Princeton University Press, September 2020. Paper Back. How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America's racial divide On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the..... More
Grosset & Dunlap, 1965. Cloth. In price-clipped dustjacket with spine-sunning, edgewear, and marginal staining. Red cloth boards discolored at bottom fore-edge corners front & back. Otherwise clean, sound with gold lettering spine edge. Red topstain & tight binding. Internally unmarked. No underlining. No markings that I see other than one..... More
Betty Crocker, April 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Join New York City's most intrepid eater--Robert Sietsema, pioneer of outer-boroughs dining--in an urban adventure like none other. Through essays on the city's defining dishes, some familiar, others obscure, Robert paints a portrait of New York's food landscape past and present, and shares..... More
Cambridge University Press, 1956. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo (five-inches x eight-inches); First edition in dustjacket with top flap corner clipped, though UK price is still visible bottom corner: 13s. 6d. net. Tawny boards with gold lettering spine edge. Slight darkening to end pages & textblock top edge. Clean, unmarked interiors..... More
SOA Watch, 1998. Stapled Pamphlet. (Five & 1/2 inches x Eight & 1/2 inches) Stapled 40 page pamphlet with cardstock cover with cover photo, Haskey/Columbus Ledger-Enquirer/Columbus/Georgia/USA. Caption: 'Carrying white crosses and coffins with thousands of petitions to close the School of the Americas, 601 marchers crossed the line at Fort..... More
Bloomsbury, January 2007. First Edition. Cloth. 'Old Men in Love' constitutes the posthumous papers of a recondite - yet venal - retired Glaswegian schoolmaster, named John Tunnock. First/first (UK) in dustjacket with some edgewear. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering spine edge & silver decoration front & rear boards. Bumped..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Cloth. 'This book first appeared as TriQuarterly Supplement Number Two' in 1968, softcover. This 1971 Knopf edition was the first hardcover edition. (Six & 1/2-inch x Ten & 1/4-inch) in dustjacket with rubbing, chipping & edgewear. Not price clipped. Original price of $3.95 on front flap..... More
Alfred A Knopf, January 1970. First American. Cloth. First/first (US); (7&1/2-inches x 10&1/2-inches) in very good dustjacket. Not price clipped. Two prices $17.50 but also says: '$15.00 until Dec. 31 1970'. Chocolate brown cloth boards with silver lettering on spine edge in black rectangular fields Also on spine silver fleur-de-lis..... More
Library of America, July 1982. Cloth. In this Library of America volume are the best and most enduring works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, "the little woman," as Abraham Lincoln said when he met her in 1861, "who wrote the book that made this great war." He was referring, with rueful..... More
Doubleday Books, August 2020. Hardcover. From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ariel Sabar, the gripping true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that shook Harvard. In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery at a scholarly conference just..... More
Random House, August 2020. Hardcover. When did America give up on fairness? The New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change--and charts a way back to..... More
One World, August 2020. Paper Back. Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular--its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy Definition of finna, created by the author: fin-na /ˈfinə/ contraction: (1) going to; intending..... More
Doubleday, August 2020. Hardcover. "I couldn't put it down...Reading little scratch has broken my heart and opened my mind."--Jenny Slate In the formally innovative tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport comes a dazzlingly original, shot-in-the-arm of a debut that reveals a young woman's every thought..... More
Melville House, August 2020. Hardcover. A disarming novel that asks a simple question: Can gentle people change the world? In this charming and truly unique debut, popular Irish musician Ronan Hession tells the story of two single, thirty-something men who still live with their parents and who are .... More
Riverhead Books, August 2020. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." --Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." --Annie Proulx In a remote..... More
Crown, August 2020. Hardcover. An urgent exploration of men's entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl "Kate Manne is a thrilling and provocative feminist thinker. Her work is indispensable."--Rebecca Traister In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne..... More
Little, Brown and Company, August 2020. Hardcover. The chilling and little-known story of Adolf Hitler's eight-year march to the pinnacle of German politics. On the night of January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler leaned out of a spotlit window of the Reich chancellery in Berlin, bursting with joy. The moment seemed..... More
Little, Brown and Company, August 2020. Hardcover. In a world of spycraft, betrayals, and reversals, a Stasi officer is unraveled by the cruel system he served and by the revelation of a decades-old secret. On November 9, 1989, Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi officer in the twilight of his career, is..... More
Overlook TP, May 2000. Trade Paperback. Charles Portis's fourth novel--a truly brilliant, wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists. Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that comprise your average American. For a time..... More
Anchor, January 2008. Paper Back. From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 2005. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history."--Bill Gates, GatesNotes.com "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."--Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why..... More
Crown, July 2020. Hardcover. The Democrats' special impeachment counsel on the House Judiciary Committee lays out President Trump's shocking pattern of betrayals, lies, and high crimes, arguing articles of impeachment to the ultimate judges: the American people. In his behind-the-scenes account of the attempts to bring the president to justice--from..... More
Pegasus Books, January 2020. Hardcover. An unforgettable journey through Central Asia, one of the most mysterious and history-laden regions of the world. Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in 1991. But though they are new to modern statehood, this is a region rich in..... More
Ballantine Books, February 2020. Paper Back. The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution--a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. "A true page-turner . . . [Helen] Zia has proven..... More
Random House, November 2009. Hardcover. A new edition of the classic New York Times bestseller edited by Toni Morrison, offering an encyclopedic look at the black experience in America from 1619 through the 1940s with the original cover restored. "I am so pleased the book is alive again. I still..... More
