Looking Backward 2000 - 1887
Modern Library, 1951. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. In dustjacket with mild shelfwear & rubbing. Front flap is clipped. Blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. Kent end papers. [276 pages]. More
Fiction & Literature
Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction
Mysterious Press, February 2023. Hardcover. There has never been a full-length biography of Mickey Spillane, the most popular and influential mystery writer of his era--until now. Beginning in 1947 with I, the Jury, and continuing with his next six novels, Spillane quickly amassed a readership in the tens of millions..... More
Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)
Perennial, January 1993. Paper Back. More
The Waterworks (Signed First Edition)
Franklin Library, January 1994. First Edition. Novelty. Limited leather-bound edition; Privately printed and personally signed by the author exclusively for The Signed First Edition Society as published by The Franklin Library; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy red leather boards w/ immaculate gilt design/text at front and rear covers, hubbed spine; Outer..... More
UPLIFT OF LUCIFER, IN WHICH IS INCLUDED THE CORRUGATED GIANT, AND SOME OTHER BAUMIANA, MOSTLY PHOTOGRAPHIC
Privately printed, January 1963. Limited. Paper Back. 500 copies printed for private distribution to libraries & collectors. A 1915 play written by Baum to be performed at 'The Uplifters' an LA social club. Includes pun & songs composed by Louis Gottschalk. Also a short unpublished fairy story, 'The Corrugated Giant,'..... More
The Yale Shakespeare 40 Volume Set
Yale University Press, January 1965. Book Club. Hardcover. Complete set of 40 volumes; Conditions range from Good+ to VG+; All bindings are solid; Blue cloth boards clean and sturdy, gilt at spine faded on some volumes, on others crisp and clean, book club blind-stamps present at rear boards; Mild staining..... More
Chrome Valley: Poems
Liveright, February 2023. Hardcover. Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne's Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America. "We praise their names / & the hands that write / Praise the mouth that speaks," she writes in tribute to those who came before her. Browne..... More
Homer & Langley: A Novel
Random House Trade Paperbacks, September 2010. Trade Paperback. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, AND BOOKLIST Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers--the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into..... More
Aaron's Rod (G1025) -- complete & unabridged
Avon, 1950. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Moderate wear to wrapper. Chipped & worn edges and corners. [378 pages plus three pages of advertisements. More
The Selected Poetry of Robert Browning No. 198
The Modern Library, 1951. Hardcover. Red cloth. Ink inscription on front endpaper. Dustjacket chipping. Spine cracked between back end page and index of Modern Library titles. [723 pages]. More
Jubal Sackett, The Louis L'Amour Collection
Bantam, January 1986. Hardcover. Louis L'Amour Hardcover Collection Edition, January 1986; Padded leatherette. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Mild age wear present, including the slightest bit of foxing at outer edge of text block. More
The Sackett Companion: A Personal Guide to the Sackett Novels
Bantam Books, January 1989. Hardcover. Louis L'Amour Hardcover Collection Edition, February 1989; Padded leatherette. Solid binding, with slight wear at spine from use; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Mild age wear present, including the slightest bit of foxing at outer edge of text block. More
The Warrior's Path
Bantam Books, January 1983. Hardcover. Louis L'Amour Hardcover Collection Edition, November 1983; Padded leatherette. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Mild age wear present, including some foxing at outer edge of text block. More
The Sackett Brand, The Louis L'Amour Collection
Bantam Books, January 1981. Hardcover. Louis L'Amour Hardcover Collection Edition, October, 1981; Padded leatherette. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Very slight warping at spine; Text free of markings; Mild age wear present, including the slightest bit of foxing at outer edge of text block. More
Sackett, The Louis L'Amour Collection
Bantam Books, January 1981. Novelty. Louis L'Amour Hardcover Collection Edition, April 1981; Padded leatherette. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Mild age wear present, including the slightest bit of foxing at outer edge of text block. More
Sackett's Land (Louis L'Amour Collection)
Bantam Books, January 1982. Hardcover. Louis L'Amour Hardcover Collection Edition, January 1982; Padded leatherette. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Mild age wear present, including the slightest bit of foxing at outer edge of text block. More
The Daybreakers
Bantam Books, March 1981. Hardcover. Louis L'Amour Hardcover Collection Edition, March 1981; Padded leatherette. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Mild age wear present, including some foxing at outer edge of text block. More
Lord of the Flies
Perigee Trade, June 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. When "Lord of the Flies" appeared in 1954 it received unprecedented reviews for a first novel. Critics used such phrases as "beautifully writeen, tragic and provocative... vivid and enthralling... this beautiful and desperate book... completely convincing and often very frightening... its progress is..... More
The Poet's Art
W. W. Norton & Company, July 1989. Trade Paperback. In this original work, one of our most distinguished poets and critics considers the nature of poetry as "a recovery, in language, of revelatory awareness in process," and of structure as a "balancing of pressures active inside the poem." In fresh..... More
John Crowe Ransom -- University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers No. 18
University of Minnesota Press, 1967. Reprint. Pamphlet. Octavo laurel green with mild edgewear and sticker residue across front panel. Second printing. Stapled pamphlet (two staples). [48 pages]. More
Book of Daniel
Random House, April 1971. Book Club. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with stains. Light brown cloth covered boards with orange foil stamp lettering along spine. Bowed boards. Foxing/dust stains to textblock edges. [303 pages]. More
The Shakespeare Revolution
Cambridge University Press, May 1977. First Edition. Cloth. How do our ways of perceiving and producing Shakespeare differ from those of the nineteenth century, and how interrelated has the work of scholars and directors become over this century? Professor Styan's purpose in this book is to discuss the 'revolution' in..... More
THE CLASSICAL TEMPER A Study of James Joyce's Ulysses
Chatto and Windus, 1963. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd UK printing in heavily chipped & edgeworn dustjacket with stains, tape 'repairs', and sun tanned spine. Front flap is clipped. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Previous reader's name is written in ink on ffep. Darkened/foxed textblock top edge. [346..... More
The Georgics (Penguin Classics) (English and Latin Edition)
Penguin Classics, February 1983. Trade Paperback. A eulogy to Italy as the temperate land of perpetual spring, and a celebration of the values of rustic piety. More
Keats: A Collection of Critical Essays (Twentieth Century Views Series)
Prentice Hall, January 1964. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo with sticker scar front cover and moderate wear. 10th printing. Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. [177 pages]. More
