New York: Melville House, 2020. First printing of the Melville House compilation. Paperback. 170pp. Octavo [21cm]. Illustrated wraps. "In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews — including her first and last — Toni Morrison (whom President Barack Obama called a 'national treasure') details not only her writing life, but also..... More
New York: Dial Press, 2012. Reprint. Paperback. 253pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "These previously unpublished, beautifully rendered works of fiction are a testament to Kurt Vonnegut’s unique blend of observation and imagination. Here are stories of men and machines, art and artifice, and how ideals of fortune, fame, and love..... More
New York: Random House, 2019. Later printing. Hardcover. 198pp. Quarto [29.7cm] 198pp. Quarto [29.5]. Black paper over boards, with title stamped in copper on spine. Seventeenth-century sketches of Africans as they appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 1991. Later printing. Paperback. 730 pp. Octavo. Illustrated covers with cream-colored spine. Vol. 4 in The Masks of God series This volume explores the whole inner story of modern culture since the Dark Ages, treating modern man’s unique position as the creator of his own mythology. More
New York: Penguin Books, 1991. Later printing. Paperback. 564 pp. Octavo. Illustrated covers with cream-colored spine. Vol. 2 in The Masks of God series An exploration of Eastern mythology as it developed into the distinctive religions of Egypt, India, China, and Japan. More
New York: Penguin Books, 1991. Later printing. Paperback. 564 pp. Octavo. Illustrated covers with cream-colored spine. Vol. 3 in The Masks of God series A systematic and fascinating comparison of the themes that underline the art, worship, and literature of the western world. More
New York: Penguin Books, 1991. Later printing. Paperback. 504 pp. Octavo. Illustrated covers with cream-colored spine. Vol. 1 in The Masks of God series The primitive roots of the mythology of the world are examined in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology. More
New York: Vintage Books, 1989. Later Printing. Paperback. 398pp. Octavo [20.2 cm].Black and white pictoral wraps with a multi-colored spine. An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings. In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one..... More
New York: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2009. Later Printing. Paperback. 268pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist"..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 1993. Later printing. Paperback. 276 pp. Octavo. B&W pictoral covers with black spine. What is a properly functioning mythology and what are its functions? Can we use myths to help relieve our modern anxiety, or do they foster it? In Myths to Live By , Joseph..... More
New York: New American Library, 2006. later printing. Paperback. 112pp. Octavo [20.3 cm]. Pictorial wrap. In this challenging and provocative work, Dr. Carl Jung—one of history’s greatest minds—argues that civilization’s future depends on our ability as individuals to resist the collective forces of society. Only by gaining an awareness and..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 1976. paperback. 659pp. Duodecimo [19.5cm]. Photographic wraps. This comprehensive collection of writings by the epoch-shaping Swiss psychoanalyst was edited by Joseph Campbell, himself the most famous of Jung’s American followers. It comprises Jung’s pioneering studies of the structure of the psyche—including the works that introduced such..... More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1968. Later printing. Paperback. 415pp. Duodecimo [17.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "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..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2010. Later printing. Paperback. 150pp. Quarto [20 cm] Illustrated wraps. "Originally written in 1952 but not published until 1985, 'Queer' is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that..... More
New York: Penguin, 2019. Later printing. Hardcover. 305pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Black paper over boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine. "Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other..... More
New York: Kokila, 2020. Ashley Lukashevsky. Second printing. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Square octavo [23.5x23.5cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. "Take your first steps with 'Antiracist Baby!' Or rather, follow 'Antiracist Baby's nine easy steps for building a more equitable world. With bold art and thoughtful yet playful text, 'Antiracist Baby' introduces the youngest..... More
Agreka, 2004. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 432pp. Quarto [24 cm] Pictorial wraps. The covers are a bit wavy. Signed by the author on the title page. More
![Utah Milling Company. High-Grade Flour. Ogden, Utah. January 1912 [Calendar]. F. H. Desch](/pictures/thumb/58194.jpg?v=1597164005)
W. M. Sanford. Calendar and print [14" x 27"] in frame [17" x 31"]. A charming advertising print, illustrated by the American Impressionist painter Frank H. Desch (1873-1934), who was active in Massachusetts and New York, and was a member of the Allied Artists of America and the Salmagundi Club..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 277 pp. Octavo [21.5 cm]. 1/4 black and tan boards with red and gold printing on spine, with only a bit of wear at edges and corners of the boards, very minor warping to the top right fore-edge corner..... More
New York: Dodd Mead, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 374pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth boards with title stamped in remarkably bold yellow on the spine. Light rubbing at the spine ends; tiny nick to top edge of rear board. In the dust jacket featuring a photograph of a very young..... More
New York: Vintage, 1993. First Vintage International Edition (later printing). Paperback. 241pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. "Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers..... More
New York: Penguin Press, 2019. Later printing. Paperback. 465pp. Octavo [21cm]; printed wraps. The #1 New York Times bestseller. A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs–and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2019. First Vintage Books Edition. Paperback. 269 pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. "The first people in the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. On a side of the planet no human had ever seen, different groups arrived from different directions, and not all at..... More
New York: Yearling Books, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. 399 pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm]; in illustrated wraps. "The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time." Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars..... More
New York: Vintage, 2013. Reprint. Paperback. 263 pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. "'Mountain,' Baldwin said, 'is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else.' Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that..... More