Saga Press, November 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A collection of short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. Le Guin--selected with an introduction by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time. The Unreal and the Real is a collection of some of Ursula.....
Atria Books, August 2016. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Instant New York Times Bestseller Combining a captivating romance with a cast of all-too-human characters, Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us is an unforgettable tale of love that comes at the ultimate price. Lily hasn't.
Grove Press, September 1987. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize "A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."--The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an.....
Vintage, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). He burst upon the international scene with the wildly acclaimed A Wild Sheep Chase. He quickly came to represent the quirky voice of a new generation of Japanese writers. Now Haruki Murakami gives us his wittiest, boldest, most daring work.....
Back Bay Books, April 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where.....
Scribner Paperback Fiction, Simon & Schuster, April 1995. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, "The.....
Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1871. Hardcover. 474 pages. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Additional B/W illustrations. Early edition. A very good copy in green cloth covers with gilt decoratiions and lettering on front cover and spine. Cover edges bevelled. Edge and corner wear. Top spine end chipped, lower worn. Former.....
The Tabard Inn Press, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 398 pages. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, addressed 'Dear old Hank, You got your copy cheaper than Thomas B. Clarke, collector of paintings, who paid $20 for one, before some extra copies were found in storage. Never heard from.....
The Century Co., 1901. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 311 pages. BAL 14205. Combines BAL 14192 and BAL 14101. First thus. First edition thus (in this combination). A very good copy in tourquoise cloth covers with black lettering and decorations. Mild edge wear and surface scuffs. No dust jacket.
Putnam, January 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. 383 pages with 12 pages of publisher's ads. BAL 10188. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in stamped cloth covers with gilt decoration on front cover and gold lettering on spine. Edge and corner wear with boards showing on lower corners. Spine.....
Harper & Brothers, 1899. Hardcover. 293 pages. Inscibed by author. Autograph letter dated, June 5, 1907, on Century Club, New York letterhead, addressed to 'My dear cousin-in-law,' thanking him for a gift and sending him this book. About 100 words. Letter is pasted on inside of front cover. Inscribed in.....
Vintage, May 1992. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West--from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road.....
Vintage, March 1989. Trade Paperback. A new copy. With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger--Camus's masterpiece--gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores.....
Anchor, August 2016. Trade Paperback. A new copy. From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments--in the gated community of Consilience, residents who sign a contract will get a job and a lovely house for six months of the year ... if they serve as inmates in.....
Hogarth, February 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships" (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, "a master of the literary page-turner" (J. Courtney Sullivan). ONE OF THE TEN.....
Vintage Books, March 2007. Trade Paperback. “They passed through towns that warned people away.” The world is on the brink of death, all ash and grey. A man and his son travel the road westward to the sea, witnessing brutality and depravity as what’s left of humanity does whatever it.....
Anchor, July 2012. Trade Paperback. A new copy. #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. - Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations. --The Boston Globe The circus arrives without.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 1999. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Jane Takagi-Little, by trade a documentary filmmaker, by nature a truth seeker, is "racially half, " Japanese and American, and, as she tells us, "neither here nor there..." Jane is sharp-edged, desperate for a job, and determined not to.....
Ballantine Books, May 2005. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Known and loved around the world for her sweeping Big Stone Gap trilogy and the instant New York Times bestseller Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani returns to the charm and drama of small-town life with Queens of the Big Time.....
Pocket Books, October 2001. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Jodi Picoult's powerful novel portrays an emotionally charged marriage that changes course in one explosive moment. Sometimes finding your own voice is a matter of listening to the heart... Jodi Picoult's powerful novel portrays an emotionally charged marriage that.....
Harvest Books, September 1989. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "There were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark." To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of the Ramsay family living in a summer house off the rocky coast.....
Pax, 1957. Broadside. Single sheet, 12 x 18 inches, printed in black. Illustration on lower left. Pax #5. William Maxwell (1908-2000) was the fiction editor for the New Yorker from 1936-1975. First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Previously folded into quarters, paper tanned, tears along folds. Fragile. WC locates.....
N/A, July 1998. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to.....
New Directions, May 2007. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labeled.....
Scribner, July 2014. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: "Fascinating...serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author's...