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
Library of America, October 2009. First Thus. Hardcover. From early on, American literature has teemed with tales of horror, of hauntings, of terrifying obsessions and gruesome incursions, of the uncanny ways in which ordinary reality can be breached and subverted by the unknown and the irrational. As this pathbreaking two-volume..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1955. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Bright clean copy with only a miniscule bit of color loss on top front corner; else, unusually well preserved used copy. More
Everyman's Library, October 1999. Hardcover. Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to the cherished carols around the punch bowl. This garland of Christmas poems contains not only the..... More
University Of Chicago Press, February 1992. Trade Paperback. In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of "The Complete Greek Tragedies." Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2021. Trade Paperback. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2021. Trade Paperback. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story..... More
Everyman's Library, January 1996. Hardcover. Here are 200 irresistible love letters from over the centuries, love letters both historic and fictional, love letters by poets and by princes, love letters enchanting, tragic, comic, superbly selected, beautifully printed, conveniently portable, to have with you wherever and whenever you're in the mood..... More
N/A, January 0001. Trade Paperback. Foxing; cover wear. More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2018. Trade Paperback. The Fourth Edition of the most trusted and widely used anthology of world literature retains and expands the most popular works from the last edition, while refreshing the anthology with NEW selections and NEW translations of major works. As always, the..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 1993. Trade Paperback. "The literature of the classical world that has survived is a pitiful remnant of what once existed...." So begins Bernard Knox's preface to an anthology that introduces the modern reader to the enormous breadth and rich variety of that "pitiful remnant"..... More
Penguin Press, May 2021. Hardcover. A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman In the past fifty..... More
The Franklin Library, January 1982. Leather. Half Leather with raised bands, gold lettering and designs. Gilt edged print block and bound in silk bookmark. Still in shrink wrap, never opened. More
Agate B2, April 2018. Trade Paperback. As one of only nine women in a class of 500 at Harvard Law School when she enrolled in 1956 and one of only four female Supreme Court justices in the history of the United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is frequently viewed as a...... More
Notting Hill Editions, April 2021. Hardcover. This latest collection of walking literature from Notting Hill Editions celebrates the allure of the Continent. On foot the world comes our way. We get close to the Continent's alpine ranges, arterial rivers, expansive coastlines. Close to its ancient cities and mysterious thoroughfares; and..... More
Carcanet Press Ltd., June 2006. Trade Paperback. Christina Rossetti was in a sense the first poet of the Pre-Raphelites, her Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) having been - as if by accident - the writing from that group which first caught public attention. It contains many of her best..... More
Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2003. Trade Paperback. The publishing world has just received its bill of health, and the prognosis isn't pretty. Literary marauders are rising up from the hazardous material bins labeled Horror, Surrealism, and Science Fiction. Here the pen is not merely mightier than the sword; it..... More
Tre Tryckare, (1954). Hardcover. Printed boards with worn jacket in somewhat worn printed slipcase. More
Del Rey Books, October 2002. Trade Paperback. When H. P. Lovecraft first introduced his macabre universe in the pages of Weird Tales magazine, the response was electrifying. Gifted writers--among them his closest peers--added sinister new elements to the fear-drenched landscape. Here are some of the most famous original stories from..... More
Raw Dog Screaming Press, March 2005. Trade Paperback. This anthology from the fringe examines our culture's obsession with taboos and the added temptation that forbidden pleasures bring. Warnings of danger and peril only heighten our desire for those things we have been told are bad, wrong and have been warned..... More
Random House Inc. Mass Market PaperBack. More
John Wiley & Sons, February 2009. Trade Paperback. Alan Moore's Watchmen is set in 1985 and chronicles the alternative history of the United States where the US edges dangerously closer to nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Within this world exists a group of crime busters, who don elaborate costumes..... More
