Gallery Books, June 2022. Hardcover. Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this "page-turner memoir chronicling a woman's accidental descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence--and the life-threatening impacts of long-term use--that chills to the bone" (Nylon). As Melissa Bond raises her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from..... More
Vintage, October 1995. Trade Paperback. This provocative new collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize winner deals with the challenging themes of discovery and surprise in history. Cleopatra's Nose is not a miscellany but rather a selection of recent essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Boorstin for several decades..... More
Columbia Univ Pr, March 1991. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn dj with marginal darkening. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Foxing to end pages. Darkening top textblock edge. Complete number line. First/first. [225 pp.]. More
McGraw Hill, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition (U.S.) ; Octavo; In heavily edgeworn/chipped dustjacket with foxing/tanning to verso. Jacket flap is not clipped. Quarter bound: navy blue cloth with gold lettering. Blue paper covered boards worn at edges. Plain end pages. Previous owner's name , location and a...... More
Picador USA, January 2006. Turtleback Binding. 'What a marvellous book this is . . . de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own delicious commentary. The result is an intoxicating as it is wise..... 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
Pantheon, May 1997. Hardcover. A hilarious, utterly unexpected, and unexpectedly practical joining of genres -- literary biography, explication of text, and self-help manual. Alain de Botton's three novels (all published since 1993) have received rapturous praise from critics and writers alike, but nothing he has done before has prepared us..... More
Grove Press, April 2016. Trade Paperback. Mark Bowden, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, brings readers into the heat of a story in a way few writers can. Road Work offers a selection of the best of his award-winning nonfiction, from his breakout stories for..... More
Greenwood, May 1984. Cloth. Product information not available. Octavo. Aqua Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering in black rectangles on spine and front cover. Clean, sound. Previous owner's name inked front cover. Mild wear. Mild bumped corners. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1997. Hardcover. Following the discovery of a single stolen poem, Neal Bowers, poet and professor of English at Iowa State, finds alarming evidence of repeated thefts of two of his poems. Other poets are also found to have been plagiarized, but none more..... More
Vintage, September 2017. Trade Paperback. Everything Explained That Is Explainable is the audacious, utterly improbable story of the publication of the Eleventh Edition of the legendary Encyclopædia Britannica. It is the tale of a young American entrepreneur who rescued a dying publication with the help of a floundering newspaper, and..... More
Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, January 1993. First Edition. Cloth. Bradbury argues that almost a century since the emergence of Modernism, it is now possible to see the entire period in perspective. It is clear that the first 50 years - from Henry James, Wilde and Stevenson, through James Joyce..... More
Penguin Books, October 1994. Trade Paperback. An account of the development of the British novel in the 20th century, and a companion volume to the author's The Modern American Novel. The various main lines are laid out, and the book includes a detailed survey of post-war writing and the scene..... More
Methuen, January 1982. Paper Back. Tanning/darkening of margins. Previous owner's name inked verso of wrapper. (110 pages). More
Simon & Schuster, June 2022. Paper Back. LGBTQ advice columnist John Paul Brammer writes a "wise and charming" (David Sedaris) memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey from a queer, mixed-race kid in America's heartland to becoming the "Chicano Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation. "A master class of tone and tenderness." --The New..... More
Penguin Books, June 2022. Paper Back. "Engaging. . . a remarkably candid account. . . Succeeding as a centrist in public life these days can be an almost impossible task. But centrism in law enforcement may be the most delicate challenge of all. Bratton's ability to practice it was a...... More
Grove Press Inc, / Evergreen, January 1955. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Heavily worn along spine with creases and small superficial tears. Darkened / soiling. Previous owner's name in ink on half title page. The 123rd title in the Evergreen series. [248 pages]. 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
Indiana University Press / Midland, January 1965. Paper Back. Mild shelf wear. Creased spine, but solid. Previous owner's name stamped verso front cover, top textblock edge, page 52 and last page of index and bottom. Tanning to margins of back cover, 296 pages. More
Penguin Classics, May 2005. Trade Paperback. Giving a voice to a lost generation, this edition features a new introduction by Brittain's biographer. Now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Hayley Atwell, and Taron Egerton Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986. Reprint. Trade Paperback. This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the Third Wave of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986. Reprint. Trade Paperback. This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the Third Wave of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are..... More
Liveright, June 2022. Hardcover. "I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power." So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 2015. Trade Paperback. Freezing Order, the follow-up to Red Notice, is available now! "[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar's Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, and the mortgage-backed securities business in the 1980s. Browder's..... More
The Viking Press, November 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn dustjacket with small tears and chipped top & bottom edges. Flap is not clipped. Two inch closed tear top of rear panel. Creasing to flap. Two-thirds bound. Black cloth covered on spine side with gold & purple lettering. Remaining..... More
