Associated Magazine Contributors, Inc., November 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Featuring 'Must Marriage Be for Life?,' a cover story by Margaret Mead and contributions by Herman Wouk, Nathaniel Benchley, M.F.K. Fisher, Irwin Shaw and Jean-Paul Sartre. More
Library of America, October 2009. First Thus. Hardcover. From early on, American literature has teemed with tales of horror, of hauntings, of terrifying obsessions and gruesome incursions, of the uncanny ways in which ordinary reality can be breached and subverted by the unknown and the irrational. As this pathbreaking two-volume..... More
University Of Chicago Press, February 1992. Trade Paperback. In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of "The Complete Greek Tragedies." Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have..... More
N/A, January 0001. Trade Paperback. Foxing; cover wear. More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2018. Trade Paperback. The Fourth Edition of the most trusted and widely used anthology of world literature retains and expands the most popular works from the last edition, while refreshing the anthology with NEW selections and NEW translations of major works. As always, the..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 1993. Trade Paperback. "The literature of the classical world that has survived is a pitiful remnant of what once existed...." So begins Bernard Knox's preface to an anthology that introduces the modern reader to the enormous breadth and rich variety of that "pitiful remnant"..... More
Random House Inc. Mass Market PaperBack. More
McSweeney's, February 2008. Hardcover. On February 27, 2007, during an interview with Amy Goodman, General Wesley Clark described a 2002 Pentagon conversation in which he was told that America was planning to invade Iraq. From the same source, he learned of a classified memorandum listing six other countries the United..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, May 2015. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Brooklyn leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the largest borough in New York City, working closely with an eclectic team of trusted locals. Contributors include writers, fashion designers, comedians, shop owners, chefs, club owners, literary agents and barbers..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, December 2015. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Charleston leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the South Carolina city, working closely with a team of trusted locals. Contributors include author Pat Conroy, chef Sean Brock, mayor Joe Riley, novelist Josephine Humphreys, artist Becca Barnet, anthropologist Ade..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, May 2017. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Los Angeles leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the California city, working closely with a team of trusted locals. Contributors include writer Jedediah Jenkins, chef Nancy Silverton, punk musician Alice Bag, surf legend Dick Metz, casting executive Jennifer..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, November 2014. Trade Paperback. Wildsam Field Guides: New Orleans leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the one-of-a-kind Louisiana city, working closely with an eclectic team of trusted locals. Contributors include journalists, chefs, jazz musicians, shop owners, historic preservationists, fishermen, politicians and artisans, among others. Topics..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, November 2013. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: San Francisco leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the California city, working closely with a team of trusted locals. Contributors include writer Chris Colin, baker Chad Robertson, artist Zio Zeigler, novelist Julie Orringer, winemaker Andrew Mariani, and poet..... More
Franklin Center, Pa. : Franklin Library, January 1984. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Moire endpapers. Limited edition. More
Henry Holt & Company, April 1971. Trade Paperback. More
University of Washington Press, June 1961. Cloth. Blue cloth with brown lettering. Price clipped dust jacket. Clean & sound. More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. A final completed collection of poetic works by the late National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award-winning writer features a series of candid, alternately humorous and sobering ruminations on such topics as age, illness, and death. First/first in..... More
Arden, November 1981. Trade Paperback. The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Much Ado About Nothing provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes..... More
Liverpool University Press, March 1969. Stapled Soft Cover. This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern African writing. Since the publication of Things Fall Apart in 1958, Chinua Achebe has been credited with..... More
Twayne Publishers, January 1966. Hardcover. Maroon fabric covered boards stamped with gold lettering on spine & front panel. In mildly edgeworn dust jacket. Red end pages. Some underlining. More
Library of Congress, January 1981. Stapled Soft Cover. More
WW Norton & Co, November 1987. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in price clipped dust jacket. Complete number line. More
