Books Published in February 1973

New Books List: 41 titles

  • The Abortion

    Richard Brautigan

    The Abortion is a genre novel parody about a California library which accepts books in any form & from all who wish to donate -- children submit crayoned tales of toys; teens of angst & elders drop of memoirs -- "the unwanted, the lyrical & haunted v...

  • The Three Little Pigs

    Barbara Brenner

  • Paper Moon

    Joe David Brown

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    ""Enchanting . . . 24-carat fun!""--New York Times Book Review

    The classic tale of a female Huck Finn, Peter Bogdanovich''s film version of the book was nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in the da...

  • Buffalo Bill

    John Burke

    We sell Rare, out-of-print, uncommon, & used BOOKS, PRINTS, MAPS, DOCUMENTS, AND EPHEMERA. We do not sell ebooks, print on demand, or other reproduced materials. Each item you see here is individually described and imaged. We welcome further inquirie...

  • Report on Planet Three

    Arthur C. Clarke

    In addition to being one of Science Fiction's greatest writers, Sir Arthur C. Clarke was also one of our foremost thinkers and visionaries, producing a number of highly readable and important non-fiction works. Report of Planet Three is a collection ...

  • On Land, on Sea, in the Air

    Walt Disney

  • Mickey Mouse Riddle Book

    Walt Disney

  • The Long Shadow

    Jane Donnelly

    Jill knew that she had treated Connal Craig incredibly badly, walking out on him only minutes before they were to have been married, and she felt that it was more than she deserved when he proceeded to behave in a civilized manner, as if nothing had ...

  • Thank You All Very Much

    Margaret Drabble

  • Love in Danger

    Glenna Finley

    Romance And Peril Were Hidden Between The Lines Out of funds in Paris, lovely, copper-haired Gail Alden blithely answered an ad that read... Wanted: Discreet American woman with secretarial experience to supervise child in Portugal for two wee...

  • Smokescreen

    Dick Francis

    Man's man, ladies' man, and superman on screen, Edward Link is a simple family man at home until a beloved friend, dying in South Africa, calls him to her bedside for one last favor. It will mean playing all his most dangerous movie roles in real lif...

  • The General Danced at Dawn, and Other Stories

    George MacDonald Fraser

  • The Man Who Folded Himself

    David Gerrold

    This classic work of science fiction is widely considered to be the ultimate time-travel novel. When Daniel Eakins inherits a time machine, he soon realizes that he has enormous power to shape the course of history. He can foil terrorists, prevent as...

  • A Touch of Honey

    Lucy Gillen

    Before she took a job as secretary to the author Robert Dean, Cadie had been told how devastating he was -- but that wasn't at all the impression he made on her when she met him. Conceitedly superior, was how she summed him up. Thank goodness h...

  • The Portable Graham Greene

    Graham Greene

    In his essays, criticism, screenplays, autobiography, and novels, Graham Greene explored a territory located somewhere on the border between despair and faith, treachery and love.
     
    This cross-section of Greene’s work was originally ...

  • Dear Stranger

    Anne Hampson

    Shara couldn't blame her foster-brother Carl for having had nothing to do with her for years; his parents, after all, had virtually rejected him for her. But now he had come back into her life, prepared to be friends. Friends? It had never been a...

  • Hansi: The Girl Who Loved the Swastika

    Maria Anne Hirschmann

    "Don't ever forget Jesus!" This tearful admonition of her foster mother followed the teen-aged orphan girl as she began her trip to Prague. Maria ("Hansi") was the envy of all in her little Czechoslovakian village because she had won a scholarship to...

  • Clay Pot Boy Bg

    Cynthia Jameson

  • About the B'Nai Bagels

    E.L. Konigsburg

    Mark Setzer thought studying for his Bar Mitzvah and having his best friend move away created enough aggravation in his life. But then his mother becomes the new manager of his Little League team and drags his older brother, Spencer, along as coach. ...

