Beacon Press, 1967. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 2nd printing. Marginal markings & underlining in ink scattered through text. Sun-bleached spine. Shelf wear. Soiling & discoloration. Previous owner's name & a date inked half title page. Reading copy only. (278 pp.). More
Citadel / Carol, 1991. Paper Back. An exposition in five parts of the character of existentialist philosophy, including an analysis of the theories of Jean-Paul Sartre. Author Gabriel Marcel, a famous French dramatist, philosopher, and author of Le Dard, was a leading exponent of Christian existentialism. 17th printing. Heavy underlining..... More
New Directions, November 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild shelfwear. Creased top front corner. (286 pp.). More
New Directions Publishing Corporation, October 1970. Trade Paperback. In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like--to get to the roots of the American nature and experience. He set out on..... More
Little, Brown and Company, January 1946. Reprint. Cloth. 9th printing in little over five months. In heavily chipped, torn & darkened dustjacket. Some foxing to jacket verso. Flap is not clipped. Possible bookclub edition, though it is not stated anywhere on the jacket or book and there is no blind..... More
The Dial Press: A Permanent Library Book, January 1945. Cloth. Chipped, torn & tattered dustjacket. Sun-bleached spine. Heavy wear along jacket edges. Foxning/darkening and a few damp stains to jacket verso. Cover covered boards (which might have started out off-white) are now grey, duststained with light spots and maroon stamped..... More
Ballantine Books, October 1992. Trade Paperback. "Very funny and moving...The glimpses of rare fauna seem to have enlarged [Adams'] thinking, enlivened his world; and so might the animals do for us all, if we were to help them live". THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Join bestselling author Douglas Adams and..... More
Riverhead Trade, March 1996. Trade Paperback. The debut novel from critically-acclaimed and New York Times-bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and My Year Abroad. In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American--a native..... More
Anchor, January 2018. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this #1 New York Times bestseller chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1991. Trade Paperback. Few novels have had as profound an impact as On the Road, and Kerouac's vision continues to inspire: three generations of writers, musicians, artists, and poets cite their discovery of On the Road as the event that "set them free." This hardcover edition commemorates..... More
Da Capo Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white..... More
Holt Paperbacks, April 1995. Trade Paperback. One of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to offer this searing indictment of the nation's racial stagnation. This edition of James Baldwin's classic work offers a new foreword..... More
Continuum, September 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Dover Pubns, October 2002. Trade Paperback. A psychological self-portrait, a clear-eyed social study, and a profound meditation upon the artistic process, Marcel Proust's monumental, encyclopedic masterpiece A la recherché du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) changed the course of 20th-century literature. Swann's Way, the first volume, introduces the..... More
Random House Inc, March 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. Here, Johnson's almost mythic personality--part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating--is seen at its most..... More
John Wiley & Sons, February 2009. Trade Paperback. Alan Moore's Watchmen is set in 1985 and chronicles the alternative history of the United States where the US edges dangerously closer to nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Within this world exists a group of crime busters, who don elaborate costumes..... More
Viking, October 2016. Hardcover. The bestselling novel by Tana French, author of The Witch Elm, is "required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting" (The New York Times). She "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and is "the most important crime novelist to emerge..... More
Vintage, October 1989. Trade Paperback. Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory..... More
Faber & Faber, July 1995. Trade Paperback. Skylight premiered at the National Theatre in 1995 and then went on to become one of the most internationally successful plays of recent years. This is the definitive edition of Skylight. More
Hub City Press, April 2017. Trade Paperback. In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Having uprooted herself from a promising career in publishing..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1999. Trade Paperback. The novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. One day, inexplicably and without warning, Sarah had broken off the relationship. It seemed impossible that there could be a rival for her heart. Yet two..... More
Europa Editions, September 2014. Trade Paperback. Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by "one of the great novelists of our time" (The New York Times). In the third book in the New York Times-bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena..... More
Back Bay Books, June 1995. Trade Paperback. In David Sedaris's world no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Liebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad..... More
Sanctuary Publishing, June 1998. Trade Paperback. The Kinks leapt to 60s stardom with a string of songs reflecting the feelings of a generation. With dedi cated followers including The Jam in the 70s, Van Halen in t he 80s and Blur today, the music of The Kinks remains as rel..... More
Grove Press, July 1995. Trade Paperback. Nominated for the Tony Award when it was first produced in 1984, Hurlyburly was immediately hailed as a classic American drama. This edition is the definitive version of the prize-winning author's most celebrated work, reflecting his continued exploration of the play through several productions-in..... More
