The Watcher By the Threshold
Ash-Tree Press, January 2005. First Edition. Cloth. Bound in Burgudy cloth, lettered in gold along the spine. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. More
Fiction & Literature
The Collector
Reprint Society, 1964. Reprint. Hardcover. 12mo. in heavily worn jacket with one large tear that begins on rear cover at base of spine and curves five inches across spine over to front cover almost halfway from panel from bottom. DJ verso darkened in various places and along spine. A previous..... More
Something Wicca This Way Comes
Papercutz, August 2009. Trade Paperback. Four all-new tales of crime and pun-ishment in the classic TALES FROM THE CRYPT style--only this time they all tie together in a twisted and nightmarish way known only to the Old Witch! The main event is "Hex and the City" by writer Stefan Petrucha..... More
Stoner
NYRB Classics, June 2006. Trade Paperback. Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to..... More
Staff Pick
Devil House
Picador USA, October 2022. Paper Back. From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling. Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him when he..... More
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: A George Smiley Novel
Penguin Books, October 2011. Trade Paperback. Featuring George Smiley, this New York Times bestseller is the first installment in John le Carre's acclaimed Karla Trilogy. From the author of A Delicate Truth and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. John le Carre's new novel, A Legacy of Spies..... More
The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics)
Penguin Classics, October 1992. Trade Paperback. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, "The Grapes of Wrath" is also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west..... More
East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
Penguin (Non-Classics), June 2003. Trade Paperback. A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and..... More
East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
Penguin (Non-Classics), June 2003. Trade Paperback. A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and..... More
The Smell of Matches
Louisiana State Univ Pr, March 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Avengers
Penguin Group, September 2023. Paper Back. The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy Collects The Avengers #1-4, 9, 16, 26, 28, 44, 57, 58, 71, 74, and..... More
Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford University Press, July 2002. Trade Paperback. Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development. According to T. S. Eliot, Keats's letters are "the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet." They represent one of the most sustained reflections on the..... More
The End of the Road -- VS18
Avon Library, 1967. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 4th Avon printing. Rubbing & foxing to cover. Rose red tinted textblock edge. [206 pages]. More
A Hundred Years of Philosophy
Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1962. Reprint. Cloth. 3rd printing. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 3/4'} In jacket with darkened spine and margins. Flap not clipped. Mild edgewear. Black cloth covered boards with small gold lettering on spine. Underlining in pencil scattered here and there through text. Foxing/soiling to..... More
Magus
Little Brown & Co, January 2001. Trade Paperback. Widely considered John Fowles's masterpiece, The Magus is "a dynamo of suspense and horror...a dizzying, electrifying chase through the labyrinth of the soul....Read it in one sitting if possible-but read it" (New York Times). A young Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, accepts a teaching..... More
The Poetical Works of William Blake, Including the unpublished French Revolution, together with the Minor Prophetic Books, and Selections from The Four Zoas, Milton, and Jerusalem (Oxford Standard Authors) BLAKE, William. John Sampson, edited by Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1961
Oxford University Press, 1960. Reprint. Trade Paperback. {4 & 3/4' x 7'} 12mo. Considerable wear to cover. 4 parallel creases right bottom corner of front panel. Other user wear, creasing edgewear & dust staining. One-quarter inch piece torn and hanging on just barely top of spine. Heavily darkened & dust..... More
Burning Bright
Bantam, 1962. Mass Market PaperBack. Bantam H2936. More
Travels with Charley in Search of America
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1980. Mass Market PaperBack. To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light— these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been..... More
Of Mice and Men
Penguin USA, January 2002. Trade Paperback. While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing "Of Mice and Men" (1937), creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding..... More
The Singularities: A novel (Vintage International)
Vintage, September 2023. Paper Back. From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison. "A triumphant piece of writing...Prose of such luscious..... More
Wapshot Chronicle
Vintage Books USA, September 1992. Trade Paperback. Presents the story of the Wapshot inheritance, from the early twentieth century to the 1960s, as succeeding generations of Wapshots grapple with upper-class greed, pitiful lust, and intellectual amorality. More
The Sea
Vintage, August 2006. Trade Paperback. BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An "extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife. In this luminous novel, John Banville introduces us..... More
The Neon Bible
Grove Press, May 1990. Trade Paperback. John Kennedy Toole--who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces--wroteThe Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript languished in a drawer and became the subject of a legal battle among Toole's..... More
Chimera (Dalkey Archive Essentials)
Dalkey Archive Press, September 2023. Paper Back. A National Book Award winner, this bawdy, comic trio of novellas finds John Barth injecting his signature wit into three tales many times told: that of Scheherazade, storyteller of the Thousand and One Nights; of Perseus, slayer of Medusa; and of Bellerophon, rider..... More
Of Mice and Men (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, February 1994. Trade Paperback. While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing "Of Mice and Men" (1937), creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding..... More
