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New York U. S. A.: Vintage. Very Good 1995. Softcover. Later prtg as shown; lite weathering no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 h… mais…

New York U. S. A.: Vintage. Very Good 1995. Softcover. Later prtg as shown; lite weathering no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours.; 0.59 x 8 x 5.18 Inches; 272 pages; Andrew H. Vachss, Esq. - Master of the Dark Side, Sept 19, 2000By "jcardon1" (NY, NY United States) -By "Dark Side," I don't mean the occult. Real-life attorney Vachss has an intimate grasp on all that that is offensive to the majority of us who live quiet, (semi-)organized lives. We gasp and recoil at the real-life occurrence of a brutal act by one human against another. The world of Vachss is the opposite. Therein we are non-plussed by an act of kindness. His world is real; it is simply a world that most of us chose to deny the existence of. (<-Dangling participle - sorry!) Vachss' fictional characters and situations are damn close to reality. And it's often tough to take.In this latest outing, Vachss takes his main character, Burke, to the upper class suburbs to fulfill a longstanding "debt." Burke, an abandoned and abused former ward of the state, (both in childhood and occasionally in adulthood) is a urban survivalist, con artist and city animal. He is also presently mourning his "accidental" killing of a small child. (I told you it was tough stuff to take!) But he adapts to this new, ritzy environment as only a true survivor can. (Vachss' fans will recall that he pulled this off before, in exurban Indiana, in "Blossom.") And, as always, he solves the underlying crisis through a combination of detective work, technological assistance, sheer bravado and unrelenting violence.The common theme to all Burke novels is moral outrage. Once Vachss has overwhelmed us with the horror of the situation (and it always involves the sexual and physical abuse of children), we applaud his character as a vengeful angel. Burke consciously believes that he does what he does for the money. Nonsense. He's driven by the demons of his own abusive upbringing. And I wouldn't want him "cured' for the world... ., Vintage, 1995, 3, New York U. S. A.: Harper Perennial. As New 1996. Softcover. Marfree, early prtg, typical aging not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours. ; 7.9 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches; 248 pages; \nFrom Publishers Weekly The signal event of this novel? The shooting of the protagonist's son? Is announced early, and the rest of the book is imbued with a melancholy only occasionally illuminated by spiritual revelation or insight. Edward Ives is a foundling, adopted by a widowed print shop manager and raised uneventfully in an idyllic? Though Depression-era? New York City of egg creams, stickball and melting-pot color. Ives's dark looks and his father's long history of working amiably with Cuban pressmen incline him toward a sympathy with Hispanics and their culture, which conveniently anchors Hijuelos in a world he knows well. As a child, Ives shows a penchant for drawing, and he meets his future wife, Annie MacGuire, in a class at the Art Students League. Their first child, Robert (or Roberto) , born in 1950, is murdered at age 17 on the streets of New York by a Puerto Rican teenager. The case is celebrated --Robert had just decided to enter the priesthood and was killed for a measly $10; by his side was found a shopping bag full of record albums-- Christmas presents carefully chosen for each member of his family. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Hijuelos showed he can sharply evoke a vibrant, multicultural New York, capturing its music, its menace and its smell. Here, however, every storefront is darkened by the grief of Edward Ives, and every note is tamped. It is as if the lovelorn Nestor of Mambo Kings has returned from the dead to play his sad arias in a world? And a book? Absent his lively, spirited brother, Cesar. The author's attempts to render all this as a Dickensian tale of redemption through dignified suffering? Dickens is invoked more than a dozen times? Are crude and work no wonders. Not even a long-foreshadowed and deferred meeting at the end of the book between Ives and his son's murderer helps: "Nothing monumental transpired. Niceties were exchanged. " Same for the book. BOMC selection; author tour. Copyright 1995 Reed. From Library Journal For Edward Ives, a graphic artist employed by a Madison Avenue advertising firm, Christmas has always been an emotionally charged holiday. It was during the Christmas season that Edward's foster father first visited him at the foundling home, and at Christmas a few years later Edward was finally adopted. Ives met his wife at an art students' Christmas party, and-most importantly-it was during the 1967 Christmas season that Ives's 17-year-old son was senselessly gunned down as he left choir practice. Ives has never fully recovered from the killing, and his unshakable depression threatens to destroy his marriage, as does his strange obsession with rehabilitating the murderer. It is significant that Mr. Ives's most prized possession is a signed edition of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Hijuelos, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of Cuban exile, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, breathes new life into the Victorian Christmas genre. Highly recommended. --Edward B. St. John, Loyola Law Sch. Lib. , Los Angeles Copyright 1995 Reed. ., Harper Perennial, 1996, 5, lyric by Paul Francis Webstermusic by