McSweeney's, February 2008. Hardcover. On February 27, 2007, during an interview with Amy Goodman, General Wesley Clark described a 2002 Pentagon conversation in which he was told that America was planning to invade Iraq. From the same source, he learned of a classified memorandum listing six other countries the United..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, May 2015. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Brooklyn leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the largest borough in New York City, working closely with an eclectic team of trusted locals. Contributors include writers, fashion designers, comedians, shop owners, chefs, club owners, literary agents and barbers..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, December 2015. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Charleston leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the South Carolina city, working closely with a team of trusted locals. Contributors include author Pat Conroy, chef Sean Brock, mayor Joe Riley, novelist Josephine Humphreys, artist Becca Barnet, anthropologist Ade..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, May 2017. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Los Angeles leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the California city, working closely with a team of trusted locals. Contributors include writer Jedediah Jenkins, chef Nancy Silverton, punk musician Alice Bag, surf legend Dick Metz, casting executive Jennifer..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, November 2014. Trade Paperback. Wildsam Field Guides: New Orleans leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the one-of-a-kind Louisiana city, working closely with an eclectic team of trusted locals. Contributors include journalists, chefs, jazz musicians, shop owners, historic preservationists, fishermen, politicians and artisans, among others. Topics..... More
Wildsam Field Guides, November 2013. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: San Francisco leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the California city, working closely with a team of trusted locals. Contributors include writer Chris Colin, baker Chad Robertson, artist Zio Zeigler, novelist Julie Orringer, winemaker Andrew Mariani, and poet..... More
Franklin Center, Pa. : Franklin Library, January 1984. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Moire endpapers. Limited edition. More
Henry Holt & Company, April 1971. Trade Paperback. More
University of Washington Press, June 1961. Cloth. Blue cloth with brown lettering. Price clipped dust jacket. Clean & sound. More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. A final completed collection of poetic works by the late National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award-winning writer features a series of candid, alternately humorous and sobering ruminations on such topics as age, illness, and death. First/first in..... More
Arden, November 1981. Trade Paperback. The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Much Ado About Nothing provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes..... More
Liverpool University Press, March 1969. Stapled Soft Cover. This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern African writing. Since the publication of Things Fall Apart in 1958, Chinua Achebe has been credited with..... More
Twayne Publishers, January 1966. Hardcover. Maroon fabric covered boards stamped with gold lettering on spine & front panel. In mildly edgeworn dust jacket. Red end pages. Some underlining. More
Library of Congress, January 1981. Stapled Soft Cover. More
WW Norton & Co, November 1987. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in price clipped dust jacket. Complete number line. More
Back Bay Books, September 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Back Bay Books, September 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Tin House Books, September 2019. Paper Back. "When an author's unmitigated brilliance shows up on every page, it's tempting to skip a description and just say, Read this! Such is the case with this breathlessly powerful, deceptively breezy book of poetry." --Booklist, Starred Review In his much-anticipated follow-up to The..... More
The Dial Press, January 1954. Hardcover. Oblong octavo in torn/frayed dust jacket. More
Doubleday Books, May 2021. Hardcover. From celebrated national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps is a gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court. Brilliant and mesmerizing. Abrams follows in Dan Brown's footprint with this masterfully plotted thriller that unfolds like the..... More
Quill Tree Books, March 2021. Paper Back. From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright. Ever since..... More
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, November 2020. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" "You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have." So begins Emmanuel Acho..... More
Picador, January 2008. Trade Paperback. Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar(TM) Nominee James Ivory The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2021. Hardcover. The New York Times-bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works Irrealis moods are a category of verbal moods that..... More
Mariner Books, November 2020. Paper Back. A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. "An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write..... More
Grove Press, January 2021. Hardcover. Loosely related to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, Pussy, King of the Pirates is a grrrl pirate story that journeys from the most famous whorehouse in Alexandria though an unidentified, crumbling city that may or may not be sometime in the future, to Brighton..... More
Penguin Press, March 2021. Hardcover. From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy..... More
Penguin Press, March 2021. Hardcover. From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy..... More
Top Shelf Productions, May 2001. Trade Paperback. Top Shelf Productions is proud to represent the publications of the dynamic and extremely talented Israeli team, Actus Tragicus. Five outstanding cartoonists (Rutu Modan, Yirmi Pinkus, Mira Friedmann, Batia Kolton, & Itzik Rennert), who pool their talents annually to produce something simply amazing..... More
