Wagner and Nietzsche (A Continuum book)
Seabury Press, January 1976. Cloth. Brown cloth with black lettering on spine. Edgeworn, torn jacket. More
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Nine Stories
Little, Brown and Company, January 1953. Book Club. Hardcover. The Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme -- With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue... More
Applied strict counterpoint,
Oxford at The Clarendon Press, January 1931. Cloth. Uk edition. Brown cloth with gold lettering along spine in tan cloth edgeworn, especially at top. Darkened spine. NOT price clipped. Original price 5s. net on flap. 2ND UK edition. Several old ink & stamp markings (previous owner's name/old inked price/small stamp... More
A Spy in the House of Loud: New York Songs and Stories
University of Texas Press, April 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, "the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely co-opted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of... More
The Magic Finger
Harper & Row, January 1966. Hardcover. Green paper covered boards with black spine in dust jacket. Jacket has small chip at head of spine & two-inch by one-inch chip at bottom of rear panel at spine. Includes '60-100 0866' indicating early printing; but is price on flap is $3.95. A.... More
The Accidental Tourist
Knopf, August 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in jacket. Tan cloth spine, cream paper covered boards. Very good jacket with only the faintest of edgewear. No chips or tears. NOT clipped. Clean, sound, without markings. More
The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists
Drawn and Quarterly, October 2011. First Thus. Hardcover. THE COMPANION GRAPHIC NOVEL TO WIMBLEDON GREEN Whenever you're in Dominion, on Milverton Street you will stumble across an arresting array of handsome old buildings. The one with the pink stone facade and the familiar Canadian cartoon characters over the doorway is... More
Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s
Houghton Mifflin, January 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. Complete number line. Maroon cloth spine with gray paper covered boards. Clean & marked interiors. Map of Paris in 1920s on end pages front & rear. More
Doctor and the Devils and Other Scripts
New Directions Publishing Corporation, June 1970. Paper Back. The Doctor and the Devils is the scenario for a feature-length film. This tale of murder is based on the famous case of the Scottish body-snatchers Burke and Hare, who thrilled newspaper readers in the mid-nineteenth century and whose crimes are still... More
Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender, and Class in a New South Community (Class And Culture)
Temple University Press, October 1992. Paper Back. Traces the movement of black and white women between 1880 and 1940 from tobacco fields in the North Carolina Piedmont into Durham's textile, tobacco, and hosiery factories. This book tells the story of the New South as it was experienced by the women... More
Defenders Osceola Tecumseh Cochise
SCHOLASTIC BOOK SERVICES, 1970. Paper Back. Stamped on title page: 'Book Sale; AARL Friends Fundraiser; AFPLS Permission Granted'; otherwise, clean, solid, Very Good+. More
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
Harvard University Press, September 1991. Trade Paperback. Presents the author's analysis of politics, sexuality and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centred on sexual subordination and applies it to the State. More
Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
Duke University Press Books, May 2014. Trade Paperback. Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of... More
After Dark
Knopf, May 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami's masterworks "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" and "Kafka on the Shore." At its center are two sisters--Eri, a fashion model... More
Economies of Violence: Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism, and the Politics of Sex Trafficking
Duke University Press Books, August 2015. Trade Paperback. Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order. In Economies of Violence Jennifer Suchland directly critiques these explanations and approaches, as they obscure the reality that... More
Architecture and Nihilism: On the Philosophy of Modern Architecture (Theoretical Perspectives in Architectura)
Yale University Press, May 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Massimo Cacciari, one of the most influential social philosophers in Italy today, is the founder of the trend of criticism known as "negative thought" that focuses on the failure of traditional logic to explicate the problems of modernity. This book, which introduces... More
Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball
Natl Book Network, April 1993. Trade Paperback. Another peek at baseball's good old days or, in this case, bad old days by veteran sports-historian Harvey Frommer. Frommer paints Shoeless Joe as a baseball natural ("Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball"-Ty Cobb), an illiterate... More
Prozac Nation
Houghton Mifflin, September 1994. Trade Paperback. In Prozac Nation, Wurtzel describes her harrowing battle with clinical depression before she was finally treated with Prozac. In a society plagued by divorce, economic instability, and AIDS, Wurtzel depicts the growing number of depressed and overmedicated people in America. More
Circle of Quiet
Harpercollins, December 1986. Trade Paperback. This journal shares fruitful reflections on life and career prompted by the author's visit to her personal place of retreat near her country home. More
Rich People Things: Real-Life Secrets of the Predator Class
Haymarket Books, October 2011. Trade Paperback. "Social criticism at its scorching-hot best."--Barbara Ehrenreich "Think H.L. Mencken crossed with Jon Stewart."--The Phoenix In Rich People Things, Chris Lehmann lays bare the various dogmas and delusions that prop up plutocratic rule in the post-meltdown age. It's a humorous and harrowing tale of... More
Make Me One with Everything: Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation
Sounds True, May 2015. Trade Paperback. What did the Dalai Lama say to the pizza guy from Brooklyn? "Make me one with everything!" It's a familiar joke, muses Lama Surya Das, but it holds a profound truth: that in addition to inner peace, meditation is a path for all-inclusive connection... More
Poems of Akhmatova
Mariner Books, May 1997. Trade Paperback. More
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Anchor, May 2002. Trade Paperback. "The greatest World War II story never told" (Esquire)--an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged... More
The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (Vintage)
Vintage, March 1990. Trade Paperback. Michel Foucult offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is. More
White Hotel (King Penguin)
Penguin Putnam~trade, February 1982. Trade Paperback. More