Maurice Jarrespecial arrangement for all organs by Dave Colemanpublished by Robbins Music Corporation (1966)#: SH 4649-4with lyrics9 x 11 1/8 inches, 5 pages"Lara's Theme" is the generic name given to a leitmotif written for the film Doctor Zhivago (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre. Soon afterward, it became the basis of the song "Somewhere, My Love"While working on the soundtrack for Doctor Zhivago, Maurice Jarre was asked by director David Lean to come up with a theme for the character of Lara, played by Julie Christie. Initially Lean had desired to use a well-known Russian song but could not locate the rights to it, and delegated responsibility to Jarre. After several unsuccessful attempts at writing it, Lean suggested to Jarre that he go to the mountains with his girlfriend and write a piece of music for her. Jarre says that the resultant piece was "Lara's Theme", and Lean liked it well enough to use it in numerous tracks for the film. In editing Zhivago, Lean and producer Carlo Ponti reduced or outright deleted many of the themes composed by Jarre; Jarre was angry because he felt that an over-reliance on "Lara's Theme" would ruin the soundtrack.Jarre's esthetic fears proved unfounded commercially, however, as the theme became an instant success and gained fame throughout the world. By special request of Connie Francis, Paul Francis Webster later took the theme and added lyrics to it to create "Somewhere My Love". Francis, however, retired from the project when the lyrics were presented to her because she thought of them as too "corny". A few weeks later, Francis reconsidered her position and recorded the song nonetheless, but by then Ray Conniff had also recorded a version of his own, reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1966. Conniff's version of the song also topped the "Easy listening" chart in the U.S. for four weeks. Despite Conniff's success, Francis also had her version released as a single, and although it failed to chart in the US, it became one of her biggest successes internationally, becoming one of the "Top 5" in territories such as Scandinavia and Asia. In Italy, her Italian version of the song, "Dove non so", became her last #1 success.Various other versions of it have since been released. Italio-American tenor, Sergio Franchi covered the song as "Somewhere, My Love" in his 1967 RCA Victor album From Sergio With Love. Harry James recorded a version on his 1976 album The King James Version (Sheffield Lab LAB 3). "Lara's Theme" remains to this day one of the most recognizable movie themes ever written. A music box plays Lara's Theme at the beginning of the film The Spy Who Loved Me.On the soundtrack album for Zhivago, there is no one track listed as "Lara's Theme". A variation of the piece appears in numerous sections, however. Some tracks briefly cite it, while others are composed entirely from the motif. The orchestration is varied, most notably with balalaika and orchestra.One of the main reasons the theme is featured in so many tracks is that Lean had hired an impromptu balalaika orchestra from several Russian Orthodox Churches in Los Angeles; the musicians could only learn 16 bars of music at a time, and could not read written music. Although never credited, Edgar Stanistreet, a street musician of Philadelphia, claimed that he was asked to play the song over the phone to an MGM executive, and was later taken into the studio to record.----------------------------Maurice-Alexis Jarre (13 September 1924 28 March 2009) was a French composer and conductor, "one of the giants of 20th century film music" who was "among the most sought-after composers in the movie industry" and "a creator of both subtle underscoring and grand, sweeping themes, not only writing for conventional orchestras... but also experimenting with electronic sounds later in his career."Although he composed several concert works, Jarre is best known for his film scores, particularly for his collaborations with film director David Lean. Jarre composed the scores to all of Lean's films from Lawrence of Arabia (1962) on. Notable scores for other directors include The Train (1964), Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976), Lion of the Desert (1981), Witness (1985) and Ghost (1990).Jarre was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Three of his compositions spent a total of 42 weeks on the UK singles chart; the biggest hit was "Somewhere My Love" (to his tune "Lara's Theme", with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster) by the Mike Sammes Singers, which reached Number 14 in 1966 and spent 38 weeks on the chart.Jarre was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning three in the Best Original Score category for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984), all of which were directed by David Lean. He also won four Golden Globes, two BAFTA Awards, and a Grammy Award.