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
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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
On Fire: A Personal Account of Life and Death and Choices [Advance Uncorrected Proof; Signed ]
Algonquin Books, January 1994. Soft Cover. On January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, award-winning novelist Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, Fire Department. With three published books to his credit and a fourth nearly finished, he made the risky decision to try life as a full-time writer..... More
Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, March 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke..... More
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Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, March 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke..... More
You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
St. Martin's Press, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover...but have you ever woken up next to..... More
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
Harper, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving's inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in..... More
Summer of Deliverance : A Memoir of Father and Son
Simon & Schuster, August 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. "Summer of Deliverance" is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father; between the journalist Christopher Dickey and the renowned poet and novelist James Dickey. Chris, best known for his reporting on wars around..... 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
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
Bloomsbury Publishing, July 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction "The best of what memoir can accomplish... pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy." -Esquire, Best..... More
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, June 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NBCC John Leonard Prize Finalist Indie 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..... More
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Little, Brown and Company, February 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who..... More
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Dutton Books, May 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Goodreads Choice winner for Nonfiction 2021 and 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..... More
Too Old to Cry
The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
Penguin Press, May 2022. Hardcover. An NPR Best Book of 2022 * One of Christian Science Monitor's 10 best books of May "This amazing new book . . . takes us on a journey through classic and contemporary philosophy powered by questions like 'What do we have the right to..... More
Vacationland
Viking, October 2017. Hardcover. "I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size." --Jon Stewart Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John..... 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
Riding the Yellow Trolley Car, Selected Nonfiction
The Easton Press, January 1993. First Edition. Leather. 'This limited, leather bound edition has been privately printed and personally signed by the author exclusively by The Signed First Edition Society.' Tan leather with gold lettering and gold design. Ribbed spine. Taffeta end pages. Gold textblock edges. Silk ribbon marker... 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
Screening Room: A Memoir
Pantheon, February 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. From the acclaimed author of the international best seller Einstein s Dreams, here is a stunning, lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s that includes the early days of the movies and a powerful grandfather whose ghost remains an ever-present force..... 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
Barefoot to Avalon
Atlantic Monthly Press, April 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. An Amazon Best Book of 2015, A Kirkus Reviews' Best Book of 2015 "A brave book with beautiful sentences on every page."--New York Times "Piercing...a tour de force."--Los Angeles Times In 2000, while moving his household from Vermont to North Carolina, David..... More
