New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. Jennifer Heuer (cover design). Reissued Norton Paperback Edirion. Paperback. In this reissue of her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim―to discover―what has been forgotten, lost, or unexplored. "I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. /..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2014. Cat Johnston (cover illustrations). Reissued Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture..... More
London: Picador Classic, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. 'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black With an introduction by Sheila Heti A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind..... More
New Haven: Leete's Island Books, 1980. Fifth Printing. Paperback. This anthology gathers into a single volume 30 essays which embody the history of photography. Contributors include : Niepce, Daguerre, Fox Talbot, Poe, Baudelaire, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, Weston, Abbot, Barthes, and others. Their writings encompass the technical origin and development of..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2013. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Olivier Todd Translated by Anthony Bower A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the..... More
New York: Library of America, 2018. Christopher Sergio. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “Alexander Wolff has put together this collection like a master point guard distributing the ball, deftly providing both a chronology of the game and a full, rich accounting of its place in..... More
London: Biteback Publishing, 2017. UK Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of our time, is renowned for his masterly interpretations of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt, and has been credited with rescuing from oblivion the piano music of Schubert's last years. Far from having..... More
Lebanon, New Hampshire: John Murray, 2018. Alejandro Giraldo (illustrations). First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Algorithms—processes that are made up of unambiguous steps and do something useful—make up the very foundations of computer science. But they also inform our choices in approaching everyday tasks, from managing a pile of clothes fresh out..... More
New York: Harper Perennial, 2010. Andrea Cardenas (cover design). Reissue. Trade Paperback. With a foreword by M.F.K. Fisher Long before Julia Child discovered French cooking, Alice B. Toklas was sampling local dishes, collecting recipes, and cooking for the writers, artists, and expats who lived in Paris between the wars..... More
New York: Verso, 2017. Trade Paperback. More than a hundred years ago, French troops fired the first tear gas grenades at the German enemy. Designed to force people out from cover, tear gas causes tearing and gagging, burning the eyes and skin. Its use has ended in miscarriages, permanent injuries..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2019. Olga Grlic (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. "Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Vampires. Zombies. Homeopathy. Bigfoot. Canola oil, because there's no such thing as a canola. Note..... More
New York: Random House, 2020. First Edition (stated). Trade Paperback. Just as she did with North Korea, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick explores one of the most hidden corners of the world. She tells the story of a Tibetan town perched eleven thousand feet above sea level that is one of..... More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2019. Milan Bozic (cover design). First Harper Paperbacks Edition. Paperback. Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Suns, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2017. Softcover. Do the Hong Kong Chinese experience ghosts, hauntings, spirit mediumship, ESP and other paranormal phenomena just like people in the West? Or is their culture so different that the ghost accounts in this book will seem bizarre to anyone else? This classic presentation..... More
New York/ New Haven: The Jewish Museum/ Yale University Press, 2007. First Edition. Outsize Hardcover. Foreword by Maurice Sendak. With contributions by Robert Cottingham, Edward Sorel, Jeanne Steig and Maggie Steig. The definitive work on the career of the beloved New Yorker cartoonist and children’s book illustrator Known..... More
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2002. Trade Paperback. Edited with an introduction by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine To Begin Where I Am brings together a rich sampling of poet Czeslaw Milosz's prose writings. Spanning more than a half century, from an impassioned essay on human nature..... More
Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., 1998. First Harvest Edition. Paperback. For A Book of Luminous Things Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz has selected 300 of the world's greatest poems written throughout the ages, poems memorable for how they render the realities of the world palpable and immediate. They are organized under eleven..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster Paperback, 2019. Lauren Peters-Collaer (cover design). First Simon & Schuster paperback edition. Paperback. Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change..... More
Hong Kong: Victionary, 2020. Miss Black Cat 黑貓小姐 (words), Don Mak 麥震東 (story, concept, illustrations). First Edition. Hardcover. A visual memoir like no other, Once Upon A Hong Kong is a stirring collection of personal work by local artist-illustrator Don Mak which captures everyday life in an ever-changing metropolis. Each..... More
New York: Anchor Books, 2020. Linda Huang (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019 Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020 'If you have even the slightest interest in Orwell or in the development of our culture..... More
London: Harper Perennial, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. A collection of charming and celebrated writings about cats, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semi-feral creatures on the African farm where..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2019. First Printing. Trade Paperback. In Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrinth, and the Red Thread offers a path through and a way to explore the ins and outs and twists and turns of..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. David Mann (cover design). New UK Paperback Edition. Second Printing. Paperback. More
Seattle, Washington: Seal Press, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. With an introduction by Ken Cuthbertson and a foreword by Sheila McGrath Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the..... More
New York: One World, 2018. Shyama Golden (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. an aunt teaches me how to tell an edible flower from a poisonous one. just in case, I hear her say, just in case. From a co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls comes an imaginative..... More
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