DOUBLEDAY, DORAN AND CO., INC., January 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Nice book; jacket in tatters, but wrapped in Brodart. More

Vintage, February 2001. Trade Paperback. This is a beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book. --San Francisco Chronicle National Bestseller Pulitzer Prize Finalist A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior..... More

Penguin Books, March 2014. Trade Paperback. "Terrific. . .Rayya's stories blew mine away." - Elizabeth Gilbert "A classic, blood-stained love letter to bohemian NYC." - Craig Marks When she was seven, Rayya Elias and her family fled the political conflict in their native Syria, settling in Detroit. Bullied in school..... More

Belknap Press, May 1982. Hardcover. This long-awaited volume offers the general reader the heart of Emerson's journals, that extraordinary series of diaries and notebooks in which he poured out his thoughts for more than fifty years, beginning with the "luckless ragamuffin ideas" of his college days. Emerson as revealed in..... More

Hougton, Mifflin and Company / Riverside, 1904. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Maroon cloth covered boards.(This is volume VIII of the Concord Edition of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson). Worn at top and bottom of spine. Hinge cracking verso of third page of front stuff..... More

Chatto & Windus, 1930. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gold lettering. Sunned spine. Heavy foxing/brown spots textblock fore-edge & some of the margins at beginning & end of book. Errata slip laid in. My understanding is this is the quite scarce 'First Binding'..... More

Seven Stories Press, October 2021. Paper Back. Taking the form of random journal entries over seven years, Exteriors captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. Poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. More

Oxford University Press, December 1968. Trade Paperback. Studies the views of 5 prominent mid-19th century writers on the function and nature of literature and how they applied these views to their works. More

Polity, October 2014. Hardcover. "I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses." Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of "inward emigration". Under conditions..... More

State University of New York Press, October 1993. Paper Back. This book examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time..... 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

Knopf, November 2021. Hardcover. With unwavering humanity and light-footed humor, this intimate account of the interminable year of 2020 offers commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice, the U.S. presidential election, and more, all with a miraculous dose of groundedness in head-spinning times. From the award-winning book critic..... More

Hachette Books, June 2021. Hardcover. An inspiring memoir of one man's transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate--all by the age of twenty-seven. Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a nod..... More