Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1974. First Edition. Cloth. First U.S. edition in dustjacket with slight edgewear & darkening also along edges. Not price clipped. Original price of $7.95 on jacket flap. Yellow cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Darkening board edges. Black textblock topstain looks clean and..... More
Harper, December 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of more than thirty books, including most recently the New York Times bestseller From Dawn to Decadence, has always been known as a witty and graceful essayist, one who combines a depth of knowledge and a rare facility..... More
Knopf, November 2020. Hardcover. A thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality--at the table and beyond--that's part food memoir, part appeal for more authentic decency in our daily worlds, and in the world at large. Be My Guest is an utterly unique, deeply personal meditation..... More
Knopf, November 2020. Hardcover. A thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality--at the table and beyond--that's part food memoir, part appeal for more authentic decency in our daily worlds, and in the world at large. Be My Guest is an utterly unique, deeply personal meditation..... More
Yale University Press, February 2020. Hardcover. "Elegant and formally ingenious."--Geoff Wisner, Wall Street Journal In a time of social distancing and isolation, a meditation on the beauty of solitude from renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his..... More
Red Hen Press, September 2016. Trade Paperback. Losing Helen is a moving and inspiring essay that tracks an adult daughter through the many complex phases of grief as she anticipates the inevitable loss of her elderly mother. Finding strength and guidance in the spiritual insights of writers, artists, Western religion..... More
PublicAffairs, February 2021. Hardcover. The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war. Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared..... More
David R Godine, October 2019. Paper Back. This memoir offers an American woman's uniquely privileged view into the pastoral Scotland of today. By turns funny, heartwarming, and occasionally sad, it is the author's account of her marriage to a Scottish landowner and of the years they spent together at "The..... More
Studies in Romanticism, Spring 1971. Pamphlet. Stapled pamphlet. Volume 10, Number 2 in Studies in Romanticism series. More
Cambridge University Press, December 1964. Paper Back. Cover mildly worn & discolored. 2nd edition/first paperback edition. (172 pages). More
Vintage, December 2019. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS ONE OF MAUREEN CORRIGAN'S 10 UNPUTDOWNABLE READS OF THE YEAR In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up..... More
Ig Publishing, January 2021. Paper Back. "Birkerts reads Nabokov even as he allows Nabokov to read him. This is reading as high art, exhilarating and wise."--CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, author, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay "Much more than an exercise in literary criticism, this short book increasingly reads as a profound..... More
Riverhead Books, September 2020. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING "A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it's possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . . . The results are..... More
Feral House, June 2013. Paper Back. You Can't Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey's Amok Press, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs. After its Amok Press edition went out of..... More
Knopf, November 2020. Hardcover. In his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction, America's most original and controversial literary critic and legendary Yale professor writes trenchantly about fifty-two masterworks spanning the Western tradition. Perhaps no other literary critic but Harold Bloom could--or would--undertake a project of this immensity. And certainly..... More
Penguin Classics, August 1979. Trade Paperback. Poet, lexicographer, critic, moralist and Great Cham, Dr. Johnson had in his friend Boswell the ideal biograoher. More
Vintage, May 1998. Trade Paperback. As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, achieving original and uncliched articulation, being a good host, recognizing love, and..... More
University of Texas Press, May 2020. Hardcover. When Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind an archive of unpublished manuscripts. Jericho marks the fifth installment in his venerable "Unnatural History of America" sextet. In it he invokes the cycles of destruction and rebirth that have defined the ancient biblical..... More
University of Texas Press, May 2020. Paper Back. Praise for Mezcal: "Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern industry and development to rape and savage it in the..... More
Picador, September 2020. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer, ' Anne..... More
University Alabama Press, April 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. The Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author of All Over but the Shoutin' now takes a look beyond the headlines for extraordinary tales of ordinary people and their life struggles. Black cloth spine with silver lettering. Full number line. Mylar wrapped... More
Ecco Press, February 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Of course Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin recognized Burton Kaplan right away as the Mafia witness of the ages. Breslin comes from the same Queens streets as mob bosses John Gotti and Vito Genovese. But even they couldn't match Kaplan in crime--and neither..... More
Grove Press, July 2020. Trade Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. In 1961..... More
Broadway, September 2004. Trade Paperback. One of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey--into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson..... More
Grove Press, December 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1986, 26-year old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices that the door to one of the hospital rooms is painted red. She witnesses nurses drawing straws to see who would tend to the patient inside, all of them..... More
