Fiction & Literature
Shepherds of the Night
Avon, September 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Finger ExOrcised
BlazeVOX Books, December 2006. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Amato gives us irrepressible ruminations, flash narratives, verbal collages. At times they seem to be struggling to rise off the printed page into our simulated 3D, stereo, holograph world, but then they recoil from it with speedy wit and righteous indignation, in a...... More
Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture
University of Iowa Press, October 2006. Hardcover. Through a dizzying array of references to subjects ranging from engineering to poetry, on-the-job experiences in academia and industry, conflicts between working-class and intellectual labor, the privatization of universities, and the contradictions of the modern environment, Joe Amato's Industrial Poetics mounts a boisterous..... More
Lady Be Good
Crown, June 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Set in the 1950s, Lady Be Good marks Amber Brock's mesmerizing return, sweeping readers into the world of the mischievous, status-obsessed daughter of a hotel magnate and the electric nightlife of three iconic cities: New York, Miami, and Havana. Kitty Tessler is the winsome..... More
Dead Babies
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1976. First American. Hardcover. First/first (U.S.) in spine-sunned dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $6.95 on flap. Quarter bound: Ochre cloth spine with silver lettering. Caerulean blue boards with fade to edges and a few grey spots with title in silver. Rose topstain. Sticker residue..... More
Success
Random House Inc, April 1991. Trade Paperback. In Success Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude, " the other a "bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response"--in a single London flat. He binds them with ties of class hatred, sexual rivalry, and disappointed..... More
Bosh and Flapdoodle: Poems
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. A final completed collection of poetic works by the late National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award-winning writer features a series of candid, alternately humorous and sobering ruminations on such topics as age, illness, and death. First/first in..... More
Sumerian Vistas
WW Norton & Co, November 1987. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in price clipped dust jacket. Complete number line. More
In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations
The University of North Carolina Press, May 1999. Oversize Softcover. Celebrating poet Robert Creeley's pathbreaking role as an artistic collaborator, this illustrated volume adds substantially to the documented history of contemporary multidisciplinary art. For more than forty years, Creeley has worked on collaborative projects with some of the best-known artists..... More
Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Penguin Classics, March 2006. Trade Paperback. Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales--with an anarchic twist--but many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination. The thirty stories..... More
Overboard
Burning Deck, January 2004. Paper Back. Poetry. Anderson is a master of the syntactic measure, blending novelistic and essayistic tones with first-person statements that retain a cool observational air without ever feeling aloof. There is an eveness to the distribution of `event' in these texts that defies thematization. --Steve Evans..... More
James Joyce (Literary Lives Series)
Thames & Hudson, April 1986. Soft Cover. James Joyce remains a mysterious figure, and yet his books concern his own life: his friends, loves, and above all the city of Dublin. Professor Chester Anderson here examines Joyce as one of the greatest modern writers, but also explores his life, visiting..... More
James Joyce (Literary Lives Series)
Thames & Hudson, April 1986. Soft Cover. James Joyce remains a mysterious figure, and yet his books concern his own life: his friends, loves, and above all the city of Dublin. Professor Chester Anderson here examines Joyce as one of the greatest modern writers, but also explores his life, visiting..... More
The Milky Way: Poems 1967-1982 (American Poetry Series)
Ecco Pr, October 1985. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear on the cover. A few notes on two pages else clean, tight copy. More
Jane Austen's Women: An Introduction
SUNY Press, December 2018. Paper Back. Why does Jane Austen "mania" continue unabated in a postmodern world? How does the brilliant Regency novelist speak so personally to today's women that they view her as their best friend? Jane Austen's Women answers these questions by exploring Austen's affirming yet challenging vision..... More
Sympathy for the Devil
Doubleday, July 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in 1987, this is the first novel by Kent Anderson, whose Night Dogs was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998. The story of a college student who goes to war with a volume of Yeats in his pocket and discovers..... More
BRAIN WAVE (Ballantine 80)
Ballantine Books, 1954. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Brain Wave was first serialized in Space Science Fiction magazine in 1953, before being issued in book format by Ballantine (1954) with this cover art by Richard Powers. Poul Anderston (1926 - 2001), like so many of his peers, published many stories..... More
Dark Laughter
Boni & Liveright, September 1925. First Edition. Cloth. First trade edition in scarce dust jacket. NOT price clipped. One & 1/2 inch chip top of spine. One inch deep damp stain across almost entire back jacket panel. Tape 'repair' to rear flap top edge tear visible jacket verso. Closed tear..... More
The Last Worthless Evening: four novellas and two stories
Crown, 1986. Trade Paperback. Clean, sound, without markings. Very Good reading copy. More
Garden of Last Days
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2009. Trade Paperback. In his stunning follow-up to the #1 best-selling House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus draws us into the lives of three deeply flawed, driven people whose paths intersect on a September night in Florida. April, a stripper, has brought her..... More
House of Sand and Fog
Vintage Books USA, January 2000. Trade Paperback. "Elegant and powerful...an unusual and volatile...literary thriller." --"Washington Post Book World" In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a...... More
An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes: (And What Happened Afterwards)
Black Sparrow Press, July 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Multimedia culture critic, novelist, poet, editor of the radical literary journal Exquisite Corpse, Andrei Codrescu proves also a candid, witty, iconoclastic and exuberant commentator on his own colorful life. The self-invented Codrescu was born Andrei Perlmutter in the medieval town of..... More
