The Faber book of modern European poetry
Faber and Faber, January 1992. Hardcover. Pages toned; jacket a little shelfworn; tape-repaired. More
Faber and Faber, January 1992. Hardcover. Pages toned; jacket a little shelfworn; tape-repaired. More
Penguin Books, September 1973. Trade Paperback. 12mo. Mildly dog-eared pages. Some tick marks in pencil. [148 pages]. More
Algonquin Books, April 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the GarcÃa Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic. "Only an alchemist as wise and sure as..... More
Algonquin Books, April 2024. Hardcover. Great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the GarcÃa Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic. "Only an alchemist as wise and sure as Alvarez could..... More
Avon, March 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. One bright spring day in 1925, Gabriela arrives from the poverty-stricken backwoods of Brazil to the lively seaside port of Ilheus amid a flock of filthy migrant workers. Though wearing rags and covered in dirt, she attracts the attention of Nacib, a cafe owner..... More
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
Penguin Books, May 1995. Trade Paperback. Kingsley Amis's newest novel begins like an academic romp but soon moves into territory that Amis has made triumphantly his own - the battle of the sexes and the conflicting claims of love and integrity. The Russian Girl is a love story, but as..... More
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
Knopf, January 2007. First American. Hardcover. An extraordinary novel that ratifies Martin Amis's standing as "a force unto himself," as "The Washington Post" has attested: "There is, quite simply, no one else like him." "House of Meetings" is a love story, gothic in timbre and triangular in shape. In 1946..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A John Scognamiglio Book, April 2024. Paper Back. Drawing on the little-known true story of one tragic night at an Ozarks dance hall in the author's Missouri hometown, this beautifully written, endearingly nostalgic novel picks up 50 years later for a folksy, character-driven portrayal of small-town life, split second decisions..... More
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
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
Vintage Books USA, February 2001. Trade Paperback. With House of Sand and Fog, his National Book Award-nominated novel, Andre Dubus III demonstrated his mastery of the complexities of character and desire. In this earlier novel he captures a roiling time in American history and the coming-of-age of a boy who..... More
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
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
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