Random House (NY), December 1998. Hardcover. In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche..... More
Oxford Univ Pr, September 2003. Trade Paperback. Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings..... More
Solomon Projects, January 2002. Paper Back. {6' x 8&3/4'} French folds. Clean, sound. Unpaginated. More
Self-Published, January 1995. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Olympic Marketing Corp, February 1984. Paper Back. Octavos. Previous owner's name in ink half title page. [190 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, June 2005. Trade Paperback. "The last great mystery for science," consciousness has become a controversial topic. Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction challenges readers to reconsider key concepts such as personality, free will, and the soul. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What..... More
Harry N. Abrams / Guggenheim Museum Publications, December 1998. First Edition. Cloth. In 1952, at the age of twenty-three, Helen Frankenthaler created her legendary painting Mountains and Sea. Comprised of translucent washes of thinned-down pigment embedded in unprimed canvas, this large-scale painting was the first in which she used her..... More
Broadway, January 2013. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Experience the book that started the Quiet Movement and revolutionized how the world sees introverts--and how introverts see themselves--by offering validation, inclusion, and inspiration "Superbly researched, deeply insightful, and a fascinating read, Quiet is an indispensable resource for anyone..... More
Anchor, October 1992. Trade Paperback. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, this controversial, thought-provoking, and timely book is "as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The "Second Sex" and Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique."" -- "Newsweek." "The backlash against women is real. This is the book we..... More
Metropolitan Books, June 2016. Hardcover. PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father..... More
Metropolitan Books, October 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of "Backlash"--an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11 In this most original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that..... More
Aladdin Paperbacks, November 1997. Trade Paperback. Before she even hears the words, Kaeldra already knows what she must do. She must search out the mother dragon whose draclings have just hatched and some how get some of her precious milk. It's the only way to save her foster-sister's life. Kaeldra..... More
Anchor Books / Doubleday, 1960. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. 'A Doubleday Anchor Original', a paperback original first edition. Darkened spine with 1/2 inch tear at bottom front cover along spine. Cover slightly curled. Clean, unmarked interiors. No underlining. No side notes. (421 pages plus eight page list of available..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1961. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Doubleday Anchor Original. Paperback original. Heavily darkened spine and marginal darkening to cover. Rubbing. [243 pages plus eleven page list of Anchor & Dolphin Anchor paperbacks.]. More
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988. Cloth. Square octavo in dustjacket. Burgundy cloth with gold lettering along spine. Previous owner's name in ink ffep. [128 pages]. More
Doubleday Anchor, 1960. First Edition. Paper Back. A Doubleday Anchor Original. Heavily darkened spine & mild marginal darkening at edges of cover. Lightly shelf worn. (455 pp.). More
Sinclair-Stevenson Limited, January 1991. First Thus. Cloth. A love story set in India and Cambridge in the years before World War I, about a middle-aged man's love for a young girl, and the appalling consequences of his passion. First/first UK edition in very good+ dustjacket. Not price clipped. Blue cloth..... More
Overlook Press, April 2008. Paper Back. As the story begins, a lonely woman vanishes while out on her morning run. Then a 22-year-old girl never returns from a walk. An old man disappears too. When fresh-faced policewoman Freya Graffham is assigned to the case, she runs the risk of getting..... More
New Directions / Christine Burgin, October 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Great American writers--William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Henry James -- all in the physicality of their archival manuscripts (reproduced in beautiful facsimiles here) -- are the presiding spirits ofSpontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of..... More
Yale University Press, February 2014. Trade Paperback. A biography that restores /robert Ingersoll--America's foremost nineteenth-century champion of reason and secularism--to our still-contested twenty-first-century public square "Jacoby makes the case that Americans are dearly indebted to Ingersoll, and would be well-served to revisit his life and writings at a time when..... More
Athens Historical Society, January 1996. Hardcover. More
University Of Chicago Press, April 2012. Hardcover. A year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision--and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed..... More
Pantheon Books, January 1984. Oversize Softcover. Previous owner's name. More
Roof Books, March 2016. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. This hybrid genre collection of poetry and prose tells the story of one Philadelphia neighborhood, Germantown--a historic, beloved place, wrestling with legacies of colonialism, racism, and capitalism. Drawing from interviews, historical research, and two divergent but quintessential American texts (The Autobiography..... More
Avery, July 2016. Trade Paperback. A delightful celebration of everyday life in France through the lens of the kitchens and cooking of the author's neighbors, who, while busy and accomplished, still manage to make every meal a sumptuous occasion. Even before Susan Herrmann Loomis wrote her now-classic memoir, On Rue..... More
