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Stephen King

Scribners 1st edition in fantastic condition.  Great find, more pictures available upon request. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Novel

Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must reacclimate to 1960s culture and befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald. By the best-selling author of Full Dark, No Stars.

11/22/63 (Scribners 1st Edition)

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Hardcover, 1st edition copy in great shape. Old price tag on jacket but otherwise very nice. 

An American Saga

In its drama and scope, Doris Kearns Goodwin's The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys is one of the richest works of biography in the last decade. From the wintry day in 1863 when John Francis Fitzgerald was baptized, through the memorable moment ninety-eight years later when his grandson and namesake John Fitzgerald Kennedy was inaugurated as President of the United States, the author brings us every colorful inch of this unique American tapestry. Each character emerges unmistakenly, with the clarity and complexity of personal recollection: "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the mayor of Boston and founder of his dynasty; his independent and shrewdly political daughter, Rose, and her husband, the cunning, manipulative Joseph P. Kennedy; finally, the "Golden trio" of Kennedy children--Joe Jr., Kathleen, and Jack--whose promise was eclipsed by the greater power of fate. With unprecedented access to the Kennedy family and to decades of private papers, Doris Kearns Goodwin has crafted a singular work of American history: It is at once the story of an era, of the immigrant experience, and--most of all--of two families, whose ambitions propelled them to unrivaled power and whose passions nearly destroyed them.

The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1st ed)

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Andrew Bergman

Cover porn alert! This one is an absolute beauty! A very nearly fine condition Holt, Rinehard, and Winston (1975) hardcover first edition copy! Buy it for the cover alone!

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maine

Hollywood and LeVine (1st ed.)

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1st Editions

A curated sale of titles perfect for when the leaves start to change.

The Mandela Effect likely has you thinking that this book is about a murderous dog, when in reality it’s detailed account of an advertising campaign gone brutally wrong. God, what a book. I can’t get enough of it. King was definitely still drinking when he wrote this one. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The #1 bestseller—for King's rabid fans.

It happens innocently enough, but doesn’t it always. A big, friendly dog chases a rabbit into a hidden underground cave—and stirs a sleeping evil crueler than death itself.

A terrified four-year-old boy sees his bedroom closet door swing open untouched by human hands, and screams at the unholy red eyes gleaming in the darkness.

The little Maine town of Castle Rock is about to be invaded by the most hideous menace ever to savage the flesh and devour the mind.

 

Cujo

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Shirley Jackson

Laura Miller

An anthropologist conducts an unusual research project in a reputedly haunted house.

The Haunting of Hill House

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A. M. Homes

Great collection of some classics in very good condition. FSG Classics (2005). 

One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane. The Lottery and Other Stories, the only collection of stories to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual short stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range—from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous—and her power as a storyteller.

The Lottery and Other Stories

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classic smut literature ranging from some of the best of them to the very worst of them

Henry Miller

Anaïs Nin

A great condition paperback copy of a classic banned book. This title was only allowed to be printed in the US after a major court ruling changed American censorship laws. Step into the heady, vivid world of Miller’s, Paris in the 1930s and get lost in the debauchery of him and his fellow writers. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

2015 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Tropic of Cancer" has been described as "notorious for its candid sexuality" and as responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature." It was first published in 1934 by the Obelisk Press in Paris, France, but this edition was banned in the United States. Its re-publication in 1961 in the U.S. by Grove Press led to obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography in the early 1960s. In 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the book non-obscene. It is regarded as an important work of 20th-century literature. The Modern Library considers it one of the best 100 Novels ever published.

Tropic of Cancer

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Jan Wolkers

Greta Kilburn

Very scarce title! Hardcover 1st UK, Calder & Boyars (1974). Showing some slight wear in spots but otherwise in very good shape. See pics. More photos always available upon request. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Turkish Delight (1st UK ed)

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Tony Duvert

S. C. Delaney

Agnès Potier

An intimate look into a grotesque and entirely riveting unnamed French city. Very unique title. 

District describes, in ten vignettes, the sad, sordid and sinister aspects of a section of an unnamed French city, and the manners in which the ghostlike human entities that live and wither within it are molded, moved and absorbed by its spaces. A noisy metro station, old tenements, buildings going up, along with the fixtures of French communal life: the open-air market, the public garden; the little shops and bars, the lively town square--the ugly and mundane, the coarse and unmentionable sit side by side with the occasionally burgeoning bit of beauty. With a sense of voyeuristic tension and queasy complicity, the reader is taken on an outcast's tour of city life--from construction site to metro, from bar to brothel--an analysis of communal living in the conditional tense from the perspective of the absolute exile. One of Duvert's last books, it is also one of his shortest: an unexpected return to the roving, fractured eye of the Nouveau Roman that had informed his earliest work.

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