New York: Vintage, 2007. Later printing. Paperback. 205pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue..... More
New York: Penguin, 2018. Reprint. Paperback. 164pp. Octavo [19.5cm]. Printed wraps. "Emma Lou Morgan’s skin is black. So black that it’s a source of shame to her not only among the largely white community of her hometown of Boise, Idaho, but also among her lighter-skinned family and friends. Seeking a...... More
New York: New American Library, 2005. Reprint. Paperback. 383pp. Octavo [20.5]. Printed wraps. "A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s aggression, it..... More
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 130pp. Small Octavo [21.5 cm]. 1/4 brown cloth over red boards. Fine book in Fine dust jacket. Signed by the aurthor on the title page. "When I call Scott Carrier's essays sad and spooky I mean it in a good way. Running After..... More
New York: Vintage, 1993. First Vintage Internation 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: Vintage International, 2017. Later printing. Paperback. 126pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Printed wraps. Featuring "Notes on the South," an acute observation of the culture of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in 1970, and "California Notes," thoughts about the West inspired by coverage of the Patty Hearst trial. More
New York: Macaulay Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 262pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Brown cloth with title stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. The spine is rolled. Thurman's first published novel offers a frank portrayal of prejudice within the black community, and was divisive among the public and..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 317pp. Octavo [21 cm] in red cloth with spine and cover titles stamped in blue and white. Professional restoration to jacket, dampstain to jacket at foot (most prominent on reverse); boards are crisp and clean; light dampstain to endpapers at..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 295pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] in green boards with spine title in silver gilt. Professional restoration to jacket. Rear corners lightly bumped, else boards crisp and unworn; interior clean and tight. Vonnegut's first published novel. Presumably inscribed by author's uncle..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. Later printing. Paperback. 502pp. Octavo [21cm]; illustrated wraps. "Winner of Pulitzer Prize" label on front wrap. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune..... More
New York: Vintage International, May 2018. First Vintage International Edition: Later Printing. Paperback. 228pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; illustrated wraps. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen. From publisher website: Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own..... More
New York: Vintage, 1994. Later printing. Paperback. 393 pp. Illustrated covers. "Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs." More
New York: Vintage, 1993. Later printing. Paperback. 400pp. Illustrated covers. "This masterful Japanese writer effortlessly blends the imaginitive psychological interior space of his characters with their exterior realities. Fluid, ebullient prose." More
New York: Vintage. Later printing. Paperback. 210 pp. Illustrated covers. "Murakami plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack Kerouac, and the Beatles to tell this story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited loves." More
New York: Vintage, January 2006. First Vintage Internation Edition (Later printing). Paperback. 467 pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; Illustrated covers. "This masterful Japanese writer effortlessly blends the imaginitive psychological interior space of his characters with their exterior realities. Fluid, ebullient prose." More
New York: Vintage, 2006. Later printing. Paperback. 288pp. Octavo [20.5cm] Paperback. From the publisher: As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges..... More
New York: Vintage, 2000. First Vintage International Edition (Later printing). Paperback. 296 pp. Octavo [20 cm]; illustrated wraps. "Vintage Murakami [and] easily the most erotic of [his] novels." - Los Angeles Times Book Review. More
New York: Dial Press, 2011. Later Printing. Paperback. 302pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Printed wraps. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 328pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Bright blue cloth over boards, with minor bruising to extremities. In a dust jacket with light soiling and toning, and periodic small closed and open tears in the edges. From the dust jacket- "Tampico, although it is..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, January, 1922. Privately Printed Edition, Limited. Hardcover. 371pp. Large octavo [25 cm] Green and white patterned paper over boards. Fore-edges rough-trimmed. The backstrip is faded. The front endpaper is cracked along the hinge, however the book is still very sturdy. This is number 31 of..... More
New York: Signet Classics, 1996. 75th Anniversary Edition. Paperback. 141pp. Octavo [19cm]; illustrated wraps. Mass market edition of Orwell's classic personification of revolution to totalitarianism. With a new introduction by Tèa Obrecht. More
New York: Vintage International, 1991. Reprint. Paperback. 308pp. Octavo [20.5]. Printed wraps. "A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. The townspeople..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2014. Later printing. Paperback. 333pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the..... More
New York: Dial Press, 1991. Reprint. Paperback. 215pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. Mass market paperback. Vonnegut's Dresden novel that follows Billy Pilgrim through time and space. More
New York: Vintage Books, 2011. Reprint. Paperback. 127 pp. Octavo [20 cm]; illustrated wraps. "Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and..... More