Thames & Hudson, September 1991. Hardcover. Glossy patterened boards with a cloth spine. Illustrations and photographs throughout. Very lightly bumped corners. More

Duke University Press Books, September 1995. Trade Paperback. In the decade that followed 1972, the journal boundary 2 consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. Recognizing postmodernism as a dominant force in culture, particularly in the literary and narrative imagination, the..... More

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

Houghton Mifflin Company, June 1973. Trade Paperback. More

Hachette Books, August 2021. Hardcover. This moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years tells a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Guantánamo.At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for..... More

Houghton Mifflin, January 1971. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd edition. Originally published in 1962 by George Braziller. In edgeworn/chipped dustjacket with darkening/foxing at margins and DJ verso. Brick red cloth with gold lettering in black rectangular field on spine and front board. Tanning/foxing to end pages front and rear. Previous owner's name..... 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

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

Scribner, April 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST-- A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron's youngest..... More

Ballantine Books, March 2021. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes "a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more" (Associated Press). "The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende's most liberating book yet."--Elle "When I say that I...... 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

Picador, August 2021. Paper Back. Inventory is a remarkable memoir; a work of auto-archaeology, really, in which Darran Anderson disinters his own and his country's hard pasts, shaking life, love and loss out of the objects of his youth in Northern Ireland. --Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland: A Deep Time..... More

Picador, February 1995. Trade Paperback. Short, witty observations by a commentator for National Public Radio's program, All Things Considered, assesses the creeping inanity of American politics and culture and treats the birth of new nations, whales, food, and sundry other topics. Reprint. NYT. 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

St. Martin's Griffin, September 2021. Paper Back. Winner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Finalist for the 2021 New England Society Book Award Finalist for..... 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

Picador, September 2002. Trade Paperback. The true-life stories in this unique collection provide a window into the American mind and heart (The Daily News). One hundred and eighty voices - male and female, young and old, from all walks of life and all over the country - talk intimately to..... More

Running Press Adult, September 2021. Hardcover. When life's got you down and things aren't going your way, who better to turn to than Edgar Allan Poe? Discover how to say "nevermore" to your problems in this darkly comedic and refreshing self-help guide. Of all the writers anywhere, Poe might be..... More

NYRB Classics, October 2019. Paper Back. Previously uncollected nonfiction pieces by Hollywood's ultimate It Girl about everything from fashion to tango to Jim Morrison and Nicholas Cage. With Eve's Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books that followed, among them Slow Days, Fast Company and Sex..... More

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, February 1978. Cloth. Scarce. In worn, chipped, stained dustjacket: some brown stains/foxing back panel. 1/2 inch x 1/2 inch chip top edge front panel; half inch tear bottom edge of same panel & damp stain bottom of spine. There is no price on jacket flap, yet it..... 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, January 1967. Paper Back. 12mo. {4 & 1/4 x 7 & 1/4'} Darkened top textblock edge. Rubbing to cover. In red ink a date is written on first inside page. (208 pages.). More

Beacon Press, May 2021. Hardcover. James Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers. Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is Baldwin's deep..... More

Beacon Press, September 2021. Trade Paperback. An essential compendium of James Baldwin's most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us "to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country." Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh..... More

Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1974. First Edition. Cloth. First U.S. edition in dustjacket with slight edgewear & darkening also along edges. Not price clipped. Original price of $7.95 on jacket flap. Yellow cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Darkening board edges. Black textblock topstain looks clean and..... More

Graywolf Press, February 1998. Trade Paperback. "Lately I've been possessed of a singularly unhappy idea: The greatest influence on American fiction for the last twenty years may have been Richard Nixon." What happens to American fiction in a time when villains are deprived of their villainy; when our consumer culture..... 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

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

Semiotext(e), October 2021. Paper Back. A new collection of essays from Dodie Bellamy on disenfranchisement, vulgarity, American working-class life, aesthetic values, and profound embarrassment. So. Much. Information. When does one expand? Cut back? Stop researching? When is enough enough? Like Colette's aging courtesan Lea in the Chéri books, I straddle..... 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

Routledge, November 1992. Trade Paperback. The Rites of Assent examines the cultural strategies through which "America" served as a vehicle simultaneously for diversity and cohesion, fusion and fragmentation. Taking an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach, The Rites of Assent traces the meanings and purposes of "America" back to the colonial typology of..... 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

Riverhead Books, August 2021. Paper Back. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING "A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it's possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . .... 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

Seabury Press, January 1976. Hardcover. Modest cover wear and aging; faint pencil notes and marks scattered throughout. 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

Picador USA, January 2006. Turtleback Binding. 'What a marvellous book this is . . . de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own delicious commentary. The result is an intoxicating as it is wise..... More

Prometheus, April 2006. Trade Paperback. In 1787, Benjamin Rush cautioned that public punishments were dangerous to the social and legal authority of the new nation. For Rush, irrepressible human sentiments all but guaranteed that public punishments would turn spectators against the institutions responsible for the punishments. Although public executions of..... 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

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, January 1993. First Edition. Cloth. Bradbury argues that almost a century since the emergence of Modernism, it is now possible to see the entire period in perspective. It is clear that the first 50 years - from Henry James, Wilde and Stevenson, through James Joyce..... More

University Alabama Press, April 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. The Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author of All Over but the Shoutin' now takes a look beyond the headlines for extraordinary tales of ordinary people and their life struggles. Black cloth spine with silver lettering. Full number line. Mylar wrapped... More

Bloomsbury Caravel, September 2021. Paper Back. The first book about a generation of women writers who challenged the world. Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it's Oprah's Book Club worthy.--Vice In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a...... More

Indiana University Press / Midland, January 1965. Paper Back. Mild shelf wear. Creased spine, but solid. Previous owner's name stamped verso front cover, top textblock edge, page 52 and last page of index and bottom. Tanning to margins of back cover, 296 pages. More

Grove Press, July 2020. Trade Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. In 1961..... More

G.P. Putnam's Sons, July 2021. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of Adulting comes a story about how to make something when you're capable of nothing. Kelly Williams Brown had 700 Bad Days. Her marriage collapsed, she broke three limbs in separate and unrelated incidents, her father was..... More