Jane. Austen

Four pages have neat pen underlines, otherwise in good condition with some shelfwear and creasing to the cover corners. Sticker on back 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Washington

In her final novel, as in her earlier ones, Jane Austen uses a love story to explore and gently satirize social pretensions and emotional confusion. Persuasion follows the romance of Anne Elliot and naval officer Frederick Wentworth. They were happily engaged until Anne's friend, Lady Russell, persuaded her that Frederick was "unworthy." Now, eight years later, Frederick returns, a wealthy captain in the navy, while Anne's family teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. They still love each other, but their past mistakes threaten to keep them apart. Austen may seem to paint on a small canvas, but her characters contain the full range of human passion and moral complexity, and the author's generous spirit renders them all with understanding, compassion, and humor.

Persuasion

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Laura Riding Riding

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A New, Enlarged Edition with Commentary by Laura (Riding) Jackson

Progress of Stories

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Georges Perec

David Bellos

Scratches to the front cover, some shelfwear but pages intact and clean. Published by David R Godine Boston

Second printing

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Represents an exploration of the relationship between imagination and reality as seen through the eyes of the dying Serge Valene, an inhabitant of a large Parisian apartment block.

Life a User's Manual

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Barry López

Clean pages, spine intact, some shelfwear to covers

Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape

For better readers, an account of the history, ecology, and mystique of the arctic region.

Arctic Dreams

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Rachel Cusk

Some pen and pencil underlines throughout. 

A Summer in Italy

Cusk escapes dreary England for Tuscany, to relish the landscape, the weather, the food and, most of all, the art.

The Last Supper

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Annie Dillard

Neat pen underlines on 9 pages. Otherwise in excellent condition

Expeditions and Encounters

Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.

Teaching a Stone to Talk

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Emily Bronte

Pauline Nestor

Lucasta Miller

Some shelfwear, neat pen underlines on just a few pages in the introduction and up to page 13. Harder to find edition

One of English literature's classic masterpieces—a gripping novel of love, propriety, and tragedy. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of The Brontë Myth, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Brontë onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Brontë's influences and background.

Wuthering Heights

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Harold S. Kushner

Slight bend to the front cover, also what looks like a water stain on the top left corner. 

A new edition of the classic self-help guide by the respected rabbi explains how to find comfort and strength in the face of tragedy and the challenges of life and how to understand God's role in recovery. By the author of How Good Do We Have to Be? Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

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Angela Carter

Some neat pen underlines on various pages. Stain on top back cover, slight discoloration on front cover near spine 

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Explores the rich diversities of our world, ranging from a natural history of sand to the rise of Hasidic thought to the eternal questions of God, evil, individuality, and time

For the Time Being

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Roland Barthes

Richard Howard

Wayne Koestenbaum

Some neat pen underlines on just a few pages

Fragments

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe's Werther to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, A Lover's Discourse artfully draws a portrait in which every reader will find echoes of themselves.

A Lover's Discourse

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Slight crease on bottom right cover. Blue pen underlines on many pages. 

The Sea Around Us

Excellent vintage condition. No marks or underlines besides name on the first page. 

The Flight from the Enchanter

Anaïs Nin

Henry Miller

Highlighter and pencil marks in the introduction only. 

Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953

This selection of letters from the correspondence of Henry Miller and Anais Nin documents twenty years of their fifty-year relationship--a relationship that began as a passionate love affair and grew to be an enduring friendship

A Literate Passion

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erotic photography mass market paperback vintage book

A Story of Love

Mirror of Venus

In Search of America

 Travels With Charley

Bantam classic mass market paperback. No underlines or marks on the pages. Introduction by Margaret Drabble

Middlemarch

Ann Beattie

Great vintage condition. First edition, short stories 

Distortions

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Vintage Fontana Modern Classics edition, hard to find. Covers are pretty beat up but no underlines or marks to the pages. 

She Came to Stay

Summer 2024

The Paris Review Issue 248

Summer 2022

The Paris Review Issue 240

Malcolm de Chazal

W. H. Auden

Irving Weiss

"Sens-Plastiquehas now been a companion of mine for nearly 20 years, and so far as I am concerned, Malcolm de Chazal is much the most original and interesting French writer to emerge since the war." -W.H. Auden After seeing an azalea looking at him in the Curepipe Botanic Gardens (and realizing that he himself was becoming a flower), Malcolm de Chazal began composing what would eventually become his unclassifiable masterpiece, Sens-Plastique, which would take its final form in 1948. Containing over 2,000 aphorisms, axioms and allegories, the book was immediately hailed as a work of genius by André Breton, Francis Ponge, Jean Dubuffet and Georges Braque. Embraced by the Surrealists as one of their own, Chazal chose to avoid all literary factions and steadfastly anchored himself in his solitary life as a bachelor mystic on the island nation of Mauritius, where he would proceed to write books and paint for the rest of his life. Sens-Plastiqueemploys a strange humor and an alchemical sensibility to offer up an utterly original world vision that unifies neo-science, philosophy and poetry into a new form of writing. Mapping every human body part, facial expression and emotion onto the natural kingdom through subconscious thinking, Chazal presents a world in which humankind is not just made in the image of God, but Nature is made in the image of humankind: a sensual, synesthetic world in which everything in the universe, be it animal, vegetable, mineral or human, employs a spiritual copula. Malcolm de Chazal(1902-81) was a Mauritian writer and painter. Forsaking a career in the sugar industry, he spent the majority of his life in a solitary, mystical pursuit of the continuity between man and nature.

