Reflections on the Revolution in France
Penguin Group, November 1976. Mass Market PaperBack. More
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Letters to Camondo
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2021. First American. Hardcover. A tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo Letters to Camondo is a collection of imaginary letters from Edmund de Waal to Moise de Camondo, the banker and art collector who..... More
New York's Greenwich Village
Barre Publishers, January 1968. Oversized Hardcover. Jacket a bit darkened along spine and mildly chipped and shelfworn elsewhere, but not clipped, and overall in good, sound condition. Book is clean, with minimal aging. More
A Literary Chronicle: 1920-1950
Doubleday Anchor Books, January 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Shelf worn mass market paperback edition. Heavy darkening of spine. Hole punched overlapping holes upper right corner of front cover. Worn & torn at one bottom corner of spine. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [442 pages]. More
Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
Penguin Group, October 1989. Paper Back. At birth Edmund Gosse was dedicated to 'the Service of the Lord'. His parents were Plymouth Brethren. After his mother's death Gosse was brought up in stifling isolation by his father a marine biologist whose faith overcame his reason when confronted by Darwin's theory..... More
Nothing Venture, Nothing Win
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. First American; Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; Some foxing/spotting to upper edge text-block; Un-clipped jacket moderately edge-worn/rubbed; Jacket mylar wrapped for preservation; An excellent copy, gently worn. More
Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: Third Book: Phenomenology and the Foundation of the Sciences (Husserliana: Edmund Husserl – Collected Works, 1)
Springer, November 2001. Paper Back. There is no author's introduction to Phenomenology and the Foundations of the Sciences, ! either as published here in the first English translation or in the standard German edition, because its proper introduction is its companion volume: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology. 2 The latter..... More
Philosophy of Arithmetic: Psychological and Logical Investigations with Supplementary Texts from 1887–1901 (Husserliana: Edmund Husserl – Collected Works, 10)
Springer, September 2003. Paper Back. In his first book, Philosophy of Arithmetic, Edmund Husserl provides a carefully worked out account of number as a categorial or formal feature of the objective world, and of arithmetic as a symbolic technique for mastering the infinite field of numbers for knowledge. It is..... More
Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2004. Hardcover. Edmund Morgan, Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University, examines the history of the American colonies from the arrival of the first settlers to the American Revolution. Filled with illuminating discussions of American leaders, the book's range is extraordinary-from the sex lives of..... More
The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2005. Stapled Soft Cover. "This book amounts to an intellectual autobiography....These pieces are thus a statement of what I have thought about early Americans during nearly seventy years in their company," writes historian Edmund S. Morgan in the introduction to this landmark collection. The..... More
Beethoven: The Universal Composer
Harper Perennial, February 2010. Paper Back. "Brilliant....This book is a perfect marriage--or should one say, duet--of subject and author, every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it illuminates." -- Christopher Buckley, Forbes "This is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additional--and inestimable--merit of being..... More
Colonel Roosevelt
Random House Publishing Group, October 2011. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - "Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A moving, beautifully rendered account."--Fred Kaplan, The..... More
Theodore Rex
Random House, November 2001. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY - "A shining portrait of a presciently modern political genius maneuvering in a gilded age of wealth, optimism, excess and American global ascension."--San Francisco Chronicle "[Theodore Rex] is one of..... More
The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria
St. Martin's Press, April 2022. Hardcover. A lost city. A thousand-year-old mystery. A quest that changed history. Beneath the plains of Afghanistan lie the remains of a fabulous city: Alexandria Beneath the Mountains, founded by Alexander the Great. For centuries, it was a meeting point of East and West. Then..... More
South Street: A Photographic Guide to New York City's Historic Seaport
Dover Pubns, June 1977. Paper Back. Octavo. Mild shelf wear. More
South Street: A Photographic Guide to New York City's Historic Seaport
Dover Pubns, June 1977. Paper Back. Octavo {8 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/4'}. Mild marginal darkening to cover else clean. Foxing/tanning cover verso and first and last inside pages. Interior text without markings or underlining. 108 pages. More
The Selected Poetry of Spenser (Signet Classics)
The New American Library, 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. First printing; Sound binding, some weakness to front hinge; Moderate wear from previous use w/ mild sticker damage present at upper front corner; Previous owner name and mild notes inked at front few pages; Very mild underlining; Overall a Good copy. More
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. Edited with Critical Notes by J.C. Smith and E. de Selincourt. With an Introduction by E. de Selincourt and a Glossary.
Oxford University Press, 1963. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 12mo. with darkened/ dust stained textblock top & bottom edge and fore-edge. [736 pages]. More
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Picador, August 2011. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller An Economist Book of the Year Costa Book Award Winner for Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award) Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots--which are then sold..... More
Letters to Camondo
Picador USA, June 2022. Paper Back. A tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moïse de Camondo. 63 rue de Monceau, Paris Dear friend, As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street..... More
Arts and Letters
Cleis Press, September 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Best-selling novelist, memoirist, and biographer Edmund White displays his sharp wit and boundless erudition in 37 portraits of the writers, artists and cultural icons who have captured his curiosity and imagination for the last 20 years. White is as compelling as he is..... More
Boy's Own Story: Revised Edition (Revised)
Plume Books, October 1994. Trade Paperback. Significant stain on first ten pages. Mild edgewear. Textblock unmarked. More
Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
Bloomsbury Publishing, May 2026. Paper Back. A VULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR "A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony." -Robert Jones, Jr. "White's love of sex makes us proud to be human." -John Irving I'm at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them-for..... More
By Edmund Wilson - Memoirs of Hecate County
Nonpareil Books, 1980. Trade Paperback. More
The Forties: From Notebooks & Diaries Of The Period
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 1984. Reprint. Trade Paperback. From one of the greatest literary critics of the twentieth century, this installment of Edmund Wilson's private notebooks covers the years of the 1940s, providing a rich lens into the writer's life and the world at large. Wilson turned forty-five in..... More
