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Flatiron Books, January 2015. Hardcover. Signed by Jenny Lawson on a tipped-in page, as issued by the publisher. More
Flatiron Books, January 2015. Hardcover. Signed by Jenny Lawson on a tipped-in page, as issued by the publisher. More
Perseus Books, March 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF A BRUTAL ACT OF HATE "At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, Oct. 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was..... More
Penguin Books, (1979). Mass Market PaperBack. Previous owner's names inked on inside of front cover. More
Signet, 1963. Mass Market PaperBack. When Danny returns to Tortilla Flat in Monterey, California, after the First World War he moves into a small house left to him by his grandfather. One by one, various ne'er-do-wells are drawn to Danny's house - lured in part by the appeal of a...... More
Dell Publishing Co. Inc., January 1967. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn copy with 2' split of the front cover from the hinge. Cover image unaffected. Introduction by Hammett's long-time companion, Lillian Hellman. More
Library of America, October 2009. First Thus. Hardcover. From early on, American literature has teemed with tales of horror, of hauntings, of terrifying obsessions and gruesome incursions, of the uncanny ways in which ordinary reality can be breached and subverted by the unknown and the irrational. As this pathbreaking two-volume..... More
A New Directions Paperbook, 1967. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. This book offers a compact yet representative selection of Ezra Pound's poems and translations. The span covered is Pound's entire writing career, from his early lyrics and the translations of Provençal songs to his English version of Sophocles' Trachiniae. Included are..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1960. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened spine, dust stained cover & textblock edges. Previous owner's name rubber stamped half title page & last, inside page. (420 pages plus four pages of available Anchor titles.). More
Doubleday, January 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1954. Mass Market PaperBack. Dust stained cover with smudges of soiling in small area of front & back panel. (362 pp.). More
Doubleday Anchor Books, January 1955. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened spine, dust stained cover, inked tick marks next to 3 out of 5 plays listed on front & there is a black marker strike top left corner front cover. Large elaborate previous dealer's stamp in red ink with handwritten number in..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1958. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Underlining & side notes in ink (and some pencil) scattered through text, but mostly in first 40 pages, thereabout. Also ink markings on half title page, first inside page. Wear & stains to cover. Crease spine, but binding remains sound. (385 pages..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1959. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened & creased spine. Spine is a bit tender at crease, but remains intact. Extremely heavy underlining through much of the text in pencil & ink (red!). Passable reading copy for those who are not distracted by large amounts of underlining. Excellent..... More
Indiana University Press. Reprint. Paper Back. . . . Humphries has rendered (Ovid's) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique. --Virginia Quarterly Review. Octavo. 20th printing. Entire book is warped from mishandling by previous owner. Too bad because it would elsewise be..... More
Ecco Press, April 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. A Most Anticipated Book From: OprahMag.com * Refinery29 * Houston Chronicle * The Millions * Elle * Buzzfeed Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney plumbs the depths of marriage, motherhood and friendship with warmth and wit. I devoured it in one gulp! Treat yourself to some..... More
Grove Press, March 2021. Hardcover. The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of "the man of two minds" as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his..... More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2020. Hardcover. The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II. Tensions during the Yalta Conference in February..... More
Algonquin Books, January 2021. Paper Back. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020 "A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it's also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into the work . . . Bump's meditation on belonging..... More
Scribner, April 2021. Hardcover. A powerful selection of the best of John Edgar Wideman's short stories over his fifty-year career, representing the wide range of his intellectual and artistic pursuits. When John Edgar Wideman won the PEN Malamud Award in 2019, he joined a list of esteemed writers--from Eudora Welty..... More
Simon & Schuster, March 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies..... More
NewSouth Books, March 2021. Hardcover. The wisdom acquired during C. T. Vivian's nine decades is generously shared in It's in the Action, the civil rights legend's memoir of his life and times in the movement. Born in Missouri in 1924, Vivian lived twenty-four years in Illinois before moving to Nashville..... More
Columbia University Press, March 2021. Paper Back. Minae Mizumura's An I-Novel is a semi-autobiographical work that takes place over the course of a single day in the 1980s. Minae is a Japanese expatriate graduate student who has lived in the United States for two decades but turned her back on..... More
Orbit, March 2020. Hardcover. One of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of all time One of TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 One of Vanity Fair's 15 Best Books of 2020 One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K...... More
Workman Publishing Company, April 2021. Hardcover. You know you're a Book Nerd when... --You have a minimum of 5 books on your night table. --You never thought one the movie was better. --Your favorite mug says "I'd rather be reading." --You use words like librocubicularist in casual conversation (though no..... More