Soul of the Age
Random House, 2009. Trade Paperback. More
Random House, 2009. Trade Paperback. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1972. Paper Back. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Trade paperback with lightened spine.Previous owners' name written in ink first insed==[141 pages]. More
Collier Books, January 1973. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. Two previous reader's names inked inside. Another pair of owner's rubber stamped the verso of cover. Well worn. Some underlining and markings. More
Hogarth Press, January 1984. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Books, May 2023. Paper Back. Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's sophomore year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out..... More
Penguin Books, February 2018. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book - Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "Easily the funniest book I've read this year." --GQ "Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious..... More
The Penguin Poets, January 1961. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First UK mass market paperback edition. Clean, without internal markings. Non-authorial inscription to verso of front cover. Edgewear to covers. Moderate darkening. In French & English. [273 pp.]. More
Easton Press, January 1977. Leather. Easton Press Leatherbound Collector's Edition, 1977; Tight binding, gently leaning; Clean, sturdy brown leather boards w/ immaculate gilt design/text at front and rear covers, hubbed spine; Outer edge text-block in gilt w/ silk moire end-papers; Mild damp-staining present at front paste-down; Pages free of markings;..... More
David R Godine Pub, October 1985. Trade Paperback. The bilingual, illustrated, and National Book Award-winning edition of Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece. The complete French text is accompanied with an English translation by Richard Howard. Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex love, death..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, February 2020. Trade Paperback. Erica Bauermeister, the author of the February Reese's Book Club pick The Scent Keeper, presents a moving and evocative novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives. Emmeline lives..... More
Privately printed, January 1963. Limited. Paper Back. 500 copies printed for private distribution to libraries & collectors. A 1915 play written by Baum to be performed at 'The Uplifters' an LA social club. Includes pun & songs composed by Louis Gottschalk. Also a short unpublished fairy story, 'The Corrugated Giant,'..... More
Pocket, September 1950. Mass Market PaperBack. Appears to be 2nd Pocket book printing. Shelf worn, with chipping top & bottom of spine. Soiling & stray marks/stains to cover. Slant to spine. Red tinted textblock edges. (249 pages.). More
Vintage, September 1998. Trade Paperback. Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace. A drunken graduate student..... More
Two Dollar Radio, February 2022. Paper Back. * 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize, Longlist. * ABA "Indie Next List" pick for March 2022. * 2022 Best Young Australian Novelists awards, Winner. * Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, Shortlist. * "A Best Book of 2022" --Glamour, NYLON, Glamour, Refinery29 UK..... More
Paradigm Press, January 1991. Stapled Magazine. More
The Viking Press, November 1968. Trade Paperback. One lightly bumped corner, rubbing, shelf wear. More
Topatoco, January 2017. Oversize Softcover. Since 2009, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne's hilarious and fithy comic strip OGLAF has entertained hundreds of thousands of online readers. Set in a fantasy world complete with knights and wizards, elves and monsters, OGLAF satirizes the tropes of genre fiction and contemporary sexual mores..... More
Scribner, August 2023. Paper Back. NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND CULT FAVORITE Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, Time, NPR, Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, NBC News, Lit Hub, theSkimm, Condé Nast Traveler, Town & Country, and more! "One of the funniest books of the last few..... More
Pantheon, December 2016. Hardcover. The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of mutual pique and egomania. In 1940, Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum..... More
Doubleday Books, April 2024. Hardcover. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE LA TMES AND LIT HUB The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically thrilling tale of women yearning to become mothers and the ways the female body has always..... More
McNally Editions, July 2023. Paper Back. An unsung masterpiece squatting in the ashes of the sixties, The Nenoquich is the diary of a seducer hammering on the walls of his own loneliness. One day, eavesdropping on a phone call, Harold Raab, a writer with nothing to write, hears his roommate..... More
William Morrow & Company, February 2018. Trade Paperback. "The Atomic City Girls is a fascinating and compelling novel about a little-known piece of WWII history."--Maggie Leffler, international bestselling author of The Secrets of Flight In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes this riveting..... More
Folio Society. Hardcover. Very good condition with like slipcase. Green cloth binding with gilt decoration on spine and covers. Upper edge of text block is green. Previous owner's inscription on title page. More
Folio Society. Hardcover. Very good copy in like slipcase. Contains previous owner's inscription on title page. More
