Fiction & Literature
Mezza Voce
Post-Appollo Press, May 1988. Paper Back. Poetry. Translated from the French by Josef Simas, with Lydia Davis, Anthony Barnett and Douglas Oliver. "There is no other poetry like this in the world. Even at its most difficult, its passions are mesmerizing. It is a great triumph to have carried these..... More
Hospital Sketches
Applewood Books, January 1970. Paper Back. This is Alcott's account of her experiences as a nurse during the Civil War in a Washington D.C. hospital. The sketches are taken from letters hastily written in the few leisure moments of a very busy life, and so maintain the immediacy and force..... More
Future
Simon & Schuster, November 2023. Hardcover. A Most Anticipated Book of Fall at Associated Press, Booklist, Chicago Tribune, Goodreads, Good Housekeeping, Literary Hub, Time, The Week, and W Magazine The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring..... More
Good Material: A novel
Knopf, January 2024. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK - From the New York Times best-selling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both "Like Nora Ephron, with a British twist....Delivers..... More
Good Material: A novel
Knopf, January 2024. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK - From the New York Times best-selling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both "Like Nora Ephron, with a British twist....Delivers..... More
All Men Are Enemies: A Romance
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. First Separate. Cloth. Octavo in jacket with well worn edges & darkened margins. Especially heavy is the wear to top & bottom of spine. Small tan circle -- five-eighth inches diameter -- appears to be sticker residue. Decorations & jacket design by Rockwell Kent..... More
HELLICONIA SPRING
Scribner, January 1982. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Ex-library copy with tape on boards and markings on title page. More
Little Girl Lost
Leisure Books. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Bullies
Picador, March 2017. Trade Paperback. **Vulture's The Best Books of 2016** **Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016** **featured in NPR's Guide to 2016's Great Reads** The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most..... More
The Savage Girl
Harper Perennial, September 2002. Trade Paperback. What is the next trend -- the next "killer app"? This question is very much on the mind of Ursula Van Urden, a burned-out art student who, after her supermodel sister Ivy's widely publicized suicide attempt, has found work as a trendspotter for Tomorrow..... More
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Knopf, November 1998. Oversized Hardcover. In August 1914, days before the outbreak of World War I, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of..... More
Irving HoweSocialist, Critic, Jew (Jewish Literature and Culture)
Indiana University Press, April 1998. First American. Cloth. For over 50 years, from the 1940s to the 1990s, Irving Howe was a commanding, if controversial, figure in American intellectual life. Writing with the productivity of a major industry, Howe took on issues ranging from left-wing politics and American writers to..... More
Reading Wordsworth
Taylor & Francis Books Ltd, November 1987. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
They Don't Call It the Submission Process for Nothing: A Rookie Author's Rookie Year
Blydyn Square Books, November 2023. Paper Back. What actually goes on behind the curtain of "being published?" How does it feel when you get your advance? Is it fun? Exciting? Does it involve riches, fame, and groupies? Inside They Don't Call It the Submission Process for Nothing, you'll discover what..... More
Where Have All the Cowboys Gone: Madness, Mayhem, and the Making of America
Cooper River Books, September 2023. Paper Back. Learning about history can be boring-but that's mostly because the guys who teach it are relics themselves, cloaked in tweed and tenured since Roosevelt gave away Easter Europe. In his laugh-out-loud book Where Have All the Cowboys Gone, Prioleau Alexander digs deep into..... More
Love and Other Poems
XLIBRIS, April 2014. Paper Back. More
The Incal: Classic Collection
Humanoids, Inc., December 2010. Oversized Hardcover. Core title in the internationally bestselling Incal trilogy that includes the prequel, Before The Incal, and the stunning conclusion, Final Incal. The series has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Featured in the acclaimed documentary Jodorowsky s Dune, one of Entertainment Weekly s top..... More
Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
Signet Classics, September 2005. Mass Market PaperBack. A plucky street boy who smokes, gambles, and speaks ungrammatically, Dick is also honest and hardworking. A quintessential novel of adventure, romance, and coming-of-age, it is also an exhilarating tale of one boy's metamorphosis from dirty street urchin to gentleman. More
Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward
Penguin Group USA Inc, December 1984. Trade Paperback. The hero of "Ragged Dick" is a veritable "diamond in the rough" - as innately virtuous as he is streetwise and cocky. Immediately popular with young readers, the novel also appeals to parents, who responded to its colorful espousal of the Protestant..... More
Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward
Penguin Group USA Inc, December 1984. Trade Paperback. The hero of "Ragged Dick" is a veritable "diamond in the rough" - as innately virtuous as he is streetwise and cocky. Immediately popular with young readers, the novel also appeals to parents, who responded to its colorful espousal of the Protestant..... More
The Man with the Golden Arm
Pocket Books, 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. Movie (Frank Sinatra) cover. Second printing; some stains on the back cover and minor creasing of edges. More
Man with the Golden Arm
Four Walls Eight Windows, April 1990. Trade Paperback. Back in print at last is this masterwork of one of the truly original voices in 20th-century American literature. Chicago card dealer and junkie Frankie Machine is as tough as anyone in the Windy City's underworld--but not tough enough to break his..... More
Brick Lane: A Novel
Scribner, July 2004. Trade Paperback. "A book you won't be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she has an arranged marriage (and children) and the fiery political activist she lusts after. A novel that's multi-continental, richly detailed..... More
The Divine Comedy: Paradise (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, February 1986. Trade Paperback. This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul..... More