Midnight's Children
London: Picador, 1984. Ian Pollock (cover illustration). 12th Printing. Paperback. More about Midnight's Children
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The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories: Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, Master and Man
New York: Signet Classics, 1960. Reprint. Paperback. Translated by Aylmer Maude and J.D. Duff. With an Afterword by David Magarshack. More about The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories: Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, Master and Man
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Chip Kidd (jacket design). First Edition (stated). Fifth Printing. Hardcover. With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the... More about Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Confucius from the Heart: Ancient Wisdom for Today's World
London: Macmillan, 2009. First UK Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Translated by Esther Tyldesley. As one of Chinas's all-time bestsellers, Confucius from the Heart unveils the wisdom of The Analects, a major text of Confucian philosophy that has dominated Chinas's intellectual and spiritual culture for more than two millenia... More about Confucius from the Heart: Ancient Wisdom for Today's World
The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi)
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. Patricia de Groot (design). First Edition (stated). Paperback. Rinehart Editions no. 138. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston, with a foreword by Theodore Ziolkowski. The Glass Bead Game, for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature... More about The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi
Hard Times: For These Times
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1958. With an introduction by William W. Watt. More about Hard Times: For These Times
Mr. China
London: Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2006. Reprint. Paperback. More about Mr. China
March: A Novel
New York: Penguin Books, 2006. Reprint. Paperback. More about March: A Novel
The Quantity Theory of Insanity
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. Reprint. Paperback. What is there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on earth... More about The Quantity Theory of Insanity
Eileen: A Novel
New York: Penguin Books, 2016. Thomas Ott (cover art). Reprint. Paperback. More about Eileen: A Novel
How to Spend Less Without Being Miserable
Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2009. First UK Edition. Reprint. Paperback. A life less expensive! The definitive guide to cutting down your outgoings without cutting out life’s little pleasures. - A witty, wise and warm approach to a subject that most of us struggle to face. - Written by the... More about How to Spend Less Without Being Miserable
Man and his Symbols: Conceived and edited by Carl Jung
London: Picador, 1978. John Holmes (cover painting). Reprint. Paperback. Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed that his work was understood by a wide public, rather than just by psychiatrists, and therefore he agreed to write and edit this fascinating... More about Man and his Symbols: Conceived and edited by Carl Jung
The Essential Jung: Selected and introduced by Anthony Storr
New York: MJF Books, 1983. First Printing. Hardcover. In this compact volume, British psychiatrist and writer Anthony Storr has selected extracts from Jung's writings that pinpoint his many original contributions and relate the development of his thought to his biography. Storr's explanatory notes and introduction show the progress and coherence... More about The Essential Jung: Selected and introduced by Anthony Storr
Sometimes The Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. First Edition (stated). First Printing. Hardcover. In Sometimes the Magic Works, New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks shares his secrets for creating unusual, memorable fiction. Spanning topics from the importance of daydreaming to the necessity of writing an outline, from the fine art of... More about Sometimes The Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
New York: Hyperion, 2003. First Edition. Third Printing. Hardcover. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his ground-breaking reporting on the Vietnam War... More about The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Evan Gaffney (jacket design). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. In a front-page obituary, The New York Times described Joseph Heller as "the darkly surreal novelist who spoke to a generation." Heller, whose famous bestseller Catch-22 brought him universal acclaim as a literary icon, finished... More about Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
Almost Silent
Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2009. First Printing. Hardcover. Almost Silent packages four original Jason graphic novels - three of them out of print since mid-2008 - into one compact, hardcover omnibus collection. (As the title indicates, this volume favors Jason's pantomime works.) “You Can't Get There From Here” tells... More about Almost Silent
The Year of Magical Thinking
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Carol Devine Carson (jacket design). First Edition. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and..... More about The Year of Magical Thinking
Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family's Past
New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. In an example of oral history, a professor of history records the memories of his mother, who immigrated to Chicago from Ahanagran, in Ireland, at sixteen and later married his father, a Jewish army officer, during World War II. More about Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family's Past
Lincoln In The Bardo
New York: Random House, 2017. First Edition (stated). Reprint. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well... More about Lincoln In The Bardo
Of Love and Other Demons
London: Penguin Books, 1996. Mark Entwistle (cover illustration). First Penguin Books Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. More about Of Love and Other Demons
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
New York: Signet Classics, 1996. Reprint. Paperback. With a preface by Russell Baker and an Introduction by C.M. Woodhouse. More about Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
Goodnight, Rose
Australia: Viking, 2018. Hardback edition by Penguin Group (Australia) in association with Penguin (Beijing). First Printing. Hardcover. Translated from the Chinese by Poppy Toland. Ji Lianna passionately tends to her flower garden and avoids looking back at her life with remorse. Xiao’e does not know the first thing about... More about Goodnight, Rose
Petulia's Rouge Tin
Australia: Penguin Group Australia, 2018. First paperback edition by Penguin Group (Australia). First Printing. Paperback. Part of the Penguin China Specials series. Translated from the original Chinese by Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz. China, early 1950s: Two friends find themselves on their way to a re-education camp for... More about Petulia's Rouge Tin
The Mouse and The Elephant: A Tale From Turkey
Lexington, MA: D.C Heath and Company, 1995. Cyd Moore (illustrations). First Edition. First Printing. Softcover. More about The Mouse and The Elephant: A Tale From Turkey
