Mulholland Books, September 2011. First Edition. Cloth. A fast-paced literary thriller that recalls dystopian classics such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, from the award-winning author of The Last Town on Earth. Zed is an agent from the future. A time when the world's problems have been solved. No hunger. No..... More
Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1991. Paper Back. Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity..... More
Penguin Classics, September 1985. Paper Back. "Pamphleteer, poet, story-teller, satirist, scholar, moralist and jester . . ." Thomas Nashe, a contemporary of Shakespeare, was writing in the 1590s, the zenith of the English Renaissance. Rebellious in spirit, conservative in philosophy, Nashe's brilliant and comic invective earned him a reputation as..... More
Plume Books, November 1984. Trade Paperback. More
Random House, September 1994. First Thus. Cloth. Quarto. {9' x 10 & 3/4'} In clean, bright dustjacket. Front flap is not clipped. Brown umber cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering along spine. First illustrated U.S. edition with this number string: 98765432, indicating first printing for RH editions of this..... More
Prentice Hall, June 1968. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Complete number string. First printing. Well worn with chipped edges. Creased spine. Two different previous reader's names written in ink first inside page. [177 pages]. More
University of California Press, 1971. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. With darkened spine. Unmarked interiors. Creased corners back cover. Sticker remnants also on back cover. [260 pages]. More
Ten Speed Press, November 2011. Hardcover. Gone are the days when a lonely bottle of Angostura bitters held court behind the bar. A cocktail renaissance has swept across the country, inspiring in bartenders and their thirsty patrons a new fascination with the ingredients, techniques, and traditions that make the American..... More
Everthemore Books, December 2014. Trade Paperback. More
D.R. Godine/ Nonpareill Book, January 1980. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. In tan jacket with sun tanned spine, with black & red inked letteering & woodblock reproductions. Front flap is not clipped. Olive green cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. A Darker green end pages. Laid within is Nonpareil folded..... More
Belknap Press, April 2014. Hardcover. A New York Times #1 Bestseller An Amazon #1 Bestseller A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Sunday Times Bestseller A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award..... More
Random House, 1952. Reprint. Cloth. Third printing of US hardcover edition. Grey cloth covered boards with dust stains. Fading gold lettering within rectangular field of grey & black on spine. Previous reader's name written in ink on ffep. Damp staining of cover. Stray marks likewise scattered here and there across..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, November 2006. Trade Paperback. "A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force." -- San Francisco Examiner The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon's highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would..... More
Penguin Classics, October 2006. Trade Paperback. A Penguin Classic Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of..... More
Penguin Classics, May 2003. Trade Paperback. The first literary addiction memoir, featuring the autobiographical Suspiria de Profundis, the inspiration for the 2018 horror film Suspiria, starring Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton and directed by Luca Guadagnino In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory..... More
Stein & Day, 1982. Hardcover. More
Basic Books, January 1999. Paper Back. Abortion has been at the emotional center of America's culture wars for a generation. Ever since the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, abortion has in many ways defined American politics, creating an ideological demilitarized zone between liberals and conservatives. Above all, the..... More
The Modern Library, February 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of letters by the editor of the New Yorker details the birth of the magazine and its early days. {6&1/2' x 8&1/2'} In mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Previous owner's name inked ffep. Stated, First Edition with this number line '2 4..... More
Dallas Institute of Humanities & Culture, December 1986. Oversize Softcover. {7' x 11'} Small quarto; mild external wear. Very good+/fine overall. (250 pages.). More
Little, Brown and Company, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in edgeworn dustjacket with small tears mostly across top edge. Dark stains along edges. Front flap is not clipped. Orange cloth covered boards with black lettereing along spine. Slightly dust stained at margins. Burnt orange end papers with ballpoint writing on..... More
Chelsea Publishing Co. Leather. No date, but was possibly printed in 1930s. Author not listed, but Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736 – 1794) was German writer credited with this classic adventure tale, and Rapse is discussed at length in Thomas Seccombe's introduction. The translator is unnamed. Navy blue leather cover deeply..... More
Skyhorse Publishing, January 2016. Trade Paperback. "[Robinson's] lifelong triumph over adversity belongs to the greatest of American success stories." --Peter Hannaford, Washington Times In this gripping, never-before-told tale, biographer Thomas E. Simmons brings to life the true story of John C. Robinson, who rose from fraught and humble beginnings as..... More
Yale University Press, January 1996. Oversized Hardcover. The Vinland Map, dated to about A.D. 1440--at least fifty years before Columbus landed in the Americas--is a unique map of the world that shows an outline of the northeast American coast and a legend describing its discovery in about 1000 by Leif..... More
Cooperstown, 1824. Leather. Solid binding in origianl boards; Boards show general wear from age w/ chipping and fraying present at edges; Previous owner name present at front and rear end-pages along with some other minor markings; Text free of markings; Pages moderately foxed w/ some damp-staining present; Over-all an extremely..... More
Indiana University Press / Midland Book, January 1970. Paper Back. First (thus) Midland Books edition. Clean internally; foxing/darkening textblock edges; rough cut fore-edge. More
