Black Dance: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Garland, January 1989. Cloth. Blue cloth without dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Adamczyk on title page. More
Signed Books
Trillion Year Spree: History of Science Fiction
Victor Gollancz Ltd, January 1986. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original British price on flap. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Signed by Brian Aldiss on front free end page. Sound binding: glue is loose between textblock & cloth..... More
The Modern British Novel
Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, January 1993. First Edition. Cloth. Bradbury argues that almost a century since the emergence of Modernism, it is now possible to see the entire period in perspective. It is clear that the first 50 years - from Henry James, Wilde and Stevenson, through James Joyce..... More
All The Young Men
Grove Press, December 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. All The Young Men, a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a young single mother in Hot Springs, Arkansas, who finds herself driven to the forefront of the AIDS crisis, and becoming a pivotal..... More
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Memoir
Harper, January 2021. Hardcover. "Far from growing up in the wealthy, fox-hunting circles she had always suggested, her mother had in fact been raised in a foundling hospital for the children of unwed women." -- Editor's Choice, The New York Times Book Review "Extraordinary ... fascinating, moving." --The Telegraph "This..... More
Staff Pick
Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
Dey Street Books, October 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate--and most importantly--a happy human being. A wonderful book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability. --Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain There is absolutely..... More
The Poetic Image in 6 Genres
Southern Illinois Univ. Press/ Feffer & Simons, December 1969. Hardcover. "The Poetic Image in Six Genres "is a lively collection of essays and other short pieces by David Madden which will be both enlightening and delightful to the student and teacher of English and, specifically, of creative writing courses, and..... More
Ordinary Girls: A Memoir
Algonquin Books, October 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. One of the Must-Read Books of 2019 According to O: The Oprah Magazine * Time * Bustle * Electric Literature * Publishers Weekly * The Millions * The Week * Good Housekeeping "There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls..... More
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die..... More
Untamed
The Dial Press, March 2020. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Over two million copies sold! "Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today."--Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club Pick) In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and "patron..... More
Being Busted
Stein & Day, January 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition in tattered marginally darkened dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $5.95 on jacket flap. Red cloth covered spine with gold lettering & grey paper covered boards. Boards faded at edges. Mildly darkened from exposure to sun/light top textblock..... More
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, June 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This is a book people will be talking about forever." --Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed "Ford's wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so..... More
Between Them
Ecco, May 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental love How is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard..... More
Staff Pick
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Dutton Books, May 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down. "The perfect book for right now." -People "The Anthropocene Reviewed is essential to the human conversation."..... More
Staff Pick
This book got me. Part cultural critique, part personal reflection, John Green hits the spot in the satisfying manner of a Gladwell, Sedaris, or Klosterman. He writes with heart, humor and precision, balancing perfectly the contradictory experience of loving humanity and mourning for all that we've cost the world. I give "The Anthropocene, Reviewed" 5 stars.
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Penguin Press, May 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail..... More
Norman Mailer Works and Days
Sligo Press, 2000. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed on title page by J. Michael Lennon. Inked marginalia on several pages; else, very good. More
Everybody: A Book about Freedom
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life..... More
Staff Pick
Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
Riverhead Books, March 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "Anne Lamott is my Oprah." -Chicago Tribune From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives. In Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with..... More
Broken (in the Best Possible Way)
Henry Holt & Company, April 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. An Instant New York Times Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let's Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety. As Jenny Lawson's hundreds..... More
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Graywolf Press, September 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women's Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books *..... More
No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home
Simon & Schuster, March 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. "Wearing blue jeans meant I was a local. The gray in my hair meant I'd been away. Word of my impending return spread throughout the county. Some stories would have me moving in with my folks because one of them was very..... More
These Precious Days: Essays
Harper, November 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however..... More
Too Old to Cry
The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Too Old to Cry
The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. A warm, friendly inscription from Paul Hemphill on the front free endpaper. More
