Doubleday Anchor Books, 1954. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Foxing/darkening to cover. Heavily darkened spine. Stains to textblock edges. Worn edges. Chipping to top & bottom spine corners. Reprint of W.W. Norton 1949 original hardcover. (194 pages plus two pages listing available Anchor titles.). More
Random House Childrens Books, May 1973. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo; Eight & 1/4-inch x Nine & 1/4-inch; Small quarto; in dustjacket with darkening to margins & verso. Blue cloth with coral colored lettering on spine. Light toning to end pages. Dust stained textblock edges. (152 pages). More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 1968. Trade Paperback. Lucian, born in Syria in the second century C.E., came to Greece at an early age and mastered its language and literature. He took up law, left it for public speaking, then turned to full-time writing, producing the wide range of..... More
Pantheon Books, July 1982. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Stated, 'First American Edition.' though 'a larger collection of letters and editorial text was first published by Oxford University Press in 1978.' Very mild shelf wear. Previous owner's name, location & a date inked verso front cover top left corner. Clean, sound..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1955. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Reprinted (and abridged by Riesman, Glazer & Denney) from material originally published by Yale University Press in Faces in the Crowd (1952) and its sequel the original The Lonely Crowd. Marginal wear to edges & the bottom & top of spine. Tanning..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1962. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. 'A Doubleday Anchor Oriiginal'. Paperback original. First time published complete in English. Darkening/foxing to cover, especially heavy darkening to spine. Dust staining to textblock edges, corners & margins. Cover design by Diana Klemin. (239 pp.). More
Doubleday / Anchor, January 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Soiling & markings to cover. Taped & scarred spine toward base. Ink underling & side-notes. Speckled soiling textblock top edge. Typography by Edward Gorey. (387 pp.). More
A Harvest/HBJ Books, March 1975. First Thus. Trade Paperback. More
Rodale Press, September 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. ABC-TV's Lynn Sherr writes a savvy, witty, and moving memoir about events that have shaped her life and her career as one of the first women to break through in broadcast television As a reporter for 40 years, most of them on television..... More
Little Brown and Company, June 1985. Trade Paperback. More
Methuen, January 1982. Paper Back. Tanning/darkening of margins. Previous owner's name inked verso of wrapper. (110 pages). More
Paradigm Press, January 1991. Stapled Magazine. More
PublicAffairs, March 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Willie Morris, the famously talented--and complex--writer and editor, helped to remake American journalism and wrote more than a dozen books, with several classics among them. His time at the head of Harper's magazine, where he was made editor at age thirty-two, is legendary. With..... More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression..... More
Doubleday & Company, Inc., May, 1978. Reprint. Cloth. In dustjacket with mild edgewear. Not price clipped. Original price of $6.95 on jacket flap. One inch tear top edge of rear fold.Clean, bright maroon cloth covered boards with silver & black lettering on spine. Sharp corners. Maroon speckled bottom textblock edge..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1990. Trade Paperback. Stains top textblock edge. Clean interiors. More
Atlantic Monthly Press, April 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. An Amazon Best Book of 2015, A Kirkus Reviews' Best Book of 2015 "A brave book with beautiful sentences on every page."--New York Times "Piercing...a tour de force."--Los Angeles Times In 2000, while moving his household from Vermont to North Carolina, David..... More
Partisan Review, January 1961. Stapled Magazine. Stapled pamplet in yellow cardstock folded cover. Wrapper is heavily stained & darkened on recto, though oddly bright & clean on verso. There is also heavy underlining & some side-notes inked, though almost entirely (perhaps completely!) on one page, #5. Despite all the ink..... More
Little, Brown & Company, January 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition in edgeworn, foxed dustjacket. Not price clipped. Quarter cloth: aegean blue cloth spine with gold lettering on red title plate & carmine paper covered boards. Cerulean blue end pages. Heavy foxing textblock fore-edge. (572 pages). More
Stein & Day, January 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition in tattered marginally darkened dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $5.95 on jacket flap. Red cloth covered spine with gold lettering & grey paper covered boards. Boards faded at edges. Mildly darkened from exposure to sun/light top textblock..... More
Twayne Publishers, January 1969. Hardcover. In rubbed, darkened at margins dustjacket. Maroon faux-leather with gold lettering. Maroon end pages. Foxed textblock edges. Clean, unmarked interiors. More
University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. Cloth. 6th printing. (Eight & 1/2-inches x Eleven-inches) Without dustjacket. In white cloth covered boards (red & black on spine) with some soiling, darkened spine. Also darkened/foxed textblock edges. Sound binding. More
Riverhead Hardcover, March 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamott's book on faith, "Traveling Mercies," a runaway bestseller, "Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith" is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times. The world is a more dangerous..... More
University of Washington Press, 1965. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in mildly edgeworn dust jacket. Pine green cloth covered boards with silver lettering spine edge. Nice map of Dublin end pages. Binding solid, tight at bottom and a bit pulled at top. Bottom spine edge is slightly bruised. No markings in..... More
Walker & Co, January 1968. First American. Cloth. First/first (US) in price clipped dustjacket. Amber cloth with black & red lettering on spine. Previous owners' names inked front free end page along the gutter. Faded amber topstain. One stray ink mark along mildly tanned fore-edge. Also another similar stray mark..... More
