Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Review slip laid-in. During the summer before her senior year, a Catholic girl runs away from her well-meaning but narrow-minded mother to live with a sociology professor she saw on television. But life there has complications, too. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 6th pr., 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 338 pages. Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown that followed illuminated an incontrovertible truth-that love is necessarily imbued with loss, that the one doesn't exist without the other. German physicist Werner Heisenberg was fighting with the scientific establishment on the meaning of the quantum realm's absurdity when he had his own epiphany-that there is no such thing as a complete, perfect description of reality. Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant pushed the assumptions of human reason to their mind-bending conclusions, but emerged with an idea that crowned a towering philosophical system-that the human mind has fundamental limits, and those limits undergird both our greatest achievements as well as our missteps. Through fiction, science, and philosophy, the work of these three thinkers coalesced around the powerful, haunting fact that there is an irreconcilable difference between reality "out there" and reality as we experience it. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 164 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Citadel Press, 1st illust thus, 1948, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Cream jacket decorated in black and green. With 12 black and white woodcuts by Helen Munro.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black. In a dust jacket with light edgewear and chipping. A crime novel set in the Kentucky mountains involving lawless gangs and horse racing. A Hubin listed Mystery. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, New Directions, 1st, 1050, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in yellow. No dust jacket. Clean copy. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." With poignant wit and his own particular brand of relish, Williams charts her drift into an affair with a cruel young gigolo.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st illust thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, geen cloth with 4 color decoration on front and spine. Color frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations by Gordon Browne, No date (circa 1910). Tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages. Facsimile of a book first published by Reilly & Lee in 1921. Original illustrations by John R. Neill, 12 full-page glossy color plates, other b&w throughout. The Scarecrow decides to search for his family tree and winds up discovering that he is the long-lost Emperor of the Silver Island. Along the way, he meets such colorful characters as the A-B-Sea Serpent, the lumpy mud men, Sir Hokus of Pokes, and others.

Hardcover. Lexington KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In language both spare and colorful, sure in its command of Appalachian dialect and poetic in its evocation of mountain settings, James Still's stories reveal the lives of his people--lives of privation and struggle, lived with honesty as well as humor. With a foreword by Cleanth Brooks and an afterword by the author, The Run for the Elbertas features thirteen stories from one of America's masters of the short story. Enjoyable and enriching, Still's stories sparkle with wisdom and joy.

New York, Viking Press, Book Club, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. Black & white illustrations by David Rook. Dust jacket spine slightly faded otherwise very good.

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple and black boards with black lettering on the spine label. 162 pages, b&w frontispiece by Ray Garnett (his first wife, Rachel 'Ray' Garnett). Top edge gilt. Tells the fictional story of the racism and hostility experienced by an interracial couple in Victorian Dorset. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages. When Richard inherits the family estate in Herefordshire, he finds it has been leased to a charitable organization which is not as it seems. Attempting to break the lease, he is endangered by a sinister intelligence organization. Clean, very good in a lightly rubbed dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with lettering on dj in gilt. First printing with all numbers present including 1. Rushdie's most controversial work, for which he received death threats and a Fatwah post-publication. 'Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.'- Rushdie. The book was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. Related news clipping laid in.

Hardcover. Lanham MD, Lexington Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 143 pages. American nature writing characteristically embodies an appreciative, lyrical evocation of the natural world. But often, too, green-disposed authors have been moved to dramatize diverse, anthropogenic perils to environmental health. John Gatta freshly reveals how this dark yet graced and hopeful strain of environmental literature enlarges upon a jeremiad tradition of prophecy inherited from Puritan New England. Across successive historical periods, such expression has assumed a rich variety of American form--as creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, or film documentary. In the spirit of ancient Hebrew prophecy, jeremiads--unlike diatribes--reach beyond effusions of doom and gloom toward the prospect of change through a conversion of heart. Accordingly, the new climate fiction and much other writing steeped in what Gatta terms this "Green Jeremiad" tradition not only warn of material threats to life's flourishing, but may also look to stir spiritual understanding and renewal. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 477 pages. The Scent of Buenos Aires is the first collection of Uhart's to be published in English, drawing together her best vignettes of quotidian life, stories that sneak up on you. Refreshingly approachable, they are punctuated by street talk and saturated with a cryptic wit that recalls Lydia Davis. Uhart renders moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a homeowners association meeting with delightfully eccentric insight. These stories cast an unusual, intimate light on the inner lives of plants, animals, and humans, magnifying the minute, everyday quirks of Argentina's small towns: a cat curls around his owner to humor him, a classroom of children sway like trees when their teacher turns her back. Smiling to herself, Uhart reveals the infinite ways we show ourselves to one another. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Sloane Associates, 2nd pr., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Bright, clean copy in a lightly soiled dust jacket. A man crossing a London street is killed. He is carrying four blackmail letters. Mostly set in France, the basis for the 1968 MGM film directed by Richard Thorpe.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne and Co., 1st, Book: Good, Hardcover, pictorial paper-covered boards; color frontis, some black and white illustrations by Gordon Browne. Short splits along spine edge, bookplate on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Boston, W.A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt titles, 299 pages, color frontis by Harold Cue. Spine gilt faded, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st thus, ND (1924), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, blue cloth binding with black lettering. Black and white plate frontispiece, black and white plates throughout featuring scenes from the 1924 film starring Milton Sills, rear panel of dust jacket shows scenes from the photoplay of Scaramouche, starring Alice Terry and Roman Novarro. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, lavender cloth with black lettering and design. End papers show the Dana girls reading a letter printed in dark green. Nancy Drew titles listed to The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Ward, Lock & Co, reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver pattern and lettering. Novel about three young merchant navy officers on a ship captured by pirates in the 1930s their imprisonment on a fortified island and their escape by sea. Has black and white frontis and plates. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. Two identical twin sisters--one a sexually repressed defense attorney, the other a former libertine now living a respectable life in suburbia--are about to have their darkest secrets revealed, to the men in their lives and to themselves. As one sister prepares for the toughest trial of her career and the other faces a stalker who knows details of her life that even her husband doesn't, both find themselves pushed to the edge, and confronted by discoveries about their husbands that shock and disturb them. THE SECRET LIVES OF MARRIED WOMEN is an intense, psychologically penetrating tale of fears and fantasies, the desires that drive us, and how far men will go for the women they love. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A nine-year-old girl recounts the changes in her family's life after a young Navajo girl comes to stay with them. Ex-lib with light stamping, endpapers have scarring.

Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 342 pages. Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Arthur de Caldicot is given a magical shining stone in which his legendary namesake is revealed. In 100 short chapters that brilliantly evoke life in a medieval manor, stories of the boy King Arthur begin to echo - and anticipate - the secrets and mysteries that emerge in his own life . . ." The winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award in 2001. First printing (with full number line including 1). Clean copy.