SINK: A MEMOIR
THOMAS, JOSEPH EARL New York: Grand Central, 2023. An As-new copy in gray boards with white spine lettering in an As-new dustwrapper featuring a house you woudn't want to live in. This young author has written a growing-up memoir which is reminiscent of David Copperfield except it's set in contemporay Philadelphia with a mostly all-Black cast you will hate or cherish. An exciting new writer.- $20
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COCKTAILS WITH A CURATOR
SALOMON, XAVIER F; LUIS SERRANO (ILLUSTRATOR) New York: Rizzoli Electra, 2022. A new hardcover copy in red boards with a new illustrated jacket still in original wraps. Hardcover.The curators of the Frick deliver wonderful histories of works of art combined with selected cocktails--a a delightful introduction to the treasures of the museum's collection. Based on the video series of the same name. This is a fascinating collection of lively and informative essays featuring paintings, sculpture, furniture, and porcelain--from medieval times through the Renaissance to Rembrandt, Vermeer, Whistler, Manet and works of the early twentieth century.- $30
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Whitney Biennial 2022: Whitney Museum of American Art–Quiet as It’s Kept
Breslin, David & Adrienne Edwards (Curators) New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2022. A new copy in red boards with participants' names and title embossed on the front panet and spine. The 2022 Whitney Biennial is captured in this landmark volume. Each of the Biennial's participants is represented by a selected exhibition history, a bibliography, and imagery complemented by a personal statement or interview that foregrounds the artist's own voice. Essays by the curators and other contributors elucidate themes of the exhibition and discuss the participants. The book is still in its original wrapper.- $40
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MURDER BOOK
PERRY, THOMAS New York: Mysterious Press, 2023. First Edition. A fine copy in black boards with gilt spine lettering in an illustrated dustwrapper. Perry is one of the masters of mystery with over thirty books to his name, including The Butcher Boy (Winner of The Edger Prize and many others. There is a slight staining on the inside of the dustwrapper, not visible.- $20
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A MULTITUDE OF SINS
FORD, RICHARD New York: Knopf, 2002.First Edition. An As New Copy in green and black boards with silver spine lettering in an As-New, pictorial dustwrapper featuring a photo of Grand Central Station and a portrait of Ford on the rear panel. A stellar collection of stories by the Pulitzer Prize Winner and author of The Sportswriter, Independence Days, and other glittering novels.- $20
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WILDLIFE
FORD, RICHARD New YorK: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. First edition. An As New Copy in gray cloth with gilt spine lettering in an As New Pictorial dustwrapper, bright and flawless, with a portrait of Ford on the rear cover. The author of The Sportswriter and Canada writes a coming-of-age story of a young man on the edge of the Great Plains and the terrible lessons it teaches him in this, Ford's fourth novel.- $20
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DESERT STAR
CONNELLY. MICHAEL New York: Little Brown, 2022. A fine copy in black boards with yellow spine lettering in a fine, illustrated dustwrapper. Book and jacket are as-new with B & N sticker is on the front cover. Connelly links up with his old partner, Renee Ballard, now in charge of cold cases for the LAPD. They are searching for some truly awful rapists and murderers. This latest Connellly offering is right up there with his most popular recent books. First edition.- $20
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THE BETROTHED
MANZONI, ALESSANDRO; JUMPA LAHIRI preface New York: Modern Library, 2022. First Edition. An As-new copy of one of Italy's great books, first published in its final form in 1842, and now published in a sparkling contemporary translation by Michael Moore with a cheering section from Jumpa Lahiri in the Preface. The story of modern lovers prevented from marriage by a corrupt society in 1628 has gripped the Italian literary world ever since. Of particular note is a description of the bubonic plague in Milan among other truly fascinating parts of this long novel (652 pp).- $30
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ACT OF OBLIVION
HARRIS, ROBERT New York: HarperCollins, 2022. A fine copy in black boards with gilt spine lettering. Book and jacket are pristine. A masterful new novel by Richard Harris set in the 17th century about a thrilling manhunt to find two men who participated in the killing of Charles II before escaping to America. Scenes set in Restoration-era London and the wilds of pre-revolutionary New England bring to life as only Harris can do the gripping chase over many years to locate the "regicides" by implacable Royalists. Act of Oblivion is right up there with other Harris masterpieces such as Munich, The Ghost Writer and Fatherland. First edition.- $25
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THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS
