a nostalgic tango in the background - has become a legendary figure in the long struggle of the Spanish to emerge from the dictatorship modern and free." ISBN: 0872862771 Item #240

New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt Co., 2006. First edition. Black paper covered boards, orange spine stamped in gold. Book in fine condition. / Jacket also fine. ISBN: 0805079122 Item #274

William Morrow and Company, 2010. Signed in title page. First Edition. 322 pp. 8vo. Beige paper covered boards with brown paper spine stamped in red. Book in as new condition. / Jacket is fine.

From internationally bestselling author Jamie Freveletti comes a riveting new thriller featuring brilliant biochemist Emma Caldridge, except this time there's nowhere to run. . . . . Emma Caldridge is on mile thirty-six of the fifty-five mile Comrades ultramarathon in South Africa when a roadside car bomb explodes. Dazed and disoriented, she regains consciousness after the blast to find a man standing over her with a whit plastic injector. She feels the prick of a needle and the rush of medication under her skin, but before she can make a sound, the man is gone. Shaken by the event and unsure of what substance was pumped into her, Emma calls the one person who can help her figure things out: Edward Banner of the security company Darkview. But Banner has his hands full with another emergency: Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden have attacked a cruise ship, and Darkview has been hired to assist with the rescue. However, according to intelligence sources, the ship is carrying cargo far more valuable than wealthy passengers - something that could be a new weapon of unknown origin. Suspecting the weapon may be chemical in nature, Banner asks Emma to infiltrate the ship and use her professional expertise to identify it. Emma knows it's a risky job, one that she might not survive. But when she learns that special agent Cameron Sumner - a man who has saved her life in the past - is among the hostages, nothing will stop her from getting onboard, no matter what the cost. Item #214

Athens: University of Georgia Press, (1982). First Edition. 8vo. Softcover. 164 pp. including index. Previous owner's name in ink, otherwise as new condition. ISBN: 0820305960 Item #797

Helix Books, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, (1994). First edition. 8vo. green paper covered boards with cream colored cloth spine. 241 pp. Book is fine. / Jacket is fine.

For organisms, sex is not just a bother, it is downright dangerous. If not the harbinger of death, as it is for the century plant, the praying mantis, or the mouse Antechinus, sex hastens the journey to the grave for all of us. If the direct costs of energy and time don't get you, the parasites and infections elements that, like the AIDS virus, have seized this chance to transfer themselves will. In spite of the immense pleasure and satisfaction we derive from it, sex is not good for us. Nor is it meant to be, sex is for genes. Of course, all organisms must die. Being born, dying, and having offspring in between: this is the biological imperative. Reproducing is, after all, what organisms are about, genes invented organisms as a means for their own perpetuation. We will discover that, as far as the perpetuation of genes is concerned, sex is a good thing; cleansing the genome of life-stopping damages, purging deleterious mutations, perhaps even providing hopeful variations for new environments. Although organisms come and go, genes are forever. - from Eros and Evolution. ISBN: 020140754X Item #706

New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, (2001). Stated First Edition. 4to. 28 pp. illustrated in full color. Color illustrated title page. Illustrated endpapers. As new. / in as new dust jacket.

Who better to teach manners and good behavior to the young ones in Ms. Klingensmith's first-grade class than Patsy Pig! . . . Leslie Tryon returns to the Pleasant Valley Elementary School, home of Patsy's dear friend, the famous Albert, and offers young readers a riotous look at their own capacity to be naughty or nice. ISBN: 0689822979 Item #168