Bison Books, October 1991. Trade Paperback. "It's fitting that Alice B. Toklas . . . should be the subject of a biography. With her acid tongue, shrewd judgment, vitality, and intense loyalty she was a fairly remarkable person in herself".-Publishers Weekly. "A study that shows Toklas as she must have..... More
E. P. Dutton, March 1978. Hardcover. Third printing. Boards in cloth back. Top edge of rear board has a small bump; otherwise, normal shelfwear with previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper. Jacket is not clipped but has tiny chips and small closed tears along edges, with crease on..... More
Easton Press, 1980. Leather. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} Full grey leather with gold lettering and swirl decoration. Strawberry red moire end pages. Gold textblock edges. Silk ribbon marker. [635 pp.]. More
The Modern Library, January 1957. First Edition. Cloth. First Modern Library Edition. In edgeworn dustjacket. Flap not clipped. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering in black rectangular field. Kent end pages in grey ink. Grey tinted top edge. Sound binding. Clean, unmarked interior pages. [435 pp plus eight pages..... More
Ticknor & Fields, July 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition with full number line. Grey boards with burgundy cloth spine lettered in gold. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. One very lightly bumped corner on the back board. More
Ticknor & Fields, April 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition with full number line. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Ticknor & Fields, January 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition with full number line. Red boards with a black cloth spine lettered in bright silver. Tiny ding on the bottom edge of the front board. Light shelf wear on the jacket. More
Ticknor & Fields, September 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition with full number line. Grey boards with red cloth spine lettered in silver. Light shelf wear on the jacket. More
Farrar Straus Giroux, June 2007. Hardcover. "Messages From My Father" "The man was stubborn, " says Calvin Trillin -- the second most stubborn member of the Trillin family -- to begin his fond, wry and affecting memoir of his father. Abe Trillin had the western Missouri accent of someone who..... More
Penguin Books, August 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Farrar Straus Giroux, August 2001. First American. Hardcover. A heroic, brilliantly detailed portrait of the biographer as artist. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. Yet Boswell himself was regarded..... More
Indiana University Press, April 1998. First American. Cloth. For over 50 years, from the 1940s to the 1990s, Irving Howe was a commanding, if controversial, figure in American intellectual life. Writing with the productivity of a major industry, Howe took on issues ranging from left-wing politics and American writers to..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, May 1994. Hardcover. In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, one of literature's great travelers (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. Dickensian . . . a brilliant new prism through which..... More
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, January 1970. First Thus. Paper Back. Heavily sunned spine. Scuff marks and general wear to cover. [475 pp.]. More
Anchor Books, New York, 1960. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Edgeworn mass market with foxing/dust stains to textblock edges. Darkened spine. White tape affixed to half title page covering a previous owner's rubber stamp. Interior text without markings. Ring stain front cover. [404 pages plus seven page list of then..... More
NYRB Classics, February 2022. Paper Back. A biography of a Jewish woman, a writer who hosted a literary and political salon in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, written by one of the twentieth century's most prominent intellectuals, Hannah Arendt. Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman was Hannah..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 1979. Hardcover. You people come into the market--the Greenmarket, in the open air under the down pouring sun--and you slit the tomatoes with your fingernails. With your thumbs, you excavate the cheese. You choose your stringbeans one at a time. You pulp the nectarines and..... More
Seven Stories Press, June 2008. Hardcover. With America ever under global scrutiny, Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions. He writes with conversational ease and emotional insight, drawing on contemporary politics, literature, film, and his knowledge of American history. Drawing on politics, literature, film..... More
Basic Books, November 2001. Hardcover. "Art of Mentoring" seriesIn the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to speak to that person who finds him or herself in a...... More
Grove Press, April 2016. Hardcover. Rob Spillman--the award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of the legendary Tin House magazine--has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. Born in Germany to two driven musicians, his childhood was spent among the West Berlin cognoscenti, in a city two hundred miles behind..... More
Harcourt, February 1980. Trade Paperback. A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American West Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing..... More
Heritage Press, January 1948. Hardcover. Spine is sunned but book is in good, cardboard slipcase splitting at the seems. More
Random House Trade, December 2006. Trade Paperback. In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in..... More
Vintage, August 2004. Trade Paperback. In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.'s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 1999. Hardcover. In this volume, eminent National Book Award-winning critic Roger Shattuck takes up the cudgel to affirm literature as a central field of study and personal reward. With incisive analysis, he explores the nature of intellectual craftsmanship in a society rampant with anti-intellectualism..... More