Sens-Plastique

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Rikki Ducornet

Included inLibrary Journal''s "25 Key Indie Fiction Titles, Fall 2014-Winter 2015"

Within the writer''s life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Life. Ducornet names these powersThe Deep Zoo. Her essays take us from the glorious bestiary of Aloys Zötl to Abu Ghraib, from the tree of life to Sade''s Silling Castle, fromThe Epic of Gilgamesh to virtual reality. Says Ducornet, "To write with the irresistible ink of tigers and the uncaging of our own Deep Zoo, we need to be attentive and fearless--above all very curious--and all at the same time."

"Ducornet''s skill at drawing unexpected connections, and her ability to move between outrage and meditativeness, are gripping to behold."--Star Tribune

"This collection of essays meditates on art, mysticism, and more; it''ll leave a reader with plenty to ponder."--Vol. 1 Brooklyn


"Rikki Ducornet''s new collection The Deep Zoo is filled with smart and surprising essays that explore our connections to the world through art."--Largehearted Boy

""The Deep Zoo" acts as a kind of foundational text, a lens to view her work and the other essays through. . . Subversive at heart and acutely perceptive."--Numero Cinq

"Ducornet moves between these facets of human experience with otherworldly grace, creating surprising parallels and associations. . . The Deep Zoo is a testament to her acrobatic intelligence and unflinching curiosity. Ducornet not only trusts the subconscious, she celebrates and interrogates it."--The Heavy Feather

"What struck me most about this collection, and what I am confident will pull me back to it again, is Ducornet''s obvious passion for life. She is . . .  attentive, fearless, and curious. And for a hundred pages we get to see how it feels to exist like that, what it''s like to think critically and still be open to the world."--Cleaver Magazine

"Rikki Ducornet is imagination''s emissary to this mundane world."--Stephen Sparks, Green Apple Books on the Park

"This book is like the secret at the heart of the world; I''ve put other books aside."--Anne Germanacos, author ofTribute

Praise for Rikki Ducornet

"A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat."--The New York Times

"Linguistically explosive . . . one of the most interesting American writers around."--The Nation

"Ducornet--surrealist, absurdist, pure anarchist at times--is one of our most accomplished writers, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with emotion and cool detachment simultaneously."--Jeff Vandermeer

"A unique combination of the practical and fabulous, a woman equally alive to the possibilities of joy and the necessity of political responsibility, a creature--à la Shakespeare''s Cleopatra--of ''infinite variety,'' Ducornet is a writer of extraordinary power, in whose books ''rigor and imagination'' (her watchwords) perform with the grace and daring of high-wire acrobats."--Laura Mullen,BOMB Magazine

"The perversity, decadence, and even the depravity that Ducornet renders here feel explosively fresh because their sources are thought and emotion, not the body, and finally there''s some pathos too."--The Boston Globe

"Ducornet''s skill at drawing unexpected connections, and her ability to move between outrage and meditativeness, are gripping to behold."--Tobias Carroll,Star Tribune

"This collection of essays meditates on art, mysticism, and more; it''ll leave a reader with plenty to ponder."--Vol. 1 Brooklyn

"Rikki Ducornet''s new collection The Deep Zoo is filled with smart and surprising essays that explore our connections to the world through art."--Largehearted Boy


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Jane Austen

Persuasion

Laura Riding

Progress of Stories

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Life a User's Manual

Barry López

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Rachel Cusk

The Last Supper

Annie Dillard

Teaching a Stone to Talk

Emily Bronte; Pauline Nestor; Lucasta Miller

Wuthering Heights

Harold S. Kushner

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Angela Carter

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Annie Dillard

For the Time Being

Roland Barthes; Richard Howard; Wayne Koestenbaum

A Lover's Discourse

Rachel Carson

The Sea Around Us

Iris Murdoch

The Flight from the Enchanter

Barry Lopez

Arctic Dreams

Anaïs Nin; Henry Miller; Anaïs Nin; Henry Miller

A Literate Passion

Wingate Paine – Words by Francoise Sagan and Federico Fellini

Mirror of Venus

John Steinbeck

Travels With Charley

George Eliot

Middlemarch

Ann Beattie

Distortions

Simone de Beauvoir

She Came to Stay

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The Paris Review Issue 248

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The Paris Review Issue 240

Malcolm de Chazal; W. H. Auden; Irving Weiss

Sens-Plastique

Rikki Ducornet

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