Back Bay Books, September 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Back Bay Books, September 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Tin House Books, September 2019. Paper Back. "When an author's unmitigated brilliance shows up on every page, it's tempting to skip a description and just say, Read this! Such is the case with this breathlessly powerful, deceptively breezy book of poetry." --Booklist, Starred Review In his much-anticipated follow-up to The..... More
Two Dollar Radio, November 2017. Trade Paperback. *2018 12 best books to give this holiday season --TODAY Show*Best Books of 2018 --Rolling StoneA Best Book of 2017 --NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The..... More
The Dial Press, January 1954. Hardcover. Oblong octavo in torn/frayed dust jacket. More
Doubleday Books, May 2021. Hardcover. From celebrated national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps is a gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court. Stacey Abrams is a true novelist, and While Justice Sleeps is a first-class legal thriller, favorably compared to..... More
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, November 2020. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" "You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have." So begins Emmanuel Acho..... More
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, November 2020. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" "You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have." So begins Emmanuel Acho..... More
Picador, January 2008. Trade Paperback. Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar(TM) Nominee James Ivory The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2021. Hardcover. The New York Times-bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works Irrealis moods are a category of verbal moods that..... More
Mariner Books, November 2020. Paper Back. A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. "An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write..... More
Grove Press, January 2021. Hardcover. Loosely related to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, Pussy, King of the Pirates is a grrrl pirate story that journeys from the most famous whorehouse in Alexandria though an unidentified, crumbling city that may or may not be sometime in the future, to Brighton..... More
Penguin Press, March 2021. Hardcover. From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy..... More
Top Shelf Productions, May 2001. Trade Paperback. Top Shelf Productions is proud to represent the publications of the dynamic and extremely talented Israeli team, Actus Tragicus. Five outstanding cartoonists (Rutu Modan, Yirmi Pinkus, Mira Friedmann, Batia Kolton, & Itzik Rennert), who pool their talents annually to produce something simply amazing..... More
Pocket, May 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. 30th Pocket Books mass market printing. Clean, sound with mild wear to cover. More
Ballantine Books, June 1997. Trade Paperback. "IRRESISTIBLE!" --The Boston Globe Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for..... More
Harmony, November 1992. First American. Hardcover. Inscibed 'To Kathy' and SIGNED ON HALF-TITLE PAGE BY DOUGLAS ADAMS, along with a distinctive 'Don't Panic!' ink stamp. More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2021. Hardcover. Kim Addonizio's sharp and irreverent eighth volume, Now We're Getting Somewhere, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit--drinking at home, alone in your underwear, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet's characteristic precision..... More
Fourth Estate, February 2021. Hardcover. An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of twenty established and emerging black British..... More
Anchor, March 2014. Trade Paperback. From the award-winning, bestselling author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun--the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions of race, belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the..... More
Scribner, February 2021. Paper Back. An "urgent and significant book [that] speaks to our times" (The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a...... More
Scribner, February 2021. Paper Back. An "urgent and significant book [that] speaks to our times" (The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a...... More
New Directions, April 2020. Paper Back. Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto "by the young..... More
Mariner Books, October 2018. Paper Back. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice." --Tommy Orange, New York Times Book Review "An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny." --George Saunders "Dark and captivating and essential . .... More
Overlook Hardcover, May 2002. First Edition. Cloth. The illustrations in this volume include rarely seen drawings from Kafka's workbooks, images of the Prague environment that inspired his nightmarish works, photos of Kafka with friends and colleagues, and reproductions of letters, manuscripts, and first edition book jackets. 12mo. (5 inches x...... More
Privately Printed, January 1959. Cloth. Clean, solid, nearly new two volume set in good slip case. More
University of Chicago Press, February 1969. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Classics, December 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. The only surviving trilogy from ancient times - a story of murder, madness and justice Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts..... More
