Graywolf Press, October 2020. Hardcover. The brilliant new collection from Vijay Seshadri, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 3 Sections No one blends ironic intelligence, emotional frankness, radical self-awareness, and complex humor the way Vijay Seshadri does. In this, his fourth collection, he affirms his place as one of America's greatest..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1951. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (US) in dustjacket with 6-inch L-shaped tear along spine & darkening & mild edgewear. Not price clipped. Original price of $3 on flap. Previous owner's name & a date inked FFEP. Bookplate on front pastedown. Rose colored cloth covered boards with..... More
Macmillan Publishing Company, January 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first (US) in dustjacket with edgewear. Quarter bound: dark brown cloth covered spine with gold lettering & copper paper covered boards with faded edges. Darkened textblock top edge & fore-edge. Clean, unmarked interiors. More
The Free Press/Simon & Schuster, January 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. From the acclaimed author of Geography of Nowhere comes a landmark work on urban life in the western world, with fascinating reflection on cities from Atlanta to Berlin to Las Vegas. Illustrations. First/first (U.S.) in dustjacket. Brown paper covered boards..... More
Random House, June 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS In the National Book Award-winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act..... More
Chatto & Windus, 1924. Cloth. (Five inches x Seven & 3/4-inch) Navy blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on darkened spine. Some marginal wear to boards. Grey faded topstain with inch long white scrap. Heavily tanned front & rear free end pages. 4th printing (1924) of the 1920 First..... More
Knopf : distributed by Random House, January 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first (U.S.) in dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $5.95. Slight edgewear. Several creases to front flap. Quarter bound: black cloth covered spine with gold lettering on spine & black paper covered boards with title stamped in gold..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1972. Cloth. In dustjacket with edgewear and darkened margins. Not price clipped. Original price of $5.95 on flap. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Lettering is beginning to fade. Also gold spiderweb design stamped into front board. Small 3/4-inch diameter sticker from previous..... More
Henry Holt & Co, April 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. (Four & 3/4-inch x Seven & 1/2-inch) First/first (U.S.) in dustjacket. Quarter bound: maroon cloth covered spine with gold lettering & maroon paper covered boards. Tight binding. Clean, sound, very good+ overall. Previous owner's name inked inside front free end page..... More
Henry Holt & Company, December 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Three interrelated essays on the primary colors presents the artistic, aesthetic, emotional, and economic dimensions of each color in an anecdotal format of poetry and humor. In novels like Darconville's Cat and An Adultery, Alexander Theroux has staked a claim as..... More
Knopf, September 2009. Hardcover. A nuanced exploration of the part religion plays in human life, past and present, from one of the foremost commentators on religion at work today. Moving from the Paleolithic Age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order..... More
Northeastern, August 1985. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 1983. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Bantam Classics, January 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human..... More
Bantam, December 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Pocket, January 1975. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Farrar Straus Giroux, January 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. A great writer's journey of exploration in an American place that is both strange and deeply familiar. In Ian Frazier's bestselling" Great Plains," he described meeting a man in New York City named Le War Lance, "an Oglala Sioux Indian from Oglala..... More
Knopf, October 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. "A valuable service . . . serious, entertaining, provocative and distinctive." -- "Cleveland Plain Dealer" In the fifty years since his suicide amid the ruins of Berlin, Adolf Hitler has been the subject of more biographies than any comparable figure of our time--and at..... More
HarperTorch, October 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. In this intriguing biography, literary biographer Fred Kaplan analyzes Abraham Lincoln's writings, from the great civic anthems of his presidency to love letters, legal briefs, and poems, and finds a first-rate literary talent--a master storyteller with an earthy wit, sharp logic, and an ear..... More
Norton, January 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Random House/Vintage, 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. Three different ways to approach Faulkner, each of them representative of his work as a whole. Includes "Spotted Horses, " "Old Man, " and his famous "The Bear." More
Yale University Press, September 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Philosophical arguments against Freud's idea of the unconscious have existed as long as psychoanalysis itself. This work considers the most significant and persuasive of these criticisms, as articulated by Ludwig Wittgenstein, William James, Alasdair MacIntyre and Adolf Grunbaum. Light shelf wear and..... More
Regnery Publishing, October 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Muhammad: a frank look at his influential (and violent) life and teachings In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam-perhaps the first such portrait in..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1977. Mass Market PaperBack. The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul himself a native of Trinidad shows how..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), July 1977. Mass Market PaperBack. More
