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A softcover copy in fine condition. No creasing to the spine. Pages and boards are clean and unmarked throughout. Die Vermessung der Welt von Daniel Kehlmann. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg, 2008. In deutscher Sprache. A fictionalised double portrait of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, tracing their parallel obsessions with measuring and understanding the world. One of the most successful German novels. Winner of the Kleist Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize. Daniel Kehlmann lives in Berlin and New York.

This beautiful softcover edition is in near fine condition, with unmarked pages and a firm, clean binding; the spine shows some light rubbing.

A St. Martin's Griffin first edition trade paperback in very good condition. Covers are clean, square, and free of any soiling, creasing, or wear throughout. Spine is uncreased and the pages are bright and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, or annotations. Binding is firm and tight. Published by St. Martin's Griffin, this first edition, first printing trade paperback of The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise is a historical novel by Carolly Erickson, distinguished historian, originally a scholar of medieval history, and prize-winning author of more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction including The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette, The Last Wife of Henry VIII, The First Elizabeth, Great Catherine, and Alexandra. Her novel The Tsarina's Daughter won the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction. Ships within Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.

Hardcover, fine condition throughout. Dust jacket likewise fine, clean and bright, with no tears, fading, or rubbing. Boards square and unmarked. Pages clean throughout. Published by McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto, Ontario, 2000. With a foreword by John McGahern. Island brought together, for the first time in one volume, Alistair MacLeod's two previous and internationally acclaimed short story collections — The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1986) — together with two new, previously unpublished stories. Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the stories are concerned with the complexities of the human heart, the bonds and chasms between man and woman, parent and child, and a continuity of generations in the face of love, loss, and transition. Alistair MacLeod was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, and longtime professor of English and creative writing at the University of Windsor, raised among extended family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The same year Island was published, MacLeod's only novel, No Great Mischief, made him the first Canadian writer to win the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, bringing him international recognition after decades of being known primarily within Canada. MacLeod was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2008 in recognition of his contribution to Canadian literature. Island won the PEN/Malamud Award. ISBN 0-7710-5568-4.