Literary Non-Fiction
The Road Ahead
Corgi, January 1993. Trade Paperback. More
The Puzzles of Childhood
Penguin, January 1990. Trade Paperback. Pages toned. Gift inscription on verso of front cover. More
I, Claud ... : An Autobiography By Claud Cockburn
Penguin, January 1967. Mass Market PaperBack. A well worn mass market copy of a scarce title in any condition or format. Tanned/darkened, heavily foxed. Spine leaning. Yes one might even say cocked, but for truth's sake the last name of Claud Cockburn (1904-1981) is pronounced 'coburn', like the great Hollywood..... More
Giraudoux; Three Faces of Destiny
Univ of Chicago Press, June 1970. Paper Back. Octavo. Sticker removal scar front cover. Underlining & side notes. [164 pp.]. More
Lives We Carry with Us: Profiles of Moral Courage
New Press, The, August 2010. Hardcover. Lives We Carry with Us gathers together for the first time a diverse cross section of Coles's profiles, originally published in our premier magazines over the span of five decades but never before collected in book form. Depicting the famous, the lesser known, and..... More
Reading the Written Image
Penn State University Press, October 1991. Hardcover. Reading the Written Image is a study of the imagination as it is prompted by the verbal cues of literature. Since every literary image is also a mental image, a representation of an absent entity, Collins contends that imagination is a poiesis, a...... More
Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy
William Morrow, October 2019. Hardcover. "Tell Me A Story is breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true...The best memoir I've read." -- Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Reunion Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute to..... More
The Road from Coorain
Vintage, September 1990. Trade Paperback. From the shelter of a protective family, to the lessons of tragedy and independence, this is an indelible portrait of a harsh and beautiful country and the inspiring story of a remarkable woman's life. More
True North: A Memoir
Vintage, August 1995. Trade Paperback. With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed - and beloved - bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story. She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by a hunger to..... More
Dream of the Golden Mountains -- Remembering the 1930s
Penguin Books, October 1981. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Mild user wear. Darkened margins to internal pages, though mostly without markings within text. Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. [328 pages]. More
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Riverhead, April 2008. Trade Paperback. Hailed by David Sedaris as "perfectly, relentlessly funny" and by Colson Whitehead as "sardonic without being cruel, tender without being sentimental," from the author of the new collection Look Alive Out There. Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a...... More
Nightmare Culture: LAUTRÉAMONT and 'Les Chants de Maldoror'
St. Martin's Press, 1973. Cloth. In edgeworn dustjacket with marginal darkening. Red cloth with gold lettering. Heavy foxing/darkening to end pages & textblock top & fore-edges. Previous owner's name & date inked front free end page. Study of the great (French/Uruguayan) poet Comte de Lautréamont (aka Isidore Lucien Ducasse) (1846..... More
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones; or, Plain truths in a homespun dress.
UMI Books on Demand, March 2005. Trade Paperback. Facsimile reprint in plain, grey paper wrapper. More
Summer of Deliverance : A Memoir of Father and Son
Simon & Schuster, August 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. "Summer of Deliverance" is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father; between the journalist Christopher Dickey and the renowned poet and novelist James Dickey. Chris, best known for his reporting on wars around..... More
Sorties: Journals and New Essays
Doubleday & Company, Inc., May, 1978. Reprint. Cloth. In dustjacket with mild edgewear. Not price clipped. Original price of $6.95 on jacket flap. One inch tear top edge of rear fold.Clean, bright maroon cloth covered boards with silver & black lettering on spine. Sharp corners. Maroon speckled bottom textblock edge..... More
The Year of Magical Thinking
Vintage, February 2007. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will..... More
An American Childhood
Harper Perennial, October 1998. Trade Paperback. A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, "An American Childhood" is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s. More
Precipice
Minotaur Books, June 2015. Hardcover. In this riveting new novel from Edgar finalist Paul Doiron, Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal with a frightening rash of coyote attacks. When two female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness-the most remote stretch along..... More
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
Little, Brown & Company, January 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition in edgeworn, foxed dustjacket. Not price clipped. Quarter cloth: aegean blue cloth spine with gold lettering on red title plate & carmine paper covered boards. Cerulean blue end pages. Heavy foxing textblock fore-edge. (572 pages). More
Empire's Old Clothes
Pantheon, April 1983. Trade Paperback. More
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression..... More
Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History
HarperCollins, May 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Henry James: His Life and Writings (A68)
Doubleday Anchor, 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Heavily sunned cover with both a darkened spine and bleached front cover. Also cover is edgeworn. Across front cover there is sprinkle of small white marks, possibly insect damage. Textblock fore-edge & bottom edge are dust stained and foxied. Previous owner's address stamp..... More