The Empire Of Tea
 A Must Read for Evryone who wants to know the whole story of Tea: At last a book on tea, which describes the whole story with all the fascination and romance of the tea plant, and the industry it developed and much more. "Tea is more than just a [... more]
$22.95
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The Collected Plays Of Edward Albee: Volume 1 1958 - 1965
Covers His Low Period and the Recent Heights: This is the third and probably final volume in the collected plays of one of our greatest living playwrights. It includes the following: Lolita, The Man Who Had Three Arms, Three Tall Women, Finding the Sun, [... more]
$45.00
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Hash
an odd and confusing delight...: Two parallel narratives run through this unusual book from a Swedish member of the Nobel Academy. In post-war Sweden a schoolteacher and a German (who might just be Martin Bormann in disguise) travel around the country in [... more]
$23.95
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Eva Zeisel On Design
Good collection of short essays and photos from one of the most experienced designers in the world: Eva does not subscribe to the theory "newer is better." The artist/designer's observations "On Design," refined from years of [... more]
$45.00
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Collected Poems
Austere Auster: I've enjoyed all that I've read of Paul Auster's fiction and essays, so I was eager to delve into his poetry. Not surprisingly to anyone whose read his prose, much of Auster's poetry focuses on the landscape of chance. The drifts of [... more]
$24.95
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Quick Service
Your Good Health Awaits: If laughter is the best medicine, then those who read Wodehouse are destined to live until 130. Quick Service, one of Wodehouse's non-series novels, is the ultimate pick-me-up. It is a novel filled with great schemes got astray, [... more]
$17.95
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The Unknown Stalin
Stalin; Still Unknown: As my children are related to Molotov by marriage, I am always interested in new books about Russian figures, especially since the fall of communism. I will persevere with this book, but it is frustrating to be told "Stalin [... more]
$29.95
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Top of My Lungs
Terribly Disappointed: I've read and loved all of Ms. Goldberg's books, but this one was a huge disappointment. I've never read such rotten poetry, I'm very sad to say. The art work was good, but childish. This book has nothing in common with the glowing [... more]
$16.95
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Triomf
Not for the Faint of Heart: Months after reading Triomf I can still close my eyes and like Dorothy clicking her heels, am quickly transported to heat, poverty, opressive depression and the sense of something really grimy nagging at the corners of my soul. [... more]
$25.95
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Much Obliged, Jeeves
Great Fun in the Master's Inimitable Style: P.G. Wodehouse was ninety years old when he published this, the second-to-last of the Bertie and Jeeves novels. Despite Wodehouse's advanced age, he managed to fill this book, also published as Jeeves and the [... more]
$18.95
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Ayn Rand
Well-written, succinct, accurate: I approached this book with a bit of trepidation but was pleasantly surprised. Britting has written a succinct, accurate, and appropriately inspiring precis of Ayn Rand's life. His formula is pretty simple: he sticks [... more]
$19.95
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The Exploration Of Africa
Author: Jean de la Gueriviere Author: Jean de la Guèriviere Author: The Overlook Press Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 967.020222 EAN: 9781585674985 ISBN: 1585674982 Number Of Pages: 216 Publication Date: 2004-01-12 [... more]
$60.00
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