Doubleday, September 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Haddon's unforgettable follow-up to the international bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time proves rich comic fodder for the author's crackling prose and bittersweet insights into misdirected love--and an amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to politely go insane. Some..... More
Quill, May 1996. Trade Paperback. On his, last long walk, septuagenarian war hero, deserter, and professor Alessandro Giuliani shares his past with an illiterate young factory worker -- spinning a remarkable tale of heart-stopping escapes, of loves unrequited and won, of madmen, dwarfs, and mafiosi. But overshadowing all is hismost..... More
Peachtree Publishers, October 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket, minor creases on the front flap. Mylar wrapped. Light sunning on the edge of the boards. Name in pen on the front free endpaper. More
University of Georgia Press, May 2011. Paper Back. George Washington Carver (ca. 1864-1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and work of this fascinating man who is widely--and reductively--known..... More
Schocken, February 1998. First Thus. Hardcover. Franz Kafka's final novel tells the haunting tale of a man known only as K. and of his relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain entrance to the Castle. Although Kafka seemed to consider "The Castle" a failure, critics, in..... More
British Film Institute, October 2020. Paper Back. Inspired by an alleged real case of demonic possession in 1949, The Exorcist became an international phenomenon on its release in 1973. A blockbusting adaptation of a best-selling novel, it was praised as 'deeply spiritual' by some sections of the Catholic Church while..... More
Black Dog Publishing Limited, 2009. Oversize Softcover. Quarto (8&3/4' x 10&3/4'); Clean, sound, like new. No markings. As usual Black Dog Publishing produced what is probably the best book ever on a 'outside' topic that needed a proper 2nd (or 3rd or 10th) look. Handsome color reproductions of album covers..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, January 2005. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world."--Dan Rather To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and..... More
Grove Press Inc., 1959. Reprint. Cloth. (Third Manuscript / Unexpugated Editon), First published in Giuseppe Orioli, Florence, 1928. In dustjacket with rubbing & toning at margins. Sun-bleached spine. Chipping/edgewear especially top edge of spine. Darkening to jacket verso. Quarter cloth with Yale blue cloth spine & tan cloth covered boards..... More
Plume, April 2012. Trade Paperback. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIR What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and "discovered" Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as..... More
California State University San Bernardino, March 2006. Paper Back. More
Vintage, August 2007. Trade Paperback. A Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon's unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. At sixty-one, George Hall is settling down to a comfortable retirement. When his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting married..... More
Mariner Books, October 1990. Trade Paperback. The twenty stories here, many of which have been anthologized throughout the world, are strikingly beautiful pieces on enduring and universal questions by a writer the San Francisco Review of Books calls "a master crafter of the short story." More
Mariner Books, October 1990. Trade Paperback. Marshall Pearl is orphaned at birth on an immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947, then brought to americanca. His experiences take him from the Hudson River Valley, to Harvard, to sea on a British merchant ship, then finally back to his..... More
Grove Press, October 2007. Trade Paperback. In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. So many heroin addicts were buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed the Transit Authority changed the bus routes to avoid..... More
Riverhead Trade, May 2009. Trade Paperback. "A marvelous, compelling tale"(Rocky Mountain News) from the New York Times bestselling author of Salt and Cod. Gloucester, Massachusetts, America's oldest fishing port, is defined by the culture of commercial fishing. But the threat of over-fishing, combined with climate change and pollution, is endangering..... More
Da Capo Press, August 2017. Hardcover. A collection of lyrics and autobiographical commentary by singer Mark Lanegan, with a preface by John Cale and a foreword by Moby With a voice that Pitchfork has called "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather," former..... More
Three Rivers Press, March 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Barnes & Noble, October 2004. Hardcover. What's weird around here? That's a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have enjoyed asking for years--and their offbeat sense of curiosity led them to create the best-selling phenomenon, Weird N.J. But why should they stop at New Jersey when there's so much that's..... More
William Morrow, April 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. The leader of the student uprising of 1968 and founding member of the notorious Weather Underground tells his story--for the first time In 1968, Mark Rudd led the legendary occupation of five buildings at Columbia University, a dramatic act of protest against the..... More
Vintage, February 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, February 1995. Trade Paperback. More
George Braziller, September 1988. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Foxing on the top edge of the print block. More
Bantam Classics, October 1995. Mass Market PaperBack. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read This irresistible tale of the adventures of two friends growing up in frontier America is one of Mark Twain's most popular novels. The farcical, colorful, and poignant escapades of Tom..... More
