St Martin's Press, September 1987. Trade Paperback. Married to a man she didn't love and in love with another, Karen Blixen sat down to write a little piece to clarify for herself the position of human love in relation to modern marriage. Thus Isak Dinesen and brilliant work were born..... More

Knopf, May 2020. Hardcover. The timely, never-before-told story of five brilliant, passionate women who, in the early 1960s, converged at the newly founded Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study and became friends as well as artistic collaborators, and who went on to shape the course of feminism in ways that are..... More

Penguin Press, August 2020. Hardcover. Donovan is such a vivid writer--smart, raunchy, vulnerable and funny-- that if her vaunted caramel cakes and sugar pies are half as good as her prose, well, I'd be open to even giving that signature buttermilk whipped cream she tops her desserts with a try."--Maureen..... More

W. W. Norton & Company, October 2018. Paper Back. Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world's funerary customs and expands..... More

The Dial Press, March 2020. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today."--Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick) In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and "patron saint..... More

Clarkson Potter, July 2020. Unknown. Start having fun while improving your grammar with this witty and informative card game for language lovers--based on the New York Times bestseller Dreyer's English. Whats' wrong with this sentence? If that misplaced apostrophe flew right up your nose, this is the game for you..... More

Harper & Row, August 1981. First Edition. Cloth. First/first. Complete number line. Green cloth with gold lettering along spine. Mild spine bow. Faint scuff marking in vertical line top half of front board. Chipping & edgewear to jacket, including large tear (one inch by one half inch bottom edge of..... More

Mariner Books, June 1966. Trade Paperback. This collection of articles, essays, reviews, and poems, written by the author of A Passage to India, contains such well-known pieces as "Notes on the English Character, '' ''Adrift in India," and "Me, Them and You." Also collected are essays on literary figures whose..... More

Harcourt, Brace, January 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. without dust jacket; chapbook with decorative paper-covered boards. 'the first chapter of E.M. Forster's'... then ...'forthcoming 'Marianne Thornton: A Domestic Biography (1797 - 1887)'; 12 pages that includes black & white illustration 'from a water colour by Miss Henrietta Thornton'. Darkened spine..... More

Penguin (Non-Classics), February 2009. Trade Paperback. Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. The book's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel..... More

Da Capo Press, March 1996. Trade Paperback. During a twelve-month period in 1930 and 1931, Edmund Wilson wrote a series of lengthy articles which he then collected in a book called American Jitters: A Year of the Slump . The resulting chronicle was hailed by the New York Times as..... More

Farrar Straus and Giroux, January 1966. First Thus. Cloth. First Revised Edition in spine-sunned jacket with edgewear & marginal tears. Red cloth with gold lettering upon spine. NOT price clipped: original price of $6.95 on front flap. Solid binding. Clean text without markings. More

Oxford Univ. Press, January 1948. First Thus. Cloth. Revised & Enlarged edition in heavily chipped, edgeworn dust jacket with darkened spine, tanning to margins. Foxing to edges. Some slanting to spine. Non-authorial inked inscription front free end page. Sound binding. Clean interiors. More