Hutchinson, January 1986. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (UK) in black cloth bruised at rear bottom spine corner. Not price clipped. Original British price on flap. Gold lettering stamped spine edge. Clean, sound, no markings, no underlinings, etc. Bright without darkening. Clean, white textblock edges. Sound binding. (589 pp.). More
A Harvest/HBJ Books, March 1975. First Thus. Trade Paperback. More
University College Dublin Press, December 2008. Hardcover. This volume contains all of the extant letters written to each other by the renowned Joyce scholars, Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen, between 1954 and 1984. The letters have been annotated so that we can follow how their ideas are absorbed into their..... More
Picador, June 2003. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Picture Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised..... More
St. Martin's Press, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover...but have you ever woken up next to..... More
NYRB, April 2001. Trade Paperback. One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the..... More
Random House, February 1996. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
H.C. Peck & Theo Bliss, January 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. In marginally worn brown cloth with glit decorations & lettering. Gold edges. Non-authorial inscription in fountain pen on front free end page. Unfortunatel dark spots (burn marks) in a few splashes near gutter first frew pages. Pulled at top of..... More
David R. Godine, Publisher, March 2022. Paper Back. More
Random House Inc, January 2006. Trade Paperback. From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest-a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka. What are Kafka's fictions about? Are they..... More
Random House Trade, December 2006. Trade Paperback. In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in..... More
Grove Press, June 2022. Hardcover. A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for..... More
Random House (NY), May 2003. Hardcover. Calvin Trillin has never been a champion of the "continental cuisine" palaces he used to refer to as La Maison de la Casa House--nor of their successors, the trendy spots he calls "sleepy-time restaurants, where everything is served on a bed of something else."..... More
Warner Books, April 1994. Trade Paperback. In the 1950s, Denny Hanson was the golden boy, a clean-cut, Rhodes Scholar whose bright future and million-dollar smile made him the subject of a Life magazine feature. The bestselling author of Uncivil Liberties chronicles this life that once held limitless possibilities, but ended..... More
Pantheon Books, March 2003. Hardcover. In evocations of Italo Calvino's tumultuous teenage years--his life during Mussolini's rule, at the time of the liberation, and during the Cold War--readers learn the story of the author's generation as it confronted moral, civil, and artistic dilemmas. More
Scribner, February 1995. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. More
Vintage, February 1994. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The most famous true crime novel of all time chills the blood and exercises the intelligence (The New York Review of Books)--and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas..... More
Michigan State University Press, June 1973. Cloth. Green cloth with black lettering in good+ dust jacket with edgewear & rubbing plus one half-inch tear bottome edge front panel. Original price of $8.50 on front flap. Clean & solid without markings. More
Pantheon Books, July 1982. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Stated, 'First American Edition.' though 'a larger collection of letters and editorial text was first published by Oxford University Press in 1978.' Very mild shelf wear. Previous owner's name, location & a date inked verso front cover top left corner. Clean, sound..... More
Doubleday / Anchor, January 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Soiling & markings to cover. Taped & scarred spine toward base. Ink underling & side-notes. Speckled soiling textblock top edge. Typography by Edward Gorey. (387 pp.). More
Ungar Pub. Co., June 1987. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Light soiling. Previous owner's name in ink half title page. [205 page]. More
Shoemaker & Hoard, November 2005. Hardcover. Edmund Wilson, 20th century America's most direct and readable critic of literature and society, was a man of many loves. In his half century as a major force in American letters he had an outsize romantic career that reflected the complex depths of his..... More
Law Book Co of Australasia, October 1981. Hardcover. More
Harper, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving's inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in..... More
Harper, May 2018. Hardcover. "Magical prose stylist" Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays--heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise--on the meaning of fatherhood. For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon, then thirteen, to Paris Men's Fashion..... More
