Two Dollar Radio, November 2017. Trade Paperback. *2018 12 best books to give this holiday season --TODAY Show*Best Books of 2018 --Rolling StoneA Best Book of 2017 --NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The..... More

Knopf, May 2021. Hardcover. From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father. Essential. --Booklist Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda..... More

Knopf, May 2021. Hardcover. From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father. Essential. --Booklist Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda..... 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

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

Garland, January 1989. Cloth. Blue cloth without dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Adamczyk on title page. More

Viking, January 1987. First American. Hardcover. First/first (U.S.) in very good dustjacket. Quarter bound: navy blue cloth spine with silver lettering & grey paper covered boards with sunned edges. Foxing to textblock edges. Unmarked text. Tight binding. Review copy: with (4' x 5&1/2') Viking Review Copy slip laid in. More

Black Sparrow Press, July 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Multimedia culture critic, novelist, poet, editor of the radical literary journal Exquisite Corpse, Andrei Codrescu proves also a candid, witty, iconoclastic and exuberant commentator on his own colorful life. The self-invented Codrescu was born Andrei Perlmutter in the medieval town of..... More

Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2009. Trade Paperback. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable..... More

Beacon Press, January 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for--and winning--exoneration. In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of..... More

Harvest Books, November 1990. Trade Paperback. A reconnaissance pilot for France during World War II, Antoine de Saint-Exupery spent many dangerous days in the air above enemy occupied territory. Wartime Writings recounts some of his aviation exploits. More

Solum Forlag, January 1987. Hardcover. No jacket. Some light redge and corner wear on the cloth boards. More

Algonquin Books, June 2021. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE SIGURD F. OLSON NATURE WRITING AWARD "Blending family memoir and environmental history, Kendra Atleework conveys a fundamental truth: the places in which we live, live on--sometimes painfully--in us. This is a powerful, beautiful, and urgently important book." --Julie Schumacher, author of..... More

Doubleday Anchor, January 1953. Paper Back. Heaviily tanned spine. Worn edges. Small tears. (498 plus five pages of Anchor & Dolphin titles available.). More

St. Martin's Press, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover...but have you ever woken up next to..... More

Sun & Moon Press, September 1992. Hardcover. In this astonishingly acrobatic work, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature--or art--through essays on Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Paul Celan, Laura Riding, Knut Hamsun, John Ashbury, and other seminal figures of our century. 2nd printing in very good jacket. Green cloth..... More

Three Rooms Press, May 2021. Paper Back. "Vivid and relatable. The writing is like Vanessa herself; funny, charming and brave." --Mindy Kaling Through a series of extraordinary, incisive, often-humorous essays, Emmy Award-winning actor Vanessa Baden Kelly examines what the idea of "home" means to a Black millennial woman. How important..... More

Random House, July 2021. Hardcover. "Both timeless and timely, this is a book of wisdom and wonder" (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March), a deeply personal exploration of what can sustain us through our darkest moments. "What has fascinated and sustained me over these last few years has been..... More

Random House (NY), April 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Nicholson Baker's novels, The Mezzanine and Room Temperature, have been highly praised for their sparkling originality, deadpan humor, and eccentric style. Now, with U and I, Baker has written the most idiosyncratic and deftly illuminating essay on literary influence in recent memory..... More

Immortal Classics, January 1929. Hardcover. Decorative black cloth in tattered jacket. More

Picador, August 2021. Paper Back. A haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of race and history give Ball's entrancing stories a Faulknerian resonance..... More

Knopf, May 2021. Hardcover. "Chasing the Thrill lives where all the best stories reside, on that thin edge between amazing and impossible. --Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run I devoured this book in one sitting."--Susan Casey, author of Voices in the Ocean A full-throttle, first-person account of the treasure..... More

Counterpoint, September 1998. Trade Paperback. More

Hill and Wang, 1987. Trade Paperback. Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story Sarrasine. More

Yale University Press, February 2020. Hardcover. "Elegant and formally ingenious."--Geoff Wisner, Wall Street Journal In a time of social distancing and isolation, a meditation on the beauty of solitude from renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his..... More

