Exile, 1994. Stapled Magazine. Eight & 1/2-inch x Eleven-inch; stapled Japan-U.S.A. cross-cultural zine. In very good+/fine condtion. Light toning and marginal sunning. Includes a stapled in erratum page. And three errata paragraphs literally cut & pasted to the page of issue (and gods know how many other copies). Great, small..... More
the improvisor, 1993. Stapled Magazine. Eight & 1/2-inches x Eleven inches; clean, sound, with mild edgewear & rubbing to cover. Contents include story on Sun Ra.(72 pages). More
Penguin, September 1997. Paper Back. No one remains untouched by the luscious Myra Breckinridge's quest for Hollywood fame. Her job teaching Empathy and Posture at the Academy of Drama and Modeling gives her the perfect opportunity to vamp, scheme, and seduce her way into the undiscovered lives and passions of..... More
Dalkey Archive Prrss, March 2001. Paper Back. -- Ruth and Leonard's young female boarder, S., disappears under circumstances that suggest suicide. As the couple pours over her diary, audio tapes, and movies, their obsession with the enigmatic young girl takes over their relationship. Three combines laconic dialogue with poetic impressionism..... More
PM Press, 2012. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Written from the maximum-security prison where he has lived for almost 30 years, this enlightening memoir chronicles the militant career of David Gilbert, a radical activist whose incarceration is due to his involvement in the 1981 Brinks robbery, an attempted expropriation that resulted..... More
Viking, February 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing The memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is..... More
Columbia University Press, 1967. Cloth. In price-clipped dustjacket. Half cloth: grey cloth with black lettering on spine & spine edge of front board & vertical red & grey patterned paper covered boards. Red topstained textblock faded. Mildly darkened dustjacket. Second printing. (259 pages). More
Princeton University Press, April 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Richard Cross assesses the French writer's impact on his Irish counterpart through a comparison of tone, theme, and technique in their major writings. Juxtaposing passages from their novels, he reveals through textual analysis certain structural and thematic patterns. Originally published in 1971..... More
Braziller, January 1958. First American. Hardcover. Five & 1/4-inch x Seven & 3/4-inch; Octavo; In edgeworn, heavily rubbed dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $2.95 on flap. Quarter bound: black cloth covered spine with blue lettering on spine & marbled turquoise paper covered boards. Darkened edges; tanned end pages..... More
University of Toronto Press, 1977, 1981, 1985. Paper Back. Profound and intriguing, Grettir's Saga is the last of the great Icelandic sagas. It tells of the life and death of Grettir, a great rebel, individualist, and romantic hero viewed unromantically. Grettir spends his childhood violently defying authority: as a youth..... More
E P Dutton, June 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition in dustjacket. Quarter bound: white cloth spine with gold lettering & orange paper covered boards. Sound/tight binding. More
Thames & Hudson, April 1986. Soft Cover. James Joyce remains a mysterious figure, and yet his books concern his own life: his friends, loves, and above all the city of Dublin. Professor Chester Anderson here examines Joyce as one of the greatest modern writers, but also explores his life, visiting..... More
Houghton Mifflin, May 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. A vivid account of the people and places that inspired so much of Spark's work--Edinburgh of the 1920s; her Jewish father; her Presbyterian, English mother; and of course the original Miss Jean Brodie. A short cracker of a book, full of love and..... More
Beacon Press, September 2014. Trade Paperback. In this sequel to Fugitive Days, Ayers charts his life after the Weather Underground, when he becomes the GOP's flaunted "domestic terrorist," a "public enemy." Labeled a domestic terrorist by the McCain campaign in 2008 and used by the radical right in an attempt..... More
Simon & Schuster, March 2013. Hardcover. This ground-breaking, thought-provoking exploration upends stereotypes and fallacies to reveal the true heart of the South today--a region still misunderstood by outsiders and even by its own society. There are those who say the South has disappeared. But in her groundbreaking, thought-provoking exploration of..... More
William Morrow & Co, May 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition in dustjacket. Quarter bound: blue cloth spine with gold lettering on spine & off white paper covered boards. Blue end pages. Clean & sound without markings. (255 pages). More
Little, Brown & Company, 1948. Cloth. 16th printing in slightly edgeworn dustjacket. Not price-clipped. Grey cloth covered boards with green lettering. A brilliant darkly comedic, absurdist portrait of Hollywood, The Loved One is Waugh at his most brilliant, most ruthless best. Sharp prose without a word wasted. (164 pages). More
The Grove Press, July 1974. Cloth. Ex-library in dustjacket. Dustjacket clean with very slight wear & not price clipped. Original price of $10 on flap. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Slight darkening to textblock edges with heavily marked over ex-library stamp top edge. Pocket removal scars..... More
Life Magazine Inc., December 1970. Stapled Magazine. Ten & 1/2-inches x Thirteen & 1/2-inches; stapled magazine in folio format; some mild foxing & toning; slight curling. (64 pages). More
LIFE Magazine; Inc., November 1970. Stapled Magazine. Ten & 1/2-inches x Thirteen & 3/4-inch; folio format stabled magazine; clean, sound; very good+/fine overall. (88 pages). More
LIFE Magazine; Inc., February 1962. Stapled Magazine. Magazine in folio format; Ten & 1/2-inch x Fourteen-inches; Some wear especially at margins; creasing & rubbing; mild toning. staples sound & binding firm despite a two-inch tear at top of fold. (118 pages, including cover). More
Southern Illinois University Press, April 1974. Reprint. Cloth. The titans and lotus eaters of the 1920s are captured in this extraordinary and very readable literary document.Harold Loeb s second novel recounts his experiences after the now-legendary 1925 Pamplona Fiesta (he is the original of Robert Cohn in Hemingway s "The..... More
Collins, January 1968. First Edition. Cloth. First U.K. edition in dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original British price 2 5s. net on flap bottom corner. Salmon colour cloth with gold lettering on spine. Foxing & yellowing on textblock top edge & fore-edge. End pages clean, without tanning. Interior pages clean, without..... More
Schocken, January 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. (Six-inch x Eight-inch) First/first U.S. paper covered pictorial boards. Stated, 'First American Edition' with complete number string. Slight toning to cover. Otherwise very good+ overall. (20 pages). More
Ye Galleon Press, 1994. Stapled Pamphlet. This is a facsimile edition of the 1760 printing originally done in Queen Street, Boston. Original is very rare and one of the very few booklets pre-Revolutionary War to describe the life of a black man. Like new. (14 pages). More
