Men's Lives
Vintage, January 1988. Paper Back. More
Vintage, January 1988. Paper Back. More
Harper Wave, August 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families. On a mid-August weekend, two families assemble..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, December 1977. Reprint. Cloth. Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. Trade Paperback. This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. John McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the aircraft's sucessive progenitors..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 2003. Trade Paperback. John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 1979. Hardcover. You people come into the market--the Greenmarket, in the open air under the down pouring sun--and you slit the tomatoes with your fingernails. With your thumbs, you excavate the cheese. You choose your stringbeans one at a time. You pulp the nectarines and..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 1985. First Edition. Cloth. First published in book form 1985, Table of Contents is a collection of eight pieces written by John McPhee between 1981 and 1984. Geographically and thematically, they range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones in..... More
Associated Magazine Contributors, Inc., November 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Featuring 'Must Marriage Be for Life?,' a cover story by Margaret Mead and contributions by Herman Wouk, Nathaniel Benchley, M.F.K. Fisher, Irwin Shaw and Jean-Paul Sartre. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Crown, May 1997. Hardcover. Celebrated columnist and social commentator Daphne Merkin takes on sexual spankings, shoplifting, adultery, and fantasies about Hitler in this "lush and provocative" collection of her most dating essays. More
Twayne Publishers, January 1969. Hardcover. In rubbed, darkened at margins dustjacket. Maroon faux-leather with gold lettering. Maroon end pages. Foxed textblock edges. Clean, unmarked interiors. More
The Modern Library, January 1957. First Edition. Cloth. First Modern Library Edition. In edgeworn dustjacket. Flap not clipped. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering in black rectangular field. Kent end pages in grey ink. Grey tinted top edge. Sound binding. Clean, unmarked interior pages. [435 pp plus eight pages..... More
Spectrum, January 1966. Paper Back. Octavo. Unmarked internal pages. Worn cover at edges & spine. Tiny removal scar bottom left of front cover. [182 pages]. More
Modern Library, January 1997. First Thus. Hardcover. A profile of the writer and Greenwich Village bohemian highlights his wealthy upbringing and Harvard education, his complicated lifestyle, and his fascination with oral history. More
Hyperion, August 2006. Trade Paperback. Now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of This..... More
HarperOne, June 1993. Trade Paperback. The critically and popularly acclaimed coming of age/coming out story from the author of "Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir." "Witty as it is anguished and as full of understanding as of anger, this is Monette's best book."-- "Booklist" Already a classic, Monette's critically acclaimed coming..... More
Penguin Classics, January 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Living at a time of religious strife and the decline of the intellectual optimism that had begun in the Renaissance, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) expressed in his writings both a deep skepticism about human affairs and a wide-ranging intellectual curiosity reflective of..... More
Thames & Hudson, June 1988. Oversize Softcover. More
Little Brown and Company, November 1994. Trade Paperback. In the critically acclaimed "New York Days, " Willie Morris recalls his triumphant, exciting, and ultimately devastating years as the youngest ever editor-in-chief of "Harper's," America's oldest magazine, when he was at the center of the nation's stunning cosmos of writing, publishing..... More
Grosset & Dunlap / The Universal Library, January 1966. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Well worn trade paperback. Previous owner's name inked first inside page. [114 pages plus two page list of Universal titles.]. More
Knopf Publishing Group, May 1994. Hardcover. In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, one of literature's great travelers (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. Dickensian . . . a brilliant new prism through which..... More
Vintage, February 1990. Trade Paperback. Naipaul's first book about America. A revealing, disturbing book about the American South--a part of the country that nonetheless remains a world unto itself. More
Cambridge University Press, August 2007. Trade Paperback. This book examines fiction and ethnography as related forms for analysing and exhibiting social life. Focusing on the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, the study argues that novels and ethnographies collaborated to produce an unstable but powerful master discourse..... More
Graywolf Press, September 2021. First Edition. Cloth. Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women's Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books *..... More
William Morrow & Company, February 2004. Hardcover. Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant, the artistic community in England in the first half of the twentieth century was engaged in the bold experiment of refashioning not just their art, but their daily lives. They reinvented the home, challenging and rejecting the smug certainties..... More