Harmony, February 1994. First American. Hardcover. First/first in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Complete number line. Clean, unmarked text. Red remainder dot top textblock edge. Red end pages. More
Indiana University Press, May 2021. Hardcover. Count your blessings, his mother told him, Think of everything good in your life. Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin has done it again. Building from his acclaimed first memoir, From Our House, which recounts the farming accident that cost his father both his hands..... More
Green Integer, October 2004. Paper Back. Winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Literature (with fellow Swedish writer Eyvind Johnson), Harry Martinson (1904-1978) was noted for his innovative use of language combined with his keen observation of nature. He also wrote three volumes of nature essays in the 1930s. Views..... More
Penguin Books Ltd, October 1969. Trade Paperback. 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
Vintage, January 1988. Paper Back. More
Doubleday & Company, January 1959. First American. Cloth. First American edition. Octavo. In moderately edgeworn dustjacket with sun darkened spine. Tanning to DJ verso. Front flap is clipped. Black cloth covered boards with gold & red lettering and red broken horizontal line device across front panel & spine. Previous owner's..... More
William Heinemann Ltd. & The Book Society, Ltd., October 1949. Book Club. Cloth. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 3/4'} In tattered & torn dustjacket. Heavily chipped with marginal darkening & dust stains. Tanning of verso. Front flap is clipped at bottom. Cover designed by A.E. Barlow. 'This edition issued..... More
Picador USA, October 1999. Trade Paperback. When it was first published in 1998, "At Home in the World "set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard's memoir broke a silence concerning her relationship--at age eighteen--with the famously reclusive author J.D. Salinger, then age fifty-three, who had..... More
Scribner Book Company, September 1996. Hardcover. "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse..... More
Harper Wave, August 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families. On a mid-August weekend, two families assemble..... More
Knopf, April 2022. Hardcover. "This quietly profound book belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild." --The New York Times The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American..... More
Knopf, June 2022. Hardcover. Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath's evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond..... More
Irish Academic Press, January 1981. Paper Back. Octavo. Soft cover with mild user wear. Previous owner's name inked first inside page. [123 pages]. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 1977. Trade Paperback. The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment..... 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
Associated Magazine Contributors, Inc., November 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Featuring 'Must Marriage Be for Life?,' a cover story by Margaret Mead and contributions by Herman Wouk, Nathaniel Benchley, M.F.K. Fisher, Irwin Shaw and Jean-Paul Sartre. More
Greenwood Publishing Group, August 2002. First Edition. Cloth. Working from the premise that the Puritan construction of America as a return to Eden endures into American literature of the 20th century, Medoro focuses on the rhetoric of cyclical regeneration, blood, and damnation that accompanies this construction. She argues that a...... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Verso, January 2010. Trade Paperback. A Nobel Peace Prize winner reflects on poverty, injustice, and the struggles of Mayan communities in Guatemala, offering "a fascinating and moving description of the culture of an entire people" (The Times) Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant..... More
New York Review of Books, March 2014. Trade Paperback. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE PEN ART OF THE ESSAY AWARD Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn's reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times..... More
Crown, May 1997. Hardcover. Celebrated columnist and social commentator Daphne Merkin takes on sexual spankings, shoplifting, adultery, and fantasies about Hitler in this "lush and provocative" collection of her most dating essays. More
Purdue University Press, June 1991. Hardcover. This authoritative study explores the scientific and mathematical cultural milieu that patterns much of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's narrative design. Although criticism of Borges's fiction and essays has long emphasized philosophical traditions, Merrell expands the context of this interrogation of traditions by..... 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
Houghton Mifflin, April 1996. Hardcover. This biography traces the evolution of Edmund Wilson, the priggish young scholar, whom e.e. cummings called the man with the iron necktie. The most prodigious man of letters of this century, Wilson's erudition, industry, subtlety, acerbity and analytical power made him stand alone among scholar-writer-journalists..... More
