The English Novel: A Short Critical History
E.P. Dutton and Co., January 1954. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with sun bleached spine. Previous reader's name in green pencil half title page. [454 pages]. More
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Practical Mind Reading: A Course of Lessons on Thought Transference, Telepathy, Mental Currents, Mental Raport, etc.
D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co., 1987. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 1987 reprint w/ attractive cover; Printined in India; Sound binding; Mild edge-wear present; Pages free of markings; An excellent copy; Scarce in this edition. More
The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Volume 2 (The Literary Essays, Volume 2)
Harvard University Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first printing w/ no additional printings stated; Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards - ever-so-gently edge-worn/rubbed w/ mild toning to spine; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket moderately edge-worn/rubbed w/ some chipping/closed-tearing present; Jacket housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation;..... More
Burden of the Past and the English Poet
W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1972. Paper Back. More
Prefaces to criticism (Anchor A165)
Doubleday Anchor, 1959. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with light shelf wear. Slightly darkened spine. Unmarked interiors. [228 pages]. More
Selected Writings
Belknap Press, June 1999. Hardcover. In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as one of the most original practicing literary critics and public intellectuals in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of his selected writings, covering the years 1927..... More
Martin Heidegger: An illustrated study (An Original Harvest book ; HB 327)
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1976. Trade Paperback. More
Freddy and Simon the Dictator
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1956. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in chipped, torn & creased with sun bleached spine. Foxing & damp stains, most visible on verso. Flap is not clipped. Rose red cloth with black lettering. Much of the red cloth is washed out and turned to a blush color..... More
J. J. Brown and Thomas E. Watson
Mercer University Press, May 2009. Hardcover. An excellent copy, no jacket present. More
Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word
Fortress Press, October 2007. Hardcover. Against the easy assurance of a too-enculturated religion, Walter Brueggemann refocuses the preaching task around the decentering, destabilizing, always risky word that confronts us in Scripture ??? if we have the courage to hear. These powerful essays, previously available only in journals, are here combined..... More
Bird, Nest & Egg: The Homes of Forty Extraordinary Species
Rizzoli International Publications, March 2026. Hardcover. A delightful, warmhearted book about home and nesting perfect for bird lovers, naturalists, and anyone charmed by the coziness of a snug nest. This book is meticulously designed as a large-format visual portfolio of the world's most distinctive birds, whose nesting behavior and natural..... More
American Strategy for the Nuclear Age
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
Days of Henry Thoreau (Revised)
Dover Publications, December 2011. Paper Back. "The best biography we have had." -- Carl Bode, The New York Times Book Review Henry David Thoreau is generally remembered as the author of Walden and "Civil Disobedience," a recluse of the woods and political protester who once went to jail. To his..... More
The Artist in the Service of Science/Der Kunstler im Dienst der Wissenschaft/L'artiste au service de la science
The Graphis Press, 1974. Hardcover. Square and tight in glossy 9.5' x 12' illustrated boards. Corners and head/tail of spine gently bumped. Interior clean and free of markings. Illustrated with amazing b&w and color anatomical renderings. Publisher's parchment jacket moderately to heavily chipped at head/tail of spine and more lightly..... More
Gold in the Blue Ridge the True Story of the Beale
Devon Publishing Co., 1981. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in DJ with sunned spine and heavily foxed/dust stained edges. Likewise foxing/dust stains to jacket verso. Flap is not clipped. Navy blue cloth covered spine. Foxing/dust stains to textblock edges especially top edge. Tanned end papers. End page design: illustrated maps. [249 pages]..... More
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Simon & Schuster, May 2004. Trade Paperback. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems..... More
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Simon & Schuster, July 2003. Hardcover. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made..... More
Elon Musk
Simon & Schuster, September 2023. Hardcover. The #1 New York Times and global bestseller from Walter Isaacson--the acclaimed author of Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and World, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci--is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating, controversial innovator of modern times. For two years, Isaacson..... More
Memoir of the Bobotes
Readers Union Michael Joseph, April 1965. Book Club. Cloth. Readers Union (bookclub) edition in very good dustjacket with mild darkening at margins. Not price clipped. Original British price 30s lower corner of front flap. Umber cloth with gold lettering. Red top stain. Sound binding, pulled some at head of spine..... More
Lower Than Angels
Popular Library, 1952. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. First Popular Library Edition; Sound binding; Moderate wear to covers and spine; Pages free of markings; A Good copy overall. More
Zotz!
RINEHART & CO., January 1947. Hardcover. Book club edition; Solid binding w/ clean, sturdy boards; Mild wear present from age with the slightest bit of fraying present at spine top; Text free of markings; Jacket shows significant wear including two inch chip at front which obsures the book title slightly..... More
Secret Museum
Viking Books, April 1987. Hardcover. More
Thumbsucker
Bantam Dell Pub Group, November 1999. Trade Paperback. This eighties-centric, Ritalin-fueled, pitch-perfect comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic Midwestern coming-of-age story.Meet Justin Cobb, "the King Kong of oral obsessives" (as his dentist dubs him) and the most appealingly bright and screwed-up fictional..... More
The New Empire
Cornell, 1975. Trade Paperback. Rubbing on covers; else, very good, tight. More
Day of Infamy
Combined Publishing, November 1998. Paper Back. Walter Lord interviewed nearly 600 participants in the tragic and treacherous attack on the USA's prime Pacific naval base in the Hawaiian Islands. From about half an hour before the attack to the realization later in the day that the pride of the American..... More