JEWETT SARAH ORNE Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1897. First edition, second printing (8th thousand). Original gilt-stamped green cloth. with 2 pp. of ads. A lovely copy, square and tight, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front panel, with slight darkening to the spine and slight bumping at the spine ends. Critics consider this book to be Jewett's finest work-- a collection of short stories commenting on the decline of life in late 19th-century Maine fishing villages. Willa Cather rated The Country of the Pointed Firs along with Huckleberry Finn and The Scarlet Letter as the American work of fiction most likely to be acknowledged by posterity as an immortal masterpiece.- $50
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THE ODYSSEY
CHAFFIN, TOM New York: Pegasus Books, 2022. An As-New copy in green and white boards with an As-New illustrated dustwrapper with an image of the young Charles Darwin and the famed Beagle on which he circumnavigated the world, studying its flora and fauna as well as the geology of many sites in Africa, South America, New Zealand, Australia and other places. It all led to The Origin of the Species thirty years later. The author has drawn from Darwin's diary and other published works to deliver this thoroughly delightful book about one of the great findings of the 19rh century.- $20
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THE REVELATORS
ATKINS, ACE New York: Putnam, 2022. A new copy in orange boards with an illustrated dustwrapper. Quint Colson returns with his new wife, Maggie, to find the hombres who attempted to kill him. A great Western read about the grizzled Southern lawman on the trail again. "My kind of Guy," says Lee Child.- $15
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THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE
OSMAN, RICHARD New York: Viking, 2022. An As-new copy in red and white boards with blue spine lettering in an As-new illustrated dustwrapper. Both book and jacket are immaculate. The very funny and very complex second book in the Thursday Murder Club Mystery series in which clever older residents of a posh retirement home solve a very complicated mystery. The story is well-constructed. The humor is rarely matched in other superior mysteries. This is a second printing of the first edition.- $20
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WILLIAM FAULKNER: THE COFIELD COLLECTION
COFIELD, JACK Oxford, MS: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, A near- fine copy in brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front panel, in a near-fine dustwrapper featuring a studio portrait of Faulkner. There are a few tiny chips at the spine ends. A previous owner's name is written on the half-title. Preface by Jack Cofield, Introductions by Carvel Collins, and 302 black and white photographs, drawings, and other memorabilia of Faulkner and his world depicting the story of the author and his family. A interesting, comprehensive story of American's great writer in pictures. .- $40
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MOSQUITOES: A FACSIMILE AND TRANSCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HOLOGRAPHY MANUSCRIPT
FAULKNER, WILLIAM; EDITED BY THOMAS L. MCHANEY WITH DAVID l. VANDER MEULEN Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society/University of Virginia Library, 1997. This volume reproduces an original draft of Faulkner's Mosquitoes, dated 1927 but actually published in 1933 after problems with its publisher. This is a fine facsimile in Folio size, 10" X 17", bound in green cloth over paper boards with white spine lettering and the title in green on the front panel. Complete with Preface, Introduction, and Appendix.The manuscript reproduction is printed in the actual size Faulkner produced. Significant editing by the author adds to the interest of this book, one of 1500 published. One of the editors (David Vander Meuelen has inscribed this copy on the title page.- $35
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SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS
CUNNINGHAM, LAURA New York: Knopf, 1989. A fine copy in black and gray boards with silver spine lettering in a fine, photographic dustwrapper. The heart-warming and heart-piercing story of a little girl who loses her parents and must grow up in the Bronx under the care of her two bachelor uncles and a grandmother who are not to be believed. Set in the fifties, the author brings the Bronx alive, her school and schoolmates confounding, and the awesome questions of love, sex, friendship, and courage wrapped in a hilarious narrative rarely encountered. A tragedy to miss this one.- $25
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FAULKNER’S WORLD: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MARTIN J. DAIN
TOM RANKIN, INTRODUCTION; LARRY BROWN, EDITOR; MARTIN j. DAIN, PHOTOGRAPHS Jackson Miss: University Press of Mississippi, 1997. An As-new copy in brown and tan covers within an As-new matching slip case with the title in gilt lettering on the front panel. This is the Faulkner Centennial Edition, signed by Rankin, Brown, and Dain on the title page. An impressive collection of 93 photographs, with accompanying commentary, capturing the life of William Faulkner and of typical citizens of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. The deep sadness and determination of the people reflected in these marvelous black and white photographs go a long way in helping to understand Faulkner's people and the life in his narratives. The book and slipcase are oversize, 11 1/4" X 11 1/2", 119 pp.- $75
