New York: Routledge, 1993. Trade Paperback.
Rear cover corner creased.
viii, 424 pp. 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.....
New York: Avenel Books, 1991. Hard Cover.
A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
xv, 573 pp. Three books in one volume: Anne of the Island; Chronicles of Avonlea; Further Chronicles of Avonlea. ABOUT ANNE OF THE ISLAND: New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags.....
New York: Harpercollins, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped and creased. Ink name on front free endpaper.
369 pp. The next installment in a highly acclaimed saga by an author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has called "one of the greatest writers of our time." In the.....
New York: Random House, 2009. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
314 pp. Two sisters leave China and arrive at Angel's Island (the Ellis Island of the West)--where they are detained, interrogated, and humiliated for months--they feel the harsh reality of leaving home.....
London: Thames and Hudson, 1997. Reprint. Soft Cover.
1997 reprint of revised edition. A fine copy.
143 pp. Includes 137 illustrations. Narrates the life of the great novelist, showing her as a product of the upper-middle-class society of late-eighteenth-century England and noting her environment's impact on her work.
Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Bottom edge of spine chewed, page ridges lightly foxed.
259 pp. It was a romantic, story-rich time in America - full of drama (from the Stock Market Crash to The War of the Worlds), an assorted.....
New York: Viking, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
ix, 339 pp. 8vo. A novel by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. "A detailed look at the ordinary life of Larry Weller between.....
New York: Riverhead Books, 2020. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
303 pp. Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. Small Hard Cover.
Reprint. No jacket. Rear joint starting, bookplate and ink name on front endpapers.
276 pp. "Proof of the soundness of Mr. Lubbock's approach to a craft which in every age produces experimenters and innovators is the continuing popularity of this book since its.....
New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1938. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. No jacket. Bookplate, ink gift note and address label on front endpapers; front hinge starting, rear gutter soiled.
xvi, 1323 pp. With a preface by Christopher Morley. CONTENTS: Study in Scarlet; The Sign of Four; Adventures of Sherlock.....
New York: Doubleday, 1997. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. An exceptional copy.
In this intimate anthology of letters, poems, stories, and other personal and literary writing by Louisa May Alcott, an often surprising portrait emerges of this pioneering writer. The author and her world are brought even more vividly.....
New York: Oxford, 2009. Reissue. Trade Paperback.
Faint edge wear.
Longus's romance tells the story of two teenagers, Daphnis and Chloe, who love each other but do not know how to make love. Around their predicament Longus weaves a fantasy which entertains and instructs, but never errs in taste. The.....
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2011. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Corner creased.
492 pp. A historical novel by the author of Cloud Atlas, which inspired the film starring Tom Hanks. Longlisted for the 2010 Booker Prize. "The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the Japanese Empire's.....
New York: Penguin Books, 1987. 7th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Seventh printing. Edges rubbed, small surface tear on front cover.
495 pp. D. H. Lawrence's 1915 novel "The Rainbow" is the story of three generations of the Brangwens family. While tame by today's standards, "The Rainbow", for its frank treatment of.....
London: Arcturus, 2018. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
268 pp. “I will not serve,” vows Dedalus, “that in which I no longer believe…and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can.” Likening himself to God, Dedalus.....
New York: Riverhead Books, 2022. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine head bumped.
255 pp. One of the world's most prominent physicists and fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. His bestselling books have introduced millions of readers and listeners to the wonders of modern.....
Ipswich / Great Britain: The Limited Editions Club / W.S. Cowell, Ltd., 1954. Szyk, Arthur. Hard Cover.
Small surface tear on base panel of one slipcase. Boards of volume one lightly soiled. Gilt on spine of all volumes lightly rubbed.
Four volume set in two slipcases: The First Volume; Notes.....
. Golden Cocky, 1993. Kondakova, Olga. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. No jacket. Light general wear.
77 pp. CONTENTS: The Wooden Eagle; The Copper, Silver, and Golden Tsardoms; The Silver Saucer and the Ripe, Juicy Apple; Jack Frost.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Signed by author on front free endpaper with inscription. Front jacket flap price-clipped.
Unpaginated. Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator Ed Young brings an ancient Chinese folktale to life in the children's picture book Cat and Rat. To.....
New York: New York Review Books, 2018. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Slipcase repaired. Spine of both volumes creased.
875, xx; 881-1668 pp., Two volume trade paper box set. Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the unusual form of a chapter.....
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
408 pp. Works cited and index follow text, preface also lists general biographies of Lord Byron by other authors. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; Controversy; Youth (1788-1809); Measure for Measure (1809-1816); A......
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Some pages lightly foxed.
xxiii, 492 pp. Selected, with an introduction, by H.L. Mencken. James Huneker was an American art, book, music, and theater critic. A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped.
xix, 407 pp. Letters written over the course of three decades shed light on Williams' works, his friends and colleagues, and his dependency on alcohol and drugs.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1981. Homer, Winslow. Hard Cover.
A fine copy.
200 pp. Red leatherette boards with gilt decor and gilt edges. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated by Winslow Homer. During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost cause by escaping.....
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1982. Gruninger, Johann. Hard Cover.
A fine copy.
425 pp. Grey leatherette, gilt decor on boards and spine, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers. Translated by John Dryden. Illustrated by Johann Gruninger. Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles' mighty foe in the Iliad, begins.....