Viking Adult, July 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of..... More
Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 1999. Hardcover. Saint Vincent's Home for Boys, Brooklyn, early 1970s. For Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. The Human Freakshow, a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects), Frank Minna is a savior. A local tough guy..... More
The Viking Press, January 1969. First American. Cloth. In very good dustjacket with mild edgewear & closed tear top edge front panel. NOT price clipped. Original price of $7.95. Pale red textblock topstain. Sound binding, though mildly loose. Clean text. More
The University Press of Kentucky, December 2012. First Edition. Cloth. The world's eyes were on Mississippi during the summer of 1964, when civil rights activists launched an ambitious African American voter registration project and were met with violent resistance from white supremacists. Sue Sojourner and her husband arrived in Holmes..... More
Random House, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Four years ago, Allen Weinstein, the author of Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, and Alexander Vassiliev, a former Soviet KGB agent-turned-journalist, were allowed to review and copy thousands of classified dispatches that documented the KGB's success in aquiring America's most valuable atomic, military, and diplomatic..... More
The University Press of Kentucky, January 2000. First Edition. Cloth. Samuel Beckett's role as translator of Cunard's Negro has traditionally seen as apolitical. In this work Friedman argues that his role resulted from his support for the causes espoused in Negro, racial justice and equality, and the belief that these..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 1970. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in heavily chipped & tattered dust jacket. Darkening/tanning of spine. NOT price clipped. Original price at bottom corner of flap. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine & front board. Blue textblock topstain. Tight binding. Clean text without underlining or sidenotes..... More
The Free Press, November 1973. Cloth. 2nd printing in edgeworn dustjacket with creases. Especially heavy wear at top & bottom of spine & folds. Darkening & some stains. NOT price clipped. Original price on flap. Navy blue cloth boards with gold lettering. Previous owner's name inked boldly across top edge..... More
Hogarth, January 1984. Paper Back. Clean, sound, without markings. Are you in the mood for some P.G. Wodehouse, but your store of Wodehouse is all read out, give E.F. Benson a try. You might find Benson will satisfy your need for Wooster, Jeeves and the rest. More
Everyman's Library, October 2008. Cloth. Collected here are Gogol's finest tales--stories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller--allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka. All of Gogol's..... More
Penguin USA, September 1996. Cloth. The second volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939. Tracing the journey of the Joad family..... More
Farrar Straus Giroux, September 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Is a book the same book-or a reader the same reader-the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never. The editor of "Rereadings" is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her..... More
Goodall Publications, October 2009. Trade Paperback. The renowned autobiography of New Zealand's most famous RAF pilot who saw action from the Munich Crisis to the invasion of France in 1944. Al Deere experienced the drama of the early days of the Battle of Britain while serving with Spitfire squadrons based..... More
Anchor, February 2005. Trade Paperback. Gripping, revelatory, and inspirational, The Spiral Staircase is an extraordinary account of an astonishing spiritual journey. In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English..... More
Mariner Books, March 2016. Trade Paperback. "Flournoy's knockout debut is one of those books that should, by rights, be described as the Great American Novel." -- NPR A New York Times Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year byO, The Oprah Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * NPR *..... More
Beacon Press, September 2004. Trade Paperback. Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another..... More
Da Capo Press, June 2002. Trade Paperback. The history is well known: On June 12, 1963, Mississippi's courageous NAACP chief, Medgar Evers, was gunned down by white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith. Tried twice by all-white juries, Beckwith escaped conviction for three decades. But then Mississippi began to confront its..... More
Faber and Faber, July 2006. Trade Paperback. More
National Poetry Foundation, July 1998. Trade Paperback. This collection, the first major one to appear since Perkoff's death at 44, should reestablish him as a major figure of the Bear Generation. Perkoff, a central figure in the West Coast Beat Scene, published several books and dozens of poems in leading..... More
Wesleyan, May 1994. Trade Paperback. A renowned poet's artful collection is a striking body of work As is. Underlining and turned page corners. More
Random House, January 2002. Trade Paperback. More
Arcade Publishing, November 2004. Trade Paperback. In 1982, Henry Lincoln, with colleagues Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, published Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Dell), which became an immediate international bestseller. It investigated Rennes-le-Chateau, a small town in France where, in the late 19th century, the discovery of a series of parchments..... More
Cascade Books, December 2007. Trade Paperback. Description: This is a work of Christian theology that Karl Barth might call an ad hoc or secondary apologetic. Relying on a paraphrase of Anselm--""faith seeking the ethical""--Boesel engages modern and postmodern theologians and philosophers--from Kierkegaard to Barth, Ruether, Hegel, Derrida, and Levinas--to analyze..... More
Yale University Press, September 2017. Trade Paperback. Exploring the writings of major thinkers (among them Montesquieu, Burke, Kant, Marx, and Freud), and leading art historians (including Pliny, Winckelmann, Ruskin, Pater, Gombrich, and Baxandall), as well as artists such as Alberti and Leonardo and scientists from Aristotle to Zeki, John Onians..... More
