Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEE'S PROSE PIECES--IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute," which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing..... More
Oxford University Press, June 1996. Mass Market PaperBack. In this quirky and intriguing book, John Sutherland has conveniently gathered together thirty-four nagging little questions, puzzles, errors, and enigmas from some of the best-loved examples of Victorian fiction. Readers often have stumbled upon seeming mysteries in their favorite novels. Why, for..... More
Black Sparrow Pr, February 1991. Hardcover. Pictorial boards bound in green cloth back with paper cover label. Glassine jacket. Book and jacket have moderate shelf wear. Number 111 on an edition limited to 125 copies numbered and signed by John Sanford. More
Yale University Press, New Haven & London, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Greek dramatist Aeschylus (525-456 BC) is called the creator of the art of tragedy in the Western tradition. Author of "The Persians," "Seven Against Thebes," "The Suppliants," "Oresteia," and "Prometheus Bound." A historical, biographical, and literary study. Hermes series..... More
The Viking Press, July 1964. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 2nd printing of mass market paperback. Tanned spine. Well worn at edges. Creased lower right corner of front cover. Sticker removal scar front cover. Previous dealer's stamp and previous owner's inked name inside first page. Darkened margins/edges. [594 pp]. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 1979. Hardcover. You people come into the market--the Greenmarket, in the open air under the down pouring sun--and you slit the tomatoes with your fingernails. With your thumbs, you excavate the cheese. You choose your stringbeans one at a time. You pulp the nectarines and..... More
Columbia Univ Pr, March 1991. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn dj with marginal darkening. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Foxing to end pages. Darkening top textblock edge. Complete number line. First/first. [225 pp.]. More
Doubleday Anchor, 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Heavily sunned cover with both a darkened spine and bleached front cover. Also cover is edgeworn. Across front cover there is sprinkle of small white marks, possibly insect damage. Textblock fore-edge & bottom edge are dust stained and foxied. Previous owner's address stamp..... More
Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., January 1960. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (UK) edition in edgeworn dustjacket with darkening at margins. Not price clipped. Original British price front flap bottom corner: 25/- NET. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Mild tanning to rear end pages. Rose colored topstain. Solid..... More
Random House Inc, September 2002. Trade Paperback. John O'Brien was raised in Philadelphia by an Appalachian father who fled the mountains to escape crippling poverty and family tragedy. Years later, with a wife and two kids of his own, the son moved back into those mountains in an attempt to..... More
Everthemore Books, December 2014. Trade Paperback. More
Little Brown & Co., January 1960. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto in dust jacket with tanned spine and large (three inch tear bottom of spine. Some bow to boards. Stated 'first printing'. More
