Samuel Johnson
Hogarth Press, January 1984. Trade Paperback. More
Hogarth Press, January 1984. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Books, May 2023. Paper Back. Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's sophomore year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out..... More
Penguin Books, February 2018. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book - Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "Easily the funniest book I've read this year." --GQ "Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious..... More
The Penguin Poets, January 1961. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First UK mass market paperback edition. Clean, without internal markings. Non-authorial inscription to verso of front cover. Edgewear to covers. Moderate darkening. In French & English. [273 pp.]. More
Easton Press, January 1977. Leather. Easton Press Leatherbound Collector's Edition, 1977; Tight binding, gently leaning; Clean, sturdy brown leather boards w/ immaculate gilt design/text at front and rear covers, hubbed spine; Outer edge text-block in gilt w/ silk moire end-papers; Mild damp-staining present at front paste-down; Pages free of markings;..... More
David R Godine Pub, October 1985. Trade Paperback. The bilingual, illustrated, and National Book Award-winning edition of Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece. The complete French text is accompanied with an English translation by Richard Howard. Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex love, death..... More
Privately printed, January 1963. Limited. Paper Back. 500 copies printed for private distribution to libraries & collectors. A 1915 play written by Baum to be performed at 'The Uplifters' an LA social club. Includes pun & songs composed by Louis Gottschalk. Also a short unpublished fairy story, 'The Corrugated Giant,'..... More
Pocket, September 1950. Mass Market PaperBack. Appears to be 2nd Pocket book printing. Shelf worn, with chipping top & bottom of spine. Soiling & stray marks/stains to cover. Slant to spine. Red tinted textblock edges. (249 pages.). More
Vintage, September 1998. Trade Paperback. Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace. A drunken graduate student..... More
Two Dollar Radio, February 2022. Paper Back. * 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize, Longlist. * ABA "Indie Next List" pick for March 2022. * 2022 Best Young Australian Novelists awards, Winner. * Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, Shortlist. * "A Best Book of 2022" --Glamour, NYLON, Glamour, Refinery29 UK..... More
Paradigm Press, January 1991. Stapled Magazine. More
The Viking Press, November 1968. Trade Paperback. One lightly bumped corner, rubbing, shelf wear. More
Topatoco, January 2017. Oversize Softcover. Since 2009, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne's hilarious and fithy comic strip OGLAF has entertained hundreds of thousands of online readers. Set in a fantasy world complete with knights and wizards, elves and monsters, OGLAF satirizes the tropes of genre fiction and contemporary sexual mores..... More
Landon Beach Books, June 2021. Trade Paperback. A standalone crime thriller in the Great Lakes Saga "Buckle up. It's Breaking Bad meets The Godfather...and the battle for Detroit is about to begin. Intense!" - Ryan Steck, The Real Book Spy Brad Cranston is having a normal Friday afternoon in Shelter..... More
Flatiron Books, March 2024. Hardcover. A "delicious" (Rebecca Makkai) and "deeply compelling" (Lauren Groff) debut novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch," about the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness..... More
Pantheon, December 2016. Hardcover. The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of mutual pique and egomania. In 1940, Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum..... More
Ace Books, August 2023. Hardcover. A vivid and moving reimagining of the myth of Medusa and the sisters who loved her. "A gorgeously crafted retelling of Greek mythology, Medusa's Sisters is a celebration of the many faces love can wear." --BookPage (starred review) The end of the story is only..... More
Folio Society. Hardcover. Very good condition with like slipcase. Green cloth binding with gilt decoration on spine and covers. Upper edge of text block is green. Previous owner's inscription on title page. More
Folio Society. Hardcover. Very good copy in like slipcase. Contains previous owner's inscription on title page. More
Picador, March 2016. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal A biting satire about a young man's..... More
Penguin Classics, June 1964. Mass Market PaperBack. The sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro, used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Roissini A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man's attempts to keep his beautiful ward..... More
Bison, January 1968. Trade Paperback. More
DELL, 1959. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First Dell paperback, November, 1959. Cover painting by Al Brule. Slightly shelf worn with turquoise tinted textblock edges. [349 pages]. More
Firebrand Books, January 1986. Trade Paperback. Grin, giggle, and guffaw your way through this celebrated cartoonist's graphic commentary of contemporary lesbian life. A very crisp, clean copy of a collectible book. More
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1946. Hardcover. Solid binding w/ mild wear at spine from use; Pictoral boards show mild to moderate wear from age including a slight bend, some water damage at rear, general edge/corner wear; Text free of markings; Pages carry similar bend as present at boards; Mild..... More