Our Three Selves a Life of Radclyffe Hal
Hamish Hamilton Ltd, September 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Literary Non-Fiction
Selected Writings of JAMES A MICHENER -- 296
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
Literary Reflections: Michener on Michener, Hemingway, Capote, & Others
State House Press, November 1993. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. In bright, clean dustjacket. Not clipped. Light grey cloth with black lettering along spine. Tightly bound. interiors without markings. This appears to be the first trade edition of 'about 5,000 copies', so sayeth Ahearn's Author Price Guides -- Vol. III (Quill..... More
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2022. Paper Back. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a "deeply layered and insightful" (The Washington Post) testament to people who..... More
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2022. Paper Back. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a "deeply layered and insightful" (The Washington Post) testament to people who..... More
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2022. Paper Back. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a "deeply layered and insightful" (The Washington Post) testament to people who..... More
Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French
University of Chicago Press, February 1986. First Thus. Paper Back. "Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French is a brilliant and altogether convincing analysis of the way in which Western writers, from Homer to the twentieth century have . . . imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of..... More
Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
Northwestern University Press, January 2009. Trade Paperback. This book focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial compositions--verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematic--of the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. It also considers the artistic politics of these postwar avant-gardes and their works. The book's geographical span is primarily..... More
The Musil Diaries: Robert Musil, 1899-1942
Basic Books, 1999. Hardcover. The Diaries of Robert Musil are a secret look into the life and mind of a writer whose fiction embodies one of the twentieth century's daring leaps of consciousness. Ranked with Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce in the pantheon of European modernists, Musil attempted..... More
Joe Gould's Secret
Modern Library, January 1997. First Thus. Hardcover. A profile of the writer and Greenwich Village bohemian highlights his wealthy upbringing and Harvard education, his complicated lifestyle, and his fascination with oral history. More
Joe Gould's Secret, 1996 (Modern Library Series)
Modern Library, February 1996. Cloth. In very good+ dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Grey cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Lucian Bernhard end paper design. Small octavo. This appears to be a First Modern Library editions due to a complete number line: 2 4 6 8 9 7 5..... More
Up in the Old Hotel
Vintage, June 1993. Trade Paperback. Up in the Old Hotel had its beginnings in the nineteen-thirties, in the hopelessness of the early days of the Great Depression, when Joseph Mitchell, at that time a young newspaper reporter in New York City, gradually became aware that the people be respected the..... More
Max and the Americans
S. Greene Press, January 1974. First American. Cloth. First US edition in jacket with spotty black stains & similar marginal soiling. Otherwise well preserved dust jacket without tearing or chipping. NOT price clipped; original price on flap. Red cloth with silver lettering. Blue end pages. Clean interiors. Solid binding. More
Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom
Ecco, March 2022. Hardcover. A gripping memoir of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from her abusive family and an oppressive culture in Saudi Arabia captivated the world In early 2019, after three years of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed finally escaped her abusive family in Saudi Arabia--but..... More
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story (H-C Pb)
HarperOne, June 1993. Trade Paperback. The critically and popularly acclaimed coming of age/coming out story from the author of "Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir." "Witty as it is anguished and as full of understanding as of anger, this is Monette's best book."-- "Booklist" Already a classic, Monette's critically acclaimed coming..... More
Twenty-Nine Essays
Franklin Library, January 1982. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Previous owner's book plate affixed to front pastedown. More
Twenty-Nine Essays (Leather and cloth cover)
Franklin Library, January 1982. Leather. In shrinkwrap, included within is protective cardstock printed (on one side) with 'important subscriber message'. Despite the fact that the shrinkwrap is partially torn on one side, it remains unopened and the book is unread. In 'as new' condition. Brown leather with gold lettering &..... More
Brace for Impact: A Memoir
The Dial Press, May 2022. Hardcover. A powerful and redemptive story of how the dazzling world of roller derby helped one young woman transform her fear and self-doubt into gutsy, big-hearted, adventurous living "A universal story of healing and triumph, made all the more beautiful, wild, and free by Gabe's..... More
Serious Face: Essays
Random House, May 2022. Hardcover. From the discovery of the author's face in a century-old photograph to a triple-amputee hospice director working at the border of life and death, here are thirteen hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound essays from "one of the most intelligent, compassionate, and curious authors working today" (Elizabeth..... More
Serious Face: Essays
Random House, May 2022. Hardcover. From the discovery of the author's face in a century-old photograph to a triple-amputee hospice director working at the border of life and death, here are thirteen hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound essays from "one of the most intelligent, compassionate, and curious authors working today" (Elizabeth..... More
Gentrifier: A Memoir
Catapult, October 2021. Hardcover. Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new perspective to a Detroit that finds itself perpetually on the brink of..... More
How to Be a Woman
Harper Perennial, July 2012. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The book that launched a feminist revolution--the hilarious memoir/manifesto from Caitlin Moran, the UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one (Marie Claire). Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been..... More
Homecomings (Author and Artist Series)
Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd), November 1989. Hardcover. 2nd printing. More
New York Days
Little Brown and Company, November 1994. Trade Paperback. In the critically acclaimed "New York Days, " Willie Morris recalls his triumphant, exciting, and ultimately devastating years as the youngest ever editor-in-chief of "Harper's," America's oldest magazine, when he was at the center of the nation's stunning cosmos of writing, publishing..... More
North Toward Home
Yoknapatawpha Press, March 1982. Trade Paperback. In the 1940s at his home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi, Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner told ghost stories to the children in his family. Faulkner's niece, Dean Faulkner Wells, has recounted the haunting and heartbreaking story of "Judith," the chilling tale of "The..... More
