Graphic Novels, Literature, Mystery, Science Fiction, etc.
New York: Scribner, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. More
New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956. First Edition. Paperback. Anchor A54. More
New York: The Modern Library, 1964. Hardcover. More
London: Pushkin Press, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. Translated by Sondra Silverston. In the late 1930s, two men - Yaacov Markovitch, perennially unlucky in love, and Zeev Feinberg, virile owner of a lustrous moustache - are crossing the sea to marry women they have never met. They will rescue them from..... More
London: Penguin Group, 1999. Paperback. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s last novel, is a dramatization of her unique vision of existence and of man’s highest potential. Twelve years in the writing, it is her masterwork. Is the pursuit of profit a noble enterprise or the root of all evil? Is sexual..... More
Ediciones Arcos. Softcover. No other publication information. In Spanish. English title is The Fountainhead. More
Chicago: Elephant Paperbacks/Ivan R. Dee, 1994. Diego Rivera (cover illustration reprinted). Reprint. Softcover. A bit rare in this new, reprint edition. From Kirkus (March 1, 1967): B. Traven is the mysterious (American?) author who has been hiding in Mexico for thirty years and is the author of The Treasure..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 2005. Reprint. Paperback. More
London: Faber and Faber, 2018. Megan Backus (tr.). New Paperback Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When..... More
WordTech Communications, 2016. First Edition. Paperback. Missing title page. In her debut, Barbara Duffey challenges the love lyric's confidence, whether in its speaker, its object, or its methods. These poems turn instead to popular culture, history, and science -- from biology to nuclear physics -- for answers, often returning frustrated..... More
London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd / New Windmills, 1990. Reprint. Hardcover. Includes the following stories: A Knife with Sixteen Blades (from Autumn Term) by Antonia Frost; The Trouble with Donovan Croft (from The Trouble with Donovan Croft) by Bernard Ashley; Seymour's Century by Jan Mark; The Scar by Margaret..... More
New York: Signet Books, 1987. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. More
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1978. First U.K. Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. Between the amorous antique dealer Humphrey and his good-looking nephew James glides the magnificent Leonora, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice. Can she keep James in her thrall? Or will he be taken from her by a...... More
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1987. Mass Market Edition. Paperback. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. Second Edition. Paperback. “This scrupulous new translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh manages to convey much of the archaic power and even something of the occasional humor of the ancient Mesopotamian poem. What is especially valuable is that the translators, by collating passages..... More
New York: Time Incorporated, 1966. Karl W. Stucklen (cover design). Time Reading Program Special Edition. Softcover. With an introduction by Roger Angell The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. A baseball player struggling with a god-given gift and human passions is given a second chance to become what he always dreamed he could be: the best there ever was. This is a book about heroism - of sorts. Roy Hobbs has an..... More
Farrar, Strauss, 1961. Hardcover. 1st ptg. More
Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1968. Reprint. Paperback. Penguin Books PL 3. Preface with extensive notes and the Play. More
New York: Warner Books, 1988. Reprint. Paperback. Movie tie-in edition Madame Sousatzka is a gifted piano teacher who specializes in child prodigies and hosts her lessons in the dilapidated London home she shares with three other eccentrics: a 'countess' in retirement, a gay osteopath, and a 'woman-of-the-evening'. Madame Sousatzka's..... More
New York: Dramatists Play Service Inc., 2006. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. More
Penguin (Orange Spine), 1961. More
Melbourne, Australia: Viking, 2014. Paperback. Originally published in Chinese as Tui Na by People's Literature Publishing House. Wang Daifu is blind and works as a practitioner of tuina, a traditional form of pressure-point massage, in the burgeoning metropolis of Shenzhen. His is a uniquely coveted skill, yet it..... More
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