Penguin Books, May 2016. Trade Paperback. **Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in President Obama's 2016 Summer Reading List "Without a doubt, the finest surf book I've ever read . . . " --The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession..... More
The McBride Company, January 1953. First Edition. Cloth. 364 copies of Norman Dougls issued, of which 350 were for sale. This is #279. In mildly edgeworn, price clipped dustjacket, heavily darkened at spine, margins & verso. Red-orange cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Scattered splotches of discoloration to..... More
Harvest Books, January 1988. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name. More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1977. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name. More
Simon & Schuster, March 2022. Paper Back. This "fascinating" (Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Outliers) examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs--rivaling scientific inventions--and engineering enhancements to the human heart and mind. Literature is..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 1998. Trade Paperback. In the late 1940s, Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, friends since their teenage years in Greenville, Mississippi, began a correspondence that would last until Percy's death in 1990. Walker Percy, the highly regarded author of The Moviegoer, wrote six novels, two..... More
Flatiron Books, May 2022. Paper Back. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NBCC John Leonard Prize Finalist "This is a book people will be talking about forever." --Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed "Ford's wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is..... More
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, June 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NBCC John Leonard Prize Finalist "This is a book people will be talking about forever." --Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed "Ford's wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the..... More
Penguin Books, October 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Ecco, May 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental love How is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard..... More
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Custom House, October 2021. Paper Back. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE from director Ridley Scott, starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver The sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty, now fully updated with a new afterword On the morning of March 27, 1995..... More
Harvest Books, September 1971. Trade Paperback. The author's experiences as private secretary to a brilliant young Maharajah. Forster creates a complex portrait of a true ruler. Photographs. Cover curled. More
Counterpoint, April 2022. Paper Back. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A Good Morning America Recommended Book - A LitReactor Best Book of the Year - A BuzzFeed Most Anticipated Book of the Year - A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year - A Rumpus..... More
Gramercy Books, August 1995. Oversized Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Textured boards with gold gilt lettering along the spine. More
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, April 2018. Hardcover. "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. That--and no more, and it is every-thing." So..... More
University Alabama Press, April 2004. Trade Paperback. This study offers an overview of avant-garde American poetry of the latter 20th century - a flourishing movement in American letters. The four experiments in literary criticism vary in style and viewpoint. Taken together, they reassess the fundamental relationship between poetry and criticism..... More
University of Wisconsin Press, May 1991. Paper Back. Review copy. Review slip laid in. Essays on novelist, Hilda Doolittle. Mild shelf wear. 489 pages. More
Cambridge at the University Press, 1957. Cloth. In edgeworn dustjacket with tanned verso. Front flap is clipped. This appears to be a first edition, but I am not certain. The clipped dustjacket makes me think it might be a 2nd printing, because I understand these were printed with the words..... More
Crown, May 2022. Hardcover. In this "dazzling" (John Irving) memoir, acclaimed New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend reflects on the pressures of middle age, exploring his relationship with his dying father as he raises two children of his own. "How often does a memoir build to a stomach-churning, I-can't-breathe climax..... More
Little Brown and Company, December 1996. Hardcover. The text block is stained. More
Little Brown and Company, December 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear / edge creasing on the jacket. More
Random House, March 1988. Hardcover. More
Picador. Trade Paperback. Light creasing and shelf wear on the cover. Light toning to the edges of the print block and the margins. More
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1970. First Edition. Cloth. In edgeworn dust jacket with mild darkening at margins. NOT price clipped. Original price of $6.95 on flap. Orange boards with gold lettering. Green topstain beginning to fade. Slight lean to spine. Yet sound binding. Clean interiors. No markings. More
The Book Society in association with Jonathan Cape, 1945. Book Club. Cloth. Issued by the Book Society -- ' Britain's first celebrity book club' or so saith the Book Society internet site. Octavo. In mildly edgeworn dustjacket with darkening/foxing. Front flap is clipped. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering..... More