  • The Faithful Rebel

    Margaret Malcolm

    To Sarah, the Manor was her beloved home and she hoped it always would be, but unfortunately the Rostyns had fallen on bad days. Otherwise they would never have had to sell the reputed Reynolds portrait and then Thorold Kerr might never have heard of...

  • Archetypal Themes in Modern Story

    Jack Matthews

  • A Bowl of Stars

    Wynne May

    It was a new life for Cyndy when she inherited a house and a swimming pool business in the Drakensberg Mountains. The only fly in the ointment was Max Steele, who owned a rival firm. There had been friction between the two firms even before Cyndy ...

  • Walt Disney's Bambi Gets Lost

    Albert G. Miller

  • Alien Heat

    Michael Moorcock

  • Captive of Gor

    John Norman

    ABDUCTION FROM SPACE Spoiled, rich young Elinor Brinton was no longer on Earth. She had been kidnapped from her NewYork apartment and carried across space to Gor by alien slavers. Then the ship was wrecked and she was stranded on the strange wo...

  • Flight of Icarus

    Raymond Queneau

    Called by some the French Borges, by others the creator of le nouveau roman a generation ahead of its time, Raymond Queneau''s work in fiction continues to defy strict categorization. The Flight of Icarus (Le Vol d''lcare) is his only novel writte...

  • Buttes Landing

    Jean Rikhoff

    THEY CALLED IT BUTTES LANDING... It was their land. They fought for it. They worked for it. They even died for it. Here is their story - a sweeping novel of men and women and the land that shaped them. The saga of three generations of mount...

  • Wanted Dead or Alive

    Frank Robertson

  • Mister Roger's Songbook

    Fred Rogers

  • The Truth About Mary Rose

    Marilyn Sachs

    Mary Rose was proud to be named after her aunt, because her aunt had been a heroine, saving the lives of everyone in the apartment building -- before dying in the fire. But not everyone thought the first Mary Rose was a heroine. Young Mary Rose overh...

  • Cemetery World

    Clifford D. Simak

    THE GRAVEYARD CHASE Fletcher Carson an artist, travels to the cemetery to create a "composition." He takes with him his "compositor," a sentient (but rather stupid) machine for creating art; Elmer, his ancient, powerful robot friend; and Cynthia Lans...

  • Powdered Eggs

    Charles Simmons

    A young writer-to-be embarks on a comic coming-of-age journey through the crushing mediocrity of work, the vagaries of fate, and the mysteries of sex.

    A confused and conflicted but not altogether angry young man shares his observations, dis...

  • Mansion of Mystery

    Virginia K. Smiley

    It was a large, brooding Victorian mansion with an aura about it of unspoken evil. From the moment lovely young Julie Travers arrived she was filled with foreboding. She was to be both governess and nurse to a strange, highly emotional child; a frail...

  • Big Rock Candy Mountain

    Wallace Stegner

    "Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifing from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks outhis fortune--in the hotel business, on new farmland, and, eventually, in ...

  • Picture Her Missing

    Lynn Williams

    When Kelly DeWitt came back to Meadowdale it was inevitable that she would run into old friends and unavoidable that she would meet old lovers. Still, the prospect of returning home to begin a new future excited her. But that was before she found ...

  • Devil in a Silver Room

    Violet Winspear

    Margo Jones had loved Michel, although in the end he married someone else. When five years later he died she found herself going to the French chateau of Satancourt to look after his son. There, Margo met Paul Cassalis, Michel's inscrutable broth...

  • After Worlds Collide

    Philip Wylie

    After Worlds Collide (1934) was a sequel to the 1933 science fiction novel, When Worlds Collide, both of which were co-written by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer. After Worlds Collide first appeared as a six-part monthly serial (November 1933â€"...

  • Take My Wife Please

    Henry Youngman

  • The Wolf

    Michael W. Fox

  • Yummers!

    James Marshall

  • Getting There

    Buryl Payne