New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. Hardcover. Octavo, one-half light blue cloth, brown cloth over boards, xix, 558pp, foreword by Theodore Ziolkowski. "Das Glasperlenspiel" (1943) was the last novel of Nobel Prize winning author Hermann Hesse. This is a book club edition of the first edition of this translation.....
New York: Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 1949. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, black cloth with white lettering on spine, 502pp, foreword by Eric Peters. "Das Glasperlenspiel" (1943) is the last novel of Nobel Prize winning author Hermann Hesse. Translated here by Mervyn Savill. First U.S. Edition of the First.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/2 x 9-7/8”, ½ gilt decorated and titled blue cloth, salmon paper over heavy beveled boards, deckled edges, top-edge gilt, ribbon marker, x, 453pp, 5pp principal works. Signed first edition limited to 395 copies. This is #331 of 395 copies.....
Boston: Houghton MIfflin Company, 1937-1938. Limited Edition. 3/4 Leather. Octavo, bound in 3/4 crushed maroon morocco over pink cloth, edged in gilt, four spine bands with gilt lettering and decoration each volume, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, each with ribbon bookmark, frontis. portraits or facsimile pages each volume. 12 Volume.....
Flatiron Books, 2020. Paperback. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie.....
Back Bay Books, 2020. Paperback. The beloved New York Times columnist "inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope" in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America (Parade Magazine). "You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2020. Hardcover. In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard's life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the "Dean of American Cookery" to give voice to the gourmet's complex.....
Little Brown and Company, 2020. Hardcover.
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David Sedaris's best stories and essays, spanning his remarkable career--as selected by the author himself For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre.....
Anchor Books, 2020. Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKONE OF THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe significance of scripture may not be immediately obvious in our secular world, but its misunderstanding is perhaps the root cause of many of today's controversies. The sacred texts have been.....
Artisan Publishers, 2020. Hardcover. "Dazzling. . . . [Polzine] brings a fresh approach and singular panache. . . . Her clear voice and precise, idiosyncratic instructions will allow home bakers to make exquisite fruit tarts with strawberries and plums, elegant cookies and layer cakes." --Emily Weinstein, New York Times, The.....
Random House Trade, 2020. Paperback.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions."Strout managed to make me.....
Knopf Publishing Group, 2020. Hardcover. "The Mick Jagger of literature . . . Amis is the most dazzling prose stylist in post-war British fiction." --Mick Brown, The Daily Telegraph"[A] charismatic compound of fact and fiction . . . Martin Amis has retained the power to surprise." --Parul Sehgal, The New.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9", original brick colored cloth, paper title label to spine, xxxvi, 384pp, general preface, bibliographical prefaces and appendices to each work, index of first lines, 2 illustrations. Variorum Readings and Bibliographical Notes and Prefaces by John Sampson. Sampson restored the text.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9", dark blue cloth, oxford crest in gilt front boards of each volume, xvi, 649pp, xxii, 361pp, 10 facsimiles, prefatory notes, table of abbreviations. Edited with a General Inroduction, Glossarial Index of Symbols, Commentary, and Appendices by D. J. Sloss.....
Simon & Schuster, 2020. Hardcover. The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it possible.As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada has read some 150.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. Hardcover. Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics--an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its.....
Chronicle Books, 2020. Hardcover. Men to Avoid in Art and Life pairs classical fine art with modern captions that epitomize the spirit of mansplaining.This hilarious book perfectly captures those relatable moments when a man explains to a woman a subject about which he knows considerably less than she does.Situations include.....
Riverhead Books, 2020. Hardcover. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE SEASON BY: Wall Street Journal ● Washington Post ● CBS Sunday Morning ● Good Morning America ● People ● Time ● New York Magazine ● Buzzfeed ● Parade ● USA Today ● Esquire ● Harper's Bazaar ● Popsugar ●.....
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2020. Hardcover. "Hilarious and engrossing." --People * "Fearless candor and vulnerability." --Time * "Funny, emotional, and insightful." --Good Morning America * "Honest, addictive." --HelloGiggles * "Wonderful...sparkle and intelligence." --Booklist * "Hilarious and eye-opening." --CNN * "Dazzling." --Publishers WeeklyThe refreshingly original debut memoir of.....
Harper, 2020. Hardcover. A Most Anticipated Book by: The New York Times Book Review * Wall Street Journal * Time * Esquire * The Millions * Vogue * People * New York Post * USA Today * Medium * The Philadelphia Inquirer * Newsday From the #1 New York Times.....
Anansi International, 2020. Hardcover. Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells, a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults.The Lost Spells evokes the wonder of.....
New York: The Dial Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, black cloth, xli, 655pp. Edited, Selected, and with an Introduction by Thomas Mann. Signed inscription by Mann to Florence Homolka on first free endpaper. Florence Homolka (1911-1962) was the daughter of Agnes Meyer who translated some of Mann’s political works, including.....
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1874. First Edition. Leatherbound. 5-1/2" x 8-3/4", full green Zaehnsdorf leather binding, raised spine bands, elaborate gilt decoration to spine, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt top-edge, ribbon markers, cxxxii, 456pp, viii, 488pp, viii, 555pp, preface, notes. 3 Volume Set includes Paradise Lost and the minor poems. Edited.....
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1978. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, red cloth, xii, 215pp, ads. Introduction by Harlan Ellison. Eight tales of terror from a woman's point of view from a master of the noir genre. Fine in very good dust wrapper with a 1/2" tear top-edge and a few.....
Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1879. First English Translation. Paperbound. 4-7/16 x 6-5/8”, xvi, 251pp, 7pp ads, paper wrappers with printed parchment dust wrapper overlay. Published from the original 17th century Latin manuscript discovered in London in the year 1872, and translated into French by Isidore Liseux. Now first Translated into English.....
