London: Atlantic Books, 2019. First UK Edition. Fifth Printing. Paperback (oversized). On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual..... More
London: Faber and Faber/Liberty London, 2019. Hardcover. Stock photo shown. This is a special gift edition of the classic novel by Sylvia Plath featuring fabric bound boards specially designed and produced for this edition by Liberty Fabric Ltd. From Faber: Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical novel offers an intimate..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2007. Reprint. Paperback. With an introduction by Marie Winn The predecessor to Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk, T. H. White’s nature writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: what is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, the author..... More
Newbury Park: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. Joyce E. Chaplin (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. The world’s population is now 7.4 billion people, placing ever greater demands on our natural resources. As we stand witness to a possible reversal of modernity’s positive trends, Malthus’s pessimism is worth full reconsideration. This..... More
London: 4th Estate, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. ‘The Things They Carried’ is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Translated from the Italian by Joan Krakover Hall, original title "Un Indivino mi Disse" (1995) Signed by author with a dedication to the previous owners (see photo). More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2014. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion. At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features..... More
New York: Vintage International, 2019. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. More
UK: Penguin Books, 2017. Reprinted in Penguin Classics. Paperback. The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern Classics. Controversial and compelling, In..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1990. Ned Hoste/2H (cover design), 'Mediterranean Shore' by John Maclauchlan (cover painting). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. Rare. From Kirkus (May 25, 1989): Here, Pritchett is sightseer, cultural psychoanalyst, and social critic in 14 travel essays that explore people and places..... More
Oxford: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1911. Second Edition. Hardcover. With accompanying notes by C.B. Wheeler Includes essays by Francis Bacon, Abraham Bowley, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Alexander Poe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, Charles Lamb William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Thomas..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. First Printing. Softcover. The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre.—Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The Poet" "[The poet] is a seer.... he is individual... he is complete in himself.... the others are..... More
Hong Kong: Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong, 2013. Issue 12. Paperback. More
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, Volume 75. Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the appearance of the earliest works of Chinese literary criticism in the Six Dynasties period. This book enriches this..... More
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