Title human being (3 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Welcome to Parr's Landing, Population 1,528 . . . and shrinking. The year is 1972. Widowed Christina Parr, her daughter Morgan, and her brother-in-law Jeremy have returned to the remote northern Ontario mining town of Parr's Landing, the place from which Christina fled before Morgan was born, seeking refuge. Dr. Billy Lightning has also returned in search of answers to the mystery of his father's brutal murder. All will find some part of what they seek--and more. Built on the site of a decimated 17th-century Jesuit mission to the Ojibwa, Parr's Landing is a town with secrets of its own buried in the caves around Bradley Lake. A three-hundred-year-old horror slumbers there, calling out to the insane and the murderous for centuries, begging for release--an invitation that has finally been answered. One man is following that voice, cutting a swath of violence across the country, bent on a terrible resurrection of the ancient evil, plunging the town and all its people into an endless night.…

Leather Binding. Condición: Good. Fourth Edition. The Fourth edition, 1724. Bound in full brown period calf, spine eith raised bands, covers bordered with twin gilt fillets (quite rubbed, front cover detached; some toning to text). PROVENANCE: With an ink note (a long quote from Benjamin Franklin about Lyons, with signature removed and date of 1847) on front pastedown; there are 3 pencil notes on front free endpaper in the same hand, including one reading: 'I reviewed briefly this vol. in the Philobiblion Vol. I C.M.S.'; pencil signature of William [Berman?] on front endpaper. A scarce early edition.…

32pp. Woodcut plate. 8vo. 32pp. Woodcut plate. 8vo. Includes much about prostitution, syphilis and abortion. Samuel Gregory (1813-1872) was one of the founders of the homeopathic Boston Female Medical College in 1848. Samuel Gregory authored the books advertised on the rear wrapper, also published by his brother George. Unrecorded in OCLC Publisher's wrappers, minor wear and staining.…