Jaded Ibis Press, October 2014. Trade Paperback. "Audacious and fearless, lyrical and brilliant." Joe Milazzo's debut novel Crepuscule W/Nellie explores, via imagined as well as reimagined circumstances and incidents, the relationships between jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, his wife Nellie, and his patron and confidante, the Baroness Pannonica De..... More
St. Martin's Press, November 1999. Trade Paperback. More
Picador USA, December 2001. Trade Paperback. With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due to Alzheimer's disease." Elegy for Iris" is a story about the ephemeral beauty of..... More
The Cuala Press, January 1972. Hardcover. Number 167 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Printed boards in cloth back. Paper spine label. Glassine wrap. Pages unopened along top. More
Harper Perennial, April 2007. Trade Paperback. Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, September 1998. Trade Paperback. Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through..... More
Random House Inc, September 2002. Trade Paperback. John O'Brien was raised in Philadelphia by an Appalachian father who fled the mountains to escape crippling poverty and family tragedy. Years later, with a wife and two kids of his own, the son moved back into those mountains in an attempt to..... More
Alden, Beardsley & Co.; [etc., etc.], January 1852. Hardcover. Heavy marginal wear to boards and loss to spine and top & bottom. Internally clean with tanning to end pages. Binding is weak. More
Harper, February 2021. Hardcover. The Officer's Daughter is a masterpiece. More than that, it's the perfect book for our troubled time. Johnson has written the deepest, most emotionally resonant understanding of forgiveness and justice I have ever read.--Darin Strauss, bestselling author of Half a Life The author reflects on a...... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2021. Paper Back. Fenton Johnson's lyrical prose and searching sensibility explore what it means to choose solitude and to celebrate the notion that solitude is a legitimate and dignified calling. He delves into the lives and works of nearly a dozen iconic solitaries he..... More
Harper Perennial, March 1990. Trade Paperback. The controversial and provocative bestseller about intellectuals in history, from Rousseau, Marx, and Tolstoy to Sartre, Noam Chomsky, and Lillian Hellman."Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read." "--New York Times Book Review" More
Berkley Pub Group, May 2006. Trade Paperback. From the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted Forget everything you've ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws..... More
Belt Publishing, March 2020. Hardcover. Raechel Anne Jolie's early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the women who loved them. After her father came home from his third-shift job, took the garbage out to the curb and was..... More
St Martins Pr Special, October 2003. Trade Paperback. From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry..... More
Simon & Schuster, July 2020. Paper Back. From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives--winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award--is a "moving, bracingly honest memoir" (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. One of the..... More
Simon & Schuster, July 2020. Paper Back. From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives--winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award--is a "moving, bracingly honest memoir" (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. One of the..... More
Ecco Pr, July 1997. Trade Paperback. More
Bedford/St. Martin's, March 1997. Trade Paperback. Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative "Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism" series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary..... More
Folio Society, January 1985. First Thus. Cloth. Gray cloth with gilt lettering in black background. Front cover illustration on printed paper affixed to board. 55 illustrations scattered through text and full page portrait of Maria Constable by Mary Bicknell on frontpiece opposite title page. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front..... More
Crown Forum, October 2016. Hardcover. The New York Times Bestseller William F. Buckley, Jr. remembers--as only he could--the towering figures of the twentieth century in a brilliant and emotionally powerful collection, compiled by acclaimed Fox News correspondent James Rosen. In a half century on the national stage, William F. Buckley..... More
Penguin Press, November 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year "It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative..... More
Tarcher, December 1998. Trade Paperback. What if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron's most revolutionary book, the author of the bestselling self-help guide The Artist's Way, asserts that conventional writing wisdom would have you believe in a false..... More
Collier Books, January 1962. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First Collier Books Edition. More
Clarkson Potter Publishers, October 2020. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in today--with beautiful illustrations throughout. "An ebullient celebration of books and reading."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) In the introduction..... More
Karl Baedeker, January 1902. Hardcover. 'avec 45 cartes et 36 plans de villes'. Limp boards. More