Pocket, May 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. 30th Pocket Books mass market printing. Clean, sound with mild wear to cover. More
Ballantine Books, June 1997. Trade Paperback. "IRRESISTIBLE!" --The Boston Globe Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for..... More
Harmony, November 1992. First American. Hardcover. Inscibed 'To Kathy' and SIGNED ON HALF-TITLE PAGE BY DOUGLAS ADAMS, along with a distinctive 'Don't Panic!' ink stamp. More
Del Rey Books, October 1993. Trade Paperback. It's very easy to get a little disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space-time, the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet..... More
Del Rey, April 2002. Trade Paperback. In one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams's beloved Hitchhiker series. Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Nominated as..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2021. Hardcover. Kim Addonizio's sharp and irreverent eighth volume, Now We're Getting Somewhere, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit--drinking at home, alone in your underwear, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet's characteristic precision..... More
Fourth Estate, February 2021. Hardcover. An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of twenty established and emerging black British..... More
Anchor, March 2014. Trade Paperback. From the award-winning, bestselling author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun--the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions of race, belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the..... More
Scribner, February 2021. Paper Back. An "urgent and significant book [that] speaks to our times" (The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a...... More
Scribner, February 2021. Paper Back. An "urgent and significant book [that] speaks to our times" (The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a...... More
New Directions, April 2020. Paper Back. Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto "by the young..... More
Mariner Books, October 2018. Paper Back. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice." --Tommy Orange, New York Times Book Review "An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny." --George Saunders "Dark and captivating and essential . .... More
Overlook Hardcover, May 2002. First Edition. Cloth. The illustrations in this volume include rarely seen drawings from Kafka's workbooks, images of the Prague environment that inspired his nightmarish works, photos of Kafka with friends and colleagues, and reproductions of letters, manuscripts, and first edition book jackets. 12mo. (5 inches x...... More
Privately Printed, January 1959. Cloth. Clean, solid, nearly new two volume set in good slip case. More
University of Chicago Press, February 1969. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Classics, December 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. The only surviving trilogy from ancient times - a story of murder, madness and justice Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts..... More
A Ballantine Book/ Houghton Mifflin Company/Dolphin Editions, April 1966. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Two mass market paperbacks. Rose colored stain top & bottom & fore-edge, with dust stains. Sound. Some slight darkening of spines. Clean & unmarked internally. In cardboard, pictorial paper covered slipcase with some discoloration & dust..... More
Dalkey Archive Press, January 2012. First American. Hardcover. A nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan. The mother's death-defying act causes constant anxiety for her two daughters, who voice their fears through a grisly communal fairy tale about a child being cooked..... More
Lyons Press, September 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. How to Disappear is the authoritative and comprehensive guide for people who seek to protect their privacy as well as for anyone who's ever entertained the fantasy of disappearing--whether actually dropping out of sight or by eliminating the traceable evidence of their existence..... More
Penguin Life, March 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of I'm Judging You, a hilarious and transformational book about how to tackle fear--that everlasting hater--and audaciously step into lives, careers, and legacies that go beyond even our wildest dreams Luvvie..... More
Little Brown and Company, September 2020. Hardcover. This "beautiful novel . . . has echoes of The Great Gatsby": an immigrant father and his son search for belonging--in post-Trump America, and with each other (Dwight Garner, New York Times). One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the..... More
Ballantine Books, August 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this refreshing and inspiring memoir, Lauren Akins, the wife of country music star Thomas Rhett, shows what it's really like to be "the perfect couple" fans imagine, and reveals what it actually takes to live in love..... More
Back Bay Books, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize theperils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay feesin order to attend..... More
Fantagraphics Books, February 2003. Stapled Soft Cover. by Al Columbia & Ethan Persoff Al Columbia teams up with Ethan Persoff to collaborate on a tale about a man with an inescapable malaise. Persoff's flat drawing style captures perfectly the empty world of Audrey, a mostly incompetent member of a design..... More
Ecco Press, October 2020. Hardcover. A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction) A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library..... More