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THESE THIRTEEN
FAULKNER, WILLIAM New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1934, A very good copy in gray and blue boards in a very good dustwrapper with light toning to the spine and edges. There is light spotting to the spine and also a slight loss of material to the upper spine of the jacket. Faulkner produced this early collection of short stories (his first) shortly before Sanctuary. The stories reiterate many of the characters, settings, and themes of Faulkner's early novels and reflect various moods of the author over a period of years. . The book is complete, square and tight with black topstain. It is a first issue as indicated by the notation pp "280" on the Contents page instead of pp "210."- $700
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A FAN’S NOTES: A Fictional Memoir
EXLEY, FREDERICK New York: Harper & Row, 1968. A fine copy in quarter-backed purple cloth and orange boards with silver and black lettering and purple topstain in a fine dustwrapper, bright and unfaded, and featuring the famous drawing by Spanfeller on the front panel. One of the great books of the sixties, Exley tells in fascinating, grueling terms, of his childhood in Watertown, New York, a sports-obsessed father, and college years at USC, where he first came to know his hero Frank Gifford. Exley recounts the obsessions which led to stints at psychiatric institutions, a failed marriage, successive unfulfilling jobs teaching English literature to high school students, and working for a Manhattan public relations firm, and, by way of Gifford, his obsession with the New York Giants. This book was nominated for the National Book Award.- $165
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WILLIAM FAULKNER: EARLY PROSE AND POETRY
COLLINS, CARVEL, EDITOR New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1962. A fine copy in tan boards with red spine lettering in a fine dustwrapper. Book and jacket are without flaws. A charming little book with 16 poems, sixteen pen-and-ink drawings and several prose pieces from Faulkner while he was enrolled at the University of Mississippi and later a local postmaster. 134 pp.- $20
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A PHILIP ROTH READER
ROTH, PHILIP New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980, An As-New copy in red and gray boards with gilt spine lettering i an As-New dustwrpper. Both book and jacket are immaculate with no discernible flaws. A concise rendering of selections from the author's first nine books, including Goodbye, Columbus, Letting Go,When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang, The Great American Novel, My Life as a Man, The Professor of Desire, and The Ghost Writer, and the definitive version of The Breast. A great way to enter the world of one of our great writers.- $40
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SHOP TALK: A WRITER AND HIS COLLEAGUES AND THEIR WORK
ROTH, PHILIP New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. An As-New copy in black boards with gilt spine lettering in an As-New photographic dustwrapper. Both book and jacket are immaculate.Rich profiles and commentary by Roth on great contemporary writers, including Primo Levi, Aharon Applefeld, Ivan Klima, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Milan Kundera, Edna O'Brien, Mary McCarthy. Bernard Malamud, Philip Guston (the painer), and Saul Bellow. 160 pp.- $25
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THE ANATOMY LESSON
ROTH, PHILIP New York: Farrar Strause Giroux, 1983. A near-fine copy in maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering, unread, in a fine, bright dustwrapper with sun fading to the spine, otherwise immaculate. This is the third in Roth's trilogy about Zuckerman, his alter ego. In it, Zuckerman finds himself facing middle age and an undiagnosable pain. The mysterious ailment has him laid up and keeps him from his writing regime. Barred by pain from writing and bored by inactivity, Zuckerman's mind is free to wander anxiously over the memories of his failed marriages and relationships with family members. In a desperate burst of nostalgia and ambition, Zuckerman resolves to return to the University of Chicago, his alma mater, in order to enroll in medical school. "One of Roth's most unsparing and revealing books, forceful and startling," [Newsday].- $25
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THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE
ROTH, PHILIP New York: Farrar, Straus, 1977. A fine copy in red cloth with gilt lettering in a fine dustwrapper. Stated first edition. An academic trying to get through life with all its complexities, mostly mental. Protagonist David Kepesh, who moves between a life of scholarship and carnal adventure. "A thoughtful.elegant novel. A fine display of literary skills." (The New York Times Book Review). This is a very nice copy without blermish.- $25
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