Fiction & Literature
Finnegans Wake
Viking, 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. Fifth printing. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. First 70 pages heavily annotated and underlined. Sporadic markings throughout the rest of the text. Edges fraying. Binding tight. More
White Jazz
Knopf, September 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire..... More
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Riverhead Books, August 2023. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND TIME MAGAZINE ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 "A murder mystery locked inside a Great..... More
Thurber Carnival
Harpercollins, July 1999. Trade Paperback. "An authentic American genius. . . . Mr. Thurber belongs in the great lines of American humorists that includes Mark Twain and Ring Lardner." --Philadelphia Inquirer James Thurber's unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often satirical way earned..... More
Death Comes to Pemberley (Vintage)
Vintage, January 2013. Trade Paperback. In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley, Darcy's impressive estate. Her father is a regular visitor; her sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; the marriage prospects for Darcy's sister, Georgiana..... More
Collected Fables
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, June 2019. Trade Paperback. "James Thurber was a comedic genius. His fables are not simply parodies of Aesop. They are wry, accurate, and powerful reflections of ourselves, our foibles, our follies, and, above all, our self-importance. And they are very, very funny." -- Neil Gaiman James..... More
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Laurel, October 1985. Mass Market PaperBack. "Mountain, " Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American..... More
Trondheim
Bellevue Literary Press, February 2024. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A son's collapse pulls his two mothers together and apart in a novel that probes the limits of love, hope, and forgiveness In Norway, thousands of miles from home, a student drops dead on the street. A passerby..... More
Giovanni's Room (Vintage International)
Vintage, September 2013. Trade Paperback. From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groundbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, about love and the fear of love--"a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction" (The..... More
Seeking the Cave: A Pilgrimage to Cold Mountain
Milkweed Editions, October 2014. Hardcover. Born and raised with the kind of expectations that often accompany privilege, Jim Lenfestey approached his thirtieth birthday in a state of acute anxiety. A young family and a demanding work life on one hand, and a burgeoning love for poetry on the other. When..... More
The Last of the Mohicans
Easton Press, 1979. Leather. brown full leather cover with gilt lettering and design on spine and front and back covers; gilt page edges; lovely bright red silk endpages in front and back; red satin ribbon bookmark; Easton Press bookplate personalized and affixed on inside of front free endpage; illustrations by..... More
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Riverhead Books, August 2023. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND TIME MAGAZINE ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 "A murder mystery locked inside a Great..... More
Song of My Softening
Alice James Books, February 2024. Paper Back. Recommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot "It's not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the beautiful moments but in the sorrowful ones, ranging throughout..... More
Fifty Shades Freed: Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
Vintage, April 2012. Trade Paperback. "Christian, I've been yours since I said yes." I scoot forward, cupping his beloved face in my hands. "I'm yours. I will always be yours, husband of mine. Now, I think you're wearing too many clothes." When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven..... More
Fifty Shades Darker: Book Two of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
Vintage, April 2012. Trade Paperback. "I rest my head against him, and he kisses my hair repeatedly. This is home. He smells of linen, fabric softener, bodywash, and my favorite smell--Christian. For a moment, I allow myself the illusion that all will be well, and it soothes my ravaged soul."..... More
Fifty Shade of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
Vintage, April 2012. Trade Paperback. "And in this quiet moment as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said, and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy." When literature..... More
The Good Lord Bird
Riverhead Trade, August 2014. Trade Paperback. Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed Diggs Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes..... More
James Baldwin: Later Novels: Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone / If Beale Street Could Talk / Just Above My Head: (Library of America #272)
Library of America, September 2015. Hardcover. Includes If Beale Street Could Talk, now a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins. The Library of America completes its edition of the collected fiction of the literary voice of the Civil Rights era with this volume gathering three revealing later works of..... More
Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, the Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, the Devil Finds Work, Other Essays
Penguin USA, February 1998. Cloth. A few pages have underlining and marginal notes; else, fine. More
President's Daughter: A Thriller
Grand Central Publishing, July 2022. Trade Paperback. A rocket ride of a thriller--the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster by President Bill Clinton and James Patterson, "the dream team" (Lee Child). All Presidents have nightmares. This one is about to come true. Every detail is accurate--because one of the authors..... More
Deacon King Kong: A Novel
Riverhead Books, February 2021. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Gotham Book Prize One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year" Oprah's Book Club Pick Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly..... More
Ulysses
IndyPublish.com, December 2002. Paper Back. Ulysses, written by James Joyce, is a modernist novel published in 1922. Set in Dublin, Ireland, the novel follows the life of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus over the course of one day, June 16th, 1904. Through a stream of consciousness narrative, Joyce explores the..... More
All That is
Picador, April 2013. Trade Paperback. From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. He soon inhabits a world where marriages fail as affairs ignite, alcohol reigns, writers struggle, and publishers..... More
The Last of the Mohicans (Collector's Library)
Collector's Library. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on title page. More