Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2011. Trade Paperback. Named A Best Book of 2011 by the New York Times, Time Magazine, the Boston Globe and Entertainment Weekly A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape--from high to low to lower than low--by the award-winning young star of the literary..... 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 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
Celadon Books, May 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "A Gen-X This Boy's Life...Music and his fierce brilliance boost Jollett; a visceral urge to leave his background behind propels him to excel... In the end, Jollett shakes off the past to become the captain of his..... 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
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
Picador, January 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Collier Books, January 1962. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First Collier Books Edition. More
Karl Baedeker, January 1902. Hardcover. 'avec 45 cartes et 36 plans de villes'. Limp boards. More
Karl Baedeker, January 1904. Hardcover. Limp boards. 'With 49 Maps and 75 Plans'. 14th Revised edition. More
Harper Perennial, July 2010. Trade Paperback. Mary Karr's third memoir, Lit, tells her tale of getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karr's relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a...... More
Broadway Books, January 2020. Paper Back. A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives--and see clearly the people we love most. "Transcendent."--The Washington Post - "You'd be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolf's work."--The Wall Street Journal NAMED..... More
Eakin Pr, December 1980. Hardcover. As is. Highlighting throughout. More
One World, June 2020. Hardcover. An urgent manifesto and a dramatic memoir of awakening, this is the story of revolutionary love. "In a world stricken with fear and turmoil, Valarie Kaur shows us how to summon our deepest wisdom."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love How do we love in..... More
One World, June 2020. Hardcover. An urgent manifesto and a dramatic memoir of awakening, this is the story of revolutionary love. "In a world stricken with fear and turmoil, Valarie Kaur shows us how to summon our deepest wisdom."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love How do we love in..... More
Little, Brown Spark, December 2019. Hardcover. In the US edition of this international bestseller, Adam Kay channels Henry Marsh and David Sedaris to tell us the "darkly funny" (The New Yorker) -- and sometimes horrifying -- truth about life and work in a hospital. Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to..... More
Knopf, August 1984. Cloth. 2nd printing in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original price of $18.95 on flap. Black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine, author's initials stamped in silver front board. Tight binding. Clean text without underlining or side-notes. Brown smudge top edge at spine. Remainder..... More
