Think Persian
Susan Hunter Pub, May 1989. Trade Paperback. Good tight copy. Some very faint foxing on the cover. Signed by the author on the half title page. Gift inscription on the half title page. More
Signed Books
Song without words;: A book of engravings on wood
Random House inc, January 1936. Hardcover. Gold foil boards in vellum backstrip. Uncut pages. Number 591 of an edition limited to 1250 copies SIGNED BY LYND WARD. Boards rubbed, spine and endpapers darkened. Lacking original slipcase and wrap-around band. Internally, very good. Binding solid. Woodcuts as stunning as ever. More
Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop
Chicago Review Press, May 2011. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Rap music from New York and Los Angeles once ruled the charts, but nowadays the southern sound thoroughly dominates the radio, Billboard, and MTV. Coastal artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, and Ice-T call southern rap "garbage," but they're probably just jealous..... More
A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2021. Trade Paperback. Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's mecca--a beacon for gays and lesbians growing up in its homophobic towns and cities. There, the Sweet Gum Head was the club for achieving drag stardom. Martin Padgett evokes the fantabulous..... More
Staff Pick
Redhead by the Side of the Road: A novel
Knopf, April 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a sparkling novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent..... More
Dreaming of the Redcoat Band
Mascot Books, November 2012. Oversized Hardcover. Jody dreams of running across the Sanford Stadium field and Dad helps to make the dream come true. If your blood runs Red and Black, if you dream Bulldog dreams, this book is for you. More
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Penguin Press, February 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction - Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism - Named a...... More
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Simon & Schuster, June 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Forty years ago, a teenaged boy named John Lewis stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. The ideals of nonviolence which guided that critical time of American history established him..... More
Guess and Check
Gival Press, January 2017. Trade Paperback. Guess and Check is a Giron/Valdez Series for Unique Voices in Literature Book "A stark, engrossing, Hemingway-esque portrait of a life spent in the margins." --Kirkus Reviews " . . . tough and funny and touching and harrowing." --John Barth ..".Guess and Check is..... More
Simon the Fiddler: A Novel
William Morrow, April 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of News of the World and Enemy Women returns to Texas in this atmospheric story, set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of musicians with whom he travels trying..... More
Caleb's Crossing: A Novel
Viking Adult, May 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became..... More
To Paradise: A Novel
Doubleday, January 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life--a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. To Paradise..... More
Staff Pick
Killers of the Dream (Revised and Enlarged edition)
W. W. Norton, January 1961. First Thus. Cloth. In edgeworn, chipped jacket with duststains along spine and at margins. Jacket verso is darkened/tanned. Front flap is clipped top & bottom. Beige cloth spine with red letters. Brick red cloth covered boards. First revised edition. Complete number string, 1 2 3..... More
The Dimaggio Albums
Putnam, October 1989. Oversized Hardcover. Two volume clothbound set in red slipcase. Slipcase cover photo is scratched; else, near fine condition. This is the trade edition, not the signed, limited edition but it is SIGNED BY JOE DIMAGGIO on page 10 of the first volume, at the end of his..... More
Pete and Miriam (Peter and Miriam)
BOOM! Studios, April 2012. Soft Cover. War, Polanski, Mischief Night, and schoolyard fights. From the mundane to the unpredictable, the complicated relationship of Pete and Miriam, best friends growing up in New Jersey in the 1980s, is chronicled in this riveting volume. The trials and tribulations of Pete and Miriam..... More
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Blue Rider Press, October 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. The perfect gift for music lovers and Elvis Costello fans, telling the story behind Elvis Costello's legendary career and his iconic, beloved songs. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink provides readers with a master's catalogue of a lifetime of great music. Costello reveals..... More
Plays Well with Others
Vintage, February 1999. Trade Paperback. 2 cassettes / 3 hours Read by the Author In his widely read, prize -- winning "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All," Allan Gurganus gave fresh meaning to an overexplored American moment: 1860-65. He now turns that comic intensity and historical vision to another war..... More
Once There Were Wolves
Flatiron Books, August 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Blazing...Visceral (Los Angeles Times) - Exceptional (Newsweek) - Bold...Heartfelt (New York Times Book Review) - Thought-provoking and thrilling (GMA) - Suspenseful and poignant (Scientific American) - Gripping (The Sydney Morning Herald) From the author of the beloved national..... More
The Mothers
Riverhead Books, October 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught." -The New York Times Book Review "Luminous... engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss." -People, Pick of the Week "Fantastic... a book that feels alive on the page." -The Washington Post A dazzling..... More
The One With the News
Porcupine's Quill, August 2000. First Edition. Trade Paperback. As Ambrose forgets - not merely that tea cannot made in the toaster oven, but who he is and what he believes - his wife and daughters are compelled painfully to remember. This title covers the social intricacies of Alzheimer's disease. Very..... More
What Unites Us
Algonquin Books, November 2017. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." --Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and..... More
What Unites Us
Algonquin Books, November 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." --Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of..... More
The Beastside: Living (and Dying) While Black in America
Hot Books, September 2015. First American. Hardcover. A New York Times Best Seller! Searing Dispatches from the Urban Zones Where African American Men Have Become an Endangered Species To many in the age of Obama, America had succeeded in "going beyond race," putting the divisions of the past behind us..... More
Fly Patterns of Yellowstone
UNKNO, February 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. The principal fly patterns used on lakes, rivers, and spring creeks in the Yellowstone area. Clean, tight copy. Lightly rubbed at the corners and the ends of the spine. Signed by both authors on the half title page. Wrapped in clear mylar to preserve..... More