Algonquin Books, March 2021. Hardcover. "Lyrical, moving, and revealing." --Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring A transfixing and beautifully rendered novel about a refugee's escape from civil war--and the healing power of community. A young woman sits in her apartment, watching the small daily dramas of..... More
FW Dodge Architectural Record, January 1947. Hardcover. Quarto in much chipped, marginally worn, stained/soiled jacket. Pictorial boards appear bright despite considerable wear & some tanning to edges. Sound binding. Clean interiors. More
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, December 1995. Trade Paperback. In contrast to recent attempts to distinguish postmodernism from poststructuralism, "Death in the FUNhouse" finds deep complicity between the two discourses. This book looks comprehensively at the middle and late texts of John Barth to demonstrate the complexity of the..... More
Dc Comics, January 0001. Trade Paperback. Written by Alan Moore; Art by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben Created out of the Swamp by a freak accident, Swamp Thing is an elemental creature who uses the forces of nature and wisdom of the plant kingdom to fight the polluted world's self-destruction..... More
Scribner, February 1982. Trade Paperback. More
Simon & Schuster, December 1995. Trade Paperback. "Cry, the Beloved Country" is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding..... More
Pocket Books, January 1966. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Slight fraying of the front cover. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2019. Hardcover. A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati's The Catholic School, the winner of Italy's most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men--former students..... More
Picador, December 2020. Trade Paperback. A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati's The Catholic School, the winner of Italy's most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men--former students at Rome's..... More
Picador, December 2020. Trade Paperback. A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati's The Catholic School, the winner of Italy's most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men--former students at Rome's..... More
Modern Library, January 2001. Trade Paperback. Introduction by Susan Cheever Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Katherine Fullerton Gerould, and Madeleine B. Stern Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read It is no surprise that Little Women, the adored classic of four devoted sisters, was..... More
Little, Brown and Company, September 2017. Book Club. Hardcover. In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky..... More
Back Bay Books, January 2019. Trade Paperback. In this stunning bestseller praised as "our era's Handmaid's Tale," a fierce new power has emerged--and only women have it (Washington Post). In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a...... More
Harper Perennial, February 2021. Paper Back. There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it." --Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women "Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart..... More
Scribner, January 1982. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Ex-library copy with tape on boards and markings on title page. More
Victor Gollancz Ltd, January 1986. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original British price on flap. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Signed by Brian Aldiss on front free end page. Sound binding: glue is loose between textblock & cloth..... More
Dalkey Archive Pr, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, goes to Italy for the summer, and there his real education begins. His teachers are two quite different men: Bruno Rontini, the saintly bookseller, who teaches him about things spiritual; and Uncle Eustace, who introduces him to..... More
Random House Inc, July 2001. Trade Paperback. In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force-the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's-Aleksander Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking. A love affair is experienced in the blink of an..... More
David R Godine, October 2019. Paper Back. The Palimpsests, originally written in Spanish by Polish newcomer Aleksandra Lun, is a satirical novel about immigration, senses of cultural belonging, and ownership of language: complicated and simple, adopted and native. The book opens with the protagonist, Przesnicki, an Eastern-European immigrant writer, languishing..... More
Picador, March 2017. Trade Paperback. **Vulture's The Best Books of 2016** **Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016** **featured in NPR's Guide to 2016's Great Reads** The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most..... More
Smiling Hippo Press, March 2016. Trade Paperback. Victor Caro is a counterterrorism officer with the CYA, caught in a world where job security trumps national security. On assignment in West Africa in a post-9/11 world, he is tasked with hunting down the terrorist Omar al-Suqqit, who is looking to launch..... More
Harper Perennial, September 2002. Trade Paperback. What is the next trend -- the next "killer app"? This question is very much on the mind of Ursula Van Urden, a burned-out art student who, after her supermodel sister Ivy's widely publicized suicide attempt, has found work as a trendspotter for Tomorrow..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, August 1998. Trade Paperback. Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone..... More
