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Very Good first edition, first printing hardcover. Boards are clean, with light rubbing around the edges. The dust jacket is unclipped and unmarked, with matching light rubbing at the edges. Pages are clean, deckle edged and appear unread. Flaws are one light stain at the lower front of the text block and a remainder mark along the bottom edge of the pages. First edition, first printing (Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, August 2000), the final novel Pilcher published before retiring from writing. Rosamunde Pilcher was a British novelist born in Cornwall who lived near Dundee, Scotland, and her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide. She is best known for The Shell Seekers, and Coming Home won the Romantic Novelists’ Association award in 1996. In Winter Solstice, Elfrida Phipps, a retired actress in her early sixties, settles in the Hampshire village of Dibton. A tragedy then brings five lonely and very different people to a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan, where their lives come together on the shortest day of the year. A wonderful winter read, and a good copy for a Pilcher collection.
A softcover first printing in very good condition. The covers are clean. The pages are clean and bright throughout. The inside front cover bears an inscription. The copy is clean apart from that inscription. The first printing of this Lone Pine Field Guide, published in Edmonton in 1998 and printed in Alberta. Authors Chris Fisher and John Acorn, known as writer and host of the television series Acorn, the Nature Nut, with full color illustrations by Gary Ross, Ted Nordhagen, Ewa Pluciennik and Horst Krause. Color-coded header bars and a quick reference guide make species easy to find. Includes a glossary and a birder’s checklist.
HarperCollins hardcover, first edition, 2007, in very good condition. The dust jacket is clean, with some minor wear along the top edge. The yellow boards are clean and unmarked, with silver lettering along the spine. The pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Mariel Hemingway is an actress, author, and wellness advocate, and the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway. In Healthy Living from the Inside Out, she draws on her own approach to nutrition, fitness, and stress relief to offer a 30-day quickstart program aimed at helping women build sustainable, balanced habits for energy and well-being.
A hardcover in fine condition throughout. The cloth boards are unmarked and pleasant to the touch, with no wear to the corners or spine, and the binding remains tight and square. Pages are clean and unmarked, appearing unread. First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Batsford, an imprint of Pavilion Books. In Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art, Claire Wellesley-Smith offers a thoughtful, unhurried approach to textile art, exploring simple stitching techniques rooted in traditional practice, the reuse and reinvention of materials, and a deliberately limited toolkit. Richly illustrated throughout, the book speaks to those drawn to a more contemplative, sustainable relationship with their craft.
A hardcover in fine condition, first edition, first printing. Boards and dust jacket are clean and unmarked. Pages are crisp and unmarked, with deckle edges throughout. Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin. Harcourt Publishing Company, Orlando, 2008. First edition, first printing. In Virgil's Aeneid, Lavinia, the Latin princess who becomes Aeneas's wife, never speaks a single word. In this, her final novel, Le Guin gives her a voice and a life, imagining the woman behind the epic. Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, 2009. Le Guin received six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, a National Book Award, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
A hardcover copy in fine condition. Boards and pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Dust jacket is fine, with a light mark to the lower left. An essentially unread, clean copy. Benedictus: A Book of Blessings by John O'Donohue. Bantam Press / Transworld Publishers, London, 2007. A collection of blessings for the significant thresholds of human life, written in O'Donohue's characteristic language of Celtic landscape and contemplative spiritual attention. O'Donohue worked on this collection for many years, and it was published just two months before his sudden death in January 2008 at the age of fifty-two, making it both his final complete work and his most intimate. Irish poet, priest, and philosopher from County Clare, he completed his doctorate in Philosophical Theology at the University of Tübingen. A rare copy in exceptional condition of a book that has brought solace and beauty to readers around the world.
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Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil. Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire is a bewitching novel rooted in Boccaccio’s Decameron. Darkshire transplants this story into a richly imagined medieval world. Drawing on Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market and the Brothers Grimm as much as Boccaccio, and written in beautiful prose steeped in archaic English folklore, this is a novel about what lives beneath grief, and beneath the person we think we are. Someone beautiful has always been there.
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. The novel sweeps the reader from an orderly English home to the secrets and treasures of Istanbul, through the countryside of Romania, to Budapest and the cities of Bulgaria. Along the way it takes in famous old libraries, ancient monasteries, and personal stories told across different timelines, all converging on the question of what really happened to the historical figure behind the Dracula legend, and whether his story truly ended in the fifteenth century. Rich in historical detail and with a remarkable sense of place, this is an absorbing read for anyone drawn to history, mystery, and the atmosphere of Europe and beyond.
The Complete Poems of John Milton. The Harvard Classics, Collector's Edition. Paradise Lost is a long poem written in the 1660s by the English poet John Milton. It retells the biblical story of Adam and Eve, and how they lost their perfect life in the Garden of Eden. By the time he wrote it, Milton was blind, so he composed it entirely in his head and dictated all twelve books aloud for others to write down. August feels like a month of reflection, of abundant nature and lush meadows that lead us back to ourselves, and gives us the quiet to sit with the most sacred of poems.
Whether you are spending the summer in Tuscany or simply dreaming of it, this book brings home the abundance, beauty, and quiet philosophy of Mediterranean life. Like M.F.K. Fisher, Frances and Edward Mayes have a rare gift for making that world feel within reach.
