New York: Golden Books, 2013. Hardcover. Sure to bring memories and a smile, this Little Golden Book "guide to life" is the perfect graduation gift for anyone who cherishes the sturdy little books with the shiny cardboard covers and gold foil spines! A humorous "guide to life" for grown-ups! One..... More
New York: Golden Books, 2015. First Printing. Hardcover. Princesses, princes, spells, and happily-ever-afters: this unique collection of classic Little Golden Book fairy tales has them all! The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Wild Swans, and The Blue Book of Fairy Tales (featuring Rapunzel, Beauty and the Beast, and Toads and Diamonds)..... More
New York: Golden Books, 2017. First Printing. Hardcover. The best-loved Little Golden Books come together in a deluxe volume that's perfect for gift giving. Little Golden Books have been delighting families for over 75 years! And this collection of nine classic Little Golden Books includes the line's most popular stories..... More
New York: Golden Books, 2018. Steph Laberis (illustrations). First Printing. Hardcover. This hardcover storybook collection features three Grumpy Cat Little Golden Books. Grumpy Cat has over 8 million Facebook followers, her own TV movie, a mobile game, plus her very own collection of Little Golden Books! Join this famous feline..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The first English language biography ever published on We Cheng (580-643), chief adviser to T'ang T'ai-tsung, reputed founder of the T'ang dynasty. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. 12 essays from various contributors on the history and influence of the T'ang dynasty, 618-906. Contributors include Elling O. Eide, Hans H. Frankel, David Lattimore, David McMullen, Ikeda On, Charles A. Peterson, Wang Gungwu, Howard J. Wechsler, and Stanley Weinstein..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2009. Paperback. At the start of the twenty-first century, the challenges the world faces seem bewilderingly complex. Gone are the old assurances about the triumph of the West and the free market. But what will take their place? Here Chris Patten draws on his many years..... More
London: Routledge, 2000. Paperback. Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for Literature and..... More
London: Routledge Classics, 2006. Paperback. With a new introduction by A.C. Grayling. In The Conquest of Happiness, first published by Liveright in 1930, iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell attempted to diagnose the myriad causes of unhappiness in modern life and chart a path out of the seemingly inescapable malaise so..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2009. Paperback. The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre. First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously..... More
London: Hesperus Press Ltd, 2010. Softcover. Written for the Toronto Star between 1920 and 1924, this selection of energetic pieces from Hemingway sees the author focus his gaze on Paris. Writing with characteristic verve, the author tackles such topics as 'Living on $1,000 a year in Paris', 'American bohemians in..... More
New York: The Modern Library, 1999. Paperback. From Kirkus (July 10, 2013): This portrait of Hemingway is a "Profile" which was originally done for The New Yorker in 1947, introduced by a prologue touching on the continuity of their friendship which began at that time, his generosity towards her..... More
New York: A Touchstone Book/Simon and Schuster, 1999. First Printing. Paperback. An assemblage of reflections on the nature of writing and the writer from one the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about..... More
New York: Tor, 2013. Mass Market Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Return to the unique and evocative world of The Dying Earth, edited by best-selling author George R. R. Martin, in this tribute anthology featuring the most distinguished fantasists of our day. Here are twenty-two brand-new adventures set in the world..... More
New York: Anchor Books, 1998. Fred Marcellino (cover illustration). Seventy-Eighth Printing. Paperback. With a new introduction by the author. In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a...... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2007. Ninth Printing. Paperback. Winner of the NOBEL PRIZE in Literature 2016 ‘I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.’ Bob Dylan Gathered together for..... More
New York: A Touchstone Book/Simon and Schuster, 1998. Second Printing. Paperback. Spanning the years 1920 to 1956, this priceless collection shows Hemingway's work as a reporter, from correspondent for the Toronto Star to contributor to Esquire, Colliers, and Look. As fledgling reporter, war correspondent, and seasoned journalist, Hemingway provides access..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1978. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Folk riddles, emblems, charms, and chants are a few of the traditional forms examined by Andrew Welsh to discover the means by which poetic language achieves its powerful effects. His book shows how the roots of lyric are embodied..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The first novel in William Marshall's 'Yellowthread Street' series In the Yellowthread Street series, the detectives of the Yellowthread Street police station in fictitious Hong Bay, Hong Kong – DCI Harry Feiffer, a European born and..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1987. Irene von Treskow (jacket illustration). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster’s work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature.” Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely..... More
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now..... More
London: Dennis Dobson, 1968. Second, revised edition. Hardcover. The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry is a 1947 collection of essays by Cleanth Brooks. It is considered a seminal text in the New Critical school of literary criticism. More
London: Dartman, Longman and Todd, 2005. Reprint. Paperback. With a Foreword by A.M. Allchin In this classic text, Thomas Merton offers valuable guidance for prayer. He brings together a wealth of meditative and mystical influences–from John of the Cross to Eastern desert monasticism–to create a spiritual path for today..... More
New York: Viking, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The first in a five-volume best-of series, featuring an introduction from Margaret Atwood! Lulu Moppet is an outspoken and brazen young girl who doesn’t follow any rules—whether they’ve been set by her parents, the neighborhood boys, or society itself..... More
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