Penguin Classics, June 1964. Mass Market PaperBack. The sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro, used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Roissini A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man's attempts to keep his beautiful ward..... More
Bison, January 1968. Trade Paperback. More
DELL, 1959. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First Dell paperback, November, 1959. Cover painting by Al Brule. Slightly shelf worn with turquoise tinted textblock edges. [349 pages]. More
Firebrand Books, January 1986. Trade Paperback. Grin, giggle, and guffaw your way through this celebrated cartoonist's graphic commentary of contemporary lesbian life. A very crisp, clean copy of a collectible book. More
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1946. Hardcover. Solid binding w/ mild wear at spine from use; Pictoral boards show mild to moderate wear from age including a slight bend, some water damage at rear, general edge/corner wear; Text free of markings; Pages carry similar bend as present at boards; Mild..... More
Wm B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding; Pictoral boards clean and sturdy w/ very mild fading at front cover, black letting at spine is unfaded; Text free of markings; Extremely mild foxing present at front and rear paste-downs/end-pages; Price clipped dust jacket in Very Good condition..... More
Hassell Street Press, 1969. Trade Paperback. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United..... More
Random House~trade, January 1968. Paper Back. Octavo. 7th printing in paperback. Bumped/bruised base of spine. Unmarked interior. Another one of a kind collection of Beckett's dramatic shorts. [89 pages plus four page list of Grove/Evergreen titles.]. More
Arcade Publishing, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Now published for the first time--Samuel Beckett's first novel, written in the Hotel Trianon in Paris in the summer of 1932 when the author was 26. Recognized as one of the great writers of the 20th-century, Beckett's Waiting for Godot revolutionized contemporary theater and..... More
Foxrock Books, May 1995. First American. Hardcover. Just before he wrote the classic Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett wrote another play, entitled Eleutheria. Circumstances provided for Waiting for Godot to be produced and to become a masterpiece. Forty years later, Beckett gave the manuscript to his old publisher and the..... More
Grove / Evergreen, 1961. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. First paperbavck. Slanted spine. Foxing and mild discoloration to cover. Foxing/tanning to verso of cover front & back. Likewise first and last page of textblock. [64 pp.]. More
Grove Press Inc, January 1970 / 1978. Cloth. 21st printing of this edition. In price-clipped, mildly worn dustjacket with small stain at spine bottom. Navy blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering. Sound binding. Tight binding. Darkened margins. More
Grove Press: Evergreen, January 1975. Paper Back. More
Grove Press, 1981. Soft Cover. Octavo. Four short pieces: three 'dramatic pieces', and a strange work of prose, 'All Strange Away'. Clean, bright, without markings. [80 pp.]. More
Pub Group West, November 1995. Trade Paperback. Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett's famous trilogy. "Molloy, " the first of these masterpieces, appeared in French in 1951. It was followed seven months..... More
John Calder, 1965. Cloth. Soiling/darkening to edges of jacket. Also mild rubbing & edgewear with chipping to front panel at fold. Soiling at bottom textblock edge. Otherwise clean sound, without interior markings. More
Pegasus Books, February 2009. First Thus. Paper Back. With a tree, a country road, and two tramps waiting haplessly for a Godot who never comes, Samuel Beckett epitomized for theatergoers around the world the at-once comical and terrifying condition of being human in an uncertain universe. He would follow the..... More
Collins, January 1968. First Edition. Cloth. First U.K. edition in dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original British price 2 5s. net on flap bottom corner. Salmon colour cloth with gold lettering on spine. Foxing & yellowing on textblock top edge & fore-edge. End pages clean, without tanning. Interior pages clean, without..... More
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1953. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback, Heavy edgewear. Previous owner's name and college dorm address. Red ballpoint notes all over last blank page. [190 pages plus three page list of Anchor titles then available]. More
Anchor Doubleday, May 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened spine and mild edgewear. Cover drawing by the author. [346 pages]. More
Syracuse University Press, September 1988. Hardcover. As one of the most experimental works attempted in prose fiction, Finnegans Wake has not yielded to examination easily, but it need not remain a complete enigma. As Michael Begnal emphasizes, Joyce's work is still a novel and can be read as such. Making..... More
