Guilty Pleasures
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. First printing. Hardback. 165 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. More about Guilty Pleasures
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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 about The Toynbee Convector
Essays; First Series
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 445 pp. Bound in maroon cloth with the top textblock in gilt and gilt lettering on the spine. A later printing of the Concord Edition of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, illustrated with photogravures. Volume II only. A... More about Essays; First Series
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 about Faulkner at West Point
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 about Victory Over Japan
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 about The Best of Abbie Hoffman
Mystery and Manners; Original Prose, selected and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux [1969], 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 237 pp. Price of $6.95 on front flap of jacket. A very attractive copy of this posthumous collection of essays and lectures. More about Mystery and Manners; Original Prose, selected and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald
Stranger than Fiction; True Stories
New York: Doubleday, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. 233 pp. Price of $23.95 on front flap of jacket. More about Stranger than Fiction; True Stories
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 about Things Themselves; Essays and Scenes
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 about Shifting Landscape: A Composite, 1925-1987
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 about The Sound of Mountain Water
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 about Generation of Swine; Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80's
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 about Pigeon Feathers
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 about The Eye of the Story; Selected Essays and Reviews
Essays of E. B. White
New York: Harper and Row (1977), 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 277 pp. Price of $12.50 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the first edition. A collection of essays by a master of the form, surprisingly difficult to find in Fine condition. More about Essays of E. B. White
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 about Walt Whitman: The Correspondence Volume IV: 1886 - 1889
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 about Collected Stories
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 about The Purple Decades
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