A Work of Hospitality: The Open Door Reader, 1982-2002
N/A, June 2002. Trade Paperback. More
N/A, June 2002. Trade Paperback. More
Oxford University Press, 1984. Cloth. {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} In clean, bright jacket. Flap is not clipped. Dark blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine. Pale blue end papers. [534 pages]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 1999. Trade Paperback. Education of the Senses draws on a vast array of primary sources to reexamine nineteenth-century sexual behavior, overturning a number of stereotypes, especially about women and sexuality. The most learned, as well as the wittiest survey of human sexuality ever to..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Group, September 2006. Trade Paperback. A biography of the greatest musical mind in Western history Mozart's unshakable hold on the public's consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay's concise and deft look at the genius's life. Mozart traces the development of the man whose life..... More
Afterall Books, April 2008. Paper Back. A critical close-up of Warhol's famous film and its cultural impact In Andy Warhol's silent black-and-white movie, Blow Job (1964), a youth is filmed as he is apparently being given the sex act named in the title. The 35-minute film is accentuated by the..... More
Crippen & Landru Pub, March 2002. First Edition. Cloth. First edition with full number line. Bound in shiny blue cloth with bright gold lettering along the spine. Mylar wrapped. More
Little Brown & Co, January 1999. Hardcover. Here at last is the full, true and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the second volume of Peter Guralnick's two-part biography. Beginning with Presley's army service in Germany in 1958 and ending with his death in Memphis in 1977..... More
Little, Brown, February 2000. Trade Paperback. Hailed as "a masterwork" by the Wall Street Journal, Careless Loveis the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography. Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award Last..... More
Little, Brown and Company, October 2005. First American. Hardcover. One of the most influential singers and songwriters of all time, Sam Cooke was among the first to blend gospel music and secular themes--the early foundation of soul music. He was the opposite of Elvis: a black performer who appealed to..... More
Little Brown & Co, September 1995. Trade Paperback. From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography..... More
Little, Brown and Company, November 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. From the author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography: Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that he shaped in his tiny..... More
The Oxford Literary Project, Inc., 2015. Stapled Magazine. As new, never opened, never read. Sealed in clear plastic bag. Includes compilation CD. More
Doubleday Anchor, 1960. First Edition. Paper Back. A Doubleday Anchor Original. Heavily darkened spine & mild marginal darkening at edges of cover. Lightly shelf worn. (455 pp.). More
A & W Pub, April 1977. Paper Back. {8' x 10 & 1/2'} Quarto with mild shelfwear. [176 pages]. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2024. Hardcover. Two novellas by Peter Handke--his first new works since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are two new novellas by the 2019 Nobel laureate Peter Handke. The first picks up the..... More
The International Wizard of Oz Club, 1988. First Edition. Soft Cover. Octavo. {5' x 7 & 1/2'} Sunned spine. Brown cardstock cover with black ink. [105 pages]. More
Pegasus Books, January 2009. Hardcover. On July 1, 1916, the British Army launched the "Big Push" that was supposed to bring an end to the horrific stalemate on the Western Front between British, French and German forces. What resulted was one of the greatest single human catastrophes in twentieth century..... More
Trust for Museum Exhibitions, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Western art of America's frontier years, from about 1825 to 1925, has traditionally been perceived as the art most representative of the country's cultural and historical essence. European American explorers were accompanied or soon followed by adventuresome artists whose drawings and paintings..... More
Da Capo Press, August 1994. Trade Paperback. Here is Jake LaMotta discussing his career as a hoodlum; Floyd Patterson on growing up in the ghetto; Gunboat Smith on the Jack Johnson era; Jack Dempsey on the Willard fight and the Tunney "long count"; Rocky Graziano on showbiz; and dozens of..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, August 2023. Hardcover. The best-selling author of The River returns with a vibrant, lyrical novel about an enforcement ranger in Yellowstone National Park who likes wolves better than most people. When a clandestine range war threatens his closest friend, he must shake off his own losses and..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, September 1989. Oversize Softcover. From its early days in San Francisco, Rolling Stone has covered the music scene from the inside with colorful, penetrating, and brilliant interviews with the men and women who are rock and roll. This definitive collection represents the best of Rolling Stone's first..... More
Harper Perennial, January 2002. Trade Paperback. In the tradition of Iron & Silk comes a powerful memoir about a young American teacher in the Peace Corps living in the small Chinese city of Fuling as it navigates increasing waves of cultural and social upheaval. Maps. In the tradition of 'Iron..... More
E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., February 1962. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in burgundy cloth covered boards with small gold lettering along spine. 3RD printing. [452 pages]. More
Farrar Straus Giroux, November 1996. Hardcover. General Fiction Large Print Edition Hoeg is an adventurous and intelligent writer whose future course seems happily, impossible to predict . . . one of the essential contemporary novelists. More