Penguin Books, July 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "[Smith's] slim collection of essays captures this peculiar moment with startling clarity. . . . The personal and political intermingle for a powerful indictment of America's social systems." --TIME, The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 "While quarantined amid the.....
Simon & Schuster, April 2019. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 *Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The Week, and Elle.com* Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don't talk to our.....
Twelve, May 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Mariner Books, October 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts--always adroit, often acerbic--on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm ninety and.....
New York Review Books, October 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "The role of the critic," Daniel Mendelsohn writes, "is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining way." His latest collection exemplifies the range.....
Notting Hill Editions, October 2017. Hardcover. This selection of Oscar Wilde's writings provides a fresh perspective on his character and thinking. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these pieces show that beneath the trademark wit, Wilde was a deeply humane and visionary writer, as challenging today.....
Vintage, November 1994. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City--The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. In elegant, finely honed prose (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz.....
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.....
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.....
Vintage, 1993. Trade Paperback. "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 New Yorker, she examines.....
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).
Atria, April 2020. Trade Paperback. Remainder copy. NATIONAL BESTSELLER A charmingly relatable and wise memoir-in-essays by acclaimed writer and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott, "the modern day reincarnation of...Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin--all rolled into one" (The Washington Post), about what happened after she checked off all.....
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.....
Stanford University Press, June 1958. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclaim when it was first published in The Complete Works of Montaigne in the 1957 edition. The New York Times said, It is a matter for rejoicing that we.....
John Murray, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 142 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Europa Editions, March 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 Oprah Daily?TIME Magazine?Bustle?The Guardian?Financial Times?A.V. Club?Cosmopolitan?Marie Claire?Fortune Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian.....
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.