The End of the Road -- VS18
Avon Library, 1967. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 4th Avon printing. Rubbing & foxing to cover. Rose red tinted textblock edge. [206 pages]. More
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The Floating Opera
Avon, 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Floating Opera and the End of the Road
Random House Inc, April 1988. Trade Paperback. "The Floating Opera" and "The End Of The Road" are John Barth's first two novels. Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the narratives. Both concern..... More
Once upon a Time: A Floating Opera
Little Brown & Co (T), May 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards, mild corner bump present at upper rear; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Sabbatical
G. P. Putnam, June 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. In slightly edgeworn, marginally darkened dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $14.95 on flap. 3/4 cloth with gold lettering on spine. Tan paper covered boards. Foxing to textblock edges. Tightly bound. Signed by Barth on half-title page. More
Situations and Attitudes (Bradford Books)
The MIT Press, January 1985. Paper Back. In this provocative book, Barwise and Perry tackle the slippery subject of "meaning," a subject that has long vexed linguists, language philosophers, and logicians. Meaning, they propose, does not exist solely within words and sentences but resides largely in the situation and the..... More
A History of Modern Southeast Asia
A Spectrum Book / Prentice-all, 1968. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Sun bleached spine. Foxing & dust staining of textblock edges, as well as interior pages. [214 pages]. More
John Dough and the Cherub
Dover Publications, 1974. Paper Back. Octavo. Mildly darkened spine and textblock top edge. Shelf worn. [315 pages]. More
Tolstoy and the Novel
The Viking Press, November 1968. Trade Paperback. One lightly bumped corner, rubbing, shelf wear. More
The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, June 1964. Mass Market PaperBack. The sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro, used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Roissini A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man's attempts to keep his beautiful ward..... More
The Chicken Devil Mystery
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1946. Hardcover. Solid binding w/ mild wear at spine from use; Pictoral boards show mild to moderate wear from age including a slight bend, some water damage at rear, general edge/corner wear; Text free of markings; Pages carry similar bend as present at boards; Mild..... More
The Shanghai Mystery
Wm B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding; Pictoral boards clean and sturdy w/ very mild fading at front cover, black letting at spine is unfaded; Text free of markings; Extremely mild foxing present at front and rear paste-downs/end-pages; Price clipped dust jacket in Very Good condition..... More
Grand Central: Gateway to a Million Lives
W. W. Norton & Company, December 1999. First Edition. Oversized Clothbound. It begins with the historic struggle to save Grand Central in the wake of the destruction of Penn Station and in the face of economic forces in the real estate industry that were intent on its demise. There follows..... More
Black Messiah: A Tribute to Henry Miller
Vagabond Pr, June 1981. Hardcover. Quarto in dust jacket with edgewear & one-inch tear at top edge. More
Black Messiah: A Tribute to Henry Miller
Vagabond Pr, June 1981. Paper Back. More
Is There Life on Earth: An Introduction to Gurdjieff (Bennett Books Spiritual Classic)
Bennett Books, June 1989. First Thus. Soft Cover. Octavo. First published in 1973 by Stonehill Publishing Company. First Bennet books edition with complete number string. No markings or underlining. 118 pages. Frontispiece photo reproduction of Gurdjieff, looking sharp, circa 1924. More
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Limited Edition
Random House, December 1995. Limited. Cloth. Octavo in pictorial paper covered heavy cardstock case. With this number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3, with indicates First/first editions for RH titles of this era. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. Pictorial plates affixed to front..... More
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos
Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, March 2005. Trade Paperback. Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless...in our brief mortal lives, we are..... More
The Sense of Sight
Pantheon, January 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
National Geographic, August 2023. Hardcover. A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South African caves to discover fossil remains that compel a monumental reframing of the human family tree. In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though..... More
Recovery/Delusion, Etc.
Delta Books, January 1974. First Thus. Paper Back. Berryman's only novel and final poem were both first published posthumously. This Delta paperback publishes them together for the first time. Octavo. Well worn with sticker removal scar front cover. Darkened textblock and edges. 338 pages. More
HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET. A Poem, With Pictures by Ben Shahn.
Farrar Straus & Cudahy, January 1956. First Edition. Cloth. {6 & 3/8th' x 9 & 3/8th')Stated, 'first printing' on copyright page. In dustjacket with darkened spine and on verso. Tears top of spine and likewise bottom of spine and along folds. Flap is not clipped. Odor suggesting formerly shelved in..... More
Victorian and Edwardian Oxford from old photographs
Batsford, January 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards w/ immaculate gilt at spine; Pages free of markings; Price clipped dust jacket VG w/ mild edge-wear present; An exceptional copy. More
More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew
Convergent Books, May 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. An award-winning journalist tells the "riveting" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the family he'd never met--and how faith brought them all together. "A compelling and courageous journey that bears witness to the realities of..... More
The Poetical Works of William Blake, Including the unpublished French Revolution, together with the Minor Prophetic Books, and Selections from The Four Zoas, Milton, and Jerusalem (Oxford Standard Authors) BLAKE, William. John Sampson, edited by Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1961
Oxford University Press, 1960. Reprint. Trade Paperback. {4 & 3/4' x 7'} 12mo. Considerable wear to cover. 4 parallel creases right bottom corner of front panel. Other user wear, creasing edgewear & dust staining. One-quarter inch piece torn and hanging on just barely top of spine. Heavily darkened & dust..... More
