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
Outskirts Press, September 2014. Paper Back. Tu Na Si Ba - The "Secret" Breathing Methods of Xing Yi Quan. Chinese-English Edition with link to online video of Tu Na Si Ba performed by Master Song Zhi Yong. In Northern China and in Shanxi Province, the purported birthplace of Xing Yi..... More
Phaidon. Soft Cover. Signed by both Putnams on tipped in page. More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2021. Hardcover. By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well known in south Mississippi. A light-skinned Black man, he was a farmer, grocery store owner, and two-time president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP. He and Medgar Evers founded a...... More
Random House, The Modern Library, January 1950. Reprint. Cloth. In edgeworn dustjacket with one-inch tear top edge back panel. Jacket flap not clipped. Dust stained front and rear panels, especially noticable on spine. Verso mildly toned with '299 Outstanding' Modern Library titles ' you perhaps 'want to read?' 12mo.; 4&5/8th'..... More
Harpercollins, June 1964. Soft Cover. Considered one of the most profound, influential, and important works of philosophy, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals introduces the famous Categorical Imperative and lays down a foundation for all of Immanuel Kant's writings. In it, Kant illuminates the basic concept that is central to..... More
New Directions Publishing Corporation, June 1963. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Mildly cocked spine. Worn edges of cover. Verticle crease to spine, yet it is not cracked, remains sound. Dust stained top edge. (246 pages plus two page list of available New Direction.). More
New Directions Paperback, January 1955. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 9th printing. Spine is leaning. Worn cover edges, spine lightened, creased. Yellow highlighting throughout the prologue (written by the poet's brother), pages #1 through 29, and no where else far as I can tell. (Take a bow all ye term paper plagiarists..... More
Harcourt, Brace and Company, January 1933. Hardcover. Sixth (early) printing. Dustjacket missing. Much faded green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Large stained smudges on boards better visible in strong light. Previous owner's name, a date & location in ink front pastedown top left corner. Faded from sun..... More
J. B. Lippincott Company, January 1969. First Edition. Paper Back. Five' x Eight'; octavo. Mild edgeworn with rubbing. Clean, sound binding, no markings, underlining or marginal notes to internal text.(116 pages.). More
Modern Library, January 1950. Cloth. Heavily worn jacket with clipped front flap. Especially worn (chipped/torn) at top & bottom of jacket spine as well as folds front & back. Small (3/4' x 3/8th') )white label that says: 'Lit Fiction,' affixed to jacket spine near bottom. Tanned jacket verso has list..... More
Random House/Modern Library, January 1984. Reprint. Hardcover. Stated, 'First Modern Library Edition 1984', but I think this is probably a 2nd printing of this edition. There is other evidence, but the best is the number string on copyright page: B9876543. In dustjacket with heavily sunned spine & margins. 1/8th inch..... More
Dell, January 1967. Mass Market PaperBack. Spine a tad sunned; several small stains on cover; else, a tight, clean copy. More
HarperOne, April 2021. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER - USA TODAY BESTSELLER "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is not only a thought-provoking, discussion-worthy story, the book itself is an object of art."- Elizabeth Egan, The New York Times A deluxe..... More
Picador, September 2009. Trade Paperback. A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2008 Time Magazine's Best Book of 2008 Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2008 San Francisco Chronicle's 50 Best Fiction Books of 2008 Seattle Times Best Books of 2008..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 2007. Trade Paperback. The inimitable Thomas Pynchon has done it again. Hailed as a major work of art by The Wall Street Journal, his first novel in almost ten years spans the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War..... More
Harper Perennial, May 2001. Trade Paperback. When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in "The New Yorker," he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In "Kitchen Confidential," he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable shocking banquet that lays..... More
Top Shelf Productions, August 2013. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times Bestseller Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon and key figure of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated..... More
Penguin Books, January 2011. Trade Paperback. In Jared Diamond's follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Diamond is also the author of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in..... More
Back Bay Books, April 2007. Trade Paperback. The landmark book that has revolutionized the way we understand leadership and decision making -- from #1 bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell. In his breakthrough bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes..... More
Scribner, January 1995. Trade Paperback. "The Sun Also Rises" was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation..... More
Penguin Classics, January 2003. Trade Paperback. The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the..... More
Little, Brown and Company, April 2009. Hardcover. In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his..... More
Back Bay Books, January 2002. Trade Paperback. Discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a...... More
Little, Brown and Company, October 2013. Hardcover. Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more..... More
