Knopf, February 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. The blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes--an utterly transfixing book about art and love, fame and heartbreak from the acclaimed actor/writer/director. Hawke's first novel in nearly twenty years is a bracing meditation..... More
Prentice Hall, June 1966. Reprint. Cloth. In heavily edgeworn/chipped dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $3.95 on front flap. Navy blue cloth covered boards with white lettering along spine & white line drawing of carrot on front panel. Signed & inscribed by Zeleyeta on half title page: 'Arthur Greene..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of..... More
Atheneum, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. The autobiography of the legendary little person, who worked in the Braves organization from their days in Boston to their present home of Atlanta (well, now, to many long-time Atlanta fans, they're actually located in the suburbs). Co-authored by the also legendary sports writer and..... More
Simon & Schuster, February 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. "1974 was a bad year to go crazy," Virginia Holman writes in this astonishing, beautiful, and painfully funny memoir of life with her schizophrenic mother in a disintegrating decade. In May 1974, one year after Patty Hearst and her captors robbed Hibernia..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. In a city like that one might sail through life led by a runaway hat. The young scattered in whatever directions their wild hair pointed and, gusting into one another, they fell in love. --from "Windy City" In his second book..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. SIGNED BY MAURICE SENDAK on bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. More
Free Press, October 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and spiritual father of a democratic South Africa. Tutu understood that justice -- a genuine regard for..... More
Harper, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket price clipped and with very minor shelfwear. Trivial amounts of foxing to endpapers and edges. SIGNED on half-title page 'WITH BEST WISHES, ROBERT F KENNEDY'. More
Amistad, August 2003. Hardcover. From National Book Award-nominated author Edward P. Jones comes a debut novel of stunning emotional depth and unequaled literary power Henry Townsend, a farmer, boot maker, and former slave, through the surprising twists and unforeseen turns of life in antebellum Virginia, becomes proprietor of his own..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, April 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. An Amazon Best Book of 2015, A Kirkus Reviews' Best Book of 2015 "A brave book with beautiful sentences on every page."--New York Times "Piercing...a tour de force."--Los Angeles Times In 2000, while moving his household from Vermont to North Carolina, David..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. A great writer's lush, panoramic new novel: the story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home. Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who..... More
Simon & Schuster, March 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. "Wearing blue jeans meant I was a local. The gray in my hair meant I'd been away. Word of my impending return spread throughout the county. Some stories would have me moving in with my folks because one of them was very..... More
Farrar Straus Giroux, December 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Everyone loved him. If you knew Billy at all, then you loved him. The late Billy Lynch's family and friends, a party of 47, gather at a small bar and grill somewhere in the Bronx to remember better times in good company..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, March 2020. Hardcover. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER - NPR - TIME - THE WASHINGTON POST- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY - AND MORE! "The perfect novel. . . . Freshly mysterious." --The Washington Post From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating..... More
Penguin Press, November 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. An instant New York Times bestseller! "Rapinoe's 'signature pose' from the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is synonymous to the feeling we got when finishing this book: heart full, arms wide and ready to take up space in this world."--USA Today Megan Rapinoe..... More
TibetWrites / Crossing the Border, 2011. Reprint. Stapled Pamphlet. Five & 1/4-inch x Eight & 1/2-inch; 12mo; 7th edition; Signed & inscribed by Tsundue inside first page/title page. (54 pages). More
Random House, October 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. A beautifully illustrated collection of Gloria Steinem's most inspirational and outrageous quotes, with an introduction and essays by the feminist activist herself "A fearless book full of passion, resolute perspective, and unbiased hope for the future."--Janelle Monáe For decades--and especially now, in these..... More
Scribner, September 2017. Hardcover. *WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for FICTION *A TIME MAGAZINE BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 OF 2017 *Finalist for the Kirkus Prize *Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal *Finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize *Publishers Weekly Top..... More
Little, Brown and Company, January 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this "masterful" look into his life before Gatsby (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of EMPIRE FALLS and CHANCES ARE...) Before Nick Carraway moved..... More
Random House, 1987. First Thus. Cloth. Signed by author/illustrator: Dr. Seuss; numbered/limited #263/300; in tan Slipcase: This is commenorative edition of the first printing published in 1939. Clean, sound, like new. Tan cloth with gold lettering on spine. Blind stamp on front board. In fine slipcase. Complete number string. More
Coward-McCann, Inc., January 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition in dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $3.75 on jacket front flap, top corner. Jacket is edgeworn mildly and heavily tanned front flap & darkened at margins. Spine is leaning. Quarter bound with black cloth spine with cerulean blue..... More
Random House, October 1974. First Edition. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Black end pages. In price clipped dust jacket.Signed on half title page: 'Robert Penn Warren April 22, 1981' with book marker from Humpus Bumpus Books! reading at top 'Signed Copy', a Cumming, Georgia..... More
Black Sparrow Press, December 2020. Hardcover. For nearly three decades, Richard Buckner has been traveling the byways of America, often alone and with little more than his guitars and notebooks. Now he's sharing what he saw, felt, and found. Long admired for his impressionistic and elliptical lyrics, Buckner has more..... More
Hachette Books, October 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. From his early rise to fame to battles with his health, this revelatory memoir by legendary guitarist Peter Frampton celebrates the life of a rock icon. Do You Feel Like I Do? is the incredible story of Peter Frampton's positively resilient life and..... More
