Found in the Street
Atlantic Monthly Pr, October 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. More
New Arrivals
Still Lives
Counterpoint LLC, June 2019. Trade Paperback. Twelve shocking paintings. Eleven famous murders. One missing artist . . . and one woman driven to find her--this Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Selection is a "stunning achievement" (Los Angeles Times). Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur..... More
Hype and Glory
Villard Books, March 1990. Hardcover. Filled with hilarious, gossipy and truly fascinating anecdotes, Hype & Glory is an insider's look at two of the most popular events in the world--the Cannes Film Festival and the Miss America Pageant. More
5001 Nights at the Movies: Revised for the 90's
Henry Holt & Company, May 1991. Hardcover. More
As They Saw Forrest: Some Recollections & Comments of Contemporaries.
McCowat-Mercer Press, January 1956. Hardcover. Dust jacket is shelf-worn and has some tears and stains. Signed by the editor for the member of the 'Civil War Book Club'. More
Cross Creek
Charles Scribner's Sons, January 1942. Hardcover. Jacket is mylar-wrapped but has a few faded spots and chips. More
President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime
Simon & Schuster, April 1991. Hardcover. Washington Post White House correspondent for the eight years of Ronald Reagan's presidency and the only writer to cover Reagan throughout his entire political career, Lou Cannon now offers the authoritative account of the most significant presidency since Franklin D. Roosevelt's. Includes an index..... More
Five Lessons the Modern Fundamentals of Golf 1957
A. S. Barnes and Company, January 1957. Hardcover. Some small tears at the corners of the jacket. Previous owner's inscription on first free page. Includes some supplemental inserts: 'Top Ten Tips' and 'The Truth About Putting'. More
Son of the Morning Star
North Point Pr, September 1984. Hardcover. More
Reagan's America
Doubleday, December 1986. Hardcover. Garry Wills, touted by Business Week as the most brilliant and prolific political journalist writing today and author of Nixon Agonistes and The Kennedy Imprisonment presents a rich, human, and complex portrait of Ronald Reagan, the man and the political symbol. Shelf wear and fading to..... More
Mosquito: A Natural History of Man's Most Persistent and Deadly Foe
Hyperion Books, June 2001. Hardcover. From a world-renowned expert on mosquitoes and a prize-winning reporter comes a fascinating work of popular science -- a comprehensive study of the insect itself, its role in history, and its threat to mankind. From its irritating whine to the sting and itch of its..... More
Africa : The People and Politics of an Emerging Continent
Simon & Schuster, August 1985. Hardcover. Jacket has several small tears along the spine and the edges. More
Darrow: A Biography
Thomas Y. Crowell, May 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition in heavily darkened (at spine & margins & verso) dustjacket. Not price clipped. Brown cloth spine with faded gold lettering. Tawny paper covered boards. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked internal text. No underlining. No side notes. Etc. (490 pages) Stated..... More
Sanctuary BOMC Edition(Hardcover) 1997
BOMC by arrangement with Random House, January 1997. Book Club. Hardcover. Handsome edition for Book of the Month Club (1997) in dustjacket. Quarter cloth: Black cloth covered spine with gold lettering & black paper covered boards. Tight perfect binding. Black end pages. Clean & sound overall. Originally published in 1931..... More
Black Boy: a Record of Childhood and Youth
Harper & Row, Publishers. Book Club. Cloth. Tawny cloth covered boards with gold lettering on mildly sunned spine. Tan end pages. Clean & sound. Bookclub edition without dust jacket. Classic autobiography of great American novelist, poet & essayist Richard Wright (1908 - 1960) originally published in 1945. It is unclear..... More
American Hunger
Harper & Row, January 1977. Book Club. Cloth. Book club edition without its dustjacket. This is the 2nd half of Wright's autobiography intended for publication as one volume, with the 'working title' The Horror and the Glory, but the 'two parts were separated prior to publication and the first part..... More
The French Revolution, A History: Complete and Unabridged) (Modern Library Giants, 13.2)
Modern Library Giant, 1954. Hardcover. Published circa 1945/63 according to Henry Toledano The Modern Library Price Guide 1917 - 1985. Octavo in dustjacket with mild edgewear with rubbing. Some slight darkening. Not price clipped. Original price of $3.95 on front jacket flap No list of titles on jacket verso. Rear..... More
The Great Gatsby (Vintage Classics)
Vintage, January 2021. Trade Paperback. Fitzgerald's masterpiece--the quintessential Jazz Age novel--now in a Vintage Classics edition. For generations of enthralled readers, the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby has come to embody all the glamour and decadence of the Roaring Twenties. To Nick Carraway, Gatsby appears to have emerged out of nowhere..... More
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Random House, January 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves--and our world today. "One of the..... More
The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Penguin Classics, January 2021. Paper Back. The long-awaited penultimate volume--the very summit of Proust's art (Slate)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust's greatest work, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth The greatest literary work of the twentieth century. --The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe..... More
A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social Order
Verso, January 2021. Paper Back. Putting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in conjunction with the idea of police. Since its first publication, this book has been one of the most..... More
Oligarchy: A Novel
Counterpoint, January 2021. Paper Back. From the author of The Seed Collectors comes a darkly comic take on power, privilege, and the pressure put on young women to fit in--and be thin--at their all-girls boarding school It's already the second week of term when Natasha, the daughter of a Russian..... More
Siri, Who Am I?: A Novel
Quirk Books, January 2021. Paper Back. Indie Next and Library Reads Pick One of Cosmopolitan's "Best New Books Coming Out in 2021" One of POPSUGAR's "Best New Books Coming Out in 2021" A Millennial with amnesia uses her Instagram account to piece together her identity in this hilarious and whip-smart..... More
Hades, Argentina: A Novel
Riverhead Books, January 2021. Hardcover. "An astonishingly powerful novel about the complex nature of guilt." --Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn and Nora Webster A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love. In 1976, Tomás Orilla is a medical student in..... More
Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas
The Dial Press, January 2021. Hardcover. The Olympic runner, actress, filmmaker and writer Alexi Pappas shares what she's learned about confidence, self-reliance, mental health, embracing pain, and achieving your dreams. "Heartbreaking and hilarious."--Mindy Kaling - "A beautiful read."--Ruth Reichl - "Essential guidance to anyone dreaming big dreams."--Shalane Flanagan - "I..... More