Hutchinson of London, 1964. Cloth. {6 & 1/2' x 10'} In edgeworn jacket. Flap not clipped. UK edition. Burgunday cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Illustrated end pages with darkened spine. [159 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, USA, November 1998. Paper Back. The most complete collection of the work of Aphra Behn (1640-89) available, this volume contains Oroonoko and five other works of fiction ranging from comedy and high melodrama to tragedy. The works included--The Fair Jilt, Memoirs of the Court of the King..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, February 1997. Reprint. Trade Paperback. The editor supplies explanatory annotations and textual notes. "Historical Backgrounds" is an especially rich collection of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century documents about colonizers and slaves in the new world. Topically arranged-"Montaigne on America," "The Settling of Surinam," "Observers of Slavery, 1654-1712," "After..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 1997. Trade Paperback. Taken up by reformers in the long battle against the slave trade, reprinted and imitated countless times, Oroonoko remains a popular tale that introduces powerful themes onto the literary stage. The first woman in England to make her living by writing..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, January 1993. Trade Paperback. 'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds' - Virginia Woolf in "A Room of One's Own." More
Penguin Group USA Inc, January 1993. Trade Paperback. 'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds' - Virginia Woolf in "A Room of One's Own." More
Ohio State University Press, October 1992. First Thus. Paper Back. {6' x 9'} Mild shelfwear. Slightly dog-eared. Previous reader's name written in ink upon half title page. Complete number string. First paperback edition. [150 pages]. More
Red Globe Press, January 1973. Trade Paperback. Inked underlining. More
Ohio State University Press, May 1996. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. Jacket a little soiled and chipped. More
Ohio State University Press, April 1989. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn with clear tape repairs. Sunned spine. Grey cloth covered board with green lettering. Previous owner's name inked front free end page. Tightly bound. [280 page]. More
Bloomsbury Publishing, January 2024. Hardcover. A bold, unsettling, surprisingly tender debut novel for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Nightcrawling. Salomé Atabong is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, living in the Netherlands. She arrives at a juvenile detention center to start a six-month sentence for..... More
NYRB Classics, September 2023. Paper Back. A brief, potent, and audaciously written novel about a husband caring for his dying wife, and the shifting nature of their relationship as the end approaches. Anna, an Englishwoman, has married, quite late in life, a merchant marine officer, an Italian. Beginning--and ending--at a...... More
Penguin Books, July 1990. Paper Back. Octavo. Textblock edges are dust stained with foxing. [465 pages]. More
Cornell Univ Pr, February 1991. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
University of Pittsburgh Press, June 1976. Trade Paperback. Out of This Furnace is Thomas Bell's most compelling achievement. Its story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family -- the Dobrejcaks -- still stands as a fresh and extraordinary accomplishment. The novel begins in the mid-1880s with the naive blundering..... More
Little, Brown, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Beige buckram binding in chipped and soiled jacket that has a 1 1/2 inch oblong hole, a closed tear and a sticker scar on spine. Book is tight, with minimal darkening. More
University of Pittsburgh Press, June 1976. Trade Paperback. Out of This Furnace is Thomas Bell's most compelling achievement. Its story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family -- the Dobrejcaks -- still stands as a fresh and extraordinary accomplishment. The novel begins in the mid-1880s with the naive blundering..... More
The Modern Library, 1951. Hardcover. Blue cloth. Some chipping, staining, and creasing along dustjacket edge. Wrapped in mylar for future protection. Text clean. [276 pages] Blue cloth. Some chipping, staining, and creases along dustjacket edge. Text clean. [276 pages]. More
Penguin Books, December 1982. Trade Paperback. The hero is anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. The time is tomorrow. The place is a Utopian America. This is the backdrop for Edward Bellamy's prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysteriously transported from the..... More
Modern Library, 1951. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. In dustjacket with mild shelfwear & rubbing. Front flap is clipped. Blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. Kent end papers. [276 pages]. More
Akashic Books, Ltd., January 2024. Paper Back. It's the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late--stoned and radiant--in a Ford pickup driven by Borislav, her..... More
New Harvest, June 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. J.D. Salinger published his first story in The New Yorker at age twenty-nine. Three years later came The Catcher in The Rye, a novel that has sold more than sixty-five million copies and achieved mythic status since its publication in 1951. Subsequent books..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), May 1998. Trade Paperback. "Another gem to savor from America's greatest living novelist. Love was never more tenderly celebrated than it is in The Actual, the ultimate springtime story". -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review In this wise and dazzling work of fiction, Nobel laureate Saul Bellow writes..... More
Penguin Classics, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow's greatest novel Winner of the 1954 National Book Award One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years "The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further." --Martin Amis A Penguin Classic..... More
