Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Sir Frank Kermode has been writing peerless literary criticism for more than a half-century. "Pieces of My Mind "includes his own choice of his major essays since 1958, beginning with his extraordinary study of "Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev" and ending..... More
Anchor, 1998. Paper Back. News correspondent Leslie Cockburn has dined with the Cali Cartel, marched with the Khmer Rouge, hunted down the Black Turban in Afghanistan, pursued the Russian mafia to the Arctic Circle, shared pomegranate sauce with the Ayatollahs, and stopped a small Kurdish war, but she has never..... More
The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (US) in dustjacket with 3/4-inch triangular piece torn/chipped from bottom edge front panel. Not price clipped. Not price clipped. Price on flap: $3.95. Lime green cloth covered boards with green lettering decorative floral border. Faded green topstain to textblock. Clean end pages..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, September 1976. Cloth. Signed by Gardner on blank page after FFEP. 7th printing; early reprint of this US edition, first printed in same month, September 17 and reprinted five times before this printing. Fair to guess it was selling out quickly. This has always been my favorite..... More
Eyre & Spottiswoode, January 1966. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (UK) in dustjacket with mild tanning to spine & edges. Not price clipped. Original British price on bottom corner of flap: 45s net. Signed by Lehmann on title page. Dark grey cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Moss green..... More
Hogarth Press, 1985. Trade Paperback. Octavo (Five-inches x Eight-inches). 2nd printing of this trade paperback edition. Remainder mark top textblock edge. Else, sound, without internal markings. No underlining. No notes. More
Hogarth Press, January 1986. Paper Back. Octavo (Five-inches x Eight-inches) UK paperback edition. No internal markings. No underlining. No side-notes. Spine is sound, not creased, not crackd. (532 pp.). More
Modern Library, July 1984. Hardcover. Elizabeth Bowen's most famous novel, THE DEATH OF THE HEART is a piercing story of innocence betrayed. The heroine is Portia, the product of a blithe, itinerant childhood in second-rate European hotels. Her parents dead, she is stranded in the sophisticated and politely treacherous world..... More
Verso Books, December 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Not price clipped. Black paper covered boards with silver lettering spine. Slightly bruised base of spine. Some slight sunning textblock edges. Tght binding. Oppossing dark stains (about 1/16th inch diameter) rear free end page & pastedown at bottom..... More
Third World Press, February 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback. White supremacy and its troubling endurance in American life is debated in these personal essays by two veteran political activists. Arguing that white supremacy has been the dominant political system in the United States since its earliest days--and that it is..... More
Gollancz, 1979. Cloth. 3rd edition in dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original British price on Victor Gollancz sticker affixed lower flap corner. Navy cloth covered boards with bumped top corners. Bruised at top of spine & just to the right along first inch board edge. Top of textblock is dust stain-darkened..... More
Victor Gollancz, 1949. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (US) in price clipped dustjacket with darkened spine & creased back panel with tiny silverfish hole. Pine green cloth covered boards sharp corners bruised top edge & top spine. Slight lean to spine (gold lettering). Scattered light foxing to end pages & fore-edge..... More
Lightning Source Inc, May 1999. Trade Paperback. With war raging in Eastern Europe again, every other talking head on television is drawing parallels to the Nuremberg Trials. No one suggested war crimes trials after the fall of the Soviet Union for some reason, but now justice is in vogue again.Cultural..... More
Paragon House Publishers, January 1988. Paper Back. Clean interiors. Otherwise well worn with dog-eared corners, sticker residue, dust stains, foxing & darkening from exposure to sunlight textblock edges. Foxing to verso of cover pages front & rear. Elsewise, foxing to blank pages opposite both front and back. (502 pp.). More
Single Cell Press, November 2006. First Edition. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. (Five & 1/2-inch x Eight & 1/2-inch) Mild shelfwear. Signed by Danen Jobe on title page, first inside page. Sold at A Cappella Books in store event sometime in 2006, but I do not recall the exact date. This 64..... More
University of Washington Press, 1965. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in mildly edgeworn dust jacket. Pine green cloth covered boards with silver lettering spine edge. Nice map of Dublin end pages. Binding solid, tight at bottom and a bit pulled at top. Bottom spine edge is slightly bruised. No markings in..... More
Glenburn Publishing / Australian Print Group, 1991. Paper Back. In very good condition overall. Sound binding. Without markings. Darkened at edges. Pages 92 & 169 are creased. Facsimile edition of story originally serialized in The Australian Journal between 1870 & 1872. It was published in single volume format in 1874..... More
Mason/Charter, January 1975. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club edition in dustjacket worn at margins with steeple-shaped chip at base of spine. Jacket not clipped. Black paper covered boards worn at bottom edges. Foxing top textblock edge. There are 8 plates, double sided with black & white photo prints. Also eight..... More
Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company, December 1990. Pamphlet. Politics. Cultural Writing.A spectre is haunting our universities-- the spectre of a radical and militant nationally co-ordinated movement for student power. --Carl Davidson. This is the second book from the Sixties Series of Charles H. Kerr, Publishers of Anti-Establishment Literature Since 1886..... More
The Viking Press, September 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first (US) in price-clipped dustjacket. Heavily darkened/foxing on jacket verso. Worn at edges. Quarter bound: with brown lettering spine edge & grey paper covered boards with two parallel brown wavy lines stamped on front boards. Lines extend around, on to the cloth..... More
Rodale Press, January 1949. Cloth. Small quarto (Six & 3/4-inches x Nine & 1/2-inches) In heavily chipped/edgeworn dustjacket with damp staining. Grey cloth with damp stains. Tanned/darkened end pages. More
Indiana University Press, January 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Heavy sunning/discoloration to spine. Dust jacket is missing. Army green cloth faded at spine. Faintly foxed top edge. I have not seen a copy of this book with dustjacket, but I have read descriptions of the jacket so I must assume that..... More
Freedom Press, January 1967. Stapled Pamphlet. Stapled pamphlet 32 pages. Octavo (Five & 1/2-inches x Eight & 1/2-inches). Yellow from sun. More
Agit Press, January 2000. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo (Five-inches x Eight & 1/2-inches) 62 Page stapled pamphlet with cardstock cover. Clean, without markings. Very good overall. More
Quadrangle / The New York Times Book Co., January 1973. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (US) in foxing/darkened at margins heavily edgeworn with several tears. Not price clipped. Original price of $6.95 on flap. Red cloth with black lettering on spine edge. Top edge & fore-edge darkened/foxing. End pages with 'chronology'..... More
