Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1990. Reprint. Flexible Boards. Much worn. 12mo. -- (Four & 1/4' x Six' )Maroon cloth flexible boards. Dust stained boards with spine darkened, edges darkened. Textblock edges likewise darkened, especially top edge. Binding is tender and in sections loose. Ribbon marker quite frayed. Several pages at..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2021. Hardcover. Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American..... More
Archipelago, March 2021. Paper Back. Andrea Bajani's beautiful, original, and deeply moving (Michael Cunningham) novel, which Jhumpa Lahiri asserts accumulates with the quiet urgency of a snowstorm. A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a...... More
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, January 2021. Hardcover. In this comic adventure through the loneliness epidemic, a middle-aged everyman looks around one day and realizes that he seems to have misplaced his friends, inspiring him to set out on a hilarious and ultimately moving quest to revive old..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Anthologist" is narrated by Paul Chowder -- a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering, his girlfriend Roz has recently left..... More
Random House (NY), April 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes..... More
Vintage, January 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, January 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Blue Rider Press, September 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Paul Chowder, the poet protagonist of Nicholson Baker's widely acclaimed novel The Anthologist, is turning fifty-five and missing his ex-girlfriend, Roz, rather desperately. As he approaches the dreaded birthday, Paul is uninspired by his usual artistic outlet (although he's pleased that his..... More
Blue Rider Press, September 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Paul Chowder, the poet protagonist of Nicholson Baker's widely acclaimed novel The Anthologist, is turning fifty-five and missing his ex-girlfriend, Roz, rather desperately. As he approaches the dreaded birthday, Paul is uninspired by his usual artistic outlet (although he's pleased that his..... More
Random House (NY), April 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Nicholson Baker's novels, The Mezzanine and Room Temperature, have been highly praised for their sparkling originality, deadpan humor, and eccentric style. Now, with U and I, Baker has written the most idiosyncratic and deftly illuminating essay on literary influence in recent memory..... More
J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1869. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd U.S. edition in brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Edgeworn, especially at top & bottom of spine. All four fore-edge board corners bumped. Blindstamp of global emblem & border front and back boards. Textblock edges darkened. Brown end pages. Bookplates from..... More
Immortal Classics, January 1929. Hardcover. Decorative black cloth in tattered jacket. More
Random House Inc, February 1993. Trade Paperback. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and..... More
Henry Holt & Co, October 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. A little bowed; remainder stripe on top edge, which is also about weathered. Jacket is unclipped but has damp-staining on interior and edgewear; else, very good. More
Vintage, September 2013. Trade Paperback. James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a...... More
Vintage, September 2013. Paper Back. In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves..... More
Vintage, October 2006. Trade Paperback. In this honest and stunning novel that inspired the award-winning major motion picture of the same name, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. A major work of Black American fiction. -The New Republic Told through the..... More
Jonathan Cape, January 1975. Cloth. First/first (UK) edition. In very good price clipped dustjacket. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. A very small grey marks on back board. Else bright, clean, very good+/fine overall. Sound binding. Black topstain. Internal text without marks. More
Putnam, 1971. Hardcover. Slick black hardcover. Silver spine titles. Moderate shelf wear; bookplate front pastedown endpaper, previous bookstore price stickers on front free endpaper. More
Modern Library, January 1950. Cloth. Heavily worn jacket with clipped front flap. Especially worn (chipped/torn) at top & bottom of jacket spine as well as folds front & back. Small (3/4' x 3/8th') )white label that says: 'Lit Fiction,' affixed to jacket spine near bottom. Tanned jacket verso has list..... More
Open Letter, January 2019. Trade Paperback. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book in Translation of 2019 Zsófia Ban's Night School: A Reader for Adults uses a textbook format to build an encyclopedia of life--subject by subject, from self-help to geography to chemistry to French. With subtle irony, Ban's collection of "lectures"..... More
Viking Adult, June 1999. Hardcover. With a steadily growing cadre of readers who delight in her smartly comic and insightful writing, Melissa Bank is an event waiting to happen. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing explores the life lessons of Jane, the contemporary American Everywoman who combines the charm..... More
Harpercollins, February 1985. Hardcover. Dust jacket has a few stains and is taped at the top. Previous owner's name inked on first free page. More
Ecco, March 2021. Hardcover. A searing novel about memory, abandonment, and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks At the center of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam..... More
