Guilty Pleasures
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1974), 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-165, [1] pp. Yellow cloth with black lettering on the spine; black topstain. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. More
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The Toynbee Convector
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 275 pp. Price of $17.95 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good book with small damp stains at top and bottom of the spine with some corresponding discoloration on the reverse of the jacket. More
Essays; First Series
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 4-445, [3] pp. Bound in maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of Emerson and two additional plates. A later printing of the Concord Edition of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo..... More
Faulkner at West Point
New York: Random House, 1964. First printing. Hardcover. 136 pp. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. Transcriptions of recordings of Faulkner's lectures and discussions during his visit at West Point Academy, one of his final public appearances. Includes 15 black and white photographs. A Near Fine book with..... More
Victory Over Japan
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. First printing. Hardcover. 277 pp. Price of $15.95 on front flap of jacket. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket with few traces of edge wear and a couple of small closed tears. More
The Best of Abbie Hoffman
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows (1989), 1989. First printing. Hardcover. 421 pp. Price of $21.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Foreword by Norman Mailer. Edited by Daniel Simon and Abbie Hoffman. A collection of Hoffman's works, an important body of work from one of America's counterculture..... More
Mystery and Manners; Original Prose, selected and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], v-ix, [3], 3-237, [7] pp. Quarter blue cloth over green paper boards with gold and silver lettering on the spine; light orange topstain. Price of $6.95 on front flap of jacket. A very attractive copy of this..... More
Stranger than Fiction; True Stories
New York: Doubleday, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. 233 pp. Price of $23.95 on front flap of jacket. More
Things Themselves; Essays and Scenes
New York: Atheneum, 1972. First printing. Hardcover. 269 pp. Bound in patterned white cloth with gold lettering on the spine and the front board, dark brown topstain. Price of $8.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 012a. More
Shifting Landscape: A Composite, 1925-1987
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society Of America, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. 301 pp. Price of $19.95 on rear panel of dust jacket. Edited and with an introduction by Mario Materassi. Ahearn APG 003b. Very Good book with traces of wear to boards and a tiny bit of separation between backstrip and..... More
The Sound of Mountain Water
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 286 pp. Price of $5.95 printed on front flap of dust jacket. Second issue (with credits on the tipped in copyright page, as per Colberg). A Near Fine book with minor hints of foxing to the tops of the..... More
Generation of Swine; Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80's
New York: Summit Books (1988), 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 304 pp. Price of $18.95 on front flap of jacket. '100' written on front pastedown; jacket has some mild mild age toning to rear panel and the flaps. More
Pigeon Feathers
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First printing. Hardcover. 279 pp. Price of $4.00 on front flap of dust jacket. A collection of 19 short stories by Updike, his fifth book. Ahearn APG 006a. A Very Good book with a slight lean and fading to the topstain in a Very..... More
Living By the Word:; Selected Writings 1973-1987
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers [1988], 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], xv-xxi, [3], 196, [2] pp. Quarter beige cloth over purple paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A collection of poignant essays from Alice Walker..... More
The Eye of the Story; Selected Essays and Reviews
New York: Random House [1978], 1978. First printing. Hardcover. 355 pp. Price of $10.00 on front flap of jacket. Polk A22. A Fine book in a very near Fine dust jacket with a small crease to the front flap. More
Walt Whitman: The Correspondence Volume IV: 1886 - 1889
New York: New York University, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 458 pp. Price of $12.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with mild age toning to the spine panel and to the edges. More
Collected Stories
New York: New Directions (1985), 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 574 pp. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. Introduction by Gore Vidal, cover painting by Andy Warhol. A Very Good book with some age toning and a few faint spots of discoloration..... More
The Purple Decades
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. First printing. Hardcover. 396 pp. Price of $17.50 on jacket flap. Traces of fading to edges of boards, slight edge wear and some mild age toning to jacket. More
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