A Ballantine Book/ Houghton Mifflin Company/Dolphin Editions, April 1966. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Two mass market paperbacks. Rose colored stain top & bottom & fore-edge, with dust stains. Sound. Some slight darkening of spines. Clean & unmarked internally. In cardboard, pictorial paper covered slipcase with some discoloration & dust..... More
Dalkey Archive Press, January 2012. First American. Hardcover. A nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan. The mother's death-defying act causes constant anxiety for her two daughters, who voice their fears through a grisly communal fairy tale about a child being cooked..... More
Lyons Press, September 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. How to Disappear is the authoritative and comprehensive guide for people who seek to protect their privacy as well as for anyone who's ever entertained the fantasy of disappearing--whether actually dropping out of sight or by eliminating the traceable evidence of their existence..... More
Penguin Life, March 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of I'm Judging You, a hilarious and transformational book about how to tackle fear--that everlasting hater--and audaciously step into lives, careers, and legacies that go beyond even our wildest dreams Luvvie..... More
Ballantine Books, August 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this refreshing and inspiring memoir, Lauren Akins, the wife of country music star Thomas Rhett, shows what it's really like to be "the perfect couple" fans imagine, and reveals what it actually takes to live in love..... More
Fantagraphics Books, February 2003. Stapled Soft Cover. by Al Columbia & Ethan Persoff Al Columbia teams up with Ethan Persoff to collaborate on a tale about a man with an inescapable malaise. Persoff's flat drawing style captures perfectly the empty world of Audrey, a mostly incompetent member of a design..... More
Ecco Press, October 2020. Hardcover. A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction) A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library..... More
Ecco Press, October 2020. Hardcover. A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction) A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library..... More
Algonquin Books, March 2021. Hardcover. "Lyrical, moving, and revealing." --Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring A transfixing and beautifully rendered novel about a refugee's escape from civil war--and the healing power of community. A young woman sits in her apartment, watching the small daily dramas of..... More
FW Dodge Architectural Record, January 1947. Hardcover. Quarto in much chipped, marginally worn, stained/soiled jacket. Pictorial boards appear bright despite considerable wear & some tanning to edges. Sound binding. Clean interiors. More
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, December 1995. Trade Paperback. In contrast to recent attempts to distinguish postmodernism from poststructuralism, "Death in the FUNhouse" finds deep complicity between the two discourses. This book looks comprehensively at the middle and late texts of John Barth to demonstrate the complexity of the..... More
Dc Comics, January 0001. Trade Paperback. Written by Alan Moore; Art by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben Created out of the Swamp by a freak accident, Swamp Thing is an elemental creature who uses the forces of nature and wisdom of the plant kingdom to fight the polluted world's self-destruction..... More
Scribner, February 1982. Trade Paperback. More
Simon & Schuster, December 1995. Trade Paperback. "Cry, the Beloved Country" is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding..... More
Viking Adult, October 1984. First American. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Black paper covered boards with gold design & lettering on spine & front & back. Red end pages. More
Pocket Books, January 1966. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Slight fraying of the front cover. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2019. Hardcover. A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati's The Catholic School, the winner of Italy's most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men--former students..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2019. Hardcover. A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati's The Catholic School, the winner of Italy's most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men--former students..... More
Picador, December 2020. Trade Paperback. A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati's The Catholic School, the winner of Italy's most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men--former students at Rome's..... More
Picador, December 2020. Trade Paperback. A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati's The Catholic School, the winner of Italy's most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men--former students at Rome's..... More
Little, Brown and Company, September 2017. Book Club. Hardcover. In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky..... More
Harper Perennial, February 2021. Paper Back. There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it." --Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women "Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart..... More
