George Plimpton

Jonathan Ames

Great copy. Minimal shelf wear/staining to cover (see photos). Nearly like new, pages crisp & clean.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Georgia

In April 1985, Sports Illustrated published an article that stunned the sports community. George Plimpton's 13-page profile of Sidd Finch, a mysterious pitcher who had been signed by the New York Mets and reportedly threw 168 mph, came complete with photos from spring training, scouting reports, and interviews with Mets players and management. A week later, SI apologized to readers around the world for their role in what is generally regarded as the greatest hoax in the history of sports journalism. The magazine had teamed up with the legendary author and Paris Review bon vivant for an April Fool's Day prank of unprecedented proportions. After the success of the article, Plimpton decided to turn the story into a novel — a rousing baseball fairy tale that is considered one of the most memorable sports novels of the last half-century.

The Curious Case of Sidd Finch

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C. S. Lewis

Excellent copy of a classic, minimal shelf wear. Pages clean.

In this humorous and perceptive exchange between two devils, C. S. Lewis delves into moral questions about good vs. evil, temptation, repentance, and grace. Through this wonderful tale, the reader emerges with a better understanding of what it means to live a faithful life.

The Screwtape Letters

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Cormac McCarthy

Very well cared for copy with minimal shelf wear & page edge staining. Pages crisp & clean.

Border Trilogy (3)

The conclusion of the Border trilogy describes the friendship of John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys working on a New Mexico ranch in the 1950s

Cities of the Plain

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Excellent copy with only very minimal shelf wear. Nearly like new.

Border Trilogy (2)

In the 1930s, Billy and his family come to Hidalgo County, New Mexico, where he becomes obsessed with a wild wolf that lives a precarious existence threatened by the region's ranchers.

The Crossing

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Ling Ma

A Novel

Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. "A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." —Michael Schaub, NPR.org “A satirical spin on the end times-- kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers.” --Estelle Tang, Elle NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR * The New Yorker ("Books We Loved") * Elle * Marie Claire * Amazon Editors * The Paris Review (Staff Favorites) * Refinery29 * Bustle * Buzzfeed * BookPage * Bookish * Mental Floss * Chicago Review of Books * HuffPost * Electric Literature * A.V. Club * Jezebel * Vulture * Literary Hub * Flavorwire Winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award * Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award * Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 * An Indie Next Selection Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers? A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.

Severance

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Dylan Thomas

Fantastic copy. Some stain spotting on page edges & minor markings on back cover (see photos). Pages crisp & clean.

Contains all of the poems which Thomas wished to preserve.

Collected Poems

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Eugène Ionesco

Donald M. Allen

Very good vintage copy. Some faint creasing on spine & front cover, scratched out list price on front & back (see photos). Pages tanned, but crisp & clean.

Four Plays

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Alice Munro

Really good copy. Moderate wear to font cover including small rip (see photo). Spine undamaged, pages crisp & clean.

Stories

A collection of short fiction explores the complexities of human relationships and emotions in stories about a housekeeper entering old-maidhood whose life is transformed by a practical joke and a lifelong philanderer who finds the tables turned.

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

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Bret Easton Ellis

Great copy! Minor shelf wear to cover, one page previously dogeared. Very well taken care of, pages clean.

Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

American Psycho

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Mark Z. Danielewski

Very good copy with minor shelf wear to cover & small mark on page edge (see photos). Otherwise excellent, pages crisp & clean.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Moving back and forth in American history, a kaleidoscopic novel follows Hailey and Sam, two wayward teenagers, as they crash New Orleans parties, barrel up the Mississippi, head through the Badlands, and take on other adventures.

Only Revolutions

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Etgar Keret

Nathan Englander

Miriam Shlesinger

Fantastic copy. A couple small marker marks on back cover. Otherwise like new.

Combines absurd, humorous, and poignant themes that reveal the fierce humanity of characters in surreal situations.

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

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Ursula. K Le Guin

Great copy of three-novel omnibus by a SF/F master. Minimal shelf wear & tiny stain on page edge (see photo).

Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions

Worlds of Exile and Illusion contains three novels in the Hainish Series from Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained here. These books, Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions, are set in the same universe as Le Guin's groundbreaking classic, The Left hand of Darkness.

Tor is pleased to return these previously unavailable works to print in this attractive new edition.

Worlds of Exile and Illusion

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Don DeLillo

Copy in great condition. Light shelf wear. Pages tight & clean.

Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he’d always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief, and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.

Falling Man

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Angela Carter

Good copy, edges show wear (and have been touched up - see photos). Pages clean & tight.

