The Bluest Eye
Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, January 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. More
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Hanafi Principles of Testing Hadith
Avicenna Publishing, January 0001. Cloth. Light shelf wear and a crease along the spine on the jacket. Coerners very lightly bumped on the cloth boards. Mylar wrapped to preserve. More
Al-Hadith (A set of 4 vols)
Islamic Book Service, December 2001. Hardcover. 4 volume set. Light shelf wear on the jackets. A few lightly bumped corners on the boards. Volume two has chipped corners on the first two pages only. More
Vanity Fair (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Everyman's Library, October 1991. Cloth. A panoramic satire of English society during the Napoleonic Wars, Vanity Fair is William Makepeace Thackeray's masterpiece. At its center is one of the most unforgettable characters in nineteenth-century literature: the enthralling Becky Sharp, a charmingly ruthless social climber who is determined to leave behind... More
Early Greek Thinking
HarperCollins Publishers, February 1985. Trade Paperback. As is. Notes and underlining in pencil. Several turned page corners. More
More Pricks Than Kicks
Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the first of... More
Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow
Harpercollins, June 1971. Trade Paperback. As is.Notes and underlining in pen. Shelf wear and writing in ink on the cover. More
The Old Ways
City Lights Publishers, June 1977. Trade Paperback. Some minor staining on the leading edge of the print block. More
American Primitive
Back Bay Books, March 1983. Trade Paperback. The fifty poems in "American Primitive" make up a body of luminous unity. Mary Oliver's visionary poems enunciate the renewals of nature and the renewals of humanity in love, in oneness with the natural, in union with the things of this world. Lyrical... More
The Stranger (Vintage International)
Vintage, March 1989. Trade Paperback. Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed -the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.- First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward. As is. Small... More
Exercises in Style
New Directions, February 1981. Trade Paperback. The plot of Exercises in Style is simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told 99 more times, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet, an opera, in slang, and with many... More
Earth Apples (Pommes De Terre : the Poetry of Edward Abbey)
St Martins Pr, December 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor vshelf wear on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. More
Empire of Signs
Hill and Wang, September 1983. Trade Paperback. With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself. As is. Light underlining in pen. More
The Analysis of Social Change: Based on Observations in Central Africa
Cambridge University Press, October 1968. Trade Paperback. Monica Wilson and the late Godfrey Wilson wrote this book as a result of field work in Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia, where they were able to observe the impact of European civilization upon traditional African societies and the structural changes that accompanied it... More
Dubliners
Viking Compass, 1969. Trade Paperback. The publication of James Joyce's Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else. Although only twenty-four when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already... More
Il Signore Degli Anelli- LA Compagnia Dell'Anello (Italian Edition)
Rizzoli - RCS Libri, July 2008. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. More
Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents
Little, Brown and Company, October 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. From Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait, comes a potent commentary on the Presidency--and our country. As Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza spent more time alongside President Barack Obama than almost... More
Meet Me in the Bathroom
Dey Street Books, November 2018. Paper Back. Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can't Stop Won't Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by... More
Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
Harper Perennial, November 2018. Paper Back. In the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged--and the deep secret he explored through his art. The creator of the greatest comic strip... More
Revisiting the Black Past
Verso, September 2018. Hardcover. The past and future of Black history In this information-overloaded twenty-first century, it seems impossible to fully discern or explain how we know about the past. But two things are certain. Whether we are conscious of it or not, we all think historically on a routine... More
In Praise of Disobedience
Verso, November 2018. Hardcover. Works of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright. The Soul of Man Under Socialism draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in prose --... More
Ramen Otaku
Avery, November 2018. Paper Back. A guide to ramen for the home cook, from the chef behind the beloved shop Otaku Ramen. Sarah Gavigan is otaku. Loosely translated, she's a ramen geek. During her twenty years working in film production and as a music executive in L.A., Gavigan ate her... More
Night of Miracles: A Novel
Random House, November 2018. Hardcover. The feel-good book of the year: a delightful novel of friendship, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change your life, by the bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks... More
The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee
Soho Press, November 2018. Paper Back. "Absolutely riveting . . . Essential reading for foodies, java-junkies, anthropologists, and anyone else interested in funny, sardonically told adventure stories." --Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential Full of humor and historical insights, The Devil's Cup is not only ahistory of coffee, but a.... More
Shakespeare's Sonnets, Retold: Classic Love Poems with a Modern Twist
Three Rivers Press, November 2018. Hardcover. An enlightening and entertaining collection of the most esteemed love poems in the English canon, retold in contemporary language everyone can understand James Anthony has long enjoyed poetry with a strict adherence to beat, rhythm, and rhyming patterns, which he likens to the very... More
