Blue Rider Press, June 2016. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The tremendously well-received New York Times bestseller by cultural critic Chuck Klosterman, exploring the possibility that our currently held beliefs and assumptions about the world will eventually be proven wrong -- now in paperback.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, July 2023. Hardcover. A new copy. A literary legend's engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot.....
Mariner Books, October 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience." Provocative.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2003. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A Personal Chronicle of the Last Ten Years from a Leading Voice of Israeli DissentWhat went wrong after Oslo? How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? How has the violence changed their lives.....
Graywolf Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor.....
Penguin Books, October 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. One of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. "There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and.....
Vintage, 1993. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. "We tell ourselves stories in order to live" was the opening line of Joan Didion's celebrated The White Album. In After Henry, her new collection of pieces, most of them reported and written for The New York Review of Books and The.....
Back Bay Books, May 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy. David Sedaris, the "champion storyteller," (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask--or not--was a decision made mostly on.....
Counterpoint, May 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. An impassioned, thoughtful, and fearless essay on the effects of racism on the American identity by one of our country's most humane literary voices. Acclaimed as "one of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time" (The Village Voice), The.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, July 2023. Hardcover. A new copy. A literary legend's engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot.....
Vintage, May 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A GLAMOUR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A hilarious new essay collection from Samantha Irby "engages readers with her characteristic combination of laugh-out-loud moments, heartfelt passages and plenty of awkward experiences.... Quietly Hostile will delight established.....
Tiny Reparations Books, June 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW IN PAPERBACK "Another hilarious essay collection from Phoebe Robinson."--The New York Times Book Review "Strikes the perfect balance of brutally honest and laugh-out-loud funny. I didn't want it to end."--Mindy Kaling, New York Times bestselling author.....
Ivan R. Dee, March 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. It suggests comparison with the work of George Orwell. In these.....
Haymarket Books, October 2015. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison.....
The Bibliophile Society, 1905. Hardcover. Limited to 470 copies. Vol. II; 348 pp; Vol. III: 337 pp.; Vol. IV: 349 pp; Vol. V: 358 pp. Very good copies in paper covered boards. Volume II with frontispiece etching of Lamb by James Fagan after painting by Meyer. Volume III with signed.....
Graywolf Press, August 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. An invigorating, continuously surprising book about the serious nature of laughter. Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive.....
Vintage, January 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that speaks to today's social and political moment as directly as this morning's headlines" (NPR). These.....
Garland Publishing, Inc., 1982. Trade Paperback. Advance review copy. Unbound signatures with top page stamped 'Advance Copy for favor of review.' Publisher's description stapled to front. Signatures near fine.
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Random House, 1988. Trade Paperback. 291 pages. Advance uncorrected proofs, printed before the title was changed from the original 'Time for a Change' to 'At Home.' A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Library of America, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Subscriber's edtion. First edition (first printing). A fine copy; no dust jacket as issued. In a fine slipcase. With the LOA information sheet laid in. Publisher's shrinkwrap still present but open. Edmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until.....
Albert and Charles Boni, 1914. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 128 pages. Traubel was friend to Walt Whitman and his biographer. He has been called the 'Socialist Walt Whitman.' 12 essays including, ' What is the Color of Your Skin,' 'Have You Sold Your Soul for Dirt,' and 'What are You.....
Scribner, July 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). One-of-a-kind cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman "offers up great facts, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral calculations in this look at our love affair with the anti-hero" (New York magazine). Chuck Klosterman, "The Ethicist" for.....
Edwin B. Hill, 1948. Ephemera. Single sheet folded to 5 by 7 inches. 'Forty copies ... have been printed by Edwin B. Hill on his private press at 27 East Sixth Stret, Tempe' First separate edition. A fine copy.
Privately Printed, 1968. Trade Paperback. 63 pages. 12 short essays. Gilbert Seldes (1893-1970) was a literary critic, editor of Dial magazine, first director of television for NBC News, and the founding Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Marian Seldes is his daughter. Inscribed by.....
Motive, 1946. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 32 pages. First publication from Motive and Crews's third publication. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Some mild tanning to covers.