Harper & Row, December 1981. Cloth. Bound in heavy green cloth with gold gilt lettering along the spine. Cloth is sunned along the edges of the boards. Jacket has light shelf wear and a quarter inch closed tear at the bottom of the spine. More
Penguin Classics, June 1996. Trade Paperback. Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for the truth. His feats of strength, his passion for life, and, most importantly, his inadvertant success in bringing rain have made him a god-like figure among the tribes. More
Viking Adult, October 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Collects stories featuring such characters as art critic Victor Wulpy, cheeerful and tragic Hattie Waggoner, and death-bed witness Dr. Braun. First edition with full number line. Mylar wrapped to preserve. One very lightly rubbed corner on the front board. More
N/A, June 2003. Trade Paperback. "What makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow's eye and ear for vital detail. Nor is it his talent for exposing the innards of character in a paragraph, a sentence, a phrase. It is Bellow's vision, his uncanny ability to seize the..... More
Macmillan Pub Ltd, July 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. {5 & 1/2' x 9'}. In dustjacket with mildly stessed edges. Black paper covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Top corners bumped front and rear. Clean, sound, without interior markings. [166 pp.]. More
The Viking Press, January 1943. Hardcover. 1944 printing. Small price sticker scar on spine. More
University of Illinois Press, January 1992. Paper Back. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. Light pencil underlining and side notes scattered about through text.[260 pages.]. More
George H. Doran, January 1927. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'; Without dustjacket, black cloth with stamped red unicorn & tree front cover and red lettering on spine. Moderately edgeworn boards. Previous owner's name & a date inked front pastedown. 311 pages. More
Ipswich Pr, September 1985. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with foxing. Flap not clippe. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Matching burgundy end pages. Dust stains textblock edges. [220 pages.]. More
Berkley, June 2021. Hardcover. The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! "Historical fiction at its best!"* A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan's personal..... More
Berkley, June 2022. Trade Paperback. The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! "Historical fiction at its best!"* A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan's..... More
Picador, January 1997. Trade Paperback. This work takes the reader on a literary tour of Russia from the streets of Bulgakov's Moscow to the country estates of Tolstoy which can be read as an overview of Russian literature or used as a guide to a trip around Russia. Beginning with..... More
Harper & Brothers Publishers, January 1960. Cloth. Tattered, torn dust jacket with large chip at top of spine & 2 large (three inch & two inch) tears at top of back panel & bottom of front panel. NOT price clipped with original price of $2.95 on front flap. Red &..... More
Faber & Faber, April 2006. Trade Paperback. More
Faber & Faber, Incorporated, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name. Bookstore stamp. More
Riverhead Books, October 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught." -The New York Times Book Review "Luminous... engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss." -People, Pick of the Week "Fantastic... a book that feels alive on the page." -The Washington Post A dazzling..... More
Riverhead Books, June 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE* VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE..... More
Riverhead Books, June 2020. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE* VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST "Bennett's..... More
Riverhead Books, February 2023. Trade Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ" NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE "Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is..... More
Oxford University Press. Hardcover. dust jacket shows light signs of bumping and rubbing, what you'd expect from age; DJ price clipped; DJ wrapped in mylar; light page yellowing; good tight binding. More
Vagabond Pr, June 1981. Hardcover. Quarto in dust jacket with edgewear & one-inch tear at top edge. More
Vagabond Pr, June 1981. Paper Back. More
The Hogarth Press, 1986. Paper Back. Octavo. Remainder mark top textblock edge. [236 pages]. More
Hogarth Press, 1985. Trade Paperback. Octavo (Five-inches x Eight-inches). 2nd printing of this trade paperback edition. Remainder mark top textblock edge. Else, sound, without internal markings. No underlining. No notes. More
Hogwarth Press, January 1989. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Damp stained. 2nd printing. More
G K Hall, March 1985. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. Burgundy cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Tan cloth covered boards. Previous reader's name written in ink on fep. Unmarked interior text. [236 pages). More
Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., May 1985. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo in edgeworn dustjacket. Tan cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Previous reader's name in ballpoint on ffep. [202 pages]. More
University Of Washington Press, January 1965. Paper Back. Damp stained; soiling. More