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9780689118524 | Atheneum, May 1, 1987, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This comic and surreal novel about the beastliness and pain in the world focuses on the stories of assorted young American misfits, reactionaries and revolutionaries, young lovers, and raging old tyrants
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9780140110876 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1988), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This comic and surreal novel about the beastliness and pain in the world focuses on the stories of assorted young American misfits, reactionaries and revolutionaries, young lovers, and raging old tyrants
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9780020381082 | Collier Books, July 1, 1990, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: From a writer who has won comparison with Thomas Pynchon and William S.
9780689119613 | Atheneum, July 1, 1989, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories, including 'Red Hands,' 'Yellow Sugar,' 'The Green Dress,' 'The Indigo Engineers,' and 'Violet Hair'
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9780140171549 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, July 1, 1992), cover price $23.00
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9780670832392 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Recreates the arrival of the Vikings in North America, as rival Greenland women, Freydis and Gudrid, battle each other and the Skraelings and Inuit, the Amerindians they plan to supplant
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9780140131963 | Penguin USA, August 1, 1993, cover price $24.00
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9780679403425 | Pantheon Books, January 1, 1992, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Deserted by his lover, Gloria, a prostitute, Jimmy searches for whatever pieces of intimacy he can buy from the other hookers on the street, sinking into a world of the losers and loners in San Francisco's Tenderloin district
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9780140231571 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 1994), cover price $15.00
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9780670843336 | Viking Pr, July 1, 1992, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Four hundred years ago in the Great Lakes region, Jesuit priests martyr themselves to save the Huron's disease-ridden villages
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9780140167177 | Penguin USA, August 1, 1993, cover price $25.00
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9780679404392 | Pantheon Books, May 1, 1993, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories features tales of pimps, tramps, pornographers, and witch doctors
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9780802133953 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, August 1, 1994), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The invisible lives of prostitutes, pimps, pornographers, skinheads, and crack addicts are revealed in stories from the dark edge of contemporary life, combining elements of travel writing and reportage, autobiography and anecdotes, and told in a unique, searing voice.
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9780802115027 | Grove Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A cradle-to-grave search for love takes a suburban kid as far away as the killing fields of Cambodia, where he falls in love with Vanna, a prostitute from Phnom Penh
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9780670848560 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: When Sir John Franklin defies the warnings of native peoples and embarks on his fourth Arctic voyage in the 1840s, his journey ends in tragedy
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9780140176230 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 1995), cover price $23.00
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9780802134004 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1994), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Butterfly Stories follows a dizzying cradle-to-grave hunt for love that takes the narrator from the comfortable confines of suburban America to the killing fields of Cambodia, where he falls in love with Vanna, a prostitute from Phnom Penh.
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9781885490049 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, June 1, 1995, cover price $12.95
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9780879515713 | Overlook Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Miller's black & white photos are captioned by quotes from works of fiction by William T.
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9781885490070 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, March 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Stockhausen, Karlheinz
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9780670865789 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An unconventional work offers fifty-three interconnected tales, fables, and portraits, ranging from the journalistic to the surreal, that bring to life a wide and strange array of characters in diverse settings, from Sarajevo to Jerusalem to New York
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9780140254495 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 1997), cover price $18.00
In a vivid novel about the bizarre paradoxes of possession and loss, failing San Francisco private detective Henry Tyler journeys through the dark underbelly of the city as he searches for the legendary Queen of the Prostitutes, all the while grieving over the suicide of the woman he loves, his brother's wife, Irene. Reprint.
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9780670891672 | Viking Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Failing San Francisco private detective, Henry Tyler journeys through the dark underbelly of the city as he searches for the legendary Queen of the Prostitutes, all the while grieving over the suicide of the women he loves.
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9780141002002 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, August 1, 2001), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Failing San Francisco private detective, Henry Tyler journeys through the dark underbelly of the city as he searches for the legendary Queen of the Prostitutes, all the while grieving over the suicide of the woman he loves.
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9781888899023 | Lodima Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $50.00
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9780670910304 | Viking Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Peeks behind the myth of Pocahontas to look at the story of the colonization of Virginia, the relationships between the Natives and the English, the start of the tobacco industry, and the introduction of slavery.
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9780142001509 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, December 1, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The third volume of the author's epic saga of North America peeks behind the myth of Pocahontas and John Smith to recreate the story of the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia with gritty realism.
Miscellaneous:
9781404807990 | Picture Window Books, June 30, 2003, cover price $23.93
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9781932416022 | Slp edition (McSweeneys Books, November 1, 2003), cover price $120.00
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9781560254416 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, December 20, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: No stranger to living and writing on the edge, the author shares the fruits of his productive career as 'the most prodigiously talented and historically important novelist under 35,' including autobiographical writing, interviews, critical essays, correspondence, and poems.
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9780715633748 | Abridged edition (Gardners Books, January 27, 2005), cover price $41.85
9780060548186 | Ecco Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An abridged edition of the author's seven-volume work on the possible justification of violence is based on his war-zone observations and draws on the theories of philosophers, theologians, military strategists, and other thinkers.
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9780060548193 | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 1, 2005), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Chapters arranged in 2 parts.
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9780670033928 | Viking Pr, March 24, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A series of interconnected stories seeks to contrast the moral decisions made by famous and everyday individuals with regard to the warring authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century.
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9780143036593 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 14, 2005), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A series of interconnected stories seeks to contrast the moral decisions made by famous and everyday individuals with regard to the warring authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century.
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9780393059694 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: An analysis of the astronomer's pivotal sixteenth-century work traces how his challenge to beliefs about an Earth-centric solar system had a profound influence on the ways in which humanity understands itself and the universe.
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9780393329186 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2007), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An analysis of the scientific and social impact of the Polish astronomer's pivotal sixteenth-century work traces how his challenge to beliefs about an earth-centric solar system had a profound influence on the ways in which humanity understands itself and the universe.
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9788439701668 | Italian edition edition (Random House Mondadori, September 30, 2007), cover price $41.95
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