Paradigm Press, January 1991. Stapled Magazine. More

Harper Perennial, August 2005. Trade Paperback. "[Beauvoir's] graciously written memoirs carry distinct appeal in recording the emotional and intellectual birth pangs of a fascinating woman." --Time A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an..... More

PublicAffairs, February 2021. Hardcover. The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war. Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared..... More

Dodd, Mead & Company, January 1962. Cloth. In clipped dustjacket with rubbing and darkening to spine & margins. Rust color cloth covered boards with black lettering & silver decorative swirls. Tanning to end pages. Darkened textblock edges. Sound binding. Excerpts from eleven different Beerbohm published titles, including: Mainly on the..... More

David R Godine, October 2019. Paper Back. This memoir offers an American woman's uniquely privileged view into the pastoral Scotland of today. By turns funny, heartwarming, and occasionally sad, it is the author's account of her marriage to a Scottish landowner and of the years they spent together at "The..... More

Studies in Romanticism, Spring 1971. Pamphlet. Stapled pamphlet. Volume 10, Number 2 in Studies in Romanticism series. More

Belknap Press, December 1999. Hardcover. To great writers, Walter Benjamin once wrote, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labour their entire lives. Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is..... More

Dey Street Books, June 2021. Hardcover. The #1 New York Times Bestseller One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980's Liverpool..... 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

Notting Hill Editions, June 2021. Hardcover. A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped her life as an amputee. At first sight of Frida Kahlo's painting The Two Fridas, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist. An amputee..... More

Doubleday Anchor, 1957. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. The essays in this collection were mostly first published by Harcourt, Brace & Company in Blackmur's Language as Gesture (1952). Four of them were published in magazines: 'Poetry', 'Thought' and 'Kenyon Review'. This collection was first published in this mass market paperback..... More

Penguin USA, September 1999. First American. Hardcover. This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non-fiction prose. Borges' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes, a vortex for seemingly the entire universe: Dante and..... More

The Viking Press, June 1966. Reprint. Cloth. In edgeworn, rubbed, stained, price-clipped dustjacket Red star rubber stamped on jacket flap & front pastedown. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Clean internal text. Foxing/dust stains textblock edges. (762 pages). More

Vintage, May 1998. Trade Paperback. As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, achieving original and uncliched articulation, being a good host, recognizing love, and..... More

University of Texas Press, May 2020. Hardcover. When Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind an archive of unpublished manuscripts. Jericho marks the fifth installment in his venerable "Unnatural History of America" sextet. In it he invokes the cycles of destruction and rebirth that have defined the ancient biblical..... More

Celadon Books, June 2021. Paper Back. From bestselling author of She's Not There, New York Times opinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs. This is a book about dogs: the love we..... More

Methuen, January 1982. Paper Back. Tanning/darkening of margins. Previous owner's name inked verso of wrapper. (110 pages). More

Simon & Schuster, June 2021. Hardcover. From popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer John Paul Brammer comes a hilarious, heartwarming memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race kid in America's heartland to becoming the "Chicano Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation. "[Brammer] is both kind and piercingly funny..... More

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1988. Reprint. Trade Paperback. This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the Third Wave of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are..... More

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2021. Hardcover. A poetic and raw coming-of-age memoir about Blackness, masculinity, and addiction "Punch Me Up to the Gods obliterates what we thought were the limitations of not just the American memoir, but the possibilities of the American paragraph. I'm not sure a book has ever..... More

Persea, June 2020. Hardcover. In seventeen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body--in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. In spite of--indeed, in response to--physical constraints, Brown leads a peripatetic life..... More

Harpercollins, March 1996. Trade Paperback. "Vastly informative and vastly entertaining...A scholarly and fascinating book." --Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you..... More

Hutchinson, January 1986. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (UK) in black cloth bruised at rear bottom spine corner. Not price clipped. Original British price on flap. Gold lettering stamped spine edge. Clean, sound, no markings, no underlinings, etc. Bright without darkening. Clean, white textblock edges. Sound binding. (589 pp.). More

Grove Press, December 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. All The Young Men, a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a young single mother in Hot Springs, Arkansas, who finds herself driven to the forefront of the AIDS crisis, and becoming a pivotal..... More

Picador, March 2004. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling author of" Running with Scissors" comes "Dry" the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next. You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants..... More