Modern Library, January 1952. Cloth. Light shelf wear with some minor chipping at the ends of the spine. Mylar wrapped to preserve. Ex-libris plate on the front pastedown endpaper. Small stamp on the front free endpaper. More
Fantasia, 1976. Soft Cover. Quarto No text on spine. More
Associated Magazine Contributors, Inc., November 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Featuring 'Must Marriage Be for Life?,' a cover story by Margaret Mead and contributions by Herman Wouk, Nathaniel Benchley, M.F.K. Fisher, Irwin Shaw and Jean-Paul Sartre. More
University of Texas Press, November 2019. Hardcover. The author of more than twenty books and a revered contributor to numerous national publications, Charles Bowden (1945-2014) used his keen storyteller's eye to reveal both the dark underbelly and the glorious determination of humanity, particularly in the borderlands between the United States..... More
University of Texas Press, November 2019. Hardcover. The author of more than twenty books and a revered contributor to numerous national publications, Charles Bowden (1945-2014) used his keen storyteller's eye to reveal both the dark underbelly and the glorious determination of humanity, particularly in the borderlands between the United States..... More
Harvard University Press, September 2002. Trade Paperback. If ever there was a polyglot place on the globe (other than the Tower of Babel), America between 1750 and 1850 was it. Here three continents--North America, Africa, and Europe--met and spoke not as one, but in Amerindian and African languages, in German..... More
Theatre Communications Group, May 2009. Paper Back. In celebration of American Theatre's twenty-fifth anniversary, the editors of the nation's leading theater magazine have chosen their best essays and interviews to provide an intimate look at the people, plays, and events that have shaped the American theater over the past quarter-century..... More
Penguin Books Ltd, October 1969. Trade Paperback. More
Appletree Press, April 2001. Hardcover. The many forms and traditions of Celtic poetry are highlighted in this beautifully illustrated volume, from boisterous clan recitations to monastic verses. These poems have been translated from all of the Celtic languages of the British Isles and Brittany and span the entire Celtic tradition..... More
Penguin Books, December 2005. Trade Paperback. In this wide-ranging anthology, Beat scholar Ann Charters brings together more than seventy-five essays, reviews, memoirs, poems, and sketches that evoke the credos and the controversies surrounding the Beat generation writers of the 1950s. Charters includes discussions of all the major Beat figures-Jack Kerouac..... More
Notting Hill Editions, April 2019. Hardcover. "Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness."--Søren Kierkegaard Duncan Minshull has always walked and in the last twenty years has made use of it by writing..... More
Mariner Books, October 2019. Paper Back. A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit. "Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can..... More
Mariner Books, October 2018. Paper Back. Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year's Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. "I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed," writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to..... More
Mariner Books, October 2019. Paper Back. #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. "As soon as you complete a description of what a good story must be..... More
Mariner Books, October 2019. Paper Back. #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. "As soon as you complete a description of what a good story must be..... More
Dalkey Archive Press, December 2018. Paper Back. Now in its tenth year, Best European Fiction continues to be an essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. This year's anthology brings together some of the most exciting prose writing in Europe today, by writers such as..... More
Puffin, September 2006. Trade Paperback. New in paperback for the very first time comes the "New York Times" bestselling "Little Lit" series! Choice comic stories culled from the three bestselling comic collections edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly: "Little Lit: Once Upon a Time, Little Lit: Strange Stories for..... More
Fantagraphics Books, January 1994. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Fantagraphics, June 2009. Hardcover. In 1907, at the tender age of 22, Nell Brinkley came to New York to draw for the Hearst syndicate. Within a year, she had become a household name. Flo Ziegfeld dressed his dancers as "Brinkley Girls," in the Ziegfeld Follies. Three popular songs were written..... More
Beacon Press, December 2017. Paper Back. A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Ocean..... More
Bullets into Bells is an important collection of voices. It pairs poetry from poets like Rita Dove, Robert Hass, Yosef Komunyakaa, and plenty more with your everyday citizens' response to gun violence. It will move you.
Cambridge University Press, February 2013. Trade Paperback. This book provides thirteen introductory essays on every aspect of the work of Samuel Beckett, paying particular attention to his most famous plays (e.g. Waiting for Godot and Endgame) and his prose fictions (e.g. the "trilogy" and Murphy). Further essays tackle his radio..... More
Back Bay Books, July 2013. Trade Paperback. A big novel about a small town... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the..... More
Seven Stories Press, October 2019. Paper Back. In the midst of Trump's attacks on the media, comes this look at the rigorous, independent reporting of the year's most underreported news stories. While the country's president displays a brazen disregard for the First Amendment and routinely demonizes the press as "the..... More
orion (an imprint of the orion publishing group ltd ) (may 21, 2015), January 1605. Trade Paperback. Very minor shelf wear and an inch tear on back cover along the spine. More
Delta, October 1993. Trade Paperback. Shelby Foote's monumental historical trilogy, "The Civil War: A Narrative," is our window into the day-by-day unfolding of our nation's defining event. Now Foote reveals the deeper human truth behind the battles and speeches through the fiction he has chosen for this vivid, moving collection..... More
