Crown, June 2022. Hardcover. Kathleen Buhle shares her story of resilience and self-discovery after her marriage to Hunter Biden unraveled in the wake of substance abuse and infidelity in this intimate, astonishing memoir. "Kathleen Buhle's brave and honest story transcends politics, division, hearsay, and judgment."--Connie Britton This is not a...... More
University Of Iowa Press, November 2005. Trade Paperback. Master Class: Lessons from Leading Writers gathers more than two decades of wisdom from twenty-nine accomplished authors. It offers previously unpublished interviews, along with freshly edited versions of ten interviews from Nancy Bunge's well-received previous collection, Finding the Words. The first section..... More
St. Martin's Press, February 2000. Hardcover. In E"ducation of a Felon," the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever in San Quentin. His hard-won experiences on L.A.'s meanest..... More
Hutchinson, January 1986. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (UK) in black cloth bruised at rear bottom spine corner. Not price clipped. Original British price on flap. Gold lettering stamped spine edge. Clean, sound, no markings, no underlinings, etc. Bright without darkening. Clean, white textblock edges. Sound binding. (589 pp.). More
A Harvest/HBJ Books, March 1975. First Thus. Trade Paperback. More
University College Dublin Press, December 2008. Hardcover. This volume contains all of the extant letters written to each other by the renowned Joyce scholars, Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen, between 1954 and 1984. The letters have been annotated so that we can follow how their ideas are absorbed into their..... More
Picador, March 2004. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling author of" Running with Scissors" comes "Dry" the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next. You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants..... More
Picador, June 2003. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Picture Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised..... More
St. Martin's Press, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover...but have you ever woken up next to..... More
NYRB, April 2001. Trade Paperback. One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the..... More
H.C. Peck & Theo Bliss, January 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. In marginally worn brown cloth with glit decorations & lettering. Gold edges. Non-authorial inscription in fountain pen on front free end page. Unfortunatel dark spots (burn marks) in a few splashes near gutter first frew pages. Pulled at top of..... More
William Collins, June 2022. Hardcover. 'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021 Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the..... More
David R. Godine, Publisher, March 2022. Paper Back. More
Random House Inc, January 2006. Trade Paperback. From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest-a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka. What are Kafka's fictions about? Are they..... More
Random House Trade, December 2006. Trade Paperback. In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in..... More
Random House (NY), May 2003. Hardcover. Calvin Trillin has never been a champion of the "continental cuisine" palaces he used to refer to as La Maison de la Casa House--nor of their successors, the trendy spots he calls "sleepy-time restaurants, where everything is served on a bed of something else."..... More
Warner Books, April 1994. Trade Paperback. In the 1950s, Denny Hanson was the golden boy, a clean-cut, Rhodes Scholar whose bright future and million-dollar smile made him the subject of a Life magazine feature. The bestselling author of Uncivil Liberties chronicles this life that once held limitless possibilities, but ended..... More
Pantheon Books, March 2003. Hardcover. In evocations of Italo Calvino's tumultuous teenage years--his life during Mussolini's rule, at the time of the liberation, and during the Cold War--readers learn the story of the author's generation as it confronted moral, civil, and artistic dilemmas. More
Scribner, February 1995. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. More
Vintage, February 1994. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The most famous true crime novel of all time chills the blood and exercises the intelligence (The New York Review of Books)--and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas..... More
Random House, November 1956. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in edgeworn dustjacket with especially heavy wear top & bottom of spine. Darkened at margins. Flap is not clipped. Rear jacket panel's mostly white design is quite dust stained. Black cloth covered boards with blue & silver & red lettering and designs..... More
Michigan State University Press, June 1973. Cloth. Green cloth with black lettering in good+ dust jacket with edgewear & rubbing plus one half-inch tear bottome edge front panel. Original price of $8.50 on front flap. Clean & solid without markings. More
Pantheon Books, July 1982. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Stated, 'First American Edition.' though 'a larger collection of letters and editorial text was first published by Oxford University Press in 1978.' Very mild shelf wear. Previous owner's name, location & a date inked verso front cover top left corner. Clean, sound..... More
Doubleday / Anchor, January 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Soiling & markings to cover. Taped & scarred spine toward base. Ink underling & side-notes. Speckled soiling textblock top edge. Typography by Edward Gorey. (387 pp.). More
Ungar Pub. Co., June 1987. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Light soiling. Previous owner's name in ink half title page. [205 page]. More
