Alain on Happiness
Frederick Ungar, January 1978. Paper Back. Octavo. Shelfwear. Wear to cover edges. Moderate sunning to spine. First U.S. paperback printing. Originally issued in 1928 as 'Propos sur le Bonheur'. Not common. [252 pages]. More
Frederick Ungar, January 1978. Paper Back. Octavo. Shelfwear. Wear to cover edges. Moderate sunning to spine. First U.S. paperback printing. Originally issued in 1928 as 'Propos sur le Bonheur'. Not common. [252 pages]. More
Pantheon Books, January 2000. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, May 2005. Trade Paperback. "There's no writer alive like de Botton" (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status--a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love. Anyone who's ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone..... More
Picador USA, May 1997. Trade Paperback. Told by a former girlfriend that he lacks the necessary quality of empathy, the narrator of Kiss & Tell decides to write a biography of the next person who walks into his life. At a party, he meets Isabel Rogers, a production assistant at..... More
Vintage, January 2013. Trade Paperback. What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? Alain de Botton's bold and provocative book argues that we can benefit from the wisdom and power of religion--without having to believe in any of it. He suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and..... More
Souvenir Press, April 2006. Trade Paperback. This rich and fascinating celebration of Venice presents a series of unconventional impressions of the heart of Venice and its dazzling spectrum of people. With a wealth of eyewitness accounts and comments by its famous visitors, including Joseph Brodsky, Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas Mann, Marcel..... More
New Directions Publishing, May 1987. Paper Back. Alain Daniélou was an accomplished pianist, dancer, player of the Indian vînâ, painter, linguist and translator, photographer, and world traveler. To these attainments he has added The Way to the Labyrinth, translated into English by Marie-Claire Cournand. Born of a haute-bourgeoise French family--his..... More
Visual Editions, September 2013. Box. Every day we map. We map how we get from a to b. We map when we re somewhere new, and somewhere we ve been many times before. We map ourselves, our days, our thoughts, memories, what we want to mark, save and share. Today..... More
The Library of America, January 2014. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Philip Roth. More
GROVE PRESS INC, 1967. Unknown. Lightly foxed/dust stained mass market paperback. Cover photo by Dennis Martin. Heavy marginal darkening of cover reverse front and back. [154 pages]. More
Grove Press / Evergreen Black Cat, 1968. Trade Paperback. Second Printing. Mass market paperback with previous owner's. Cover photo, Dennis Martin. Previous owner's name stamp on verso of front cover. And last interior page. [256 pages]. More
Grove Press/ Evergreen, 1982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First/first. Tanning of cover margins and spine. [175 pages]. More
Grove / Black Cat, 1967. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Previous owner's name & address in black marker on verso of front cover. [154 pages]. More
Grove Press, January 1965. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass Market paperback. 4th printing. Sun tanned spine. Previous owner's name stamp inside verso of front cover & final page of text. Dust stains & darkened margins of cover front & rear. [279 pages]. More
ABRAMS, February 1997. Hardcover. The Discovery of the Past explores the ways in which humankind, from antiquity to the nineteenth century, became conscious of its past. Contrary to popular belief, archaeology was not an invention of the Renaissance. It was a discipline known to the scribes of ancient Assyria, Egypt..... More
Anchor Books/ Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. A Doubleday Anchor Original, mass market paperback. Stated First Edition. Sun bleached spine. Creases, edgewear and surface scratches and scars. [398 pages]. More
Yale Univ Pr. Oversize Softcover. More