Henry Holt & Company, September 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. This is the story of a young man's struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comic, Paul Auster's memoir is essentially an autobiographical essay about money - and what it means not to have it. From one odd job to..... More
Viking Adult, September 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. More
The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. More
The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. A warm, friendly inscription from Paul Hemphill on the front free endpaper. More
The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good all round. Mylar wrapped to preserve. More
Everthemore Books, December 2014. Trade Paperback. More
New York Review Books, April 2022. Hardcover. With original artworks throughout, an extraordinary fusion of memoir and artistic biography from the acclaimed artist and author of Self-Portrait. Dearest Gwen, I know this letter to you is an artifice. I know you are dead and that I'm alive and that no..... More
Picador, November 2005. Trade Paperback. Born in the 1920s to nomadic, bohemian parents, Paula Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage, then cared for by a poor yet cultivated minister in upstate New York. Her parents, however, soon resurface. Her handsome father is a hard-drinking screenwriter who is..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, April 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. An Amazon Best Book of 2015, A Kirkus Reviews' Best Book of 2015 "A brave book with beautiful sentences on every page."--New York Times "Piercing...a tour de force."--Los Angeles Times In 2000, while moving his household from Vermont to North Carolina, David..... More
Harvest/HBJ, August 1986. Trade Paperback. Written with a poet's sensibility and a diplomat's sense of history, these essays view a contemporary world poised between the upheaval of the 1960s and the uncertainties of the 1980s. Essays at once eloquent and slashing, urgent and erudite (Publishers Weekly). Translated by Helen Lane..... More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, November 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. In dustjacket with moderate damp staining across top, mostly on verso with red ink transfer from cloth covered spine. Burgandy cloth covered spine. Hibiscus red paper covered boards. Mild damp staining textblock top edge & top of front end pages. Review..... More
Seaver / Arbor House, January 1983. Paper Back. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [213 pages]. More
HarperOne, November 2021. Paper Back. NEW & NOTEWORTHY THE NEW YORK TIMES With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed..... More
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, January 1970. First Thus. Paper Back. Heavily sunned spine. Scuff marks and general wear to cover. [475 pp.]. More
St. Martin's Griffin, June 2021. Paper Back. From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman Honest, funny, smart, and illuminating." --Anna..... More
Back Bay Books, May 1997. Trade Paperback. Veteran journalist Pete Hamill has never covered just politics. Or just sports. Or just the entertainment business, the mob, foreign affairs, social issues, the art world, or New York City. He has in fact written about all these subjects, and many more, in..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1959. Reprint. Cloth. 3rd printing (US) in DJ with chipping & edgewear. Front flap is clipped. Navy blue cloth with white & red lettering. Previous owner's name inked FFEP & another old owner with their location inked and marked over top right corner. [363 pp.]. More
Little Brown & Co., January 1960. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto in dust jacket with tanned spine and large (three inch tear bottom of spine. Some bow to boards. Stated 'first printing'. More
Basic Books (AZ), February 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Adam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric.His new book, Darwin's Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1987. First American. Hardcover. Previous owner's name; a little bit of soiling and sunning; else, very good condition. More
Atria Books, April 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. "A beautifully wrought ode to life." --The Washington Post "Her new masterwork." --The New York Times Book Review New York Times Editors' Choice, Most Anticipated by Read With Jenna, BookPage, LitHub, The Millions From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I...... More
Hanuman Books, December 1990. Paper Back. More
Dial Press Trade Paperback, June 2019. Trade Paperback. The international sensation that illuminates the experiences women are supposed to hide--from addiction, anger, sexual assault, and infertility to joy, sensuality, and love. WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR - "Emilie Pine's voice is razor-sharp and raw; her..... More
Bloomsbury Publishing, June 2022. Hardcover. From the bestselling author of Women Rowing North and Reviving Ophelia-a memoir in essays reflecting on radiance, resilience, and the constantly changing nature of reality. In her luminous new memoir in essays, Mary Pipher-as she did in her New York Times bestseller Women Rowing North-taps..... More
Mariner Books, April 2022. Hardcover. Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought: "Quality" "The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment. --Robert M. Pirsig, 1962..... More