The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and plazas are suddenly as fertile as fairy-book forests. And the evil comes, too, as imaginary massacres fill the streets with blood, the dead return to question the living, and profound anxiety drives hundreds to suicide.

Behind it all stands Doctor Hoffman, whose gigantic generators crack the immutable surfaces of time and space and plunge civilization into a world without the chains - or structures - of reason. Only Desiderio, immune to mirages and fantasy, can defeat him. But Desiderio's battle will take him to the very brink of undeniable, irresistible desire.

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

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Phenomenal copy. Some light impression lines/scratches on cover, not breaking surface & barely noticeable. Otherwise like new.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013

In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons Of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time, coming to view their past selves with an anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force.

The Moons of Jupiter

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Very good copy, minimal shelf wear, slight wear to cover. Pages clean.

And Other Stories

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE®nbsp;IN LITERATURE 2013

In these fifteen short stories--her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career--Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farms, by river marshes, in the lonely towns and new suburbs of western Ontario, these tales are luminous acts of attention to those vivid moments when revelation emerges from the layers of experience that lie behind even the most everyday events and lives.

"Virtuosity, elemental command, incisive like a diamond, remarkable: all these descriptions fit Alice Munro."--Christian Science Monitor

"How does one know when one is in the grip of art--of a major talent?....It is art that speaks from the pages of Alice Munro's stories."--Wall Street Journal

Dance of the Happy Shades

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Miranda July

Great book in used condition. Moderate shelf wear (see photos).

Presents a collection of short works featuring sympathetic protagonists whose inherent sensitivities render them particularly vulnerable to unexpected events.

No One Belongs Here More Than You

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Charles Bukowski

An all-time classic in very good condition. Typical shelf wear, pages tight & clean.

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel—the one that catapulted its author to national fame—is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.

Post Office

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Jean Paul Sartre

Richard Howard

Lloyd Alexander

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time--the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain."

Nausea

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Sam Pink

Absolutely ferocious poetry. Not for the faint of heart. Pretty funny though.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Early Stuff

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Crane Brinton

Excellent mass market pb copy with minor shelf wear. Inscription on first page (see photo), otherwise pages clean. Spine undamaged. Nearly like new.

This book provides an analysis of the English, American, French, and Russian revolutions as they exhibit universally applicable patterns of revolutionary thought and action.

The Anatomy of Revolution

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Mass market paperback in good condition. One faint spine crease (see photo), otherwise very good shape. Pages tight & clean.

Count Zero

Fantastic condition. Minor shelf wear & page tanning. Pencil marking on inner front page, sharpied-over price on back cover (see photos). Pages tight & clean.

Notes of a Dirty Old Man

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Adam Johnson

Cover has minor shelf wear. Remainder mark on bottom pages (see photo), otherwise tight & clean.

The "remarkable" (The New Yorker) debut story collection by the author of The Orphan Master's Son (winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize) and the story collection Fortune Smiles (winner of the 2015 National Book Award) An ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live life to the fullest—these are the compelling terrains Adam Johnson explores in his electrifying debut collection. A lovesick teenage Cajun girl, a gay Canadian astrophysicist, a teenage sniper on the LAPD payroll, a post-apocalyptic bulletproof-vest salesman—each seeks connection and meaning in landscapes made uncertain by the voids that parents and lovers should fill. With imaginative grace and verbal acuity, Johnson is satirical without being cold, clever without being cloying, and heartbreaking without being sentimental. He shreds the veneer of our media-saturated, self-help society, revealing the lonely isolation that binds us all together.

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George Plimpton; Jonathan Ames

The Curious Case of Sidd Finch

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The Screwtape Letters

Cormac McCarthy

Cities of the Plain

Cormac McCarthy

The Crossing

Ling Ma

Severance

Dylan Thomas

Collected Poems

Eugène Ionesco; Donald M. Allen

Four Plays

Alice Munro

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

Bret Easton Ellis

American Psycho

Mark Z. Danielewski

Only Revolutions

Etgar Keret; Nathan Englander; Miriam Shlesinger

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

Ursula. K Le Guin

Worlds of Exile and Illusion

Don DeLillo

Falling Man

Angela Carter

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Alice Munro

The Moons of Jupiter

Alice Munro

Dance of the Happy Shades

Miranda July

No One Belongs Here More Than You

Charles Bukowski

Post Office

Jean Paul Sartre; Richard Howard; Lloyd Alexander

Nausea

Sam Pink

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Crane Brinton

The Anatomy of Revolution

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Count Zero

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Notes of a Dirty Old Man

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