Faber and Faber Limited, May 1939. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition without dustjacket. Forest green cloth with gold lettering & Barnett Freedman design on spine. Cloth on spine has darkened during the 81 year life of this book. Board edges worn, rather heavily at bottom. There appears to be..... More
Playboy Press, January 1982. Hardcover. A collection of five masterworks of journalism as art by Abbott Joseph Leibling -- as he was not known -- (1904-1963), Liebling At Home is only a glimpse into this great 20th century American writer. In much tattered & torn dust jacket, darkened at its..... More
Back Bay Books, July 2013. Trade Paperback. A big novel about a small town... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the..... More
Penguin Books, February 2018. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "An addictive, sprawling epic; I wolfed it down." --Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and It Chooses You "Easily the..... More
Random House Inc, November 2000. Paper Back. More
Riverhead Books, April 2020. Paper Back. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be..... More
Anchor, January 2018. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times Bestseller - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Winner of the National Book Award - Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction - Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize One of the Best books of the Year: The..... More
Anchor, August 2012. Trade Paperback. Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. Soon to be a television series A patient escapes from a biological testing..... More
Back Bay Books, June 2020. Paper Back. Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies. Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his..... More
Harper, September 2019. Hardcover. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize New York Times Bestseller - A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick - A New York Times Book Review Notable Book - TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019 Named one of the Best Books of the Year by..... More
Ecco, May 2020. Hardcover. A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. "Displaced" returns us..... More
Vintage, June 2004. Trade Paperback. New York Times Bestseller Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she..... More
Knopf, June 2020. Hardcover. A major literary biography of America's best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than fifty years, and a much-needed reassessment for the twenty-first century of a writer whose stature and celebrity were unparalleled in his time, whose work helped to explain America's new world not only..... More
Liveright, June 2020. Paper Back. Louis has been forlorn since his wife of thirty-seven years left him, his father passed, and he impulsively retired from his job in anticipation of an inheritance check that may not come. These days he watches reality television and tries to avoid his ex-wife and..... More
Tin House Books, June 2020. Hardcover. A New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Selection For fans of Paula McLain's The Paris Wife and Amor Towles's Rules of Civility, Alice Miller's sweeping debut novel charts the love story of two of literature's most fascinating characters: Georgie Hyde-Lees and her husband..... More
Persea, June 2020. Hardcover. More
Persea, June 2020. Paper Back. In the Field Between Us is a friendship in poems, an epistolary project by Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison that ponders disability and the possibility of belonging in the aftermath of lifelong medical intervention. In the beginning, the poem-letters express, in gorgeous harmony, the..... More
Random House, February 2020. Hardcover. Discover the debut novel that "announces the arrival of a literary supernova" (The New York Times Book Review),"a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate" (Chigozie Obioma). In a sprawling Indian city, three friends venture into the most dangerous corners to..... More
Knopf, July 2010. Trade Paperback. Delivered in Young's classic bluesy tone, this powerful collection of poems about the American family, smoky Southern food, and the losses that time inevitably brings "bristles with life, nerve and, best of all, wit" (San Francisco Chronicle). More
Random House, August 2019. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television."--Esquire "A whip-smart, challenging book."--Zadie Smith - "Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time."--Vulture..... More
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
Harper & Brothers, 1931. First Edition. Cloth. In dustjacket with tanning/darkening to jacket verso. Black cloth boards with gold lettering beginning to fade on spine. Bumped lower righthand corner front panel. Author & title blind stamped to front. Blue end pages with tanning. Heavily stained top edge. Clean text. Nice..... More
Simon & Schuster, February 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in dustjacket. Quarter bound: tan spine with red lettering & blue paper covered boards. Clean text without underlining or side notes. Mild soiling top edge. More
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Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Monthly Press, 1959 / 1965. Cloth. Two volume set in good dustjackets with edgewear & heavy foxing to verso, margins of recto. NOT price clipped. Original price of $7.50 on front flaps both volumes. Dark grey cloth with white lettering both volulmes. Foxing to..... More
Graywolf Press, January 2016. Trade Paperback. In The Narrow Door, Paul Lisicky creates a compelling collage of scenes and images drawn from two long-term relationships, one with a woman novelist and the other with his ex-husband, a poet. The contours of these relationships shift constantly. Denise and Paul, stretched by..... More
