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
Penguin Books, January 1950. Mass Market PaperBack. 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
Viz Media, November 2005. Oversized Hardcover. A generous collection of concept sketches, fully rendered character and background drawings, paintings and cell images! Meet the novel's principal characters and read interviews and comments with the production staff. First published by Tokuma Shoten Co., Ltd. in Japan. Very minor shelf wear on... 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
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
Vintage, July 2019. Paper Back. Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest. Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and... 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
Penguin Classics, January 2008. Leather. An early morning call to a dying millionaire throws private eye Philip Marlowe into West Hollywood's hidden world of blackmail, menace and muscle. Knowing he must protect this man's daughters Marlowe didn't realise he would become so involved. Book very good. Box opened. Wrap-around band... More
Fantagraphics Books, January 1994. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Haymarket Books, April 2018. Trade Paperback. "[The BreakBeat Poets is] one of the most diverse and important poetry anthologies of the last 25 years."--Latino Rebels Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing... More
Haymarket Books, April 2015. Trade Paperback. Hip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop generation. It has produced generations of artists who have revolutionized their genre(s) by applying the aesthetic innovations of the culture... 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
Pushkin Press, August 2019. Paper Back. A celebration of the greatest kind of shop in the world, by an award-winning cast of writers including Ali Smith, Michael Dirda, Elif Shafak and Daniel Kehlmann. A cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove - we love bookshops because they possess... 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
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