Scribner, January 1982. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Ex-library copy with tape on boards and markings on title page. More
Faber Faber Inc, June 1992. First Thus. Hardcover. More
Dalkey Archive Pr, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, goes to Italy for the summer, and there his real education begins. His teachers are two quite different men: Bruno Rontini, the saintly bookseller, who teaches him about things spiritual; and Uncle Eustace, who introduces him to..... More
Random House Inc, July 2001. Trade Paperback. In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force-the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's-Aleksander Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking. A love affair is experienced in the blink of an..... More
David R Godine, October 2019. Paper Back. The Palimpsests, originally written in Spanish by Polish newcomer Aleksandra Lun, is a satirical novel about immigration, senses of cultural belonging, and ownership of language: complicated and simple, adopted and native. The book opens with the protagonist, Przesnicki, an Eastern-European immigrant writer, languishing..... More
Picador, March 2017. Trade Paperback. **Vulture's The Best Books of 2016** **Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016** **featured in NPR's Guide to 2016's Great Reads** The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most..... More
Smiling Hippo Press, March 2016. Trade Paperback. Victor Caro is a counterterrorism officer with the CYA, caught in a world where job security trumps national security. On assignment in West Africa in a post-9/11 world, he is tasked with hunting down the terrorist Omar al-Suqqit, who is looking to launch..... More
Harper Perennial, September 2002. Trade Paperback. What is the next trend -- the next "killer app"? This question is very much on the mind of Ursula Van Urden, a burned-out art student who, after her supermodel sister Ivy's widely publicized suicide attempt, has found work as a trendspotter for Tomorrow..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, August 1998. Trade Paperback. Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone..... More
Signet, 1961. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Henry Holt & Co, January 1997. Trade Paperback. National Book Award finalist, 1973. More
Penguin Books, September 1973. Trade Paperback. More
Scribner, April 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST-- A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron's youngest..... More
Humanoids, Inc., December 2010. Oversized Hardcover. Core title in the internationally bestselling Incal trilogy that includes the prequel, Before The Incal, and the stunning conclusion, Final Incal. The series has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Featured in the acclaimed documentary Jodorowsky s Dune, one of Entertainment Weekly s top..... More
Viking, January 1931. First American. Hardcover. No slipcase. Previous owner's name on front free endpapers of both volumes. Cloth stained along bottom of spine on both volumes; else, clean, solid set. Scarce. More
World Publishing Company, January 1951. Cloth. Edgeworn, chipped, spine-tanned dust jacket with tear to front panel. Damp stained. 2nd printing. More
Penguin Group USA Inc, December 1984. Trade Paperback. The hero of "Ragged Dick" is a veritable "diamond in the rough" - as innately virtuous as he is streetwise and cocky. Immediately popular with young readers, the novel also appeals to parents, who responded to its colorful espousal of the Protestant..... More
Pocket Books, 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. Second printing; some stains on the back cover and minor creasing of edges. More
Putnam Juvenile, September 1973. Hardcover. More
Garland, January 1989. Cloth. Blue cloth without dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Adamczyk on title page. More
Delta Trade Paperbacks, January 1998. Trade Paperback. More
Dial Press Trade Paperback, January 1999. Trade Paperback. 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
Picador, October 2014. Trade Paperback. An ordinary life-its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion-lived by an ordinary, but unforgettable woman: this is the subject of Someone, Alice McDermott's extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel. We first glimpse Marie Commeford as a child: a...... More
Penguin Classics, June 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. The first volume of Dante's Divine Comedy Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls..... More
Everyman's Library, August 1995. Cloth. This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is..... More
Random House, The Modern Library, January 1950. Reprint. Cloth. In edgeworn dustjacket with one-inch tear top edge back panel. Jacket flap not clipped. Dust stained front and rear panels, especially noticable on spine. Verso mildly toned with '299 Outstanding' Modern Library titles ' you perhaps 'want to read?' 12mo.; 4&5/8th'..... More
Penguin Books, January 2007. Trade Paperback. "One episode simply melts away as the next takes over" (The New York Times) in this deliciously sinister turn-of-the-century tale of a French evil genius run rampant. Three appalling crimes leave all of Paris aghast: the Marquise de Langruen is hacked to death, the..... More