---------------------------------Paul Francis Webster (December 20, 1907 March 18, 1984) was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.He was born in New York City, the son of Myron Lawrence Webster and Blanche Pauline Stonehill Webster. He attended the Horace Mann School (Riverdale, Bronx, New York), graduating in 1926, and then went to Cornell University from 1927 to 1928 and New York University from 1928 to 1930, leaving without receiving a degree. He worked on ships throughout Asia and then became a dance instructor at an Arthur Murray studio in New York City.By 1931, however, he turned his career direction to writing song lyrics. His first professional lyric was Masquerade (music by John Jacob Loeb) which became a hit in 1932, performed by Paul Whiteman.In 1935 Twentieth Century Fox signed him to a contract to write lyrics for Shirley Temple's films, but shortly afterward he went back to freelance writing. His first hit was a collaboration in 1941 with Duke Ellington on the song "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)".After 1950, Webster worked mostly for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He won two Academy Awards in collaboration with Sammy Fain, in 1953 and 1955, and another with Johnny Mandel in 1965. Altogether, sixteen of his songs received Academy Award nominations; among lyricists, he is third after Sammy Cahn with twenty-six and Johnny Mercer, who was nominated eighteen times, in number of nominations. In addition, a large number of his songs became major hits on the popular music charts.Webster is the most successful songwriter of the 1950s on the U.K. charts. In 1967 he was asked to write the famed lyrics for the Spider-Man (theme song) of the television cartoon. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. His papers are collected at Syracuse University Libraries.Webster continued writing through 1983. He died in 1984 in Beverly Hills, California and is buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California., Robbins Music, Corp, 1966, 3, West Nyack, NY: Dexter Press, 1973. Stapled. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (unpaginated) Light rubbing to the cover edges. The binding is secure and the text is clean. Illustrated with color photographs and a city map., Dexter Press, 1973, 3, New York: Time, inc, 1966. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. book in slip case. 192 p. illus. (part col. ) 32 cm. Time-Life library of art. Includes Illustrations. Bibliography: p. 187-188. THE WORLD OF LEONARDO 1452-1519; HARDCOVER BOOK IN SLIPCASE. COPYRIGHT 1966 AUTHOR ROBERT WALLACE, BY TIME LIFE LIBRARY OF ART. INC...192 PAGES CONTENTS; 1. THE MISTS OF YOUTH, 2. BEGINNING WITH AN ANGEL, 3. THE MASTER IN MILAN, 4. GRANDEUR AND TRAGEDY, 5. REACHING FOR THE UNIVERSE, 6. A SUNBURST OF GREATNESS, 7. THE CITY OF DISILLUSION, 8. THE MYTH AND THE MAN......CONDITION GOOD, Time, inc, 1966, 2.5, U.S.A.: The penguin Press, 2005. NEW. world hist. NEW BOOK.. 1st Printing... Hardcover. Fine/Fine., The penguin Press, 2005, 5, New York, NY, USA: Ballantine Books, 1998. First Paperback Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. In The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew. It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends--high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime--have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara's aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. As the horror unfolds, Delmonico's still serves up wondrous meals, and a summer trip to the elegant gambling parlors of Saratoga provides precious keys to the murderer's past. At the same time, we go on revealing journeys into Stevie's New York, a place where poor and neglected children--then as now--turn to crime and drugs at shockingly early ages. Peppered throughout are characters taken from real life and rendered with historical vigor, including suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton; painter Albert Pinkham Ryder; and Clarence Darrow, who thunders for the defense in a tense courtroom drama during which the sanctity of American motherhood itself is put on trial. Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York., Ballantine Books, 1998, 2.5, New York: Bantam Spectra, 2008. AE - A first edition hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Book has remainder mark on the bottom, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners and light shelf wear. In this stunning follow-up to his epic fantasy debut, Alan Campbell propels readers into a captivating city battling for its own survival - and that of human kind - in a world of deities and demons, fallen angels and killers. 9.5"x6.5", 400 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Remainder., Bantam Spectra, 2008, 3, New York, NY, USA.: Belmont Tower Books., 1974. 166 pages. "Like an avenging Angel of Death, Philip Magellan stalks the Mafia killers through the deadly jungle of the big-city underworld. Armed with the most sophisticated weapons in the world, Magellan is a human killing machine who cuts down his enemies with ruthless efficiency. The Mafia has put a million-dollar price on his head, but no one - Syndicate murderer of freelance assassin - has lived to collect it. Now, leaving a trail of dead Mafia pigs behind him, he heads south for Texas, to take on the most powerful Mob small for the Mafia to hide from the vengeance of The Marksman." >>> Store stamp on inside Front cover.. PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed.. Soft Cover. Good to Very Good.. Illus. by Painted Cover Art. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.. Mass Market Paperback., Belmont Tower Books., 1974, 2.75, Carson City, Nevada: Gilbert, Hoover & Clarke Publishers, 1993. Pages [168] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Covers clean, colors bright, minor edge wear, no spine creases. A true story by the author and artist partner Tom Daugherty who flee the real violence of the Los Angeles riots and the fictional violence she was obliged to write. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Second Printing. Trade Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Gilbert, Hoover & Clarke Publishers, 1993, 5, Oxford University Press. Used - Very Good. 2014. Hardcover. Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: American History)., Oxford University Press, 3, Harper, 2008. (1st edition, 1st printing) Large, heavy book, spine lightly slanted, black spine, dark gray boards, bright silver lettering on spine, 415 lightly browned pages. DJ glossy white background, an image of the Statue of Liberty and New York City skyline under stormy skies on center front, praise for Suskind's books on back from Barton Goldman in Washington Post, Tim Rutter in Los Angeles Times and others. Near Fine DJ/Near Very Good book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Near Fine., Harper, 2008, 3.25, Tor Books, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. Los Angeles--City of Angels, city of dreams. But sometimes the dreams becom e nightmares. Having fled New York, Victor Renquist and his small group of Nosferatu are striving to reestablish their Colony in Los Angeles. They have become a dee per, darker part of the city's nightlife. And Hollywood's glitterati are ho t on the scent of a new thrill, one that outshines all others--immortality. But someone, somewhere, is meddling with even darker powers, powers that ev en the Nosferatu fear. Someone is attempting to summon the entity of ancien t evil known at Cthulhu. And Renquist must overcome dissent in his own Colony, solve the riddle of the Darklost (a being brought partway along the Nosferatu path and then abandoned), and combat powerful enemies to save the world--of humans!, Tor Books, 2001, 3, Audioworks. Good in Good dust jacket. 1997. Audio Book. 0671577484 . Ex-Library; 9 oz.; Ex library Audio Book in clamshell case library markings o/w good condition. 4 Cassettes. In "The Angel Of Darkness", Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling "The Alienist" but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew. It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends-- high-living crime reporter Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime-- have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. ., Audioworks, 1997, 2.5, 2019-07-04. VeryGood., 2019-07-04, 0, University of California Press. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry., University of California Press, 5, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2020. Paperback. Good. When Isaac Bell attempts to decipher the forbidding deaths of nine men, he encounters a secret so powerful it could dictate the fate of the world in t his riveting thriller by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up t o unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time. In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated su bmersible in the waters off New York City. His reward afterward is a docume nt left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a docum ent that reopens a historical mystery... In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked to look into an unexplained tragedy at Little Angel Mine, in which nine people died. His dangerous quest to answer the riddle leads to a larger puzzle centered on byzanium, a rare element with extraordinary powers and of virtually incalculable value. As he discovers that there are people who will do anything to control the substance, Isaac Bell will find out just how far he'll go to stop them., G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2020, 2.5, HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, 1993. Paperback. Good. Maybe the Moon, Armistead Maupin's first novel since ending his bestselling Tales of the City series, is the audaciously original chronicle of Cadence Roth - Hollywood actress, singer, iconoclast and former Guiness Book recor d holder as the world's shortest woman. All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where - as she say s - "you can die of encouragement." Her early starring role as a lovable el f in an immensely popular American film proved a major disappointment, sinc e moviegoers never saw the face behind the stifling rubber suit she was req uired to wear. Now, after a decade of hollow promises from the Industry, sh e is reduced to performing at birthday parties and bat mitzvahs as she wait s for the miracle that will finally make her a star. In a series of mordantly funny journal entries, Maupin tracks his spunky he roine across the saffron-hazed wasteland of Los Angeles - from her all-too- infrequent meetings with agents and studio moguls to her regular harrowing encounters with small children, large dogs and human ignorance. Then one da y a lanky piano player saunters into Cady's life, unleashing heady new emot ions, and she finds herself going for broke, shooting the moon with a schem e so harebrained and daring that it just might succeed. Her accomplice in t he venture is her best friend, Jeff, a gay waiter who sees Cady's struggle for visibility as a natural extension of his own war against the Hollywood Closet. As clear-eyed as it is charming, Maybe the Moon is a modern parable about the mythology of the movies and the toll it exacts from it participants on both sides of the screen. It is a work that., HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, 1993, 2.5, New York, NY, U.S.A.: Avon, 2001. 1st prtg. Fine copy. NYPD Paul Devlin is accompaning the lady of his heart, to Cuba, where her aunt has met with a serious "accident". but the NYC cop's legendary street sense may not be enough to keep him breathing in this unfamiliar world of corruption, terror, and potent black magic.. 1st Prtg. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Book., Avon, 2001, 5, Gallery Books1984. sehr gut leichte Benutzungspuren Seiten: Bindung: Hardcover Bilder:, Gallery Books1984, 0<